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04 29 2025 Daniel 7 · 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: 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 Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April twenty nine, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Daniel Chapter seven. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but before we do,
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, we do
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  Speaker 2: thank you this day for your understanding, your wisdom, the
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  Speaker 2: way that you teach us and train us in the
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  Speaker 2: ways of righteousness. Please give us your understanding in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Have you ever wondered,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about in the last I don't know, several months,
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  Speaker 2: why now? Maybe yeah, why now? Or maybe in this case,
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  Speaker 2: in the last month since our quarters started of studies,
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  Speaker 2: why now? And you're like, why now?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Why now? Why now? Why are we studying how to
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  Speaker 2: study Bible prophecy? Why are we studying this? Now. And
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  Speaker 2: if you understand anything about how the church functions where
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  Speaker 2: these lesson studies are concerned, these are already well underway
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  Speaker 2: and in the queue two years sometimes before we even
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  Speaker 2: see them. So why did God lead his people to
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  Speaker 2: create this guide? Right pastor Sean Boonstraw and the committees
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  Speaker 2: that are related to how this is done? Why now?
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  Speaker 2: Why now? Why in God's infinite wisdom did he choose
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  Speaker 2: to give this message to his people in April of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Are you wondering why the nations are
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  Speaker 2: going on the way that they are. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: trade disagreements, I'm talking about politics, I'm talking about wars
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  Speaker 2: and rumors of wars. I'm talking about strikes and all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of other things that are going on in the world. Like,
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  Speaker 2: are you wondering why these things are happening? And then
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  Speaker 2: why God has given us the truth concerning his word
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  Speaker 2: in this context? Right now? What we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: now is go to the Bible Book of Danielle and
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  Speaker 2: read just a couple of verses, and then we'll answer,
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  Speaker 2: like the why now and daniel Chapter seven the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel had a dream and visions on his head upon
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  Speaker 2: his bed, and he wrote down the dream. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: God gives you understanding, he gives you wisdom, he gives
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  Speaker 2: you a vision, he gives you a dream. He's teaching
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  Speaker 2: your mind. Write down what he is saying. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: and told the sum of the matters. He's giving us
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  Speaker 2: sort of an exposaics summary of what Jesus said. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads in verse two, Daniel spake and said, I
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  Speaker 2: saw in my vision by night, and behold the four
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  Speaker 2: winds of heaven strove against the great sea. Four winds
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  Speaker 2: against the great sea. What did I just do? I
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  Speaker 2: moved my bible, Keep going, keep going. And then it
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  Speaker 2: says verse four, and four great beasts come up out
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  Speaker 2: of the sea or from the sea, diverse, one from another. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much that we could say, but let me
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  Speaker 2: just say a couple of things here. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: we don't need to be confused. This is just like
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  Speaker 2: what God revealed if you read more of Daniel seven.
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  Speaker 2: It is what he revealed to Nebeka Nezzer in Daniel
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  Speaker 2: chapter chapter two. We see it recorded in Daniel chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: The successive world empires Babylon, Medo, Persia, Grecia, Western Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 2: the division of that empire which became modern day Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Ten nations at the time, and then three were plucked
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  Speaker 2: up by the roots. The Bible teaches us seven of
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  Speaker 2: those still exist today. And then of course after that,
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  Speaker 2: then the papal power comes out of that division of
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  Speaker 2: the Western Roman Empire. That is in ancient history. It
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  Speaker 2: is in Bible prophecy uncontrovertible. So God is showing us
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  Speaker 2: how things were going to pan out, so that he
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  Speaker 2: could teach us about his love, his justice, his mercy,
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  Speaker 2: and how he will finally Jesus will ascend the throne,
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  Speaker 2: ascend the throne that Zedekiah vacated, the throne of his
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  Speaker 2: father David. The Bible teaches us in prophetic history, and Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: as represented by that stone that is cut out without
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  Speaker 2: hands in Daniel chapter two, strikes the image of all
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  Speaker 2: of these nations and all of this human ingenuity, all
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  Speaker 2: of the politics, all of the global economies, and all
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  Speaker 2: of the alliances, and all of the things that are
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  Speaker 2: causing people to become fearful. In twenty twenty five, in
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  Speaker 2: April on the twenty ninth day. Finally, Jesus will resolve
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  Speaker 2: all of that once and for all. But in the
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  Speaker 2: meantime he wants us to be able to get some
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  Speaker 2: confidence that he has always had everything under control, and
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  Speaker 2: that means that he will have this under control too.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible does show us that these winds
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  Speaker 2: are demonstrating or showing some some kind of activity. And
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  Speaker 2: the winds of Daniel, which strove against the Great Sea,
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  Speaker 2: causing four beasts or empires to emerge, represented those movements
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  Speaker 2: of diplomatic or warlike, or political or otherwise they were
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  Speaker 2: to shape the history of this particular period. The four winds,
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  Speaker 2: being from the four points of the compass, doubtless represent
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  Speaker 2: political activity in various parts of the Earth. And then
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us more that the Great Sea is
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  Speaker 2: not referring to a body of water such as the
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  Speaker 2: Mediterranean Sea. The sea here is symbolic by of nations.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, as in Revelation chapter seventeen and verse fifteen
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  Speaker 2: representative of nations, and the four beasts represent those empires
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  Speaker 2: or kings or rulers. Okay, very clearly if we read
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  Speaker 2: through Daniel chapter seven. But why now, like what does
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  Speaker 2: God want us to learn? There are so many things
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  Speaker 2: that he wants us to learn, But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go to our Companion Guide and make application in our relationships.
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  Speaker 2: In our relationships, go to page ninety two, Page ninety
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  Speaker 2: two in our Companion Guide and go to relationships. What
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  Speaker 2: is important now? We're using the acronym when what is
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  Speaker 2: important now? Instability of worldly kingdoms is also reflected in
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  Speaker 2: our personal relationships. Have you seen that people are arguing
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  Speaker 2: and having all kinds of problems based on what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Trust in human rulers often leads to disappointment. Trust in
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  Speaker 2: people leads to disappointment without godly principles that can lead
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  Speaker 2: to heartbreak. We need to do now. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: skip the internalizing and go to the next best move.
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  Speaker 2: Encourage faith centered relationships. I'm encouraging you to have faith
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  Speaker 2: centered relationships. For example, instead of allowing disagreements over worldly
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  Speaker 2: matters to divide you from others, find common ground by
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  Speaker 2: discussing principles that you believe from the scriptures that bring
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  Speaker 2: true peace and hope. I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: but God has positioned us today that we can go
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  Speaker 2: into his words. See how he has worked in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Know that he has our future secure and we can
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  Speaker 2: have the kinds of relationships that are fruitful no matter what. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,