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06 11 2024 Identifying the Beast Part 1 · 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 Tuesday, June eleven, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.
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  Our caption for today is Identifying the Beast, Part one. Identifying the
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  Beast Part one. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to
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  your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. This is where
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  we can actually have more discussion, especially during studies like these where there is
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  more detail that is needed than what we can cover in just a few minutes
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  here. Also, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and join join the
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  coaching program for Your Daily Portion at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
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  this new day and for the privilege that we have to come into your presence.
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  Teach us how to study your word, teach us how to serve you
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  and to do your will. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. Well, I have to admit that I am between a rock
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  and a hard place considering how much time that we have here. The lesson
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  study was not written so that I can have a Your Daily Portion program that's
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  only ten minutes in length, you understand, and so there are certain subjects
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  periodically over the years that are a little too heavy to be able to do
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  it justice in our few minutes. So this is what I need you to
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  do. I need you to commit to going back to the actual quarterly and
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  I need you to commit, if you're not understanding, to coming into our
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  community to have more conversation. And then one last thing, I want you
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  to go to the Amazing Facts website, the Amazing Facts website, and then
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  search for the mark of the Beast. Search for the mark of the Beast,
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  and there you can have a fullsome study with the appropriate understanding, so
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  that we are not just doing some rush thing here in the morning and just
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  firing off some facts and saying, okay, now you know the information,
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  move on into your day. This has to be a devotional experience on this
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  particular program because of the brevity of our time together. Okay, and so
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  please do that. And the question really that arises in my mind is once
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  we understand who the Beast power is, we understand that this power has decided
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  that it was blasphemously going to try to change God's law like the time in
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  God's law, that is, to try to change the Sabbath, try to
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  remove the sanctity of the Sabbath and transfer it to the first day of the
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  week. Like Now that we know this and we know that this will come
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  to a point of critical mass. We've seen this movie before. As I
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  think I said yesterday, how do we actually how do we actually remain connected
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  to God? Like how do we keep our god focus and relationship with God
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  despite the conflict that we read about and will ultimately experience in the Book of
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  Revelation. Well, the Bible will give us a few few guidance points here
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  in two Timothy, chapter two and verse fifteen, the Bible reads, study
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  to show thyself approved unto God. A workman, not a person who's just
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  talking, Not a person who is lazy, not a person who is who
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  is comfortable with status quo, but a work person, a workman that needeth.
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  Not to be ashamed when you're teaching the truth concerning God's word, right
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  not to be ashamed rightly, that is a good word, rightly dividing the
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  word of truth. And so our goal when we are studying the scriptures is
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  to remain connected to God, to hear the voice of God, to say
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  this is the way, walk ye in it. And when people, even
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  if they are are they are our relatives, even if they are our pastors,
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  preachers, teachers, facilitators, coaches, trainers, people that mentored us,
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  people who actually have prayed for us, and God came through for you
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  once you receive prayers. Yes, but if the word of God is in
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  conflict or if their words are in conflict with what the Word of God says,
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  because you've rightly divided the word of truth, then you have to stay
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  away. So prioritize the truth of God's word. Over every relationship, every
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  historical whatever it is that you thought you understood before, and I'm speaking to
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  me too, and over everything that people are saying. Prioritize what God actually
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  said. And by the way, we can't just study the word of God
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  and think that that's enough. I know what I just said. We can't
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  just study the word of God and think that that's enough. We need to
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  be praying constantly, okay. In First Thessalonius, chapter five and verse seventeen,
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  it's very simple. The Bible says, pray without ceasing, and in
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  the New English translation it says, pray constantly. Well, what does praying
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  constantly look like in twenty twenty four, Well, it looked the same as
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  it did when Enoch lived on planet Earth. The Bible says that Enoch walked
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  with God. And so when you are walking, when you are moving throughout
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  your day, do it with God. Ask God what he sees in your
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  life, what he desires for and from you. Ask him for the strength
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  and energy to push through every trial, tribulation, and temptation. Ask him
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  how you need to relate to people, How you are to relate to laws?
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  When laws are written, Are these laws that please you? Yes?
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  Then good, Yes, we follow those. Is there something that is in
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  conflict with you? Then wait a minute, God, give me the strength
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  to walk away from those things that society says is appropriate when it conflicts with
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  you. And so we pray without ceasing because we need an unceasing connection with
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  God, especially in these last days. And of course we have said over
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  and over and over again that the issue at hand will become just like they
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  attempted to make it in the eighteen eighties. I need you to look up
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  your history, especially those in the United States of America. Uh. Yeah,
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  the Sabbath is going to be a big problem for people. There's going
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  to be a big problem for people, and it'll spread throughout the world.
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  I remember reading about in history in the eighteen seventies they were bracing for the
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  same thing. And then in the eighteen eighties it was like, wait a
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  minute, now, all of a sudden, that body of lawmakers what it
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  was called then, I know, but it can't say it. I can't
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  say it off the top of my head. But they came to a point
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  where they were about to institute a law that would enjoin upon all people in
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  the nation a holy day that was different than the Sabbath. And it was
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  like, wait a minute, what, And so the Church of the People
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  of God sent at Jones at Jones to give his argument. I think it
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  was like two hundred and fifty two minutes in length, because I put it
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  in audio form one time. It was some long period of time that he
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  made his argument to show that the Word of God cannot be broken and that
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  we must not impose any relief religious edict upon people, because that is not
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  God's way, especially especially to cause people to turn our backs on the holy
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  seventh day Sabbath and to somehow venerate another day. In that case, it
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  was Sunday, okay, And so we remember the Sabbath day in twenty twenty
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  four to keep it holy six days. The Bible says, shalt thou labor
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  and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
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  Lord thy God. And another couple of places, the Bible says that the
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  Sabbath is a sign. It's a sign between God and his people that he
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  is sanctifying us. He's setting us aside for a holy use, and so
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  we keep that as a feature of our lives, even in twenty twenty four.
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  But the Bible says, my little children, these things write unto you
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  that she sin not. But if any person sins, you have an advocate
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  with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous One. So what I want
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  you to do is keep your record clean with God, agree with him,
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  confess and forsake everything that does not please God, and remain in good connection
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  with him. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember
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  we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,