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04 19 2025 The Nations- Part 1 · 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 Sabbath, April nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Nation's Part one, The Nations Part One.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. I'd just like to say welcome to you,
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  Speaker 2: Portion Companion guide. That's where we teach you how to
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  Speaker 2: apply whatever we're studying in four key areas. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: pick that up at the appropriate time, and also please
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day. Thank you for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to open up your word on your holy seventh
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  Speaker 2: day Sabbath, Lord, especially today. We know there is special power.
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  Speaker 2: Your power to accompany us and transform us is special
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  Speaker 2: today because you are sanctifying us. Father, Please please transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: The nation's part one. I'm going to jump right into
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  Speaker 2: what the lesson writer said, and then we'll use that
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  Speaker 2: as a context for what we will see in the Bible. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so the lesson writer pended these words. The Book
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  Speaker 2: of Revelation shows us God's solutions for our fallen world.
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  Speaker 2: By show of hands, I know that we're not in
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  Speaker 2: the same place, but use a virtual hand, use a
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  Speaker 2: number one in the chat. If this is you, okay,
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  Speaker 2: by show of hands, do you see that God is
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  Speaker 2: providing solutions right out of the scriptures for the world
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  Speaker 2: in which we live. If you see that God is
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  Speaker 2: showing us solutions in his word for this world as
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  Speaker 2: it is today, is fallen and broken as it is,
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  Speaker 2: please type a one in the chat or put some
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  Speaker 2: kind of virtual hand up. The reality is in the
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  Speaker 2: final chapters we access the Tree of Life as restored,
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  Speaker 2: the curse is lifted, and we are readmitted into the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of the presence of God. Revelation in some ways
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  Speaker 2: is the Book of Genesis in reverse, which is why
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  Speaker 2: Genesis remains an important key to understanding how the world's
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  Speaker 2: problems developed in the first place. I'll just pause right
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  Speaker 2: there on that reading, and then we will jump right in,
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  Speaker 2: jump right in and read from the Bible Book of Daniel.
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Daniel, chapter seven and verse fourteen. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel l Chapter seven and verse fourteen. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to give an expose of the text, but we're going
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  Speaker 2: to glean something critical as we connected to a text
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of Revelation in just a moment. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel chapter seven in verse fourteen, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and there was given him meaning Christ, the Messiah, the
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  Speaker 2: one who appeared before the ancient of days. In the text,
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  Speaker 2: dominion and glory and the kingdom that all people, nations
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  Speaker 2: and languages, that's everybody should serve him. His dominion is
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  Speaker 2: an everlasting dominion. And I like that in contrast to
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  Speaker 2: all of the dominions represented in the Bible Book of Daniel.
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  Speaker 2: From Daniel chapter two onward Daniel chapter eleven, we see
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  Speaker 2: kingdom standing and falling, standing and sitting down, standing and
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  Speaker 2: sitting down until until, of course, we know when the
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  Speaker 2: judgment is complete. And then Jesus finally, as as the
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  Speaker 2: one who has all of this dominion, has all of
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  Speaker 2: this glory, has all of this power, he will stand
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  Speaker 2: up and then he will be seated firmly on the
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  Speaker 2: universe's throne. I wish I had the time that the
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall
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  Speaker 2: not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that we can join the team with
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ today, on this nineteenth day of the month
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  Speaker 2: of April in twenty twenty five, at about six minutes
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  Speaker 2: into our broadcast, we can make the decision today to
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  Speaker 2: join join Jesus's power, his dominion, join Jesus as kingdom
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  Speaker 2: builders because the kingdom that we've joined will not be destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: cannot must not be destroyed. And so we see a
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  Speaker 2: key theme here in a restoration pattern in Revelation chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and verse one, and I saw a new
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  Speaker 2: Heaven and a new Earth. This shows what happened in Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: what went wrong in Genesis reversed reversed. They were kicked
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  Speaker 2: out of the Garden of Eden. They were barred and
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  Speaker 2: banned from eating from the Tree of Life as a
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  Speaker 2: protective measure. Yes, in some ways it was punitive, but
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  Speaker 2: in other ways it was a protective measure. But we
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  Speaker 2: see this restored in Revelation twenty one, and we see
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  Speaker 2: paradise is restored. The curse is completely removed because of
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  Speaker 2: the work of Jesus Christ. As he lived on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: he lived a perfect life. He died a substitutionary death
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  Speaker 2: that satisfied all of the claims of sin on human
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  Speaker 2: beings as he lived in human flesh, and he took
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  Speaker 2: up with great power and great glory his life again
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  Speaker 2: and is now ministering on behalf of those who are
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  Speaker 2: surrendering our will to Him, so that our sin records
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  Speaker 2: can be finally and completely expunged. And so the curse
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  Speaker 2: is removed, and God's presence is renewed and restored in
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  Speaker 2: a way that we will be able to see God
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  Speaker 2: face to face. And then we also see human governmental failure.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible teaches us when it talks about the tentative
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  Speaker 2: nature or temporary nature of human beings, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we have to borrow our breath, and at some time
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, but at some point any of us can
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  Speaker 2: give up the ghost or our breath will go back
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  Speaker 2: to God who gave it, and in that moment our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts will perish, and in that vein the Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: says in Psalmn Chapter one hundred and forty six and
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  Speaker 2: verse three, don't put your trust in princes, don't put
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  Speaker 2: your trust in and any human being, no governmental official,
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  Speaker 2: no governmental body, no political party, no human should we
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  Speaker 2: put our trust in, because well, we've done this before,
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  Speaker 2: like we've seen this movie before. We've failed in our
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  Speaker 2: attempts to do that. There are human limitations, there are
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  Speaker 2: corrupted ideals, and there are tragic results when we put
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  Speaker 2: our trust in human beings, human governments, religio political powers.
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  Speaker 2: We put our trust there, and it's a fail. It's
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  Speaker 2: a fail. Number three. Divine kingdom has a promise. And
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  Speaker 2: in Daniel chapter two and verse forty four, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: the God of heavens set up a kingdom which shall
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  Speaker 2: never be destroyed. It's shown in extreme and stark contrast
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  Speaker 2: to all of the human kingdoms that we've seen in
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  Speaker 2: world dominance. We've seen Babylon, we've seen Grecia, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: Medo Persia, we've seen the Western Roman Empire. We have
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  Speaker 2: seen the divisions of Rome. We have seen the Vaticano power.
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  Speaker 2: I just made the word of Vaticanal power. But the
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  Speaker 2: Papal power. We've seen that. We have seen even the
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  Speaker 2: rise of extreme power in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: But if we put our trust there, then we won't
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  Speaker 2: begin to experience the kingdom. Thy Kingdom, Come, Thy will
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  Speaker 2: be done on earth as it is in heaven. We
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  Speaker 2: will not see and experience the fullness of God's kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: which shall never be destroyed, if we put our trust
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  Speaker 2: in earthly kingdoms. And then, of course there is so
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  Speaker 2: much more. But the point of all of this, and
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  Speaker 2: what I had not covered, is that human governments are temporary,
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  Speaker 2: Divine rule is certain, and then one day we will
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  Speaker 2: see justice established and God's eternal kingdom firmly established.
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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,