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06 17 2025 Worshiping the Image, Again · 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 Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June seventeen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 continuing in our
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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 Worship the Image again. Worship the
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  Speaker 2: Image again. 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: ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. Also, please let us
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day. Please help us to worship you.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Thank you in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. What I need you to do, and
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  Speaker 2: this is for me as well, is to search for
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  Speaker 2: and pray for or pray for and search for Godly solutions.
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  Speaker 2: We are so good at identifying problems. Ask God for
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  Speaker 2: solutions in all things in life, especially during these times
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  Speaker 2: of crisis. When there are crises, we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: just continually or incessantly identify the problem. Look at all
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  Speaker 2: of these things that are going wrong in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Look at all of the ways that some leaders are
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  Speaker 2: doing things in the wrong way that are contrary to
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  Speaker 2: God's will. Look at what they have done in history.
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  Speaker 2: Once we have done that, then what you see. So
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  Speaker 2: our search and our focus should be for God's solutions.
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  Speaker 2: We are very good at identifying the problems. Now, let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and see some more of the connection from
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  Speaker 2: Daniel three to the Book of Revelation, especially in chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start with revelation this time, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: into chapter thirteen, verses eleven through seventeen. But I'll just
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  Speaker 2: read a little bit of it, and it reads and
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  Speaker 2: he had power to give life unto the image of
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  Speaker 2: the beast. We're not doing a prophecy series, and in
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  Speaker 2: just seven or ten minutes, we can't make it all
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  Speaker 2: make sense. So again, go to Sabbathtruth dot org dot
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  Speaker 2: com and get understanding concerning this particular thing. Look for
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  Speaker 2: the mark of the beast and the change of the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, and you'll get what you need here. And
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  Speaker 2: had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
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  Speaker 2: and cause that as many as would not worship the
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  Speaker 2: image of the beast should be killed. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: when the state, and I'm saying this around the world,
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  Speaker 2: but it starts. It starts in the United States. But
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  Speaker 2: when the state enforces worship that contradicts God's will, like
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  Speaker 2: Babylon of old, civil power will be used to push
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  Speaker 2: false worship, targeting those who refuse to bow. So that's
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  Speaker 2: identifying the reality. But what do we need to do today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about on the seventeenth day of June. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege to daily build courage in our
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  Speaker 2: small decisions. I'm talking about right now. So you're ready
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  Speaker 2: to stand when the stakes are high, when God gives
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  Speaker 2: you the opportunity to be kind to someone who has
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  Speaker 2: been disrespectful to you, When God gives you the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, when the boss is entrusting certain things
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  Speaker 2: to you, honest with your time. Yes, that is the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to stand tall and not bow to the enemy. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: even those pens that you see in the supply closet,
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  Speaker 2: are they your pens? If not, they must not find
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  Speaker 2: their way into your bag, your pocket, your purse, into
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  Speaker 2: your car, and back at your house, writing on the
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  Speaker 2: table with your child as you help him or her
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  Speaker 2: with her homework. You see, on those small decisions we
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  Speaker 2: get to either stand tall in favor of God, or
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  Speaker 2: to bow and turn our backs on God. Revelation Chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: verses nine, eleven and twelve, we see that if any
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  Speaker 2: man worship the beast and his image, this is now,
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  Speaker 2: this is where it really hits the fan and his image,
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  Speaker 2: He shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they
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  Speaker 2: that keep the commandments of God and have the faith
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus. See in Isaiah chapter fifty six, we see
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  Speaker 2: a set of people who keep covenant with God and
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  Speaker 2: keep the Sabbath holy to demonstrate that we believe that
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  Speaker 2: God is true and every person is a liar. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: And those individuals, the Bible says, will have a name
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  Speaker 2: that is better than of sons and of daughters. This
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  Speaker 2: is a name that will remain forever. It is because
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  Speaker 2: God's house is called the house of prayer for all people.
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  Speaker 2: But covenant keepers are keepers of the faith of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: They have the kind of faith Jesus had. They receive
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  Speaker 2: the faith that Jesus is the author and finisher of.
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  Speaker 2: And the outcome of this is that we begin and
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  Speaker 2: continue to keep the commandments of God. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: the ten commandments that God thundered ominously. Maybe that's not
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  Speaker 2: the best word. That sounded melodramatic. From Mount Horeb or
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  Speaker 2: Mount Sinai, inscribed and blazoned by the finger of God
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  Speaker 2: on those sapphire tablets. Oh, somebody was like they were
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  Speaker 2: sapphire in color. Yeah, they were sapphire and color. They
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  Speaker 2: were not gray or beige. Forget the stuff you see
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  Speaker 2: on the TV. I wish I had the time, and
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  Speaker 2: it was actually taken from the stone that was the
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  Speaker 2: throne of God. Ooh, you're going to research it now.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to research it now. But the lesson is
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  Speaker 2: that there is a final line of division. Either you
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  Speaker 2: worship the beast or remain loyal to Jesus by keep
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  Speaker 2: being the commandments of God by faith. It's simple. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. I promise
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  Speaker 2: you that if you receive the love that I am,
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  Speaker 2: then I will give you the ability to keep the commandments.
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  Speaker 2: That is the new covenant that God made with his people,
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  Speaker 2: that he would write his laws in our hearts and
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  Speaker 2: on our minds so that we live like He would
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  Speaker 2: give us the power to live. And so the action
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  Speaker 2: for today is don't wait for a crisis to start obeying.
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  Speaker 2: Root your life in God's word today at this moment,
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  Speaker 2: especially the Sabbath, which is at the heart of this controversy.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about not elevating the Sabbath above everything that
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  Speaker 2: God had said, but the heart of this particular controversy
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  Speaker 2: is the Sabbath that he said is a sign that
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  Speaker 2: he is the one that sanctifies us. Revelation, chapter sixteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse two. The Bible reads here and the first
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  Speaker 2: wen and poor out his viile, talking about those angels
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  Speaker 2: that are pouring out those plagues. Right, and there fell
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  Speaker 2: a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had
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  Speaker 2: the mark of the beast. The people who chose to
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  Speaker 2: turn their backs on what God said and to bow
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  Speaker 2: to what the enemy had been teaching since way back when,
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  Speaker 2: when people felt that they could change times in the
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  Speaker 2: law of God and to replace the Seventh day Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: with other paradigms, to remove in their minds the God
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  Speaker 2: of Heaven off of his throne. The Bible says, at
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  Speaker 2: some point, yeah, they're going to have to pay. And
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  Speaker 2: so the lesson is those who follow man's authority over
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  Speaker 2: God's will cannot avoid the consequences. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Earthly comfort is temporary. God's justice is our reality. Are
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  Speaker 2: we going to be found faithful, being covered by the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of Christ? Or found because we have decided to
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  Speaker 2: take off the covering and do our own thing? Because
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  Speaker 2: Mama and em did it, Daddy and them did it Grandma,
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  Speaker 2: grand Grandpa taught us the wrong way. The action is,
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  Speaker 2: don't trade eternal safety for temporal temporal temporal security. Don't
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  Speaker 2: trade eternal safety with God for temporary security. Choose principle
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  Speaker 2: over popularity. There's so much more. But God vindicates the faithful.
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  Speaker 2: He vindicates his people Revelation chapter twenty and verse four. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: as we are with God in heaven for a thousand years,
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  Speaker 2: and then he gives us the earth made new.
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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,