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 Wednesday. It's
April thirty, 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. Before we
get into it, I'd like to just say welcome, Welcome
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day and for the opportunity to study
your word, especially in these days and times. You've given
us these truths for a reason, and I pray that
we will hear from you your reason and live according
to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and
a man again. Well, our caption today is between land
and sea, Between land and see, I'm looking for that
light that light switch that on. There you go. It's
better between land and sea. And so one of the
things that I love about the land or the earth
is that, of course, if you know me well and
you know what I do for a living every single day,
then you know that I am I am drawn to
behavior styles, the reasons we live, the way we do think,
the way we do feel, the way we do communicate,
the way we do excel in areas that we do,
et cetera. Right, I resonate or the earth resonates with
I resonate with the earth. The idea of the steadiness,
the reliability of the earth, the fact that the land
or the earth is not supposed to quake, resonates with me.
And in the lesson, we have a quote from Beatrice
s Nail Nail, and here are a few words from
that quote. Symbolically, the earth and the sea are juxtaposed.
Earth often represents the ordered world. Earth often represents the
ordered world, while the sea refers to nations that menace it.
As the sea menaces the land. Of course, we're talking
about in extreme situations, the sea, out of control will
menace the land. In the lesson, it continues in this thinking.
The land is a place of statebility established on the
government of God. Okay, this is good. The sea represents
the unstable turmoil of nations established upon human pride. Now
we're going into the Bible Book of Revelation, the Book
of Revelation, chapter twelve, and I will read just a
couple of verses. Verses fifteen and sixteen, Revelation, Chapter twelve,
verses fifteen and sixteen, and the Bible reads, and the
serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood
after the woman. So the serpent or the devil is
now using to the extreme waters or peoples, nations, peoples
to go after the church or the people of God,
the woman, that he might cause her to be carried
away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman.
Remember we're looking at stability. We're looking at in this case.
We know it's sparsely populated, yes, but we're looking at
that which is supposed to be reliable, okay, and helped
the woman. And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
So here are a couple of points on that first
Earth has stability and divine order is the concept. It
is depicted as the place of refuge. The earth is
depicted in these prophecies as a place of refuge, of
stability and divine providence. It represents the domain of God's
governance and protection. We're seeing right now, Like if you
just turn on the news as soon as we're done here,
you will see that things are unstable, things are out
of control. Markets are not what we had hoped that
they would do, they would be. Some governments seem to
be losing control or stable in certain areas. And this
is what God wanted, stability, protection for his people, his
covenant keeping people. Now the water, the water symbolizes in
this case aggressive pagan forces, while the earth again acts
as the savior representing Christ, swallowing up the chaos to
protect the woman, that is the people of God. Are
you getting this imagery? And so water is supposed to
be life here in Jamaica Land we love. We say
it all the time. Water is life. Water is life.
But when the waters, or the peoples in symbolic Bible prophecy,
are being used by the devil, they become a destructive force.
When the waters are being used by the devil, the nations,
the peoples, the populace are being used by the enemy,
they become a destructive force. Do I need to talk
about riots? Do I need to talk about persecutions for
twelve hundred and sixty long years? Do I need to
talk about how people are losing their minds? And we
can just switch on the news and see that very
very clearly I think not. And so the lesson writer says,
notice that the dragon uses water to persecute the woman
the church, as we have seen in prophecy, or I
would say symbolic Bible prophecy, water often symbolizes worldly governments
and the turmoil and chaos that often attends them. Hence
we can see how Satan was able to use the
masses prodded by their leaders. We're looking in historic Bible prophecy,
and of course we know that there are things on
the horizon even now, and we're seeing played out before
our eyes where this is the case where the lamb
like beast, the power that came up in the seventeen hundreds,
the late seventeen hundreds, that was to be the bastion
of Protestantism, the bastion of freedom of religion, the bastion
of hope, and of civil democratic government of the people,
for the people, by the people. But increasingly increasingly, this figure,
this figure of liberty, has become more or opposite of
what it was called to be, that is the United
States of America. And so we are going to go
right into our guide, right into our guide to page
ninety five, ninety five page ninety five. Go ahead and
turn there to our Companion guide to page ninety five,
and we are going to look at the professional part,
the professional application. Okay, And so the question is what
is important now? What is important now? And as the
world shifts toward intolerance of biblical truth, we must wisely
navigate professional settings where faith based values may be challenged.
I internalize the insight, evaluate whether you're prepared to stand
firm in your beliefs of if if challenged at work,
would you compromise to maintain job security or would you
trust in God for his provision? And then, of course
I want you to go into your own guide and
look at what the next best move is. Well, God
has been good to us. He wants us to be
stable with him. Are you thanks for joining us listening?
Speaker 1: 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,