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05 07 2024 The Two Witnesses Are Killed · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, May seven, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you guns word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series, the Great
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  Controversy. Our caption for today is the two witnesses are killed. The two
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  witnesses are killed. And of course this is symbolic language. Oh yeah,
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  don't report us. We're not talking about real witnesses and we're not talking about
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  a real death. Okay, we'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first i'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  this is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  That's again at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  get underwigh. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  and for giving us the time to work and to add value to people around
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  us. Please give us understanding in the little bit of time that we have
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  left today. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Okay, so I'm going to read a lot today because again we have just
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  a few minutes, and this lesson was never intended to be taught in the
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  way that I do it on a daily basis, and so really and truly
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  I would have taught this one this day's lesson for about an hour in real
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  life, and so just so you can understand or at least hear what's going
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  on. For those who've not read through the lesson, I'm going to read
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  and then try to make some application again in the little bit of time that
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  we have left. Of course, the two witnesses that we're referencing from Revelation
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  chapter eleven, verses seven through nine, those witnesses, with the power of
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  the Holy Ghost teaching us, as we read in these witnesses, that's the
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  word of God. They are they Jesus said that testify of me. Right,
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  and we need the Holy Spirit to understand and to live according to the
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  principles of these two witnesses. Right. Yes, those witnesses were challenged for
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  a period of time. And I laugh because humans are so foolish, like
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  we think we can actually we can actually bury God's word. What in the
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  world, Why would somebody be foolish enough to think that. But again,
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  the Bible does teach us that a fool or a person who is without judgment,
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  someone who's not connected to God, that's what we're talking about, says
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  in his or her heart that there is no God. So yeah, that's
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  why people tried it. But it didn't work. It didn't work, And
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  so, according to the lesson writer, by a D. Five thirty eight.
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  See, because we're talking about prophetic time periods, we have to mark
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  the dates. By a D. Five thirty eight, the pagan Roman Roman
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  Empire had collapsed. Justinian, the Eastern Roman Emperor, surrendered civil, political,
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  and religious authority to Pope Vigilius. I can't pronounce it because I speak
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  English. My bad. The long period of the Medieval Church's domination began.
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  It continued until seventeen ninety eight. Now let me ask you to do a
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  little bit of math with me. From five thirty eight a d to seventeen
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  ninety eight is how many years? And I'll just wink at you and say
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  it's twelve hundred and sixty. And that's what we've been referencing for the last
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  couple of days. The French general Bertier, on orders from Napoleon, marched
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  unopposed into Rome on February tenth, seventeen ninety eight. Pope Pious six was
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  taken captive and brought back to France, where he died. This date marks
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  the prophetically predicted end of the Roman Church's secular authority. The twelve hundred sixty
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  day or years as depicted in Daniel and Revelation. We really scratched the surface
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  yesterday, but if you read the lesson you'll see more what a powerful manifestation
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  of the truth of the biblical prophecy Daniel writing more than five hundred years before
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  Christ. And this is why I want to really highlight this. I told
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  you yesterday one of the ways that I am am convinced that the Word of
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  God is indeed his word is of course his manifestation of power in my life
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  based on his words. Yes, But beyond that, which can be held
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  to scrutiny, is how God was able to show his people well before these
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  events happened, exactly what would happen, and many times when through Bible prophecy.
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  Through Bible prophecy, so Daniel writing more than five hundred years before Christ
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  accurately predicted events more than twenty three hundred years later. We can indeed trust
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  the prophecies given in the Bible. Like I said, I would teach this
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  one for over an hour if this were hah, not your daily portion,
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  But let me say it here. Meanwhile, during all of this, the
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  truth of the Gospel was kept alive by the witness There's that language again.
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  Remember the two witnesses are the Bible, the Old and New Testaments. If
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  you had to do it that way. The anointing of God's Holy Spirit in
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  the people who he used to write, those holy men of God spake as
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  they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And you and I in twenty twenty
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  four can understand and apply the scriptures live. The scriptures be transformed by those
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  same scriptures because of the same power of the Holy Spirit. And so these
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  witnesses, the word of God were kept alive so that God's peace would be
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  nourished. God's people would be guided by all of his truth. Like God's
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  people, even though she the Church was being persecuted, could lay hold by
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  faith on the power of God and the solid foundation of his word and say,
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  just like the Revelator would have said, because thou hast kept the word
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  of my patience, I will also keep thee in the day of trial.
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  Hold that fast that thou hast that no man take thy crown. He said,
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  I, because you have kept my word to persevere. That's what that
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  means. Now will keep you And the world goes through trials and tribulations,
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  and the church is even persecuted. If you just hold fast to my word
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  by faith, then nobody will be able to take your crown. And so
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  the lesson writer continues. The beast that ascended from the bottomless pit, Satan
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  made war against the scriptures. He initiated new assaults on the Bible's authority through
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  the French Revolution that began in seventeen eighty nine. I mentioned that yesterday in
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  the French Revolution, the government officially established the Cult of Reason as a state
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  sponsored atheistic religion, intending to replace Christianity. What A Festival of Reason was
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  held nationwide on November tenth, seventeen ninety three. Churches across France were turned
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  into temples of Reason, and a living woman was enthroned as the Goddess of
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  Reason. Bibles were burned in the streets. God was declared nonexistent and the
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  death was pronounced to be an endless sleep. Satan worked through the godless men
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  to kill God's to witnesses, and their bodies would lie in the street of
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  the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our
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  Lord was crucified. And I just pause right here and leave off from the
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  rest of the reading. The Bible does teach us, and history does manifest
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  that no matter what the devil attempted in those times, he thought he could
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  somehow destroy the word of God. But really and truly God's people took it
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  as a banner huh, and continue to live according to the principles. Even
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  some gave their lives. But God said. God said that his word could
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  not return unto him void. Whatever he set forth for it to do,
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  it would accomplish. And even though it seemed grim for a while, God's
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  word those two witnesses will stand correct every wonderful Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,