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05 05 2024 Two Witnesses · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Sunday, May five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name Iszelle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy. Our
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  caption for today is two Witnesses, Two Witnesses. We'll get into that in
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  just a moment, but first I like to say welcome to you and ask
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  you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our
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  online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book, and let us know
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  where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot Com. This
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  is the way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us this new day and for the opportunity that you have entrusted
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  to us to open up your word, and not just to open it,
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  but to live the principles that you have given us. Father, Please let
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  your word be a witness that we have chosen to serve you. Help us
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  to agree with what you say, and then, once Jesus comes, help
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  us to live with you eternally, eternally in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again, two witnesses. Okay, so this almost sounds like
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  what we were saying yesterday, but we're going to drill down some more and
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  let me just ask you a question. What do witnesses do? What do
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  witnesses do? Yes, I know there are a number of ways that you
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  could take this, but they testify. Let's go with that. That's a
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  simple way of saying, what witnesses do? They testify? And I remember
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  Jesus saying when he was dealing with some people who should have loved him,
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  who had the privilege to love him, who who feigned that they represented god
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  Ah. But he said, you search the scriptures, for in them,
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  ye think ye have eternal life. So people were trusting in memorizing scripture,
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  wearing scripture on their bodies, being able to recite scripture right, being able
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  to wax eloquently regarding the scripture. But they didn't necessarily live the scriptures.
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  So he said, you search the scriptures, for in them, ye think
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  ye have eternal life. They are they that testify of me. And so
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  Jesus gave us a paradigm. He said that the scriptures testify of him.
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  So in twenty twenty four we understand that the scriptures are both Old and New
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  Testaments. Yes, the Old and New covenants. Yes, So the scriptures
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  testify two witnesses testify. Now let's go ahead and read from the Book of
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  Revelation, chapter eleven, and I'll read beginning at verse three. The Bible
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  reads, and I will give power unto my two witnesses. So now we
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  have sort of a peak into these witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand,
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  two hundred and three score days clothed in sackcloth. And of course this
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  represents prophetic period that is completely outlined in our lesson study for today. But
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  we won't go into those details because we have to get to application, since
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  our time with here with one another is short. Verse four. These are
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  the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth.
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  And if any man hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and
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  devoured their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, he must in
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  this manner be killed. These are. These have power to shut heaven that
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  it rained not in the days of their prophecy. These have the power over
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  waters, to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with all
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  plagues as often as they will. And so we see the power of God's
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  word in the time of Elijah, in the time of Moses, we see
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  that these two witnesses the scriptures, the scriptures have the power to do whatever
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  God says. Okay, yes, we'll get into that as well. And
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  so the lesson writer points out that in Psalm chapter one hundred and nineteen and
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  verse one five, it reads, your word is a lamp unto my feet,
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  and a light unto my path. Oil represents the Holy Spirit, and
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  so John's revelation in the Revelation chapter eleven is describing God's word being proclaimed in
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  the power of the Holy Spirit to lighten the world. Yes, there is
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  so much more language there that I wish we could get into, but alas
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  in just about four minutes, we're not able to cover it. But go
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  back to your lesson, Sunday's lesson and go there through the detail. But
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  really I want to highlight now how both the Old and the New Testaments,
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  how both the Old and the New Testaments manifest the power of God in different
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  ways. So let's go to Genesis, chapter one and verse one. The
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  Bible says, in the beginning God created the heavens and the air. And
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  so this account of creation establishes a foundation about the power of God in this
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  same earth that we are living in in twenty twenty four. And so we
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  see that the Bible witnesses to the power of God. There is no other
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  God in air quotes that can create. I want to go down through a
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  list, but I think I don't need to. No other God can create.
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  And so we see the Creator in his glory manifesting his power, and
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  the Bible is a witness to it. And then we see in the Book
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  of Exodus, chapter fourteen, beginning at verse twenty one, and Moses stretched
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  out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go
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  back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land,
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  and the waters were divided, and the children of Israel went into the
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  midst of the sea upon dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto
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  them. And they're on their right hand and on their left. And so
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  we see the power of God again witnessed by the scriptures, that the Lord
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  parted the Red Sea for his people to go over on dry ground, and
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  through the night he dried that sea bed so his people could walk through.
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  And then we see in the rest of the story that of Pharaoh and his
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  armies ran after they charged after the people of God, and of course the
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  sea came back and then drowned all of the enemies of God. So we
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  see the power of God to do miraculous things, to continue to lead his
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  people even in twenty twenty four. But we see it in the Red Sea,
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  where God led his people against all odds, not only to safety,
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  but to victory. Okay, let's go into the New Testament. We see
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  in the Book of Mark in verse thirty nine, and he arose and rebuked
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  the wind and said, unto the sea, peace be still, and the
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  wind ceased, and there was a great calm, because more than one time
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  Jesus calmed the seas. But in this case we see that even though the
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  sea and the waves were against the people of God who were with Jesus,
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  even though there was fear in their hearts, and Jesus needed to correct and
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  rebuke that faithlessness. We see that the New Testament witness has demonstrated the power
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  even in the hands of Jesus as he lived on planet Earth, to calm
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  nature, to command that which he created, as we see in the Book
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  of Genesis chapter one, that which he created, to calm down and guess
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  what nature had to comply. Because the maker of nature was speaking, he
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  said, calm down, cease, and it did. So. We see
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  that the New Testament actually indicated and manifested the truth about God's power. How
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  about even in the Resurrection Matthew chapter twenty eight and verse five, the Bible
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  reads and the Angel answered and said, unto the woman, fear ye not,
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  for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. But he's
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  not here. He has risen, Come and see the place where the Lord
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  had lain. So we see the power of the resurrection of Jesus manifest and
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  shone forth in the witness of the New Testament. So what are we saying?
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  There are two witnesses, the Old and the New Testaments. They manifest
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  the power of God? Did they manifest the power of God in your life?
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great
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  day. Yeah,