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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 Tuesday. It's

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April twenty nine, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name

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is El David Harris. I am your host, and this

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is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word

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every single day, and today is no exception. We are

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continuing in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,

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and our caption for today is Daniel Chapter seven. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but before we do,

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I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining

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us for the very first time. I'm asking you to

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please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. I want you to pick up

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your Daily Portion Life Application study Guide. This is about

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how to study Bible prophecy. We're applying it in four

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key areas. If in case you are here for the

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first time, please pick that up. You can get it

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to download or get it in hard copy almost anywhere

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you are in the world. Okay, and also join our

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online community. I know I'm saying a lot. I'm saying

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a lot. Let me slow it down and click that

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red button. Click the red button at your Daily Portion

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

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pray and then we will get underway. Father, we do

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thank you this day for your understanding, your wisdom, the

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way that you teach us and train us in the

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ways of righteousness. Please give us your understanding in Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Have you ever wondered,

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I'm talking about in the last I don't know, several months,

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why now? Maybe yeah, why now? Or maybe in this case,

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in the last month since our quarters started of studies,

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why now? And you're like, why now?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: Why now? Why now? Why are we studying how to

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study Bible prophecy? Why are we studying this? Now. And

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if you understand anything about how the church functions where

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these lesson studies are concerned, these are already well underway

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and in the queue two years sometimes before we even

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see them. So why did God lead his people to

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create this guide? Right pastor Sean Boonstraw and the committees

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that are related to how this is done? Why now?

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Why now? Why in God's infinite wisdom did he choose

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to give this message to his people in April of

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twenty twenty five. Are you wondering why the nations are

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going on the way that they are. I'm talking about

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trade disagreements, I'm talking about politics, I'm talking about wars

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and rumors of wars. I'm talking about strikes and all

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kinds of other things that are going on in the world. Like,

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are you wondering why these things are happening? And then

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why God has given us the truth concerning his word

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in this context? Right now? What we're going to do

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now is go to the Bible Book of Danielle and

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read just a couple of verses, and then we'll answer,

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like the why now and daniel Chapter seven the Bible

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reads in the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon.

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Daniel had a dream and visions on his head upon

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his bed, and he wrote down the dream. Now, if

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God gives you understanding, he gives you wisdom, he gives

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you a vision, he gives you a dream. He's teaching

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your mind. Write down what he is saying. The Bible says,

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and told the sum of the matters. He's giving us

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sort of an exposaics summary of what Jesus said. The

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Bible reads in verse two, Daniel spake and said, I

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saw in my vision by night, and behold the four

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winds of heaven strove against the great sea. Four winds

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against the great sea. What did I just do? I

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moved my bible, Keep going, keep going. And then it

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says verse four, and four great beasts come up out

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of the sea or from the sea, diverse, one from another. Now,

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there's so much that we could say, but let me

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just say a couple of things here. First of all,

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we don't need to be confused. This is just like

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what God revealed if you read more of Daniel seven.

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It is what he revealed to Nebeka Nezzer in Daniel

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chapter chapter two. We see it recorded in Daniel chapter two.

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The successive world empires Babylon, Medo, Persia, Grecia, Western Roman Empire,

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the division of that empire which became modern day Europe.

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Ten nations at the time, and then three were plucked

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up by the roots. The Bible teaches us seven of

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those still exist today. And then of course after that,

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then the papal power comes out of that division of

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the Western Roman Empire. That is in ancient history. It

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is in Bible prophecy uncontrovertible. So God is showing us

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how things were going to pan out, so that he

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could teach us about his love, his justice, his mercy,

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and how he will finally Jesus will ascend the throne,

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ascend the throne that Zedekiah vacated, the throne of his

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father David. The Bible teaches us in prophetic history, and Jesus,

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as represented by that stone that is cut out without

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hands in Daniel chapter two, strikes the image of all

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of these nations and all of this human ingenuity, all

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of the politics, all of the global economies, and all

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of the alliances, and all of the things that are

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causing people to become fearful. In twenty twenty five, in

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April on the twenty ninth day. Finally, Jesus will resolve

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all of that once and for all. But in the

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meantime he wants us to be able to get some

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confidence that he has always had everything under control, and

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that means that he will have this under control too.

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And so the Bible does show us that these winds

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are demonstrating or showing some some kind of activity. And

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the winds of Daniel, which strove against the Great Sea,

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causing four beasts or empires to emerge, represented those movements

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of diplomatic or warlike, or political or otherwise they were

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to shape the history of this particular period. The four winds,

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being from the four points of the compass, doubtless represent

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political activity in various parts of the Earth. And then

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the Bible teaches us more that the Great Sea is

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not referring to a body of water such as the

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Mediterranean Sea. The sea here is symbolic by of nations.

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Excuse me, as in Revelation chapter seventeen and verse fifteen

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representative of nations, and the four beasts represent those empires

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or kings or rulers. Okay, very clearly if we read

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through Daniel chapter seven. But why now, like what does

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God want us to learn? There are so many things

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that he wants us to learn, But we're going to

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go to our Companion Guide and make application in our relationships.

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In our relationships, go to page ninety two, Page ninety

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two in our Companion Guide and go to relationships. What

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is important now? We're using the acronym when what is

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important now? Instability of worldly kingdoms is also reflected in

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our personal relationships. Have you seen that people are arguing

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and having all kinds of problems based on what's going on?

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Trust in human rulers often leads to disappointment. Trust in

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people leads to disappointment without godly principles that can lead

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to heartbreak. We need to do now. We're going to

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skip the internalizing and go to the next best move.

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Encourage faith centered relationships. I'm encouraging you to have faith

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centered relationships. For example, instead of allowing disagreements over worldly

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matters to divide you from others, find common ground by

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discussing principles that you believe from the scriptures that bring

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true peace and hope. I wish I had the time,

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but God has positioned us today that we can go

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into his words. See how he has worked in the past.

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Know that he has our future secure and we can

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have the kinds of relationships that are fruitful no matter what. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: 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,