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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 Monday. It's

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May twelve, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and

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our caption for today is the to Cherubim, the two Cherubim.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to just say

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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join there. This is one of the ways that we

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

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and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank

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you for giving us this new morning and for the

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time you've already given us to do good work. I

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pray that we will always do it with you and

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not by ourselves, and that we will see ourselves in

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your presence with everything we do in Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I'd

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like to say, but so little time. I remember writing

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a devotional book. It was extremely long. Now I know

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it's nineteen hours of listening time when you listen to

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the audio book. Oh my goodness. I was indisciplined as

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a writer, even though it was good stuff, right but

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between the Cherubim was the one of the items in

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that book. And for me, the cherubim, or those special

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angels that are represented in the scriptures as covering covering cherubs.

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Lucifer used to be a covering cherub. I believe that

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Gabriel is a covering cherub. But the Bible is showing

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us that in between the cherubim represents the presence of God.

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I said, represents the presence of God. You see the

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cherubim in the sanctuary, and when you look into the

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Old Testament and you see the arc of the Covenant,

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which really represents the presence of God, the throne of God,

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where where from where God rules, he judges, he loves,

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where his power is most evident. If that's even a

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good way of saying God's power being most I'm not

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sure if that's even a good way of saying it.

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But we see the two angels or cherubs in particular

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on one on either side of the arc of the Covenant. Okay,

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And so this represents the presence of God. He is active.

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God is active. He is not absent. He is not

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passive in our experience. He is active, not passive. He

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is not absent in our actual experience. And we can

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see that in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter three,

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and I will read beginning at verse twenty one, and

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the Bible reads, unto Adam also and unto his wife,

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did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them.

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And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become

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as one of us, to know good and evil, and

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to know. And now lest he put forth his hand

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and take also of the tree of life, and to

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eat and to live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent

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him forth from the garden of Eden. God was protecting him,

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He was protecting them. He was protecting you, ah, from

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the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence

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he was taken. That was protective. So he drove out

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the man, and he placed at the east of the

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garden of Eden Cherubim's plural, and a flaming sword which

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turned every way to keep the way of the Tree

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of life. Let me just say the flaming sword. The

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flaming sword. It wasn't that the angel was wielding the sword.

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I wish I had the time to prove it to you.

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But the point is the angels that were stationed there,

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the special Cherubim stationed there, had flaming swords that were

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a light to the point that it looked like at

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every time there was this radius of light that was

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covering so that the people wouldn't even get in their

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minds that they were going to go try to breach

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into the presence of God. Oh, I wish I had

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the time. I wish I had the time. God is

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protecting us in twenty twenty five until we are transformed

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by the renewing of our minds through the blood of Jesus.

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He is protecting us from stumbling into his presence. I'm

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talking about his actual visible presence. He told Moses there

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shall no man see me and live. So the presence

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of God in his in the way that he condescends,

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is available to us. When we pray. God does not

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come down to us. We are taken up to God.

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When we are in relationship with him, we are in

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his presence, but he is He is still shrouding himself

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so that we don't see the fullness right now, because

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if we did, then something negative would happen. Okay. And

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in the case of Adam and Eve, if they had

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gone into that space where the tree of life was,

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and they took from the tree of life and ate

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from the tree of life in their sinful state, then

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that means that they would have been stuck in their

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sinful state. Think about the things that you have done

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to yourself, have you been addicted to some substance. Has

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it been marijuana or some other narcotic drug or something else?

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Have you been addicted to pornography? Have you been addicted

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to alcoholism? Addicted to your own reflection in the mirror?

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You can hardly go into a gym these days and exercise,

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except you see people constantly on the camera showing everybody

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every detail of their bodies. That some of the stuff

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we shouldn't even be seeing. But that's another discussion. Am

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I addicted to my own intellect? Am I addicted to

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my position at work or in business? If that is

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the reality that we have ever sinned and come short

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of the glory of God, Imagine, just for a moment,

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because I don't want it to destroy your brain cells,

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but just for a moment, imagine if you were stuck

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that way, huh, Stuck in a trap house forever, Stuck

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in a crack house, forever, stuck imprisoned because of something

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that you had done, forever the mindset of anger and

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rage when there is no good reason for it. Stuck

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like that forever for the people who are insurrectionists and

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people who would just seek to impune and destroy the

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reputations of others. Be really clear that if God allowed

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Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Life

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in that state, they would have been stuck in that

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destructive cycle forever and ever and ever and ever, and

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there would be no amen, just continuing. And so God

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was being protective. In fact, in fact, I read from

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now the book the Book Patriarchs and Prophets, page sixty.

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In order to possess an endless existence, humankind must continue

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to partake of the Tree of Life. Deprived of this,

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his vitality would gradually diminish, until life should become extinct.

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It was Satan's plan that Adam and Eve should, by disobedience,

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incur God's displeasure, and then if they failed to obtain forgiveness,

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he hoped that they would eat of the Tree of

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life and thus perpetuate and exist of sin and misery.

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But after man's fall, holy angels, what kind of angels?

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Holy angels were immediately commissioned to guard the tree of life.

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Around these angels flashed beans of light, having the appearance

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of a glittering sword. None of the family of Adam

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were permitted to pass the barrier to partake of the

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life giving fruit. Hence, there is no immortal sinner. Can

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we just say, thank God that you have protected us,

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Father from being sinners forever. Thank God that you have

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protected us so that one day, when we are in eternity,

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we will be just like Jesus. I thank God. I

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hope you too too.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,