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
April twenty eight, 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 very simply. It's a
passage Daniel Cha two or Daniel two. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us this opportunity to open up your
word and I'm asking you to transform our lives today.
Help us to see ourselves on the grand landscape of history.
But more than that, help us to see ourselves in
connection with You in eternity. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and a man again. Well. One of the most
incredible places in the scriptures that helps us to know
that the Bible is indeed and in fact true is
Daniel chapter two. I wish I had the time to
really drill it, but we have to look at the
main point because today there was so much that we
could cover. We could cover the false, the false theory
of Darwinism and evolution. We could cover so many things
in history that people have mixed up to their demise,
but we want to cover one of the main points, really,
which is contrary contrary to the most trumpet popular belief.
I said, contrary to the most trumpeted popular belief. We
are not getting better than ever. We are not getting
better than ever, even in nature. Even in nature, the
Book of Nature teaches us that matter left alone tends
to break down, not build up, not improve. The evolutionary
theory has things mixed up in backwards. Okay, so we're
not getting better, things are deteriorating, unless, of course, we
are fully connected to God and we learn to worship him,
and so really, briefly from the Bible Book of Daniel,
chapter two, beginning at verse thirty one, we read, now, oh,
king sawest and behold a great image. So God is
revealing to King Nebuchadnezzar his dream, and then he unfolds
so much about history and so much about what is
to come. You saw a great image. That great image,
whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and his form
thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold,
his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and
his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till
the stone somebody type in the Chat the stone the
stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image
upon his feet that were of iron and of clay,
and break them into pieces. Then that then was the iron,
the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken
into pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, and
there was no place found for them. And the stone
that smote the image became a great mountain type in
the Chat, great mountain, and filled the whole earth. I
think the Bible says that that one day this entire
earth will be filled with the glory of God. Can
we just cut to the chase? Can we hurry up
and get to the end. Analysis that the stone that
was cut out of the gate, the of the that
smote the image and became a great mountain is of
course the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
that supplants every single earthly kingdom. Now, let me not
run through and miss this. So there are a few
key truths that I'd like to identify here. I have
so much more, but we listen, we just literally don't
have the time. Number One, we want to identify and
see and worship God because of his divine fore knowledge.
In fact, in the Bible Book of Isaiah, multiple times
in the chapters in the forties, God flexes his supernatural
muscle and says, I declare that which is in the
end from the beginning. He's the one who inhabits eternity. Remember,
he's the one who was, who is, and is to come.
If you can do that, then you're worthy of worship.
But he's showing us in this prophecy that he sees
everything like he knew everything before it happened. God revealed
future world empires through symbols, through symbols, showing his complete
knowledge of history and the future. And then he demonstrates
something very interesting. This deteriorating quality, the descending value of
the metals suggests very clearly the declining quality or unity
in successive earthly kingdoms. The kingdoms are not getting stronger
brothers and sisters, despite the global economy. Despite when people
say that there is a world power or empire. Every
single world empire has been destroyed, even empires that we
see building today. I wish I had the time. And then,
of course, to the point that I just made, that
there is a temporary nature all earthly kingdoms, regardless of
their power, regardless of their so called economic prowess, regardless
of their armies, regardless of diplomatic relations, they are temporary.
But God. In our first fourth point, he demonstrates that
there is supernatural intervention. The stone that is the Kingdom
of Christ. The stone cut without hands represents divine not
human action. I wish I had the time to cover
the rest of those points that I have there for you,
But I want to identify very clearly the kingdoms. I'll
identify the kingdoms the head of gold. The head of gold,
of course, is the Babylonian Empire, some may call Neo Babylonian.
Of course, at that time was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, and
then and then the the lesser quality of metal represented
here the chest and arms of silver represents the media
Persian or Meato Persian Empire. In fact, the Bible teaches
us that that Cyrus was like a type of Christ
God used King Cyrus as a symbol of himself and
overthrew the Babylonian Empire. But ironically, the the the the silver,
the silver was of a lesser quality of metal. Weird.
And then the third one, of course, the Bellian thighs
of brass or the Grecian Empire, uh still lesser quality
of of of metal, and yet it was stronger and
supplanted the power that also supplanted the power which was
before it. And then it gets even weirder. The legs
of iron the Western Roman Empire, which again iron was
even of a lesser value, and it also supplanted, of course,
the feet and iron of clay. There's so much more
we could say, but not yet because we just literally
don't have the time. But these divided kingdoms, those kingdoms
that came out of the Western Roman Empire, many of
which now represent the countries of modern day Europe. But
the bottom line is, at the appropriate time, the time
we're waiting for, Jesus is going to show us that
he is King of kings and Lord of lords.
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,