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10 24 2025 The Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention · 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 Friday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention.
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  Speaker 2: The Cosmic Conflict and Divine Intervention. Before we get into this,
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  Speaker 2: evenings every single evening at seven pm Jamaica time and
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  Speaker 2: we can worship together there. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for today and for the privilege you've
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  Speaker 2: given us to trust you to do your will. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to actually do that. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. And so now we are continuing
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  Speaker 2: with Joshua chapter ten and verse and ten and verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll read one more passage before we give you
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  Speaker 2: the first lesson for today. And it reads and there
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  Speaker 2: was no day like that day before it or after it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're reviewing that the Lord hearkened uneto the voice
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  Speaker 2: of a man for the Lord fought for his people.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm reading from Revelation chapter twenty, verses nine, nine
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  Speaker 2: and ten, and the Bible reads, and they went up
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  Speaker 2: on the breadth of the earth. Yes, I'm going way
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  Speaker 2: deep into the last days and come past the camp
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  Speaker 2: of the saints about and what happened? And fire came
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  Speaker 2: down from God out of heaven and devoured them, and finally,
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  Speaker 2: finally the devil was cast into the lake of fire.
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  Speaker 2: And so every time that God fought the battles and
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  Speaker 2: the wars for his people, he was just really warming
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  Speaker 2: us up. He was warming us up for the time
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  Speaker 2: that he would ultimately fight our battle at the last
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  Speaker 2: of the last days, when the people of God will
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  Speaker 2: finally be able to inherit the new Earth. But there
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  Speaker 2: was just one last thing he needed to do, and
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  Speaker 2: that is defeat the devil finally and destroy him, and
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  Speaker 2: then we can live in the promise that God has
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  Speaker 2: given us. And so the war on earth reflects the
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  Speaker 2: war in heaven. The war on earth reflects the war
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  Speaker 2: in heaven that started in heaven. So when God's people
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  Speaker 2: faced Jericho, they were really not interested in the land.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that God was just giving them land. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like a conquest the traditional way. You will hear
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  Speaker 2: me read about that in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: They were caught in a much larger, invisible battle between
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  Speaker 2: good and evil. We call that the Great Controversy. That's
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  Speaker 2: the time that God is showing that the weapons of
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  Speaker 2: our warfare on planet Earth are not carnal but spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: In the same way that God fought the Devil and
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  Speaker 2: his evil angels and he removed them. Back when there
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  Speaker 2: was war in heaven in twenty twenty five, or way
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  Speaker 2: back when Joshua and the people of God were entering
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  Speaker 2: into Canaan, or at any other time in history. When
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  Speaker 2: God fought their battle, it was that God was defeating
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate enemy, which is the devil. But when God's
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  Speaker 2: people chose unbelief, we said it yesterday, then God needed
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  Speaker 2: to do things a different way. And so again the
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  Speaker 2: war on Earth reflects the war in Heaven. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety two. God had made it their privilege and
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  Speaker 2: their duty to enter the land at the time of
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  Speaker 2: his appointment, but through their willful neglect, that permission had
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  Speaker 2: been withdrawn. It was not his purpose that they should
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  Speaker 2: gain the land by warfare, but by strict obedience to
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  Speaker 2: His commands and so allow God. Really, the lesson is
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  Speaker 2: to allow God to do what He ultimately wants to
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  Speaker 2: do in our lives. And there are some wars that
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  Speaker 2: we will never need to fight. There are battles that
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  Speaker 2: we will never need to engage in. Here as some
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  Speaker 2: of us that are having wars against addictions to illicit
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  Speaker 2: drugs and alcohol, well, we didn't need to deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't need to do that. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be flippant about it. I understand where it comes from.
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  Speaker 2: But if we trust God in the beginning, then we
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  Speaker 2: don't go to those or resort to those for comfort
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  Speaker 2: and then have to fight the battle to overcome them.
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  Speaker 2: There are some who are in relationships, illicit relationships because
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  Speaker 2: they were searching for love in all the wrong places.
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  Speaker 2: When God is love, searching for love in all the
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  Speaker 2: wrong places. Now you have a battle, You have a
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  Speaker 2: war on your hands. To overcome the lust, Overcome the
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  Speaker 2: feelings that you're not able to reconcile on your own,
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  Speaker 2: overcome all of the entanglements that come as a response
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  Speaker 2: to that kind of a relationship. And so God wants
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  Speaker 2: to fight our battles. Fight the battle in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: against loneliness, fight the battle in the beginning against hopelessness
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  Speaker 2: with God, and then we don't have to be drug
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  Speaker 2: Is that the right word? Drug? Through the battles that
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  Speaker 2: come after we have been disobedient. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. Let me continue with one more lesson the
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  Speaker 2: commander who is Jesus still leads the battle now Joshua's
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  Speaker 2: encounter with the commander of the Lord's army, as we
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  Speaker 2: have read and Joshua chapter five, verses thirteen to fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: reminds us that the true question is not whether God
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  Speaker 2: is on our side, but whether we are on his side.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that last night, Whether we are on
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  Speaker 2: his side? In every age, God's people must align ourselves
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  Speaker 2: under his leadership and not claim him as a supporter
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  Speaker 2: of our own agendas. How many times have you heard
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  Speaker 2: people say, well, I prayed about it. That's an answer
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  Speaker 2: to wise counsel. When people say, ah, you might want
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  Speaker 2: to choose a different path, and like I prayed about it,
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  Speaker 2: I know that I'm supposed to do this, and then
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  Speaker 2: only to find out that they prayed about it. But
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  Speaker 2: they used the only answer that they desired, not the
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  Speaker 2: answer God had given. And so God is saying, let
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  Speaker 2: him be the commander in chief of your life. Let
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  Speaker 2: him be the commander over the heavenly armies, so that
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  Speaker 2: he will fight your battle. He will fight your battle now.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson actually says, when rebellion against God's authority arose
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  Speaker 2: in the universe, either God was going to cease being
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  Speaker 2: what he essentially, immutably and eternally is and give away
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  Speaker 2: the leadership of the whole universe to one of his
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  Speaker 2: rebellious creatures. Or he was going to be the holy, righteous, loving,
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  Speaker 2: and merciful father of all that exists. The Bible presents
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  Speaker 2: the second picture, and in this case, the clash between
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  Speaker 2: the forces of evil and his power is inevitable. Why
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  Speaker 2: is it inevitable? Because God so loved the world that
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  Speaker 2: he does not want you, He does not want me
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  Speaker 2: to be lost. He doesn't want either of us to
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  Speaker 2: be separated from him eternally. And therefore, through Christ, when
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  Speaker 2: that war arises, God has to get the enemy out.
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  Speaker 2: And so the question is am I going to trust
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  Speaker 2: the one who created me and is wanting to recreate
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  Speaker 2: me to make me Holy Or am I going to
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  Speaker 2: God forbid side with the enemy and be destroyed with him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it comes down to those decisions. Make the right one.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you tonight at seven if the Lord spars
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  Speaker 2: life peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris, make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,