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04 20 2025 Nimrod and Nineveh · 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 Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April twenty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Nimrod and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: our lives. Sometimes we get lost in all of the
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for this new work week. I pray that you
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  Speaker 2: will give us the wizdom that we need to apply
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  Speaker 2: the truths that we will discover today. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. Our caption is Nimrod
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  Speaker 2: and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh. And as I said in
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  Speaker 2: the preamble, please pick up the Companion Guide because, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's very easy to read and then just
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  Speaker 2: completely forget how to apply what we have read to
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  Speaker 2: our personal lives, okay, personal spiritual, our relationship lives, and
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  Speaker 2: our professional lives. Okay, So the lesson writer said something
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  Speaker 2: very interesting. In the very beginning of it. Eden was
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  Speaker 2: created as the ideal home for the human race. Once
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  Speaker 2: sin entered, God had no choice but to separate humanity
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  Speaker 2: from the Garden and the Tree of Life, at least
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  Speaker 2: for now. Now, let me just get this very clear.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people miss this. The Garden of Eden wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: entire planet, right, And outside of the Garden of Eden
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  Speaker 2: wasn't something negative or somehow distant from God. It's just that,
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  Speaker 2: if I were to use today's language, the Garden of
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  Speaker 2: Eden seemed to be the capital of the world, the
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  Speaker 2: capital of the earth if you want to say home base.
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  Speaker 2: That is where Adam and Eve actually lived. They lived
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  Speaker 2: in the capital of the world, and the Tree of
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  Speaker 2: Life was in the capital of the world. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to develop that, okay, But because
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  Speaker 2: of their sin, God had to restrict access from this
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  Speaker 2: capital of the world that also had the Tree of
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  Speaker 2: Life as an insulation against them being eternal sinners. So
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time, but I don't. But
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  Speaker 2: God did something very special. Now let me go to
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  Speaker 2: the book Prophets or Patriarchs and prophets. Let's see page
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight. The garden of Eden remained on the earth
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  Speaker 2: long after humankind had become an outcast from its pleasant paths.
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  Speaker 2: Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here
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  Speaker 2: they renewed their vows of obedience to that law of
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  Speaker 2: the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When
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  Speaker 2: the tide of iniquity overspread the world, the wickedness of
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  Speaker 2: humankind determined their destruction. By a flood of waters. The
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  Speaker 2: hand that planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But
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  Speaker 2: in the final restitution, when there shall be a new
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  Speaker 2: Heaven and a new Earth, it is to be restored
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  Speaker 2: more gloriously adorned than at the beginning. Did you get
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  Speaker 2: that God is going to restore it more gloriously then
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning. Sometimes I wonder, and normally I don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about what I'm wondering or guessing. I try to
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  Speaker 2: stick to what we can obviously see. But sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if in the end analysis, after the thousand years
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  Speaker 2: following Jesus's return, I wonder if the Holy City New Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: and Eden are the same one and the same, like
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  Speaker 2: the New Jerusalem being the new and improved version. That's
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  Speaker 2: something I'm wondering. Go ahead and type it in the
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  Speaker 2: chat and tell me what you think about that, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly come into our community and talk about that, because
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  Speaker 2: the Tree of Life is there, and there's some other reasons.
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  Speaker 2: But I digress, I digress. I don't want to just
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  Speaker 2: wonder on this or wander for that matter, on this program.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go ahead now to Genesis chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: begin at verse sixteen. The Bible says, unto the woman,
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  Speaker 2: he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
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  Speaker 2: In sorrow, shalt thou bring fourth children, and then thy
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  Speaker 2: and desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall
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  Speaker 2: rule over thee. And and to Adam, he said, because
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  Speaker 2: thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
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  Speaker 2: hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee,
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  Speaker 2: saying thou shalt not eat of it. Cursed is the
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  Speaker 2: ground for thy sake. Y'all need to know that whatever's
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  Speaker 2: going wrong on planet Earth is Adam's fault. It was
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  Speaker 2: not Eve's fault. I just don't have the time to
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  Speaker 2: deal with that. Adam represented the human race. It was
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  Speaker 2: Adam's sin that caused degradation and our proclivity or predisposition
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  Speaker 2: to sin. I wish I really had the time, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't. But just get that straight right here. And
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  Speaker 2: now Adam jumped into sin. Eve was deceived. She fell
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  Speaker 2: into sin. But the Bible continues, thou shalt not eat.
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  Speaker 2: I told you to. Don't eat of it. Curse is
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  Speaker 2: the ground for thy sake and sorrow. Shalt thou eat
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  Speaker 2: all of the days of thy life, thorns and thistles.
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  Speaker 2: Shalt thou bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat
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  Speaker 2: of the herb of the field. And in the sweat
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  Speaker 2: of thy brow thou shalt eat bread till thou return
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  Speaker 2: unto the ground. And so there were a couple of
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  Speaker 2: responses to this new reality, because Adam and Eve had sinned.
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  Speaker 2: Adam in particular, Number one is a faith response, a
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  Speaker 2: faith response as outlined in Hebrews chapter eleven and verse four.
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  Speaker 2: By faith, Able offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
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  Speaker 2: righteous God, testifying of his gifts, and by it, he
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  Speaker 2: being dead, yet speaketh. And then there was a human response.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we could just go to Cain for that.
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  Speaker 2: But let's fast forward to Nimrod. There was a faith response,
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  Speaker 2: Able was a faithful youth. And then there was somebody
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible named Nimrod. In Genesis chapter ten and
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  Speaker 2: verses eight and nine, the Bible says Cush was the
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  Speaker 2: father of Nimrod. He began and to be a valiant
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  Speaker 2: warrior or a mighty one in the earth. He was
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  Speaker 2: mighty hunter before the Lord. That's why I said, like Nimrod,
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  Speaker 2: a mighty hunter before the Lord. Now some people think
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  Speaker 2: that's a compliment, but if you look at what Nimrod
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  Speaker 2: actually did with his life, he was the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: a really terrible dynasty of people who were self reliant
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  Speaker 2: and decided that they could overcome what God commanded and
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  Speaker 2: said what happened on planet Earth. Now, there is a
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  Speaker 2: problem with our hearts posture. There's a problem like some
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  Speaker 2: people don't choose a like Abell did, and choose b
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  Speaker 2: like Nimrod instead. And so the Bible says about us
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  Speaker 2: left by ourselves in Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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  Speaker 2: Who can know it? And so This shows us that
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  Speaker 2: we can be protected against rebellion because Abel was Abel
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  Speaker 2: knew how to live godly, even though he paid with
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  Speaker 2: his life. But we can recognize human the tendency of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: We can maintain our dependence upon God. We can submit
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  Speaker 2: to God's authority just like Abel did, wait for God's
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  Speaker 2: timing and trust in his promises and accept his methods.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the lessons in Eden that Abel are after Eden
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  Speaker 2: that Abel showed us. But this showed us that Paradise
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  Speaker 2: lost needs divine restoration and human solutions will fail. We
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  Speaker 2: see that at the Tower of Babel. But God is ready,
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  Speaker 2: willing and available to make us holy and overcome our
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  Speaker 2: human proclivities.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,