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04 18 2025 Anchored in Real Events · 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: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April eighteen, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series how to Study the Bible Prophecy
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  Speaker 2: or how to Study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is anchored in real events, anchored in real events.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: And also please join our your Daily Portion community right
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  Speaker 2: there at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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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, Please give us your Holy spirit, help
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  Speaker 2: us to be anchored, anchored in your word, and help
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  Speaker 2: us to know that we're talking about the reality of
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  Speaker 2: life and not just symbols. In Jesus's name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and a man again. So the lesson writer opens
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  Speaker 2: up for today. By the way, I realize that in
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  Speaker 2: your churches that most of you are not going to
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  Speaker 2: even touch Friday's lesson. I have never said that to
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  Speaker 2: you in all of these many years that we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing your Daily Portion. But I know that people just
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  Speaker 2: skip over or skim over. But we need to really
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  Speaker 2: focus narrowly on today's lesson in preparation for our understanding
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  Speaker 2: for other lessons. Okay, And so the lesson writer invested
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  Speaker 2: the time to say, once you realize how much data
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  Speaker 2: is available in the rest of the Bible to help
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  Speaker 2: you to broaden your understanding of prophecy, it can be
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  Speaker 2: tempting to over apply it, and then you can read
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  Speaker 2: the rest from the lesson yourself. So this is what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do. We're going to look at some
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  Speaker 2: principles here and make sure that we have a firm
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  Speaker 2: footing when we are looking at Bible prophecy, especially last
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  Speaker 2: days Bible prophecy. Number one. We're going to look at
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  Speaker 2: a balance in interpretation. And we get that right out
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  Speaker 2: of Two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen where Paul
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  Speaker 2: admonishes us under the Holy Ghost to rightly divide the
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  Speaker 2: Word of truth, rightly to divide the Word of truth,
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  Speaker 2: and we are avoiding two extremes. Number one, it's over
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  Speaker 2: spiritualizing historical events. Do I really need to give an example?
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  Speaker 2: I want to, but I think you can understand. Don't
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  Speaker 2: over spiritualize historic events. Some president in some country is elected,
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  Speaker 2: and then it becomes like a major spiritual drama within
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  Speaker 2: our churches. There is a pandemic and it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual drama in our churches. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about specific prophetic stuff that may not be
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  Speaker 2: as clear as you are representing it. Maybe something happened
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen forty or nineteen eighteen or nineteen oh one.
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  Speaker 2: And then it becomes like an overly spiritualized event in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, and you don't have any spiritual reference. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: in the scripture is nothing in inspiration, okay. And then
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  Speaker 2: comes that missing deeper meanings. There are deeper meanings that
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  Speaker 2: we do miss, So we can either over spiritualize on
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  Speaker 2: one extreme or we can go way to the other
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  Speaker 2: extreme and miss what God is actually saying here. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then there comes a historical reality straight from two Peter,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse sixteen. We are not following cunningly
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  Speaker 2: devised fables, you see, when God was correct and correct
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  Speaker 2: is really a terrible way of saying it. But God
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  Speaker 2: was right about everything that he said. Whenever Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, he said, I'm telling you these things
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  Speaker 2: before they happen, so that when they do happen, you
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  Speaker 2: will know that I am he. And when you look
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  Speaker 2: at all of the prophetic utterances in scripture right and
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  Speaker 2: the ones related to even the last days, we can say, well,
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  Speaker 2: if God was right about the rise and fall of
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  Speaker 2: Babylon under Nebuicud Nezer, and then subsequent to Nebukud Nezar,
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  Speaker 2: and he was right about the rise and fall of Grecia,
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  Speaker 2: and the rise and fall of Media Persian, the rise
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  Speaker 2: and fall of the Western Roman Empire and the division
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  Speaker 2: of the empire, the rise and the subsequent fall, and
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  Speaker 2: the wound being levied against the papal Rome, and the
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  Speaker 2: wound being healed, even in twenty twenty five, continuing to
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  Speaker 2: be If he was correct about that, then everything that
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  Speaker 2: he had to say about the mark of the Beast
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  Speaker 2: is true. Everything that he had to say about all
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  Speaker 2: of the other realities in Bible prophecy, he was correct.
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  Speaker 2: And so the principle is that the events are real,
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  Speaker 2: the people are his or were historical, the occurrences were
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  Speaker 2: actual and history authentic. We can go back into our
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  Speaker 2: ancient history books and mark out details of all of
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  Speaker 2: those empires that I referenced out of the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Daniel, and we can see that if that is
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  Speaker 2: what God referenced and he predicted for us, then everything
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  Speaker 2: he said that would come in the future would be
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  Speaker 2: easily seen and documentable. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: Number three, there is a prophetic application in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten and verse eleven. The Bible reads now all
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  Speaker 2: these things have been done to them for en samples.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, this is referencing the ancient people of God Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and how we see that they some of the time
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  Speaker 2: did not listen to God. Much of the time they
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  Speaker 2: did not listen to God. The majority of the people
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  Speaker 2: of God had turned their backs on Him, which is
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  Speaker 2: identified clearly and manifest in the fact that nearly, like nearly,
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  Speaker 2: none of the first generation of free slaves from Egyptian
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  Speaker 2: captivity went into the Promised Land. It was only the
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  Speaker 2: children who were twenty years in younger and two men.
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  Speaker 2: Those two men, by the way, were not Moses, and
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  Speaker 2: we're not Aaron. The two men Jacob, not Jacob. Why
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  Speaker 2: they say Jacob, Joshua and Caleb. And then the babies
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  Speaker 2: from twenty years and younger that came from those first generations,
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  Speaker 2: you see, And so we can see here that we
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  Speaker 2: have them as in samples of what not to do.
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  Speaker 2: So when God teaches us the truth, as he opens
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  Speaker 2: the book to our understanding, what not to do us
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  Speaker 2: to reject it? What not to do us to erect
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  Speaker 2: false gods of our own thinking, false gods of religio
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  Speaker 2: political powers, false gods of our own what we think
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  Speaker 2: is understanding and wisdom. You understand, and so we see
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  Speaker 2: as in samples what not to do. Now, we do
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  Speaker 2: have to have a proper balance. There is historical truth
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  Speaker 2: that must be maintained. We don't turn our backs on it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't cover our eyes and then say peekable, I
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  Speaker 2: see you and think that if we cover our eyes
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  Speaker 2: we vanish. We forget the twelve hundred and sixty years
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  Speaker 2: of persecution of the church, We forget of the times
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  Speaker 2: in Bible and ancient history where certain other events took place.
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  Speaker 2: We have to keep the historical truth maintained in our
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  Speaker 2: mind and embrace it. Of course, there are spiritual lessons
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  Speaker 2: that we would have learned, and the great disappointment of
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  Speaker 2: the eighteen forties when God's people were studying the twenty
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  Speaker 2: three hundred years of prophecy and miss the point. We
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  Speaker 2: need to look back and say, well, what did we
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  Speaker 2: learn there about fortitude? What did we learn there about
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  Speaker 2: going back to God? And saying we missed something? Help
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  Speaker 2: us to understand and then live what did we miss? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And then comes the prophetic insights that we gained and
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  Speaker 2: the reality of all of that were to be respect
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  Speaker 2: and of course, there's a divine method. God's pattern uses
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  Speaker 2: real events, teaches deeper truth, preserves history, and then reveals
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  Speaker 2: the future. There is so much more I should say,
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  Speaker 2: but I just literally don't have the time. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great rest of your day, peace.
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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,