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03 29 2025 Some Principles of Prophecy · 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: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sabbath, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, 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 day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are beginning our new
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series, how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is some principles of Prophecy. Got stuttered
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  Speaker 2: right there. Let me say it again, Some principles of
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  Speaker 2: Bible prophecy. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: say a great, big, happy Sabbath to you. If this
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  Speaker 2: is your very first time. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. This is
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one of thirteen. Most times throughout the year
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  Speaker 2: our quarters are thirteen lessons in total, but once in
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  Speaker 2: a while we will see fourteen. But this one thirteen
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  Speaker 2: lessons in all, spanning a week per lesson. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we are here every single day, so welcome to you.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you to go ahead and click that
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  Speaker 2: share budgeon if you have never been with us before,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new Sabbath morning and for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for us to look at prophecy in your word
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  Speaker 2: through a different lens. Father, Please help us to only
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  Speaker 2: see what you want us to see there in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man and a man again. I will admit.
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  Speaker 2: I will admit that people, Christian people, and I often
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  Speaker 2: say Christianese speaking people argue even among our own fellowships.
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  Speaker 2: We argue about prophecy all the time. Everybody wants to
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  Speaker 2: be a prophet. Sometimes there's money involved, like sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: people find a way to monetize being a quote prophet.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say this, as Jesus was describing
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  Speaker 2: some things going on right after he would go back
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  Speaker 2: to heaven about you know, thirty some years after he
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  Speaker 2: would go back to heaven and for the end of
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  Speaker 2: time or the time of the end. Pardon me, he
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  Speaker 2: said something invaluable when his disciples said, well, when shall
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  Speaker 2: these things be? And what shall be the son of
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  Speaker 2: thy coming and of the end of the world. Then
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  Speaker 2: he goes through some things, and he said, He started with,
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  Speaker 2: do not be deceived. There will be false christs and
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  Speaker 2: false prophets, but do not be deceived by them. And
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  Speaker 2: he says some more things, false christs and false prophets.
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  Speaker 2: I seldom go into the Greek or Hebrew when I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking to you, because I believe God can show us
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  Speaker 2: right in our own languages, wherever you are in the world,
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  Speaker 2: what He has to say. But I just want to
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  Speaker 2: highlight in this case there are times when people will
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  Speaker 2: be prophets, except not always true prophets, like Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible word for false prophet is pseudo
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  Speaker 2: profhe tassees pseudo. You know what pseudo is, look it
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  Speaker 2: up ps pseudo. Yeah, false prophets. And so do not
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  Speaker 2: be enamored by don't get excited by the fact that
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  Speaker 2: once in a while you'll have somebody say something that's
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  Speaker 2: true to you, but then you look at the other
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  Speaker 2: tests of a true profit and see that they failed it.
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  Speaker 2: So they tell you something that you're like, WHOA, that's
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  Speaker 2: actually true? Do not listen. That's that's nothing new, Like
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  Speaker 2: there are times that that false prophets will tell you
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's true. But there are some more. There are
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  Speaker 2: some more tests of the true profit. And so I
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  Speaker 2: start right there by saying, there are some prophecy principles
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  Speaker 2: that I hold dear apart from my ramblings here, when
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  Speaker 2: I am reading and studying from the Bible prophecies now
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are fully established and God's stamp has
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  Speaker 2: already been placed on them in those sixty six blessed
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  Speaker 2: books of the Bible. When I'm studying and reading the prophecies,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for principles. The first principle I'm looking for
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  Speaker 2: is whatever I see should guide me to connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, what, that's what you're looking for? Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for my connection with God. I'm looking for
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  Speaker 2: how can I be so close to God that when
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  Speaker 2: he sees me, it's like when he saw Enoch when
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  Speaker 2: it said that Enoch walked with God, for he was
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  Speaker 2: not because God took him. God could not resist the
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  Speaker 2: desire to have Enoch with him early before the second
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  Speaker 2: coming of Jesus Christ, before the first coming, for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: But when Enoch was so connected with God that the
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  Speaker 2: Bible describes it as walking with God. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking for when I'm in the prophecies. I'm not just
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  Speaker 2: looking for timelines. I'm not looking for just the interpretation
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  Speaker 2: of what the beasts and the kings and the kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: and the horns and all of the dates that do
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  Speaker 2: align with the truth in ancient history and in the
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  Speaker 2: mind of God. I'm not only looking for that, I am,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm looking for a guide for connection with God.
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  Speaker 2: God is leading us and guiding us into the paths
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness because He loves us. And so let me
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  Speaker 2: begin by just highlighting a few principles. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: see them throughout the week, so I won't read all
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  Speaker 2: of the passages. We're going to use these same passages,
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  Speaker 2: but from Psalms chapter one hundred and thirty nine, verses
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  Speaker 2: one through six. I want us to have the principle
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  Speaker 2: of God's omnicience. In prophecy, God knows everything, He sees
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  Speaker 2: all and when he reveals it from before it happens.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus's words, I show you these things before they happen,
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  Speaker 2: so that when they do happen, you will know that
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  Speaker 2: I am he okay. And so I'll just read a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the verses. Oh Lord, thou hast searched me
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  Speaker 2: and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising.
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  Speaker 2: Thou understandest my thought afar off. And when you look
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  Speaker 2: into the Bible Book of Isaiah, chapters forty to about fifty,
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  Speaker 2: you see God flexing his real life supernatural muscles and saying,
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  Speaker 2: you have all of these false gods out here, but
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  Speaker 2: let them declare the end from the beginning, and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll know they're worthy of worship. But I, of course
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  Speaker 2: inhabit eternity. And when he God speaks to us in
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  Speaker 2: those ominous words in the mouths of the prophets, then
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  Speaker 2: we know that it is indeed God okay. And number two,
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  Speaker 2: there is timing in our understanding. When God opens up
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  Speaker 2: prophecy in Daniel chapter twelve and verse four, there was
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  Speaker 2: a context for last day's prophecies, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but thou olt Daniel shut up the words and seal
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  Speaker 2: up the book. Even to the time of the end,
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  Speaker 2: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
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  Speaker 2: And so God has timing sometimes on when He's going
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  Speaker 2: to reveal the prophecies. And so in the Book of Revelation,
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  Speaker 2: in the very first chapter, the Bible says, now is
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  Speaker 2: the time for God to release the truth concerning God
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  Speaker 2: and his people and the affairs of the world in
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  Speaker 2: the last days. Now is the time to unseal. Now
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  Speaker 2: is the time to reveal. Now is the time to
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  Speaker 2: open up what was sealed up back then. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible also teaches us that the scripture has purpose
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  Speaker 2: in two Timothy chapters, Chapter three, verses fifteen through seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and it teaches us that we are to be made
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  Speaker 2: wise unto salvation. And we don't get to interpret the prophecies.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get to interpret the scriptures in our own way.
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  Speaker 2: We listen for God's voice to know what he intended.
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  Speaker 2: So much more, there is living power in God's word
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  Speaker 2: and his prophecies. So here are some basic principles. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: God has complete knowledge, perfect understanding of the future. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: is hidden from him, and of course he has complete
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  Speaker 2: control of all events. Number two, there is progressive revelation,
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  Speaker 2: meaning there are some prophecies that are sealed until the
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  Speaker 2: appointed time, others for immediate understanding. Timing matters. Number three
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  Speaker 2: practical purpose. It leads us to salvation, provides instruction, and
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  Speaker 2: shapes character. And of course number four, God's transformative power
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  Speaker 2: is in his word, including the prophecies.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Asking to friends, always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,