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06 21 2025 Images of the End · 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 Sabbath. It's
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  Speaker 2: the twenty first 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 for the
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  Speaker 2: final week how to study Bible prophecy. Under the caption
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  Speaker 2: image is of the End Images of the End. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: our online community and let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world. There at your Daily Portion dot com.
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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 Sabbath morning and for the privilege we have to
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  Speaker 2: consider many times in history that you let your people
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  Speaker 2: through trials, through tribulations, even through the ways and means
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  Speaker 2: for us to do your will in those days. Father,
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  Speaker 2: please help us to be faithful in our day. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again images of
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  Speaker 2: the end. And so the Bible reads here in the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Jonah, chapter one and verse nine said,
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  Speaker 2: so he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and
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  Speaker 2: I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made
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  Speaker 2: the sea and the dry land. I have to begin
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  Speaker 2: here with a question, are you a willing participant in
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm talking about right now
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  Speaker 2: on this Sabbath morning. If God gives you the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of saving one, two or three thousand or three million
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  Speaker 2: lives by simply teaching them the word of God, by
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  Speaker 2: simply sharing the testimony of Jesus Christ in your life,
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  Speaker 2: to transform you so that they can see that He
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  Speaker 2: can also transform them. Are you willing to be a
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  Speaker 2: party to that or to turn your back on them?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. Jonah's weird, Like, as far as
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned, and I know people say, oh, well, you
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  Speaker 2: would have done it too. I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: Sure about that. There were people of God like during
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  Speaker 2: the exodus, there was Joshua and Caleb, they were faithful,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest of the people that were of age
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  Speaker 2: twenty and above they all died in the wilderness. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we know that Moses was resurrected based on the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Jude. But the bottom line is there were always
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  Speaker 2: two sets of people among the people of God, the
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  Speaker 2: faithful and those who are losing faith, the faithful and
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  Speaker 2: the weak. When the three young men Hannah Andayah, Michel, Azariah,
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  Speaker 2: we're alive with Daniel, there were four people who had
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  Speaker 2: to make a decision, just like I'm asking us to
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  Speaker 2: make it. Now, are you going to be a party
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  Speaker 2: to helping people get saved or turn your back on them?
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  Speaker 2: God had told Jonah where exactly to go, what exactly
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  Speaker 2: to do to help people have one more opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: live according to God's principles, Not only that to be
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  Speaker 2: saved from destruction. You think he did it? Absolutely not,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not. He immediately went the other He went the
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  Speaker 2: opposite direction and got some other men's lives imperiled because
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  Speaker 2: he was on the boat with them when God turned
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  Speaker 2: up the sea and the winds and the waves. But
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that he did confess that he was
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  Speaker 2: from among God's people. And yeah, the rest, of course
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  Speaker 2: is history. And so this week coming, as the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer says, we will take our final look at accounts
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  Speaker 2: that help to enlighten our understanding of last day events.
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  Speaker 2: This time we will look at the mission of Jonah
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  Speaker 2: to Nineveh, the fall of Babylon, and the rise of Cyrus,
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  Speaker 2: the Persian king who liberated God's people and enabled them
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  Speaker 2: to return to the land of Promise. But again, when
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  Speaker 2: you see these stories, I don't want you to see
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  Speaker 2: a story. I want you to see a win into
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  Speaker 2: the mindset of other human beings and ask God, like,
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  Speaker 2: which of these humans am i? Am I among the faithful?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I among the people who who have turned
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  Speaker 2: their backs on you or have become weak in my faith?
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  Speaker 2: And then ask God how to live according to his principles.
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  Speaker 2: So we go here to that same passage in verse
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  Speaker 2: nine of Jonah chapter one. And now we see a
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  Speaker 2: parallel because God had told Jonah to go and warn
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  Speaker 2: the people. He had a message to warn the people
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  Speaker 2: of Nineveh that if they don't turn their turn away
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  Speaker 2: from their sins, that God would destroy them. And it's
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  Speaker 2: just like what but he went there. He went there
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  Speaker 2: and reluctantly, but he had a message. And in Revelation
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen we see that there is a message for
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  Speaker 2: our day because judgment has come. Judgment has come, and
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  Speaker 2: God has given us the pathway to success. And so
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  Speaker 2: we need to personally accept our role. I asked you earlier,
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  Speaker 2: like are you a willing participant? Are your willing party
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  Speaker 2: to the gospel mission of Jesus Christ. So accept personally
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  Speaker 2: your role in proclaiming the everlasting Gospel and the call
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  Speaker 2: to fear God and worship Him as creator. Don't be
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  Speaker 2: like Jonah. Don't get on the boat going the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 2: Don't choose to be saved by grace and then decide,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I don't want to do what God
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  Speaker 2: wants me to do, and then put yourself on the
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  Speaker 2: wrong team rather than be connected with God. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: there is a warning that we all get to trumpet
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  Speaker 2: if we are God's people in the Last of the
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  Speaker 2: Last Days. That shows us that Babylon is fallen, that confusion,
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  Speaker 2: that false direction toward God, like the pathway that people
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  Speaker 2: invented by turning their backs on on God by erecting
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  Speaker 2: a false Sabbath, to also cause people to think that
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  Speaker 2: every pathway leads to connection with God when He has
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  Speaker 2: given us a direct path through Christ. Babylon has fallen,
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  Speaker 2: that confusion is fallen that great city. And so in
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  Speaker 2: the Last of the Last Days, spiritual Babylon will indeed
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  Speaker 2: and in fact fall, just as ancient Babylon did. False
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  Speaker 2: religion and political alliances that oppose God's will will collapse,
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  Speaker 2: And so we get to decide are we going to
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  Speaker 2: participate in the collapse? Are we going to warn people
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  Speaker 2: and see what God has to say for these last days?
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  Speaker 2: For those who have lost their love for God and
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  Speaker 2: have chosen tradition of human beings over connection with God,
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  Speaker 2: who have chosen political power over connection with God, that
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  Speaker 2: have chosen to do all sorts of things that God
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  Speaker 2: has already shared that that is not the pathway to
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  Speaker 2: spiritual success. And so we choose. Are we going to
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  Speaker 2: be the messengers that help people? Are we going to
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  Speaker 2: be the ones who turn our backs on him? In
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter forty five and verse, when the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: thus set the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
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  Speaker 2: right hand I have chosen. And in this case I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time to really drill this. But
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  Speaker 2: in this case Cyrus actually represents Jesus Christ delivering his people,
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  Speaker 2: delivering his people. He was a type or a symbol
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, even though this was in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 2: And so we can rest our confidence fully in Christ's
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  Speaker 2: power to save us and to lead us out of bondage.
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  Speaker 2: Just like Cyrus toppled Babylon. Yes, God's people will outlive
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  Speaker 2: the fallen Babylon, that confusion that sets itself up against God.
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  Speaker 2: As Cyrus set God's people free, Jesus delivers his people
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  Speaker 2: from sin, spiritual Babylon and final oppression. So much to say, conceptually,
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  Speaker 2: so little time. Human pride always resists God's authority, but
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  Speaker 2: ultimately it falls. And so we're going to drill, like
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  Speaker 2: I said before, into the story of Jonah and get
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  Speaker 2: closer to what God would have us to do. And
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  Speaker 2: we can see where Jonah went on his pathway. We
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  Speaker 2: can see where he went wrong and where he hopefully
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  Speaker 2: would have gotten a little bit more sense in relation
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  Speaker 2: to God. But in either case we can learn how
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  Speaker 2: to serve God.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking to 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,