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06 25 2024 The Millennium on Earth · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect 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 going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, June twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series for the
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  final week the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is the Millennium on
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  Earth. The Millennium on Earth. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those
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  joining us for the very first time. We are asking you to go over
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  and this is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and
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  fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and giving us
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  the opportunity to do to connect with you and to read in your word so
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  that we can know how to share with others. Father, I'm asking you
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  to give us hope, hope for the future. Father in Jesus's name,
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  I pray, Amen and a man again the millennium on Earth. I want
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  you to be focused here because as I was preparing, I wasn't thinking about
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  exactly what it says. It says millennium on Earth. My mind took me
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  to Heaven. Okay, And so what we're going to do is go ahead
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  and begin with a question. No, actually it's a statement. Let me
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  say it this way. It is time for a refresh. Can I say
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  that again? It is time for a refresh? And why do I say
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  that? Well, in the beginning, the Bible says before Jesus said,
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  let there be light, and there was light the Bible says that the Earth
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  was without form, it was formless, it was void. And so yeah,
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  after all of these years and all of the challenges that we have had
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  down here on planet Earth and all of the sin and its impact, God
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  is going to have to do a refresh. Now, maybe that's not the
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  right terminology. He's going to recreate the Earth. Yes, and so you'll
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  see what I mean in just a moment. Let's go ahead and begin in
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  the Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter four, beginning at verse twenty three, and
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  prophetically, the Bible says that Jeremiah beheld the Earth and lo, it was
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  without form. Wait a minute, I think we've seen this before, and
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  void, and the heavens and they had no light, you see. And
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  so we believe that this is the same period of one thousand years on planet
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  Earth. We'll read about that in just a moment, but that is what
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  we believe is going on here. Verse twenty four. I beheld in the
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  mountains. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all
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  the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and low there was no man.
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  Okay, so we're going back. We're going back like God created the heavens
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  and the earth there was light. He said, let there be light,
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  and then eventually he created the heavenly bodies, and then he populated the earth
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  with animals, vegetation, and humans. And now it's saying that there is
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  no light, there is no man, and all the birds and the heavens
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  were fled. So we know that this is not talking about the creation story,
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  because now it's saying that everything that God created has gone away in terms
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  of you know, like everything I just described verse twenty six, I beheld
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  in low. The fruitful place was an now ada word now a wilderness,
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  and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and
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  by his fierce anger. And so it's a context that we need to have
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  because by this time Jesus will have come, and those who are were alive
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  when Jesus came, that where his children were taken to heaven along with those
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  who had died in faith of God, they were resurrected. And now those
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  two sets of people are taken to heaven and during a thousand year period,
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  which we're not talking about at this moment. We're not going to talk about
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  the heavenly part they are in heaven, and the Bible says that something happens
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  on planet Earth. Besides, all of the birds of the heavens had fled.
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  Besides that there was no man, because the wicked dead remained dead,
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  and the holy dead were resurrected and taken to heaven. The hills trembled and
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  moved lightly. And yeah, there's no light. It's formless, it's void,
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  and it's like, well, what's happening? Verse one of Revelation,
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  chapter twenty. The Bible reads, and I saw an angel come down from
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  heaven, having the key of the bottomless Pit, or some call the abyss,
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  and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold upon the
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  dragon and that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound
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  him for how long? One thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless
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  pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, and
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  that he should deceive the nations no more. How is it that he will
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  not deceive the nations anymore? Why is it that he is locked up?
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  If you want to say, he's locked up by a chain of circumstance,
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  because remember the mountains. That's weird. Something changed all of the creatures,
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  they're gone, the light is gone. Holy people are in heaven. Unholy
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  people are in the grave still for this thousand years period, and it's like,
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  well, what's happening now? Well, the devil has nothing to do
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  except think. He can't create a blade of grass. He cannot tempt anybody
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  because there's nobody to tempt. You understand where we're going with this, And
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  so the Bible says till the thousand years, we're fulfilled, and after that
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  he must be loosed for a season. We won't get into that part yet
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  yet. And so I want to take your mind back. We had done
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  a study on the sanctuary very recently, in an entire quarter on the sanctuary,
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  and listen, have some we have like some insight into what's happening here
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  from the sanctuary. On the book of Leviticus, chapter sixteen, we see
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  that after the atonement had taken place, or God did what he needed to
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  do to make us at one with him. That is, we're forgiven.
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  If we are as children, we've chosen to confess our sins and to turn
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  away from them through the power of God. Yes, and in that reality,
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  now we are cleansed. We are forgiven. All of our sins are
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  forgotten and will not be brought up again. And so that is done because
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  Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the
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  world, has done his work. Even in the sanctuary, was pointing forward
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  to that right on the on the day of Atonement, this is what is
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  represented. And there were lots cast and there were two creatures that were identify,
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  the Lord's goat and the scapegoat. The Lord's goat would have represented holiness,
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  represented God's side of the equation. And with the Lord's goat, we
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  know now that that has to do with our salvation. Now the scapegoat.
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  The scapegoat now is the devil. Two goats, y'all. Don't get caught
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  up with the term goat, because the Bible says there's the Lord's goat and
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  there's the scapegoat. Well, the scapegoat. Now, after God's people would
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  have been atoned for, after God's people would have been cleansed, and so
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  forth. Now the representation of the sins have to be taken out of the
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  camp. And the Bible says that a fit man. Wait a minute,
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  I think I read something about an angel here in Revelation twenty, a fit
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  man lays hold of the scapegoat and takes the scapegoat into a wilderness. Wait
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  a minute, I think I just read something in the Book of Jeremiah about
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  a wilderness like scene, and that fit man takes the scapegoat into the wilderness
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  with the representation of the sins of people who confessed our sins, and God
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  was faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  Those sins with the scapegoat are taken out into the wilderness. And now we
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  know that this scapegoat represents the devil, and we'll read soon what happens to
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  the devil. But the fact is that God knows how to do things,
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  make all things new like he promised, and we're looking forward to that day.
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  Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,