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06 25 2025 The Drying of the Euphrates · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday's June
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  Speaker 2: twenty five and twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series. We're mid week how to
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  Speaker 2: study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for today is the
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  Speaker 2: drying of the euphrates. Yes, of the euphrates. We'll come
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  Speaker 2: back to that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you. Please please join our
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day. Please teach us your ways,
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  Speaker 2: help us to surrender to your will in Jesus name. Pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen again. Yeah, all right? Is the handwriting
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  Speaker 2: on the wall in your life? Like, really, Dave, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to start right there. Yes, is the handwriting, hand
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  Speaker 2: writing of God on the wall of your life. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what are we talking about? We were talking about humility yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So much we could have said, and indeed maybe should
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  Speaker 2: have said, but so little time we did not. Read
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of Daniel, chapter five and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. It'll be the precursor to what we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about today. And the Bible reads some of what it
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  Speaker 2: says here and this writing so while bel Shazar was
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  Speaker 2: in his pride and they were reveling and having a great,
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  Speaker 2: big old party, even though God had already shown him
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  Speaker 2: in his own history, had already shown him what it
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  Speaker 2: was like in the history of the generations of folks
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  Speaker 2: who decided, all of those leaders who decided to erect
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  Speaker 2: idols in place of God, to disrespect God and his people.
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  Speaker 2: The handwriting was about to be on the wall about
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  Speaker 2: what would happen in Belshazzar's actual time this moment in
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  Speaker 2: history and the Bible reads, while these dudes were drunken,
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  Speaker 2: while they were in their greatest level of pride, there
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  Speaker 2: was a hand that had no body, that had no
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  Speaker 2: blood dripping from it, just a hand, and it began
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  Speaker 2: to write, and it wrote in the language of the
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  Speaker 2: people who were present. And now this hand mysteriously appears
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  Speaker 2: and begins to write, and it writes this way Mini
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  Speaker 2: Mini teckle Eupharsin Mani Mini tackle Epharsin, And it says, basically,
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  Speaker 2: your life is weighed in the balance, and you are
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  Speaker 2: found woefully wanting your life. The preview of the review
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  Speaker 2: of your life in judgment has been now manifest in reality,
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  Speaker 2: and as it is weighed against the justice of God,
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  Speaker 2: as it is weighed against the love of God, as
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  Speaker 2: it is weighed against what God has revealed, so that
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  Speaker 2: you can live your best life. People talk about it
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  Speaker 2: on the internet. They don't even know what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Half the time. It's not buying cars and having time,
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  Speaker 2: just time with your family, which I love, by the way. Ah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's about eternity with God. Living your best life leads
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  Speaker 2: to eternity with God because this life alone is not enough.
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  Speaker 2: It's not enough. I don't care what your level of
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  Speaker 2: saying excess is. But when God weighs your life in
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  Speaker 2: the balance, are you found covered in the righteousness of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ? Are you found woefully wanting? And so God
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  Speaker 2: weighs individuals and nations. I need you if you are
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  Speaker 2: a leader in any nation around the world, if you
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  Speaker 2: are at the local level, if you at a higher level,
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  Speaker 2: if you are at the national level, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear this and hear it well. God weighs all
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  Speaker 2: of us individuals and nations based on the responsibility that
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  Speaker 2: He has given to us. Every life will be reviewed,
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  Speaker 2: every action, every intent, every thought, every inaction, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be reviewed in final judgment. Am I trying to
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  Speaker 2: say it to cause fear to rise up in you know?
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  Speaker 2: Because the Bible says that you know, perfect love casts
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  Speaker 2: out fear, for fear has torment. Yes, those who are
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  Speaker 2: perfected in love have no need to fear in the judgment,
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  Speaker 2: you understand. But there are those who ignore the warnings.
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  Speaker 2: There are those who figure, by the stroke of a pen,
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  Speaker 2: can just make history go away. The Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: that we have the privilege to live transparently before God.
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  Speaker 2: Ask him daily to weigh your heart. I will do
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  Speaker 2: the same. I do the same, and to correct me
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  Speaker 2: even now. And so now the bloodless hand has written
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  Speaker 2: the reality. So let it be written. So let it
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  Speaker 2: be done. And now. One of Babylon's strengths was the
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  Speaker 2: way the Euphrates river float underneath her walls, as the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer pens, providing the city with an unlimited water supply.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm obsessed by pottable water, the kind
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  Speaker 2: you can drink and be. As we say in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: water is life. Yes, it also proved to her to
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  Speaker 2: be her weakness. Uh oh, no, wait a minute. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: An ancient Babylonian queen had created in earthen works along
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  Speaker 2: the river in order to develop it as a route
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  Speaker 2: to the city, and in the progress process, had diverted
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  Speaker 2: the river into a swamp in order to allow crews
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  Speaker 2: to work comfortably. Wait a minute, Cyrus, remember Cyrus is
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  Speaker 2: the one who basically is a symbol of Christ in
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  Speaker 2: this story, realized that he could do the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: drying up the euphrates enough that he could comfortably Marchish
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  Speaker 2: troops under the wall. So while Babylon felt like they
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  Speaker 2: thought that they would be in undefeatable, they thought that
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  Speaker 2: they would be on the world stage forever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: As as the head of gold Nebuchadnezza learned before he
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  Speaker 2: died that that ain't the case. But his generations after
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  Speaker 2: him clearly missed that memo. And uh yeah, while they're
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  Speaker 2: in their party, and while God has put the handwriting
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  Speaker 2: on the wall that they are coming up short. They're drunken,
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  Speaker 2: and they're using the things of God to fix in
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  Speaker 2: their mind, fix their time and history. And God is like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not about to happen. Mm hmmm. He found the
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  Speaker 2: defensive walls that followed the river through the city unguarded,
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  Speaker 2: and the city fell in a single night. The ancient
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  Speaker 2: Greek historian heroted to Us tells us that those who
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  Speaker 2: lived in the center of Babylon had no idea that
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  Speaker 2: the suburbs had fallen, for it was a time of festival.
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  Speaker 2: All were dancing, indulging themselves in pleasures, in pleasures that
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  Speaker 2: were ungodly. While people are having freak offs and parties,
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  Speaker 2: they are unbeknownst to them, the lives are weighed in
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  Speaker 2: the balance, and their lives are found wanting. Somebody just
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  Speaker 2: heard me, And in the last of the last days,
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  Speaker 2: the reality still holds true. While God is shining a
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  Speaker 2: light on his truth, shining a light on his covenant,
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  Speaker 2: including those ten commandments that he writes in the hearts
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  Speaker 2: of the people who choose to love him. While he's
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  Speaker 2: shining the light on the righteousness of Christ, there are
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  Speaker 2: people who say, no, no, no, no, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: do it our own way. Well, God forbid that anybody
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  Speaker 2: listening to my voice at this moment should be found wanting,
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  Speaker 2: including me, make it a great day.
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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,