Proudly, we hail from New York City where the American stage begins. Here is another program with a cast of outstanding players. Public service time has been made available by this station for your Air Force to bring you this story as proudly we hail the radar interceptor observers of the United States Air Force. Carrying one atom bomb and dropping it on a fairly large American city would destroy that city and almost all of its inhabitants. Every American plane that takes to the air, whether military or civilian, its point of departure, its destination, its time of departure and estimated time of arrival is known. Enemy planes, planes of unfriendly nations will undoubtedly not notify us of their coming. Therefore, any unidentified aircraft flying toward this country from abroad may be the enemy, poised to strike, poised to destroy. Unidentified aircraft may be American planes, of course, lost or in trouble. Intercepting all these unidentified aircraft before they reach our coastline to make sure that their hours and not the enemies is one of the jobs of the United States Air Force's fighter interceptor squadrons. In recognition of the valuable and crucial job that these squadrons perform, proudly we hail the 58th fighter interceptor squadron, Otis Air Force Base, Falmouth, Massachusetts. They are one of our first lines of defense against atomic attack. Our first attack curtain will rise in just a moment. But first, ask any jet pilot. He'll tell you, jet flying is one of the most thrilling experiences in the world. And modern jets are not only fast, they're safe and easy to fly too. And now you can get in on this jet age as an Air Force aviation cadet. If you're between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half, single and a high school graduate, you may qualify. If you do, you'll receive 18 months of all-round jet training, the best in the world. It's rugged, intensive work. But if the training's hard, the rewards are worth it. You graduate as an Air Force Lieutenant, earning more than $5,000 a year, with an unlimited future before you, because you're a highly skilled professional, fully equipped for leadership in military and civilian aviation. Yes, indeed, be an aviation cadet. Visit your nearest Air Force recruiting station for full details. And now your Air Force presents the proudly we hail production, a scramble for Lancer Red. Hi there, Lieutenant. My name's Cross, home across. I'm looking for Lieutenant Robert Eddy. Well, look no further. You found him. Well, then I guess you found your new radar observer, Lieutenant. I'm glad to meet you. Mind if I call you by your first name? No, not at all, Bob. I hear you just fresh out of crew training at Moody Air Force Base. Yeah, that's right. I was kind of hoping to be sent overseas, but no, they sent me here to Otis. Well, you see, if you hadn't been available as a replacement, my former radar officer wouldn't have been free to go over. I still wish I'd have been sent over instead. I want to do something important. That's why I joined the Air Force. Well, I got news for you, Homer. You'll be doing a darned important job right here at Otis. We're kind of proud of our outfit and the work we're doing. The 58 fighter interceptor squadron has got quite a rip down at Moody. Well, you see, we have to have. It's up to us to see that this country isn't bombed in a sneak attack. These days, with the atomic bomb, a sneak attack could kill a lot of people. Yeah, but the chances are pretty slim. Homer, we're on alert 24 hours a day for a full week every other week. We've had plenty of scramble since we were set up here. And all duds. Fortunately, Homer, fortunately. Let's hope it's never an enemy plane heading for us. Incidentally, as you probably know, we go on alert this coming Monday. The 437th across the field there is on alert this week. The CO told me last night when I arrived. But even when we're not on alert, there's plenty to do. We have classes almost every day and practice runs. You know, it keeps us on our toes. By the way, this is the hot room, isn't it? Mm-hmm. That's what we call it. Why? I was just thinking that it's kind of cold. Being a Southern boy, this cold weather you have here is liable to kill me. Well, we're lucky, Homer. We're on alert next week from 12 to 1,800 hours in Group D. The days are pretty warm. It really gets cold here on the cape at night. I'll take today, for example. What about today? Well, as I said, it's warm. Warm? Have you looked at that thermometer outside? No. What does it say? Fifteen degrees, man, oh, man. Well, now there, what did I tell you, Homer? Warm as toast. Well, that was quite a dinner, wife. Wife? See here, Robert Eddy, that kind of talk went out a hundred years ago. Well, I'm all for going back to them good old days. That's when men were men. None of this equality stuff.  Well, and I'm glad you know I'm kidding. That lamb's too good to waste. You know, that's one of the reasons I love you so much. What is?  It tells me that you still kind of think of me once in a while. I think of you lots, because I love you lots. Oh, darling. Tell me, Lieutenant, how did things go at the field today? Well, just fine, Mrs. Lieutenant. I got to meet my new radar officer. Oh, what do you like? Seems like a nice kid. Listen to the old man. And how old would you say this kid is? Well, 23. Oh, I see. And from the lofty old age of 27, going on 28, he looks like a kid. What's his name? Cross, Homer Cross. He is from the south, madam, and has an accent you could slice with a knife. Married? No, very single. Is he happy about his new assignment? Well, he's just up from Moody, still wet behind the ears, and he's got the idea that the only guys who are doing anything important in this Air Force are overseas. But I think a couple of weeks here will show him otherwise. Maybe if he met a nice girl. Oh, now see here, Mrs. Fixit. Maybe it would be better if we left him to pick out a girl by himself. Oh, no, Bob. Now, why don't you invite home with the dinner, say, night after tomorrow? And I'll invite that cute Nancy Waters from down the street. Oh, Nancy, huh? Well, she is just about the cutest girl of the month. Might be a good idea at that. Say, how old is she, by the way? 20, I think. Just right for a kid of 23. All right, I'll do it. Bully for you. And I hope she makes him happy. If there's one thing the pilot of an F-94 wants, it's a man in the rear cockpit who's completely happy with his job and his surroundings. Not seriously, though, honey.  And a team only works at its best and both men in it are enjoying everything about what they're doing. Are you happy, Lieutenant? Well, of course I am wife, but then I'm lucky. In addition to the 58, I've got you. So remember, the formula for computing ground speed is distance traveled over time and minutes equals ground speed per hour over 60 minutes. And that's all for today, gentlemen. See you tomorrow. Say, Homer, hold on a second. Oh, sure thing, Bob. You free tomorrow night? Oh, as a bird. Well, the wife and I would like it if you'd come to dinner. I'll drive you over after we're through here. Oh, that's real friendly of you, Bob. Incidentally, she's inviting a pretty gal from down the block to meet you. Her name's Nancy Waters. Nancy Waters? Yeah, it's a pretty name. She would like to meet a pretty gal up here since I'm going to be here for quite a while. Oh, she's pretty all right. Well, if she's as pretty as her name, I'm sure she'll be just fine. Bully and Bob. In the kitchen, I guess, putting on the finishing touches. But let's not talk about them. Homer Cross. I've never known a boy by the name of Homer before. My mother thought the Greeks were the greatest. When I was born, my father wanted to call me Robert E. But he didn't have a chance. Mother wanted Homer, and Homer it was. Well, there's nothing wrong with Robert E, of course. But, well, I think Homer is much more interesting. How old are you? 23. Oh, that's perfect. What's perfect? Oh, um, 23. That is, I mean, well, it's a perfect age to be a lieutenant in the Air Force. Yeah, I see. You know, you're very nice. Am I? Would you go out with me if I was to ask you? Well, that's putting a girl in a funny position. Why don't you ask first and see? All right. Miss Waters, will you do me the honor of letting me take you to the movies this coming Monday evening? It'll be my pleasure, Lieutenant Cross. May I take you into dinner, Miss Waters? You may, Lieutenant Cross. Yeah, you know, I'd forgotten I was hungry. I guess I got so wrapped up in, well, in events of local interest that I didn't remember I even had a stomach. Here you are, Homer, your first time on duty in the alert room. It's a nice brisk Monday in January. It's cold and windy, and even the dogs aren't going out. Oh, it's more than brisk for this Southern boy. It's cold. You've met all the other guys in group, haven't you? No, sure thing. I met them all last week. Swell bunch. That they are. Looks like a hot game of darts going on over there. Oh, it sure is. We have a league, and at the end of every week, the losing teams have to take the winners out to dinner. See, Bob, what's going on over there? Oh, those are the bridge fiends. They play all the time they're waiting for a scramble. Then I guess they get to play a lot of bridge. Oh, they play enough, Homer, but believe me, when that alarm bell rings, they're out of here and into a plane downstairs like a shot. They're good boys. Good boys do an unimportant stateside work. Now, Homer, it may be stateside, but it sure isn't unimportant. Oh, by the way, you might as well meet Airman Fenimore over there. He's the man who's in constant contact with ground control intercept, you know, GCI. Once they spot an unidentified aircraft on their long-range radar, they notify him and he notifies us. He can see just about the whole field from that glass bubble he's sitting in. Airman, I'd like you to meet my new RO, Lieutenant Homer Cross. Lieutenant Cross, Airman Fenimore. Nice to meet you, Airman. Nice meeting you, sir. I hope you can drum us up some business. If it's one thing I hate, it's just sitting around. Oh, you'll sure be called when you're needed, sir. And now, Homer, how about going downstairs on out as a honey, that F-94? Mm-hmm. They gave her a good name when they called her the Starfire. Well, that's as pretty as she is. Come on, we use this door here. There she is. What a beauty. But what are the hangar doors doing open? It's cold enough out to freeze the fuel, isn't it? Well, I imagine it is, Homer, but you see, the Air Force felt that the time wasted opening the doors on an emergency scramble might be too much. You know, it might just make the difference if you're no intercept. So they decided that the doors would have to be open at all times. What about the fuel? Well, you see this concrete floor, Homer? Yeah, I'm standing on it. Well, what you don't know that you're standing on are thousands of electric coils that keep the floor warm in winter. Now, you see, that warmth is just enough to keep the hangar over the freezing point no matter how cold it is outside. Well, I'll be. Hey, what are you blowing on your hands for, Homer? Well, I was just thinking, Bob, it's too warm enough in here to keep the fuel from freezing, but it sure is cold enough to freeze this poor little old southern lieutenant. How about going upstairs for a cup of Java? Despite these thousands of coils, this man is cold. Well, here it is Wednesday, 1300 hours, and we haven't had a scramble all week. Well, we've had a couple of good games of darts. Oh, sure, sure. And I'm even learning how to play bridge. Not seriously, Homer, in every important job there are periods of waiting. If you were overseas, it'd be just the same. You see, by just sitting here ready, we're doing our jobs and doing them well. Maybe after I've been in my first scramble I'll feel a little different. Right now I feel wasted. Well, you're not, believe me. By any minute now, that alarm bell can go off and off will go. You know, we're first on the line today. Well, then I'm rooting for it to go off and soon. Hey! Scramble red, scramble red. Homer, you must have magic powers. Let's go, that's us. Scramble red, scramble red. Now, this is more like it. Scramble red. Here's your important job, R.O. You think you're ready for it? Man, I've been ready for days. Scramble red, scramble red. Scramble red. You're listening to the proudly we hail production, a scramble for Lancer Red. We'll return in just a moment for the second act. The Blue Yonder, a challenge today more than ever before. The best pilots. The fastest planes. The most up-to-date technical skill. How would you like the thrill of meeting the challenge of today's Blue Yonder? Well, as a pilot in the United States Air Force, you will fly some of the most famous planes in the world. The Sabre Jet, the Starfire, the Thunder Jet, and many others. Now, to qualify as a pilot of these renowned aircraft, to take your place among today's conquerors of the sky, you would, of course, undergo 16 months of rugged, thorough flying training. But when you graduate, you'll be a second lieutenant with the silver wings of an Air Force pilot, and you'll be earning more than $5,000 a year.  And, of course, you can get full information at your nearest recruiting station or your nearest United States Air Force base. Find out today how you can become an Air Force pilot. You are listening to Proudly We Hail, and now we present the second act of a scramble for Lancer Red. Somewhere over the Atlantic is a plane unidentified flying towards the United States. If it's an enemy plane, what is it doing there? It is possible in these times that it carries in its body enough destruction to wipe out the city of New York. But it may be one of our planes, of course, lost in trouble with the radio out of commission. Lieutenants Cross and Eddie in their F-94 taxi down the runway. Cross, as radar observer, will locate the plane no matter where it is, and should it prove to be an enemy aircraft, their rockets will shoot it down. Thanks to the 58th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and others like it, the shores of our country are ringed with a defense coalition that the enemy will find hard to beat. Time for me to check with the tower, Homer. Roger. Otis-49, taxi, take off 1. 4-9 Otis, taxi runway 2-3, wind Southwest at 20. Otis-49, line up 1. 4-9 Otis, clear to line up, wind Southwest at 20. Radar working fine. We'll be off the ground in a few seconds. I'd better check with Fenimore. 4-9, calling control. Lancer Red, Vector 080 degrees, Angels 10, contact ground control intercept on Channel 3. Lancer Red, Vector 080 degrees, Angels 10, contact GCI on Channel 3. Roger, and out. How about a pre-takeoff rundown? Okay, let's run it. Roger, belts. Check. Seat and shoulder harness fastened. Check. Shoulder harness locked. Roger. Hydraulic control's trim low boost. Check. Aileron and elevated trim tabs neutral. Check. Recheck stick trim. Roger. Flaps 32 degrees. Roger. Dive flaps up. Roger. Emergency fuel check out. Check. Cannot be closed and locked. Roger. Hell, that's it. All right, Homer, we're ready to roll. Otis-49, rolling. Roger, 4-9. GCI, this is Lancer Red, airborne at 1546 hours. Lancer Red, Vector 080, Angels 10. Roger, vectoring 080, going Popeye at 1200 feet, climbing to 10. Otis, this is 4-9, leaving your frequency one and one-half hours. Roger, 4-9. Well, Auro, it's your turn now. Let's get to that unidentified plane and fast. I'm a boy. I'm beginning to see what you mean by how important this job is. For all we know, that plane out there has a bomb on it that could kill a couple of million people. You keep flying this, baby, and I'll find that plane. It's fine. We should be making contact any second now.  Barbara, have a contact at 30 degrees port. Lancer Red, we have a Judy. Vector 30 degrees port. Roger, Homer. Keep her on the beam and we should overtake that plane pretty soon. Can't be soon enough. We've got to intercept it before it reaches the coast. And then pour it on. According to my radar screen, there's one unidentified aircraft dead ahead. Well, if he's an enemy, he'd better watch out. Lancer Red is on his tail. That's our baby. He sure is a big plane. Can you tell if it's one of ours? Well, I can barely make it out with all these clouds and snow. Just our luck it had to start to snow. Just have to get in closer, that's all. Rockets ready for firing? They sure are. We might as well go on in. 54. He's certainly not trying to get away from us. All right. Can you see the numbers on the wing? Let's try to get a little closer, huh? Roger. I can see the numbers now, Bob. 247. How about you? Can you read them now? Roger. 8247. All right, now for a call to GCI. Roger. GCI, this is Lancer Red. Judy is a C-54, Air Force Number 8247. I say again, 8247. Lancer Red, maintain contact until further notice. Roger. This wind and snow shear is getting bad. Unless that's an enemy plane with US markings, we should be winging home pretty soon. Lancer Red, this is GCI. Break it off. Pitch in 305 degrees at 50 miles. Roger and out. Well, Homer, we're on our way home.  I mean, that wasn't an enemy plane. You're not just talking. Although I will say this, Bob, if it had been an enemy, it sure would never have gotten through to the coast. Not with GCI and a 58 working together to keep our country safe. How do you feel after your first mission? I guess I feel kind of proud. Proud? How do you mean? I know I said a lot of things the first day I met you about how I wanted to go overseas because I wanted to do something important. And then I didn't think the 58th was doing an important enough job because it was a stateside outfit. I know you did. You got me a little mad, too. Well, what I mean by proud is, I realize that I've been assigned to one of the most important jobs that a man can have. Well, I'm glad you can see that now. Take that plane that we went after a few hours ago. It turned out to be an Air Force plane that had been blown off course by that storm we ran into. You know, you once said that if it turned out to be one of our planes, the mission was a dud. I said a lot of things before I got education. You know, you said something the other day that I didn't understand. I do now, though. What was that? When I said that all the missions so far had been duds, you answered fortunately. I can see now what you meant. Well, you see, Homer, the first one that isn't a dud almost means we're at war. Even though we stopped that one, it would mean that there would be others, hundreds, maybe thousands of them. And nobody looks forward to that day. I should say not. Not even if it meant that I did the most important job in the whole wide world. And yet, you see, we have to be ready. We have to be alert. We have to be prepared. The stronger we are, the less chance there is of war. Roger. Hey, Bob, what time is it? Well, a little after 1,800 hours. Man, oh, man, this is one southern chicken that's about to get fried. Who's gonna do that? A very nice young lady named Nancy Waters. I have a date with her in less than an hour.  Oh, I think she'll forgive you when she hears that you've practically been a hero. Quit your kidding. No, seriously, Homer, she's a pretty square shooter. If she hears you were delayed by a mission, I know she'll understand. You like her pretty much, don't you? I sure do. You know, I'm not the type for a girl in every part. I like to go out on dates and all that. I always have. And I went out a lot when I was at Moody. But this Nancy, boy, she's something kind of special. Hey, you mean you're in love already after only a week? Well, I'm not exactly in love yet, understand, but... Well, I feel pretty much about her the same way I feel about the 58th. And how's that? As I said before, man, proud. Just plain proud. There is no thrill in the world like that of flying a jet cleaving through the sky at the speed of sound, pushing out against the limits of space, blazing the way to a new air future. Yes, indeed, it's an exciting life, one that offers unlimited opportunities to young men of ambition and vision. If you are between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half, single and a high school graduate, a wonderful future in jet aviation is open to you. Become an Air Force Aviation Cadet. You'll be flying jets easily and safely within 18 months. Now, I must admit that aviation cadet training is rough and rigorous, but the rewards are certainly well worth it. You will graduate as an Air Force Lieutenant. You will earn more than $5,000 a year and, of course, have a promising career ahead of you. You'll be a man fully equipped for positions of responsibility in the fields of military and commercial aviation. Guarantee your future as an aviation cadet. See your nearest recruiting officer today or go out to your nearest United States Air Force base and find out how you can become an aviation cadet. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented transcribed in cooperation with this station. Proudly We Hail is produced by the Recruiting Publicity Center for the United States Air Force Recruiting Service. This is Mark Hamilton speaking, inviting you to tune in this same station next week for another interesting story on Proudly We Hail.


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Do you remember Bakugan? For me, there was nothing cooler than Bakugan. The playgrounds were full of it. I saw kids play for keeps, and I'm not even joking, one of my biggest flexes was that I did have an original copy of the Doom card. Yes, my DMs are open on Twitter, but other than that, Bakugan was just a ton of fun, which is weird, because I immediately forgot it ever existed. Until a few days ago, when suddenly it came back into my memory and I knew I had to play a game on it and make a video, and all I could find was Monster Jam Steel Titans Bakugan Dragonoid Truck DLC. Yeah, this was the only modern Bakugan game I could find on any platform, but I did remember that there was a game called the Bakugan Battle Brawlers for PS2, so I decided that I would play that just to see if Bakugan was as cool as I remember.  Listen to this music!  I'm gonna turn the music off though, so I can be added in post, but... I want you guys to know that I thought the music was rad while I still heard it.  Yes, oh my god, 17 screens to make sure I want to save? Jesus Christ! Wait, throwing practice?  I don't need practice. Turn throwing practice off. Who needs that? Not me. Alright, let's just go into the story. The story mode's gotta be like the pinnacle of the game, right? Do I get to play as Dan, or do I get to make my own Bakugan Battle Brawler? I think both would be cool. Oh! Oh! Oh! Yes! Wait, no, I shouldn't just be Dotto. I should make up my own Bakugan name. If he's Dan, I mean, wait, his name is Dan. My name's gonna be Kevin, the Bakugan Brawler. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I've always been more of a water kind of guy, so I'm Team Aquus. Let's go Team Aquus. What is this? Damn, why does this game have better customization than a lot of other anime games that come out today? I like this. I like the dweeb hairstyle.  I can't tell if my textures didn't load in or if that's just... if it's like shading. I really don't know, but I like it. It looks good on Kevin. I'm just gonna be tired. I'm gonna be angled down. Yeah, angled down with blue eyes. Damn, I'm looking good. What's my... What the... Damn, you can... I guess I'll just go with thin. I get to customize my shirts. I could be like a... Damn, I could be a duelist. Why would I not be a duelist? Damn!   Got the blue chaps as well. I got Kevin kind of looking nice. Damn, not the f... Are those the My Hero 1s?  Looking good, Kev. Whoa! The flame effect is on now loading that was sick.  Am I finally gonna get to watch the story of Kev? Unknown hyperspace.  What Vagragon is that? I can't remember. Has he played the Doom card? Oh, no. How big is the Doom card in lore? I can't remember.  Finally, the silent orb is complete, and now all Bakugan will bow to me! No! He has control over all Bakugan. How evil! Moments later... Oh, the Doom card dimension! The Doom dimension! I remember this.  The Doom dimension is crazy.  If somebody played the Doom card, it meant everything was getting real. Is this the spirit of Draco? Maybe these are just the spirits of the elements. Yeah, okay, never mind. It wasn't Draco. I don't remember what the Bakugan's called. Damn, they're going to Bakugan heaven? What's happening? What? They formed one... I feel like we shouldn't have gotten that revealed this early. What? They formed one big Bakugan? I am loading up. Dude, the amount of loading I have done is crazy. Can I get some lore that actually involves my character, Kevin? Yeah, we're finally on Earth. What a bad opening. Somewhere in the Chaos dimension. Moments later in the Doom dimension. Oh my god, I don't think the tinctures are right. I don't think the tinctures are right.  Nothing. I just like Bakugan. I just like Bakugan. I'm going to show you how it's played. But I'm new at Bakugan. Back off, Shuji. Huh? Dan? Dan? I'll show you some of my old tricks.  Gate open. It's very clear I need to fix the textures. Yeah, we got this. Oh, damn, I was just hitting the pose. Jesus, game starts.  Gate card set. All right, now I actually have to throw the Bakugan. This is going to be the hardest part. Dan, get out of here. Okay, it shouldn't be too hard. My card is low energy. Why would I not go with... Why would I not just go with Juggernoid?  What? You could steal the Bakugan. Oh, slow mo.  I'm going to jump over his card.  No, no, no, no, no, no, damn it. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. Jesus Christ, his throw is way better than mine. Oh, he fought me on his own turf. And he already has a higher power level than me. This is awful. Jesus Christ. That's what he actually looks like. Oh, I'm a turtle? I thought I was like a... I thought I was like a dragon, but I'll take it. All right, we're fighting on his gate card. So it's probably not going to be the best for me. Oh, wait. It boosted me by 70 and only him by 20. He doesn't know how to play the game.  He gave me a power boost.  So I just win, right? I just flat out win. You can use an ability card, but he's already ready. And I'm already got the 40 plus lead. So I'm ready to tie in your actions with the moving symbols to gain G power should be easy enough. What? Oh my God, it's a DDR. What is this for babies? This is for babies. Bakugan. Yeah, sorry, dude. You didn't beat me in Guitar Hero. So I'm just going to go ahead and destroy... Damn. Look at him. Why is he screaming like Godzilla? Oh my God, he died so quick. Yes, I won. All right, aim. You know what? I'm just going to go up here. And now I'm going to go for the win with my big Bakugan. There we go. Now I'm throwing to the... Is that going to be a perfect swish?  Nice.  Did he miss his throw? Can I have two Bakugan standing on the same thing? Oh my God, I didn't put enough power behind it. Out of the way, out of the way. Can't you see I'm trying to land on my gate card? I've captured another gate card. Double stand. I win immediately. Give me that. Bakugan is so easy. Fight me on my card. Fight me on my card. Fuck.  Come here. You know what? I'm just going to hit him. Honestly, I'm just going to... I'm just actually going to hit him. I'm going to hit him so hard he's going to wish he never stood there.     I missed. I missed. I missed. I missed. It doesn't matter. If he goes for anything but my card, I just... I easy get a double stand here. Big mistake. Big mistake picking my card. Oh, and 150. You don't even know how to play the game.  I win. 150 power boost. That's as much as Serpentoid has to begin with.  The gate card was...  Ability card activate just to really rub it in. You're going with the ability card too, huh? Well, boost your power as much as you want. I'm ready. No, no, no. He's cheating. Okay. Never mind. He's ready to... Increase gpower by quickly moving left and right. Oh my God. It's a stick battle. Oh my God. He's getting crushed. I don't even have to try that hard. I'm not going to break my sticks over this. I could have easily gotten to like a thousand, I think.   Body. Damn, he's actually dead. That's my skills talking. That's my skills talking. That was dumb. Dan, you got like an insect on your shoulder. Am I supposed to buy my Bakugan that I really want from the Bakugan store? Is that how you get a tight relationship with your Bakugan? All right, I'm going to check out the Bakugan store. Hopefully my textures are fixed. This is me to my parents. The textures aren't fixed. Wow, Alice from the Bakugan brawlers. But I've seen you online the other Bakugans. Oh no, I'm a tier three sub. How can I buy Bakugan here? With money.  Are you dumb? So I'll go find someone in the park and battle them.  Where is my money? Where is everybody? I need to beat somebody up. Yeah. Look at Kevin arriving. I'll be a battle brawler someday. Why am I like living so parasocially through the battle brawlers? I don't remember in the show if the battle brawlers were that cool. Like, were they that well known and cool? Damn, this is my Bakugan. It's rolling up to me. I didn't need to buy one at all. Where am I?  My name is Leonidas. Leonidas? I'm so desperate. Battle with you. I'll have the chance to defeat other Bakugan.  But in this world, I will only release my true power in these Bakugan battles. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. This is dumb.  I mean, now visit the park. All right, cool. The park was where I said I was, wait, should I? I mean, I already got Leonidas. Let's take Leonidas out for a spin. I'm gonna beat you before Shuji dies. Nice try, kid. It would be good to practice. I don't think Leonidas needs practice. Hey. Damn.  I'm trying to do this solo. All right, I gotta bring Leonidas. Damn, Leonidas is so strong. I can't, I can't increase my arena difficulty. I have to play it on easy. I sense that in this world, I'll only be able to use my full power through the Bakugan battle. Gate open.  I didn't even see how much mine powers me up. Game start. How many do I need to win? Like, should I just, I need three? Oh my God. Leonidas gets the gate bonus twice.  Why would I not just set Leonidas? All right, well, we're definitely aiming for my Leonidas card with Leonidas, AKA my, I win the game card. All right, I'm aiming up. All right, Leonidas, don't let me down here. Oh my God, I have no power. Don't miss Leonidas. No. I almost missed and now we win. Leonidas is on the Leonidas card. That's game set match. Don't do it, CPU2. You don't, listen. You don't want to go for the Leonidas card. You don't want to do it to yourself. Trust me, just avoid it. Oh my God. Jesus, kid. What are you aiming at? What was that? What was that?  I can do a power throw? Why?  Jesus Christ. I have no idea where this is. What a throw. Oh no, never mind. I'm actually so lost. I didn't make it.  I barely made it to his card. What a CPU2. Is he putting out another gate card? What? He's so lost that he needs a third gate card.  What is this? What? Was I shooting it? What was that? You're terrible at the game. All right, well, I might as well just double stand. Please tell me I didn't.  I landed on all three cards. God dammit, dude. That is so annoying. At this point, he has to lose, right? Oh my God. Hey, watch out. Oh, he almost knocked Leonidas off the Leonidas card and he lowered my, he lowered my ship by 30. Too bad he landed on the Leonidas card.  I don't, I really don't understand.  Look at Leonidas. Oh, he's about the egg on his face when he sees it's the Leonidas card. 280. The battle's already over. He can't possibly stand up to this much Bakugan power. Use as, look, use as many abilities as you want. You're not catching up to Leonidas. He's trying. He's really trying to match me. Look, he's trying so hard. He used every ability card in the game and he's still losing by six. Shooting battle. Shoot your Bakugan's attribute symbol by pressing R2 to get, okay, so just R2 on Aqua, Ventus. What am I shooting? Oh my God. Yo, somebody help this guy. I don't think he knows how to play. All those ability cards in for what? Just so you can get done in by Leonidas?  Oh my God. The hands flipped him on his back. He didn't stand a chance. Yeah, I won. And I got Leonidas back too. Oh, this is GG, dude. Literal GG. GG. GG. Double stand. I win. Double stand. Capture the card. And now I put Leonidas back in my hand, baby. Leonidas can't lose. It's actually too good. And knowing this kid, he's probably gonna miss the whole gate card. Let's see if he manages to hit it. And swing and a miss. It's gonna be another double stand.  This guy can't aim. He can't even see straight. Oh my God. What a shot. What a shot. Double stand. Get it out of there. That's my card. Three gate card secured means Kevin wins another Bakugan match. That's my skills talking. That's my skills talking. How many times am I gonna say that? I guess I knew this would happen.  That's our skill talking. That's our skill talking. I guess I'm trying to leave Leonidas in. All right, well, I beat him. I'm gonna go to the Bakugan store. Maybe Alice is there. There are new Bakugan in stock. We've got new cards in stock. They've just got everything in stock. Look, I exclusively want new Bakugan. So if that's cool, let me buy some Bakugan. I'm gonna get some Aqua's Bakugan. Oh, they got Robot Talion at a 200 attack level. This guy's so good. Let me buy him. Upgrade a Bakugan. I can't even hit him. Upgrade a Bakugan. I can upgrade Leonidas? I can upgrade his speed? Why would I not just upgrade his G-Power? That's the only one that actually helps me. You're looking at a level two Leonidas right now, dude. Oh, yes, sir. Okay, no, I get it. I'm poor, I'm poor, I'm poor. I can't afford a Leonidas upgrade. I can go to my room. What's in my room? I can also view my stats and use the computer to chat online with friends. Whoa, I got Discord in here. Does my deck include the Bakugan I have? All right, here we go. I want to take out. Let me get rid of Juggernoid. He's pretty worthless.  Oh, I was saying that as a joke, but his name actually is Robo-Talion. And that's perfect. That's, I'm going with a full Aquos or whatever it's called. Save. Nice. Now I can actually enter the tournament. Let's do it, dude. Let's Neo Challengers Tournament. Oh, this is about to be a breeze. Wow, my first tournament. Oh, my God. Well, why do I look so sad? They're just names. Dust.  Crush them. Jesus. What's the deal? Is something wrong? What's, yeah, what's your deal, Leonidas? I'm not angry. I just don't fear weak humans. Still okay. Don't let battle.   I can't wow what? Let's take a break. I want to win again in the next match. We're not taking a break. We're going to the next battle. Opponent info. I got the scouting report. Who am I facing? I just beat this guy already. This guy's trash. I have to win three matches to win a tournament.  What he doesn't know is I'm going to set my Leonidas card and throw out Leonidas and win the game. It's really that simple. We got this. Me and Leonidas got this. If I set lock and load, I also get a pretty decent. Oh, wait, no. Because he'll be subterran. I'll be aqueous. So we each get a bonus 100 G power. But I would have the lead anyway. But then again, why would I do all that when I could simply play? Actually, he gets a pretty fucking... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to do locked and loaded. This is simply better for me. I'm going to curve around his here. I'm not going to go... You know what? I'll start with Robo-Tallion. My newest Bakugan.  My God, I'm good at the game. Yeah, baby. Let's see what CPU2 has got to say about that. Wait, he's setting a third gate card? Why are you setting a third gate card? You're crazy. Land on the edge.  Is he aiming for Robo-Tallion? He's aiming for Robo-Tallion. He thinks he has a chance. Oh, I used to love that Scorpion one. 210. Jesus Christ, he's good. This is actually really nostalgic. Robo-Tallion and the Scorpion-looking one were like two of my favorites.  Whose gate card? Oh, this is my gate card. So this is going to give us both double, but I'm going to get 150. Yeah, it looks like I've got just enough. Now I'm going to go ahead and see if he uses any... He's adding what? 50 to himself? Oh, he's just ready? Oh, if you're done, I'm done. Hey, as long as I got the power... Wait, do I have the power lead?   Do I have the power lead or did I throw? I'm going to wiggle the sticks. Oh, no, I got the power lead. We're good. Get him, Robo-Tallion. Oh, he's not even... Doesn't even set a chance. I'm going for 800. Oh, 825. You're cooked. Damn. Chest lasers. All right. Time to lock in the Leonidas card. Throw down a little Leonidas card and you'll never guess who I'm going to go with, but it rhymes with Leonidas. And now we win the game. That's the biggest Bakugan in the game. Man, does not stand an actual chance. You better not be aiming for Leonidas. Laying on your own card. Laying on your own card. Don't do this. He was crying about it. Well, I mean, what am I supposed to do? Not just get a quick double stand. No way. Shit.    Where is he going? Is he aiming for Leonidas still?  He keeps crying about it. All right. All right. Where's the weaker one right over there? Okay. Got it. Double stand. Double stand. I'm taking this gate card home with me. You all beat me. Oh, he put it on the edge of his card.  Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this.  Power. Robo Italian. Watch this.  No, no, no, turn right, turn right, turn right, turn right. Go forward.   Go and stop him. Damn it. I was supposed to hit him, not collide over him. Damn, that sucked. Oh, yeah. What's the gate card going to matter? Wow, 50 points. The weakest gate card I've ever seen in my life. And you know what? Not to flex on you or anything, but some people didn't actually use all of our ability cards. All right. You're adding 50. I'm adding 60. The so far the tide of battle is going my way. I have one whole ability card dedicated to just Leonidas.  I can't do anything. He actually has the lead here. Oh, too bad it's a timing battle. So we'll see if he even stands a slight chance against me. I was born playing guitar here on medium difficulty, bro. I wish they made the Bakugan actually fight while we were doing that. Oh my god, it's game. It's actually just game over, dude. Robo Italian, shoot this guy in the face. Let's go. Oh, he's dead. The serpent takes another big shot. It's all reused animations. We've seen it all before. Game one of the tournaments going to me. That's my skills talking again. My skills sure do sound a lot like Bakugan. Are we going to get more Leonidas lower? Who's my next opponent? Yeah, it's all the same anyway. Bruno, isn't that one of the Bakugan brawlers? Yeah, look, one of the battle brawlers. Well, now that I'm fighting one of the battle brawlers, this is going to get a little difficult level easy. All right. And I guess we're not trying anymore. You'll never believe this, but I'm going to go ahead and set the Leonidas card for the eighth time. Why would I not ever open with Leonidas? He's too good. There we go. I'm getting really good at throwing the Bakugan. I feel like I should do like a no slowdown challenge. All right, but let's see how she throws her Bakugan. What? Bro, you missed by a country mile. What do you mean what? Well, I'm just going to go for a quick double stand then. Like, what do I care? Double stand. Can I play an entire Bakugan match without ever fighting Bakugan?   And swinging a miss on that one. Well, I actually tried to help her there, but tough. You'll never guess my strategy. I'm going to throw down a gate card. Easy. It's really not that hard to hit the cards, guys. You gave up on your first gate card. And she was like, I keep missing. I'm just going to do something else. Jesus Christ. What a high roll.  Right to my card. 300. That's the strongest Bakugan I've seen in my life. What kind of boost do you get from my gate card, though? I really do not remember. Fear Ripper.  I think Fear Ripper was another one of my favorites.  Hold on. What do you get from my gate card, though? Only 50? All right, that's going to help out. I think we tied it. I think we should just tie it. No, actually, I got a huge boost. What? Robo Italians in the lead. You have a card that gives you 150? All right, well, I'm going to boost mine. Power, but do I have to wiggle the sticks every time? What is this game like at higher diff- Like, when I get to the end of the game, is it just- Does it all come down to the mashing? Oh my God. This is not gameplay, dude. This is not gameplay. 800. Get him out of here. So much for Fear Ripper's cool animation. He's going to get shot all the same. And another one bites the dust. He collapsed to his knees. He was so sad. All right, well, I'm not even going to pretend to be afraid of what your gate card is, because I'm just going to go with Leonidas here, give him a little bop. All right, now come fight Leonidas and see how you do. Come fight Leonidas. Try me. Try, try fighting him. Curve shot. Do you hit the card this time? Oh, brother, where are you aiming? I'm trying to help you. I'm literally trying to help you.   Well, it was a good tournament match for you, but unfortunately, I'm just going to go ahead and double stand you real quick. Look at this. Watch how easily I hit the card. Double stand. I win. Well, I fought one Bakugan match in that Bakugan match. That's my skills talking. And that's just my skills talking. You must not have heard it, because that must have just been my skills talking. All right, who's the last opponent? Is it Dan? No way I get to match against it. Oh, it's Marucho. Gate open. Look at him. He looks so goofy with those glasses. All right, but this is actually going to be a good match for me, because all his gate cards should power up my water type. So, I mean, we should be good. I still start with Leonidas and play Leonidas, because, you know, why else? Why would I do anything else? But, you know, I'm really not afraid to land on his cards here.  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, that was bad, dude. I actually almost missed. That would have been so embarrassing.  Surely he has to be able to hit his cards at least. Oh my God. Oh my God, not a single computer in this game can hit their cards. Not a single computer in this game can hit their cards. All right, double stand. Sorry, but I'm going to take my gate card back now. It was a pretty easy win. Okay, you literally won't be me playing like this, so you got to do something better. All right, there's only one card on the board now. Surely you got to, it's your card, so you got to be able to hit it. And I even helped him. I even helped him. Oh, I used to love that one. Wow, that's a strong Bakugan. You know what I'm going to do?  How's that sound?  Damn, I knocked him down by 171 power. Jesus Christ. Oh, he got a 220 boost here. He was playing smart. This was his ultimate card combo. Too bad for him.  I'll just boost my card by 60 to give me an even match. 410 to 419, I can win this. Shooting battle. Oh, baby, baby. And we're going to be going after the same attributes, too. So this is actually going to come down to speed. We'll see if he's good. Look at how cool his Bakugan is, though. Am I tripping or there's just more symbols for him than there is for me? All right, I win. I feel like Robo-Tallion's the only one that gets to fight anybody. Good shot.  Well, another Bakugan win for me. Give me that. Now he's got to set another gate card. Oh, I guess I'm setting a gate card. I think I'll just do low energy because Leonidas wins these anyway. I don't want to give him the benefit of landing on a good card.  He has to put his first. So I'm just going to hit his really hard. Land on a card so I can just hit you with Leonidas and he's going to miss every card.  All right. Well, time to win the game. Perfect centering on that one.  How many times am I going to have to watch myself do the same thing? Hit the card. Hit the card. Hit the card. Hit the card. Hit the card. He's actually going for Leonidas. Damn. I'm not 194 decrease. It's a damn. That's actually huge, though. Falcon year. All right. Come on, Leonidas. I know it's looking bad, but there's a reason that I don't care about us getting hit. No, it wasn't. It was low energy. Oh God, we're both getting 60 for the mess. But that's fine. I've kept my most powerful card hidden away. Alpha Blaster. For only Leonidas, I get 200. Now that I have the lead, I'm going to activate Marionettes to give me a bonus 50. And that's all I can do. Leonidas barely squeaks away with the lead.  We still have the lead, though. One final match and we're tournament winners. Oh, I'm bringing home all the Bakugan money, dude. Were there Bakugan locals? Like local tournaments for Bakugan. 816. Get him out of here. Leonidas wins again. Oh, I skipped the animation. Thus I win. You know what? I think that was my skills talking, actually. Now that I'm looking back on the whole video, I think overall that was my skills talking. That's my skills talking. Yeah, that was that's my skills talking. Kevin won his first tournament. Damn, I got a gold medal and 5,000 Bakugan points. Oh, now we get some lore. Is Leonidas going to talk to me again? Yo, what up, Dan? I can't believe you just won that tourney as a noob.  Nice to meet you. I'm Dan.  Not much of a talker, are you? I did get that Leonidas didn't come to Earth with the other Bakugan through Dr. Michael's portal. No, he's from the Doom Dimension. Perhaps he's secretly planning something beyond just Bakugan battles. Hey, what makes you say that? Yeah, relax, Marucho. Marucho, you lay off Leonidas. Tigrera said there's something weird about how aggressive he is. Maybe you should find a different partner. Leo is my friend. Leo is my friend. Don't let them get to you. Just start thinking about your next battle. Dan said don't think about any of that. Sweet. Sweet. Whenever you want to practice, just come down to the park. Well, I think I'm going to leave it off there, which is crazy because we'll never see the Leonidas plot twist. But, you know, absolutely wild. Dan is waiting for me in the park. Ah, I think I'm good, Dan. I think I'm good at that throwing Bakugan at the cards. It's more fun in real life, honestly. Hopefully you enjoyed the video, though, it was a lot of Bakugan. I guess at the end of the day, that really was just my skills talking. Goodbye.


All right, so though I'm gonna talk about making images smarter or a fancier way to say a dynamic image manipulation infrastructure for WordPress You can follow along the slides at that link there But first a little bit about me. My name is Russell Heimlich. Heimlich like the maneuver I like to dress like a hobo when I work and dress up fancy when I play Ryan mentioned earlier. I'm really developer at spirited media. We're a small local news startup We have sites in Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Denver And we might be a small team, but we sure do produce a lot of a lot of images So every day we publish multiple articles and in those articles. We have at least one image So if you do the math that adds up to be oh, I don't know over a hundred gigabytes of media that we have stored You know in our WordPress media library, so Well, let's get to the problem first So the problem is we had a redesign and in a redesign the layout changes and when the layout changes We need different sized images and nothing Strikes fear into a WordPress developer when a designer says can we just add one more image size, right? Because the way WordPress works is you have to when you upload an image it takes that image and it Crunches down smaller sizes and if you need to if you need add another image size You then have to crunch them all over again because you wouldn't want a huge image to appear in the spot Where smaller one would do Right, so there are ways to handle this there are plugins for it There's command line tools for it and so we took that route with this redesign that we were working on and So we went ahead we hit the button and we waited we waited for it to crunch Any guesses how long it took us to wait Three days later we finally had gone through all of our media and crunched it to the sizes And that was only two sites and we have ambitions of taking over the world and this does not help to take three days to Re-crunch all media. It's only gonna get worse Ain't nobody got time for that So why do properly sized images even matter right? Why can't we just use a bigger image in in place of where a smaller exact size would fit? And the answer to that is speed which has been a common theme that we've talked about in all the talks here My favorite analysis of this has to be this tweet which compares the size of websites to the size of the original doom install file so the web's getting bigger and bigger and bigger pages are getting larger and larger and larger and You know speed is a big issue. It's a big barrier to people in the web So serving the right size image for a given screen it decreases the bandwidth that's needed to load your page It decreases the download time. It uses less CPU power thinking mobile devices because everyone's accessing things on the web on the mobile phones now And it results in faster page load times to use the right size images at the right time And ultimately that gives us happier readers and happier readers are more likely to give us money and to support what we're trying to do So what we need to do is we need to be able to find a way that we can scale images on demand That's that's what we need for this problem, and there are a couple of solutions out there So there are commercial services like cloud and airy. Thank you word camp sponsor and image IX But they cost money and we're a startup. We don't have much money and we're a local news startup So we really don't have any money So those are kind of the question for now. There's a free service from jetpack. Thank you word camp sponsor They have a product called image CDN which is formerly known as photon that probably could do the job But we don't really want to rely on a third-party service that's giving away their thing for free because if they change it We need to be in control a little more So actually there is an open-source solution made by human made. Thank you word camp sponsor I didn't plan this at all. It just happened So they have a product that's called tacky on and it's based off of photon Which is what jetpack was using and it runs on AWS architecture, which is actually what our websites are working on So we set it up and it was working. Okay, but we ran into some issues with it I'll gloss over all those details conveniently because it's only a lightning talk But if you really want to know you can come talk to me after this So what we did is we forked it and we made our own version We call it tacky on at edge And here's kind of a brief overview of how it works So our CMS our WordPress site uploads all of our media to an s3 bucket so all of our images live in one place When a user access accesses an image it hits this cloud front CDN And from there we can make a decision on what we want to do with that request So using lambda at a lambda at edge which sits on the on the edge of the CDN there We can actually make choices we can say Hey, we can resize this image We can check if there's a cast version of this resized image and then we can serve the the request appropriately So all that really means is that if take this this is a lovely original image here And we can easily transform it just by adding a query string to it So what we're doing here is we're resizing it to be 300 pixels wide and 600 pixels tall. We're flopping it Horizontally and flipping it vertically and we're inverting the colors so This means now we can get any image size we need on demand without having to crunch through our entire media library If there's any change requested from design, we can just implement that change right away It makes things a lot more flexible. There's less friction We can try out different things This also gives us a lot of unlimited source set options So when we load an image we can specify different sizes of images that should load for different screen widths and This creates a much much more performant page So we actually after we put all this infrastructure in place we did a migration for of a site They were just using a standard out-of-the-box WordPress theme and All we had to do was just download all their their media library uploaded to our s3 bucket and then we were good to go and The numbers actually speak for themselves. So this is a graph of the Page size of our images for the home page can anyone guess when we did the migration So there so there's a pretty dramatic difference when you can serve properly sized images And all and this was possible just because we made a small infrastructure change So I'm really happy to announce that at This conference that we're actually open sourcing this so anyone who wants to Dynamically resize images on AWS infrastructure could take a look at it see how it works play with it do whatever you want I was going to try to be prepared and do it ahead of time But then I saw that Chris Van Patten and his talk open source something while on stage So I thought oh, I'll do that too So I just click the button Now I need to enter my password and Now it should be public there So you can go there now and you can see All the instructions and how it works big props to human made who open source their original project that's based off of this and Hopefully it is of use to someone so you can spend less time crunching images and more time doing cooler stuff Thank you


Okay. Good morning, Rohan. Welcome to BC 213, our course on the end times. Thank you for joining. Could somebody pray and we'll start? Lord, Father, we thank you for this time, Lord Father. We thank you for giving us another day, O Lord Father, in our lives, and also this opportunity, O Lord Father, to gather here as one body, O Lord Father, to learn from your word, O Lord Father. As we're going to start our classes, Jesus, we ask for your help, Holy Spirit, God help us to understand the helpers to receive and to steward everything that you're teaching as we submit everything into your precious hands. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. So this past week, and that was in Shillong, not for holiday, but for ministry. This was a movement that was started when the Welsh revival happened in 1904. After some years, some of those missionaries had come to India. They come to this part of our country in Shillong. It's called the Kasi Hills. So the revival broke out here as well in India, in the Kasi Hills. And there's more of the Holy Spirit. And out of that, of course, a lot of work was done. But one of the churches, ministries that was birthed out of that in the 1930s, the name is called Church of Jesus Christ, Assembly Church of Jesus Christ. That's the name of the movement. So that came out in the 1930s. So they started almost 96 years ago. They started. So now it's in the third generation of leaders. It's transitioned. And so now a new set of leadership. And so every four years, they have a general conference. They bring all their... So now there are about 120 churches. They have not 120 churches, but 120 pastors. And they're multiplied. So the number of churches, maybe 60 church or something like that. Not the exact number. So once in four years, they have this conference. So they all get together and they set direction and all of that. So they invited me to be one of the speakers. And so it was the first time for me in Meghalaya. And we have a church in Nagaland. So that's... We go there quite often, but Meghalaya was first time. It was very nice to see what God has been doing. They have a rich history from where they were born, where the church was born and started. But there's also a great need because they still need the younger generation. Now it's three or four generations later. And they still need to understand the Word of God and the work of the Spirit. And there's a lot of work to be done. So it was nice on a Saturday night. I preached on the Holy Spirit. And then there were like 2,000 people inside the tent. A lot of people sitting outside and just on the hillside. It was all hilly area. So that Saturday evening, at least, I don't know, maybe 200 or some more people for the first time received the Holy Spirit, sat up praying in tongues. But it was, we prayed from a distance. We didn't lay hands and pray because there's a big crowd. Then Sunday morning, the crowd was even bigger because they invited me from all the neighboring villages to come. So it was very interesting. About 2,000 people under the tent, 2,000 people outside and people sitting on the hill slopes. Just to see that as I was imagining, how it will be during Jesus' time. They'll all be sitting on the hillside and he'll be speaking to them. Something like that. It was a very hilly area. They were actually sitting on the, and they put big speakers outside all listening. But that service was very powerful because more than 200 people gave their lives to Christ and then we invited them forward. They came and then we prayed, ministered and then straight away led them into the Holy Spirit baptism and many of them received. So it was, they got saved. They made a public commitment to Jesus, came forward and we prayed over them and then led them into the Holy Spirit baptism. And Sunday evening was more of a call for young people, lots of young people. The message was more of challenging the young people to use their skills for the kingdom. They're just showing them how. So we just spoke about the church that Jesus is building in. So about more than 70 young people came forward and gave a call so that, yes, God, I want to serve you with what you've given me. So it was nice. For me, also it was nice just to see what has happened out of 60, 96 years, a ministry that has lasted three generations. Like how it is now, three generations later, how it was very, very encouraging to see how they're journeying and all of that. Yeah, so that's what happened last weekend. All right, so let's quickly review what we've done so far is we have tried to give an overview of the sequence of events. So, and I'll just use this chart here that's on page 53, the chart that just to kind of repeat this thing overall, then we will move forward. So what we've, and this is something I want us to be very clear in our minds about. So when somebody asks you about end times, you should be able to draw this chart and clearly explain. You know, these are the main sequence of events, right? So it should be very clear in our minds. So I'm just going to go through this again. And if you have any questions, you can ask. So we are now at the church age and we are coming to the end of the church age where the church's main commission right now is to take the gospel to all the nations, make disciples of all nations. That's the main responsibility of the church. And so that is happening and it's coming, you know, I'm not saying it's over, but we're not finished our work yet, but it's coming close. You know, almost every nation has heard the gospel. Now it is more about has the gospel reached all the people groups, small, small groups, that's where we are. What will, and the other thing, and we will talk about this later, another thing that we should look forward to look at is Jesus, Paul wrote, he said, Jesus is coming back for a glorious church, you know, not for a church that is weak, powerless, that doesn't know the truth, is coming for a glorious church. So that's another thing we should be looking at, you know, that the Lord is bringing the church to a glorious church. And then is when we can expect the coming of the Lord. So the next event that we are expecting is the rapture of the church, right? So the church will be taken out of the womb and then begins the seven years of tribulation, during the seven years of tribulation on earth in heaven. So when the rapture of the church happens, every believer who's alive at that time, and every believer who has died in Christ, and all the Old Testament saints. So those who have died, Old Testament saints, believers who have died, their spirit and soul is with the Lord Jesus, right? And we are believers living on earth. So in the rapture of the church, all of us instantly will receive glorified bodies, and we will meet the Lord in the air, and He will take us to heaven. So we are there, every believer is there. At that time, tribulation begins on earth. So some more people will become believers on earth. So we call them like as tribulation believers, if you want, or tribulation saints. That means during tribulation they believed after the rapture of the church. So they are also believers, but it happened after. So rapture of the church, every believer, every saint of God is in heaven with glorified bodies, and they are going to receive rewards and all of that. So our works will be tested. We will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. We will receive rewards for what we have done. We will be taken into our mansions. All that will happen, and we are going to, of course, be involved in worshiping, worshiping the Lord and all of that. And at the end of the seven years, there is going to be the married supper of the lamb. Now, what will happen during the tribulation seven years? That is where we journey through Book of Revelation from chapter 6 to chapter 19. It gives our outline. Chapter 6 to chapter 19, Revelation, we went through. And we said, just take it in the sequence that it is given. As it is given, you take it in that same sequence. One by one it will happen, as it is given in Revelation 6 to Revelation 19. Some of the key things we saw was, yeah, there are three sets of seven judgments. There are the seals, the trumpets and the bolts. Seals, trumpets, bolts, seven, seven, seven. It's happening. Then we also saw another thing would be, there are 144,000 Jews whom God raises up. He anoints and they are going to be his servants during the tribulation, preaching the gospel. So we saw that there will be people who are saved, but many of them will be martyred. They will be killed. And then we also saw, of course, the start of the tribulation will be with the coming of the Antichrist. He will come as a man of peace. He will make a seven-year peace treaty for the Middle East. But in the middle of the tribulation, seven years, he will break his peace treaty and he will break it. He will change it. We also said there has to be a temple in Jerusalem because the worship will be started. They will worship God and there will be a temple in Jerusalem. That's also important. The other thing we said was, we saw in Revelation is there are two witnesses that will come from the middle of the tribulation till the end of the tribulation for the last three and a half years. And again, another important thing we said was, Revelation chapter 11 verse 1 is the middle of the tribulation. Revelation 11, 1. Just remember that. So we see all of these things. So from Revelation 11, 1 onwards, the Antichrist and the false prophet will change in their agenda. The main agenda will be to get people to worship the Antichrist, the beast. But when you're worshiping the Antichrist, you're actually worshiping the devil who is given power to the Antichrist and to the false prophet. So that is the main agenda to get people to. And we also just mentioned about a world economic system and a world religious system being set up by the Antichrist and the false prophet. And all this will collapse by the end of the seven years of tribulation. The seven years of tribulation will end with the battle of Armageddon. So those are the high points. It ends with the Lord Jesus coming and he will destroy all the nations that have come against Israel. He will set up his throne in Jerusalem. And then at that time, there will be another resurrection. That resurrection is for all the believers who have died during the tribulation. Because there have been people who believed during the tribulation, believed in Jesus and they would have been martyred or killed during the tribulation. So at the end of the battle of Armageddon, when at that time the tribulation believers will be raised. They will also have glorified bodies. So in the millennium, all the saints along with the tribulation believers will rule and reign with Jesus on the earth for 1000 years. They will also be the unsaved, the general people, the people are not saved. They will be there, they will be on the earth. So that's what we rule and reign over them, we establish the kingdom of God. And Isaiah 65 describes life on earth during the millennium. Life will go on, people who build, plant this, all these things will go on. There will be people being born during the millennium. The nature of things will change, meaning there will be peace because Satan is bound for 1000 years. Satan and his demons are taken out of the earth. So there will be peace in that sense, there will be peace on the earth for 1000 years. At the end of the 1000 years, Satan will be lost. He will try his last attempt to go against Jerusalem, against God's people. But God himself will intervene, will stop him. And Satan will be cast forever into the lake of fire. And then there is a great white throne judgment. After the great white throne judgment, all the believers are separated, taken into heaven. And the earth and the heavens are going to be renovated by fire. And there's going to be new heavens and a new earth. And then on this new earth, God is going to bring the heavenly city, Jerusalem. Heaven is basically going to be set up here. God will bring that city here, city that he has built. He will put it on this new earth. And the new earth and new heavens will be very different because we won't need the sun and the kind of things that we need now. God himself will be the lights. Life will be completely different. There won't be any of the evil and all these things that we see. That's the new heavens and the new earth. So that sequence is clear in your minds. If you have to explain to somebody, you'll explain. If you can explain to somebody, that means you're clear. That means you have understood it. Okay. Any question? See like after seven years, after the battle, people who are died in the tribulation will be raised, right? So here the resurrection, it means like they will get the glorified bodies. Yes. And the souls, their souls will be in heaven even if they die during the tribulation. Or is it like their souls will be kept in? No. So remember in the book of Revelation, we see time, at least a few times that the souls of the people who died during the tribulation of martyr, they come up in heaven. So while these people have been martyred, the bodies are dead, but spirits will come to heaven, right? And they will receive the glorified bodies at the end. There will be a resurrection. Yes. This Old Testament sayings. So when they were, when they died, their souls will go to paradise. Yes. Depends upon their character. Whether they believed in Yahweh God. Yahweh God. And then, and then when Jesus went to paradise after he died on the cross, to whom he preached? To the saints. So till the time of Christ crucifixion, the Old Testament saints who died, they went into paradise or Abraham's bosom and they were held there. That means, yeah, they kept, because they can't go to heaven yet, cross is not done. So they were kept in Abraham's bosom or paradise. So when Jesus died, he went to paradise. He went to the Abraham's bosom. So he would have spoken to all these people who are the saints who are in Abraham's bosom. But the Bible also says he announced to the spirits who were held in darkness.  So Jesus went and announced to them. So it's a, when Peter says, you know, that he preached the gospel, doesn't mean, okay, we usually preach the gospel so that people can get saved. So it doesn't mean that God was trying to save, the Lord was trying to save these spirits that were held in prison. But he's announcing to them what has happened. So this is, I think it's first Peter. Let me just find the, yeah. First Peter 3, verses 18 to 20. For Christ also, first Peter 3, 18 to 20, for Christ also suffered once for us, the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit, for whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient when once the divine long-suffering waited in the days of Noah, a lack was being prepared in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved through water. So he's talking about going and proclaiming to these spirits in prison. Now, who is he referring to? Those who were disobedient. So it's on the other side. Yeah, those are, these were the angels, the fallen angels who tried to come into the daughters of men and then God took them and put them here, kept them. So you cannot do this anymore.  So he's announcing to them. And so he is the redeemer. I don't know what exactly he would have said, but he has preached to them, announced to the Spirit sent to them. It's on the other side. And then when he ascended, he took all the spirits of the Old Testament saints who were in Abraham's bosom, who were in paradise with him into heaven. No, they are there, they are remaining there. They won't go to heaven. No, yeah, he announced to them. So like when I said, so when we say he preached to them, we can't, it's not like preach means all to get saved or to repent, but to make an announcement, proclaim to announce who didn't accept it away. And the, like the fallen angels, which we call the feelings are all in the hell. Yeah, right now. I think even Jude writes about this. So Jude mentions this. He in Jude chapter one, verse six, he says, the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own aboard. He has reserved an everlasting chains and a darkness for the judgment of the great day. Right. Jude one, verse six, he's referring to these same angels, the fallen angels. Okay. Any questions from, let me see if there are any questions from online students before we go to the next chapter. Any questions from those online? Everything is clear. All right. So having a clear overview of the sequence of events in your mind, if you can draw this chart and explain, that's good. That means you've understood the main purpose of this course, which is to get a good understanding of the outline of events. This is how it's going to happen. Okay. And you should be able to substantiate, that means say why you're saying it's going to happen like this. Right. Why you're saying, why do you say rapture is going to happen before the tribulation? You should give the reasons. We've given it, we've listed it out in that chapter. You say, okay, these are the reasons why we believe the rapture of the church will happen before the tribulation. Then why are you saying the events will happen in this sequence? Well, because we're just following the sequence of the book of Revelation. That's it. Very simple. That's why we are saying it'll happen in this way. Right. So that must be very clear. You should be able to explain. Right. So now let's go to the next chapter that we, it's actually our last chapter, which is the signs of the times. That is, how can we, you know, how do we know how close we are? This is chapter 5 on page 78. How do we know how close are we towards the rapture of the church at the beginning of the tribulation? How close are we? Right. What are some of the signs we can look at? Right. And I mentioned only some of the more important signs here. Some people will write, you know, you might find some books, 100 signs why Jesus is coming back. So they'll put every little thing and make it so many points. So I didn't do it that way. I just put, okay, here are the main things you should look at, which the Lord Jesus gave us as signs of the end times. Right. And this is a question. Even the disciples of Jesus asked him, you know, in Matthew 24, verse 3, they said, Lord, tell us when these things will be, what will be the sign of your coming. So they're also interested. We want to know if you're coming and you're going to be king, what will be the sign? So we are going to look at some of the important signs. The first important sign, which we should make note of, which is already, which has already happened, but it is a very important mark, is about Israel being formed as a nation. So this happened in 1948, May 14, 1948, when Israel declared itself as a nation. So if you look at the history of that region, you know, which today we see, which, of course, the Lord promised Abraham way back in Genesis. And we see that the Jews had been scattered, dispersed from their lands. And so from about 1600s, when the Turks, the Arabs and the Turks began to dominate that whole region, the Jews had been dispersed. They had living in different parts of the world. And that whole region was dominated by the Turks or the Arabs, the Ottoman Turks. And so Israel as a nation didn't exist. They had a history. That means they could always go back and read in their scriptures that God had promised that land to Abraham. But from the middle of the 16th century, sorry, that would be from the 1650s, so the 17th century, it wasn't there. The people all scattered. But something was happening. In the sense, the Jews started slowly moving back to their own territory. They're on their own. They didn't have a nation. It was not there. Israel was not there. The Turks were there. But they started relocating on their own, just on their own. They started moving back towards Israel. Slowly they're gathering, getting back to their own country. And then the First World War, Second World War, the British were involved and in some way they overthrew the Turks. And in some way they were instrumental in helping the Jews who had regathered, who had slowly moved back into this region, giving them confidence. And I would use the word unexpectedly. Nobody was actually anticipating or expecting this. Unexpectedly, the people, the Jews, at that time they were known as the Zionists, declared themselves as an independent country, an independent state. So obviously something was stirring in their hearts for people to move back to that region. And things were being orchestrated in the way, you know, I'm not saying these wars happened. I'm not trying to give that as a reason, but I'm just saying things happened, World War I, World War II, where the Jews were so persecuted, they fled. Many of them, or at least they tried to flee and many of them fled back to their own land, this region where they felt they would be safe. And then when they had all gathered, you know, enough number, they just suddenly declared them, so this is our country, this is our land, Israel was born. So almost it's like fulfilling many of the prophecies that were spoken in the Old Testament, right, more than 2000 years ago. So Jeremiah says, Jeremiah 31 verse 10, Jeremiah prophesied, hear the word of the Lord, O nations and declare it in the islands far off and say, he who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd does his flock. So Jeremiah prophesied, as Ezekiel, we know Ezekiel's very, very powerful prophecy by using the picture of a valley of dry bones, how suddenly all the bones come together and then suddenly the flesh is coming on these bones and then breath is coming and then this army is standing up and God is saying, hey, I will do that to you, right. He says verse 21, Ezekiel 37, 21, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, very powerful. God said, I'll do it. And this is Ezekiel, he's prophesying almost 2000 years before. Of course, God gave the promise to Abraham and in between people were scattered, he brought them back from Babylonian captivity.  From 1948, it just happened and it happens in a way that nobody can stop it. It's a nation now. You can't undo it. People are already there, they have declared themselves a nation.  They're not able to stop it. Everywhere Arab nations, it's just like, you know, so they, wars have been fought and still now are being fought, but Israel is standing as a nation. Nobody can shake it. Right? So for us, we say, Israel coming back as a nation is very important because many of the end time prophecies has to do with Israel and with Jerusalem. So even when the angel Gabriel in Daniel chapter nine, when he spoke to Daniel versus 24 to 27, he said, Daniel, I'm going to talk to you about your people and about your nation, about your city and about your people. I'm going to talk to you about these 70 years. So that 490 years we mentioned. He said, I'm speaking to you about your city and your people. So and what we see happening in the book of Revelation, a lot of it has to do with Israel, with the Jews who become believers and so on. So unless the people of Israel were there, you know, those, the, what, what is going to unfold in the book of Revelation could not take place. So Israel coming back as a nation is a very important sign that we are, it's almost like, okay, this is 1159. One more minute left to 12 o'clock before the coming of the law. It's like, we are here, now all the remaining things need to be fulfilled, Jesus will come. Okay, so now in Matthew 24, verse 32 to 34, and I know I mentioned this in the very beginning, Jesus said, you know, when you look at the fig tree, when you know the fig tree is putting out its leaves and is getting ready to bear fruit, you know summer is coming. Now, of course, he's saying, you know, he's trying to say, you understand the little meaning is, hey, you know how to understand the the seasons by looking at what is happening in nature. That is the little meaning. But some people also say that, hey, fig tree is symbolic of Israel. So that's another meaning. Or if the fig tree represents Israel, then he's saying, hey, and the fig tree starts to blossom as a nation, then the time is near. So that is one way of understanding it. So for us, we say, oh, Israel has come together as a nation is beginning to blossom as a nation. And we know in scripture, the fig tree is used to talk about Israel. So that is important. And Jesus said, one generation will see everything. Right? One generation will see everything. Now, what is one generation, whether it's 40 years or 120 years, you know, I don't know, because if you look at the genealogy of Jesus and Matthew, generally is like, okay, 40 years, maybe one generation. Or if you look at the lifespan from Genesis 6, 120 years could be one, the lifespan of one generation. So exactly what is the number of years? So how many years is 40, 60, 80, 120? I don't know how exactly you'd say it. But generally you could say between 40 to 120. Like the lower limit is 40, upper limit is about 120 years. So something in that range, you say is one generation. But you said one generation will see everything happen. So now we are not going to try to do the math from 1948 add 120. So that is 2068. By 2068, everything will finish. So we're not trying to force and do this thing. But we're just saying Jesus said one generation will see everything. So within a short span from the time Israel became a nation, becoming a nation, we can expect things to happen and happen very quickly, all the remaining prophecies. The second sign that we keep looking at, number two, right, is that is Jerusalem becomes the center of conflict. So Israel after they formed themselves as a nation 1948. Remember at that time, Jerusalem was still under Arab control because they still have their mosque and everything over there. In 1967, there was another battle when I think six other nations tried to attack Israel suddenly, Egypt and Syria and all joined together, tried to attack Israel. They said, oh, we'll attack them suddenly. So they attacked suddenly. But this little nation of Israel pushed them all back and they took more land. So they captured Jerusalem, they took the Golan Heights in the north, they took more portion in the south. So when these other nations joined together and attacked Israel, and so Israel losing ground, Israel gained ground. So then they said, hey, we can't mess around with this nation. They're very powerful. They're small people, small nation, but very strong. So Israel gained ground. And that's when Israel captured Jerusalem. But then in order to maintain peace, they reached a settlement. They said, see, we know, because now if Israel captured Jerusalem, they say, okay, we are going to take over the full mosque and everything. Surely it will escalate. All other Arab nations will join and come to fight. So the commander in chief of Israel army at that time, he said, okay, we will make a peace thing. East Jerusalem, where you have your mosque and everything, you keep it under your control. West Jerusalem, we will be our control. So they agreed. So they paused the war, stopped the war, agreed to that. So the Arabs are controlling that part.  This side, the Jews come pray and go, keep it this way. But it has become a point of so much tension because Jews still feel that is our place. Before the mosque came, before this dome came, it was our place. So it has become a point of conflict. So Jerusalem has become a point of conflict.  So Zechariah 12 verse 1 to 3, this is what God says. And this Zechariah prophesied, page 80, the burden of the word of the Lord against Israel that says, the Lord who stretches out the heavens lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem. So now we're talking about this Jerusalem, city of Jerusalem, a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding people when they lay seas against Judah and Jerusalem. It's happening that day, I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all people. All who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces. The all nations of the earth are gathered against it. So Jerusalem becomes a point of conflict and nations are gathered, you know, are involved, trying to solve this problem. So literally today, nations are trying to solve this problem in Jerusalem. How do you make it peaceful? So this second sign is very important. Again, this would not have happened if Israel was not formed as a nation. Suppose you think the Jews are all scattered all over the world and you imagine Arabs are living in Israel, in the land that we know as Israel now and then there won't be any conflicts. They're already occupying all this thing there and Jews are scattered everywhere. But the fact that 1948 Israel became a nation, 1967 they recaptured Jerusalem. From that time, this prophecy is being fulfilled that Jerusalem has become a place of conflict and nations are trying to sort it out. So when you're reading the news, okay, you keep an eye on what is happening to Israel, the neighbors, what is going on with Jerusalem. Keep an eye because from a Bible prophecy interest, you know, the day we have to watch and see what's happening, how these things are unfolding because we are already there. Some of the prophets already fulfill Israel's become a nation. Jerusalem has become a point of conflict. Next what? The next thing we are anticipating now is there has to be a temple. How is that going to happen? Will it happen before the rapture? Will it happen after the rapture? We don't know exactly because Bible is not telling clearly. We have some ideas, we can make some guesses, but the temple has to come. If the temple comes before and we see it, wow, it's amazing. Bible prophecy is fulfilled. But my feel is that it will happen after the rapture because the Antichrist will come and he will broke a peace. And I think part of the peace deal would be, okay, Jews, you have your temple, Arabs, you have your land, both of you be happy. So I think, I'm guessing, but I think that would be like a peace deal that he would be able to broker and make them happy, both sides happy, but it will last very short, three and a half years, that's all. Okay, so let's pause here. We will continue this in the next, after the break.