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04 30 2025 Between Land and Sea · 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 Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April thirty, 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 continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into it, I'd like to just say welcome, Welcome
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the opportunity to study
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  Speaker 2: your word, especially in these days and times. You've given
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  Speaker 2: us these truths for a reason, and I pray that
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  Speaker 2: we will hear from you your reason and live according
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  Speaker 2: to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: a man again. Well, our caption today is between land
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  Speaker 2: and sea, Between land and see, I'm looking for that
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  Speaker 2: light that light switch that on. There you go. It's
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  Speaker 2: better between land and sea. And so one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I love about the land or the earth
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  Speaker 2: is that, of course, if you know me well and
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  Speaker 2: you know what I do for a living every single day,
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  Speaker 2: then you know that I am I am drawn to
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  Speaker 2: behavior styles, the reasons we live, the way we do think,
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  Speaker 2: the way we do feel, the way we do communicate,
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  Speaker 2: the way we do excel in areas that we do,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. Right, I resonate or the earth resonates with
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  Speaker 2: I resonate with the earth. The idea of the steadiness,
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  Speaker 2: the reliability of the earth, the fact that the land
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  Speaker 2: or the earth is not supposed to quake, resonates with me.
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  Speaker 2: And in the lesson, we have a quote from Beatrice
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  Speaker 2: s Nail Nail, and here are a few words from
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  Speaker 2: that quote. Symbolically, the earth and the sea are juxtaposed.
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  Speaker 2: Earth often represents the ordered world. Earth often represents the
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  Speaker 2: ordered world, while the sea refers to nations that menace it.
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  Speaker 2: As the sea menaces the land. Of course, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about in extreme situations, the sea, out of control will
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  Speaker 2: menace the land. In the lesson, it continues in this thinking.
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  Speaker 2: The land is a place of statebility established on the
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  Speaker 2: government of God. Okay, this is good. The sea represents
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  Speaker 2: the unstable turmoil of nations established upon human pride. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're going into the Bible Book of Revelation, the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Revelation, chapter twelve, and I will read just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of verses. Verses fifteen and sixteen, Revelation, Chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: verses fifteen and sixteen, and the Bible reads, and the
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  Speaker 2: serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood
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  Speaker 2: after the woman. So the serpent or the devil is
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  Speaker 2: now using to the extreme waters or peoples, nations, peoples
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  Speaker 2: to go after the church or the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: the woman, that he might cause her to be carried
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  Speaker 2: away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman.
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  Speaker 2: Remember we're looking at stability. We're looking at in this case.
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  Speaker 2: We know it's sparsely populated, yes, but we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: that which is supposed to be reliable, okay, and helped
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  Speaker 2: the woman. And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
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  Speaker 2: up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: So here are a couple of points on that first
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  Speaker 2: Earth has stability and divine order is the concept. It
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  Speaker 2: is depicted as the place of refuge. The earth is
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  Speaker 2: depicted in these prophecies as a place of refuge, of
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  Speaker 2: stability and divine providence. It represents the domain of God's
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  Speaker 2: governance and protection. We're seeing right now, Like if you
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  Speaker 2: just turn on the news as soon as we're done here,
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  Speaker 2: you will see that things are unstable, things are out
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  Speaker 2: of control. Markets are not what we had hoped that
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  Speaker 2: they would do, they would be. Some governments seem to
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  Speaker 2: be losing control or stable in certain areas. And this
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  Speaker 2: is what God wanted, stability, protection for his people, his
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  Speaker 2: covenant keeping people. Now the water, the water symbolizes in
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  Speaker 2: this case aggressive pagan forces, while the earth again acts
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  Speaker 2: as the savior representing Christ, swallowing up the chaos to
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  Speaker 2: protect the woman, that is the people of God. Are
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  Speaker 2: you getting this imagery? And so water is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be life here in Jamaica Land we love. We say
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  Speaker 2: it all the time. Water is life. Water is life.
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  Speaker 2: But when the waters, or the peoples in symbolic Bible prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: are being used by the devil, they become a destructive force.
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  Speaker 2: When the waters are being used by the devil, the nations,
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  Speaker 2: the peoples, the populace are being used by the enemy,
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  Speaker 2: they become a destructive force. Do I need to talk
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  Speaker 2: about riots? Do I need to talk about persecutions for
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  Speaker 2: twelve hundred and sixty long years? Do I need to
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  Speaker 2: talk about how people are losing their minds? And we
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  Speaker 2: can just switch on the news and see that very
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  Speaker 2: very clearly I think not. And so the lesson writer says,
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  Speaker 2: notice that the dragon uses water to persecute the woman
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  Speaker 2: the church, as we have seen in prophecy, or I
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  Speaker 2: would say symbolic Bible prophecy, water often symbolizes worldly governments
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  Speaker 2: and the turmoil and chaos that often attends them. Hence
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  Speaker 2: we can see how Satan was able to use the
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  Speaker 2: masses prodded by their leaders. We're looking in historic Bible prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and of course we know that there are things on
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  Speaker 2: the horizon even now, and we're seeing played out before
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  Speaker 2: our eyes where this is the case where the lamb
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  Speaker 2: like beast, the power that came up in the seventeen hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: the late seventeen hundreds, that was to be the bastion
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  Speaker 2: of Protestantism, the bastion of freedom of religion, the bastion
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  Speaker 2: of hope, and of civil democratic government of the people,
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  Speaker 2: for the people, by the people. But increasingly increasingly, this figure,
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  Speaker 2: this figure of liberty, has become more or opposite of
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  Speaker 2: what it was called to be, that is the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America. And so we are going to go
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  Speaker 2: right into our guide, right into our guide to page
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  Speaker 2: ninety five, ninety five page ninety five. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: turn there to our Companion guide to page ninety five,
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  Speaker 2: and we are going to look at the professional part,
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  Speaker 2: the professional application. Okay, And so the question is what
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  Speaker 2: is important now? What is important now? And as the
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  Speaker 2: world shifts toward intolerance of biblical truth, we must wisely
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  Speaker 2: navigate professional settings where faith based values may be challenged.
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  Speaker 2: I internalize the insight, evaluate whether you're prepared to stand
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  Speaker 2: firm in your beliefs of if if challenged at work,
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  Speaker 2: would you compromise to maintain job security or would you
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  Speaker 2: trust in God for his provision? And then, of course
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  Speaker 2: I want you to go into your own guide and
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  Speaker 2: look at what the next best move is. Well, God
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  Speaker 2: has been good to us. He wants us to be
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  Speaker 2: stable with him. Are you thanks for joining us listening?
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,