Okay, good morning. Welcome everyone to BC213, the course on the end times. Thank you for connecting to the class today. We're going to pray. Then we're going to get started. Oops, sorry, just moved my computer. Let's pray. And then we'll start. May I request somebody to please pray with a class? And then we will start. Anybody, please unmute your mic and pray. Once you pray. Please go ahead. Precious Father, we thank you and praise you for this wonderful morning. We thank you, Father, for your divine grace and strength of Father God. Lord, we ask you wisdom, knowledge and understanding to receive your word and revelation so that it can edify our inner man of Father God and it can increase our knowledge and understanding, Father. We surrender everything into your mighty hand and we pray that Father, Lord, as your servant, is going to release your word of God. Strengthen him with your wisdom and knowledge and with filling with your revelation, Father. I thank you and praise you and prepare each one of our heart so that we can able to receive this word as a seed, as a Lord master, as a spiritual food. We should strengthen us, Father. Prepare us, Father. We humble ourselves before your presence. We give you all the glory on our end. Prayers in Jesus' name, we pray. Thank you, Pastor. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Sri Kumar and everyone. Good morning. Welcome once again to BC 213, the end times. So, we are looking or we have been looking at a panoramic view or a high level view on the sequence of events. And last week, we went through six reasons as to why we believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. The rapture of the church has to take place first before the Antichrist, the man of sin, the son of perdition, is revealed to the earth. And then the seven years of tribulation will begin to unfold on the earth. So, we did that. I'm going to quickly review that part. And then we are going to proceed into looking at the sequence of events. And we will begin to do that. And so, if you have any questions, we will keep time towards the end of each lecture to take up our related questions. So, here we are. Let me get rid of this. Don't need this. We are looking at, you know, we went through this last week on why we say there's a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. We looked at Second Thessalonians chapter two where the apostle Paul says that though he who restrains has to be taken out of the way and we established that he has to be the church because the Holy Spirit is going to be continuing his work among those who become believers during the tribulation. Secondly, we talked about the promise to the church in Thessalonica or the believers at Thessalonica where the apostle Paul wrote. Thirdly, we looked at the promise of the church in Revelation. Fourth, we looked at the typology that's used in Matthew 24 and Jesus talked about he made reference to Noah and the days of Noah and the ark. And we saw that as a clear illustration of how things will unfold during the time of judgment and then the saints being released back on earth. Number five, we said about the chronology of the book of Revelation which is what we will be getting into today. And if you look at the book of Revelation in a very chronological way the way it is written for us we will see clearly that the church is taken out of the way before the seven years of tribulation. Number six, we mentioned that Daniel's 70th week was clearly stated to be concerning the people, the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem. So the church is not there. The church is not the focus of that 70th week. The church is taken out of the way and God unfolds these things concerning Jerusalem and the people of Israel. So we went through the six main reasons. Of course, you could break things down further and list a number of reasons. Then we answered a few other questions. Who would be raised up at the time of the rapture? Will we meet Old Testament saints? Will we be able to... Who will be taken up in the rapture? And will we recognize each other in heaven? And so we went on up till that point. And Daniel's 70th week we have seen in previous times basically we're establishing that the 70th week that is a period of seven years as mentioned in the book of Daniel and also that the seven year period is referred to as the time of Jacob's trouble and so on. So what we're going to do now is we've come to this point. So the rapture of the church has taken place. And now we need to see what unfolds in the rest of the time that follows. And to do this we're just going to journey through the book of Revelation. And I just want to, you know, show you this piece and then share this slide with you. So this chart you've seen earlier which is in the same PDF. Now there are many approaches to the book of understanding the book of Revelation and in our third year next year we will go through Revelation, the book of Revelation, verse by verse. But what we're going to do now is just turn to an overview of the book of Revelation to understand the sequence of events. Now when the Lord Jesus begins to speak to the apostle John, he tells John, he says, I want you to write the things that you have seen, the things, this is in Revelation 1 and verse 19. So I would encourage all of us to please have our Bibles in front of us so that as we do this it will be useful. So if you turn with me to Revelation chapter 1 and just follow, the things will be clear. In Revelation 1.19 the Lord speaks to John and he says, John, I want you to write about the things which you have seen, the things which are and the things which will take place after this. So the book of Revelation can be broken down into these three sections. Things which you have seen, that is Revelation chapter 1 where John has seen the risen Lord. Then he says, things which are, that is chapters 2 and 3 which refers to the seven churches that were there at that time. And then he says, things which will take place, that is chapter 4 onwards, which are things that will take place. So we break the book of Revelation down into these three portions. So if you will see here Revelation chapters 1, 2 and 3 deal with this part, meaning things that John has seen and things that happened at that time, the seven churches, then Revelation 4 onwards are things which must take place. And Revelation 4 and 5 talk about what happens in heaven right after the rapture of the church. And I will explain that. And then Revelation 5 through 19, chapter 19 verse 15 is the seven years of tribulation up until the coming of Christ. Revelation chapter 19 verses 16 to 21 talk about what happens right here at the battle of Armageddon. Revelation chapter 20 verses 1 to 10 talk about this 1,000 years, the millennium. Then Revelation 20, 11 to 15 talk about what happens here at the great white throne judgment. And then Revelation chapters 21 and 22 talk about the new heavens and the new earth. So basically our approach to the book of Revelation is to just look at it in a very chronological way, in a very sequential way. Now I'm just going to stop sharing and just pretend I am in the class. So there are different approaches in the study of the book of Revelation. There are many different approaches. And so if you look around, whether you read online or you read different scholars and others, people take different presentations. Some, for instance, may say that the book of Revelation was fulfilled right there from 8030 to 8070. Carl was fulfilled. And that's one of their positions. But then obviously John wrote the book of Revelation 8095, which actually happened, which was written later. So that's kind of an absurd position to take. Then there are others who may look at Revelation as more of a, like we said in the very introduction to this course. They look at it just very allegorically. It's not going to happen literally, but things have been happening or the fulfillment of Revelation has happened. We are now in the millennium and through the church, the reign of Jesus is taking place and all that. So there are different presentations. But we are taking, as I mentioned at the very beginning, the introduction of a very traditional presentation of the book of Revelation. That is just follow it literally the way Jesus gave it. Things that you have seen, things that are and things that will take place. So I'm going to go through the book of Revelation as an overview, not, you know, not worse by worse. But as you go to the book of Revelation, it's actually giving us a sequential chronological unfolding of events. And so it will help us understand how things are taking place. And like I said, in the third year, we'll read it worse by worse and go through it in a greater depth. Now just quick background to the book of Revelation. This was written. Okay, so I see David's question. Could you please explain the chronology of Revelation once again? All right, so this is based on Revelation chapter one verse 19. Okay, in Revelation chapter one verse 19. So Jesus tells John, write the things that you have seen. So what has he seen in Revelation one? He has seen the risen Lord. So write that down. And the things that are, what were the things existing? That is chapters two and three, the seven churches. And things which will take place. That is chapters four till the end. Partly speaking, the book of Revelation is divided into these three parts. Revelation chapter one, the things you have seen, chapters two and three, things that are chapters four to 22, things that will take place. Okay. And then as we get into the sequence of events from chapter four, I will explain to you. Chapter four and five are giving a picture of the rapture church in heaven. Chapter six to chapter 19 are things that are taking place on the earth during Revelation, during the tribulation. End of chapter 19 is the battle of Armageddon. Chapter 20, the first 10 verses are the millennial reign, the thousand year reign. End of chapter 20 is a great white throne judgment. Chapters 21 and 22 are the new heavens and the new earth. So that's, I will explain that once again as we go through the book of Revelation. So our approach is a very traditional approach. That means take the Bible literally the way it's given. Don't mix it, don't, you know, jumble it up. The way the Lord gave it, take it that way, sequentially chronologically. And actually it's a very simple way to understand the book of Revelation. Some people, you know, chop parts of it here and there and, you know, you'll find it. People doing all kinds of things, which make it very confusing. And I would say, I mean, it's up to you of course, but I would say avoid all of that. Just follow what Jesus said, Revelation 119. This is what he gave. This is the way we will read it. Okay, so are you already with me to journey through the book of Revelation? Any questions before we start? Okay, you're ready. All right, so we're just going to go through the book of Revelation, you know, sequentially. So a little background to the book of Revelation. John, who was the, so the book of Revelation was written around 8095, 8095. So this means it is about 60 years after Christ. So the Lord Jesus Christ, if his ministry was from 8030 to 8033. This is 8095, 60 years approximately after Christ's ministry and the day of Pentecost. Right, so the church has now been in existence for about 60, 60 years, 65 years, 8095. The other thing that we must keep in mind is that by this time, all the other apostles are dead.  They were killed in Rome and all the other apostles had, you know, were also subsequently or before or after they were all killed, martyred. But Paul, before he died, he had raised up the next generation of Christian leaders. You find it in Acts 18 where he trained many young men in the city of Ephesias. So the city of Ephesias is a port city. It was a port city on, on the more, if you look at modern day map, it was on the west coast of Turkey. So or Turkey as a nation, they're changing their name. So, but anyway, Turkey today is still called Turkey, but on the west coast of Turkey is the city of Ephesias. And Paul spent three or three years in the city of Ephesias on his third missionary journey. And he trained up the next generation of leaders, which included Timothy, Titus, and there are other names given in Acts 18 or Acts 19. He mentions the names of these people whom he had trained. So what happened after Paul? So, you know, this is an, let me just give you, oh yeah, sorry, in Acts 20 and verse four mentions the name of the other people, other young men whom Paul trained. Acts 20 verse four. So Paul had trained the next generation of Christian young men and is very likely that from Ephesias, there were these other churches very close by to each other. That were planted. So Smirna, Pagamos, and Thyatara, Sardis, Philadelphia, Odisha were all cities very close to Ephesias on the west coast of Turkey. And they were all likely planted by people whom Paul the Apostle had trained and so Ephesias was like the mother church to these six other churches in that area. Now, subsequently, what happened? Paul, you know, he went to Jerusalem that he was arrested. He spent two years in arrest in Caesarea, which is a port city on the west coast of the land of Israel. Then from there he appealed to Caesar. And so he was sent by ship from Caesarea all the way to Rome. And he spent two years in Rome on the house arrest. And then he was released for a little short time. And when he was released from Rome, he came to the island of Crete. And he appointed Titus to be in charge of the church or the churches in Crete. And then he took Timothy and he appointed Timothy to be in charge of the church in Ephesias. And then he made his way back to Rome. And on his way back to Rome, he wrote the epistle to Titus. He wrote for Timothy. And finally, when he was in Rome, he wrote Second Timothy, which was his last epistle. And right after that, he was killed. So Titus was in charge of the church or the churches in Crete, the island of Crete. Timothy was in charge of the church in Ephesias. And these were people who were trained by the Apostle Paul. So this was around AD 68. Paul, Peter, all dead by now. And so a new generation of leaders leading the church. But really sadly, in about 20 years from then, Timothy is no longer there. Titus no longer there. And these churches that were started by the Apostle Paul or by people whom he had trained were now in a state of spiritual decline. And the only Apostle left is John, who by this time is well into his 90s. She's a very elderly person. And the emperors had changed. So there was Emperor Nero, who was the emperor of Rome. He persecuted the Christians. He killed them. He burnt them alive. He threw them to the lions. And he's gone. There's a different emperor. This new emperor, his approach is different. He doesn't kill the people. He exiles them. He sends them over on exile. So that's what he did in order to get rid of John, the Apostle, the last apostle. He sent him over in exile to the island of Patmos. The island of Patmos is just off the coast of Turkey. Little into the agency, he sent them there. So let them not have any influence. So John is in the island of Patmos. This is 1895. John is very elderly. But while he's on the island of Patmos, he receives revelation. The Lord Jesus speaks to him. And really John is seeing. So John is, so, you know, Revelation 110, John says, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. So on a certain day, he's all by himself. He's caught up in the spirit. So his spirit is seeing all these things, hearing and seeing everything in the spiritual realm. His body is here on earth. And it is very likely that at the same time, he is writing down these things because the Lord said in Revelation 119, write the things that I'm showing you. So he can imagine, in his spirit, he's caught up into the heavens. And he's hearing and seeing all these things. But in the body, he's recording everything he's saying. So he's writing what is being revealed to him. Okay. So that's how the book of Revelation is being given. Now, of course, the Lord said, I'm going to show you things which will take place. So the Lord is taking John literally thousands of years ahead into time. But John has only his context in which he's going to write these things. So, for example, if the Lord showed John a mobile phone. So John the Apostle, AD 95, he sees a mobile phone. How would he record it? He can only record it with the language and the context he has. So he will say, I see a black object. A voice comes out of it. It can sing.  It can speak, you know.  He won't call it, you know, an iPhone or an Android phone. No, he's only going to describe it with the language that he has. But what does he actually sing? What is God showing him? God may be showing this example. I'm not saying God showed him a mobile phone. I'm saying an example. So if God showed him a mobile phone, he's going to record it with language he has, with the context he has. Because God is showing him things which will take place, you know, literally thousands of years into the future. So keep that in mind that as we read, John was seeing things, but he was recording it with the language he had. One, that's one thing. Secondly, the Lord was intentionally using images or prophetic imagery to speak to John. So there are things that are, like we said, that will be taken literally the way it is. And then there are things that have to be interpreted as to what they mean. So how do we distinguish the two? Well, first of our first approach is that God shows him things literally. And if they can be understood literally and that the literal makes sense, then we stay with it. And of course the literal should be in harmony with the rest of scripture. But if the literal does not make sense or if the literal contradicts the rest of scripture, then we have to say it is prophetic imagery. That means it is a figure. It is representative. It is an image that means something. So then we need to interpret it. So for example, if you start in chapter one, John says this is verse four and five. He says, zone to the seven churches. So yeah, seven churches. That's literal. There are seven churches. And we will see the names of the seven churches, chapters two and three. So that's literal. And he says, Christian piece from him. So there are three froms in verses four and five. There is from him who is who was wish to come. Then in verse four, there is from the seven spirits, which are before the throne. And we're spying from Jesus Christ. Now, the first from we can understand. From him who is who was and who was to come. This is God the Father, the eternal God. The third from we can understand from Jesus Christ. But who's the second from? There's from the seven spirits, which are before his throne. Now seven spirits. What does that mean? Are there seven Holy spirits? No. And seven spirits is not literal. It is figurative representing the Holy Spirit because there's God the Father. There's Jesus Christ. So therefore the seven spirits have to speak about the Holy Spirit. There's only one spirit. Ephesians four verse four, one God, one spirit. So the seven spirits, which are before the throne is figurative of the Holy Spirit. Seven represents the number of perfection in the Bible. So number seven in this case is figurative symbolizing perfection, the perfect spirit. And the seven spirits, you will find in chapters two, three, four and five. He talks about, so the seven spirits, you will see that. Now if you look in chapter four, chapter three verse one, you have us to the seven spirits of God. Chapter three verse one, he has the seven spirits of God. Sorry. Now the seven spirits of God is figurative of the one Holy Spirit because there are no seven spirits. One Holy Spirit. And then again, chapter four verse five. He says the seven lamps of fire, which are the seven spirits of God. So seven lamps representing seven spirits of God. Chapter five verse six, seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God. So the Holy Spirit is represented by seven spirits of God. But here in verse revelation four, five, seven lamps, seven horns, seven eyes, seven lamps, seven horns, seven eyes. And they're all referring to the seven spirits of God, meaning the Holy Spirit. So this is figurative. It cannot be taken literally. Why? Because it will contradict the rest of scripture. And there are some preachers who in the past have preached this and said there are seven Holy Spirits. That's not what it says because it will contradict the rest of scripture. So you cannot interpret it literally. You have to say it's figurative. Seven lamps of fire. What does it mean? Light is pervasive. Talking about omnipresence. Seven horns. Horns in scripture represent power. So seven perfect power. That is omnipotence. Seven eyes represent what you see, knowledge. Seven eyes, perfect knowledge, omniscience. So therefore we interpret it that way. Seven lamps representing omnipresence. Seven horns representing omnipotence. Seven eyes representing omniscience. All of these are images of the seven spirits of God or the Holy Spirit or the perfect spirit of God. So in this case, number seven is used figuratively. Whereas when he talks about seven churches, there it is literal. There were seven literal churches to whom the letter is, the first part of the letter is addressed. Okay. Whereas in the case of the seven spirits of God, and I'm repeating as he hopes request that in the case of the seven spirits of God. It has to be figurative. Because there are no seven Holy Spirits. There's only one Holy Spirit. So seven spirits. That is Revelation chapter one verse four, Revelation chapter three verse one, Revelation chapter four verse five and Revelation chapter five or six and all of these cases. Right. So these, these have to represent the one Holy Spirit. Yeah. And I see Felix's comment there as 11 to there. That's, that's thanks for sharing that. So how can you understand this? Well, when you, the word, the number seven represents perfection. Now, when you think about a beam of light and I, and I use this illustration because it's very nice. Think about beam of light. It comes to a prism and there are seven colors. But it's a single beam of lights, but there are seven colors. So I say 11 to talks about the seven fold, seven facets of the Holy Spirit. And these are not everything, but yeah, so I'm explaining as 11 to right. So there are seven facets of the Holy Spirit. This is a spirit of, spirit of the Lord, spirit of ironing spirit of the Lord, spirit of wisdom, spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of knowledge, spirit of might, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord, seven facets. So it's like that one beam of light that has seven colors. You know, while it's indigo blue, green, yellow, orange, red, but it's light, one beam of light. So one Holy Spirit, seven facets, seven expressions, but they're all combined in the one person of the Holy Spirit. So that's why seven spirits is used figuratively to talk about the one Holy Spirit. And I say 11 to gives us a seven facets of the Holy Spirit. But he's one Holy Spirit. The number seven, in some cases has to be taken literally, and he talks about to the seven churches. But in some cases, it has to be taken figuratively seven spirits. Okay. So, as John begins to have a revelation chapter one, he sees the Lord. And he sees the Lord walking in the midst of seven golden lampstands or he says here, it's Revelation one and verse 12. He sees seven golden lampstands. So the lampstand is, you know, what was used in the Old Tabernacle in the Old Testament. So each lampstand had seven limbs on which were the lamps. So it was really like a, it had seven limbs. So each lampstand. So there were seven lampstands. And he sees the Lord who walks in the midst of the seven lampstands. And in his right hand, he has seven stars. This is Revelation one verse 16. And he explains this in Revelation 120. He says the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. So here you have these images explained for us. He sees the Lord, the risen Lord. He has seven stars in his hands. Again, this is just a representation. The seven stars are the messengers of each of the seven churches he's going to speak to in his right hand. And he sees Jesus in the midst of the seven lampstands. Each lampstand represents one of those seven churches. And there's only representation, meaning keep in mind that at that time there were hundreds of churches. So there was a church in Jerusalem. There was a church in Antioch. And there are many hundreds of churches all around. So there's only a representation, meaning the Lord has the stars in his hand. And he is seated or he is walking amongst his churches. The lampstands are representing the churches. The stars are representing the messengers. Now who are the messengers? So the word messenger is the Greek word angelos. And the word angelos is used to refer to angelic beings. But it's also used to refer to human messengers. So in this case, he's referring to the human messenger, the person who is in charge of each of the seven churches, because he cannot be telling the angel or an angelic being. And he's not going to hold an angelic being responsible for what's happening in the local church. And the angelic being is not going to go and set things in order in the local church. So obviously, given the context, the messengers are referring to the spiritual leaders, leader in each of the seven churches. So each star is representing the leader of each one of the seven churches. But keep in mind it's only representation, because there are hundreds of churches already by that time. So it's telling us that the leaders of the churches are in the hands of the Lord. And the Lord is moving among the churches. He is observing, examining, and seeing what is happening in each of those churches. Are you all with me so far? I'm going to take Shri Komar's question. We will get into these details once again when we go next year. I'm giving you an overview. Next year, we will go slowly, read verse by verse, right? I'm just giving a quick overview for you too, you know, for us to get into chapters four onwards. Shri Komar, please ask your question. Thank you, Pastor. Pastor, in that case, I just want to know, this seven stars is referring to seven real pastors, or is the generic term is used like, as you said, because there are a lot of churches were there. When it is seven stars, is it a generic term, or is it actually for a special person? That's what you want to know. So each star represents an actual pastor or leader of that church. So what I was saying was Jesus is saying, you know, I have seven stars, but literally you could say he has hundreds of stars, or maybe thousands, or today it'll be thousands of stars because he holds the leader of every local church in his hand, meaning he's holding them responsible. Yes, of course, he's protecting them, but he's also holding them responsible. So this is figurative, telling us, look, I've got, so each one of the stars represents the messenger of each one of those churches, because in chapter two, he says, to the angel of the church in Ephesians, right? That means I'm speaking to the leader of that church, and this is my message to him. And he is responsible for what's happening in that church. So each star represents the messenger of that church, the leader of that church. So in that case, the church is in Ephesians, and all the pastors of the Ephesians is responsible. He's speaking to all this. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Pastor. He's speaking to the leader, spiritual leader of each particular area, all the churches. Okay, thank you. Okay. So verse 20, Revelation 120, he explains, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches or the messenger of each one of those seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches, Revelation 120. And what I want you to keep in mind is there are actually, by that time, there were hundreds of churches. So you may ask the question, what about all the other churches? No, this is only a representation. This is the Lord showing us that the leader of every church is in his hand, is represented by the star, is holding them responsible. And every church is before him, and he's observing and seeing what's going on. So if you look at it in today's terms, that today there are hundreds of thousands of churches all over the world. Same thing is watching and observing all of them, and every spiritual leader is holding them accountable. So now when we get into chapter two and three, the Lord has a message for each one of the seven churches. Okay, I'm not going into the detail of every message, which we will study later on. But if you want to just summarize, out of these seven churches, to six of them, he tells them repent. There's only one church, he doesn't tell them repent. That's a church in Philadelphia, which is in Revelation chapter three verse seven. That's the only church that seems to have everything going well. And very interestingly, it is the only church, Revelation three verse seven, the church in Philadelphia, to whom he says that the opposing people will come and bow down. In Revelation three verse seven, he says, Revelation chapter three verse seven, verse nine, Revelation three nine, to the church in Philadelphia, he says, there is a synagogue of Satan, and I will make them come and worship at your feet. That's the only church to whom he does not have a message of repentance.  To the other six churches, there is a message of repentance. And if you look at what he, you know, he tells them repent and repent, and we will actually be studying this, even in our course on holiness, when we talk about repentance. Very quickly, to the church in Ephesians, he says repent because they left their first love. To the next to the next to the church in Smyrna, he says repent because they are tolerating wrong doctrine. There is the, they were letting wrong doctrine go on in the church and the wrong doctrine, which they were talking about tolerating. This is Revelation. Sorry. Sorry, this is not the church in Smyrna, but this is the church in. Okay, I need to correct myself. Only to two churches that the church in Smyrna and the church in Philadelphia, he doesn't say repent. The church in Smyrna is being persecuted. He doesn't tell them repent, but to all the other churches, that is five out of seven churches, he says repent. To, to the church in Smyrna, he says, do not fear. Okay, do not fear to the church in Philadelphia to that church is only church, he says, your enemies will come and barge your feet. I was just going through the repentance messages. I'll just quickly go through it. So the church in Pergamos, he tells them they need to repent because they were tolerating wrong doctrine in the church. And this wrong doctrine was causing people just to go into sin. The same thing to the church in Thyatira. They were tolerating a false teacher and a false prophetess. And she was teaching people and, of course, it was wrong doctrine. And this again was causing people to go into sin. So both cases, wrong doctrine, wrong teaching, repent. To the church in Smyrna, this is chapter three verse one. He says their works were not perfect before God. And to the church in Lavodisya, they felt that everything is fine and okay and things were not okay. So he tells them you need to repent, right? So, you know, we will look at all of these things in detail next year. Today we're giving an overview. So chapter two and three are a message to each one of those seven churches. And these seven churches existed right then. And it is very likely that John the Apostle was overseeing or had some spiritual influence in all of these seven churches because all the other apostles had died. They're gone. And only John the Beloved Apostle was there. And so through him, the Lord is giving a message to these seven churches. But there's a lot that we can take away from studying each one of these messages for us, you know, and lessons to learn. But I think the main point that we take away is the Lord is watching everything that is happening in each and every local church is watching. He is evaluating. He is assessing everything that's going on in each and every local church. And he holds the spiritual leadership in each local church responsible for what is going on in each one of those churches. Okay, so we can take those lessons. I see Hope's comment, the Church of Sardis. Yes. You know, their works were not perfect before God. So we can study what he said to the Church of Sardis and take that. In fact, we should take a message from each one of those seven churches, learn those lessons and make sure we don't fall into the same mistakes or, you know, try to learn from what he spoke to each one of the seven churches. Okay. So, Christopher, your question please. Yes, Pastor, this is, this is in relation to maybe something you had, you know, a little earlier, these two questions. So I just wanted to, I mean, the first question is really during the transfiguration of Jesus when he was in the earth. And when, you know, he was, Jesus was with Elijah and Moses. It seemed that they were recognized by the Apostles Peter, James and John. And so my question is, so had Elijah and Moses already attained glorified bodies. That is before the rapture that is to take place, you know, many years afterwards. And that is the first question. The second question is, I think you had mentioned that one of the signs of the coming of the rapture is when Jesus is coming back to a glorious and united church. And at present they seem to be looking at a lot of division, a lot of deceptions. I wanted to understand, would there be a need to have a great revival in order to take place to move the, you know, the current situation in churches to become glorious and united, which would then be a sure sign of the imminent second coming of Jesus. Okay. All right. So the first question, Matthew 17, in the transfiguration of Jesus, what we refer to as a transfiguration, what is actually happening is Jesus is giving a preview of what he would be like in the kingdom. Or he would be like when he entered his kingdom. So that's why he tells his disciples, some of you will see the Son of Man as he comes in his glory. So obviously, that doesn't mean, you know, Peter, James and John were going to live, you know, for 2000 years and wait till Christ comes. No. What was he referring to? He was referring to the Mount of Transfiguration where they would see him get a preview of what he would look like in his glorified state. So what happened in the Mount of Transfiguration was a preview. So Jesus and so also Moses and Elijah, at that time Moses and Elijah, you know, were dead, but the spirits were with God. Sorry, at that time they were dead and Christ had not yet resurrected. So they were, their spirits were held in paradise. But God brought them up and gave a preview to Peter, James and John of how they would, the Lord and Moses and Elijah would look in glory. Right. So, and I can just give, just to give you the specific reference that I'm mentioning. In Matthew 16, 28, it's 27 and 28, Matthew chapter 16, 27, 28, Jesus says, the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father. And he says in verse 28, there are some standing here.  Now think about it, what Jesus is saying.  Now, obviously, they didn't understand what he was talking about. But this Matthew 17, the very next chapter is when Peter, James and John see him how, as he would be in his coming kingdom. Did you get it? Right. So it's like a preview. And Peter, James and John were the ones he was referring to in Matthew 16, 28. They were the three who got to see him as he would be. It is when he comes in the glory of his Father in the coming kingdom and that Moses and Elijah were there. So the answer to your question is it was a preview of things to come. The second part of your question, the second question is answer is yes. There will be a great work that God will do in the church to bring it into a glorious state.  But then we just have to look at church history.  What we refer to as a dark period of the church, but see what God has done. Right. He's brought us to where we are from being there without scripture to today where there's so much happening. And he's done it in just in a matter of few hundred years. So the rest of the work and things are accelerating. So the rest of the work that he needs to do to bring the church into glorious state, he will do it. There will be, of course, a great refining purifying and bringing out the glorious church. Okay. So let's go for a break. I hope everyone's following me. If you have any questions, please put it in the chat. We'll take a 10 minute break and we'll be back in 10 minutes. And I'm just kind of speeding things up so that we can pick up from chapter four. Okay. See you in 10 minutes. Thank you.


നിെ൏ടിൂൃചൄൊേേ൚ൃേടാ൉൒ന൓്നാ്ന്േൃൃൃ്േൃേേച്ൃ്്ൃേൃൂ്നേൃൃൃേൃൃൃൌാേുെ൙�服്്ൎ്ൃേ൮൦്േൃേ൏ീ൉� క్కోక్వియారక్యోత్ట్ర్ఇపైపెయర్టోక్గారిక్కిభ్లవ్మేమే. They are to educate young people on regional issues that affect them. They are to advocate on the rights of young people, be that advocacy, be that advocating chief for the things that pertain to young people. As well, they strive to integrate young people in regional or sub-regional development and also they promote regional integration. So these young people, the character of ambassadors are really important in terms of education, in terms of advocacy, integration and also promotion. And their target group, their target group is young people and so with the programs and activities they would initiate, it would seek to ensure that regional integration is promoted and that the rights of young people are always advocated for on that level. My name is Yakob Nesta. I'm 26 years old. I'm from the community of Rezina Garababuno. I got involved in youth work at the N triple secondary school which is my alma mater. I was a part of mostly all clubs and groups at that school because I felt like I wanted to contribute to school life and I was a troubled teen to be honest. So I really wanted to change my appearance in the eyes of my teachers and my peers. My name is Rezian Montuta. I'm from the community of Grusley. Right now I'm the president of the Grusley North Youth and Sports Council as well as the secretary to the Grusley Football League and Grusley Benders Association. My term in youth development actually started pretty young. I was about 14 when I first joined the Grusley Community Action Group and from then on having different experiences and involvement with the ministry of youth and then getting engaged in the Youth and Sports Council. I then got on to the Grusley Development Council and then went on to the National Youth Council and now Grusley Youth and Sports Council. At the school level I've always been the school representative for various activities. You know school usually selects a student to go out to represent them. Also I like to partake in anything that would further provide self-development for myself. Not only that I'm someone who is naturally curious and I love to learn. So really and truly it was really making myself marketable and putting myself out there to gain the opportunities that I deemed beneficial to my group and to helping those around me because sometimes you tend to realise that the young people around you need that upliftment and sometimes they need that pillar to really look up to. First group I joined was when I was about 14 and it was just one day my sister told me hey I know of this group and you'll be interested, go. And that's just it. I just went. It was a voluntary group. We were doing things like clean up campaigns and hamper donations and from there I just fell in love with the whole process of volunteering and being selfless and giving of yourself to your community and then from there it just went on and on and on. My auntie Kledi Tervil, my mum in goodness on my dad Peter Jebaptis will my main pillars especially my grand mum but for me it really all started when I joined Cassius Rentschel Youth and Sports Council which I currently am the second vice president and I'm also on the Babonu Youth Development Committee as well. The other thing as well is that I've been very vocal in youth marginalisation which really focuses on youth who tend to feel that they're not represented at forums so you have people with disabilities, LGBTQI persons, grassroots persons those basic things and really and truly coming from that background you really need to have an understanding as well and when being a youth worker I try my best to not judge because that is basically the key principle for me is really understanding everyone's mindset and concept and really what have you in this sort of position in life. It was the satisfaction of seeing the service that you can do for your community as well as I got different opportunities for example I remember my first community debate and as nervous as I was as you could literally have heard the nervousness in my voice but I was so proud of myself that was my first public speaking opportunity so I was a benefactor of the development and it was a voluntary debate persons who volunteered their time to come in and judge organised the debate and having your community support you in that venture also was something that just stuck my interest into the whole youth development community activism At school because of my I would not say issues or anything but being young you didn't want to really join the school council or anything of that sort I was more in pair helpers juicers these types of groups At a very early age I took a lot on myself to do debating so when it comes to speaking that was my key focus because I really wanted to enunciate my words properly and as a young male especially you find that amongst males we find that literacy is not something that is really common so you really want to stand out in the crowd especially for opportunities I have gotten the support from my community persons always would stop me and tell me you know keep up the great work that you do they see the efforts and also getting support from the ministry of youth development and sports here is like home for me I know if I ever need anything I could come here persons I have worked with our youth and sports officer Sarah Lee Williams who has been a major support from the get go for me in terms of youth development has always been like a mentor has always been there for any questions I have and to see she will always pick you up she has that tough love kind of mechanism so if she sees that you're probably going the wrong way for initiative or project will send her to sense in to guide you with that also Miguel Trim who was the STO when I was just getting into the field of youth development he has a wealth of knowledge a great resource persons so you know having these people around you having that community support has really been helpful in the whole process of youth development and I would say becoming of myself because I just don't consider it a thing that I do I see it as me I was the youth parliamentarian for Babodo and that was a really nice experience but one of my goals that I have always set for myself in life was to be the Karakor Muth Ambassador and I always believed that to be the change that you need to see you need to be that change in the world and that was a saying from Mahatma Gandhi so for me in myself I felt like that was the key post for me to really further the gender of youth and to really understand what's affecting youth not only within my country but within the Karakor Muth Framework because I've represented Saint Lucia on many boards, forums and these types of things I feel most excellent and delighted to be honest I first heard of the program while I was under grossly youth development council the first time I applied before and I didn't get through I think this was the third time or second time I'm applying actually so when finally I saw the applications again so I figured you know what let's just give it a chance so it was an application process I applied and then there was an interview as well I did the interview I felt very good about myself after the interview and then then finally getting the call well it was a call to come to collect the letter and finally seeing that you are actually the Karakor Muth Ambassador it felt like a big achievement for me it's been something I've always looked at as being as how would I put it you know just this great achievement like seeing okay all the youth work you've been doing this is one way of you being awarded for it and again a way of you furthering that youth work on a regional level during the interview you could tell on people's faces basically how well you're doing during the interview process and I felt very confident about living that room but the thing was when I got the call for the letter and reading that letter I honestly cried because it was a really huge accomplishment for a young person to be selected as a Karakor Muth Ambassador and for me I was just praying that the female Karakor Muth Ambassador was someone I could really cope with because when it comes to such a position you really want to you don't want to have a push and pull effect you really want everything to flow effectively and get in region was really the idealistic person for me but most of all really it's about really representation not only for yourself but for me being the Karakor Muth Ambassador it's about being selfless it's really about giving your all to the community on a whole the Karakor Muth Ambassador is there to educate young people on the policies and initiatives of Karakor Muth especially once that benefit them so that persons can gain a more how should I say a greater understanding and awareness of what it is to be a Karakor Muth Ambassador citizen and how this initiative called Karakor Muth Ambassador benefits them as a citizen in essence that is what it is promoting the Karakor Muth Ambassador especially towards young people right now me and my colleague have started a blood supply drive our first drive was in Barbono about two Sundays ago which turn out we had a very good community turn out so we are very thankful for the residents and also the Barbono Youth and Sports Council who collaborated with us on that activity we plan to continue it although COVID-19 is throwing off the plans a little bit but we want to continue it until we hit all the major communities in Senusha to sensitize persons on the need to donate blood as we are where our blood bank are always in critically low measures in terms of the amount of blood capacity that they have and also to promote health and which is one of the pillars of Karakor Muth for this year in addition to that we have also started our Karakor Muth Webinars so we did our first Webinar with the Grusley North Grusley South, Kashi Central and Barbono Youth and Sports Council and we are now going to do our second one with the rest of the Youth and Sports Council as well as the Executive of the National Youth Council which again basically to highlight informed persons of what Karakor Muth is highlight the different initiatives and also the different ways they can benefit just as a result of Senusha being signed onto the Treaty of Shangramas which is the Karakor Muth initiative my advice would be every opportunity that knocks at your door you don't necessarily need to take it but grab what you think is best for you because at the end of the day it's going to benefit you in the long run the other thing as well would be networking that was something I practiced from a very young age and when you network with people it's basically a reflection of who you are as a person the people you constantly keep around you and you constantly keep in touch with because when opportunities then arise then you're someone who comes to mind based on what you have produced thus far Youth Development Community Work Volunteerism is a selfless act you do it because of the passion you do it because you love it it can very much benefit you in terms of your professional development a lot of the skills that I have now and even for my current because I don't work full time in volunteerism youth development work but I work in IT at the quarter of appeal and I could remember clearly some of the things that I was able to put on my CV that I still have on my CV started I developed those skills in youth development work so PR, marketing secretarial work administrative work event planning project management leadership communication organization all of these skills were skills that I developed as a result of being part of the youth movement so there is that indirect feel that just being part and parcel of any initiative can bring to you as a young person and secondly I would just say that you may not see the benefits directly so it's not like you come into it and you get paid or you come into it and you will get a direct benefit but there are long term things you get to network with persons and your network is your net worth so a lot of the people a lot of the opportunities that I have received in life I could trace it back to that one day deciding to volunteer at that initiative so I would send these words to young persons the curriculum reform process program is a program of carry come where we actually select a million female ambassador to represent their country and young people within their country where they are going to advocate for those young persons within their country towards our to our leaders and curriculum as a whole so that program actually help out those two young ambassadors we normally select represent to like I said to advocate for young people in St Lucia so in what they normally would do is actually represent young persons at forums in the Caribbean and also it helps them to actually meet other leaders within the region so it actually benefit those young persons because they now develop leadership skills they develop advocacy skills they also develop program management skills as well because they actually get a chance to implement program within the country as the curriculum reform ambassador the other important thing for those curriculum ambassadors as well is that they get a chance to actually network that's one of the key skills that is needed networking skills so those kind of skills and actually ideas they actually get to to benefit them as young ambassadors


From the CUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hi everyone, welcome to this CUBE Conversation here in the Palo Alto CUBE Studios. I'm John Furrier, your host of theCUBE. We've got a great guest here, Jean-Pierre Vigneshwaran, who's with the Office of Strategic Programs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA is the Informatica Intelligent Disruptor of the Year Award. Congratulations, something welcome to this CUBE Conversation, thanks for joining me. Thank you for having me. Congratulations on being the Informatica Intelligent Disruptor of the Year Award. Tell us more about the organization. Obviously, the FDA, everyone's probably concerned these days, making sure everything's going faster and faster, more complex, more things are happening. Tell us about your organization and what you work on. FDA is huge. Our organization is Center for Drug Evaluation Research and its core mission is to promote public health by ensuring the availability of safety and effective drugs. For example, any drugs you go into, go and buy it in the pharmacy today, our organization helps in trying to approve them and make sure it's, so it's having a quality and integrity of the marketed products in the industry. My office is specifically Office of Strategic Programs whose mission is to transform the drug regulatory operations with the customer focus through analytics and informatics. They work towards the advancement for the CDER's public health mission. What are some of the objectives that you guys have? What are some of the things you guys have as your core top objectives of the CDER, the drug research group? The core objectives is like, we wanted to make sure like we are promoting a safe use of the marketed drugs. We want to make sure there's the availability of the drugs that are going to the patients or effective and also the quality of the drugs that are being marketed are able to protect the public health. What are some of the challenges that you guys have to take in managing the pharmaceutical safety because I can only imagine, certainly now the supply chains, tracing, monitoring, drug efficacy, safety, all these things are happening. What are some of the challenges in doing all this? In our office, there are like challenges in three different areas. One is the drug regulation challenges because as drugs are being more advanced and like as there are more increasingly complex products and there are like challenging in the development area of the drugs, we wanted to make sure like we have a regulation that supports the innovation advancement in science and technology. The other thing is also like Congress is actually given like new authorities and roles for the FDA to act. For example, the Drug Quality and Security Act, which means any drug that's like, they want to trace track and trace all the drugs that goes to the public is like, they know like who are the distributors, who are the manufacturers. Then you have the 21st Century Cures Act and also the CARES Act package, which was recently assigned, which also has a lot of the OTC drug regulatory modernization. Then there's also the area of globalization because just as disease don't have any borders, product safety and quality are no longer like on one country. It's basically a lot of the drugs that are being manufactured are overseas. And as a result, we wanted to make sure like there are like 300 US ports and we want to make sure like the FDA-regulated shipments are coming through correctly through proper venues and everything is done correctly. Those are like some of the challenges we have to deal with. So much going on, a lot of moving parts, as people say, there's always drug shortages, always demand, knowing that and tracking it. I can only imagine the world you're living in because you got to be innovative, you got to be fast, got to be cutting edge, got to get the quality right. Data is super critical. And can you share, take a minute to explain some of the data challenges you have to address and how you did that? Because I mean, I can almost just, my mind's blown just thinking about it.  Can you just share some of those challenges you had to address and how did you do that? Some of the key challenges we actually see is like we have roughly like 170,000 regulatory submissions per year. There are like roughly 80,000 firm registration and product listing that comes to us and then there are more than 2 million adverse event reports. So with all these data submissions and organization such as us, we need it. We have multiple systems where these data is acquired and each has its own criteria for validating the data. Adding to it our internal and external stakeholders also want certain rules in the way the data is being identified. So we wanted to make sure like there's robust MDM framework to make sure to cleanse and enrich and standardize the data so that it basically makes sure like the trust and the availability and the consistent of the data is being supplied to our publish to the CETA regulatory data users. You guys are dealing with this. It's almost to give them a 360 degree view of the drug development lifecycle through each of the different phases, both pre-market, which is like before the drug hits the market and then after it hits the market, we still want to make sure the data we receive still supports the regulatory review and decision-making process. Yeah, and you got to deliver a consumer product to get people at the right time. All these things have to happen. And you can see it clearly in the impacts every day life. I got to ask you that the database question because you know, the database geek inside of me is just going, okay, I can only imagine the silos and the different systems and the codes because you know, data silos, it's been documented. We've been reporting on this on theCUBE for a long time around making data available, automation. All these things have to happen if there's data availability. Can you just take one more minute to talk about some of the challenges there because you got to break down the silos at the same time, you really can't replace them. That's true. But what we did was we did a little bit more of a, I mean, step back like seven years ago when we did the data management, we had like a lot of silos systems as well. And we wanted to look at like, we wanted to establish a, we knew we wanted to establish a master data management. So we took a little bit more of strategic vision. And so what we ended up saying is like, identifying what are the key areas of the domain that will give us some kind of a relationship. What are the key areas that will give us the 360 degree lifecycle? So that's what we did. We identified the domains. And then we took a step back and said like, then we looked at like, what is the first domain we wanted to tackle? Because we know what are these domains are going to be. And then we were like, okay, let's take a step back and say, which is the domain we do it first that will give us the most return on investment which will make people actually look at it and say like, hey, this makes sense. This data is good. So that's what we ended up looking at. And both ends, one is from a end user perspectives, like which is the one they get the benefit out of and also from a data silo perspective, which is the one data domains that are common, like where there's duplication that we can consolidate. So that's good. You did the work upfront. That's critical knowing what you want to do and get out of it. What were some of the benefits you guys got out of it from an IT standpoint? How does that translate to the business benefits? And what was achieved? I think the benefits we got from the IT standpoint was a lot of the deduplication was not theirs, which basically means like a lot of the legacy systems and all of the manual data quality work we had to do, we automated it. We had bots. We also had like other automation process that we actually put into work with Informatica that actually helped us to make sure the cost of it actually went for us considerably. For example, like it used to take us three days to process submissions. Now it takes us less than like 24 hours to do it for the users to see the data. So it was kind of like a little bit more, we saw the, we wanted to look at like what are the low hanging fruits where it's kind of like labor intensive and how can we improve it? That's how we tackled it. What are some of the things that you're experiencing? I mean, like when you look back at what it was before kind of where it is now, is it more agility? Are you more responsive to the changes? Was it an aspirin? Was it a complete transformation? Was some pain reduced? Can you share just kind of just some color commentary on kind of before the way it was before and then kind of what you're experiencing now. So for us, I think before we didn't know where the, for us, I mean, I wouldn't say we didn't know it when we had the data. We looked at product and it was just product. We looked at manufactured, they were all in separate silos. But when we did the MDM domain, we were able to look at the relationship. And it was very interesting to see the relationship because we now are able to say is like, for example, if there is a drug shortage during due to hurricane, with the data we have, we can narrow down and say like, hey, this area is going to be affected, which means these are the manufacturing facilities in that area that are going to be not be able to function or impacted by it. We can get to the place where the hurricane tracks. We use the national weather service data, but it helps us to narrow down some of the challenges and we can able to predict where the next risk is going to be. And before the old model, there was either a blind spot or you kind of were ad hoc probably, right? Probably didn't have that with you. Yeah, before you were either blind spot or you're doing it more of a reactionary, not proactively. Now we are able to do a little bit more proactively. And even with drugs, I mean drug shortages and drug supply chain are the biggest benefit we saw with this model because for us, the drug supply chain means like linking the pre and post market spaces that kind of lets us know, like if there's a trigger in the adverse events, we actually can go back to the pre market side and see where the traceability is. Who's touched that drug? What are all the different things that was going on? You know, this is one of the common threads I see in innovation where people look at the business model and data and look at it as a competitive advantage. In this case, proactivity on using data to make decisions before things happen, less reactivity. So that increases time. I mean, that would probably, you mean you're saying it, you get there faster, if you can see it, understand it and impact the workflows involved. This is a major part of the data innovation that's going on. You're starting to see new kinds of data warehouses come out. So again, they're starting to see a real new change over to scaling up this kind of concept almost foundationally. What's your thoughts? Just as someone a practitioner in the industry, as you start to get this kind of feelings and seeing the benefits, what's next? What do you see happening? Because you having success, how do you scale it? What do you, how do you guys look at that? I think our next is like, we have the domains and we actually have the practices that we work. We look at it as a, it's basically data always changes. So we look at it as like, what are some of the ways that we can improve the data? How can we take it to the next level? Because now they talk about cloud, they are also data warehouse data lakes. So we want to see is like, how can we take these domains and get that relationship or get that linkages when there's a bigger set of data that's available for us? What can we use that? And it actually, we think there are other use cases we wanted to explore and see what is the benefit that we can get a little bit more on the predictability to do like post-market surveillance or like to look at like safety signals and other things to see what are the quick things that we can use for the business operations. It's really a lot more fun. You're in there using the data, you're seeing the benefits in real. This is what cloud's all about. The data cloud's here, it's scaling. Super fun to talk about and exciting when you see the impacts in real time, not waiting for it later. So congratulations. You guys have been selected and you receive recognition from Informatica as the 2020 intelligent disruptor of the year. Congratulations. What does that mean for your organization? I think we were super excited about it. But one thing I can say is like, when we embarked on this work like seven years ago, our sole problem was like we were trying to identify and develop new scientific methods to improve the quality of our drags to get that 360 degree view of the drug development lifecycle. The program today enables FDA CDER to capture all the granular details of data we need for the regulatory data. It kind of helps us to support the informed decisions that we have to make in real time sometimes or like and also to make sure like when there's an emergency we are able to respond with a quick look at the data to say like, Hey, this is what we need to do. It also, it's kind of like helps the teams recognize it's all the hard work and the hours we put into establishing the program, it helped to build the awareness within FDA and also with the industry of how critical master data management is. It's a great reward to see the fruits of the labor and good decision making. I'm sure it was a lot of hard work. For folks out there that are watching who are also kind of grinding away in some cases, some cases moving faster, you guys are epitome of a supply chain that's super critical and speed is critical, quality is critical, a lot of data is critical. A lot of businesses are starting to feel this as part of an integrated data strategy and I'm a big proponent. I think you guys have a great example of this. What advice would you have for other practitioners because you've got data scientists but you have data engineers now who are trying to architect and create scale and programmability and automation and you got the scientists in the front lines kind of coming together and they all feed into applications. So it's kind of a new things going on. Your advice to folks out there on how to do this, how to do it right, learnings, share. I think the key thing, at least for my learning experience was it's not like within one year you're going to have to accomplish it. It's kind of, we have to be very patient and it's a long road. If you make mistakes, you will have to go back and reassess, even with us, with all the work we did. We almost went back to a couple of the domains because we thought like, hey, there are additional use cases how this can be helpful. There are additional, for example, we went with the supply chain but then now we go back and look at it and say like, hey, there may be other things that we can use with the supply chain not just with this data, can we expand it? How can we look at the study data or other information? So that's what we try to do. It's not like you're done with MDM and that said your domain is complete. It's almost like you look at it and it creates a web and you need to look at each domain and you want to come back to it and see how it is you have to go. But the starting point is you need to establish what are your key domains? That will actually drive your vision for the next four or five years. You can't just do bottom up. It's more of like a top-down approach. That's great insight. And again, it's never done. I mean, it's data's coming. It's not going away. It's going to be integrated. It's going to be shared. You got to scale it up. A lot of hard work. Yeah. Shanti, thank you so much for the insight. Congratulations on your receiving the Disruptor of the Year Award winner for Informatica. Congratulations. Intelligent Disruptor. Yeah, thank you very much for having me. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. Shanti Vigneshwaran is here, Office of Strategic Programs at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research with the US FDA. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


It's my feel good with the show. Elala Views, home to the very exciting second season of Winner Home and I'm here to meet up with private property CEO Simon Bray to give us a bit of a behind the scenes glimpse as to what has been happening on the show. But one thing is for sure, with a view like that, this definitely is a dream apartment. With a spectacular vista of Durban's magnificent coastline, Elala Views is set within the Elala Ridge estate in the sort of the suburb of La Lucia. What would you say makes Elala Views the perfect spot for Winner Home? Winner Home as you know, I mean it's all about design and drama but it has to be set against the backdrop of prime real estate and property. Elala Views here in La Lucia, it's set against the backdrop of Aam Shlunga and Aam Shlunga is one of the fastest growing municipalities anywhere in South Africa. You've got a lot of decentralization happening out of the Durban CBD up north here. So it makes living in La Lucia fantastic, you know, you can drive down the road and you can be at work in a couple of minutes. You've got Gateway Theatre of Shopping, one of the biggest shopping malls in the sun and hemisphere, you've got golf estates and lifestyle aplenty with the beach just down the road. Look at this place man, this is impressive but you know what, I'm all excited because you're taking me through a little bit of a behind the scenes as to what's been happening on the Winner Home. How things have been going? No, exactly. It's been going very well. I mean you can see the guys there. The guys are busy picking up the drama as it happens in the moment. The guys are working on the living room as we speak. They're getting paint on the walls, they're trying to, you know, go through the challenge that's been set for them for the week but they've got to do it with the live TV crew right in the room. So they're getting all the drama, the moment is being captured and this is the kind of thing that really adds energy to the show. There's a little bit of RTU as a judge on your role. What are you specifically looking for from the contestants? What I'm looking for is have the contestants thought enough about the space as a home, not a mood board, not a design that's going to be photographed for some magazine but something that someone's really going to live in and not only that, something that is going to add value to the assets of the property. On that note, how does design add value to property in your building? A lot of people walk into a space like this, beautiful blank canvas but it takes a lot of imagination to understand what this could look like as a space to live in. Most people like to see how the space is going to be expressed at the end whereas overseas there's this whole concept of staging a home. Gazel baked cookies in the oven to create the smell, they'll make sure they bring in culture especially to sell the house. That's something that's evolving in South Africa and certainly design adds to that. To give you an idea of numbers, this apartment is going to start at between 3.8 and 4.2 million and by the time they're done putting in all the beautiful furnishings and the design elements this is going to be worth well over 5 million. Well for all the best to you and your team and I can't wait to see the progress going to be very exciting. For the contestants, a construction site is their battlefield as they transform three units into living spaces that will show we cutting edge design meets style. Well one thing's for sure, things are absolutely buzzing but if you want to get in on all of the action make sure you catch a winter home Friday night at 7.30. Whether it's your first apartment in the city, a trendy suburban townhouse or that dream family home on a gulf estate, there's a home for everyone on private property.


In the class 2-A semifinals, Roseau looking for their third trip in a row to the state title game early on. Katie Barovic gets us started with the long three. Then Roseau up six in the first. It's Casey Barovic with the long two from the elbow. Led all scores with 28. In the second, Caledonia made a comeback. Now down three. Caitlin Conniff the steal and the lay-in. And then with five minutes left up two, Katie Tornstrom spots up the three. Rams unable to close the gap. Caledonia wins it 65-50. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


All right, so I've been following the events in Standing Rock with the Dakota Access Pipeline and I know that you said better relations with indigenous people is a very important mandate of your government So my question for you is if the same situation were to happen here in Canada What would you do differently and how would it look different? Great great question and a really important one um First of all the situation in Canada versus in the US in terms of a regulatory systems in terms of Consultation and engagement with communities with indigenous peoples Scientific analysis is very very different. We committed to strengthen the engagement with local communities Engage much more robustly than the American process is with indigenous peoples to consult to listen to hear concerns And that's exactly what we've done on the TMX pipeline for example There were significant concerns by indigenous communities along the route particularly in BC There were significant concerns by Canadians expressed around increased tankers the concerns around spills How we're going to protect our oceans including our marine mammals? These were things that people brought up and highlighted as real concerns that would have to be addressed before We could get any forward movement on a project like that People highlighted concerns around climate change. How can we pretend that we're going to hit our Paris targets? They asked if we're also approving pipelines. So these were all the questions people asked legitimate serious questions And at the same time from the very beginning from that my earliest days as a politician I pointed out that one of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian Prime Minister is to get our resources to markets whether it was fish and furs hundreds of years ago whether it was You know grain on railroads a hundred years ago or now Ways of getting our fossil fuel resources and other resources to markets, but in the 21st century We need to do that responsibly and thoughtfully and that means Being smart about the environment being smart about the jobs being smart about the risks that are undergoing being smart about Partnerships with indigenous peoples. That's exactly what we stayed focused on so we put in place a Pan-Canadian framework to demonstrate that we have a plan To work with all the provinces to reach our emissions reduction targets We worked with the Coast Guard and other partners to put in place a historic level of investment in the oceans protection plan to give Coast Guard and Responders the tools to respond to any accidents that happened We worked with indigenous communities along the pipeline route to demonstrate that it could be done responsibly in 39 Different indigenous communities signed benefit sharing agreements worth over 300 million dollars Yes, there are some communities that continue to have concerns But there are a lot of others who are in favor of it and you can't ever expect Unanimity on a big project, but what I've done and what I will continue to do is go to the people who disagree With this decision and explain why it's in Canada's best interest How we're doing the best job we can do and need to do to mitigate the potential negative impacts because the jobs the growth the the the opportunities that comes with getting our Resources to new markets in Asia are worth it the way we're getting oil off of Railcars and into pipelines, which is safer is also a lot smarter and This is all done in a way that is thoughtful about moving forward on both making sure we have good jobs And a growing economy and a protected environment at the same time That's the commitment. We've made and that's a very different situation From what happened at Standing Rock in in in the United States, but thank you very much for your question


What's up guys, this is Theron, and tonight we're taking another dive into the para-watch wiki. Tonight's thread was started by user Ideological Imbrolio on Halloween 2018. It's called Abbasin Height. Let's begin. The recent disappearance of Basil Oddinger and the subsequent discovery of several lost films in his private collection has reignited cinema's fascination with the revolutionary work of an underground independent filmmaker known as Yosef Helmuth. The reclusive director's fame in cinema circles is ironic. Helmuth was best known for not wishing to be known. Only one of his films, Schweigen 1953, contains an end-credits sequence, wherein he thanks Mai Lieben-Voltauter, my dear benefactors. His work was distributed privately through panopticon pictures until the company declared bankruptcy in 1962. Nearly all extents prints were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Helmuth's work is characterized by spare structure, emotional isolation, fascination with negative space, no dialogue, and single extraordinarily long takes. His first film, Nox, 1951, is a two-hour exploration of a dilapidated abandoned munitions factory. What makes the film remarkable is how it's shot. One single smooth tracking shot that begins at the entrance to send several flight of stairs and ends in a basement. Given the lack of identifiable cuts, tracks, or rails, even along the stairs, the movie's release produced endless speculation among cinematographers regarding how this was done. Although Nox is the most conventional film Helmuth produced, it still contains surrealist elements that would become hallmarks of his style. The factory's basement is improbably vast, containing far more levels than it should, and includes strange unidentified machinery. At several points, the camera focuses on objects that are out of place. A pink ribbon, false teeth, a wooden dreidel. Near the 70-minute mark, a silhouette is briefly visible passing by a doorway. The final shot, where the camera explores a pitch-black room, lasts for 15 minutes, during which only heavy breathing can be heard. Themes of isolation and emptiness are further elaborated on in Helmuth's fifth film, Doppelganger, 1953. Composed of a 90-minute-long tracking shot, the viewer navigates a carnival's hall of mirrors, while pursued by a hazy, indistinct figure, visible only in each mirror's reflection. The film ends abruptly when the figure appears in front of the camera, obstructing its view. Numerous diehard Helmuth fans have mapped out the interior of the hall based on the camera's movements, only to discover that the camera often moves through what ought to be a solid mirror. To this day, vigorous debate continues over how Helmuth achieved this and other effects, such as the absence of the camera's reflection in any one of the hall's hundreds of mirrors. Sheweled in 1954 is perhaps the film for which Helmuth is most infamous. It is three hours long, and consists of a single-fix shot, four figures burning a top of pyre as a crowd watches from below. Details regarding its screening at a 1965 Oldenburg Film Festival are murky. Viewers express distress, anxiety, and physical illness. This allegedly escalated with the audience storming the projection booth and destroying all prints of the film. Helmuth is notorious for being tight-lipped about his work, having never publicly commented on it. However, in 1961, a student attending Mayor's Academy uncovered a letter authored by him in the college's archives. The following excerpt, translated from its original German, elaborates on his views regarding the role of the author. Quote, Art can only be understood as an excretion of natural indeterminable events, a thing that is shaped via a rudderless process devoid of intent, purpose, or reason. Raindrops falling through a canopy of leaves, apples withering on the branch of a decaying tree, maggots bursting from a dead pigeon's breast. The author is much more than irrelevant. Their relevance is such that to merely mention this irrelevance is to grant them more relevance than they deserve. To say the author is dead, you must first presume the author was once alive. But the author was never alive. The author was never even there. End quote. Immediately after the publication of this letter and several film periodicals, Josef Helmeth ceased to respond to all correspondence and phone calls. No one has heard from him since. In 1962, he produced and published his final film, of Wesenheit. All six copies of the Wesenheit were believed to be lost in the 1962 fire. However, in 1987, a recording of a private viewing was recovered from the home of Basil Odinger, a prominent art collector obsessed with the study of Helmeth.  The footage is several minutes in length, and focuses on a television screen on which Wesenheit is playing. The television's footage is heavily distorted. The audience, out of frame, produces muffled sobs. Odinger repeatedly apologizes. As the film draws to its conclusion, the audience becomes increasingly distressed. One member starts to pray. Odinger begs for it to stop. A hand descends in front of the camera, obstructing its view of the television. The recording abruptly ends. Investigations into Basil Odinger's disappearance, and the location of the fabled surviving print of Wesenheit have turned up no results. However, it is notable that the footage of Odinger's viewing was recorded with Kodak 5247, Josef Helmeth's preferred film stock. Wow. Okay, what do you think? Is this real, or too unbelievable? Leave your answer in the comments below. Subscribe and hit the bell, and I'll see you next time.


Freedom this is actually pretty darn cool if you'll remember a while back I made a pretty crazy claim that Dislikes were not the end of the world and I asked you to dislike the video that I was filming at the time that video actually Performed better than any other video that we have put up on the channel in the past six months And of course because this is the internet and because if I don't provide pics It never happened. If you look right here, you'll see a graphic where analytics told us all about it now the reason I'm bringing this up is because It's important that freedom have some word I'm looking for here But they have faith in the kind of things that we tell them and when we say things like this It's important that not only you have faith that it's true, but you also know that it's coming from a place of experience and knowledge Now the reason I'm talking about all this is because freedom is now working on becoming YouTube certified as an entire company not just one of us or two of us But the entire company will be YouTube certified Meaning when we make claims like this not only we know it's from personal experience But it's also because that's what YouTube has taught us and that's what YouTube has Told us is the case I'd like to know what you feel about this and how it Will affect your judgment-making when we give out advice in addition to that It also gives us a little bit more clout and a little bit more Respectability because a lot of other MCNs out there just haven't even bothered getting YouTube certified Now personally, I would love to be with a network and an MCM that can not only make claims like this But back them up scholastically and in practice Finally, I'd like to know do you hold any certifications that you are proud of yourself? Personally, I have in the past held Cisco certifications for networking MCSC and other Microsoft certifications. So I'm curious What is it that you have to brag about? That's all for now till next time. I am Anthony with freedom like subscribe Comments, please. Let's discover freedom Click the first video to learn what is freedom and how it helps you grow Click the second video to learn about sponsorships for all freedom partners Even if you have just 10 subscribers and click the other videos like how do I leave freedom to learn more? Click get more views to learn how to build your audience faster on YouTube Click get more CPM to learn how to make more money from your channel and click get more music to learn where to get More music to spice up your videos Click the first playlist to watch the George show on freedom. That's my show or watch the Anthony show or the Alex show also on freedom


I have a lot of questions. Questions on why my friend had to die so young. Questions on why churches steal others' dreams. Questions on if God is still pursuing me. I was taught that doubt and faith are competitors. But I believe that doubt and faith are dancing partners. If you don't ask the hard questions, are you really learning or living? Questions are always seeking the truth. And the truth is a person. The truth is Jesus. And Jesus always respond with open arms.


Hi, I'm Jennifer rate and the director of planning and community development for the town of Arlington, and I will be taking you through warrant article eight for the 2020 special town meeting. Article eight is to develop a municipal affordable housing trust fund for Arlington. Article eight is a proposal to adopt that general chapter for section to create a new to establish the governing body of the municipal affordable housing trust, enumerated authorities and responsibilities and to set forth criteria for the proposed board of trustees. The trust is a public entity subject to public procurement, designer selection, conflict of interest and open meeting laws. There are many tools that are needed in order to create and preserve affordable housing. Arlington has some of those tools and resources that many tools are needed in order to support affordable housing. A municipal affordable housing trust fund as proposed in warrant article eight is part of that toolbox. The housing production plan which was adopted in 2016 by the select board and the Arlington redevelopment board, and then approved by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development identifies establishing a municipal affordable housing trust fund as one of its key strategies. The housing plan implementation committee works to implement the housing production plan. Its members are shown here and it's administered and coordinated by Aaron's work go from the Department of Planning and Community Development. The housing plan implementation committee drafted this bylaw, it was amended by the finance committee as well as the select board. There are many examples of successful housing trusts operating across the Commonwealth in communities of all sizes. 115 towns and cities total have accepted affordable housing trust state statutes. 77% of these municipalities have also adopted the Community Preservation Act. Arlington affordable housing trust fund proposes to provide for the preservation and creation of affordable housing in the town, as defined by the Arlington zoning bylaw for the benefit of households earning at or below 80% of the area median income. The trustees include eight members who will serve for two year terms. One will be an ex officio non voting member and seven will be voting members as designated by the select board with one select board member serving and six other members representing residents or representatives of local housing organizations with a diverse range of communities. And in order to advance the purpose and goals of the trust it's also critical to have at least one person who's earning a lower moderate income and resides in housing that's defined as affordable by chapter 40 B, or receives a federal subsidy or state subsidy, and who has knowledge of rental and tenant issues, at least two representatives also who are serving will be from local housing organizations. It includes a range of revenues. It includes special bylaw ordinance payments, short term rental fees, Community Preservation Act funds donations grants real estate transfer fees even the trust can receive revenue to expand on a rolling basis consistent with the powers enumerated in the bylaw. The select board has an important role in relationship to the trust. It appoints a removes trustees, approves the declaration of trust, which is a policy goals and guidelines that are consistent with the town's adopted housing goals and strategies, approves borrowing and all real estate activities. It also appoints the annual auditor and reviews and accepts quarterly reports from the town comptroller. The town treasurer tax collector is the custodian of all trust funds. Annual reports will be provided to town meeting. The trust can participate in a range of activities, making timely decisions as critical to the operation of the trust in order to engage in acquiring or preserving market rate affordable housing units, or providing value down assistance or first time home buyer through buying down the price of a property, providing the town with the opportunity to serve as a vehicle to aggregate existing resources while leveraging new public and private resources support our existing housing organizations and others. The trust can also apply for CPA funds in accordance with the trust action plan. There are many successful examples of housing trusts operating throughout the Commonwealth, engaging in acquisition, adoptive reuse of properties to preserve affordable housing and create new housing, preserving affordable housing in non age restrictions buildings and engaging in a range of supportive activities, including pre development and rental assistance. Following town meetings acceptance of this bylaw, the Attorney General's office must approve the bylaw and then the trustees will be appointed and a declaration of trust developed and reported. In summary, the trust is complimentary to Arlington's existing affordable housing initiatives, entities and programs, and it can help to demonstrate an affirmative commitment to supporting and helping individuals and households who make a lower income to achieve housing stability. The trust will help the town to have more efficient and effective mechanisms for investing in affordable housing, which in turn will remove barriers to creating and preserving affordable housing that you will vote favorably for article eight to establish the Arlington Municipal Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Thank you.