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05 29 2024 The Mark of the Beast · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
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  morning. It is Wednesday, May twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  is Your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great
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  Controversy. Our caption for today is the Mark of the Beast. Huh,
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  the Mark of the Beast. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick
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  up the Your Daily Portion book. Also, let us know where you are
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  in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that
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  we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving us
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  this new day. Thank you for giving us your seal, teaching us that
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  all we need to do is be fully connected to You and then nothing else
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  will matter. Father, Please give us the fullness of your Holy Spirit in
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  these last days. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.
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  So I remember reading a quote some years ago, probably about twenty years ago,
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  where inspiration says that the devil has twelve or has tenfold more the power
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  to tempting to deceive than he did in the days of the apostles. You're
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  like, well, why would you start out with that day? Like,
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  why would you start about the devil? Like I thought this was all about
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  God. It is Ah, But let me say this, there are people.
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  And by the way, that was way back in the nineteen hundreds,
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  the early nineteen hundreds when that quote happened. Okay, so what about now,
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  like what kind of power does the enemy have today? Now, don't
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  get stuck here, do not switch off the broadcast here. So since that's
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  the case, I think the Bible writer under inspiration already had the antidote.
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  It says, where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound. And by
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  the way, we need the fullness of latter Rain, as the Bible teaches
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  us. Latter rain power in the last days that is by far and exceeds
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  by far the power of the enemy. This is why we need to be
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  God, and so the key for today's study. Because some people are so
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  fearful and have all kinds of misgivings regarding the mark of the beast. We
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  don't have any fear of the beasts. We don't have any fear of the
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  dragon, the devil. We have no fear of the future, except we
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  forget how God has brought us in the past. So, if He was
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  able to take care of the apostles Ah and they received the early reign,
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  is he not even more able in our day, through the power of the
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  Holy Spirit under the latter reiin to keep us. Yes, if He was
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  able to keep the children of Israel as they saw the plagues that fell on
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  Egypt way back then, is he not able to keep us through what some
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  people call the tribulation. But we call the time of trouble. Is not
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  God able well able to keep you, just like he kept Daniel when he
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  was in the lions Dan and the King said, oh, Daniel, ha,
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  serve it. I'm the living God. Is your God? Was your
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  God able to keep you from the lion's mouths? And of course so King
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  lived forever. Was the resounding call back, of course my God was able
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  to keep me. And of course now I'm ready to serve. And so
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  the mark of the beast is only for people who reject God in the last
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  days, full stop. The mark of the beast is only for people who
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  reject God in the last day. So the question I want to ask is
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  why does Satan focus his wraths specifically on those who are obedient to God's commandments.
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  Let's read from the Book of Revelation, chapter twelve and verse seventeen.
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  And I have already said multiple times, but maybe this is your first day
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  with us, that the only way that a person can keep God's commandments is
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  if we have God's love resident in our hearts. And when God's love is
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  perfecting us, it's in us. Then his ten commandments become ten promises.
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  If we love him with the power that he has given us to love him,
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  then we will live according to his principles. And so in Revelation twelve
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  and verse seventeen, the Bible says, and the dragon was wroth, that
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  is the devil. He was wroth, that means really really angry with the
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  woman that's God's people, and went to make war with the remnant of her
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  seed. So God's people in the last days, which keep the commandments of
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  God and have the testimony of Jesus, why would the devil be so angry
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  about this? Oh, because we look like Jesus when we are perfected in
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  love, as first John chapter four talks about, when we are perfectly or
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  we are perfected in love, and there is no fear between us and God.
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  That is angering to the devil because he's looking forward to destruction. He
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  is going to be destroyed. His fate is sealed. There's no way out.
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  When he was kicked out of heaven, that was the end of it,
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  you see, because he and those evil angels that got kicked out with
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  him. According to the same Revelation, chapter twelve, Yeah, they chose
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  not to repent, as the character of God would have dictated. I said
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  to you the other day he had the opportunity to repent, but he and
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  those particular angels, the one third that got out of heaven, those did
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  not repent. And so he's angry, the Bible writer says, because he
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  has a short time. And so that's why. That's why, So consider
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  the importance of continuing to connect with God on a daily basis, momentarily every
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  day, in direct counteraction to the devil's attempt to destroy you. Bible says
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  that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and
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  rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness and high places. So
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  put on the armor of God. And if you go down through the text
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  in Ephesians chapter six, you will see that when you go down through those
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  seven, not six, those seven, seven is a perfect number. This
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  council is perfect, seven all the way down through prayer. Yes, once
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  we have all of that on, we realize that each of them are about
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  Jesus. The Bible writer circles back, and he says, to put on
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the
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  lusts thereof. So those fiery darts of the wicked one will not penetrate the
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  characters of individuals who are covered, covered with the life of Jesus, covered
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  with the armor of God. And so we go now to Revelation, chapter
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  thirteen and verse seventeen, and the Bible says, and it was given unto
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  him, meaning the devil, to make war with the saints. Here we
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  go again, and to overcome them. Wait a minute, and the power
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  was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. But guess what this
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  was temporary. There was a time that the people of God were buffeted for
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  all kinds of different things related to their faith twelve hundred and sixty long years.
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  You can read about that in Fox's Book of Martyrs. During the Dark
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  Ages, God's people were buffeted. But was God able? I'm hearing the
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  call again of King Dorias shouting down resoundingly into the lions. Den was your
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  God able to keep you? The answer is yes, now, you would
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  say, but Dave, there are a lot of people who lost their lives.
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  I think the Book of Hebrews chapter eleven resolves this, and it says
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  that there were some people who had these trials, and they did not yet
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  get their perfection in terms of their in terms of their eternity with God.
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  Yet no, because we're waiting for the second coming. And those rest in
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  the tombs, and we'll talk about that next week about resting in sleep meaning
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  death. But those faithful ones, at the appropriate time, when Jesus returns,
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  he will give them their reward. And so even though the devil has
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  his wrath, he's firing on the people of God who keep his commandments,
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  because we look just like God and we keep even in the last days his
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  holy seventh day Sabbath, when the world is saying to forget, God says,
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  remember it is a measure that God is the one who sanctifies us.
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  And I'm thankful that even though the mark of the beast is there and the
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  devil is angry, God is able to keep his people in the last days
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  peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live
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  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a
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  great day. Yeah,