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09 03 2024 The Abomination of Desolation · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, September three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Abomination of Desolation. The Abomination of Desolation.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Okay, So this is one of the days
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  Speaker 2: it because it just hit me while I'm here, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to ask me to post a study that
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Damien Chambers did and I did some years ago
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  Speaker 2: that will help with this subject. Pastor Damien Chambers is
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  Speaker 2: an associate professor if I'm correct, for theology at the
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  Speaker 2: Northern Caribbean University School of Religion and Theology. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we did a good study some time ago. I think
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  Speaker 2: we were covering Daniel chapter eleven, and so I need
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  Speaker 2: to post that and when I say study, we did
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  Speaker 2: a video together, so please request that if I forget
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  Speaker 2: to put it in. And yeah, so we can get
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  Speaker 2: more understanding there. Today we are going to learn a
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  Speaker 2: few lessons. I will read what the lesson writer said,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to learn some lessons about God from
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  Speaker 2: the text in Mark chapter thirteen. Okay, and so the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer says, Jesus comes to the central point about
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  Speaker 2: the fall of Jerusalem in Mark chapter thirteen, he refers
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  Speaker 2: to the abomination of desolation. The Lord says that the
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  Speaker 2: reader should understand with these words Jesus is pointing to
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  Speaker 2: the disciples. Is point of the disciples to the book
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  Speaker 2: of Daniel. And of course this terminology appears a few
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  Speaker 2: times in the book of Daniel. And so the anointed
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  Speaker 2: one in Daniel chapter nine and verse twenty six is
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew word Messiah in English Messiah. I know you
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  Speaker 2: wanted me to pronounce it another way. In a careful
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  Speaker 2: study of Daniel chapter nine, verses twenty four to twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: it is clear that this anointed one refers to the
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  Speaker 2: coming of Jesus Christ. But who is the prince who
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  Speaker 2: is to come, who brings the desolation of the city
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  Speaker 2: of Jerusalem. The city is destroyed by the Roman general Titus. Thus,
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  Speaker 2: it seems logical that the Prince who is to come
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  Speaker 2: referred to in Daniel chapter nine, that's the one two
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  Speaker 2: individuals are linked, because the way that the Messiah is
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  Speaker 2: treated spelled the doom of the city. What though, is
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  Speaker 2: the abomination of desolation that Jesus is referring to in Daniel. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: many scholars believe that this abomination refers to Antiochus epiphanes
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  Speaker 2: desecration of the temple in the second century BC, But
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't work. Jesus describes the abomination of desolation as
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  Speaker 2: something that occurs after his own time here, so it
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  Speaker 2: hardly could refer to something that appeared or happened two
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  Speaker 2: centuries before Jesus's earthly ministry. Instead, the abomination likely refers
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  Speaker 2: to the planting of the Roman pagan standards in Israel
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  Speaker 2: during the Siege of Jerusalem in the late AD sixties.
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  Speaker 2: This was the sign for the Christian to flee, which
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  Speaker 2: they did, And so we know that there was a
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  Speaker 2: destruction that happened in seventy a d. But the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, if they were paying keen attention, would have
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  Speaker 2: seen where the armies. The Roman armies started to plant
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  Speaker 2: their standards. They started to plant their standards around the
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  Speaker 2: city a few years prior, and so that was a
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  Speaker 2: signal to the people of God to flee, to flee
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  Speaker 2: and be safe from what was about to take place. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that some people are like, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: this is too much. It's too much. This is why
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that I want you to request the study
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  Speaker 2: that we did Pastor Damien Chambers and I did, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll get more understanding there. But let's go ahead now
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  Speaker 2: and read the passage. Let's read the passage and then
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  Speaker 2: see if we can learn some other things, some other
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  Speaker 2: key truths here. Okay. So we begin at verse fourteen
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  Speaker 2: of Mark chapter thirteen, and it reads, but when ye
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  Speaker 2: shall see the abomination spoken of by Daniel the prophets
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  Speaker 2: standing where it are not, let him that readeth understand.
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  Speaker 2: Then let him or them that be in Judea flee
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  Speaker 2: to the mountains. And let him that is on the
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  Speaker 2: housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein
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  Speaker 2: to take anything out of his house. And let him
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  Speaker 2: that is in the field not turned back again, for
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  Speaker 2: to take up his garment. But woe unto them that
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  Speaker 2: are with child and to them that give suck in
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  Speaker 2: those days. And pray ye that your flight be not
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  Speaker 2: in winter. Okay. And so now we need to answer
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  Speaker 2: just really quickly and see and see if there are
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  Speaker 2: any practical life applications that we can we can derive
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  Speaker 2: from this. And really I want to focus on how
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  Speaker 2: God is like who God is or how God is
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  Speaker 2: in this case. Okay. Number one, God is omniscient, that
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  Speaker 2: means he knows everything. And attached to this reality is
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  Speaker 2: that he when he knows everything, then there are times
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  Speaker 2: that he shares like he is with his complete fore knowledge, willing,
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  Speaker 2: ready and available to share with us the things that
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  Speaker 2: we need. You know, sometimes crises happen on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: and people are like I wish I had known, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, depending on the crisis, maybe God did reveal,
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  Speaker 2: and in this case that was a major crisis in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: and he had revealed as we see in verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And so trust in God's complete fore knowledge and wisdom
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  Speaker 2: when facing uncertainties in life, and to rely on his
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  Speaker 2: guidance and remain confident that he knows exactly what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. He knows exactly where we fit into the
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  Speaker 2: equation and how to get us through. We should not
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  Speaker 2: be fearful for the future. I know that there's really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really difficult things happening. We see it recorded in the
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  Speaker 2: news media. There are some things that are just throwing
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  Speaker 2: some of our minds off. But we have to know
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  Speaker 2: that God knows everything. And let me just tie it
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  Speaker 2: to our second point. And he's also protective. He's protective.
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  Speaker 2: If we will just listen, if we will yield our
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  Speaker 2: lives to God and listen to what He is teaching us,
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  Speaker 2: how he is preparing us through these last and terrible days,
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  Speaker 2: then we will be fine. We'll be safe. He gave
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  Speaker 2: the people of God a clear guideline. Let him that
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  Speaker 2: is on the housetop, don't go down into the house,
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  Speaker 2: and so forth. And so the way we can apply
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  Speaker 2: this is that we need to recognize and trust in
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  Speaker 2: God's protection. Not just recognize it, but do we trust
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  Speaker 2: that God is protecting us follow his directions for safety. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He gives us directives and safety guidelines related to our health,
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  Speaker 2: how we should live and where we should live, what
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  Speaker 2: our marriage life should look like, how we should treat
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  Speaker 2: money right, how we should behave and live and prepare
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  Speaker 2: during the last days of Earth's history, how holiness looks
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  Speaker 2: from his perspective. And then, of course God is sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: He's sovereign, he knows everything, He's protective, and he's sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: There is nothing that is outside of his purview. His
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  Speaker 2: authority is still intact even when you think or God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: I think that things are out of control. When I
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  Speaker 2: have questions, it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: But God is.
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  Speaker 2: Sovereigns he knows everything, but he also has ultimate authority
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  Speaker 2: in these last days. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day, Yeah,