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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, September four,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption for

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today is the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation. I'm looking

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all around because I'm making sure all of my systems

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are aligned. I'm making sure, yes, everything is all aligned.

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And before we get into this, I would like to

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welcome everybody joining us, especially those joining us for the

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very first time. I'm asking you to please go over

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to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community,

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pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let us

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know where you are in the world at your Daily

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portion dot com. This is a way that we continue

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to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray

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and then get under weigh Father and Heaven. Thank you

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for giving us the opportunity to see and hear from you.

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I'm praying that this experience will be an encounter with

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God rather than just an intellectual pursuit. Father, please transform

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our lives today. In Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. The Great Tribulation, the Great Tribulation. Okay, we'll

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get into this straight after. I ask you a question,

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how can we overcome times of darkness and distress when

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tribulations come? How do we overcome the darkness and distress

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when tribulations come? Because in the life of every believer,

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it doesn't matter in what age we live in. If

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it's the dark ages of the twelve hundred and sixty

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years of tribulation that happened to the people of God.

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Obviously there was no human that whose life extended through

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that entire span, but God's people went through that time.

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Jacob went through his great time of trouble. Right, God's

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people were in Egypt, and they went through all of

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those all of those years of slavery, and then of

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course the journey through the wilderness on the way to

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the Promised Land. And God's people will go through a

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time of trouble right before Jesus comes. I don't mean

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hundreds or thousands of years before Jesus comes. I'm saying,

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right before Jesus comes, how do we overcome troubles in

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our daily lives? Tribulations that will come and must come

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during our daily experience? How do we overcome those trials

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and tribulations? Well, before we get to that, I'm going

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to read from the Bible Book of Mark, chapter thirteen

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and begin at verse nineteen. Now you know where I'm

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going with this. Now, let's get there and the Bible reads.

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For in those days, of course, it's the conversation that

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Jesus is continuing from what we were saying yesterday and

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will continue some more tomorrow. For in those days shall

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be affliction such as was not from the beginning of

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creation unto this time, neither shall be so. This is

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not speaking of an intensity, necessarily, but of a style,

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a style. We will never see that again. Even during

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the final final time of trouble that some people call tribulation,

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it will not be to the degree, meaning the longevity,

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the intensity for the number of years that the tribulation

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that is referenced here was okay. And so the Bible

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says verse twenty. And except that the Lord had shortened

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those days, no flesh should have been saved. But for

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the elect's sake, whom he had chosen, he shortened the days.

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And if any man shall say unto you, lo here

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is Christ, or lo he is there? Believe in not

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for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall

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show signs and wonders to seduce, even if it were possible,

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even the very elect. But ye take heed, behold foretold

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you all these things. And I know that it becomes

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confusing when you see the various times of trouble. But

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what we are referencing, according to the Lesson writer, of course,

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is the time, the time of what we would call

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the dark ages. And if you want to understand what

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God's people went through for twelve hundred and sixty long years,

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I want you to look at the book titled Fox's

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Book of martyrs Fox's Book of Martyrs, and you will

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see that even though God's people were faithful, even though

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no matter what persecution, religious persecution was thrown at them

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by unfortunately the religious entity like the power, the Little

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Horn power Rome at that time. Even though they went

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through all of that, the Bible teaches us and history

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teaches us that God's people were faithful. Some of them

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many lost their lives. Many many lost their lives. When

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you look in the Book of Hebrews, chapter eleven, you

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see that there are some people who went through some

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terrible tortures and difficulties. And in Fox's Book of Marchers,

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I'll tell you one story. There was a guy who said,

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as they were about to burn him at the stake,

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he was like, well, I have on these I have

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on these shoes. It doesn't make sense that you burn

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up these shoes. There are people out there that need them.

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So take off these shoes and give it to the

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people who somebody who needs them. Another guy, as he

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was on his way for the same thing. The history

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says that he said, if the fire is bearable, if

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the fire is bearable, I'm going to clap my hands

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three times. And history tells us, and the accounts tell

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us that as his skin was melting, you could see

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his hands rising up out of the flames, and he

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clapped three times. Unbelievable. Well, except that we know that

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God was in it. We know that God has a

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way of preserving as people, just like he preserved Stephen.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 2: Though Stephen did die, the Bible teaches us that even

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though he went through all that he went through, and

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they were stoning him, he looked up into heaven and

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saw Jesus standing at the right hand of power. And

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so whereas from a human perspective it is unbelievable, all

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things with God are possible. So I believe every word.

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And so now we are to get some encouragement though

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from this, when we are facing life's tribulations that are daunting,

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but we want to draw upon the fortitude that the

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people of God had in those days. One of the

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ways that we can overcome during these times of tribulation

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come from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and

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nineteen and verse one O five. The Bible reads, thy

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Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light

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unto my path. And so we know now that since

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the word of God is his lamp and light for

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guiding us that whatever path that He has allowed us

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to travel on, is it the path that Job went through?

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Is it the path that the children of Israel had?

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Is it the path that Daniel or Jacob or Joseph

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or others of God's people had? Is it the path

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of Abigail of Deborah, the path of Holda the prophetess,

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the path of Anna the Prophetess. Whatever the pathway is,

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God has a lamp and a light to guide us

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along the journey. So when we listen to God in

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his word and do what he says, then we will

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have the light that we expect. And of course, in

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First Thessalonians, chapter five and verse seventeen, the Bible reads

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that we should be praying without ceasing. We can live

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the lifestyle of Enoch. The Bible says that he walked

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with God. Enoch walked with God. He was so connected

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to God that it was seen as him walking. He

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spoke to God about everything, He consulted God about everything,

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especially after he had his son Methuselah. And so we

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can continue to walk with God and pray continuously. And

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of course we want to look for unity among the

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people of God because unity under the right banner meaning Christ,

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is irresistible to God. There will be great tribulations, but

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we can get through them peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah.