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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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April twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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

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

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in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,

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and our caption for today is very simply. It's a

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passage Daniel Cha two or Daniel two. We'll get into

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that in just a moment, but first I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship in a very very very special way. Okay,

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so please go there again at your Daily Portion dot

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com and pick up the Your Daily Portion Companion guide

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because we need to learn how to apply these truths

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in the key areas of our lives. Again one more time,

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your Daily Portion dot Com. 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 opportunity to open up your

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word and I'm asking you to transform our lives today.

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Help us to see ourselves on the grand landscape of history.

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But more than that, help us to see ourselves in

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connection with You in eternity. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and a man again. Well. One of the most

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incredible places in the scriptures that helps us to know

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that the Bible is indeed and in fact true is

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Daniel chapter two. I wish I had the time to

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really drill it, but we have to look at the

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main point because today there was so much that we

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could cover. We could cover the false, the false theory

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of Darwinism and evolution. We could cover so many things

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in history that people have mixed up to their demise,

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but we want to cover one of the main points, really,

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which is contrary contrary to the most trumpet popular belief.

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I said, contrary to the most trumpeted popular belief. We

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are not getting better than ever. We are not getting

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better than ever, even in nature. Even in nature, the

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Book of Nature teaches us that matter left alone tends

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to break down, not build up, not improve. The evolutionary

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theory has things mixed up in backwards. Okay, so we're

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not getting better, things are deteriorating, unless, of course, we

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are fully connected to God and we learn to worship him,

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and so really, briefly from the Bible Book of Daniel,

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chapter two, beginning at verse thirty one, we read, now, oh,

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king sawest and behold a great image. So God is

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revealing to King Nebuchadnezzar his dream, and then he unfolds

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so much about history and so much about what is

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to come. You saw a great image. That great image,

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whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and his form

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thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold,

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his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and

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his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet

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part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till

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the stone somebody type in the Chat the stone the

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stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image

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upon his feet that were of iron and of clay,

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and break them into pieces. Then that then was the iron,

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the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken

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into pieces together, and became like the chaff of the

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summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, and

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there was no place found for them. And the stone

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that smote the image became a great mountain type in

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the Chat, great mountain, and filled the whole earth. I

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think the Bible says that that one day this entire

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earth will be filled with the glory of God. Can

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we just cut to the chase? Can we hurry up

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and get to the end. Analysis that the stone that

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was cut out of the gate, the of the that

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smote the image and became a great mountain is of

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course the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

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that supplants every single earthly kingdom. Now, let me not

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run through and miss this. So there are a few

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key truths that I'd like to identify here. I have

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so much more, but we listen, we just literally don't

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have the time. Number One, we want to identify and

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see and worship God because of his divine fore knowledge.

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In fact, in the Bible Book of Isaiah, multiple times

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in the chapters in the forties, God flexes his supernatural

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muscle and says, I declare that which is in the

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end from the beginning. He's the one who inhabits eternity. Remember,

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he's the one who was, who is, and is to come.

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If you can do that, then you're worthy of worship.

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But he's showing us in this prophecy that he sees

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everything like he knew everything before it happened. God revealed

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future world empires through symbols, through symbols, showing his complete

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knowledge of history and the future. And then he demonstrates

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something very interesting. This deteriorating quality, the descending value of

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the metals suggests very clearly the declining quality or unity

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in successive earthly kingdoms. The kingdoms are not getting stronger

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brothers and sisters, despite the global economy. Despite when people

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say that there is a world power or empire. Every

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single world empire has been destroyed, even empires that we

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see building today. I wish I had the time. And then,

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of course, to the point that I just made, that

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there is a temporary nature all earthly kingdoms, regardless of

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their power, regardless of their so called economic prowess, regardless

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of their armies, regardless of diplomatic relations, they are temporary.

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But God. In our first fourth point, he demonstrates that

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there is supernatural intervention. The stone that is the Kingdom

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of Christ. The stone cut without hands represents divine not

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human action. I wish I had the time to cover

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the rest of those points that I have there for you,

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But I want to identify very clearly the kingdoms. I'll

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identify the kingdoms the head of gold. The head of gold,

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of course, is the Babylonian Empire, some may call Neo Babylonian.

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Of course, at that time was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, and

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then and then the the lesser quality of metal represented

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here the chest and arms of silver represents the media

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Persian or Meato Persian Empire. In fact, the Bible teaches

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us that that Cyrus was like a type of Christ

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God used King Cyrus as a symbol of himself and

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overthrew the Babylonian Empire. But ironically, the the the the silver,

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the silver was of a lesser quality of metal. Weird.

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And then the third one, of course, the Bellian thighs

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of brass or the Grecian Empire, uh still lesser quality

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of of of metal, and yet it was stronger and

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supplanted the power that also supplanted the power which was

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before it. And then it gets even weirder. The legs

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of iron the Western Roman Empire, which again iron was

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even of a lesser value, and it also supplanted, of course,

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the feet and iron of clay. There's so much more

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we could say, but not yet because we just literally

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don't have the time. But these divided kingdoms, those kingdoms

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that came out of the Western Roman Empire, many of

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which now represent the countries of modern day Europe. But

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the bottom line is, at the appropriate time, the time

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we're waiting for, Jesus is going to show us that

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he is King of kings and Lord of lords.

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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,