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05 31 2025 Upon Whom the Ends Have Come · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, 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 Sabbath. It
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  Speaker 2: is May thirty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: We're coming in at lesson number ten of thirteen under
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  Speaker 2: the caption upon whom the ends have come? Upon whom
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  Speaker 2: the ends have come. 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: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this Sabbath morning and for giving
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  Speaker 2: us so many great and precious promises, even in these
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  Speaker 2: last days. I'm asking you to please open up our understanding,
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  Speaker 2: teach us to serve you with all that we have
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  Speaker 2: and all that we are. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again upon whom the ends have come.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So here's the thing. There are many times
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  Speaker 2: that God's people see the warnings. I didn't say heed.
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  Speaker 2: I wish we always did heed. But there are times
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  Speaker 2: that we see the warnings and maybe even hyper focus
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  Speaker 2: on the warnings of God, but do not see the promises.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it another way. There are people who
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  Speaker 2: recognize and identify the warnings and completely miss the promises
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  Speaker 2: of God. Let me read from the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians. First Corinthians, and actually we're going to illustrate that.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning at verse eleven of chapter ten, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: now all these things happened. Of course, these are the
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  Speaker 2: experiences of the people of God as he delivered them
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  Speaker 2: from captivity, and then there were times that they turned
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  Speaker 2: their backs on him, and then there were consequences. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So all of these things happened to them as examples
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  Speaker 2: that they are written for our admonition, upon whom the
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  Speaker 2: ends of the ages or the world or the times
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  Speaker 2: have come. Therefore, let him who thinks he stands take
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  Speaker 2: heed lest he falls. So, of course this is giving
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  Speaker 2: us the warning, like, look at your history. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the history of God's people throughout the ages, and see
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  Speaker 2: in particular where they turned their backs on God, even
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  Speaker 2: though he gave them all of the grace, all of
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  Speaker 2: the power, all of the protection that they needed. And
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  Speaker 2: yet many times they turned away from God. And there
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  Speaker 2: were indeed consequences. So if you're living in the last days,
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  Speaker 2: you need to see that and know that this is
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  Speaker 2: the reality even for you. But guess what, if we
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  Speaker 2: stop there, we will not see the promise. You see,
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  Speaker 2: we see what went wrong, but we don't see the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Let me start again at verse eleven. But this time
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  Speaker 2: I won't stop, Okay, And so it reads now all
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  Speaker 2: these things happened unto them for end samples, and they
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  Speaker 2: are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
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  Speaker 2: the world are come. Wherefore, let him that thinketh that
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  Speaker 2: he standeth take heed less to fall. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: there's a promise in verse thirteen. There hath no temptation.
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  Speaker 2: How many temptations, no temptation taken you, but such as
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  Speaker 2: is common to man. But God is faithful. Who is faithful?
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  Speaker 2: God is faithful, who will, with the temptation also make
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  Speaker 2: a way to escape, that you may be able to
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  Speaker 2: bear it. You see, the promise is that when temptations come,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it was that led God's people astray, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was that the devil cooked up for them, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was that caused them to be prideful and think that
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  Speaker 2: they did not need God, even though every single thing
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  Speaker 2: that they got they got from him. The deliverance that
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  Speaker 2: they received they got from him. The fact that they
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  Speaker 2: didn't need new slippers for sandals forever, like while they
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  Speaker 2: were going through the wilderness experience, because those didn't wear
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  Speaker 2: out miraculously. They got that from him. The food from
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  Speaker 2: hand from heaven, almost said Hannah, the manna from heaven
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  Speaker 2: that God gave them, it came from him. The water
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  Speaker 2: from the rock came from him, and yet they started
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  Speaker 2: to become self sufficient in their own mindset. They relied
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  Speaker 2: upon themselves and turned many of them away from God.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the entire first generation of freed people except
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  Speaker 2: four two Joshua and Caleb, and of course those who
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  Speaker 2: were twenty years and younger. But the adults above that age,
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  Speaker 2: every single one of them except two, they died in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness because of their unbelief, because of their turning
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  Speaker 2: away from God in one way or the other. You see,
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  Speaker 2: but God said, don't you worry about that. I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: you it as an example. I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: trust in yourself, and I'm giving you the promise that
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  Speaker 2: every temptation that comes to you people have gone through before,
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  Speaker 2: and the ones who were successful were trusting Me, meaning God.
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  Speaker 2: And God is faithful, who will with the temptation provide
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  Speaker 2: a way of escape so you can bear it. And
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  Speaker 2: so all of the Bible's stories, including this one, are
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  Speaker 2: for our understanding in our time, the stories of the flood,
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  Speaker 2: the exodus that I just described, the time that God's
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  Speaker 2: people were in Babylon and needed to be removed from Babylon,
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  Speaker 2: and really Babylon needed to be removed from them too.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. The experience of God's
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  Speaker 2: people on Mount Carmel and Elijah and the prophets of
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  Speaker 2: bay Allen Asta, those were not just historical models, but
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  Speaker 2: they were also prophetic models. If you look at the
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  Speaker 2: mindset of the people, the commitment levels of the people
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  Speaker 2: during those days, we can see what not to do
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  Speaker 2: and what to do. So all of those things are
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  Speaker 2: for our learning, and we can learn to do what
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  Speaker 2: accept the great and precious promises that come from God
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  Speaker 2: that he's able, because He's faithful, to deliver us from
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  Speaker 2: every single besetting sin, every single temptation, every trial, everything
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  Speaker 2: that the devil cooks up on planet Earth. God is
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  Speaker 2: able to deliver us from. And so here is an action.
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  Speaker 2: And we have to be encouraged to read these stories,
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  Speaker 2: but read them not just historically, but with our last
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  Speaker 2: day's lenses on. We should see it for our times.
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  Speaker 2: What does this tell me about God's justice, about his mercy,
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  Speaker 2: about his deliverance even in the last days, And of
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  Speaker 2: course God respects free will but still fulfills prophecy. We
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  Speaker 2: can we can make our decision whatever way we're gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: If God, be God, serve him. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: go another way, you can, but I don't recommend it.
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  Speaker 2: So God respects our free will, but he also will
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  Speaker 2: fulfill the things that He has already shared. God can
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  Speaker 2: perfectly steer the events that will happen in the Last days,
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  Speaker 2: events that he revealed to the prophets. But guess what,
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to force you. He's not going to
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  Speaker 2: force me to love him or to serve him. There
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  Speaker 2: are stories that warn, but there are also promises. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the stories warn us, but they also point to the
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  Speaker 2: faithful God. I said, the faithful God who divides strength
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  Speaker 2: and escape. So many stories through the Exodus, through Joseph
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  Speaker 2: in Egypt, Elijah on Mount Carmel, and so forth. Ask
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  Speaker 2: what does this teach me? Ask God, what does this
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  Speaker 2: teach me about the times that I live? Where do
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  Speaker 2: I see your faithfulness, the faithfulness of Christ in this story?
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  Speaker 2: But really in my story? So when we see the
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  Speaker 2: warnings of all of the events in history, we see
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  Speaker 2: the warnings and prophetic teaching, we must also see the promises,
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  Speaker 2: the promises that God is faithful and he will get
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  Speaker 2: us through all that we need. Peace.
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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,