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05 12 2025 The Two Cherubim · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: May twelve, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the to Cherubim, the two Cherubim.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new morning and for the
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  Speaker 2: time you've already given us to do good work. I
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  Speaker 2: pray that we will always do it with you and
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  Speaker 2: not by ourselves, and that we will see ourselves in
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  Speaker 2: your presence with everything we do in Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. There is so much that I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say, but so little time. I remember writing
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  Speaker 2: a devotional book. It was extremely long. Now I know
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  Speaker 2: it's nineteen hours of listening time when you listen to
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  Speaker 2: the audio book. Oh my goodness. I was indisciplined as
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  Speaker 2: a writer, even though it was good stuff, right but
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  Speaker 2: between the Cherubim was the one of the items in
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  Speaker 2: that book. And for me, the cherubim, or those special
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  Speaker 2: angels that are represented in the scriptures as covering covering cherubs.
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  Speaker 2: Lucifer used to be a covering cherub. I believe that
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel is a covering cherub. But the Bible is showing
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  Speaker 2: us that in between the cherubim represents the presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: I said, represents the presence of God. You see the
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  Speaker 2: cherubim in the sanctuary, and when you look into the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament and you see the arc of the Covenant,
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  Speaker 2: which really represents the presence of God, the throne of God,
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  Speaker 2: where where from where God rules, he judges, he loves,
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  Speaker 2: where his power is most evident. If that's even a
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  Speaker 2: good way of saying God's power being most I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if that's even a good way of saying it.
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  Speaker 2: But we see the two angels or cherubs in particular
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  Speaker 2: on one on either side of the arc of the Covenant. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so this represents the presence of God. He is active.
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  Speaker 2: God is active. He is not absent. He is not
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  Speaker 2: passive in our experience. He is active, not passive. He
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  Speaker 2: is not absent in our actual experience. And we can
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  Speaker 2: see that in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read beginning at verse twenty one, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, unto Adam also and unto his wife,
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  Speaker 2: did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become
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  Speaker 2: as one of us, to know good and evil, and
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  Speaker 2: to know. And now lest he put forth his hand
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  Speaker 2: and take also of the tree of life, and to
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  Speaker 2: eat and to live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent
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  Speaker 2: him forth from the garden of Eden. God was protecting him,
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  Speaker 2: He was protecting them. He was protecting you, ah, from
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  Speaker 2: the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence
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  Speaker 2: he was taken. That was protective. So he drove out
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  Speaker 2: the man, and he placed at the east of the
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  Speaker 2: garden of Eden Cherubim's plural, and a flaming sword which
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  Speaker 2: turned every way to keep the way of the Tree
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  Speaker 2: of life. Let me just say the flaming sword. The
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  Speaker 2: flaming sword. It wasn't that the angel was wielding the sword.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to prove it to you.
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  Speaker 2: But the point is the angels that were stationed there,
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  Speaker 2: the special Cherubim stationed there, had flaming swords that were
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  Speaker 2: a light to the point that it looked like at
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  Speaker 2: every time there was this radius of light that was
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  Speaker 2: covering so that the people wouldn't even get in their
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  Speaker 2: minds that they were going to go try to breach
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  Speaker 2: into the presence of God. Oh, I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. I wish I had the time. God is
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  Speaker 2: protecting us in twenty twenty five until we are transformed
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  Speaker 2: by the renewing of our minds through the blood of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: He is protecting us from stumbling into his presence. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about his actual visible presence. He told Moses there
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  Speaker 2: shall no man see me and live. So the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God in his in the way that he condescends,
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  Speaker 2: is available to us. When we pray. God does not
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  Speaker 2: come down to us. We are taken up to God.
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  Speaker 2: When we are in relationship with him, we are in
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  Speaker 2: his presence, but he is He is still shrouding himself
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  Speaker 2: so that we don't see the fullness right now, because
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  Speaker 2: if we did, then something negative would happen. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: in the case of Adam and Eve, if they had
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  Speaker 2: gone into that space where the tree of life was,
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  Speaker 2: and they took from the tree of life and ate
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  Speaker 2: from the tree of life in their sinful state, then
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  Speaker 2: that means that they would have been stuck in their
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  Speaker 2: sinful state. Think about the things that you have done
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  Speaker 2: to yourself, have you been addicted to some substance. Has
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  Speaker 2: it been marijuana or some other narcotic drug or something else?
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  Speaker 2: Have you been addicted to pornography? Have you been addicted
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  Speaker 2: to alcoholism? Addicted to your own reflection in the mirror?
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  Speaker 2: You can hardly go into a gym these days and exercise,
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  Speaker 2: except you see people constantly on the camera showing everybody
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  Speaker 2: every detail of their bodies. That some of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: we shouldn't even be seeing. But that's another discussion. Am
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  Speaker 2: I addicted to my own intellect? Am I addicted to
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  Speaker 2: my position at work or in business? If that is
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  Speaker 2: the reality that we have ever sinned and come short
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  Speaker 2: of the glory of God, Imagine, just for a moment,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't want it to destroy your brain cells,
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  Speaker 2: but just for a moment, imagine if you were stuck
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  Speaker 2: that way, huh, Stuck in a trap house forever, Stuck
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  Speaker 2: in a crack house, forever, stuck imprisoned because of something
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  Speaker 2: that you had done, forever the mindset of anger and
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  Speaker 2: rage when there is no good reason for it. Stuck
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  Speaker 2: like that forever for the people who are insurrectionists and
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  Speaker 2: people who would just seek to impune and destroy the
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  Speaker 2: reputations of others. Be really clear that if God allowed
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Life
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  Speaker 2: in that state, they would have been stuck in that
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  Speaker 2: destructive cycle forever and ever and ever and ever, and
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  Speaker 2: there would be no amen, just continuing. And so God
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  Speaker 2: was being protective. In fact, in fact, I read from
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  Speaker 2: now the book the Book Patriarchs and Prophets, page sixty.
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  Speaker 2: In order to possess an endless existence, humankind must continue
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  Speaker 2: to partake of the Tree of Life. Deprived of this,
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  Speaker 2: his vitality would gradually diminish, until life should become extinct.
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  Speaker 2: It was Satan's plan that Adam and Eve should, by disobedience,
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  Speaker 2: incur God's displeasure, and then if they failed to obtain forgiveness,
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  Speaker 2: he hoped that they would eat of the Tree of
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  Speaker 2: life and thus perpetuate and exist of sin and misery.
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  Speaker 2: But after man's fall, holy angels, what kind of angels?
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  Speaker 2: Holy angels were immediately commissioned to guard the tree of life.
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  Speaker 2: Around these angels flashed beans of light, having the appearance
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  Speaker 2: of a glittering sword. None of the family of Adam
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  Speaker 2: were permitted to pass the barrier to partake of the
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  Speaker 2: life giving fruit. Hence, there is no immortal sinner. Can
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  Speaker 2: we just say, thank God that you have protected us,
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  Speaker 2: Father from being sinners forever. Thank God that you have
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  Speaker 2: protected us so that one day, when we are in eternity,
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  Speaker 2: we will be just like Jesus. I thank God. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you too too.
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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,