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06 11 2025 Haman and Satan · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, June eleven,
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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 Haymen and Satan. That's interesting, Hey Man
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  Speaker 2: and Satan. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, thank you for this day
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  Speaker 2: that comes right in the middle of the week. And
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  Speaker 2: I pray God that you will give us the power
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  Speaker 2: to get over the hump here, the speed bump here
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  Speaker 2: in this week and then go down toward the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: with a new outlook. Father, Please teach us the lessons
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  Speaker 2: we need to live today. Gez name I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and DayMen again Hayman and Satan. So there's so much
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  Speaker 2: in the story of Esther that we are not drilling today.
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  Speaker 2: But I want you to read the entire book of Esther.
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  Speaker 2: It's a short book and see what God has to
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  Speaker 2: say to you. But Pastor Boonstra pointed out something very
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  Speaker 2: interesting in the story of Esther. We meet Hayman who
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  Speaker 2: is hungry for position and power. So let's pause right
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  Speaker 2: here for one moment. Answer the question for yourself. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not asking you to type it in the chat or
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. Are you hungry for power and or position?
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  Speaker 2: And please, let's not run by this. Even in the church,
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  Speaker 2: there are people who either naturally or you've been socialized
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  Speaker 2: to be hungry for power and position. If that is
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  Speaker 2: something that's in you, talk to God about it. Because
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  Speaker 2: there are times that God positions us in power. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but when we're hungry for it, that's a different matter. Altogether.
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  Speaker 2: This is a deliberate pause. Now he has given a
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  Speaker 2: great degree of prominence in the empire. Now you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible, we see that Moses was given prominence,
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  Speaker 2: Joseph was given prominence, prominence, Daniel, Michel, Azariah, a Hannah,
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  Speaker 2: and Ayah. We're given positions of prominence. So that's not
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  Speaker 2: the challenge. But above all other princes. But if we
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  Speaker 2: read in Ezekiel chapter twenty eight and in Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: fourteen about Lucifer, we can find some parallels. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God gave Lucifer a position of prominence. We can find
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  Speaker 2: some parallels with Hayman, an evil antagonist to God's chosen people.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is it who refuses to bow to God's supremacy.
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  Speaker 2: You see, power is not the issue. Position is not
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  Speaker 2: the issue. It's the attitude, it is the heart stance.
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  Speaker 2: How do we see ourselves in our connection with God?
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  Speaker 2: How do we see our responsibility when God and trusts
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  Speaker 2: power to us. So what I'm going to do is
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  Speaker 2: go straight down, and if we have time, we'll go
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  Speaker 2: back to the parallel between Hayman and Lucifer. But we're
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  Speaker 2: going to go down now to the center of the
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  Speaker 2: lesson where there is a comparison between Esther chapter three
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  Speaker 2: and two chapters in the Book of Revelation, chapters thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and twelve and thirteen. Okay, and so this is where
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  Speaker 2: we begin. This is where we begin. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you five parallels. Okay. The first one comes in
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  Speaker 2: from Esther chapter three and verse eight, and it reads,
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  Speaker 2: in part, there is a certain people. Their laws are
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  Speaker 2: diverse from all people. So there in the story, God's
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  Speaker 2: people's laws are identified as as different. I think the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that we are not to be conformed to
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  Speaker 2: this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible says in Revelation chapter twelve and
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  Speaker 2: verse seventeen that the dragon was wroth with God's people
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  Speaker 2: who keep the commandments of God. And the Bible continues
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  Speaker 2: and so in both cases. Because it's the same holy
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  Speaker 2: ghost that has God's people having different ways of living,
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  Speaker 2: different ways of seeing the world, different ways of making contribution,
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  Speaker 2: responsibility that is different in our hearts than the people
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  Speaker 2: of the world. We have God's people always being different.
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  Speaker 2: The difference, though, invites resistance that is from the world
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  Speaker 2: from people who don't love God, but it also reveals
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  Speaker 2: our loyalty to God, so it invites some resistance, but
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  Speaker 2: it also brings a light to how loyal we are
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  Speaker 2: to God. And so for us today in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: because it's interesting and easy to kind of look back
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  Speaker 2: and break down forensically what went right what went wrong
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  Speaker 2: back then. But we need to live boldly by God's
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  Speaker 2: standard even when we know people are looking like when
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  Speaker 2: Daniel was worshiping God and praying same way toward Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: three times a day with his windows open, even though
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  Speaker 2: he knew that there was an edict that would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten him into some trouble. While we live boldly by
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  Speaker 2: God's standard and not by the world's approval. Now comes
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  Speaker 2: from verse nine of Esther chapter three. Let it be
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  Speaker 2: written that they may be destroyed and I think somebody's
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  Speaker 2: already right running right before me in Revelation chapter thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse fifteen, that as many as would not worship, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the worldly paradigm, the religio political power should be killed.
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  Speaker 2: And so in both cases there were laws to destroy
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, or there will be laws two
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  Speaker 2: where and will be laws to destroy the people of God.
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  Speaker 2: Why because we're the people of God. Because the devil
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  Speaker 2: is still angry with Jesus and can't get at him,
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  Speaker 2: and so the enemy of God's people always seeks legal
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  Speaker 2: means to silence the faithful. I hope you're listening. This
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  Speaker 2: is the reality. We could go down through history, but
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  Speaker 2: we just literally don't have the time. So today, build
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  Speaker 2: a faith with God. Jesus said, He is the author
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  Speaker 2: and finisher of our faith through Paul. Build a faith
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  Speaker 2: today that can stand when your life may depend upon it.
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  Speaker 2: So when God is giving you the opportunity to simply
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  Speaker 2: tell the truth when there are two options on the table,
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  Speaker 2: that's a way to build faith. When your month and
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  Speaker 2: money don't line up, when the month is longer than
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  Speaker 2: the money, and you have to be honest with your
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  Speaker 2: returning of tie and your free will offering or how
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  Speaker 2: to acquire more money. You need to be honest and
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  Speaker 2: not steal, not lie, not cheat, or do anything that
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  Speaker 2: is unlike God. That is one of the ways we
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  Speaker 2: build our faith. When you and your spouse are talking
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  Speaker 2: to one another and you have a disagreement, whether to
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  Speaker 2: show respect or disrespect is another way to determine if
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  Speaker 2: we're building faith or we're building a break between us
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  Speaker 2: and God. And so another one comes from verse twelve,
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  Speaker 2: All that Hayman had command it unto the king's lieutenants. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was written in such a way, just like in
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  Speaker 2: Revelation chapter thirteen, verses fourteen and fifteen, telling those who
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  Speaker 2: live on earth to make an image to the beast.
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  Speaker 2: In the final days, the last of the last days,
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  Speaker 2: laws will be passed that directly challenge God's authority. What
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  Speaker 2: do we need to do? What is our privilege to do?
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  Speaker 2: Stay rooted in scripture so you recognize when policy becomes persecution. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Stay connected to God
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  Speaker 2: so you can recognize when policy becomes persecution. But stay
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  Speaker 2: loyal to God.
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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,