Hi everyone, we're here to talk about Drupal and Wolves' Code. This is what we're going to cover in this short session. So we'll have a quick introduction, a little bit of information about what is Wolves' Code. We'll look at a GovCMS proof of concept that we completed around Wolves' Code, some of the process behind Wolves' Code, and also of course the most important part, given this is a Drupal Meetup, is Drupal's involvement in Wolves' Code for CELSA projects. And then we'll have a Q&A at the end as well. So just a few quick introductions. So my name's Philippa Martin. I work at CELSA Digital doing Wolves' Code and also as a content specialist. My work in Wolves' Code covers both business analysts and also content. Hi, my name is Sujiko. I'm a technical manager at CELSA Digital. In this particular project, Wolves' Code project, I was working as a tech lead and a developer as well. So the Drupal part of the Drupal integration with Wolves' Code was something that I focused on. Okay, so just a little bit of background or context. So basically CELSA responded to a GovCMS request for expressions of interest for a digital experience platform solution. There were six potential user journeys listed and one of them stood out to us in particular, which is the stage where a citizen is figuring out what they need to do to either access an entitlement or to comply with a government policy or a legal requirement. The reason why this stood out to us is because it could be solved by Wolves' Code. And in fact, at the time we were already working on another Wolves' Code project that specifically looked at codifying New Zealand Social Security Act so that citizens could answer a few questions to find out what benefits they were entitled to and how much they should be getting as well. So let's talk a little bit very briefly what is Wolves' Code. So Wolves' Code is basically taking legislation, regulations or policies and turning it into machine readable code. There are several benefits that this represents including reduced ambiguity, making it more accessible, reusable, easier to manage, transparent and also using it to inform policy. At the moment in this space in terms of the Wolves' Code dev tools, OpenFisker is the main tool. It's used for Wolves' Code. It's lightweight, modular and scalable Python-based Wolves engine. It's open source, which is what we like. It's also been developed by the French government in 2011. So it's been around for a little while. And it's now used for Wolves' Code projects in New Zealand, Australia and Canada as well as other jurisdictions and of course France as well. Just briefly we'll look at a very high level of the solution architecture just in terms of where everything fits. So obviously at the top of this diagram here we have our end users and then they may be coming in to view the Wolves' Code or find out information via a website. Mobile apps, possibly voice devices of some sort. And then those apps or user interfaces are talking to both Drupal and OpenFisker. So let's have a little bit more about a look at this Wolves' Code for GovCMS proof of concept that we did. So we were successful in our expression of interest and GovCMS asked us to create a proof of concept. Specifically, they wanted us to look at COVID vaccinations. So they wanted us to help citizens understand if their COVID-19 vaccination status is up to date. We looked at the main journey was, am I up to date with my COVID vaccinations? We also wanted to look at another journey that would demonstrate how state information could also be brought into a Wolves' Code system. And to do this, we also added a journey, do I have to be vaccinated for my work? So what we've got on screen here is final product. This is two websites. I'll look at one of those in a moment that look at COVID vaccination in Australia. The main website contains both user journeys, so the one about am I up to date with my COVID vaccinations and also do I need to be able to, am I up to date to work? But then we also created another interface. In this case, a hypothetical website dedicated to our First Nations people. The First Nations website contained information about the user's Indigenous heritage and then tags that user a priority booking when they're transferred to the booking system. So let's take a quick look at one of these websites. So basically, these are some examples of the sorts of scenarios that people could be asking themselves. So perhaps a 55-year-old adult who's had five doses or maybe their 32-year-old adult who's had three doses, a parent looking for information for a 15-year-old immunocompromised child or a parent looking for information for a four-year-old. So I will just... Can I actually leave my glasses? Okay, so can everybody see that website at the moment? Thumbs up. Okay, so as you can see, this website was actually just created to show what a coronavirus-dedicated website might look like. But it's actually only these two links here that are active. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this because I know given we're in a Drupal meet-up, we want to get on to the Drupal stuff. But just to give you a quick look at how it works. So given a little bit of introductory information, then we can press Start. We're showing where we are in the journey. So the first thing we need to enter is our age. I'm going to put what you do. And then it takes you to information about your health. So if you're immunocompromised or not, let's say no. And then it's got information about your, how many doses of the vaccine you've had. So in this case, we'll say two doses. And maybe the last one was, let's put it quite recently. There we go. Okay, so if we hit Submit, that then talks to the open fiscal and since you will talk a little bit more about how that works in a moment. But it just lets the person know you're currently not up to date with your COVID-19 vaccinations. I give some information about how many doses they should have had, what the recommended vaccine is based on their age, and also some information about the likelihood because they're over 18, they could also access these other three vaccines. The information that's highlighted in yellow is information that's being returned from Open Fisca and Drupal. So take a step back now and look at the actual RSS code process. So how we get to that point. So basically we've got a few different steps involved. First of all is the rules analysis and mapping. Then we go into Open Fisca configuration and coding. Then we start using the Drupal Open Fisca module and the Drupal web form and also setting up the results. So we could go into each of these in a lot of detail, but we're not going to. I'm just going to very briefly cover rules mapping. So generally we would initially do some sort of extraction of the rules in plain English. In this case we looked at it by a person's age given that was how the COVID vaccinations were working. Then we created a high level model that captures entities, any legislative requirements, eligibility logic and calculation logic. So obviously that doesn't apply to this one, but more calculation logic in terms of, for example, if we're working on how much Social Security benefits someone should be eligible for. From there we go into the process of actually codifying the rules. So we create test scenarios, create entities, create parameters, create variables, including the input and output. Now we're getting into technical stuff. So you know what that means. I'm handing over to Suji. So this is the rules for configuration. The rules for configuration actually goes into OpenFesca. And in OpenFesca we start with the entities, parameters and variables. And variables are of two types. One are the inputs and the second one is the output. As clearly seen here, the output are actually calculated. So in the flow that we saw where Philippa was, what Philippa was showing, each and every one of the workflows that you saw, they were actually, whenever there was a submit, they were going back to OpenFesca and coming back with a response. So as an example, in the first one, it asked for an age, it went to OpenFesca and asked what is the maximum, what is the minimum age. It checked that. So if Philippa had put in, for example, two years, it would have come back and said, no, you're not eligible for a vaccine. So that is how these things are done. So entities, parameters, variables, inputs are defined in OpenFesca, output are calculated output. And Drupal basically just makes API calls to OpenFesca with proper, with the required parameters as well as the variables. So again, I'll walk through these very quickly. This is basically essentially around the OpenFesca. This is an example of a test case that was created in OpenFesca where we have the scenario is 10 in a row with two vaccine doses, whether they are up to date or not. And then we have a period, we have the inputs and then we have an output, calculated output. And this is an example of under configuration. As you can see, this is a Python code because OpenFesca is Python based and rules can be calculated for different entities, now there are different entities in OpenFesca. Some of the entities can be person, persons, household, companies, et cetera. So in this case, the entity was person. And this is another example of a root code configuration where a parameter is being defined. So the parameter is the age of eligibility and it has various attributes like description, and metadata, and values, et cetera. The last part of the root code configuration is the variables. So we create input variables. So for example, again, the flow that was defined, the first input variable was age. The second input variable was are you immunocompromised or not? So if you look at the second number here, immunocompromised disability, that was the variable that was used in here. And the third before that we had, it asked two questions which were around how many doses have you had and what was the last vaccine dose. And these are the two variables that were taken as input. And once we have the inputs, we have the variables, we have the parameters, then the calculation actually happens. So in this example, we're showing you the calculation of the vaccination update and then it has different variables. So that was an open FISCA part of it. Now let's try to see the Drupal in the puzzle here for making sure that Drupal is able to talk to open FISCA and get relevant information, send relevant ABI calls, et cetera. We went ahead and created a custom module. The name of the module was from FISCA because we are not too intuitive when it comes to naming things. So essentially the concept can be spread into two parts. One is the rules content and the other thing is the related content. So the aim of using Drupal was so that we could make the editor experience as painless as possible and maybe the second reason was because we know Drupal. We used web forms because then we could easily ask questions and tailor our journeys. And we also went ahead and so even the rules content is actually divided into two. One is the creation of the web forms which asks for things. And the second is that we went ahead and created a content type which said, okay, this is a web form. When it is returning with this value, we go to this node. When it's returning with this value, we go to this node, et cetera, et cetera. So that is how we were able to curate our journeys. So in the example that Philippa took, the first web form was fairly straightforward. It just asked for the age. But when the age was sent over to Fesca, the return value could be either eligible for a vaccine or not eligible for a vaccine. So the node associated with this particular web form said if it is eligible for a vaccine, then go to the next web form. If it is not eligible for a vaccine, go to this particular node where in Drupal we had put a content, hey, you're not eligible for a vaccine because you have to be minimum of this age. So that's how we manage the whole journey that we just showed there. Just working again on whatever I just talked about. So step one was how old are you? Whenever we press submit or next in this case, it went to open Fesca, came back with a response and based on that response, it would either go to step two or it would go to another page and say you're not eligible. If you're eligible, it will go to step two and it will ask you, are you immunocompromised? The reason why we asked that is because the rules for immunocompromising people change the vaccination rules. And in the next step, we are asking how many doses have you had and what was the last date along with all the data collected earlier is sent again to open Fesca and based on the return value, we either show something like congratulations, you're currently up to date. Or in the case that Philippa showed, for example, where it said you're not up to date, you need to have three doses, go ahead and book your third dose. So how did it actually work? I'll just show you some screenshots and then we'll probably go to the website and I'll show you the actual Google backend as well. So the border we created it allowed us to add a few things. Number one was we created an open Fesca journey handler which is basically the code that defines where you're going that massages the input since the API calls receives the API responses etc etc. So that is what we have so and that is what we associate with the web form and the second thing is that in the web form we're able to define the, we are able to define that yes, we want this web form to be open Fesca integrated and we can also define the end point of open Fesca. So if you look at this one this is the open Fesca endpoint. Now the moment open Fesca endpoint is defined how does it help us? It basically helps us in this way. So if you go to, if you see the screen this is our web form and when I edit one of the fields there I can actually see a new field showing up there which says okay tell me the mapping what is the link Fesca variable and here it gives me a listing of all the open Fesca variables defined on that Fesca endpoint automatically. So basically as an example again the first form the form itself may be something like what is your age but here if you look at the last option there there isn't a variable called age and we can associate both of them so this helps us in marrying the fields with the open Fesca variables and the second part that we talked about was Drupal rules content but before I do that do you actually want to see the web form back in other screen shots it's planetary enough So Chi can you show the web form? Sure. Thanks. And how does the data get into open Fesca also is that like the first set that gets did I miss that bit? Sorry, I didn't get your question. So you're pulling in like variables from open Fesca and Fesca is that right? So they're defined on not quite understanding So in open Fesca the open Fesca just has data, it has got variables it has got parameters and then it has a code for it to calculate which takes the variables and based on the question asked it returns whatever we want to look at I don't remember why Sorry continue on, I didn't mean to throw a spin on me Alright, I'm just plugging in for a second, we are having trouble plugging in just a little bit Yeah, I was going to ask questions while Philippine is trying to plug in. That was pretty much the only question I had I was just curious how it all connects and I liked the interface that you were doing on the screenshot of how you just select which one you want for the rules That was pretty nifty And I should be able to demo that I think that's really clear Alrighty, we are in So Gia just very quickly show you the whole interface in the back end Sorry, this is not my laptop so it's a bit difficult for me to It is a strange it is a strange never mind Okay, so what I do Gia, I'll just show you one of the probably the simplest one and please ignore the messy stuff So the first one is about you and I'll open it in a new day on time just so that we have access there So this was a form that you can ask me about how old am I So let me go to the settings part of it So the first thing that I showed was that we can add a handler and when I click add handler I had an option of adding an openfista journey handler that's how I added it and then when I go to the general part of it at the bottom you get third party settings and within the third party settings there's a section of openfista this is showing up because of our module only and it says okay, enable the openfista is integration, we say yes and this is the endpoint that we can add Now this is also a useful variable because this is the variable that we will be focusing on from whatever return values are coming So openfista tends to dump all the return values but in this particular form we are interested in just one value that is why we are putting that as well in here Now there is another field as well you don't need to worry about that field much and I'll tell you why Let's go to the build part of it before So when I go to the build you can see that there are actually three fields and the submit button two of the fields are hidden one of them is not, let me just edit the hidden field first and the non-hidden field field first So the title is how old are you, the key at the moment is age but the key would have been anything we don't worry about that but because of that integration we have this link, this variable field coming in and this actually pulls in all the variables defined at the endpoint and it lists them So this way we can create multiple fields and associate them with the Fisca variables There are the forms where you don't need to send fields to OpenFisca and that's where you would say excluded OpenFisca works a bit strangely in the sense that it needs all the values to be for each and every call so if you remember when I was seeing what is the return value it needs us to send the return value as well as pause, only then it will send it back So that's why because in that particular field so in that particular field we had set full vaccination age eligibility is the value that we want so we need to add that as well in the web form because OpenFisca would expect that I'll show this to you again So this is a hidden field it has a title which doesn't matter actually and it is actually linked to the COVID vaccination age eligibility So that's how OpenFisca actually works at whatever we want as output also needs to be sent across in the API call So instead of hard coding them or trying to figure out what to send during the API call we have added everything into the web form and then just started using that I can show you another web form So this one is probably a bit bigger web form and again when we are building it we have a few fields which are showing up but a lot many fields which are not showing up The reason is that in this particular fall there was so many combinations and implementations of data that needed to be returned back that we needed all of them So take for example that is this one is COVID vaccination recommendation up to date, are you up to date or not and this one are you eligible for that? Are you eligible for the COVID vaccination? How many vaccines are recommended for your use case? These are all the values that come in back from the API and we are easily able to show them because they are coming in we put them as tokens in our results pages Does that help? Yeah, yeah, thank you Alright Now coming back to our coming back to our presentation again So that was about the web form As I mentioned there is a second part to the rules content and that is that is creating the journey So basically deciding what happens when this value is returned as this, where do we go So instead of again hard coding that we put that power into the content creator So what we did was we created a content type called rules as code, what else And in this one we can actually add multiple rules like this as you see in the screen So it basically says if the variable COVID vaccination eligibility comes as false then go here So we can add multiple rules and it says this one for example if this is true and this is false then redirect to this page If this is true this is false redirect to next page etc etc etc So that way that is how we are defining our flow So in the flow that for the past short the first one was the most simple one So that one basically said if the eligibility is coming through then go to the next web form If the eligibility is coming as false go to node XYZ And node XYZ is the node where we are putting part in sorry you are not eligible and we have also put in some tokens which show what is the eligibility date Again I can show this how this works So when I go to content and I just show content type RSE So because we had 3-4 months that is the number So each web form will have one node of the type RSE associated with it So this is the first one and it says this is about go to about you form and if value of COVID vaccination eligibility is false redirect to not eligible If it is true then redirect to about your health and about your health is a page which has the next one So that is why we put the power of defining the journey also in the quantitative hands rather than trying to you know doing this or something like that and that one was a pretty simple one but let's talk about this one This is more complex or pretty complex So this has a combination of so many variables If this is true this is true go here If this is true this is false go here etc etc etc And these need to be in the order of preference as well So this is how the rules content was defined Any questions by anybody I'm assuming no questions Alright so rules content yes but now what about the related content as I mentioned that with different scenarios we are going to different pages and each of our different pages was different So Philippa had already showed you one of the pages So the Drupal related content pages were fairly simple they were just standard content types standard page content because we have used the theme we have used the default content type that comes with it The only difference there was we were using tokens so that is why whatever you see as yellow here are the tokens that are coming in from OpenFesca So what we did was we were redirecting to pages based on the rules we were making sure that all the variables and their values are in the URL and based on that we were defining our tokens as well and yeah I mean that's pretty much what we did with it Any questions Just going to finish off very briefly with other Rules as Code applications for Rules as Code and Drupal that we've done recently So I mentioned at the start that we were working before the Gubsimus proof of concept came up that we were working on a codifying New Zealand Social Security Act So and that website is now live the first version of Alpha version which codifies four of the Social Security Benefits It's called Benefit Me and basically we fed the learnings into our long term project in New Zealand Benefit Me we created the webform that integrates with OpenFesca to check eligibility for four Social Security Benefits It includes a calculation logic so this is where it returns your eligible for $476 a week whatever it might be and people can find out more about that one at benefitme.nz but it's using same Drupal module and all the same sort of technology and tooling that we set up for the Gubsimus one That is it Any questions? I'm trying to make this question up as I go I said there we go OpenFesca as a rules evaluation engine right What did you find out about what was unique about OpenFesca and when I asked that is why couldn't you just encode the rules engine right inside Drupal or is there other technology that's a better black box for evaluation just kind of interested in that That is a unique question but I would say that's even before the question but I might want to answer that a bit Just a minute Shivana is trying to end up Okay so all these kinds of conversations we were done now OpenFesca is something that was being used by as I mentioned it was created by trans-government it was being used as rules as we could have put that in Drupal as well but we wanted a separate entity a separate API that can then be accessed by anybody it doesn't need to be just Drupal thing we wanted to codify the rules into something that can be accessed by anything it could be for example Alexa integration and if you remember the solution architecture that we had we have had layer which was maybe a website maybe this maybe that so that was the main was trying to differentiate between the two number one number two for whatever we needed to codify the rules Drupal would have been an over engineering thing in the sense that Drupal is a content management system that's pretty much it so trying to use Drupal for codifying our rules would be sort of anti what Drupal is used for yes we could have done it but it would not be a very efficient way of doing it and again this was a POC and when we were doing the POC as well we were also saying is Opencast has a light tool or not we are not too sure but this is something that we picked and it worked for us because this idea about intervention in Drupal except that I could see it being a separate Drupal sort of had this application which could be an evaluation of the bigger discussion it's a totally different discussion we did have those kinds of conversations but to be frank by the time I stepped in we decided that we will be using in fact some of OpenFest was already on where to be developed the way we wanted to but these are the kinds of discussions we had and it was pretty much like this is a POC we don't know what else will work but we know this is working for our requirements so might as well and I guess from my take away from what you presented one of the power of Drupal where it sits once you come back with the evaluation in your example that's when all the auxiliary information that can be managed in Drupal can be presented like we were saying what no get presented but that could be information about Visor or Moderna or all that type of information all managed in Drupal where this given this instance it's just the evaluation engine to bring it back this guy is just the evaluation engine it's not doing it does not come back and tell us what to present to the user it does not come back and tell us what to do next it doesn't do that it's just an evaluation engine we send some variables with some values it returns back some other variables with some more values and that's pretty much it and Drupal is the one that decides what to do with that information so logic and content is separated according to it


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Recording started. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's session on the book of Old Testament Survey and today we would be starting on the book of Judges. Before we could start with our class, can I request one of us to please start with a word of prayer. Can I? Yes, please. Thank you, Father. Thank you for this wonderful time, Lord, that you've given us to come before you, Lord, to learn from your word, to know more of you, Father. I pray, Lord, be invite the Holy Spirit, Lord, to inspire us, Lord, to teach us, to guide us, Father, Lord, that we may rightly know you, Father, Lord, that we may come closer to you, Father.  You bless her, Father. You equip and empower her, Father, Lord. You give her the words to speak, Father, Lord, all that, Father, you want to convey to us, Father, Lord, let it be spoken through her, Father.  You pray for each and every student, Father, Lord, we thank you, Father, for bringing each one of us here, Lord. It is not by accident, Father, Lord, we are here by your plan and your purpose, Father. Lord, what you want us to hear, what you want us to apply in our lives, may you make it known to us, Lord. Give us that revelation, knowledge, Father, and Lord, and we pray for the spirit of that wisdom and revelation to know you, Father. All these we pray in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Sophia. Okay, so today we're going to study on the book of Judges. So before we could start with a class, I will just project our notes. The book of Judges, who was the author of this book? Who was the author of this book? Joshua. Anyone else who was the author of this book? Okay, they say Samuel to be the author of this book. Okay, and the events described in the book of Judges were just after the death of Joshua. So to the beginning of the monarchy of span of 335 years, that is between 1,380 BC to 1,045. So this means that maybe Samuel lived about 30 to 40 years into the reign of Saul, could have been its author. We also see that in the New Testament suggestion period of the Judges lasted for about 450 years. We see that in the book of Acts, chapter 13 verse 20. Let's go, let's see the background of this book. The background of Judges opens with the closing days of the life of Joshua in chapter one. We see how Joshua along with the Israelites army conquered many places. They fought with fought many battles with the king of Canaanites. And in chapter two, we see the death of Joshua, which gives us, you know, a clear picture. And after Joshua's death, we see a downfall of Israelites with the other nation and everyone did what they felt right in their own eyes, because Joshua gave the land which they conquered to the 12 tribes. I will show the map in some time. The 12 tribes scattered in the place in the land of Canaanites into each position as it was allocated by Joshua. As they conquered, they captured each tribe according to their tribe and the size of each tribe Joshua allocated the land. So now what happened? The older generation were passing away. Okay, so then now we have the new generation. They don't know what the Lord has done.  So, and they started sending, they started mingling with the Canaanites who stayed in that land. And, you know, so we see that there was a need of a proper leader, a proper leader. And we see how, how they're disobedient, okay, led to the, led to sin. And we can also see the consequence of their sin in this people life and how now when they cried out to the Lord, how God delivered them is what the story of judges all about. So with this, we'll see there are three type of judges. We see that the warrior judge like the Gideon, and there's a priest judge like Eli and the prophet judge like Samuel. And we also see Deborah also being the prophetess. We see the author date, the very purpose of this book to continue the history of Israel to show the nation. And also it also dictates the death of Joshua to the time of Samuel. It also shows the external threat of defeat by the other nations is not as serious as the internal threat they own immorality and the idolatry which led them to their defeat. And the third point we also see that God, how God raised judges, you know, or the leaders in time of trouble to deliver the people of Israel. And we also see that, you know, God was mindful of Israelites, even though they sinned and they went astray, but when they called just like how a child calls to the father and the father in all his kindness and mercy in love, he tries to redeem the children. We see that picture here. So much of God redeeming Israelites again and again, again and again. And the fourth point we see is Israel, a human kingship was needed to deliver the people to lead the people. And we will study on many other judges. And yes, we see there was a cycle, a repetitive cycle, that is sin, servitude, and then again the supplication and the salvation. Sin, the rebellion nature of Israelite servitude was a people. The Israelites started worshipping the idols of that place, like the Baal God. And supplication was when they were oppressed, when they were oppressed, they started seeking the one true God. And they started to deliver them through the judges. And we also see the salvation is God bringing rest and deliverance by raising the judges or raising the leaders. So in the book of Judges, we see about, you know, 13 leaders, 13 leaders. And in the book of Samuel, the two leaders have been recorded like Eli and Samuel. So we have the judges who are raised in the book of Judges. And today, in this, though they were 15, we will be covering on four judges to talk about due to the time constraint. The teaching from judges, we see the wickedness of the human art and God delights in using the weak things so that his glory is been seen in and through us. And the third, we see the Holy Spirit and the judges, how the Spirit of the Lord came upon each and every judge. And he moved them to deliver them. He moved them to give the right decision. He moved upon them to give them the strategy, how the Holy Spirit let the judges we see throughout in the book of Judges. And the comparison with the book of Joshua, we see that how Joshua was strong, sustained leadership and there was unity among the tribes. But in Judges, there was no sustained leader and there were no unity among the tribes. And in Joshua, we see Israel takes land from the Canaanites. But in Judges, we see Canaanites taking the land back from Israel. And Joshua emphasizes obedience. When we obey God, we see the victory and we can enjoy the freedom that comes from God. But in Judges, we see the disobedience which led them to be defeated and then led them to slavery and bondage among the other kingdoms. With this, we'll also move on to the outline. We have a very detailed outline how they, you know, what happened in the book of Judges, how the people fail and who are the judges that rules at northern, central, eastern, western camp, wherever people camped and they stayed and who ruled them. Who were the judges in each places. We see that. And we also see the portrayal or the shadow of Christ in the book of Judges, in saying that each judge was the savior or a ruler. When the Holy Spirit moved upon them, they started dictating to the Israelites the strategies, the things that they needed or how they can go for the battle and how God can give us the victory they started telling them. So, through, whenever there was a problem and people cried out to God, God raised a judge and that judge became the savior. That judge became the deliverer. That judge became the redeemer of that sect of tribe. So, we see portray of Christ in the book of Judges as the judge as a deliverer, as a ruler. So, with this, we'll go to the presentation. Once I can, I'll just start the presentation in the book of Judges. Everyone can see this presentation. So, the book of Judges is all about tears, triumph and strategy. Can we all see this? Yes, Ma'am. Okay, thank you. So, the Israelites, after setting into the promised land, now they no more dwell in the tents. Now, they have occupied the land and there is still a lot of land to be taken from the Canaanites in those areas. So, in chapter 2 and 3, we see how they were led by Joshua to capture many land and, you know, so Joshua also segregates these lands to the different tribes. We see that here. Okay, so Joshua gives the land to all the 12 tribes, 12 tribes of Israel, according to their size. E shares it among them. And then after that, we see the death of Joshua in chapter 2. Let's turn to book of Joshua as well. Sorry, not Joshua, book of Judges. Okay. And in chapter 2, we see the death of Joshua. So, after the death of Joshua, the Israelites compromised on God's command to eradicate the immoral and the corrupt Canaanites from the land. And as a result, sorry, there we are. Okay. Okay. As a result, they ended up repeatedly falling into the idolatry and immorality of that nation. So, the descendants who had raised and all the older generation have died and gone. Now, the new generation has come there and they were not aware of the God of Israel, how God brought them from Egypt and how God led them in the wilderness and how supernatural things, what are the supernatural things happen in their life and how God dwell among them. The younger generation were not aware of it. And so they started mingling with the Canaanites and this was like a disgrace. It was a disgrace to Israel, the Israelites, because they started leading a life of immorality and they started worshiping the idols of the Canaanites. So, because the people started sinning, they were losing the battle. No more they were winning, but they were losing and they went under the slavery or the bondage with the other Canaanites and other kingdom ruled in that place. And when people cried out to the Lord, okay, we see people cried out to the Lord and God raised the first judge, the first judge in the book of Judges. We see the first judge as Othniel. In chapter 3 verse 7 to 11, we see how God raised Othniel, sorry, the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and how he fought against the king of Qushan Rishatim, the king of Mesopotamia and how he won the victory. And after that he ruled Israel and rest in this part. And then we see the second king was Eod and then Shamaag and then we see in the season of Deborah. Okay, we see how people, before that I'll say we are going to talk about the four judges, that is Deborah. Then we will talk about, we will talk about Deborah, that we'll talk about Gideon, then Jeff Hathor and then Samson. These are the four people we are going to talk about today. So Deborah chapter 4, Deborah was the only female judge in the Bible. She excelled in multiple areas, clearly one of the, one of the Bible's most outstanding figure. She served the ancient Israel as a prophet, prophetess. And we also see she, she also served as a judge and a military leader by leading the Israelites for a war against the kingdom that raised toward them. Then we also see after the victory she wrote, she was a songwriter, she wrote a song and she sang with the Israelites. And the two chapters show an exemplary moral character of Deborah, like how she led the people. To be an Ephraimite, she was from the tribe of Ephraim and Deborah judged and led the people for about 60 years in the 12th century BC. Her oversight covered approximately 20 years of leadership before the Canaanite war. As the Lord, you know, as she was a prophetess, a Lord shared a strategy and a promise of delivering these people. She, she delivered the message to the Israelites saying, Barak, Barak, you lead the troop, you lead the army and fight against the king of Canaanites so that God will give us the victory. But Barak who was a friend of Deborah said, unless and until you come with me, I would not go for the battle. So Deborah says that because you didn't take the leadership, God will, God will put, God will put the killing, the victory into a woman's hand, into a woman's hand. Here she's not talking about the women leadership of her own, but then killing of the king will be, will be given to a woman. We'll see how the story narrates. So what happened here is when they led to go against the king of Canaanite, his name was Cesare. The army was very strong. Suddenly they went into the camp to, to against the Canaanites and we see the battle and the king of this Canaanite was almost losing and he ran for his life. As he was running, he went into a tent of Hibbe, Hibbe and his wife, his wife name is, sorry guys, Jail I guess, Jail. No, I'm not guessing, it's correct. Jail, yeah. Yeah, that is how a name has been pronounced, Jail. So Jail said the king of Canaanite, Cesare, come into the tent and he came into the tent and he asked for water, but she gives him a milk, okay, which is a kind of a drink which was curdled, which will make the person drowsy. He was already tired because he was running for his life and she, she gives him the drink, he drank and she covered him with a blanket or a rug and he also told her Jail to stand outside the tent if Barak or the Israelites come searching for me. You tell them that I'm not here. So he goes to sleep. So what Jail does is once he sleeps, because of tiredness, he falls asleep, Jail see that he's sleeping, she takes the tent peg and you know, nails it exactly into the temple of his head and he falls dead right there. Later, we see Barak, Barak, the leader of the Israelites, he runs and comes and Jail says, come into the tent and see who's inside. When he comes to see, you see that death of the king of the Canaanite, Cesare, has been, he's lying dead there. So Israelites had the victory, they got the victory, but not in the hand of Barak, but then in the hand of women. So that's what Deborah already prophesied and Deborah also, you know, judged the Israelites. The Israelites asked Deborah to be their leader and under her leadership, you know, there was peace. She judged without any partiality, there was fairness and openness in her judging the people.  So there were 20 years under the slavery they bear and after that they had a battle. After the battle for 40 years, Deborah judged with fairness and she refused to show any kind of partiality to the people. So what does that we learn from the life of Deborah? One thing is leadership resides not in the gender, but in the character and gifting. Okay, it's not about men and women, but then it is about the character and the gifting which the Lord puts in us. Our strength comes from the Lord. Deborah totally depended on God. So we can see the minute she started depending on God, God started moving in her. She was a woman with courage, with strength and we can see despite her own strength, she relied on God. The minute she relied on God, God gave the victory and she led the people in the light of God and it pleased God. With this, we will move on to the next judge, Gideon to chapter 6. Somebody signed it. Okay. Okay. Chapter 6 from 11 onwards. Okay. The name Gideon means one who cuts two pieces. Okay. Gideon's hometown was Opera, Opera in the valley of Jezrelle. His father was Joe from the tribe of Manasseh. Gideon worked as a farmer. We also see him as a military commander later part after he encountered the angel of God and he also judged over Israel for about 40 years. He was the father of Abimelek as well as and also 70 unnamed sons. There were 70 sons been recorded in the Bible but then their names are not mentioned because Gideon had many wives and through them he had 70 sons. He also had a concubine and Abimelek was one of the concubines son. So Gideon as a man, as a person, he was a very reluctant warrior. He's also been recorded in the book of Hebrews under the faith of heroes. So Gideon, like many of us, he doubted his own ability because of which he suffered so many defeats and failures as he grew that even the angel of God encountered him and shared the plan what God wanted to do in him. He could not believe why did God choose me, a man with so much of weakness, a man with why did God choose a fearful man. In fact, we see in the book of chapter 6 verse 11. Verse 11, can one of us please read 11 and 12? Judges chapter 6 verses 11, the angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Orpha that belonged to Josh the Ebizite where his son Gideon was stretching wheat in a wine press to keep it the Midianites when the angel of the Lord appeared. Gideon he said, the Lord is with you, mighty warrior. When we read about him, we see Gideon been hiding from these Midianites and we also see him, he was working in a wine press. He was working in the wine press without the knowledge of anyone. He was stretching the wheat there and that time the angel of the Lord appeared. Angel of the Lord appeared and look at the word what the angel of the Lord said, the Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor. In some of the version it says man of warrior. So this shocked Gideon. Gideon reply was in verse 13, we see, oh my Lord, the Lord is with us. Why then all this is happening around us and where is all the miracles which our father told us about. Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt but now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of these Midianites. Okay, so we see how the angel of the Lord talked to Gideon and tried to convince him. Angel of the Lord did not, God did not look Gideon as a weak person but he greets him saying that you're a man of valor, you're a man of warrior. See this is how God looks at each one of us. God does not look at our weakness but God calls things as though they exist. God want to raise Gideon as a warrior. So God greeted, sent the angel to greet him saying you are the man of valor. Today even God is looking at each one of us and greeting us into the call and purpose of what God has called us. God does not look at our weakness. With Gideon, God never looked at his weakness but God chose him though he was hiding in the vineyard. He was hiding himself from the Midianites and other people but here God chose him to lead army against the Midianites and your Gideon is testing God. He says, okay, if this angel is from the Lord, I will offer the sacrifice. I want the sacrifice to be accepted and the angel of the Lord, he offered the sacrifice, the angel of the Lord accepted. We see God accepting that sacrifice and the second test he says, if it is from the Lord, let the dew fall around this fleece. He put the fleece and he said, let the dew fall on the fleece. First time he says and then we see the dew falling exactly. We see that in verse 37, chapter 6 verse 37 said to God, if you will save Israel by my hand, you have said, look, I shall put a fleece full on the threshing floor. If there is a dew on the fleece only, there should be dew only on the fleece that he put and the other part of the ground dry. Then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand and God did exactly what he asked for. And again, for the second time Gideon in verse 39 he says, then Gideon said to God, do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more. Let me test. I pray just once more with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on the ground let there be dew. So he asked, let the dew be on the ground and not on the fleece. He asked and God did exactly how Gideon asked. God was not upset or angry with Gideon for testing him. Why God was not upset or angry with Gideon? Can anyone tell me? Though he tested God three times, anyone in the class can unmute and share, give him courage. Yeah, it could be.  God knew Gideon's heart. Gideon as a person is very fearful and he's already been hiding. He didn't have that courage. So he wants to make sure it is God who's calling him to go against the Medianites because they were very powerful people. How can a person like Gideon become a leader and take the army and go and fight against the Medianites? So he was very fearful. So that was the only reason why Gideon had to ask God for signs for three times. But God was a God of understanding. He understands us. Many times even we would have asked for certain things or certain signs like that. When God and all in his mercy and his grace, he has shown those signs for us, knowing the weakness that we have. But God is encouraging us to trust on God. Okay, so we see here, after the seven years of the oppression of the Medianites, Israel cried out to God and God chose Gideon. And Gideon raises the army. He raises the army from the tribe about, we see in the verse chapter seven, verse three, we see he raised, you know, they were about 22,000 of people. And then again, 22,000 of people. And among them he chose 10,000. And then, and, you know, God said, I don't need this many people. I need, you know, God is asking Gideon to choose, you know, the right kind of people for the battle. So how Gideon chose the right people. So he led all these people, God asked Gideon to lead them, lead them to a river. And he asked, you know, Riven asked the army to drink water. So in the manner how the people are drinking water, God will choose the people. So when, you know, we see that, we see that in the verse, yeah, in number six, the number of those who lapped and he brought the people down to the water and the Lord said to Gideon, everyone, everyone who laps from the water with his tongue as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself. Likewise, everyone who gets down on his knees to drink. So here we see God is asking Gideon to choose in the way how people are drinking the water, the posture of them, posture of the matter. So we see there are two, there are two type of poachers. Some of them are kneeling on their knees and drinking the water with their mouth directly on the river. And some of them were like, you know, they were not kneeling, but they were just lapsing the water like a dog, just taking some water in the hand and drinking. So we need to know how a dog drinks. But dog never bends down to the water. It just laps the water with this, you know, laps the water and it's ready to run. If any, if it hears any sound, it is ready to leave that water and run from there. So what we see in the army here is these people who were on their knees were not ready for the battle. But these people, when the sign comes, they were ready to run for battle. So God chose the people who showed the readiness to the battle by lapsing the water in their hands. So God chose the people whoever laps the water. And that was about 300 people. And our Gideon was asking God, they were only 300, very less number. How can I face the Medianites who are large in number? But then God said, I am your strength, you need to be dependent more on me. So the 300 people were led by Gideon and God gave him a strategy, you know, God gave him a strategy how he can carry the torchlight at one hand, which is covered with a mud pot and at one hand the trumpet. With this he heads towards the Medianites cap and in the midnight, when always sleeping, he goes and God clearly tells him, you know, we see that in the later part of the verse, we see that how when they all were resting, Gideon gives a single signal. He splits the 300 into three groups and Gideon gives a signal to blow the trumpet and it brings a confusion in the Medianites tribe and all of a sudden they break the torchlight, the mud pot and with the torchlight they rush to attack the Medianites and God gives victory to Gideon. We also see a significance here, the clay pot which they covered the light and at the sound of a trumpet of the Gideon, the army breaks that mud pot and the light shines. We see the clay pot which is very weak, which is very weak just like the Gideon and the army of Israelites but when they broke that pot, the light shined from within. That is the strength of God that shines from within, which gave them the strength, which gave them the courage, the spirit of the Lord moved on them and gave them the victory. We see the hand of God again in our weakness, in the weakness of Gideon, in the weakness of the Israel army. We see the hand of God move in and through them and God gave them the victory and they overtook the Medianites, they drove them out of that place and you know they celebrated the victory. With this we will move on to the next judge. So before we could move on to the next judge, what are the lessons that we learn from the life of Gideon? Can anyone tell me? You all can unmute and answer because of I'm projecting the PPT. If you type in chat I may not be able to see it. So can you unmute and answer so that your voice has been heard and even in the other e-learning classes people can hear what you say? One thing is like that total reliance on God, like when Gideon chose so many people, God wanted him to cut it down to 300 and yeah that is like showing how much they had to depend on God. Yes, anyone else? We also see how God used Gideon in his weakness and God could use even us to do greater things like how he did through Gideon. Okay, with this we will move on to the chapter 11. Chapter 11, the story of Jefta. The story of Jefta is one of the most encouraging and at the same time one of the most tragic story in the Bible. He chimed over the rejection and you know, Jefta and he lost his daughter. How he made an unnecessary wab and he lost his daughter. Okay, let's move on to his story. Verse 1, chapter 11 verse 1 onwards.  So fleeing from their home in Gillett, he settled in Tobbe where he gathered a band of other powerful warriors around him. When the Ammonites threatened war against Israel, the elder of Gillett came to Jefta and asked them, could you lead the army against the Ammonites? And Jefta was reluctant and then he assured the leader that he will lead the army after that and he learned the king of Ammonites. They wanted some dispute of the land and Jefta sent a message explaining how the land came into the position of Israel and we also see the Ammonites had no legal claim to it and the king ignored Jefta's explanation and they came for the battle and Jefta made a wab to God. This was actually not required but then they were you know, if you see the background, Jefta and the other people grew along with the Canaanites. So Canaanites had this practice in them saying that for every victory they'll offer a sacrifice. They'll offer a sacrifice.   Okay, the burnt offering of the first thing that he saw out that comes out of his house after the war. So what was in his mind to make this wab is those days in the ground floor, in the ground floor, usually they have these cattle, animals in the ground floor and they would live in, you know, first or second floor they would live. So in the ground floor, they were most of the times the cattle and, you know, were there and what he thought is when he entered, he would get to see one of the cattle or the animal and he can offer that as a burnt offering to offer the sacrifice to God. So with this in mind, he makes a wab but when the Spirit of the Lord moved on Jefta and he won the battle against the Ammonites and when he was coming back, when he arrived home, you know, his daughter comes front of him and we see the scripture says he had the one and only daughter and she runs, you know, she runs towards his dad after the victory and, you know, Jefta was so much moved and he tears his clothes and he cries, he cries saying that daughter, what a trouble you have brought on me. Okay, and he explains it to her and, you know, is the way he has brought up was like that. So the daughter confirms the father saying that, okay, you keep up your promise what you did for God, give me two months time, I'll go to the mountain, spend some time with my friends and after that you can sacrifice me and, you know, she was after two months, she comes back, returned to her father, we see that in chapter 11 verse 39, she returned to her father and he carried out his wab with her and, you know, we see Jefta keeping up his wab with God as he promised, we kept a wab. So what was the lesson that we learned from this, from the story of Jefta? We see initial days that he was rejected by his own family, by his mom and his brothers, but rejection was not the end.  Okay, but then at the same time, when he knew that God is going to give these ammonites into his hand, you know, I don't know whether it is a pride that came to his mind or what, but with Lord of excitement, he said whatever he was in a haste, he made this wab unto God. But then one thing we need to understand is, even in the book of Samuel, we read in 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 22. 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 22, we read that as the Lord has the Lord has great delight in burnt offering and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord, behold, they behold to obey is better than sacrifice. So what is it needed from us, not the offering, not the burnt sacrifice? What God looks at us and he expects us is to obey him. Obedient, obedience is better than any kind of sacrifice. And we also should not be in a haze to make any such verb because God is not expecting any sacrifice offering from us because everything that we have belongs to him. Okay, so with this, we will move on to chapter 13, the last story of Samson. I'll quickly finish this. Yeah, chapter 13. We see Samson, the story of Samson was American. His mother was a baron and an angel appeared to her and said she would give birth to a son. Okay, and he was to be a Nazarite all his life. There's some similarity between the birth of John the Baptist to Elizabeth and also to Samson. Mother, both were baron, the angel of the Lord appeared and told them that you will bring forth a son and he is a Nazarite. Now, what does a Nazarite mean? And who are the Nazarites in the Bible? Can anyone say? Can I say something? Yes, please. A Nazarite is a person chosen to serve God even before his birth. They are usually people who are not supposed to be, they are here to be cut, something like that. Yes, yes. You're right, you're right. Exactly. From the mother's womb itself, they need to follow this. So the angel of the Lord appeared to Samson's mother and he told him that you will be, God is going to bless you with a son and he will be a Nazarite. You need to keep this bubble. You need to abstain from any kind of wine and grapes and you should not cut his hair of beard and to avoid contact with the dead bodies. So we see there were two Nazarites in the book of Hebrew or in the Hebrew Bible or we call it as the Old Testament that is Samson and Samuel. Even Samuel's mother was, we can study about him later. Even she prayed and asked for a child for a very long time. She was a parent when she prayed, God blessed her with a child and he was also a Nazarite. And the same thing happened with John the Baptist. Okay. So these are the three people, Samson, Samuel and John the Baptist in the New Testament. So when he reached manhood, okay, we see Samson's, you know, the last provoked in him and he married a Philistine woman from the pagan conqueror of the Israel. Though his parents warned him, but then he was not very keen on listening, but then he went and married her. This led to the confrontation and, you know, there was a kind of small battle among the Philistines and Samson.  We see again the supernatural power of God over Samson. The strength that he had was from God. Okay. The strength that he had was from God and people, the Philistines were scared of Samson. Not, they were not scared of the Israelites or the big army, nothing, but they were scared of this one person, Samson, because of the strength that he carried within him. And, you know, we see at the later part of this book, we see how the Philistines plan, plan, they found the weakness of Samson was the women. So they planned, there was a harlot called Delilah, so they enticed her to go and entice Samson, Samson and get the secrets of him as he was weak with the women. And, you know, he liked Delilah and he was living with her. And, you know, these Philistines pressurized Delilah to know the strength of, to know the strength of Samson. And, you know, as she kept pressurizing him, it says for about seven days, he had given a riddle.  And for the seven days, you know, these Philistines asked Delilah to pressurize Samson to know the strength, to know the riddle. And he also reveals the riddle and they get to know. But later part of the story, we see how these Philistines use Delilah to know the strength of Samson. And the minute Samson could not bear the pressure of Delilah, he reveals the strength, he reveals the love that he has with God. Okay. And then the minute she gets to know, she discloses that with the Philistines. And the Philistines plans to cut off his hair, the logs of his hair. And then, you know, Samson loses his strength and then they come to attack him. But this time, because he didn't have the strength because the spirit of the Lord was not with him, it left him because his hair was cut. And then we see, you know, he was captured by the Philistines, they put out his eyes and he could not see and he was led by them and he was under the slave, under the bondage of these people. And they were mocking him and they're supposed to project him in the Philistines, some kind of conference and they brought him to a place where there were 3000 men gathered in this place and they were mocking at Samson.  And this time when he prayed to God to give him the strength as the one final act, it had not, you know, so we see here God answered Samson's prayer and God gave him the strength, the power to break that, I'm just going to break the two pillars, to break the two pillars where all the 3000 Philistines were there, when he broke, you know, the whole, you know, some kind of auditorium, like it fell on all, including Samson was killed in this place as he pushed the pillars apart and it was in a temple, okay, it was in the temple of the Philistines. So it came crashing down and it killed 3000 Philistines, where the enemies of Israel and the saddest was even Samson was killed in this. So what do we know in this? The strength was not in the hair of Samson, but it was in the power of God, when he prayed, God answered him. So just like Samson, even we, we may have gone astray, we may have done things that displeased God, but then when we call, when we call upon God, God years our prayer and you know, he restores us back when we repent, we see God restoring us back to himself. So in the book of Judges, we see that when, when, you know, when we compromise on obeying God and His command, we see the enemy take over us, they take over us, we see that in the Samson's life, when he gave into the sinful lust of his flesh, we see sin always has its consequence. So we need to be very careful in the way we lead our life. It may start with something very small, but then it leads to something big, though God gave many warnings to Samson, but he never gave a heed to it. He went and what he pleased, what he desired to satisfy his lustful desires, he went and you know, he sinned against God and because of that sin, he had to face the consequence.  So in the book of Judges, we see that many, how the people of Israel compromised on, you know, on God's command of not driving out the Canaanites or the Ammonites or the other people who had occupied the land, if only they would have drive them out from the land, they wouldn't have faced any kind of immoral or the idolatry sin in their life. Just because they compromised on that, they thought these people will be the slave to them. Okay, but they landed up becoming slave to them, their God and they started practicing their idolatry or immorality in their life and it led to many consequences and they had to lead to many sin and they had to face the consequence of their sin and all this showed that, you know, all these stories we studied on the four Judges and everything showed us the need of a redeemer, need of a deliverer. So in each and every story that we studied today, we see there is a need of a deliverer. We need a redeemer, not the temporary Judges, where the temporary people, okay, they were there for a time of period and then they died. But then again, the people went astray. We see the cycle repeat again and again, again and again. But then there's a need of a deliverer, God knowing this. So who was our deliverer who came in the New Testament? Who was a redeemer who redeemed Israel and delivered them from all the hand of the enemies once and for all? It was Jesus. Jesus died on the cross. He paid a great price for us and He redeemed once and for all. That's why in John 3.16 we see what does John 3.16 say? For God to love the world, that He gave us only Son. Okay. That who so loved the world? Yes. Shall not perish but have everlasting life. Just go ahead and say that brother. Yes, whoever believes and is a redeemer, we will have an eternal life with God. So Jesus paid a price once and for all. He was a deliverer. He was a redeemer. He was our judge and it's not temporary but everlasting. So we know the need. So we may think, what is this battle all about? The book of Judges is only about battle, conquering and fighting and taking but then we see it is all written for a purpose. It is all written for a purpose in the book of Romans chapter 15 verse 4. We said whatever things were written before were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of the scripture might have hope. So the book of Judges and later part, whatever comes, the kings and other, we see a lot of battles happening and how the Lord was with them faithfully to deliver them from the hand of the enemies. We see the mercy of God.  No matter how wicked the people could be, Israel again and again, they may turn their back to God but God was faithful. He was faithful and even till date, He's been faithful despite all mistakes but when we repent and turn to God, God accepts us just like, you know, we read the parable of the prodigal son. He just waits for us and he accepts us. This is what we learn from the book of Judges that God is merciful and faithful at the same time. Anything that you would like to share? Sorry, we took some extra time. Anything that you would like to share? Add to it what was our learning from this book? Sorry. Okay, let's end this class with the word of prayer. Can I request Brother Subashish to pray and end this class? Okay, Pastor. Loving Father, once again, Lord, we thank you. We praise you, Master, for this beautiful day, Lord. Thank you for speaking to us from this morning. And Lord, I thank you for the pastor. Lord, I thank you that the way, Lord, you have talked to her so that Lord seek to be able to spoken to us, Lord. In a beautiful way, Lord. We thank you. Lord, as we are learning from the word, Lord, I pray that blesses that Lord. Every day, Lord, we will see transformation in our life. Every day, Lord, we will see God speaking to us. Every day, Lord, we will see that our life is molding and we are a new creation. Lord, once again, I thank you for each and every one of us, Lord. Though, Lord, we are departing now, but Lord, I pray that you speak continuously. Once again, I thank you for the pastor, a blessing. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Have a good day. God bless. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Good bless. Thank you. Thank you. Good bless. Thank you. Thank you. Good bless. Thank you. Good bless.


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Hey everybody, good to see everyone, good to see you all. Hopefully everyone's enjoying their fall, getting nice little change of the scenery outside. I don't know about you, but I love the four seasons. Actually, I think the fall is actually my favorite time of the year. The heat died off, the trees look beautiful. You know, obviously you know a lot of me, I'm a little more of a horticulturalist, but it is absolutely gorgeous out. Good time of year fishing, everything. So hopefully everybody's enjoying it. But like anything else, we gotta go to work and make our money for the day and then get to joy the rest of the day. So we don't get those seasons in Phoenix, Brian. Listen, we all have different, you know, depending on where you're on the world, some people just don't even get winter at all, right? I guess. But listen, there's a lot going on this morning.  I'm looking over here on level four. We got a couple of big orders that's showing up right around 240 right here. So stock is moving up pretty nicely. We're gonna talk a little bit about it a little bit later. So anyway, regarding about what's going on today, I guess everybody saw what happened. The jobs report number came out a lot more than they expected, which you might think it's good news, but it's actually bad news because that means that the Fed's gonna probably gonna raise rates. That's one of the things they look at it to like, listen, people are working, we can raise the rates then. If the jobs were low and whatever, then they're probably not. That's why we are down right now 74 points on the Dow. So we'll see what they come up. It is a very important day. They're expecting to raise about three quarters of a point. I know that's gonna hurt a lot of us. A lot of people don't like it. Listen, when you look at people have line of credits with some of you know, people wanna borrow money because it was cheap to buy something else. Houses were going for so much money, now the same loans to buy that house that they could afford is about worth half the price.  So we'll see what they do. I'm not expecting it to be a very volatile pre-market which we got going on right now. I mean, there's a couple of stocks that are moving through to news like some of these cheap stocks. But other than that, we have phase three that's going on today. We have for today, this afternoon. By the way, if any of you wanna get into that class, just make sure I talk to Education Advisor about it because you gotta know how to trade this market and it's an awesome market. And most importantly, you gotta know how to take matters in your own hands. Before we start getting through the watch list, I just wanna remind everybody because I think a lot of you here have been there and done that. Sometimes you trust giving money to somebody else to trade it for you.  And not only that, but then I hear something that they're part of this big fund and they're really big, but they always look out for the big guy, not for the little guy. They don't really care about us. Not that, listen, you gotta take with a grain of sort. So they, you know, let's get into it. Of course you gotta take care of your biggest clients, right? Even in any business. So it comes to the point, you gotta learn how to do it on your own. And then the other issue I find out which some of you here realize is that you try to do it on your own and realize it's not as easy because, you know what, you're taking these very small profits, you talk about these little winners here and there, but the biggest problem everybody has is they don't know how to take losses. And remember that is the number one thing that we teach you here at Cybertree University. We don't focus on the winners, we focus more on the losers because if you take care of the losers, that's what keeps you in business, right? So that's where it comes down to. So let's go over what we traded yesterday. There were a couple of nice little interesting stocks that did make some nice moves. This stock SONN was just out of this world. What a great mover. Right here at 9.30, stock went from $2 all the way up to about 2.90, great winner, cheap little stock, about an hour, great trend. And see, obviously the 10.30 move came in, full of the thing tanked all the way to 2.30, and then it made a little bit move, which I don't know about you, but I can't sit there from one o'clock on to make it, but some of you trained in the middle of the day, it wasn't terrible, you could still made some money on it, but it pretty much was in the beginning. Now, another stock got, not TLRY, Uber obviously came out with some good earnings. That stock had a really quick little move here. Wasn't the greatest after 9.30? I mean, it was a $30 stock, it did go away to about 31, but then you could see how it had this little nasty shake and everything else, so that one was okay. Rum did a really nice push. This was great in the afternoon. I mean, this thing right here at 9.15, you could see 9.30 went from like 12.80 all the way up to the last minute, boom, all the way to 13.50. So there wasn't a very big list, and I told you this yesterday, I did not expect it to be that way because we got the Fed rate and nobody likes to come out with news other than after the Fed rate. That's why you don't notice, you probably notice there's not a lot of earnings announcements came out as of from last week. I mean, you got some coming out, but not some of the big ones like last week did. All right, so now let's go through the watch list and see what's going on. We've got a couple of buyouts. We've got BNFT up 48%. You know, we're not trading this stock. You know, stocks are buyout. This is right now probably the only stock that's first on my list right here is the FRZA. It's cheap. You all can afford to trade it. Got a nice little move. It didn't start until later this morning. It's testing some, you know, you could see right here, it's testing this iceberg order right here. You could see it right there, right? And because of that, it's right around here. You could see these orders are out there now. These are the big iceberg orders. You got 11,000, 2,000, 7,000. So if we can get past that resistance levels, you could see the stock having some good move. This guy canceled his order at 260. Looks like he went up to $3. So we got some good movement going on right now. And obviously it'll be honest with you, there's really not that much out there. So you got to take what we got. As I'm working a way down the list, we're already, you got this ARCT, it's not tradable, big spread, banned $14 stock, 19%, not really good pre-market movement. MTCH, expensive, made a nice little pop after hours, but it's 20 cent spread, 100 share tier sizes. Sona we found this this morning, this stock had a really nice push, but it started backing off because it came up to a very, very big iceberg order. And I'll show you what I'm talking about. There was a guy right here that showed up right here. You could see it right there. That little big dark red right there, 38,000. When he kind of showed up, that kind of kind of pushed the stock down and now start getting into a ladder effect. And you know what, if you didn't see that, you had plenty of time to get out of it because it was at the 320 and then right around eight o'clock, you could see how it's hovering there. And he really had, in my opinion, how a lot to do with it. And if you didn't get out, guess what? Now you're down to 270. I mean, this is pre-market, it's not the greatest movers, not as nice as the other one. We're already past seven percent, so we're pretty much done there. On the losers list, not really that much going on on losers, no good Deccat bounces. Zi is getting really beat up. It's coming to some support levels right around here around 30. You might get a little Deccat bounce on Zi, go on the expensive side though. ENVX stock is just making lower lows, could be a nice little short. It already, to me, already looks like maybe a category three or four. Listen, don't be afraid to short. You know what's more dangerous than shorting? Trading options, okay? So everybody's like, oh, I don't really trade shorting. Isn't that risky? Let me tell you, it's a hell of a lot more risky than trading an option. On the New York Stock Exchange, CHGG, and a really big spread. Boyle, we talked about that the last couple of days. It's been a really nice trending from that 40 to 120 to 40 came right back down. Very volatile, not very, gotta be really careful on that one. But not a fan, I'm not gonna put it on the watch list. On the losers, we'll get in this stock. Wow, this stock is getting crushed. Destroyed, okay? Is it a pharmaceutical stock? I don't know, but can we get a dead cap ounce on it? It's $130 stock. You gotta be a category four, a higher to trade it. But some of you here in the cyber group room, you are. So we're throwing that on there. The Tupperlady lady's not doing too well. We did really well with the Tupperlady stock back in August. We're from seven to 12. She's getting crushed this morning. She's got some support levels right around here. I lost my mouse, there we go. We got some support, got around here, around that just below five. Let me go see, I have it here on the level four. Yeah, you can see that some water is starting to show up right now. You can see them right here in the dark reds. See it right there? Got some waters that's showing up. So that kind of might help. Probably won't know how serious they are until the market opens up. Lumber liquidators, that one's getting crushed also. You know what's funny about lumber liquidators? I'm gonna bring this up really quick. So lumber liquidators, is it on here? Yeah, so lumber liquidators back here, I just wanna bring this up. Just wanna tell you, I wanna go take a blast in the past. This stock, they did a show on, it was on 60 minutes. And they were talking about lumber liquidators, what happened that they build their boards. I mean, I think everybody here went to lumber liquidators, the flooring for your house. And they were building in China and China was putting chemicals in it that were almost poisonous or even causing cancer. And they were talking about it and there was this whole thing on 60 minutes. That next morning, that stock got crushed. Stock went from $1.10. I think it was right here when the news came out. It went from 73, it went all the way down to 53. And I don't know if it was that day or this day right here, when it was up to 70 and it dropped literally all the way down to $30. Stock got destroyed. But just get to show you, even you can make money watching 60 minutes, which is pretty funny, you know? So anyway, so we got our watch list right there and oops, got the wrong screen up here. Oh, there we go.  There we go. So we got our morning watch list right here and we'll see how we got going on, going into the open. Anything I'm missing that I did not call out. It was a good stock a few years ago, Grant. It made a nice little move, but other than that, it kind of died, you know? Rum, you know what? I saw the rum and I know it was on the watch list, but when you look at it now, it's not really doing too much. I mean, we had a couple of the stocks on the watch list. You could see how small it is. I mean, literally we put two stocks on that watch list. Told you, it's a typical, it's a typical Fed day. And we'll see what happens around two o'clock.  We do not trade it. We won't know how the street is going to react until probably about 30 minutes into it, okay? 3-3-30, all right? So we got the advanced class, phase three, we'll look how it goes, but do not. You can stick around. We'll post it in the alerts for us, but do not trade on that. You're going to get yourself killed, okay? You're basically trading lucky. All right, so the link is up there. If you're in the cyber group room, if you're watching YouTube Facebook live, we'll be back here at 2.30, so we'll do a broadcast live regarding what the earnings announcements, I mean, on the Fed rate, so don't forget to miss that. You could always like us and friend us. If you're watching this recording, always watch us later. Cyber traders, like we always say, you see something, say something. Other than that, I'll see the rest of you in class. And like we always say, be smart everyone, trade safe. Good luck everyone. Happy trading.