Okay. Good morning to Krisha who is online and good morning to all of you who are here. And yesterday we looked at Jeremiah's writings, the book of Jeremiah and the book of Lamentations. So today we will be looking at Ezekiel and Daniel. So basically with Daniel we would be finishing the major prophetic books. So to start off with Ezekiel, we have Ezekiel is a person who was taken away into exile during the second invasion of Nebuchadnezzar. If you remember, Nebuchadnezzar comes and attacks three times. And during the second invasion when he is taking away King Jehoiakkin and he's taking away 10,000 Jews along with them, even Ezekiel is also taken away. And Ezekiel was the son of a priest, a priest named Bouzi, which basically means that he was from the priestly lineage. So Ezekiel is taken away in the second invasion and he writes his book over there in Babylon during the exile. The genre of this book is very wide. You have all kinds of things mentioned. You have narrative history because some of it is historical. You have prophecies being mentioned. You have apocalyptic writings mentioned, writings about the end times. That's one particular kind of writing where you would have all this imagery of, you would have all this metaphors and all of that mentioned. So you have apocalyptic writings and you even have parables being mentioned. So this is one book in which you have a wide variety of genre being covered. And people point out that while Isaiah put an emphasis on the Messiah and spoke about the Messiah, here you have a lot of emphasis on the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is mentioned a lot here in the book of Ezekiel. Coming to the structure of the book, they say that most probably Ezekiel wrote this book in two phases. Most of it he finished writing in the early days. But then there's a long gap and after that he would have written the last nine chapters. So the general opinion is that 592 BC up to 585 BC, he probably wrote chapters 1 to 39. So let's look at how we can divide these chapters, chapters 1 to 39. In chapters 1, 2 and 3, you have Ezekiel being commissioned. God commissions him and appoints him as his prophet. Then chapters 4 to 24 is where he gives his message of judgment. He talks about how God is going to judge the people of Judah. That is covered in chapters 4 to 24. He uses many different parables to talk about the judgments which are going to come. So here is where you find a lot of parables being mentioned in this particular section. Then we have chapters 25 to 32 where he is talking about judgment which will not come upon Judah but on the Gentile nations. So while chapters 4 to 24 were talking about judgment upon the nation of Israel itself. In the next section, chapters 25 to 33, you have the judgment being declared against the other nations. And why is God judging these nations? God says, the reason I am judging you nations is because you are happy that Jerusalem has fallen. You are rejoicing rather than being sad. You are rejoicing that my nation has fallen and so judgment will come upon you. So God specifically gives judgments against Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon and Egypt. These are the seven nations against which judgment is given in chapters 25 to 32. Coming to chapter 33 to 39, there you have words of hope being given. So in 33 to 39, God talks about his future plans for Israel. Right now his current plan is to judge them and punish them but his future plan for them is to restore them. And that is basically where in that section 33 to 39, you have the very famous passage about the dry bones, the valley of dry bones. That would be in your chapter 37. If someone could read out chapter 37, Ezekiel chapter 37 verse 3. Yes. You see, what you have over there in the vision are not dead bodies with skin and flesh still attached with all the muscles still over there inside. No, what you have are the skin has been stripped away, the flesh is gone, nothing is left. You literally have only the bones left and what is the condition of the bones? The bones have become dry, which means the marrow inside the bones would now be completely disintegrated. So you could say that these skeletons are the last stage of disintegration. So at this stage, can they possibly live? Can these bones, can they become a living human being? It's like almost impossible because that is how you see this nation was seeing itself. The people were very shocked that they had been defeated, that they had been taken into exile. Even though the prophets had very plainly openly told them these facts many, many times, they had refused to believe it. And so now, even though whatever the prophets had told has happened, for them it's like a brand new shock. Like as if they had not even heard about this before. And so they're thinking, why did God do this? He has left us like as if, we are completely stripped away from all flesh, all skin, everything gone. And we are like bones which have been thrown, we are completely dead. There's no hope left for us. And so God gives this vision and he shows the bones which are completely dry and he says, he asks the prophet and he says, what do you think? You think these bones can become a living, breathing, active human being again? And Ezekiel's answer is very honest. He says, surely not only you know, because the situation is very impossible. Then God says, yes indeed the bones will live. So he is saying indeed this nation, even though it's in such a bad condition now, even though it looks like it's all finished. Yes, this nation will rise up again. This nation will live. So you know, you have a lot of sermons based on this passage and people bring out all kinds of meanings out of it. But this is the basic context here. God is talking about the nation of Israel, which has been finished off, which has been brought down completely to its knees and there is no hope of restoration. And here, God is actually talking about the nation being restored when he gives this vision of the bones coming back to life. So they say that from chapters 1 to 39 was written during the first part of Ezekiel's ministry. And then after many years of silence, he finally writes the last nine chapters because in these chapters, he starts talking about future events, the apocalyptic writing, where things are not described in a straightforward manner, but there are references given about the Messiah who will come, the new temple which will be established, the Kingdom of God which will be there in the end times, all of those things are mentioned in your chapters 40 to 48. So coming to Ezekiel, maybe a little bit about him, we see that his ministry must have started sometime after Jeremiah sends a letter to the exiles. Now, if you have been someone who has been reading your Bible sincerely, you know your Old Testament, then you would be aware that Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles because everyone is very familiar with Jeremiah 29-11. If you wake them up in the middle of the night and say quote Jeremiah 29-11, without even opening their eyes, they will be able to quote it to you. But very few realize that that particular verse is part of a letter which Jeremiah writes to the people who are living in exile. What is the background for this letter? All the people are under the impression that in another one or two years, they will go back home because these false prophets who are living in Jerusalem have been giving false hopes. They've been sending false messages saying, don't worry, everything is going to be fine in this person Hananaya, a false prophet. What does he say?  You know, why are you giving them the wrong information? And at that particular point of time, if I remember, Jeremiah goes over there to him wearing a wooden yoke, as if he's been enslaved and Hananaya takes that wooden yoke, breaks it and says, in this way, in a matter of two years, God will break the yoke which is upon Israel and he declares like that.   So, you know, so these people were having false hope. They were getting ready to start a rebellion over there. Imagine they were going directly against God's plans for them. So God asks Jeremiah to kindly write a letter to them and, you know, speak some sense to them and tell them, don't try to start off any rebellion. Don't try to create any chaos over there. Settle down in the land, live peacefully, you know, pray for the land. As long as the land is prospering, you also will prosper because you are going to be stuck over here for 70 years.  I want to give you a future and a hope. So therefore, because I want to give you a future and a hope, settle down, accept your fate, accept the punishment which has come upon you and be humble and begin to live, you know, for me. If you will live in a godly manner and keep your eyes on me at the end of 70 years, I will definitely take you back to your land. So those are all the things which you actually find in your Jeremiah 28 to 29. And so maybe the people did not take Jeremiah's words seriously where the people in Jerusalem only are not taking him seriously, where on earth will the exiles, you know, who are living many, you know, kilometers away, where will they take him seriously? So maybe it was around this time that Ezekiel was asked to begin his ministry to talk to these, you know, thick-headed people who are refusing to accept the word of the Lord. And this is what, you know, God says to Ezekiel in chapter three, verses seven to nine. He openly says, the people are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me. For all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate. That word obstinate basically means stubborn. Okay, the people are stubborn. And then God assures Ezekiel and he says to him, but I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. They are very hard and they are refusing to, you know, accept what I'm saying.  You will continue to give my message to them. And he says, I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint because then you will have the courage to stand up against them and tell them to settle down in the land and not try any kind of rebellion and not to disobey the Lord, but to accept the fate which God has brought upon them.  So we get to know that Ezekiel was living in a place called Tel Aviv. Okay, that would be somewhere near the river Caber, which is about 50 miles south of Babylon.  They're in this place called Tel Aviv. So when he's staying over there in that place, Ezekiel is commissioned. He has a vision.  We don't know whether he was actually literally sitting next to the river when it happened or whether he was sitting in his house when it happened. But the point is he has a vision from God and in that vision, which he tries to describe and which sounds impossible to understand even though he tries to describe in great detail all those wheels and ice and, I don't know, wings and stuff. It's all just too confusing to understand. But he tries to describe what he has seen and the whole point is that it seems to be some kind of a chariot and God is seated on that chariot and the chariot is getting ready to move. It's getting ready to go somewhere. So the suspense is, where is this chariot getting ready to go? So while the chariot is getting ready to leave at that point of time, God speaks to him and says, I am commissioning you.  All very unpleasant things are written upon that scroll and something interesting happens. I think all this happens in chapter 2 or chapter 3 I can't seem to remember right now but God gives him that scroll which contains all kinds of very, very unpleasant things and he says, eat it.  So in the vision, he eats the scroll and if you eat a scroll which is like that, what do you think it's going to taste like? Will it taste like ice cream or is it going to taste like bitter gourd? But when he tastes it, when he eats it, he says it tasted like honey and I was thinking something so unpleasant why on earth would it taste sweet? And this is actually a very beautiful message which comes across. You see that very unpleasant scroll tasted sweet because that scroll was conveying the will of God and one thing we need to understand is the will of God is always pleasing. It may seem unpleasant it may seem very painful sometimes the will of God does think in our lives which seem very, very harsh which seem very difficult to grasp but the will of God is always sweet. That scroll will always taste sweet. That is a reality which comes out in this particular vision and in the book of Hebrews that's in fact exactly what there are writers says over there he says when you are being disciplined it's painful, it's not pleasant but he says the fruit of that disciplining later what will you enjoy? He says you will enjoy the fruit of the peaceful fruit of righteousness is what you will enjoy that time it will taste very sweet so God's disciplining God's corrections are painful when it is happening but the peaceful fruit of righteousness which it yields later will be very sweet and you will be in the center of God's will and his blessings will be upon you, you will see all the ministry succeeding you will see all the projects to which you are putting your hand all of your work of your hands will succeed and then it will indeed be very sweet and you will say yes Lord your will is sweet so here we see a very unpleasant message being given by Ezekiel to the people asking them to settle down and stay over there for 70 years they don't want to accept it one thing Ezekiel knows because he has literally tasted it in his mouth he knows that good will come out of this plans to prosper you not to harm you to give you a future and a hope he understands these things which were written in Jeremiah's letter so Ezekiel begins to speak to them regarding these things and in chapter 11 we finally discover where exactly this chariot is going which God has seated and the glory of God he doesn't even know how to describe what he is seeing in his vision he says this was the likeness of the glory of God which he saw so it's not actually the glory of God but something like the glory of God which he has seen and that itself is so brilliant that is unable to almost explain it or describe it and so it's literally God that he is seeing in his vision and God and this chariots are moving going somewhere and to his shock and horror he discovers in chapter 11 the chariot is getting ready to leave Jerusalem and go leave and go away you know God is abandoning the city he is leaving he is saying you know goodbye city it's like such a shocking thing I mean they always depended on that temple as a symbol saying as long as the temple is here it means God's presence is here then nothing can touch us nothing bad will happen to us but now in this vision God is showing and saying you know what my glory is leaving this place I am no longer going to be in this place so in fact at the end of chapter 11 you see that the chariot of God leaves he leaves the city and he goes to a mountain which is you know just outside so we see that and over here in chapter 11 in the vision itself while this is about to happen Ezekiel sees 25 men standing over there these are some very important leaders of Jerusalem they are like the top people whom everyone looks up to whom everybody listens to these are 25 men and they are happily giving false prophecies that everything is going to be fine that God will take care and so God says you know prophesy against them and even as Ezekiel is prophesying in the vision just falls down dead literally even as he is speaking those words of prophesy the man falls down dead and Ezekiel is scared and he says lord are you going to just start killing of everyone are you just going to destroy everyone and he pleads and God says yes judgment has to come but he says in the future there is hope I will restore the people and that is where you have this beautiful you know these verses which talk about how he will take away a heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh that would be somewhere in the middle of the chapter chapter 11 18, 19, 20 because I was just kind of looking at it in the morning somewhere around there so both Jeremiah and Ezekiel talk about how in the future a day will come when these people will no longer have a heart of stone he says he will take that away and replace it with a heart of flesh so that is the assurance that he gives Ezekiel that hope is not lost the chariot will come back the glory has left but the glory will return one day is the assurance that and it says over there in chapter 11 the vision ends and he comes back to his people to the exiles and he tells them what he has seen so he is now telling them you know what God has revealed to me that his glory is actually going to leave Jerusalem what God has said is going to happen so finally at that point at least to the people believe him probably not because God is forced to give them one more sign and this is a very very shocking sign which God gives to the exiles who are living over there in Babylon because in chapter 24 is where God gives this sign and maybe we could have one person read out Ezekiel chapter 24 maybe verses 15 to 18 24 15 to 18 please so God is sending a very powerful message across he says these people are refusing to listen to what I am saying so I will do something which will make them sit up and take notice so God says to Ezekiel you know I am going to take away the delight of your eyes I am going to cause your wife to die and when she dies don't do the morning ceremony don't honour her with all those funerary customs and rituals you know which you people do do not do that grown quietly in your heart but outwardly do not do the ceremonies which are done you know to honour the dead person and that is a very hard message to give to anyone so if anyone is sitting over here and saying oh my ministry is difficult you know these people who are in the Bible their ministries are much more difficult or they went through I mean we probably would never face so you know this is the command that is given by the Lord to him so he says in verse 18 so I spoke to the people in the morning so in the morning he tells them God will do this he is going to make Jerusalem fall he will cause it to be you know invaded by the Babylonian army and in the evening after he has given this message his wife dies and the next morning everyone assumes that he is going to start the you know funeral procedures but he doesn't do anything he continues to wear his turban he continues to wear his sandals he does not cover his moustache and beard and he continues to eat normal food he doesn't do any of the things which you do to show that you are morning the person who has passed away he does not do any of those things and the people are so shocked in verse 19 then the people asked him won't you tell us what these things have to do with us why are you acting like this and so he says the delight of your eyes the Jerusalem the temple which you regard as so great it will be taken away from you and he says where is that inverse 22 he says and you will do as I have done you will not cover your moustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners on that day when Jerusalem falls you can't groan quietly in your spirit but do not do the ceremonies which are done to mourn what has been done because God has brought this upon us and it is something that we must submit and accept so I am assuming that at least after such a shocking object lesson was given maybe then the people began to really believe and respond because finally in the end we see that they do settle down they do accept whatever has happened to them and they give up their idol worship people for who for centuries had been idol worshippers who had refused to follow Yahweh you will observe that from now onwards idol worship disappears from the people of Israel no longer are they idol worshippers anymore when they come back from exile yes they have all the other list of sins which they are committing still but no longer is idol worship among the list of sins it is something that is actually wiped out of their system after what they have gone through and it is in fact during the Babylonian era while they are living over there in exile that you have all these godly groups of people rising up they set up things called synagogues where people can meet together once a week and spend time reading from the scrolls talking about the things of God so they start making an effort to come back to God during that era it is during like you know those times that all of this happens so finally in the end there is a change which is brought about after all the hardships that they go through so these are just some of the main things that we could look at from the book of Ezekiel so let's quickly move to the book of Daniel now Daniel he was not taken away during the second invasion he was captured and taken away during the first invasion itself the very first time that Nebuchadnezzar attacks and takes away exiles at that time itself Daniel was taken away from home and at that time he would have just been a young boy of maybe around 16 to 18 years so which means you know if you were to speak in modern terms he would basically be a boy of 11th standard 12th standard maybe first year degree not more than that just a youngster and this young boy goes over there and he declares to the authorities over there no no I will not eat the ungodly food that is being given over here so you see this was a kid who had guts he was a godly person who even though he's been taken to a strange land and he's living under people who are powerful he stands up for what he you know his faith for Yahweh and he's loyal to Yahweh he and his friends so these are not grown up men that we are talking about over here these are just youngsters very young but in their heart they have made a decision that they will be faithful to the Lord and not bend to these foreign rulers even though those foreign rulers have power over them so that is what we see about Daniel and in the first book of Daniel you have the stories you know the main theme which comes in all across in all of these stories is that if you are faithful to God in the land where you have been taken even though God's punishment has come upon you he will protect you he will be faithful to you why because you are holding on to him because that's the message we see Daniel and his friends they don't give up they continue to stay loyal to the Lord and so even though they are in a foreign land they are at a disadvantage God continues to watch over them he is faithful to them he protects them you know so we see that main message coming across in the first half of the book of Daniel the second half of the book of Daniel we know it's mainly about all these visions which are there which talk about the future events which will take place the restoration which God will bring for the nation all of those things that you would find in the second part of the book so here in our book of Daniel you have narrative history you also have prophecies and you have a lot of apocalyptic writing where it talks about all kinds of beasts and creatures and there's a lot of imagery that is used and there's a hidden meaning in all of those things so that's the apocalyptic kind of writing so in chapters 1 to 6 is where you have all the stories about Daniel and what he and his friends have been going through in the captivity but to be more specific chapters 2 to 7 is where he also gives the prophecies regarding the Gentiles what God is going to do to the different Gentile nations that is mentioned so broadly we can say chapters 1 to 6 are the stories about Daniel and his friends but specifically chapters 2 to 7 contain the prophetic plan which God has for the Gentile nations and because God is giving a message to the Gentile nations about what he is going to be doing these chapters are not written in the Hebrew language so chapter 1 where the introduction is being given that is in the Hebrew language the next few chapters chapters 2 to 7 are in the Aramaic language because that was the language which was being spoken over there in Babylon and in the other places so God wanted whatever was being written down to be read by even the Gentile people he wanted them to be aware of what he is saying he wanted them to know that he is predicting very correctly what is going to be happening in the future so chapters 2 to 7 are written in the Aramaic language then chapter 8 to 12 is again in the Hebrew language itself because in chapters 8 to 12 God is going to be talking about the plans that he has for Israel so 8 to 12 is again written in the Hebrew language now in this broad section 8 to 12 chapters 10 to 12 I am not sure whether I got this from your notes or from somewhere else in chapters 10 to 12 it very specifically talks about these are things which God tells him after the first group of exiles have returned back to Judah so you can imagine the time span this last few chapters chapters 10, 11 and 12 those chapters are written after the first group of exiles have been liberated and they return back home so basically Daniel a youngster went over there into exile he lived under all of those kings he had very important positions he stayed alive till the end of the exile he even saw the first batch of exiles going back home and then sometime after that at a very old age he must have died so here was one man who actually saw the entire exiled period in front of his eyes and he played a very important role he was in a high position and he held influence and authority in the court so he, God used him in a mighty way to fulfill his plans in that entire region so when he goes off he is nothing, he is nobody he is just a youngster just a young boy but because of the heart which he had look at the destiny that he he is able to function in one of the most powerful places and is able to achieve so much because of the heart that he had so a heart attitude can make a big difference so chapters 10 to 12 the last portion is in fact written after the return of the first batch of exiles back home and in the inverse at the end of the book in chapter 12 verses 8 to 9 this is what Daniel says he says, as for me I heard but could not understand so I said, my lord what will be the outcome of these events and this is what God says, God says go your way Daniel for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time so Daniel writes down God is telling him to write down he talks about all these visions and statues and creatures and all of that but he says he hasn't quite understood all the details which are given and so he asks for an explanation and this is what God says these words the meaning of what these words is will only be revealed in the end times so you go your way you will die you will be with your forefathers but when the end times come then the actual meaning of all these visions will be revealed because then step by step all these things will start getting fulfilled and then people will recognize and say, oh my this vision seems to be talking about these particular events which are happening right now so that way the visions would all be fulfilled one by one okay those of you who seem to be dropping off to sleep we have another 15 minutes which is a long span of time all of us sitting over here are very eager and happy to have names in the book of life and there's a lot of stuff written about the book of life in this Daniel so maybe we could very quickly look at some of these passages Daniel chapter 7 verses 9 to 11 okay that's one amazing passage where you have a scene described literally from the end times Daniel actually sees this in front of his eyes he sees the ancient of days Yahweh in all of his glory coming and sitting over there at the judgment seat and he describes him he talks about how his throne is like fire and he says that his clothing is as white as snow and he describes him and he says the ancient of days sits down to bring judgment and what's the first thing that he does it says the court was seated and the books were opened so the word used over here is plural and it says that the books were opened before the judgment begins and then if you were to look in chapter 20 verses 12 to 15 maybe someone can actually read out chapter 20 verse 12 obviously there are only 12 chapters in the book right so now which chapter would this be oh great perfect I don't get my references right I'm using the references from Revelation as well right so yeah over here in your Daniel chapter 7 it talks about the books being opened and then if we can look at what these books are the explanation for that we could maybe find in Revelation so if you can help me by going to Revelation chapter 20 and if you could read out verse 12 yeah okay so here you have it repeats whatever was said in Daniel chapter 7 okay just like in Daniel chapter 7 it said the court was seated and the books were opened here also in Revelation 20 verse 12 it says the books were opened and then it says another book was opened which is the book of life and then it goes on to say the dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books over here it's talking about the plural books it's not talking about the book of life and then look at verse 15 if someone could read out verse 15 okay so names which are not written in the book of life those people would be thrown into the lake of fire and then if we can maybe look at Revelation chapter 13 verse 8 if you could have someone read out Revelation 13 verse 8 so it's more like a repetition here it says those whose names have not been written in the lambs book of life they are the ones who will worship the beast and it just says the book of life the lamb who was slain from the creation of the world but it's more specifics given when you go to Revelation 17 verse 8 because then you get a more complete picture of when these names were written down so if you could go to chapter 17 verse 8 here it talks about whose names have not been written in the book of life and when one of these names written down it says have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world so the names were written down in the book of life even before the creation of the world God already knew who are the people who will accept him who will choose to commit their life to him and these names were already written down it says from the creation of the world you know which is similar to what we saw in verse chapter 13 where it says from the time when the lamb was slain from the creation of the world at that time itself God knew who are the people who will accept him and so the lamb which would be slain in the future that lamb was prepared right then in the beginning itself for these people whose names will be there in the book of life and then you come to this rather you know shocking statement which you see in Revelation chapter 3 verses 4 to 6 so if someone could read out that Revelation chapter 3, 4 to 6 it looks like as if the names are written down from before the creation of the world in the book of life because God knows that the lamb will be slain for these people but here in Revelation 3 you have the statement which says the one who is victorious you know like these people in Sardis the one who is victorious like them he will be dressed in white I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life which raised the question among scholars who said does that mean that some of the names which were written before the foundation of the world will some of those no names get blotted out if someone is not living in victory if someone is not staying loyal to the lord if someone has gone back to the world like Deimos you know who goes back to the world will their names be blotted out from the book of life and that sounds rather scary and dangerous so of course you have people who will say no no no salvation can never be lost so you know your name can never be blotted out and others who will say yes salvation can be lost so even though your name was written down before the foundation of the world in the book of life it is possible for it to be blotted out so you have two opinions which are there and people who say that it can be blotted out they will refer to Hebrews chapter 10 verses 26 to 31 where it talks about if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth no sacrifice for sins is left only a terrible expectation of judgment and it goes on to say that you know those who have yeah it says how much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the son of god under foot who has treated as an ungodly thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them okay the blood of the covenant which sanctified them which cleaned them now they are you know trampling upon that blood and so for such people only judgment will be there so all of those things are written in the Hebrew passage and so some people will say that even though all the names were written down in the book of life before the foundation of the world there would be some names that will be blotted out depending on the way the people have you know whether they choose to continue to remain in the Lord or they choose to go back to the world like these people and sadists who have stayed faithful and God says about them the one who is victorious will like them be dressed in white and I will never blot out their name okay so I don't have an answer for this but these are two opinions that exist regarding the book of life and regarding the names in the book and when I was very young I was very worried about this whole thing and I went to one preacher who had come to our church and I said what's going to happen to me you know is my name going to get blotted out he looked at me he smiled and he said I don't have an answer for you but why do you want to place your life in such a position where you're wondering am I going to be in hell or heaven why don't you start following the Lord and enjoying His presence then you don't even have to worry about whether your name is going to be blotted out or not because you'll be secure and safe in the in the center of His will why do you want to live on the edges where you're constantly worried about what's going to happen to you instead go into the center where you will always be part of Him and enjoy the abundant life that He has promised and that seemed like very sensible advice so I thought why hang out on the fringes on the edges constantly worrying am I going to end up in hell or am I going to go to heaven there's no need for believers to even be in that state rather can be like the people of Sardis who even though they were living in a difficult situation it says in Revelation 3 they did not dirty their clothes they lived in righteousness they and it says they are worthy they are worthy of what God is offering them you know is what it says so we need to be like that so these are just some of the things that we can learn from the book of Daniel you know yeah there are of course other things he talks about the resurrection of the dead that's another important concept which we see in the book of Daniel that not only will the ones who have placed their faith in God not only will they be resurrected but even those who are destined for hell they also will be resurrected that would be in Daniel chapter 12 of course the ungodly are resurrected for destruction on the other hand the godly are resurrected to live with the Lord you know eternally so there are many many more things in the book of Daniel but then there's no time to cover all of those things anyone has any last minute questions is what it looks like but it looks like that in Revelation chapter 3 it says the names were written in before creation when the lamb was slain or rather the lamb yeah so for God he already would know who are all the people who will accept him and the blood of the lamb has been shed for all of them so all the names of those who have accepted him will be there but it seems to indicate in Revelation 3 that people still have the freedom to make a choice and if they would like to go back to the world like Deimos did then God will not stop them but they are people if you were to look at Hebrews chapter you know maybe looking at that passage where was that chapter 12 was it 10 Hebrews chapter 10 they have been sanctified it says in verse 19 they were sanctified by the blood of the covenant but now they choose to trample on it once again so and in another passage it talks about how they have experienced the Holy Spirit and still now they are going back so all of those references it's a very debated topic so I do not have any answers but it is good for us to know that these passages are there so that you can maybe prayerfully think for yourself how you should answer this question if someone comes to you so just so that you will be aware of these passages and you can decide for yourself how these questions should be answered if someone approaches maybe we can close with this because there is no time left let's close with a word of prayer please Lord we just thank you so much for the things that we could learn from the book of Ezekiel and also the book of Daniel we thank you O Lord that these men were so committed in their walk with you they were so loyal to you in spite of all the opposition and the hardships which they faced so we pray O Lord that we too will be like that so that when you look at us you will see that like Ezekiel, like Daniel and like the people of Sardis we have chosen to stay faithful in spite of opposition and you will declare and say that they are worthy to be dressed in white that they are worthy to be clothed in the righteousness which you are freely offering to us O Lord so I pray that we would live that kind of lives so that we would never have to fear or worry about you know losing you losing your presence thank you Lord in Jesus name amen so thank you so much those of you who are online


This is stock number 10085. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2015 Ford F-250 Crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.7 liter second gen power stroke diesel From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around inside and out White platinum tricode metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have the HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device Turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way To check out the vehicle before you actually see it in person Very clean down this side comes with the 20 inch painted and polished aluminum rims and it has Michelin LTX LT275 65R 20 tires These tires have right around 60% of the tread left Frame and underbody on this vehicle is an exceptionally clean condition Didn't see any dents or dings on that front fender Front bumper is in really nice condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on that has the chrome tow hooks Headlight lenses are nice and clear. I didn't see any dents or dings on the hood And the passenger side fender is in excellent condition as well Passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes on that And as you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is how reflective and rear-like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the truck You can still see the truck hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here Didn't see any dents or dings in the box The cab is an excellent condition And down this side of the truck Very very clean No dents no dings all the lower rockers are in excellent shape as all the remaining factory exhaust And the frame and underbody is an exceptionally nice clean condition The back rim no scuffs or scrapes on that and the back tires have just as much tread as the rest Maybe even a little bit more in the back You can see those box rails all look really good It's always very where you want to look for corrosion is on those box rails But this one is just about no corrosion on it has a chrome tipped exhaust The platinum block lettering on the box there as we come around to the back The rear bumper is an excellent condition and seeing dents or dings on that has a full towing package Which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring Has a very nice Tonneau cover you can really see that white Platinum color on there. It's a Ford factory Tonneau on here and it has a spray and bed liner fifth wheel wiring fifth wheel bed rails and Just very very clean back here No dents or dings has the tailgate step assist as well as the locking tailgate and the backup camera As we go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side We want to make sure you get the most accurate representation So that when you get here, there's absolutely no surprises You'll be ready to go because you'll look to have over 40 photos Checked out this seven and a half minute HD video So you can make a smart buying decision has the power scope mirrors They power telescope out and power fold in has heating element and blinkers driver side door code entry We do have the code for that inside.  There's no rips There's no tears on these seats both of these seats are heated both these seats are cooled Weather tech floor mats power windows power locks power mirrors and the like I said these These mirrors power fold in and they also power telescope out and In has the Sony sound system auto headlamps and power pedals As we hop inside the truck you can see that this one has 44,364 miles Instrument cluster is very nice and clean comes with the leather wrapped and Wood grain trimmed steering wheel. This is a heated steering wheel You got audio and cruise a Bluetooth controls on the right cruise controls and information center controls on the left Very nice clean condition six-speed automatic transmission Stability control downhill assist control turned out four-wheel drive. This is your factory exhaust break 2015 Which is what this truck is was the first year of that comes with the my Ford touch radio Which has your climate controls your heated and cooled seat buttons going to turn that cool seat on right now It's kind of hot in here And then it has the factory navigation as well as AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities And then here's your backup camera right there More climate controls down here dual climate control factory brake controller for upfitter switches 110 volt 150 watt plug-in the sync system which allows your phone to connect Bluetooth Via Bluetooth to your radio side Cournere bags and the power Sunroof Has the home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems the headliners very clean power Sliding your window and your map lights nothing this truck's ever been smoked in smells very clean inside We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood Back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips no tears back here It does have the latch child safety system for I'm sorry It does not have it has the tether anchors latched tether anchors and back power sign rear window with the built-in Rita frost you do get a lockable storage compartment underneath these seats with locks with the ignition key We have fat weather tech floor mats back here as well And then a hundred ten volt hundred fifty watt plug-in Back here and behind the seats is your factory subwoofer and there are those latched tether anchors right there We'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today Hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel Engine bay is very clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change Looks like it has motorcraft batteries It's usually a good sign that the truck was serviced at a local Ford dealer most of its life But engine bay is very clean truck has been fully safety inspected as a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go to see more pictures of this truck Or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs mini vans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons You name it. 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huge benefit of living in society. It's a huge benefit of trade, of living with groups and its white people move to the city. There's a huge advantage in numbers and in networks that are created when we can meet face to face. But we want to make sure that we can meet face to face without you pulling a gun and destroying everything that it builds. Now, to identify that, we have come up with a concept. And that concept is individual rights. What does a right mean? A right means that it's kind of an ethical political concept, but it's really an ethics. It basically says that you are free as an individual to use your mind and to act on your judgment in pursuit of your values, free of coercion, a force of authority. And so individual rights recognizes your freedom as an individual to use your mind in pursuit of your values. It recognizes the fact that forces the enemy of reason that says you have a right to be free of force. And how do we operationalize individual rights? I would say we need a foreign institution, right? The basic job is to prevent people from shooting each other. Its basic job is to prevent people from stealing from one another, to prevent people from violating other people's rights. That's it. And then arbitrating disputes, because sometimes it's tricky to figure out who violated whose rights, whose property line is it, who's, and that's, that's, let's call it government. It's a horrible word these days, but that's what governments should be for. That's it. It's the, it's the, it's the protect our rights and to arbitrate, arbitrate disputes. And that's all we need governments for. But you know, and we need them because you need an institution to be able to do that, to extract force from human society because forces are evil. Now property rights are derivative of the fundamental right to life. That is, if you have a right to live your life based on your judgment in pursuit of your values, property is a big way, maybe the most important way in which you do that, right? Right. It's no meaning to living your life in pursuit of your values if you don't get to keep the product that you produce, that anybody can take it from you at any point. That's what it means to live your life based on your values. So the most important derivative from the right to life is the right to property, the right to free speech, the right to liberty is another one, right? These are, these are rights that are the right, but really there's only one right. And that's the right to your life, the right to do what you want to do with your life in pursuit of your values, using your reason.  But as long as you're not violating other people's rights, it's none of the government's business. And the rights are not there to protect you so you can do stupid things, right? So they're to protect you so you can do smart things but because the government is not in a position to decide what's smart and what's not, it has to permit you to do anything. Right. As long as you don't violate other people's rights. Okay. So the, I've, my prior view was the sole human right was choice essentially, but I guess that you're effectively saying the same thing, the life, right? Like you own your life and then you get to choose what to do. Yes, I don't like to say own life only because ownership, ownership is something you do once you're alive. So life predates ownership, if you will. So owning your life kind of, I think, inverts the hierarchy. It says, what comes first? First, you live. Yeah, my life's mine. Nobody else is mine. And then that means my choices are mine. That means, and this is where individual rights comes my actions are mine. I have a right to act on my own behalf based on my judgment.  Action is what rights are really about rights about freedom of action. It's about the ability to act in the world out there. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iranbookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get announcement when we go live. And for those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Minnesota's projected budget surplus has grown to more than 1.65 billion dollars. State budget officials released the updated figures today. Lawmakers had previously been expecting a 1.4 billion dollar budget surplus. Governor Mark Dayton has proposed a nearly 46 billion two-year budget that Republicans say increase the spending too much. And GOP lawmakers who control the legislature have signaled that they will press the Democratic governor for a hefty tax relief package after two years without tax cuts. Dayton previously lined up roughly 300 million in tax relief. This budget forecast is more very good economic news for Minnesota. It's the eighth straight budget forecast that shows still further improvement in our state's finances. Minnesota's progress has been made possible in large part by our state's strong and still growing economy which has added 255,400 new jobs since January 2011 and due to our sound fiscal management. For today it's good news and it allows us to do the things that we want to do. We said we want to pass the roads and bridges bill. You should expect that. We want tax relief. We want to fix the health care crisis. All of those should be able to be done this year. The revised estimate kicks off the legislature's budget-setting process at the Capitol this year. They'll try to approve a new budget before journeying in late May. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


This new miss. Yeah fake laugh Guys welcome my new house It's been really really good It's been really really good moving into the new house. I got all these boxes As you can see I've got a bunch of boxes now They came with the house actually so I got a good deal on them Now I'm not gonna open the Majora's box and play it.  I'm still moving in It's taking me a minute You've been disconnect if I log in. I'm dead. I'm gonna be so mad. I'm actually gonna be pissed. I ended up at the top Hey, can you guys hear me? How bad is the sound I really hope my key binds work. Where's the num block?  Those are nice. There's no num lock So what I do What do you need num lock for because it's on the wrong numbers So what's happening is it's my my key binds aren't working. Can you look at my screen? Yes That's a ten keyless mechanical keyboard Why do you need num lock? So cuz cuz my key binds are set to num pad and because it's set to num pad. It's on the wrong number You see what I'm saying? Move it move on from num pad. I just said that the whole time put it on num pad I think you might have to redo it there bud. Is there is there no function key? This keyboard is worthless No, I I literally that's literally not how you play class I'm just gonna click all my abilities tonight anybody who does less damage to me should be gk I'm clicking all my abilities tonight. Good luck now. Also. Fortunately for you guys.  How can I seal to us without a swing timer? I'm popping wings The classic experience I was still sixth on damage did pyro I did more damage than you Hmm. I'm allergic to dito. I forgot what the spider webs. What are you doing? I'm rating This does chubby always do this Chat what did we learn today chat? You don't Right on mischief setup. I'm like mana burns so bad. You see a wisdom. I'm trying Mana pots embarrassing. I don't even know I don't want to use my mana pots The only as embarrassing as your parents Did this this keyboard hurts my wrist because he doesn't have a wrist rest I'm having a put in this box right next to this Nice good job. Okay. I think we're good I think we're at a point now where we can actually play the game and I can actually talk and and and not be just completely Yeah My guild is fan and boss tracks again, dude What the hell is wrong with these guilds that just give up in a week one week two of the new raid? Though though like overwhelming lack of self-esteem and resolve that people have blows my Like I get it like people want to do like whatever but It's just like legit at the point of like It's it's like you have like boomers that are always like Kids these days the kids these days they don't have it.  Oh my gosh What is going on? Why are we what the frick?  That's not projecting Projecting as if I do it and then other and then I'm saying everybody does it It's the literal opposite of projecting.  That means the whole planet is a giant ball. What does that mean? That means everybody has the COVID vaccine because that's what Nicki Minaj said I have a funny story about Morgan Tidewalker chat back in the day when we did this boss We wiped out this boss for a long time.  Deied the tank because I thought it would be funny to die the tank and we're gonna kill I was like Oh, is that one percent?  So at 1.9 percent. I de-eyed him. So what ends up happening is like It's one percent.  This will be funny de-eyed the tank and then all of a sudden it's like, you know Like second on threat dies a DPS dies our top damage is dead And all of a sudden like people start dying a healer dies and everyone's like what is going on?   Do you feel the pump? Do you feel the frickin crank dude? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting excited.  Why I have wings up.  I wasn't hard. I was I was so high. I wasn't on drugs. I was high on damage Frick man. Nice to Anyways guys, thank you so much for joining me today We finally killed Tide Walker the boss is super tough There is Lady Vosh and Kale thoughts are still left Missed that I can stream from here the next few days, which I will be doing my setups a mess.  So and there's a chance. I might not even go I gotta talk to you Cinderella because I'm like kind of overwhelmed with everything going on right now


There are meeting between the Margin Government and the Trade Union Congress to reconvene on Tuesday, June the 6th. Speaking to State House Correspondent at the end of the meeting on Sunday evening, a director under the Frank Tinnabosha team, a campaign organization, Dilla Lackey, said discussions went well, and they had made appreciable progress. He said the TUC presented a list of demands. The top of wage was to increase the minimum wage of workers to cushion the effect of the removal of subsidy on petrol. We are very happy to announce to Nigerians that this engagement has been very productive. The TUC that attended it presented a list of demands. And those demands we have studied and we are going to present to Mr. President for his consideration. For those demands we can announce to Nigerians that a lot of the items on the list are not impracticable. What we need to do is to study the numbers very well. And then we have asked the TUC to also give us a leeway to consult very exhaustively and come back on Tuesday, reconvene on Tuesday to actually look at the numbers, the viability, practicability of all the items that have been presented to us. Now, most important top priority on the list, which the government is also looking at very seriously. And the President has announced before is the issue of the minimum wage, which the labor movement has demanded as a consequence of these removal of the consequential impact of the removal of subsidy. So government is looking at that and Mr. President is most likely going to constitute a tripartite committee. That is the committee of federal government and including the states. Then the organized labor on the other part and the private sector. Now this is a tripartite arrangement. It will be a committee that will study all the dynamics of the wage increase, the percentages, the numbers and the categories that will be affected. So by Tuesday, when we come back to reconvene and meet with the TUC, again the labor movement, we should have very concrete items to present to the world. But the most important thing for today is that we are making appreciable progress with the labor movement. Also speaking, the President of the TUC, Festus Osifu, who led the union's delegation to the meeting, affirmed that the man to the TUC were presented the type of wage was the upward review of the minimum wage in line with current realities. We have presented the list of our demands to them and they received it in good faith that they would go back to their principal and come back to us. So we are hopeful that the demand that we have presented would be reviewed in the best interest of Nigerian workers and the entire Nigerian masses. It's because they are going back to Mr. President. So we also think that we should give them a benefit of that so that we will convey this meeting again on Tuesday. So we have and top most in our demand was clearly stated as well that for utmost good faith and in the interest of social dialogue that they should revert back the pump rise. Why? Discussion?


We went down to Newport with samples of Brian and myself, and, you know, we had a very warm relationship with Jeff Stiball, who was partners with Kobe Bryant in a fund called Brian Stiball. And we got around a table like this size, and, you know, all the little vials of fragrances and samples and little jars are on the table, and we've got a little presentation. It's all printed out.   He was, you know, they were coming off of a great period, a great, you know, an intensive period with body armor. And again, he was, you know, very clear, very aware of how do you build a brand that's authentic and deliberate and with real values and how do you make really good products and also aware of, hey, I'm not, I'm not here to hold up a deodorant stick. Like that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to build a business with you guys, right? So he was feeling us out, you know, and we were essentially saying, look, we're not looking for you to be the spokesperson for a deodorant business. We want you to be a co-founder with us. And this was right at the stage where we'd felt like all of those samples were ready to actually be tested after multiple iterations. And so he had an opportunity to help select fragrances. He asked for a ton of samples, which put huge pressure on our labs because there's like, I want 200 of these. And it was like, who are you, who are you giving these things to?  And that was the juncture at which point there was still so much to be shaped. And that was the, that was the messy period he loved to get involved with. So, uh, it was right at the beginning. I mean, it was, you know, it was a couple months down the trail where we had something that we could talk about in detail. That's pretty cool. Is he always hands on with his investments or was this one of these? Yeah, it depends. I think, I think the things that he, he was in a place, of course, where he had more bandwidth, but everyone wanted something from him. Right. And he had to be very deliberate about, Hey, look, I'm, I'm kind of on top of the world. I've had this amazing career. I've got, you know, all these years ahead of me. Sure. And I only want to do things that really matter, that I care about. And he actually cared about skincare a lot. And he didn't want to have a, just a sort of a Nike clone. He didn't want it to just be another body armor thing. Like he wanted to find ways that this could be different and exciting and unique and original. And so that was, that spoke to him. And so part of, I think what made him so excited was this notion that, Hey, we're going to meet up on a regular basis. We're going to, we're going to show you things. We're going to show you things in design. We showed him prototypes for industrial packaging, you know, ideas that we had different fragrances, different color schemes, different names. He named all the products. Like he was, he was in the thick of it with us, you know? Wow. So yeah, yeah, it was a great, great partnership to start with. And, and he encouraged us to really kind of supercharge the bringing the athlete consortium around us. We have a stable of six other amazing athletes. And so that was, is one of his imparting messages was, look, I'm, I'm one opinion, right? But you need a, you need a cross-section of the athlete community of this country because that should represent your, that they, they should have voices in your business, right? And from the athlete side, are you guys doing equity plays? Is it, is it? Yes. It's equity ownership. In some cases, yeah, in some cases it's part partnerships in that, in that vein where, you know, with James, it's again, it's like, we're never going to be able to pay him what Adidas pays him. Right? Sure. Yeah. Um, I think it's like a hundred, some 200 months and crazy, right? Yeah. And so from him, for him is, from his perspective, it's like, look, I, I'd much rather have upside in building something with you guys. Yeah. And then of course the trade-off is like, okay, well, don't expect a really expensive catering spread when you come to the photo shoot. Like it's going to be you and me.  And I'm going to be prodding you to say certain things from the camera. And, and, you know, it's going to be eight, eight hour production day. And he was totally game to do it, which was amazing. You know, speaking to them in a way was like, Hey, look, we're not just here because you're an athlete. We're here because you want to be a businessman and you want to commit your time to building things and making things that matter and creating cool content.  In the case of Juju, he's a media entity. He's got a million YouTube subscribers who watch him play video games with Drake and Travis Scott.  So he's almost got a bigger following in his e-gaming community than he does in football. And he thinks of himself. It's really intelligent, actually. Incredibly smart, incredibly smart. He's a machine from a content perspective. I think he's the second most recognizable football player in the league now is 22 years old. So that's the kind of conversations we have with our athletes as well.  Hey, everyone, thanks for checking out that clip. If you enjoyed it, be sure to hit the like button down below. And if you're interested in hearing the full episode, it's out right now on our YouTube channel. We've had a lot of great guests come on this show before, and we've got a lot of great guests coming up in the future. So hit subscribe so that you don't miss a single episode. And one final note, we're always looking for new ideas and new companies feature on the show. So if you know of someone or know of a company, write us a comment down below letting us know who they are and what they do. 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And you're very welcome back and that was the sound of Cara Dillon and black is the colour of my true love's hair and as promised joining me in the studio tonight to review our book of the month The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. We've got Connie McGrenahan and sister Orly Karen and you're very welcome ladies. Thank you Jean. Thanks Jean. So it's great to have you Orly here because the last time just circumstances didn't allow it and so it's great to have you. Thanks a million. So this is as I mentioned earlier the Dubu novel by Pip Williams. It was the number eight bestseller in Australia back in 2021 and it's now got the rights for a TV series and a possible film. It's not a book that the title wouldn't entice it to lift it Connie. No it well it was you that suggested it so you enticed me to lift it. No so the book centres around Esme who is the she's actually a fictional character but the book is based on it as a work of historical fiction and it's it's it centres around the word bond made or it starts in 1901 the word bond bond made was discovered to be missing from the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the book centres around then the character Esme who by the way stole the word or found the word under the table so she's a fictional character and as I say Esme's father in the story works for James Murray who was the real life editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and I suppose it's based around the compilation of the book. Orly do you want to say then what happens next? Yeah well as a child Esme spends much of her childhood under the the sorting table where the lexicographers and the editor of the dictionary and her father work and she's fascinated by the words and there's a real bond between her and her father to do with all the words and he sort of teaches her to read as well you know sounding out the words and as Connie said sometimes she finds these discarded words under the table and that first word that she found was bond made and when she looked it up it meant slave girl and this is sort of a real pivotal point of the story because um as I say bond made meant slave girl but she would have had a maid herself Lizzie who's a wonderful character in the story and I suppose it left Esme feeling quite conflicted that um she was kind of middle class and had this servant girl friend Lizzie who looked after her and was Esme or was um Lizzie a slave girl to her in ways even though they had a wonderful friendship and relationship too. And then Esme later discovers or decides that she's actually a bond maid herself to the dictionary. Yeah she's a slave to the words to the dictionary. Yeah it meant the word to her. It's very much the whole the bond maid thing is it very it recurs yeah it reoccurs lots throughout the book. I thought I thought one of the things about the book that I loved was her uh Pip Williams development of relationships and I suppose having a very very very tight relationship with my own father I could see the love that her father and her had and also the love that Lizzie had there was a lot of love in the book. Yeah there was yeah there was a lot of acceptance what I found and I suppose intriguing was all this acceptance yeah it was everybody that she encountered through her trials and tribulations accepted her for what had happened you know she becomes involved in the Suffragette movement Lizzie's very against the Suffragette movement her her by the way made friend because she feels that it will have never benefit her as a working class person and she's happy just to keep the roof over her head and doesn't want to get involved with Suffragettes but when Esme does and gets into trouble as a result of it Lizzie backs her up all the time her father backs her up all the time the her aunt by the way yeah backs her up all the time there's a lot of acceptance and as you say love great characters I have to say great yeah yeah she is motherless I suppose as well we we never really mentioned that at the beginning so I think there are a lot of people who do love and protect her and I think she's a wonderful curious little girl that so many people seem to have fallen in love with her all the other lexicographers in the room you know Dr James Murray himself you know had great time for her given her birthday presents making her feel very special so I think she was a special person and a great you know lead character in the book but as Connie said yeah there was yeah a lot of love and as you say the father-daughter relationship really was beautiful and him navigating the tricky moments with her her growing up to be a teenager and you know just guiding her as best as he could and wanting the best for her you know you see even as as she gets a bit older he would have loved her to have settled down and gone the traditional route but she had other ideas for herself and you know he kind of knew better than he backed off away but then but yeah I thought her development of the characters was really good you know you really felt that you knew them and there were we've talked about Esme and Lizzie but then there's that wonderful character in the covered market whenever she sort of left the security of her own home to go out and collect words that maybe the lower class would have used that didn't merit me in the dictionary and maybe were vulgar I can think of a few four letter words beginning with C that will not repeat on on on radio but I thought that Mabel in particular was a lovely character you liked her I did because for me the book did start off a little bit slow and just to say I did I did the audiobook so I was listening to the book and it was read by a fabulous actor an English lady I don't know her from any any movies or anything but her voice was beautiful to listen to and she put on lots of voices for the different characters so when she did Mabel at the market and Mabel was coming out with these quite crude offensive words for me after the slow start of the book this really had me giggling then out loud you know I'd be out walking yes it lifted me and I was out walking I found myself giggling and you know I'd be in the car listening to it and things like that that's my best way of access and books at the minute with the busy lifestyle I don't get to sit to read sometimes so the car or wherever waiting on the kids to finish their activities it's a great way to to access a book but yeah Mabel I thought provided a bit of comic relief and as you say some of the words she was saying were quite offensive and crude but they really interested as me because as me was learning these are words that are spoken by women but they're not written down so the men weren't even considering considering them as an option for the English dictionary and so she was starting to look at the Oxford English dictionary then as quite a biased piece of work you know because they weren't taken into account the words that women were using you know and I suppose just got off an attendant for a minute when you're doing audiobook do you think that that added to this book and to other books when you're actually listening to somebody reading it Oh definitely I mean I probably could count on one hand voices I didn't enjoy I definitely think they pick very skilled high quality actors now for audiobooks and it brings a whole new dimension to to the characters I mean you know the the way they can change their voices for a particular character it is like listening to play it's kind of taken me away from podcasts I would have listened to a lot of podcasts whereas now I find I definitely think it's a great way of accessing books if you aren't getting time to sit and read you know I do it on the way to work because one day I work in Donegal Town so that's my hour I've got about 120 minutes left in a book yeah and you know you're gonna get it finished tomorrow yes and also I suppose one of the things is it's about words but there's a very subtle description of society at the time and how women were treated you know the suffragettes but even you know the fact that Lizzie is the paid help and what her words don't count yes and there's one lovely phrase that she said in the book if I remember it now that basically that she does everything and if it wasn't for that she wouldn't exist yeah yeah and that's why she enjoyed embroidery because it was something that she could show that she had done because everything I do is either eaten or swept up or put away there's no trace of anything that I do which was as you say very significant in the book yeah and also was also education what Dr. Murray's daughter from what I read and maybe I misread it was that she got a degree and but she couldn't graduate because she was a woman and that was another thing that woman weren't allowed to do and I think she said just no no degree no graduation because she had no trousers and I just thought that that was no woman I suppose before they got the vote they were in the 19th century early 20th century they were very second-class citizens and that's definitely touched on in the book with you know the the character of Tilda becomes Esme's friend she's the actress and she becomes like the the activist of the book really and gets herself in a bit of trouble and has to has to flee the town of Oxford but I didn't think it overdrilled that too much because when I read the you know the blurb I thought oh gosh it's going to be very heavy now suffragette movement and but actually it touched on it very nicely and Esme chooses not to go down the the real hardcore activist radical path but yet in her own way by compiling these words the the women's words the women you know the words that were considered maybe offensive and crude but that gave meaning to their lives and and also she wrote their names beside their definition and their words so she was given like as you said Lizzie was never going to get any recognition for anything yet Lizzie's name was in the book at the end the dictionary of lost words you know I think she gave a great definition of knackered you know being just more tired than a horse because you just work so hard all day it's not listless it's not exhausted it's way more than that it's knackered after a day of service in a home and there were there were so many characters in it there were sort of the main characters that we've mentioned who was your favorite orla and probably Lizzie overall you know but there was moments like Mabel had her real funny moments Gareth I thought the the person that you know becomes Esme's special person I suppose um was a lovely person a very down-to-earth young man who her father would have been delighted with but overall probably Lizzie I think she was the most real um and you know very humble and she she accepted her lot in life and she was clever Lizzie was clever you know she was a lot cleverer than she realized herself yes you know like saying for example the embroidery and like or Esme at one point says Lizzie do you think God will forgive me and Lizzie says well you have to learn to forgive yourself you know and I thought the part the part where um after Esme had been sick and she was struggling or whatever and they went to the cottage Lizzie really came into herself she got a friend yeah that was you know when she became sort of queen of her small castle you know and that was a nice part as well but I'm like ordered to I like Lizzie the best as well I wasn't mad about Mabel I found Mabel crude do you know what I mean and I know maybe it's different when you were listening to not a girl or whatever yeah but I didn't like her at all you know when it came to her I sort of had this vision of a wee grey-haired person like a witch yeah oh I know yeah and I think yeah yeah and without giving too much away for anyone who's listening who would like to read the book uh were you happy with the ending Connie um I thought it was a happy ending of sorts because I suppose the book was recognized and in whatever way I won't say how it was recognized but it was recognized as it should have been but I think overall I think it was quite sad you know I needed something out there I needed some I would have liked a little bit of something uplifting you know um it was what it was you know what what would you have liked best about it and what did you just like most about it I think I would have liked more emphasis on other characters I think the character of Esme you know I know she was the main character but I think there could have been more focus for example in Lizzie in her life we knew she was an orphan we knew her family had all been split up you know we knew that she was working for Dr Murray as as a maid or whatever I think she could have been a there could have been a wee bit more I kind of got fed up reading about Esme and what about yourself Orla um I I did like the ending because although there's certain things I would have liked to to ended up a different way I accepted what the ending was and I think in a sense it did come full circle you know because someone from her past well you know was was recognising her her work and the development of the dictionary of lost words and in a way I felt it came full circle like I definitely had a tear in my eye when I realised what had happened at the end and so for me no I thought it was a beautiful ending like it was bittersweet it absolutely was as Connie said too I think definitely you would have I was always wanting more about Lizzie like would she have met up with her friend from the holiday again would she have gone back there for another little holiday you know something more for Lizzie Lizzie just seemed to all she did was get older get older get her get greater yeah it was all about does well do you know what I mean for a person she devoted her life to Esme and do you remember Esme scratching and breaking the mother's hair and and all that do you know what I mean and Lizzie just accepted it accepted it and out of 10 what would you score it at Connie well I'd probably give it a seven and I would I would recommend anybody to read it definitely and what about yourself or an eight an eight from me it isn't my typical book now but I have to say I really got caught up in it and really enjoyed it especially through the audiobook I think it did bring a lot of life and you know a new dynamic to it as well yeah I could give it an eight and a half nine I loved it I thought it was a very gentle tender book very tenderly written and charming yeah a very charming book interesting so ladies thank you so much for taking time out on this what looks to be quite a nice evening from the weather we've been having and hopefully we'll get you back again in the near future lovely jean thanks a million cheers dump stores double sabers makes midweek meals simple and affordable step one cook omega-3 fish fingers 1 euro 49 for 15 pack


Do that. Might have to block out this video. 2,500 points there right there. Nice deal, that's awesome, man. So we'll be giving that away. Martinelli, Grealish, Pope. Wow, another one. Glass, rice. Wow, the loose box mojo's killing it. West Ham United, Scott with that one. Trust me, Rags, I've actually had both happen. It was weird. So I don't wanna show anything, but that one was flipped backwards, so. Technically, there was a split second that it was showing stuff, but I've had both, man. I don't know how, but I've had both. I scanned it one time on the front and it freaking added the points to my account without even having to type in the points. Weird, I don't know how to explain it, but it worked that way. So I really just not even show anything. And Joe Willock, number 299. I never tried it again though, but I was just like, as a group breaker, I just don't wanna show anything. Made some mounts. Yeah, I don't know if that's ever happened to anybody else, but it did to me one time with my buddy Gary and we were just scanning codes and I scanned the front of it a couple times and for some reason it worked like on one of them. And I was like, what the hell? Like I've never heard of it working like that. And then ever since then, like I just don't even try it, especially like I said with group breaker now because we don't wanna potentially give out the code. I mean, obviously if something happens and it's our fault, like let's say right here, right? Then obviously we would take care of that and just give you a replacement or give you the value of the points, but obviously we'd rather try to be as safe as possible. So 2,500 points being given out there, guys. Someone's gonna win that. And then like I said, we have two cases, two stained glass, not bad at all in a three box break. So like I said, I posted up another one. Loose box modules have been working pretty well. So if you guys wanna run it back, now let's switch scenes. And again, so we'll have two separate randomizers. We'll have one for the hip packs or one for the father's day packs and then one for the points. Cause actually this is like 2,500 points. This is actually a good amount of points. This was only like 250. I would have been like number one gets father's day pack, number two gets the 2,500 points, but technically this is actually a good amount. So I'd rather just do it separately. So we'll have two separate randomizers. So one will be for the 10 father's day packs. The other one will be for the 250 points, all right? So we'll keep it separate. And again, top name at number one gets 10 father's day packs. Roll it five into five, 10 times. Here we go, number one gets 10 father's day packs first, okay? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Boom, 10 times. Bernhard, there you go, congratulations man. You just won 10 father's day packs. So congrats buddy. And now 10 times here on the second list. This is for the 2,500 points. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. 10 times, Jesse. There you go, 2,500 points. Yeah dude, the points are actually worth a lot right now because they just dropped some like obsidian sparkle packs I think too on the reward points. I think you only need like 3,000 or 4,001 of those two. Alrighty, so appreciate it guys. Jaspeyscasebreaks.com.


A former Bemidji Middle School assistant principal who pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges has been scheduled for a federal sentencing date. On February 6th of 2018, 35-year-old Brandon Bjorkness will be sentenced in St. Paul for one count of child pornography and one count of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual conduct. The minimum sentence for coercion and enticement of a minor is 10 years in prison and the minimum sentence for the child pornography charge is 15 years. However, federal sentencing guidelines suggest a life sentence in prison. On September 28th, Bjorkness pleaded guilty to the federal charges and has remained in federal custody since then. Bjorkness will also be sentenced in Belchamie County Court for state charges at a future date. Services tell us that sentencing date will likely be before the federal sentencing takes place but no date for the state sentencing has been set yet. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.