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06 24 2025 Belshazzar’s Feast · 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 2: Vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fourth day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series how to
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  Speaker 2: study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for today is bel
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  Speaker 2: Shazar's Feast Bells Feast. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, We thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day and the opportunity to come together and not
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  Speaker 2: just look at history, which is important, but to see
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  Speaker 2: where do we fall in this situation? How do we
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  Speaker 2: learn from the mistakes of the past and the triumphs
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  Speaker 2: in history. Please help us to be faithful in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen men again. So I remember a quote
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  Speaker 2: that said something like this, we have no fear for
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  Speaker 2: the future except we forget how God has brought us
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  Speaker 2: or led us in the past. We have no fear
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  Speaker 2: for the future except we forget how God has led
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  Speaker 2: us in the past. Now, the beauty about that one
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  Speaker 2: is in the story of Bell Shazar. I always get
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  Speaker 2: it mixed up. I don't want to use Daniel's Babylonian
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  Speaker 2: name bel To Shazar. But in the story of Bell Shazar,
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  Speaker 2: really he could have learned from history. He could have
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  Speaker 2: learned from history what it is like to serve God
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  Speaker 2: versus what it's like not to serve God. And it's
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  Speaker 2: simple because I'm talking about in his own bloodline. He
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  Speaker 2: could have seen what the difference was. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 2: let me go into into the lesson study, and it
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  Speaker 2: reads perhaps the saddest, most tragic part of the account
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  Speaker 2: found in Daniel chapter five. No, the most tragic part
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  Speaker 2: of this account in Daniel chapter five is in verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. After recounting to the king the downfall and
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  Speaker 2: restoration of Nebukad Nezzer, Daniel says to Belle Shazar, but you,
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  Speaker 2: his son bel Shazar, have not humbled your heart although
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  Speaker 2: you knew all of this. Let me continue. That is,
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  Speaker 2: though he had the opportunity to know the truth. This
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  Speaker 2: is the question. This is the million dollar question. Do
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  Speaker 2: you have the opportunity to know the truth? I did
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  Speaker 2: not ask you if you know the truth? You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people say we're not responsible. So let me say
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  Speaker 2: it this way. Sometimes people say that we're responsible for
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  Speaker 2: what we know. That is not true. We are, but
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  Speaker 2: that's not what you really think. It means we are
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  Speaker 2: responsible for what we have. The opportunity to know. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who close their ears and are
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  Speaker 2: willingly ignorant when the truth is right there. They will
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  Speaker 2: not investigate, they will not explore, they will not humble
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  Speaker 2: themselves and say, God, what is in this for me?
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  Speaker 2: And so they figure that ignorance is bliss. Spiritually speaking too, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: here what the Bible writer says, the prophet says, But you,
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  Speaker 2: his son, Belshazar, have not humbled your heart, although you
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  Speaker 2: knew all of this. That is, though he had the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to know the truth, though he might have even
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  Speaker 2: witnessed first hand what happened to Nebuchadnezzer, he chose to
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  Speaker 2: ignore these events and instead embark on the same course
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  Speaker 2: that brought his predecessor so much trouble. As Nebuchadnezzar had done.
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  Speaker 2: By erecting the Golden statue, Belshazzar was openly defying what
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  Speaker 2: Daniel's God predicted. By using the temple vessels to profane
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  Speaker 2: in a profane manner, he was likely underscoring the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Babylon had conquered the people of God and now
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  Speaker 2: possessed their God's religious articles. In other words, they still
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  Speaker 2: had supremacy over this God who had predicted their demise. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when you have an opportunity, I want you to read
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  Speaker 2: through Daniel chapter five, the entire chapter and see how
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  Speaker 2: that went. Okay, and so let's get some lessons. We
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  Speaker 2: started with some lessons, but let's continue in Daniel chapter
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  Speaker 2: five and verse twenty two. Let me read it again,
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  Speaker 2: and thou his son all Belshazar has not humbled thine heart.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's the big one. See, when God gives us
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to see what happened in the past, he
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  Speaker 2: gives us the opportunity to see what our future would
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  Speaker 2: be like if we serve him versus if we turn
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  Speaker 2: away from him, if we choose to be good stewards
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  Speaker 2: over the resources that He has given us, or not.
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  Speaker 2: If we see in our bloodline three generations of people
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  Speaker 2: who broke covenant with God in this way. When we
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  Speaker 2: have children, we have to say, God, how in the
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  Speaker 2: world are you going to preserve my children? Because you
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  Speaker 2: said that if we are faithful, if we keep covenant
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  Speaker 2: with you, then you'll show mercy to thousands who love
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  Speaker 2: you and keep your commandments. So please, would you do
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  Speaker 2: that for me? Would you protect my daughters. Would you
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  Speaker 2: protect my sons, Would you protect the people that I
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  Speaker 2: am taking into my care in my home, because the
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  Speaker 2: generations before me made so many errors, and it's in
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  Speaker 2: my blood protect these children from those errors. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so like Belshazar, many at the end will reject truth
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  Speaker 2: not because of ignorance, meaning not because they didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: not because they did not have access to the truth
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  Speaker 2: and history and know exactly how this thing panned out,
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  Speaker 2: but because of WillFull rebellion. That must not be you.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to me right now, if you're listening
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  Speaker 2: almost eight minutes into our broadcast, that must not be you.
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  Speaker 2: You must not rebel hel you must not act like
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  Speaker 2: whatever happened in the past does not apply to you, unless,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you choose another pathway, a pathway to spiritual
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  Speaker 2: success listening to what God has said. And so the
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  Speaker 2: action for me and for you is to respond humbly
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  Speaker 2: to every conviction that God sends, every message that God
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  Speaker 2: sends your way. Ask him, God, what do you want
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  Speaker 2: me to do? How would you have me to live?
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  Speaker 2: Because really, delayed obedience is disobedience. Delay increases danger, danger, danger. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and I know it sounds foreboding. Well, that's because it
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  Speaker 2: is okay. So let's not become comfortable. Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: especially those who speak Christianese language, those who are likely
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  Speaker 2: going to church on Sabbath. Yes, m M, this is
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  Speaker 2: what I want you to do, not just observe history
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  Speaker 2: and say, yep, I see what happened. I'm gonna avoid
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  Speaker 2: that and then move on with your life. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says in James chapter four and verse seventeen, Therefore to
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  Speaker 2: him that knoweth to do good and do with it,
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  Speaker 2: not to him it is sin okay, And so information
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  Speaker 2: is not transformation. Knowing it is not enough. I think
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  Speaker 2: when I was young, there was a like a I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you say it, but it was like
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  Speaker 2: it was a cartoon, and I remember, knowing is half
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  Speaker 2: the battle, and then they would run the song Gi
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  Speaker 2: Joe the greatest American hero. Remember that Gi Joe was there.
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  Speaker 2: So knowing is half the battle. I agree, half the battle.
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  Speaker 2: But surrender is the complete battle. And to continue to
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  Speaker 2: surrender is victory for people who hear what God is saying.
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  Speaker 2: Like Belshazzar, many know the truth, but resist surrender. Don't
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  Speaker 2: resist surrender, actually surrender, So apply everything that God has
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  Speaker 2: revealed to you, ask him how to use whatever He
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  Speaker 2: gives you the opportunity to know, and you will have
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  Speaker 2: the entire battle. Surrender to God, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,