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09 04 2024 The Great Tribulation · 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, September four,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: all around because I'm making sure all of my systems
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  Speaker 2: are aligned. I'm making sure, yes, everything is all aligned.
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  Speaker 2: And before we get into this, I would like to
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  Speaker 2: welcome everybody joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and then get under weigh Father and Heaven. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us the opportunity to see and hear from you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm praying that this experience will be an encounter with
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  Speaker 2: God rather than just an intellectual pursuit. Father, please transform
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  Speaker 2: our lives today. In Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. The Great Tribulation, the Great Tribulation. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into this straight after. I ask you a question,
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  Speaker 2: how can we overcome times of darkness and distress when
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  Speaker 2: tribulations come? How do we overcome the darkness and distress
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  Speaker 2: when tribulations come? Because in the life of every believer,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter in what age we live in. If
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  Speaker 2: it's the dark ages of the twelve hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: years of tribulation that happened to the people of God.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there was no human that whose life extended through
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  Speaker 2: that entire span, but God's people went through that time.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob went through his great time of trouble. Right, God's
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  Speaker 2: people were in Egypt, and they went through all of
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  Speaker 2: those all of those years of slavery, and then of
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  Speaker 2: course the journey through the wilderness on the way to
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  Speaker 2: the Promised Land. And God's people will go through a
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  Speaker 2: time of trouble right before Jesus comes. I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: hundreds or thousands of years before Jesus comes. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: right before Jesus comes, how do we overcome troubles in
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  Speaker 2: our daily lives? Tribulations that will come and must come
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  Speaker 2: during our daily experience? How do we overcome those trials
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  Speaker 2: and tribulations? Well, before we get to that, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read from the Bible Book of Mark, chapter thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and begin at verse nineteen. Now you know where I'm
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  Speaker 2: going with this. Now, let's get there and the Bible reads.
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  Speaker 2: For in those days, of course, it's the conversation that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is continuing from what we were saying yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: will continue some more tomorrow. For in those days shall
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  Speaker 2: be affliction such as was not from the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: creation unto this time, neither shall be so. This is
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  Speaker 2: not speaking of an intensity, necessarily, but of a style,
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  Speaker 2: a style. We will never see that again. Even during
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  Speaker 2: the final final time of trouble that some people call tribulation,
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  Speaker 2: it will not be to the degree, meaning the longevity,
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  Speaker 2: the intensity for the number of years that the tribulation
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  Speaker 2: that is referenced here was okay. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says verse twenty. And except that the Lord had shortened
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  Speaker 2: those days, no flesh should have been saved. But for
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  Speaker 2: the elect's sake, whom he had chosen, he shortened the days.
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  Speaker 2: And if any man shall say unto you, lo here
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  Speaker 2: is Christ, or lo he is there? Believe in not
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  Speaker 2: for false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall
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  Speaker 2: show signs and wonders to seduce, even if it were possible,
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  Speaker 2: even the very elect. But ye take heed, behold foretold
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  Speaker 2: you all these things. And I know that it becomes
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  Speaker 2: confusing when you see the various times of trouble. But
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  Speaker 2: what we are referencing, according to the Lesson writer, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is the time, the time of what we would call
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  Speaker 2: the dark ages. And if you want to understand what
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  Speaker 2: God's people went through for twelve hundred and sixty long years,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to look at the book titled Fox's
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  Speaker 2: Book of martyrs Fox's Book of Martyrs, and you will
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  Speaker 2: see that even though God's people were faithful, even though
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  Speaker 2: no matter what persecution, religious persecution was thrown at them
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  Speaker 2: by unfortunately the religious entity like the power, the Little
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  Speaker 2: Horn power Rome at that time. Even though they went
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  Speaker 2: through all of that, the Bible teaches us and history
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that God's people were faithful. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: many lost their lives. Many many lost their lives. When
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  Speaker 2: you look in the Book of Hebrews, chapter eleven, you
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  Speaker 2: see that there are some people who went through some
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  Speaker 2: terrible tortures and difficulties. And in Fox's Book of Marchers,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you one story. There was a guy who said,
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  Speaker 2: as they were about to burn him at the stake,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, well, I have on these I have
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  Speaker 2: on these shoes. It doesn't make sense that you burn
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  Speaker 2: up these shoes. There are people out there that need them.
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  Speaker 2: So take off these shoes and give it to the
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  Speaker 2: people who somebody who needs them. Another guy, as he
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  Speaker 2: was on his way for the same thing. The history
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  Speaker 2: says that he said, if the fire is bearable, if
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  Speaker 2: the fire is bearable, I'm going to clap my hands
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  Speaker 2: three times. And history tells us, and the accounts tell
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  Speaker 2: us that as his skin was melting, you could see
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  Speaker 2: his hands rising up out of the flames, and he
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  Speaker 2: clapped three times. Unbelievable. Well, except that we know that
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  Speaker 2: God was in it. We know that God has a
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  Speaker 2: way of preserving as people, just like he preserved Stephen.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 2: Though Stephen did die, the Bible teaches us that even
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  Speaker 2: though he went through all that he went through, and
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  Speaker 2: they were stoning him, he looked up into heaven and
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  Speaker 2: saw Jesus standing at the right hand of power. And
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  Speaker 2: so whereas from a human perspective it is unbelievable, all
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  Speaker 2: things with God are possible. So I believe every word.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we are to get some encouragement though
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  Speaker 2: from this, when we are facing life's tribulations that are daunting,
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  Speaker 2: but we want to draw upon the fortitude that the
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  Speaker 2: people of God had in those days. One of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we can overcome during these times of tribulation
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  Speaker 2: come from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: nineteen and verse one O five. The Bible reads, thy
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  Speaker 2: Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light
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  Speaker 2: unto my path. And so we know now that since
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  Speaker 2: the word of God is his lamp and light for
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  Speaker 2: guiding us that whatever path that He has allowed us
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  Speaker 2: to travel on, is it the path that Job went through?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the path that the children of Israel had?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the path that Daniel or Jacob or Joseph
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  Speaker 2: or others of God's people had? Is it the path
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  Speaker 2: of Abigail of Deborah, the path of Holda the prophetess,
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  Speaker 2: the path of Anna the Prophetess. Whatever the pathway is,
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  Speaker 2: God has a lamp and a light to guide us
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  Speaker 2: along the journey. So when we listen to God in
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  Speaker 2: his word and do what he says, then we will
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  Speaker 2: have the light that we expect. And of course, in
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  Speaker 2: First Thessalonians, chapter five and verse seventeen, the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: that we should be praying without ceasing. We can live
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  Speaker 2: the lifestyle of Enoch. The Bible says that he walked
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  Speaker 2: with God. Enoch walked with God. He was so connected
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  Speaker 2: to God that it was seen as him walking. He
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  Speaker 2: spoke to God about everything, He consulted God about everything,
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  Speaker 2: especially after he had his son Methuselah. And so we
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  Speaker 2: can continue to walk with God and pray continuously. And
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  Speaker 2: of course we want to look for unity among the
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  Speaker 2: people of God because unity under the right banner meaning Christ,
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  Speaker 2: is irresistible to God. There will be great tribulations, but
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  Speaker 2: we can get through them peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.