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12 24 2023 Revelation - God's Last-Day Mission · 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 Sunday, not September, December twenty four, twenty twenty
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  three. Hello, my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in the last week,
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  or the final week of our Lesson study series. God's Mission, my
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  mission, and our caption for today is Revelation, God's Last Day Mission.
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  Revelation, God's Last Day Mission. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome, welcome, welcome to you,
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  and I'm thankful that you are alive with me to begin another work week together
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  and God is opening his word to our mind. As we prepare for this
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  word, I'm asking you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com join
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  our online community. Also, please put into the little box where you are
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  in the world and pick up the your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion
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  dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  the privilege that you have entrusted to us to open your word. And I'm
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  asking you, Father, please give us understanding and your Holy Spirit please teach
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  us to love you, give us the revelation of your will. In Jesus'
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  name. I pray, Amen and a man again. I love, I
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  love, love love the Book of Revelation. And it's not probably because of
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  what a lot of people love it for, right, I just do.
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  And I think I will share some of that while I am reading from the
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  Book of Revelation, chapter one, verses one through seven. Maybe you can
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  type in the chat why you think I love the Book of Revelation, Right,
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  Okay, So I begin now in verse one the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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  which God gave unto him to show unto his servants the things which shortly
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  must come to past, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto
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  a servant John. Let me just share. Yeah, the revelation of Jesus
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  Christ is how the book opens. Sometimes people call it revelation of Saint John
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  the Divine, the revelation people the way some of us preach this thing,
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  some people make it seem like it's the revelation of the scary things that are
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  going to blow up and burned down and all of the negative things and emotions
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  that come with that. Like people make it seem like this is a revelation
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  of the way things are going to be when things are as terrible as they
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  can possibly get. And I'm like, is that what you got out of
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  the book? When God made it very clear that this is the revelation of
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  Jesus Christ. God is manifesting his character in a way that we have never
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  seen before through the person and work of Jesus Christ, including the ministry that
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  Jesus is doing in twenty twenty three, that's what you got out of it?
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  And look, God is so good And you want to say, really,
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  why is God so good? Like how good is he? Dave.
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  He's so good that he allowed the mission to be manifest through Jesus Christ.
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  And then comes this angel Gabriel, who is now teaching John, God's servant,
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  John the word of God the testimony of Jesus Christ in all things that
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  he had seen. And it doesn't stop there. It gets better Verse three.
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  Blessed is he that readeth? Are you reading it? Brothers and sisters?
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  I know it, says he sisters. Blessed is she that readeth?
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  Are you reading the revelation of Jesus Christ? Blessed? The Bible says for
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  those who read the book right, and they that hear the words of this
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  prophecy? Are you hearing and listening to the words of this prophecy? Bible
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  says, If so, you are blessed. I'm thinking this is a good
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  reason. And keep those things which are written therein. Are you keeping the
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  things that are written therein? Are you reading? Are you listening to the
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  words of the prophecy? Are you keeping the things that are written in this
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  book, this prophecy, this revelation of Jesus Christ. If so, then
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  you are triple blessed. You are triple blessed. Are you typing in the
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  chat. Why you think this is such an incredible book? To me,
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  Ah, you are triple blessed if you are reading and hearing and listening to
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  right and doing or keeping the things that are written therein Why for the time
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  is at hand. We have no time to be playing around brothers and sisters.
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  The time is at hand. Part of me. Verse four, John
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  to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace be unto you. That
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  is God's power, so we can do his will. Yes, that is
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  unmerited favor and mercy, all mixed in with the power of God to do
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  his will, and peace that comes through Jesus Christ. Yes, from him,
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  which was oh wix part of me, I'm getting ahead of myself.
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  That's not what it says. From Him which is and which was, and
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  which is to come, and from the seven spirits which are before the throne.
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  Can I just pause right here about the one from the one who was,
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  is and is to come, the One who is and was and is
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  to come. That means that when when you look at your life today,
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  the One who is and Jesus Christ is here. You look at your life
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  today, the trials and tribulations you encounter, the victories that you win because
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  of him. It is because he is here present with you right now on
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  December twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. It's because he is. He just
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  is. In the Book of Exodus, the Bible says, I am,
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  tell the people, Tell my people, I AM have sent me unto you.
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  This is when Moses was saying, but God, who should I say
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  sent me? He said, tell him, I am that I am like
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  I am is. Thus shout, they'll say, unto the children of Israel,
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  I am hath sent me unto you. I'm so excited. I done
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  lost my page, right, I done lost my page. But anyway,
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  the Bible says also that he is, he is and was. That means
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  at every time in history Jesus was. When he says I am, that
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  means he's eternal AI and he is to come. So whatever happened to you
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  in your past, whatever happened in the generations before you, your grandparents,
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  and to one hundred generations in the past, all the way back to Adam,
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  and all the way beyond Adam to when there were no humans on planet
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  Earth and only celestial beings existed, Jesus was there. Why because he's the
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  one who was, who is, and is to come. He's the creator
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  of all. In Micah chapter five, the Bible teaches us that he's eternal.
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  Like he is eternal. He is eternal, and therefore even he was
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  back then and he is to come. That means anything that comes in your
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  future or in the future of anyone you know or do not know, Jesus
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  will be there. He is eternal, just like God, our father.
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  Blessed be his name. Can you see why this book is so incredible.
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  We see the revelation of God's way. We see the revelation of the character
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  of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We see the revelation of the
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  mission of Jesus Christ to this planet and beyond, because of course his mission
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  and ministry was even to celestial beings, to angels. And oh, my
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  goodness, we just don't have the time today, but I'll come back to
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  that at some point. Yes, and of course, is to come anything
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  anytime in the future. Jesus is there. He has already seen and is
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  currently experiencing all that will happen in the eternal future. Therefore, his plan
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  for your life is complete. There is nothing that he has not already prepared
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  for in your life. He is not being awakened by some alarm in the
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  cosmic universe that says, oh, my goodness, let me go back and
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  see how can I be of service to those people down there. No,
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  it is a blessing to know that the one who was, and is and
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  is to come, God, Almighty God, the Sun. In this case,
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  Jesus Christ is ever present and ever present help for your time of need.
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  And we continue now in verse four. Now, John, to the
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  seven churches which are in Asia, Grace and peace be unto you from Him
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  who which was and is and is to come, from the seventh spirits which
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  are before the Throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful Witness.
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  I'm thankful, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince
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  of the kings of the earth. Unto him who loved us and washed us
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  from our sins in his own blood. We'll continue with this message as the
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  days continue. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  make it a great day. Yeah,