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06 13 2024 The Beast From the 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 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 Thursday, June thirteenth, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El 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 the Beast from the Earth, The Beast from the Earth.
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  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first of like to
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  say welcome to you and give a great big God thank you, and God
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  bless you for people who are here every single day. I'm grateful and our
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  online community is growing by leaps and bounds we've finally gotten beyond the six hundred
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  person mark. And it's not just the number for me, it is that
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  if this number of people are in that community, then that means that everywhere
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  each of these individuals are, you have an influence of hundreds and thousands of
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  people, which means that you are spreading the gospel throughout the world. Do
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  you understand how this works for me? So I'm grateful that you're there in
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  the community. Please don't hold back, Please share with other people, and
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  of course share your thoughts and feelings concerning our lesson studies in that community that's
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  found at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  we will get underway. Batherin Heaven, thank you for giving us the Bible.
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  Thank you for giving us a connection with you. Please help us to
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  embrace these privileges and opportunities that you have given to us, and to serve
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  you with everything that we have and everything that we are in Jesus name,
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  I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, So now I want you
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  to go to Amazing Facts Ministry and look for or search for the Lamb like
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  Beast or the United States in Bible prophecy, okay, the lamb like beast
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  or the United States in Bible prophecy. And that way you can actually study
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  deeply what we have here in our lessons study, because, as I've said
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  for the last couple of days, this style of discussion doesn't work in just
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  ten minutes, okay, And so I'm going to give you some principles to
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  live by. I'll say some things as a matter of fact. But now
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  you can, like the Bahreans, study for yourselves at Amazing Facts Ministry and
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  look up the lamb like beast and the United States in Bible prophecy. Okay.
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  And so the beast that we were talking about for the last two days,
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  that power, historically we've understood and believe that was the papacy. Long
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  story, you would have already begun your study because you promised you would go
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  to Amazing Facts and look up the mark of the beast. Okay. And
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  so now we're looking at a very interesting new creature in air quotes. Of
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  course, this is symbolic Bible language, Bible prophecy language. This beast comes
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  up from a populated or populous area like so it comes to prominence in the
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  seventeen hundreds from among a populous people. And we've understood historically this to be
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  the United States of America. Something very interesting happened in twenty seventeen. It
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  wasn't the first part of the discussion, but it came to a head in
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  twenty seventeen, and Protestants in America said that the protest that the Reformers five
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  hundred years prior started was over. They said that the protest was over,
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  even though even though the ninety five feces of Martin Luther have not been yet
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  answered adequately, have not been addressed spiritually, they declared as a body,
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  a united body, that the protest was over. Well, there are a
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  few of us who still are wondering, like, wait a minute, now,
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  there are some things that Rome had begun to teach that were completely outside
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  of the Word of God. And the protest is not over, okay.
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  And so in the United States of America, when they begin to just sort
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  of unify and not think that that is a problem, now we have a
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  problem if we unify not based on truth, now we have a problem.
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  I know I said a lot, but I want you to go and study
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  that from amazing facts so you can see the details. But what I'm saying
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  is when Jesus was praying his prayer, he said to sanctify them in John
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  chapter seventeen, by thy truth. Thy word is truth. And then he
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  said, in another place, make them one, Lord, even as you
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  and I are one. And so Jesus and God our Father are unified spiritually
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  and based on truth. They don't unify on any other basis besides the fact
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  that they are eternal right. Blessed be their name. But what I'm saying
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  is that the truth of God's word is the unifying factor, that is the
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  reality. So let's get some life lessons based on what you will have studied
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  from Revelation thirteen and beyond from the lesson study. But let's get some life
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  lessons here. From the Book of Tewod Corinthians, chapter eleven and verse five.
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  The Bible teaches us that and no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed
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  into an angel of light. And so we have seen in our churches ha
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  many times that there are preachers and teachers and facilitators, elders, deacon,
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  bishops, and cardinals and all kinds of other air quote leaders who have been
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  teaching things that were so far from the truth, and even living in ways
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  that were so far off based from the truth, we wonder what was the
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  origin. But we don't need to wonder. There are us spiritual beings also
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  who masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Right. The Bible says, no marvel
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  that Satan himself will be transformed into an angel of light. Like we have
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  seen this movie before. A devil approaches Jesus in the wilderness, and he
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  doesn't come as some scary, dastardly being. He appears in a way that
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  would have been deceptive to Jesus if Jesus accepted the deception. See, and
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  so we don't want to be misled, especially in the last days, by
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  appearances. I said to you the other day, don't believe the preacher.
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  I said, don't trust the preacher. I'm a preacher. Don't trust the
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  preacher. See if what we are saying is lining up with what the Bible
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  actually teaches. And so we go to Matthew chapter twenty six and verse forty
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  one. The Bible reads that we are to watch and pray, Thank God,
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  we can do this, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit
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  is indeed willing, But the flesh is weak. Of course, Jesus was
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  speaking to one of his sons. Yes, he was speaking to one of
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  the disciples. But the reality still remains today. Even though that disciple failed,
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  he did not watch and pray. Now we can look back and say,
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  well, how did Peter mess up? Like, how did these disciples
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  mess up? Well, they didn't watch and pray. They chose to sleep.
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  They chose to fall asleep at the wheel. They chose to accept status
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  quo. And those disciples forsook Jesus and fled, every single one of them.
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  Thankfully, eleven of them did repent. There was one who didn't.
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  And so I guess the question for me today is am I among the eleven?
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  Or am I that one that did not repent? Okay? And so
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  we watch and pray that we enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed
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  is willing, but the flesh is weak. We should not be self confident,
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  brothers and sisters, because we've memorized a bunch of quotes from the scriptures
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  and other inspired writings. We should not think that that is enough. We
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  should not think that if we intellectually understand the truths that we're talking about here,
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  that somehow that will insulate us. M M. Watch and pray.
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  Brothers and sisters, yield your will to God in every particular, Brothers and
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  sisters, do not trust your ability to memorize scripture as the way or the
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  path to righteousness. That is not the key. The key is remaining connect
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  to God in every way, in every way now, of course in the
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  last days, in particular now, because this is what we're facing, we
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  actually value and protect religious liberty or freedom. Even back in the Book of
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  Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse ten, the Bible says, proclaim liberty
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  throughout all the land until all the inhabitants thereof. I know the context is
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  different, but the fact is that if we are liberated in Christ, then
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  we should be free to worship God according to the dictates of our consciences toward
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  Him, according to the Bible truth. And so there's a beast from the
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  earth, but we need to be connected to God in Jesus' name. Thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,