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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 Wednesday. It's

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April thirty, 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy. Before we

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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

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will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving

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us this new day and for the opportunity to study

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your word, especially in these days and times. You've given

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us these truths for a reason, and I pray that

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we will hear from you your reason and live according

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to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and

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a man again. Well, our caption today is between land

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and sea, Between land and see, I'm looking for that

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light that light switch that on. There you go. It's

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better between land and sea. And so one of the

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things that I love about the land or the earth

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is that, of course, if you know me well and

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you know what I do for a living every single day,

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then you know that I am I am drawn to

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behavior styles, the reasons we live, the way we do think,

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the way we do feel, the way we do communicate,

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the way we do excel in areas that we do,

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et cetera. Right, I resonate or the earth resonates with

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I resonate with the earth. The idea of the steadiness,

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the reliability of the earth, the fact that the land

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or the earth is not supposed to quake, resonates with me.

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And in the lesson, we have a quote from Beatrice

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s Nail Nail, and here are a few words from

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that quote. Symbolically, the earth and the sea are juxtaposed.

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Earth often represents the ordered world. Earth often represents the

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ordered world, while the sea refers to nations that menace it.

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As the sea menaces the land. Of course, we're talking

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about in extreme situations, the sea, out of control will

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menace the land. In the lesson, it continues in this thinking.

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The land is a place of statebility established on the

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government of God. Okay, this is good. The sea represents

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the unstable turmoil of nations established upon human pride. Now

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we're going into the Bible Book of Revelation, the Book

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of Revelation, chapter twelve, and I will read just a

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couple of verses. Verses fifteen and sixteen, Revelation, Chapter twelve,

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verses fifteen and sixteen, and the Bible reads, and the

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serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood

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after the woman. So the serpent or the devil is

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now using to the extreme waters or peoples, nations, peoples

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to go after the church or the people of God,

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the woman, that he might cause her to be carried

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away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman.

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Remember we're looking at stability. We're looking at in this case.

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We know it's sparsely populated, yes, but we're looking at

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that which is supposed to be reliable, okay, and helped

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the woman. And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed

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up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

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So here are a couple of points on that first

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Earth has stability and divine order is the concept. It

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is depicted as the place of refuge. The earth is

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depicted in these prophecies as a place of refuge, of

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stability and divine providence. It represents the domain of God's

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governance and protection. We're seeing right now, Like if you

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just turn on the news as soon as we're done here,

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you will see that things are unstable, things are out

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of control. Markets are not what we had hoped that

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they would do, they would be. Some governments seem to

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be losing control or stable in certain areas. And this

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is what God wanted, stability, protection for his people, his

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covenant keeping people. Now the water, the water symbolizes in

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this case aggressive pagan forces, while the earth again acts

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as the savior representing Christ, swallowing up the chaos to

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protect the woman, that is the people of God. Are

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you getting this imagery? And so water is supposed to

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be life here in Jamaica Land we love. We say

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it all the time. Water is life. Water is life.

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But when the waters, or the peoples in symbolic Bible prophecy,

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are being used by the devil, they become a destructive force.

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When the waters are being used by the devil, the nations,

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the peoples, the populace are being used by the enemy,

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they become a destructive force. Do I need to talk

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about riots? Do I need to talk about persecutions for

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twelve hundred and sixty long years? Do I need to

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talk about how people are losing their minds? And we

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can just switch on the news and see that very

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very clearly I think not. And so the lesson writer says,

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notice that the dragon uses water to persecute the woman

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the church, as we have seen in prophecy, or I

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would say symbolic Bible prophecy, water often symbolizes worldly governments

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and the turmoil and chaos that often attends them. Hence

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we can see how Satan was able to use the

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masses prodded by their leaders. We're looking in historic Bible prophecy,

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and of course we know that there are things on

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the horizon even now, and we're seeing played out before

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our eyes where this is the case where the lamb

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like beast, the power that came up in the seventeen hundreds,

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the late seventeen hundreds, that was to be the bastion

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of Protestantism, the bastion of freedom of religion, the bastion

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of hope, and of civil democratic government of the people,

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for the people, by the people. But increasingly increasingly, this figure,

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this figure of liberty, has become more or opposite of

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what it was called to be, that is the United

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States of America. And so we are going to go

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right into our guide, right into our guide to page

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ninety five, ninety five page ninety five. Go ahead and

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turn there to our Companion guide to page ninety five,

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and we are going to look at the professional part,

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the professional application. Okay, And so the question is what

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is important now? What is important now? And as the

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world shifts toward intolerance of biblical truth, we must wisely

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navigate professional settings where faith based values may be challenged.

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I internalize the insight, evaluate whether you're prepared to stand

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firm in your beliefs of if if challenged at work,

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would you compromise to maintain job security or would you

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trust in God for his provision? And then, of course

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I want you to go into your own guide and

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look at what the next best move is. Well, God

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has been good to us. He wants us to be

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stable with him. Are you thanks for joining us listening?

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,