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04 01 2025 Daniel—Shut Up the Words · 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: 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, April one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 very
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  Speaker 2: very new lesson study series how to Study Bible Prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: Under the caption Daniel, shut up the words. Daniel. It's
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  Speaker 2: a command and imperative to Daniel shut up the words.
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, We do
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day. Thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to connect with you and your people. Thank
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  Speaker 2: You for your Holy Spirit who teaches us. Please give
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  Speaker 2: us your perspective. We make up perspectives all the time,
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  Speaker 2: but we want yours. Please, in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Danielle, shut up the words, Shut
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  Speaker 2: up the words. Let me just say this, sometimes God's
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  Speaker 2: words are quote shut up to those of us because
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  Speaker 2: of our time of understanding. Our time of understanding has
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  Speaker 2: not yet come for a different any number of reasons,
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  Speaker 2: a myriad of reasons. It could be that we're not receptive.
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  Speaker 2: It could be that we're stubborn. It could be that
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  Speaker 2: there is a time in our life that needs to
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  Speaker 2: come so that we will become more hungry, more thirsty,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe it has something to do more on a
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  Speaker 2: global scale. Where the words, if God were to reveal
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  Speaker 2: them now, would not have relevance because that has not
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  Speaker 2: yet happened on a global scale. You see. So our
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  Speaker 2: time of receptivity may not have come. So sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: shuts it up because our quote time of ununderstanding, our
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  Speaker 2: time of receptivity, our time of understanding has not yet come.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to give you some tips before we
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  Speaker 2: go into the Bible. Book of Daniel. Here are some
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  Speaker 2: tips about how to become receptive or to be receptive,
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  Speaker 2: so that when God does reveal truth, we will indeed
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  Speaker 2: embrace it. Okay. Number one, maintain a humble attitude. God
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  Speaker 2: gives us the privilege to be humble in his presence,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads in James chapter four and verse six,
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  Speaker 2: God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: In Psalm chapter twenty five and verse nine, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: the meek will he guide in judgment, the meek will
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  Speaker 2: he teach his way? Okay. And so besides that, now,
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  Speaker 2: or in addition to that, we are to study his words,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that we do know, the ones that are revealed,
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  Speaker 2: that we should study those diligently. From two Timothy, chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse fifteen, the Bible reads, study to show
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  Speaker 2: thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to
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  Speaker 2: be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So we're
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  Speaker 2: humbly coming to God in his word, and we're rightly
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  Speaker 2: dividing his truth. That means that whatever he's revealing with
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  Speaker 2: the Word or the scriptures as its own interpreter, by
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  Speaker 2: the power of the Holy gooes, we receive that. And
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  Speaker 2: we continue to study. We continue to study, and there
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  Speaker 2: were a set of people in the early Church, the
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  Speaker 2: first century Church, that we're a manifestation of that. In Acts,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen and verse eleven, the Bible reads that these
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  Speaker 2: as the apostles went to a certain set of people,
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  Speaker 2: the Brians. These were more noble than those in Thessalonika,
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  Speaker 2: in that they received the world with all readiness of
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  Speaker 2: mind and search the scriptures daily. Of course, there was
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  Speaker 2: more to it. And then we pray to God for wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: He has promised that if any person lacks wisdom, God
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  Speaker 2: will give us the fullness of wisdom. And it's all
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  Speaker 2: one nineteen verse eighteen, the Bible reads, open thou mind
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  Speaker 2: eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
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  Speaker 2: Then be willing to obey, be willing to obey, keep
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  Speaker 2: an open mind. And then finally, finally, we want to
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  Speaker 2: give the results of this mindset number one, progressive understanding.
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  Speaker 2: We will learn more and more as God entrusts more
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  Speaker 2: to us. Also, we will grow in wisdom. We will
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  Speaker 2: have spiritual discernment. We will have practical application. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need to make the Bible practical. It will be practical.
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  Speaker 2: We will have it as a useful truth. And then
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  Speaker 2: we will be transformed by the truth, will have clear direction,
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  Speaker 2: and of course back again we will have a deeper understanding.
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  Speaker 2: And so all of that to set us up for
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  Speaker 2: these two passages. And Daniel chapter twelve and verse four.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, but thou, oh danielle, shut up the
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  Speaker 2: words and seal the book. Even to the time of
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  Speaker 2: the end, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge
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  Speaker 2: shall be increased. In the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve and verse ten, we see in opposite we see
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  Speaker 2: a contrast. And he said, unto me, seal not the
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  Speaker 2: sayings of the prophecy of this book, Why or or
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  Speaker 2: why not? For the time is at hand. You see,
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  Speaker 2: and so the truth that God was to reveal through
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  Speaker 2: Bible prophecy was to be shut up, to be held,
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  Speaker 2: to be sealed until the time of the end. And
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  Speaker 2: the Angel in Revelation chapter or reported in Revelation Chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, was saying, now is the time. You've heard
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  Speaker 2: about these times that were coming, Now is the time.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we see a contrast in instructions. In
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  Speaker 2: Daniel's message, it was to seal the book and wait
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  Speaker 2: for the end of time and future understanding. Knowledge increases later,
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  Speaker 2: but by the time the Angel comes to John, he says,
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  Speaker 2: don't seal the book. The time is at hand and
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  Speaker 2: understanding is immediate, and the present application is what makes
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  Speaker 2: this all makes sense? What it all makes sense? There's
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  Speaker 2: so much else I could say, but the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: pointed out something very interesting. The lesson writer says, read
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  Speaker 2: the passage again. The angel's instructions to Daniel begins with
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  Speaker 2: an injunction. Okay, I said something different, right, imperative, an
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  Speaker 2: injunction to shut up the words and seal the book.
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  Speaker 2: The subject being discussed is the book of Daniel itself.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we make the knowledge increasing the focus. People running
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  Speaker 2: to and fro the focus, but vibe this writer is saying,
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  Speaker 2: mister Boonstraw, he is saying that this truth is referencing
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  Speaker 2: the book itself. Perhaps then could that knowledge which would
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  Speaker 2: suddenly increase at the end of time be the knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of the Book of Daniel itself. You see, the traditional
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  Speaker 2: interpretation means that we look at technological advancement or modern transportation,
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  Speaker 2: or scientific knowledge or general information increase. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people say it is, I should say. But
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  Speaker 2: if we look at it in its context and not
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  Speaker 2: really really grateful that pastor Boonstra would have given us this,
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  Speaker 2: it focuses on the book itself, focuses on prophetic understanding
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  Speaker 2: and interpretation, end time, end time, revelation and specific knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: So we're looking at the context of the book for
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  Speaker 2: understanding concerning what would be revealed. And then of course
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  Speaker 2: there's so much. There's so much. I need to give
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  Speaker 2: you my notes, So somebody please in the community later
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  Speaker 2: on go ahead and ask for the notes if I
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  Speaker 2: don't put it in there. There is a contrast with revelation,
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  Speaker 2: different timing, different purposes, different applications, different audiences for obvious reason,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course there is a present truth impact
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  Speaker 2: once it is revealed, clearer understanding, restored understanding of truths,
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  Speaker 2: biblical foundations, and a message for this time. We've said
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but we're just setting the foundation. Make it
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  Speaker 2: a great day, 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,