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05 06 2024 Prophetic Time Periods · 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
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to 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
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  morning. It is Monday, May sixth, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name Iszelle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is prophetic time periods. Prophetic time periods. We'll get
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  into that in just a moment, but first like to say welcome to you
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  and ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  join our online community and pick up your Daily Portion book again at your Daily
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  Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and
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  fellowship, let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day and for the privilege you
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  have entrusted to us to open your word. And I'm asking you to please
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  give us the fullness of your Holy spirit. God. We really need you
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  in these days and we are asking you to us let us be of value
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  to the people in our communities. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  and Amen again. Prophetic time periods. Now, I have told you already
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  that during this time when we are dealing with these heavy subjects, you'll have
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  to go back to the lesson study to really real the details. Okay,
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  So what I'm focusing on for the next few days, since you have the
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  lesson study, is I'm focusing on how do we apply these things in our
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  daily lives or what principles can we take away as we consider the reality of
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  these passages? Okay, And so I'm going to begin with a thought question
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  from Revelation chapter eleven and twelve, and I'll come back to the passages.
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  How do the prophetic periods across different passages indicate the reliability of scripture? This
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  is important to me because there are times that people will say, well,
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  how do you know that the Bible is true? And of course the believer's
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  answer often has to do with faith and how God manifests his reality in our
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  lives. We can trust him because we have seen his movements throughout history.
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  But prophecy, Bible prophecy, especially the kinds that you can trace even in
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  our day, are an indicator because they can't be controverted. Like there are
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  Bible prophecies in scripture that tell us what will happen, and you say,
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  oh, well, that's left up to interpretation. But did you know that
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  God also has some prophecies about things that would not happen. Let me just
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  give you one example and then we'll jump into these two passages. He said
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  that Babylon would not be would never be rebuilt, and they're here people,
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  billionaires who have attempted it, and they have failed miserably because God's word cannot
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  be broken. And so prophecy gives me confidence because I can trace it,
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  I can track it, I can compare it in history and ancient history and
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  say, okay, since God was right about this, he's going to be
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  right about that. I wish I had the time. But let me read
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  now from the Book of Revelation, chapter eleven. The Book of Revelation,
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  chapter eleven and verse three. The Bible reads, and I will give power
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  unto my two witnesses. Remember the two witnesses are what, okay, the
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  Bible or the scriptures in total right, His two witnesses are the Old and
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  New Testaments of the Bible. Okay. And they shall prophesy one thousand and
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  two hundred and three scored days clothed in saclaw okay. And the lesson actually
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  highlights and says what these three and a half prophetic time period mean. Okay.
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  So I won't get into that, but let me read now from Revelation
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  chapter twelve and verse six, and the Bible reads, and the woman that's
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  God's people the church fled into the wilderness. We can call this God's protection
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  even though they were under persecution, where she had been prepared of God.
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  And they should feed her there one thousand, two hundred and three score days.
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  So in these verses we see that God, through a specific, very
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  specific prophetic time period, while his people were being persecuted that was identified during
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  the time period, he was doing what protecting her God's people. He was
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  manifesting the power of his word, even though in the French Revolution and in
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  other areas key times in our history, they were trying to destroy, They
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  were trying to destroy the word of God. But God, he protected his
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  people, He preserved his word and made his word prominent even during those times
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  that are referenced here. Now let's go to another thought question. What do
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  these time periods reveal about God's foreknowledge and care for his people. In Daniel,
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  chapter seo and verse twenty five, it says, and he shall speak
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  great words against the most high. Okay, we're talking about blasphemies, right.
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  The papal ancient papal powers stood up and spoke against against the most high,
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  and will wear out the saints of the most High. You can read
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  the book Fox's Book of Martyrs to see what would have happened during those ages
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  of persecution, twelve hundred and sixty long years of persecution, And shall wear
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  out the saints of the most High, and shall think to change times and
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  laws, and shall be given into his hand unto a time, a times,
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  and a dividing of times. Of course, that same time period,
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  the same twelve hundred and sixty years the same three and a half prophetic year,
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  saying twelve hundred sixty years forty two month prophecy. It shows that God's
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  fore knowledge of persecution and his ultimate deliverance means that he is in control.
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  There are times in our lives that we feel persecuted. It could be because
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  of something happening at work, it could be something related to what's happening in
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  our home life. Right we could be persecuted in our own mindsets because we
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  have decided to follow Jesus against all of the world's paradigms, and in our
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  situation it's becoming more and more difficult. But we can see that God preserved
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  as people even though many had lost their lives, and according to Hebrews chapter
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  eleven, some lost their lives, of course, not first seeing or experiencing
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  the promise that God had made. But they look forward just like they would
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  have looked forward, just like Abraham did to a city whose builder and maker
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  is God. And so even though the persecution was hot where the church is
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  concerned, and you may be going through some challenges today, that if God
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  was able to keep his people preserve their faith and some of the people's lives,
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  even though many gave their lives for his cause. If He's able to
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  preserve us in terms of our eternal experience with him, then why can't he
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  preserve us through these challenges until He comes? You understand, So those who
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  are resting in faith, those individuals will be raised. The millions and millions
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  who have lost their lives doe to persecution as they held up the banner of
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  Christ, and they kept the truth, the Bible, truths that He had
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  been teaching us. If he can keep them faithful, he could have kept
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  them faithful, then he can keep you faithful as well. Here's another one
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  from Revelation, chapter twelve, and we'll probably pause right here in verse fourteen,
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  and to the women were given two wings of a great eagle. Remember
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  God's church is the woman. That she should fly into the wilderness, the
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  same thing we were reading about, into her place where she would be nourished
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  for what period of time, the same exact period of time, a times
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  a half of time, a time of times and a half of time from
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  the face of the serpent. And so this text reaffirms that God provides for
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  his faithful during times of trial, right representing present his protective care, and
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  it can be trusted in any era. Over and over again we see where
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  the Bible says this is what happened to the saints of the Most High.
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  But God is able to preserve us throughout eternity, and I'm looking forward to
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  the day when Jesus will come and eternity begins with him. Have a wonderful
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  day, pace Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,