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04 10 2025 The Serpent · 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: 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 Thursday, April tenth,
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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 Serpent. The Serpent. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the privilege that we have to open
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  Speaker 2: up your word again. And I'm asking you to give
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  Speaker 2: us a revelation of Jesus Christ today. Please, and all
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  Speaker 2: things that we say and do help us to have
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  Speaker 2: the revelation in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen
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  Speaker 2: again the serpent. Now, I really don't want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about this, but the reality is we do have an enemy,
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  Speaker 2: and our enemy is the devil. In Ephesians chapter six,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood,
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  Speaker 2: but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the
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  Speaker 2: darkness of this age and spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  Speaker 2: And it gives us the antidote for that in seven
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  Speaker 2: key points. We're not going to break those down today,
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  Speaker 2: but in seven key implements of war, God has given
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  Speaker 2: us the antidote against the enemy, or what we need
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  Speaker 2: in order to insulate ourselves against his fiery darts. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so today we're going to look at this parallel
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  Speaker 2: between the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation
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  Speaker 2: and to see how this enemy, the serpent, the devil,
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  Speaker 2: the dragon operates. But more than that, I am asking
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  Speaker 2: that God would give us a revelation of himself. So
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: jen Genesis, chapter three, and the Bible reads, now, the
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  Speaker 2: serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
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  Speaker 2: which the Lord God had made. And that same serpent,
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  Speaker 2: that same devil, that same beast said unto the woman,
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  Speaker 2: yea hath God said. Let me just say this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to read every word in these passages, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give the points as we read through
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  Speaker 2: the passages. So he is insinuating doubt, I said, he
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  Speaker 2: it is not really a serpent. It is that the
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  Speaker 2: devil is using a serpent. The devil is being a ventriloquist.
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  Speaker 2: He's a puppet master. He's speaking through this serpent, and
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  Speaker 2: he is causing the woman to re examine what God said,
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  Speaker 2: one of my friends said. Some years ago, she said,
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  Speaker 2: she said, she said, God told me Xyz. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see what you have to say. I said, you said, God,
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  Speaker 2: I told you Xyz. She said yes. I said, So
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  Speaker 2: what I have to say is like, why are you
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  Speaker 2: asking me? If God said x y Z, I have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to offer you. Understand, I have no interpretation of it.
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  Speaker 2: I have no direction to give you based on it.
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  Speaker 2: Because God is speaking, and I am keeping my mouth
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  Speaker 2: quiet except to go go and do what he said.
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  Speaker 2: And so in this case, now the devil is doing
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  Speaker 2: the opposite. He is insinuating dealt with Eve, and he
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  Speaker 2: is hoping that she will go down the wrong path
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  Speaker 2: Verse four. And the serpent said, unto the woman, you
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  Speaker 2: shall not surely die, even though God said, if you
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  Speaker 2: do this, you'll separate yourself from me. He is saying.
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  Speaker 2: The serpent, who is really the devil, is saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: God is not telling you the truth. Verse five. For
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  Speaker 2: God doth know that in the day that you eat
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  Speaker 2: thereof you shall be as God's knowing good and evil.
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  Speaker 2: So he's trying to make it seem as if God
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  Speaker 2: is hiding something from us. Really, and truly, God was
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  Speaker 2: not hiding something from us. He was protecting us from something.
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  Speaker 2: He was protecting us from separating ourselves from him. He
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  Speaker 2: was protecting us from eternal damnation and death. He was
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of being with him forever. And
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  Speaker 2: all Adam and Eve needed to do was pass that
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  Speaker 2: simple test. What is your test today? What is your
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  Speaker 2: test today? Is God? That the devil, excuse me, is
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  Speaker 2: tempting you to disbelieve God when he said I will
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  Speaker 2: be with you all way, even unto the end of
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  Speaker 2: the world. You're wondering, God, are you listening? Is it
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  Speaker 2: that he is trying to cause you? The devil is
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  Speaker 2: causing you to doubt whether God is actually your shelter
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  Speaker 2: in the time of storm, that He is indeed your refuge,
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  Speaker 2: your trust. He is the one that you can hide ian,
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  Speaker 2: you can go into him and be safe. And the
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  Speaker 2: devil is saying, no, God is not trustworthy. You see,
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  Speaker 2: every single day, many times throughout the day, we are
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  Speaker 2: faced with our tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  Speaker 2: And God has given us the privilege to go into
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  Speaker 2: him and to be safe. But the enemy is always
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  Speaker 2: trying to pull us away, pull us away and cause
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  Speaker 2: us to eat or at least entice us to eat,
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  Speaker 2: because really he can't cause us to do anything, you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so in the Book of Revelation there was war
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  Speaker 2: in heaven chapter twelve, beginning at verse seven Mi kay
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  Speaker 2: Yell and his angels fought against the dragon. So there's
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and his angels, the dragon, who was also the
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  Speaker 2: devil and his angels verse nine. And the dragon was
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  Speaker 2: cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan,
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  Speaker 2: which deceiveth the whole world. And so we see some
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  Speaker 2: common themes deception methods. In Genesis, the devil said, yeay,
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  Speaker 2: have God's an insinuated doubt in Revelation, which deceived the
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  Speaker 2: whole world. And so this shows that he questions God's word,
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  Speaker 2: he challenges God's authority, He misrepresents God's character and then
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  Speaker 2: uses subtlety. And of course there is this power struggle,
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  Speaker 2: this power struggle. And in Genesis he said the devil said,
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  Speaker 2: you will be as God's in Revelation is causing a
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  Speaker 2: war in heaven. And it shows that the devil wants
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  Speaker 2: to be supreme, that he is rebellious against authority. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, maybe I'm speaking too quickly, are you rebellious
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  Speaker 2: against authority. Do you know people who are rebellious against authority?
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  Speaker 2: M M. There is pride as a motivation. Am I
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  Speaker 2: motivated by pride? Are you? Do you know people who
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  Speaker 2: are motivated by pride? And then of course there are conflicts.
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  Speaker 2: There's a conflict between the kingdom of God and the
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  Speaker 2: kingdom of the enemy. And then of course there is
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  Speaker 2: an attack on the character of God. Those in both
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  Speaker 2: of those God doth know, and he's making it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if God is holding something back, and he is,
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  Speaker 2: in Revelation, the accuser of the brethren. So it questions
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  Speaker 2: God's motives, attacks God's character, suggests God is withholding something,
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  Speaker 2: and portrays God as selfish. There are so many things,
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  Speaker 2: but listen, the reality is the devil is consistent in
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  Speaker 2: his onslaught and his attack. He's always lying. Even if
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  Speaker 2: there is a measure of truth, he's really using it
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  Speaker 2: in order to deceive. So really he's lying. There is
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  Speaker 2: an ongoing conflict as long as we live on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Every time you go to work, every time you are
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  Speaker 2: in your relationships, hi, every time you are developing spiritually
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  Speaker 2: and personally, there is an ongoing conflict, and it is
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  Speaker 2: happening with all of us. It is universal in its scope,
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  Speaker 2: like nobody is excluded. As long as we live on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, we are in this same conflict. And this
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  Speaker 2: conflict has eternal implications. It's truth versus lies eternally huh
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the implications, love versus selfishness, and fear
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  Speaker 2: and hatred, faith versus doubt. And so if we choose
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  Speaker 2: the side of God, then we choose the side of victory.
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  Speaker 2: We don't choose the side of the serpent. We don't
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  Speaker 2: choose when he is insinuating doubt. We don't choose his
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  Speaker 2: version of who God is. We choose Christ. And when
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  Speaker 2: we choose Christ, we will have victory over the devil
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time.
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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,