Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Tuesday. It's
April twenty nine, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
every single day, and today is no exception. We are
continuing in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
and our caption for today is Daniel Chapter seven. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but before we do,
I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining
us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
join our online community. I want you to pick up
your Daily Portion Life Application study Guide. This is about
how to study Bible prophecy. We're applying it in four
key areas. If in case you are here for the
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray and then we will get underway. Father, we do
thank you this day for your understanding, your wisdom, the
way that you teach us and train us in the
ways of righteousness. Please give us your understanding in Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Have you ever wondered,
I'm talking about in the last I don't know, several months,
why now? Maybe yeah, why now? Or maybe in this case,
in the last month since our quarters started of studies,
why now? And you're like, why now?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Why now? Why now? Why are we studying how to
study Bible prophecy? Why are we studying this? Now. And
if you understand anything about how the church functions where
these lesson studies are concerned, these are already well underway
and in the queue two years sometimes before we even
see them. So why did God lead his people to
create this guide? Right pastor Sean Boonstraw and the committees
that are related to how this is done? Why now?
Why now? Why in God's infinite wisdom did he choose
to give this message to his people in April of
twenty twenty five. Are you wondering why the nations are
going on the way that they are. I'm talking about
trade disagreements, I'm talking about politics, I'm talking about wars
and rumors of wars. I'm talking about strikes and all
kinds of other things that are going on in the world. Like,
are you wondering why these things are happening? And then
why God has given us the truth concerning his word
in this context? Right now? What we're going to do
now is go to the Bible Book of Danielle and
read just a couple of verses, and then we'll answer,
like the why now and daniel Chapter seven the Bible
reads in the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
Daniel had a dream and visions on his head upon
his bed, and he wrote down the dream. Now, if
God gives you understanding, he gives you wisdom, he gives
you a vision, he gives you a dream. He's teaching
your mind. Write down what he is saying. The Bible says,
and told the sum of the matters. He's giving us
sort of an exposaics summary of what Jesus said. The
Bible reads in verse two, Daniel spake and said, I
saw in my vision by night, and behold the four
winds of heaven strove against the great sea. Four winds
against the great sea. What did I just do? I
moved my bible, Keep going, keep going. And then it
says verse four, and four great beasts come up out
of the sea or from the sea, diverse, one from another. Now,
there's so much that we could say, but let me
just say a couple of things here. First of all,
we don't need to be confused. This is just like
what God revealed if you read more of Daniel seven.
It is what he revealed to Nebeka Nezzer in Daniel
chapter chapter two. We see it recorded in Daniel chapter two.
The successive world empires Babylon, Medo, Persia, Grecia, Western Roman Empire,
the division of that empire which became modern day Europe.
Ten nations at the time, and then three were plucked
up by the roots. The Bible teaches us seven of
those still exist today. And then of course after that,
then the papal power comes out of that division of
the Western Roman Empire. That is in ancient history. It
is in Bible prophecy uncontrovertible. So God is showing us
how things were going to pan out, so that he
could teach us about his love, his justice, his mercy,
and how he will finally Jesus will ascend the throne,
ascend the throne that Zedekiah vacated, the throne of his
father David. The Bible teaches us in prophetic history, and Jesus,
as represented by that stone that is cut out without
hands in Daniel chapter two, strikes the image of all
of these nations and all of this human ingenuity, all
of the politics, all of the global economies, and all
of the alliances, and all of the things that are
causing people to become fearful. In twenty twenty five, in
April on the twenty ninth day. Finally, Jesus will resolve
all of that once and for all. But in the
meantime he wants us to be able to get some
confidence that he has always had everything under control, and
that means that he will have this under control too.
And so the Bible does show us that these winds
are demonstrating or showing some some kind of activity. And
the winds of Daniel, which strove against the Great Sea,
causing four beasts or empires to emerge, represented those movements
of diplomatic or warlike, or political or otherwise they were
to shape the history of this particular period. The four winds,
being from the four points of the compass, doubtless represent
political activity in various parts of the Earth. And then
the Bible teaches us more that the Great Sea is
not referring to a body of water such as the
Mediterranean Sea. The sea here is symbolic by of nations.
Excuse me, as in Revelation chapter seventeen and verse fifteen
representative of nations, and the four beasts represent those empires
or kings or rulers. Okay, very clearly if we read
through Daniel chapter seven. But why now, like what does
God want us to learn? There are so many things
that he wants us to learn, But we're going to
go to our Companion Guide and make application in our relationships.
In our relationships, go to page ninety two, Page ninety
two in our Companion Guide and go to relationships. What
is important now? We're using the acronym when what is
important now? Instability of worldly kingdoms is also reflected in
our personal relationships. Have you seen that people are arguing
and having all kinds of problems based on what's going on?
Trust in human rulers often leads to disappointment. Trust in
people leads to disappointment without godly principles that can lead
to heartbreak. We need to do now. We're going to
skip the internalizing and go to the next best move.
Encourage faith centered relationships. I'm encouraging you to have faith
centered relationships. For example, instead of allowing disagreements over worldly
matters to divide you from others, find common ground by
discussing principles that you believe from the scriptures that bring
true peace and hope. I wish I had the time,
but God has positioned us today that we can go
into his words. See how he has worked in the past.
Know that he has our future secure and we can
have the kinds of relationships that are fruitful no matter what. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,