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 Monday. It's
May twelve, 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 the to Cherubim, the two Cherubim.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
you for giving us this new morning and for the
time you've already given us to do good work. I
pray that we will always do it with you and
not by ourselves, and that we will see ourselves in
your presence with everything we do in Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I'd
like to say, but so little time. I remember writing
a devotional book. It was extremely long. Now I know
it's nineteen hours of listening time when you listen to
the audio book. Oh my goodness. I was indisciplined as
a writer, even though it was good stuff, right but
between the Cherubim was the one of the items in
that book. And for me, the cherubim, or those special
angels that are represented in the scriptures as covering covering cherubs.
Lucifer used to be a covering cherub. I believe that
Gabriel is a covering cherub. But the Bible is showing
us that in between the cherubim represents the presence of God.
I said, represents the presence of God. You see the
cherubim in the sanctuary, and when you look into the
Old Testament and you see the arc of the Covenant,
which really represents the presence of God, the throne of God,
where where from where God rules, he judges, he loves,
where his power is most evident. If that's even a
good way of saying God's power being most I'm not
sure if that's even a good way of saying it.
But we see the two angels or cherubs in particular
on one on either side of the arc of the Covenant. Okay,
And so this represents the presence of God. He is active.
God is active. He is not absent. He is not
passive in our experience. He is active, not passive. He
is not absent in our actual experience. And we can
see that in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter three,
and I will read beginning at verse twenty one, and
the Bible reads, unto Adam also and unto his wife,
did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them.
And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become
as one of us, to know good and evil, and
to know. And now lest he put forth his hand
and take also of the tree of life, and to
eat and to live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden. God was protecting him,
He was protecting them. He was protecting you, ah, from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence
he was taken. That was protective. So he drove out
the man, and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubim's plural, and a flaming sword which
turned every way to keep the way of the Tree
of life. Let me just say the flaming sword. The
flaming sword. It wasn't that the angel was wielding the sword.
I wish I had the time to prove it to you.
But the point is the angels that were stationed there,
the special Cherubim stationed there, had flaming swords that were
a light to the point that it looked like at
every time there was this radius of light that was
covering so that the people wouldn't even get in their
minds that they were going to go try to breach
into the presence of God. Oh, I wish I had
the time. I wish I had the time. God is
protecting us in twenty twenty five until we are transformed
by the renewing of our minds through the blood of Jesus.
He is protecting us from stumbling into his presence. I'm
talking about his actual visible presence. He told Moses there
shall no man see me and live. So the presence
of God in his in the way that he condescends,
is available to us. When we pray. God does not
come down to us. We are taken up to God.
When we are in relationship with him, we are in
his presence, but he is He is still shrouding himself
so that we don't see the fullness right now, because
if we did, then something negative would happen. Okay. And
in the case of Adam and Eve, if they had
gone into that space where the tree of life was,
and they took from the tree of life and ate
from the tree of life in their sinful state, then
that means that they would have been stuck in their
sinful state. Think about the things that you have done
to yourself, have you been addicted to some substance. Has
it been marijuana or some other narcotic drug or something else?
Have you been addicted to pornography? Have you been addicted
to alcoholism? Addicted to your own reflection in the mirror?
You can hardly go into a gym these days and exercise,
except you see people constantly on the camera showing everybody
every detail of their bodies. That some of the stuff
we shouldn't even be seeing. But that's another discussion. Am
I addicted to my own intellect? Am I addicted to
my position at work or in business? If that is
the reality that we have ever sinned and come short
of the glory of God, Imagine, just for a moment,
because I don't want it to destroy your brain cells,
but just for a moment, imagine if you were stuck
that way, huh, Stuck in a trap house forever, Stuck
in a crack house, forever, stuck imprisoned because of something
that you had done, forever the mindset of anger and
rage when there is no good reason for it. Stuck
like that forever for the people who are insurrectionists and
people who would just seek to impune and destroy the
reputations of others. Be really clear that if God allowed
Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Life
in that state, they would have been stuck in that
destructive cycle forever and ever and ever and ever, and
there would be no amen, just continuing. And so God
was being protective. In fact, in fact, I read from
now the book the Book Patriarchs and Prophets, page sixty.
In order to possess an endless existence, humankind must continue
to partake of the Tree of Life. Deprived of this,
his vitality would gradually diminish, until life should become extinct.
It was Satan's plan that Adam and Eve should, by disobedience,
incur God's displeasure, and then if they failed to obtain forgiveness,
he hoped that they would eat of the Tree of
life and thus perpetuate and exist of sin and misery.
But after man's fall, holy angels, what kind of angels?
Holy angels were immediately commissioned to guard the tree of life.
Around these angels flashed beans of light, having the appearance
of a glittering sword. None of the family of Adam
were permitted to pass the barrier to partake of the
life giving fruit. Hence, there is no immortal sinner. Can
we just say, thank God that you have protected us,
Father from being sinners forever. Thank God that you have
protected us so that one day, when we are in eternity,
we will be just like Jesus. I thank God. I
hope you too too.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. 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,