Revelation chapter 14 beginning at verse 1 then I looked and behold a lamb standing on Mount Zion and with him 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters like the voice of loud thunder I heard the sound of harpist playing their harps they sang as it were a new song before the throne before the four living creatures and the hours and no one could learn that song except 144,000 who were redeemed from the earth these are the ones who were not defiled with women for their virgins these are the ones who followed the lamb wherever he goes these were redeemed from among men being first fruits to God and to the lamb and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of God so in order to approach chapter 14 I'll remind you of a couple of things few things that we've already seen in chapters 12 and 13 when we looked at chapter 12 I mentioned to you as we looked at chapter 12 that it reveals Satan's attempt to circumvent circumvent the salvation of God and the purposes of salvation that God has in Jesus Christ and chapter 12 gave us an overview of Satan's attempt to resist God's ultimate judgment we saw in chapter 12 the nation of Israel the nation of Israel was represented as a woman we saw Satan Satan was revealed as a fiery red dragon we saw Jesus who was referred to as the male child who was born to the woman we saw the remnant seed of the woman represented by saved Jews and we saw Michael the archangel as he battled Satan so that was chapter 12 in chapter 13 chapter 13 introduced us to a figure called the Antichrist as well as a false prophet the chapter referred to the false prophet who would literally be what we would say he would be the Antichrist's John the Baptist the false prophet is going to deceive people in order that they may give their allegiance to the Antichrist to the beast and we saw how that this false prophet will use counterfeit miracles and he's going to make an image of the beast and that image is going to appear to be alive now the image is referred to in scripture as the abomination of desolation this is something that will be built in the temple in the middle of the tribulation Jesus spoke of this in Matthew 24 verses 15 and 16 when he said therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place whoever reads let them understand then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountain so Jesus refers to this abomination of desolation this this this image that is given the appearance of life he says when this takes place in Matthew 24 verse 21 then there will be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time no nor ever shall be when Paul was writing concerning this in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4 he said he will oppose and exalt himself over everything that is called God or his worship so that he sets himself up in God's temple proclaim proclaiming himself to be God the abomination of desolation now as we've been looking at that in chapters 12 and 13 we now are in chapter 14 and as you arrive at chapter 14 chapter 14 actually gives to us the ultimate victory of Jesus Christ one of the commentators that I use said that this gives us a panoramic view of the tribulation from the standpoint of Jesus's victory this chapter has actually been called a preview of coming attractions now the verses that we find here in chapter 14 contain a prophetic view of Jesus ultimate triumph and his return to the earth and they're going to reveal the beginning of his thousand year reign it's called the millennial reign but they revealed the beginning of his thousand year reign at the end of the tribulation and his second coming this material that we've been looking at is not placed in a chronological order it is what is called a prophetic overview so the chapter begins with the assurance that Jesus will stand on Mount Zion we'll look at that in just a moment with his followers this will occur after his second coming and concludes with a series of pronouncements of judgment and so by way of introduction that was your introduction let's begin by looking at verse one where he says I looked and behold a lamb standing on Mount Zion and with him 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads now one obviously the lamb is Jesus the Bible refers to him as the lamb of God and here we have him presented at the right hand of God now this is an interesting picture because notice with me how it says he's standing on Mount Zion and so when you look at the Bible it's interesting there are various mountains that are named in Scripture you have Mount Hermon you have Mount Gilboa you have Mount Tabor you have Mount Carmel there's also a mount that is referred to as just Mount Gerritzim and you have the Mount of Olives but Mount Zion is also known as the city of Jerusalem and it is from there that the king is going to reign Isaiah chapter 2 says it like this in verses 2 through 4 in the last days the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains it will be raised above the hills all nations will stream to it many peoples will come and say come let us go to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob he will teach us his ways so that we may walk in his paths the law will go out from Zion the word of the Lord from Jerusalem he will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many people they will beat their swords into plowshares their spears into pruning hooks nation will not take up sword against nation nor will they train for war anymore so though that may be the scripture that is on the United Nations that is not going to happen until the Lord Jesus Christ rules and reigns now I want you to notice with him are 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads now chapter 7 had introduced this 144,000 to us the Jewish believers these are believers that I mentioned to you are protected throughout this period called the tribulation in Revelation chapter 9 verse 4 it says there they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads and so these are believers that we're looking at the 144,000 mentioned in chapters 7 and 9 now you to notice something here and this is a very basic thing but it's something that that's worth pointing out notice how these 144,000 actually chose their father's name it says having his father's name written on their foreheads it's interesting that this is really a reminder that that you belong to God I didn't choose I didn't choose my earthly name if my parents would have waited till I was old enough to talk and would have said what would you rather be named what name shall we call thee my favorite name is Aaron that's my favorite name I love the name Aaron a favorite male name Aaron when my son David was born I was planning on naming him Aaron that was his name that was his name through the entire pregnancy Aaron I love that name and so the day came the morning came that he was born and the doctor knew that I I wanted a son a Marie and I didn't know the gender of our children we did it the old-fashioned way we got surprised and so when when my son was born the doctor says you have your son he knew I wanted a son and he said and what is his name and I looked at him and I said David kind of question is that well the doctor knew that I was planning on naming him Aaron Marie knew that I was planning on naming him Aaron but the minute I looked at him I said no this is David so his name is David Aaron that's his name we got the Aaron in there David's wife is pregnant she will give birth to God willing in November it's a little boy and he already got him a Dodger Jersey that says David Aaron Junior on it right yeah how cool is that but anyway how to get to the point I was gonna make right see I didn't choose my name and he didn't choose his my name was given to me but in a very real sense everyone in this room has the ability to make a choice for the name that you're gonna have in a very real sense either you're a child of God you're his son his name is written on your forehead you're his daughter his name is written on your forehead he owns you or you don't belong to him it's that's the those are your two choices you have the ability to say I will be a child of God but as to his to as many as received him to them gave he the power to become sons of God even into those who believed on his name John 112 and so in the receiving of Christ I actually have taken the name of God and and in a very real sense I belong to him I'm identified with him I can be identified with either God or I can be identified with Satan and so these 144,000 have their father's name on their forehead they belong to him this is simply a reminder that they belong to God now this is an obvious contrast to chapter 13 verse 17 which speaks of the mark of the beast the mark of the beast is is a mark that they have on their forehead or on their hand and I'm pretty sure they have some kind of reader that they can use and something I didn't mention to you about the mark of the beast that I ought to really have mentioned is the mark of the beast is really a mark that is on their heart long before it's on their forehead or their hand it's in the heart already it's just evidenced on the hand of the or the forehead but these others have a mark of the father and these 144,000 have been preserved by him because they belong to him so in contrast to the mark of the beast he brings it up in chapter 14 verse 1 that they have his father's name written on their foreheads meaning they belong to the father now in verse 2 he said I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters and like the voice of a loud of loud thunder I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps and so I'll read verse 3 they sang as it were a new song before the throne before the four living creatures and the elders and no one could learn that song except the 144,000 who are redeemed from the earth and so John hears a voice as he says from heaven there are there are different opinions as to who or what this voice is there are those who would say this is the voice of God and others would say well it's a loud voice and perhaps it's the combined voices of the 144,000 whatever it may be if it's the combined voices of the 144,000 it reminds me of Revelation 5 11 and 12 and we'll look at this for just a moment because it says I looked and heard the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands 10,000 times 10,000 they encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders in a loud voice they sang worthy as the lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise so there's a sound of loud loud loud praise there's a sound of of loud worship it interestingly notice it speaks of harp is playing harps and you know the idea of harps and all that's where you see sometimes these old movies and these cartoons where angels running around with harps that they're playing but the harp is actually simply a and it's an instrument it's an instrument that makes some beautiful sounds when played skillfully and and this is basically just a picture of the worship but I want to I want to really focus on verse three when it says they sang as it were a new song before the throne here here's something very important that I want to share for just a moment about they sang a new song listen believers we sing a new song believers sing a new song there's an old song it's old to me even by the love song and it speaks about how God has given to us a new song because he said we sang the old songs for much too long we sang the old songs for much too long when I got saved when I got saved I was introduced to something very powerful that's part of the reason why I showed you that that video before we began our study I got introduced to something that radically has changed my life and it's very basic thing that just it's just a very basic thing to all believers and that is I got introduced to worship I sang the world song until the day I got saved and I can tell you some of those songs are poetic some of those songs are beautiful some of those songs still have a tender spot in my heart there are songs that I heard in the past that that do it's not that they're evil songs they're not evil songs some of them are kind of stupid you know you know I thought the Beatles are very deep but what is goo goo gajube it mean anyway right I am a walrus okay I mean some of the things which just share nonsense and I like it I know a whole lot of old songs by the way I won't bore you with them but I know hundreds of them and and many of them were just nonsense songs there are some songs that are beautiful I'm not gonna knock songs that sometimes come out of the pen of somebody writing about love my favorite song is Unchained melody it's my most beautiful I think is a beautiful song beautiful song nobody will ever sing it like Bobby Hatfield saying it nobody will it's just a beautiful song but that's my opinion somebody else is oh no Unchained melody that's some old song man you want to talk about old songs that are great how about Wild Thing okay shows me where you were at a long time ago you make everything Ruby is a very deep line I but here we go we have these old songs but when you got saved God gave you a new song a new song song of praise and it's a song that comes from the depth of your heart it's the deepest it's from the wellsprings of your heart your soul and and it's a it's fresh and it's vibrant and it's powerful and it's reflective of what God has done it's joyful because that's what happens when you get saved that those old songs you know as sentimental as they can be at certain times I'm nothing like when it's just you and Jesus Christ in a moment of worship where your heart is open and your face is perhaps upward in direction where you you perceive he could very well be ruling and reigning in right now in heaven and and your hands are raised and it's not you don't raise your hands because because the worship leader said let's all raise our hands you raise your hands because because it's a surrender to God because because he deserves all that I have and and I want to lift my holy hands to him for what he's done it's a new song guys worship isn't boring worship isn't about us worship is a new song the song of those who have come to know God the song of those who know what they were where they were at what they were doing how miserable their lives really were how sad and how broken and how messed up my dad every Saturday would mow the lawn they need to come in when I was a little boy he played mariachis mariachi it's just a Mexican version of country in Western she left me she took my truck I'm gonna kill her mariachi my mom hated mariachi my dad would play the Trio Los Panchos and others every Saturday I heard it growing up how he's mad someone's always fighting someone's gonna shoot somebody we sung enough of these old angry songs guys we sung enough of them we sing a new song a song of praise a song of worship a song of joy a song of thankfulness and we all have that new song if we're saved Psalm 96 verse 1 oh sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord all the earth Psalm 149 one praise the Lord sing to the Lord a new song and his praise in the assembly of saints they sang a new song before the throne a third thing we see in verse 4 he says these are the ones who were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are the ones who follow the lamb wherever he goes these were redeemed from among men being first roots to God and to the lamb and so these are the ones you notice in verse 4 who are not defiled with women they're virgins now there are at least three basic ways you can look at this one it just speaks concerning the fact that they are morally pure they live undefiled lives the word undefiled simply means pure they live pure lives they live what we would call morally excellent lives and so obviously that's a simple command to all people especially believers that we should live pure lives and so there are those would say this is simply speaking of the fact that those who are being referred to are the ones who have lived and undefiled because it says that these are the ones who are not defiled and so they say in a very basic way it's just speaking concerning their moral purity but two it could be saying that in the tribulation they did not marry in order that they would remain undistracted Paul makes it very clear in 1 Corinthians chapter 7 that a married man and an unmarried man are really two different kinds of men the the unmarried the single man is free to do whatever God calls him without the concerns of marital life but the married man on the other hand because he's married has to make sure that he cares for his wife and so one of the ways that this may be speaking of is that they were simply literally unmarried so that they could continue to serve the Lord undistracted and then there's a third application and it could be say be saying that they are doctrinally undefiled these are the ones who did not follow anti Christ these remain spiritually pure and thus are free from his false religion James chapter 4 verse 4 says you adulterous people don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God interesting isn't it that's a powerful statement isn't it anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God what a powerful statement someone once said that when we go into willful sin and continue in willful sin without a sense of repentance or remorse it is like kissing the tip of the spear that was plunged into the side of Christ that's a powerful picture don't you think it's like kissing the tip of the spear that was plunged into the side of Christ when you love sin you're basically saying I'm cool with Jesus's death then matter to me at all and unfortunately and I'll say this briefly there are large groups of people professing to be Christian who have mistakenly believed that the grace of God that you receive through Christ is really permission to continue in a sin laden life and go to heaven I can't tell you I've been in the ministry as a matter of fact I just thought of this as I'm saying this I started teaching the word of God trying to learn to teach the word of God in September of 1973 so this month marks my 41st anniversary of doing Bible studies just like this 41 years of teaching the word of God and I can tell you that in 41 years I have seen many who think that God's grace gives them permission to sin what shall we continue in sin that God's grace may abound God forbid how can we who have died to sin live any longer there in Paul asks the Romans and that's still a worthy question to ask why were you saved to continue in sin or to be freed from it well we have been saved to be set free from it Jesus said you will know the truth and the truth will make you what free free from what free from the bondage of sin because he who sins is a slave to sin Jesus said in the same chapter in the same passage so sin is slavery truth sets you free these are those who are undefiled they're pure I would lean in the direction that they remain unmarried and that they are doctrinally pure also there's two aspects of it that I lean towards you see as the scripture says believers cannot be both a friend of God and a friend of the world Jesus and Matthew 12 30 said it like this he who is not with me is against me and he who does not gather with me scatters abroad either you're helping him or you're hindering him now notice they follow the Lord wherever he goes these are fully committed to Jesus Christ they live lives that are pure and they are living lives that are holy before him it's like what Jesus said in in Luke 9 23 if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross daily and follow me and so these according to verse 4 are the redeemed from among men notice how it says being first fruits of God and to the lamb now when he speaks of being first fruits we need first to remember that that was one of the Jewish feasts it's called the feast of first fruits and the feast of first fruits fall on Sunday following the week in which Passover occurs it's been called an agricultural tide the feast of first fruits because you actually give a tide of the first things that's why it's called first fruits and when you gave your your your offering of the first fruits that that simply recognizing that God gave the harvest the first sheaf of first fruits of the harvest would be cut it would be presented to the Lord and the Lord accepting the first fruits is a pledge on his part of a full harvest that will come here the hundred and forty four thousand are referred to as the first fruits these are the first fruits of those who are saved and they have the first fruits of those saved during the tribulation if you take note Zechariah 13 8 and 9 says this in the whole land declares the Lord two thirds will be struck down in parish yet one third will be left in it this third I will bring into the fire I will refine them like silver test them like gold they will call on my name I will answer them I will say they are my people they will say the Lord is our God these are the first fruits and then finally verse five in their mouth was found no guile the word guile means no uh no lies no deceit for they are without fault before the throne of God they are sincere in their faith sincerity I'll close with a couple of thoughts okay when a christian today lives and you know a life that isn't perfect and they've got plenty of people to point to them and and let them know that they're not I was working before I became a pastor a long time ago now um and I had shared my faith with my supervisor and the job I had was unloading and loading trucks and so I was I was putting these containers on a palette and as I was working I had placed the box down on the ground reached over picked up another one and forgot that I had placed this box on the ground and so I bumped into it and when I bumped into it I I kicked the box to get it out of my way and so when I kicked it to get it out of my way and I can tell you before the Lord I wasn't angry about it I just was getting it out of the way it just so happens my supervisor comes walking right when I kicked it and he says oh oh and he points does his little finger wag at me oh I thought you were a christian christians aren't supposed to get mad so I hit him no I threw the box at him what was he saying you're a hypocrite hypocrisy the word hypocrite is a word that originally was used as uh in reference to an actor the hypocrite was the actor they had two masks one a comedy one of tragedy so when they were playing the part they put one mask on when they played another part they put the second mask on comedy tragedy you still see those masks you know today they're still in image and it's a it's a picture of the actor but the word is hypocrite and so it came to mean somebody who says one thing and yet does another hypocrisy you know when it speaks concerning the fact that these are sincere in the faith hypocrisy is when I intend to put something on as if I am this but in reality I'm not I'm just putting it on I'm an actor I'm a hypocrite but we are all and this is no excuse for my flesh to be given permission to continue to to rule the fact is no matter how much you desire to live for Jesus christ you're going to blow it I know some of you won't but you are going to fail because our human flesh is weak the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak that's why I glory in the grace of God and that's why I'm so grateful for my Savior Jesus that's that's a huge reason because as you know to will is present with me the ability to perform that which I desire is not sometimes my flesh does get the best of me even when my intentions are to live a life that glorifies God all the time all the time right so don't get caught up and I said this for you don't get caught up thinking oh you're just the worst thing there is because if you've given your heart to Jesus christ and you have a sincere desire to follow him I've discovered something about God and it's a good thing that I discovered I discovered that he cleans the fish after he catches them but he does clean the fish he brings something into our life called conviction you know whereas before man you go out and you party do whatever it is that you did with no regret as a matter of fact you woke up then the next morning when you finally did and you said I want to do that again no regret just man I had a blast last night I'm going to have another you know if we can have a party every day of the week I want it then you get saved and then your friends say you know you want some of this and and you go yeah why not and then you go home and you say God forgive me a sinner I am so miserable and I'm so sorry what I've done you see a dog returns to its vomit Peter tells us and a pig returns to the mud that it's been washed clean from the reason that a dog returns to the vomit and the reason the pig returns to the mud is because it's a pig and it's a dog that's their nature but I might jump back into that that that pigs pigs you know style I guess that's what it's called I might return to the vomit but man it's repulsive it isn't what it used to be I can't enjoy it anymore because conviction of the holy spirit just racks my conscience God loves me so much he allows me to be miserable and then I cry out and I say God be merciful to me I am so sorry and I first got saved I'd I'd walk straight and then I'd veer I'd end up back in the pigs dying I'd wake up and I'd say what am I doing here I'd get back on that that road I go for it and I did that off and on for the first two or three years or so if I walk with Christ somewhere along the line the holy spirit finally said to me are you tired of playing are you tired of playing think it real either be in or be out but don't try to be both because you will be miserable be hot or be cold but don't be lukewarm and so many years ago now the holy spirit said I'll be with you every step of the way so these people are sincere in their mouth was found no guile they are without fault before the throne of God they have remained away from the the the doctrines of the false prophet they have remained faithful to God they desire to be conformed to the word of God they're living the word of God out and God is blessing them these are the ones that God is mentioning to us that are walking solidly with him they're the ones they're on Mount Zion they have their father's name written on their foreheads worshiping God with this new song God has called us to be holy and blameless in his sight to take what he's given to us and to live it out and these are great examples of those who did


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If you guys drop a like right now, if this video gets 5k likes, the next time I see one of these in Florida because we're gonna be here for a week, the next time I see one of these, I'll try to hop on one of them and ride it. What's going on, Infinite Fan? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button, turn on your post notification bell, leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a crane in the back. Those are my friends. We've been chilling for a couple of minutes now. And I'm sorry if it's a little noisy right now, guys. We're right currently at a gas station. So as you guys can tell by the title on the thumbnail of the video, we're basically surprising Janice. She's in the store right now. She just came out. She has no idea of what's going on. All she knows is that everyone is surprising her, meaning her family. I wouldn't want to tell you guys right now exactly what's going on. But I can't because she just might hear me. I'm gonna let the whole surprise happen. And then I'll break everything down exactly like, you know, the details and all that good stuff, the meaning behind everything. So if you guys are ready for today's video, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button. Comment down below what you think the surprise is and let's get into the rest of the video. Okay. All right, Janice, open your eyes. Why am I crying?  Just open your eyes. I'm so confused. Are you? I told you she wouldn't know at first. Look at that house. Really good. Look at the mailbox. Yes. What do you see at the mailbox? Edward Scissorhand? Yeah. Okay, but what? This is the house? This is the house.  Yes.  And you're going to go inside. What? Look, I'm already shaking. We're going to go meet Edward. She's like more excited. Imagine. See, don't take that to me. Oh my god. What? I'm tearing right now. And I am. What was your guess?  I thought I was going to take me to a butterfly farm. A butterfly farm? Yeah, so I could touch butterflies. No, no, no, not even close. But guys, this is where the movie Edward Scissorhands was filmed. And Janice recently just found out about that movie. I put her on. You know, I've put her on in the movies. Why are you lying? But I made you watch the movie. I've been watching the movie. Yeah, because of me. She's so obsessed with Johnny Depp. Exactly. Nobody knows that. But guys, this is exactly the house. This is the same house. We're going to take a tour of it. If you guys haven't watched that movie, you guys really have to go watch it. It's like one of the best movies ever. It's a classic. Oh, look, this is actually what he looks like right here. Super dope. So is this what you were expecting? No. Not even close, right? When your mom told me, I was like, oh my gosh, she's going to love that. Hey, everybody. So that was so good. Ew, why you got to do it like that? Hey, everybody. Tell them where we at. Tell them where we at. Okay, so we're at Crumble Cookies. So our friends have been telling us about this place and so have my parents. So we're just going to go and check it out. Word. Everyone gassing it. We're going to be the judge right now. I love cookies. So it's not good. I'm going to let them know. I'm going to let them know too. If I have some, I'm super excited to try the Crumble Cookies. So I have, what is this called? The cinnamon churro cookie. I don't know. It looks good though. Let's see. Ready? That little baby bite. If you don't take a big girl bite, take a big girl bite. What is it bad? Is it bad? No, it's good, but this is really good actually.  Yeah, there you go. That's a nice size bite. All right. So what's it taste like? Does it taste like a legit churro or what? Yeah. Tastes like a legit churro. Just like cookie style. That's crazy. Yeah, but it's hard to like get through because it's so chewy that you could, I feel like I could be like choked on this. Really? So it's like a soft cookie or is it like crunchy? It's like perfect. Like it's crunchy on the outside and on the inside. Like really chewy, like gum, like gooey. Gooey. I was about to say gum. What? It's very gooey, but I'm not big on frosting. So that's why I didn't take a big bite. All right. So let's go from one to 10 on 10 being the best cookie you ever had in your life. What are you rating this? Like a six. Really? That doesn't sound good then. This is not a flavor that I would like to devour. Okay. All right. I understand that. I understand. All right. Well, here take the camera and get me trying my sugar cookie. Evenifam, look. He's wearing my dad's sandals. All right. All right. You want to show them? Go ahead. We're talking like a size like what is he? A size 18? He's a 13. He's like a size 18. I'm a size eight. All right.  I don't want to hear all that. Anyway, this is what the classic sugar is. Yeah, it's a sugar cookie. Classic sugar cookie. Oh, it's cold. I feel like you're going to know what I mean about like the, oh, it's crumbling. It's crumbling. Literally crumbling. Okay. All right. Well, this is what it looks like. All right. So it's like, I don't know. I don't know what's called this, but classic sugar cookie. Here we go. That's fire. It's good? That's fire. Damn. I didn't take you that long to try it. It tastes like your ordinary sugar cookie, but the texture of the cookies really good. And then like the frosting on top really like makes it. I don't know. I give this one out of all the cookies I've ever had, 10 being the best cookie I've ever had in my life. I'm going to give this a eight. Really? So I have to try that one. Because you know I'm a chocolate kind of guy. Yeah. I'm big on sugar cookies. I got to try the chocolate ones inside. And if that's like a 10, I'm going to let you guys know. But this one right here, if you're a sugar cookie fan, this is it right here. This is probably the best sugar cookie you ever go having in life. So it tastes better than those like sugar cookies at the grocery stores, like the big ones? Absolutely. Really? 100%. All right. I got to try it then. And like you said, it's like the perfect texture. It's like crunchy on the outside of myself on the inside. Let me get that. You want a piece? Yeah.  Hold on. Tell me that's not the best sugar cookie you ever had. And I'm not even guessing it, guys. We're not even sponsored with them. They didn't pay us the reviews or not. Like this is straight up reviews. This is good. That's the best sugar cookie you ever had, right? Yeah, that was good. Don't tell anyone you broke two bars of mine. No, I'm just kidding. You want another bite? No, no, no. I don't want to do too much. Have another bite. No, babe, it's fine. Girl, we're on vacation.  Yeah, I have my own. Okay. And since one is too many cookies, enough cookies, you can never have enough cookies. No, I'm okay. But all right, guys, I'm going to finish this cookie. I'm going to finish mine. And then we'll get back to you on the other flavors. All right, guys. So that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed, guys. This place was so nice that I was like stuck. I was like, uh, this is really happening. Like, is this really the place I had? Like, I just couldn't even fathom like that I was in a house that Johnny Depp was in. I never told you guys this before, but he is my favorite after I look up to him a lot. Yo, people can't, yo, I can't talk to you no more. I was in the same house as Johnny Depp. Yeah, I can't tell you. That's the goat right there, guys. You had no idea. I wanted to tell you so bad when your mom had texted me and told me what was going on. Like she had told me like, I think like a week ago, and I was like, Oh my God, I want to tell her so bad because I know you're going to love it. But I was like, I can't ruin the surprise. I got to hold you down.  Honestly, I thought they were taking me to like a butterfly. Like, yeah, I don't know where you got that. I don't know.  You were like, where are we? Okay. And then I knew you were going to be like that at first because it kind of looks like an ordinary house until you really start to look at the details and stuff like that.  This is like, this is crazy. Like the guy actually broke down, like, Oh, this is where, you know, Johnny Depp was smoking his cigarettes. This is where like he would go in this room over here to like calm down after scenes or whatever. I'm like, yo, this is really, really cool. And I really appreciate that. And this wasn't even for me. This is for you. But yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it. This wasn't my surprise to you or anything. This was completely her family. And I felt like it was a surprise for me to like, that was really cool. I was excited for the for the surprise. So excited for the surprise.  I was getting excited. Like what? And then my sister ended up crying. Her sister, I wish I could have called her on camera, but she didn't want to be on camera, but she started hysterically crying. I'm like, girl, I want it was so funny, but it wasn't at the same time. But it's like, she loved it. It was like, tears of joy.  We were actually here. I'm like, girls, it's a surprise for you or me. Like, I don't get it. If you guys haven't seen that movie again, go check it out. Tim Burton made it. It's called Edward Scissorhands. It's honestly a 10 out of 10 on my book. Yeah, you guys need to go check it out. But like she said, that is it for today's video. If you guys enjoyed it, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button. It is time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shout out goes out to official underscore scissorland guys. That is the place we went to today. The owner, he's super chill. He showed us obviously the whole house as you guys saw and he doesn't charge anything. This is a completely free kind of like museum kind of thing. So I feel like that's really dope that he does that for free. Yeah, he actually lives there. Like so it was very like kind of him to welcome us into his house. Honestly, yeah, it's very knowledgeable about the movie and everything that was going on. He was actually the dishwasher for like the whole movie set and all that. So we thought that was pretty cool. But shout out to official underscore scissorland. Thank you so much. That was honestly really dope and I guess we'll see you guys in the next video.


Welcome everybody to this webinar, which is called the Stepping Up Open Science. Few housekeeping rules. This webinar is recorded. The question and answer will be recorded, but not disseminated. For the duration of the webinar, please keep your microphone and cameras off during the presentation. Make sure you add your name and your affiliation and briefly introduce yourself via chat or during the questions. Feel free to unmute and turn on the camera in the question and answer session. Thank you. Now we will start. I would like to introduce Natalia Manola, the CEO of Open AIR, and I am the Attorney and Engagement Officer. Natalia, the floor is yours. Yes, thank you Julia and a warm welcome to everyone. We appreciate you being here and taking the time to listen to what we're doing because I think it's changing for Julia. Because what we are doing is to us very important. We will try today to give a brief overview of the services that we have been developing and operating for the past 10 years and give you a glimpse on the way forward on the future. And in all that, we would like to thank you as collaborators, not just as users, because from the beginning Open AIR has been a participatory infrastructure and we would really like to extend and value your input. So I will start with a brief introduction and I think, you know, I will not go very strongly over it. It's about Open Science. So what we need to realize that now Open Science goes beyond Open Access to Publications and we know that institutions need to have new functions and organizational schemes to embrace it, but not just to embrace for the sake of embracing it, but just to make it work for them. And this is crucial and this is what we need to have in mind. So it's collaboration and interdisciplinarity, some of the things that we are seeking. So what are the objectives of every institution or of each institution? But at the end is, you know, we need to make it ours. Next slide, Julia. So just to give you all a brief overview, things have started in Europe from 2003 and the European Commission have started to implement things in 2007. I will not go over this in detail because this is, you know, we will share the slides so you can see it. But now we are at the point here after 2021, when the horizon Europe started, it has Open Science all over the place. So that means is that researchers and their affiliated institutions have to step up and help them implement it in a very efficient way. But also now we are in the process of where Open Science really enters the research ecosystem, especially with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment. So how can Open Science be part of it? Next slide, Julia. So Open Science, just, you know, just to revisit some facts and truths before we go into Open Air. So as you've seen, Open Science is here to stay because it's the new way of doing science. Then Open Science is multifaceted, you know, even in Open Air that we have been operating services for 10 years, sometimes things are complex, they are interconnected, and it's many facets that we have to tackle it. Then what is true is that Open Science costs, it doesn't come for free. You know, there's free access, but it's not without cost. And what we need to realize is that we need to have, from the institutional point of view, long-term investments. Not huge investments, but continuous and, you know, constant advances over time. Why does the institution for Open Air for us is crucial? Why? Because it's the one that is supporting researchers at where research takes place. And this is very, very important. And then what we see and what you will see throughout the presentation and the services is that Open Science requires a holistic approach. You can't have a tool or a service just, you know, to do something without continuing on it. So we need to the tools, the incentives, the assessments to become a win-win for all. And then what we need to realize is that, of course, researchers and the holy grail of putting researchers and then users in the center is there. But we need to think also in institutions, and as I said before, with the functional and organizational changes that other actors like librarians, like research managers, vice-rectors, teams need to be involved. And this is very important. Next slide. Now, what we need to think also about is that Open Science, why is it important? Because, you know, everything is digital, everything is big, everything is connected. And as you will see now in the slide is that we have this research life cycle from planning to discovering, processing, publishing, archiving and assessing. And everything is connected. So we plan in order to be able to discover, in order to be able to share how we publish and in order to be assessed. We discover previous results and then we use in our planning and we use in our processing to derive new data. So everything now is interconnected. And this is, you know, this is the difficulty of it, but also the magic of it. Next slide. Now, what are we doing here? So, and why do the institutions, you know, are important? Because we all know that scholarly communication and an open air as a scholarly communication infrastructure, we are very well aware of the processes. So the challenge here is to go from a closed and traditional scholarly communication to an open scholarly communication system. And what does this mean? You know, what are the stakes here? The transition to an open ecosystem that will support diversity, equity and inclusion. And these are not just some words, it's something that we need to take in mind because we have big universities, small universities, big labs, small labs, big data, you know, long tail of science of data. So we need to somehow get this on board. And then of course, it's the ownership and the cost. So who owns and controls the processes? It's not about the data or the publications, but about the processes. How can we become managers from what we do? And what are the costs? Because the costs, again, are non-negligible. So in all of this, so I'm just putting the context and we are presenting open air. So open air is a non-profit organization. It's called Open Air Amke, which is a non-profit civil organization was established in 2018. We have 15 members from 34 countries. And the power that we have is a network of experts, the National Open Access Desk. So they have been in operations from the beginning when we started back in 2009. And we have services that Julia will be presenting. So this is just a few words about us. And then what we would like to invite is to read our strategy. You can find it on the web. We have the strategy for 2325. And it shows our commitment to facilitate open science. But by our commitment, it's the members. It's the 15 members. And the more members that we are expecting to join Open Air to commit to open science. And as you will see on the right side of the slide, we have three action lines. One is services, the other is training, and the other is policies. And this is embracing this. This is what we are trying to present through our services. And this is what we will do. And probably we will refine as things are emerging in the next years. Julia, so going, so this was just a preamble.  It's just the message that I want to get through is that this is something that we need to embrace at the institutional level. This is something that we need to embrace in a way that fits our own needs because different institutions have different needs. And what we can do in Open Air is to support you and to work together with you because in an area of this complexity, what we believe is that are only through co-design and co-development, we can take this forward. So what we have identified and where we can support you in this is six steps towards open science. First of all, is adopting an open science policy. Some of you do have a policy. Some of you need to adjust this policy to the new things that are coming along. Some of you don't have a policy. And you know, how can you start making this? This is where through our consulting and through the National Open Access Desks and through our training, we can guide you through. Second, you can link your repository, Open Action Journal, or Cree Systems through Open Air and the Open Air Graph to the world. You can publish. You can support your researchers to publish in the open services to do that. You can discover and share. I would know barriers. So how can you connect your things, your content with others? And how can you let people discover it? Then most importantly for some of the research managers is how to monitor research outcomes, open science policy uptake and impact. And this is where you can do it through the open science and the openness of the processes.  And this is where what we focus on on this webinar. So now I think I will pass on the button to Julia. Hi, Julia. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Natalia. Welcome, everybody. I am the outreach and engagement officer and I will speak about more focusing on the services. So to increase the visibility and the impact of the research that is produced in your organization, we compile a series of services that can support you in making your research more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. So we, as Natalia said, we are co-designing, so we want always your feedback and we customize services on base, on your needs. The backbone service of OpenAir is called OpenAir Graph, which is a collection of different entities, meaning data from different kinds of data sources, publication, ID for authors or institutions that are not just a poorly collection of little dots, but they are linked together to produce some data that can be easily accessible and manageable from the form that the user can do. For instance, for researchers to explore the data and the link or to deposit their own research from the monitor system, so from funders and institutions to understand and track what are the policies and several services that I'm going to show you in a few. So OpenAir is a systematic structure, it's a service of service present in the European Open Science Cloud, IOSC. So the data that are provided and are compliant to the OpenAir guidelines will feed this graph that can be also directly feed by resources from publication, data source, database, or other research product, and can be discovered by our service like Explorer or Connect, Monitor and Assessed. So now what I'm going to show you is all these services in which kind of phases of the research life cycle they can enter and then how you can support and facilitate the uptake of open science from researchers and the research staff during different phases of research. Let's start with the plan. Argos is a software for data management tool that is also one of the services that Science Europe, one of the biggest coalition of founders, is suggesting and we know that the founders have a mandatory request to have a data management plan. But for the institutional level, what kind of information you can get from it? The data management plan is a template of form, so we provide a template in which the researchers have to describe where they collect the data, how, so which kind of facilities they are using, what kind of ethics there is behind, what kind of licensing for reuse they have, and how much how many data they are reusing or they plan to create to develop during a project. So you have all this information that are called the metadata that can be directly provided by the researchers. And this is fundamental because everything will be already transparent and open and you can get information about how much facilities, what is the use of facilities that the researchers are doing during their project. What we can provide with Argos is a cloud system in which the researchers can enter in a living document all their data, so they can update whenever they want. It's machine actionable, so you don't have to be worried about the interoperability of the system. Otherwise, we can give you a local installation from your organization, so the people have just to go directly to your website. Or another option is to have a white library installation for you for Argos, in which you can personalize, you can ask personalized support and training from us. So you get all these possibilities, so you can have your own template, but you can also have their access to the template that are already discussed from funders from our site, so they are already validated. You have a DMP, a data management plan that is already fair. Everything is automatic. All the contents are reached because they get access to the data that are already present in the research graph, and you can have a living document and you can track the indicators from the monitor. We have already some interesting case studies that you can check in our website. Let's proceed to the discovering and collect. So I already mentioned Explorer, which is the main services to see basically all the library, all the contents that is in provided. But what else, if I have to search for something specific, I will choose some specific shelf. For instance, if I'm interested in philosophy, I will go to the section that is labeled philosophy. So basically Connect is a search engine that can target a specific gateway. For instance, we can select together some repositories that are of interest for you, the journals of your choice, the data that are specific from funders that are from your institution. We help by using our artificial intelligence and automatic mechanism that is helping you to find and to collect the data sources that are more of interest for your community. You can have a specific for your repository or for some field, or you can make the most from university alliances. So we have, for instance, several repositories that are from university alliances together in a network. One of these examples is Aurora that you can see here. And the managers, we get an admin dashboard in which several people can contribute. You can decide who, mainly repository creator or someone that is more related to digital libraries. And you will be part of our community of creators. And the users on the other side can browse through publication, but not only also research data, research software and any kind of research product that is produced or we can find in the collection based on your interest input. You can also find the right place to deposit if the repository are compliant to open AIR. And if everything is in Zenodum, and you can always link. So these are some case studies, Utopia and Aurora are two of our research alliance already in Connect. And we have also specific institute that is called Nomad, in which we have topic related entries. Sharing data is the most difficult things for sensitive data for the worrying of which kind of data are shared. And we have Amnesia as a service provided by the data research center. This is a software that you can download for statistically guarantees that you cannot link any output from the original data. And this is useful if you want to be compliant with the GDPR guidelines, personalized data and sensitive data. We have a webinar coming soon in which you can go in depth on this service. I will move on to how to create the Diamond open access journal. Episcience is offered by our partner in France. And this is helping you to having an overlay journal on top of open access repositories, for instance, archives or Zenodum. The research can publish directly the preprint. And through this system, they can also manage an editorial board that can be chosen by the people who want to run this journal. And you can also invite reviewers to give feedback and to provide a peer review to the publication. So you get a manuscript that is fully peer reviewed with no cost. And you will have a toy. It will be harvested by an open-air visible on explore and eventually also in connect and everything will be open and free. So this is everything that you can get. It's interesting also that all the metadata that are used from our services will be already linked and indexed in the open-air services. So everything is connected. The nodo is the most popular of our services that is offered by CERN. Because nowadays we don't publish just the manuscript or book, but we also need a place where we can publish data sets and other kind of research product. So you get a toy. You can be cited. Your researchers can be cited and your institution can be mentioned because everything that is shared has to provide the metadata that are based on that site scheme, which is the standard way to be fair or to help the researcher to be fair.  So it's easy to use. We have a GitHub integration so you can also publish softwares and you can create your own communities to collect the research in the same place from for instance the same institutes or from the same department up to your policies. Archive. We have one service provided that is the gateway also for EOSC. It helps you to expose institutional content to EOSC and to the world in just one stop shop place. It's more than an archive because behind there are several services of OpenAir that are helping you to do an automating validation of your metadata that are compliant to the OpenAir guidelines but also to the fair principle. You can get information about the downloads of the data so you can also see on top not only the download of the publication that are fully available but also about the data used from your repository and we have also the duplication and curation of the data that you can see in your metadata updates notification. So we can show you the hidden value of your repository in one service. You will get a dashboard as a admin. You can validate your data sources from a literature data crisis system. You can have also a fair assessment that at the moment is in bed but it's about to be released in production. You will have a metadata enrichment because all the information that are coming from the OpenAir Graph will be part of this dashboard, content dashboard. You will receive a notification, you can browse on history, you can get a statistic and everything that is related to how OpenScience is advancing also the level of your repositories. So now the fun part, how you can track and assess the OpenScience activities inside your institution. We have created a monitor dashboard that is customized based on your needs. It can be public if you want to be transparent in the evaluation and assessment and you want to showcase what you are doing. It can be restricted for the internal members who are performing the evaluation or can be private in the moment that we are doing the setup. We have different indicators that we can show you that are the research output. So you will have information about the publication, data set, software. If your university is producing more interdisciplinarity work or it's much more specific or expert in some field of science or if some field of science are more open than others. So you will get this kind of information. You will be also informed about the fairness of your production, the access right, the open access rules which are the journals that are most preferred by your researchers. How much expenses are you investing in article processing charges for open access journal? How much compliant you are with the plan S principles? Then you will have also information about the networking of your researchers. So which kind of universities internal or external are more collaborating with your institution? You can also check the impact with some indicators that we are also still developing. So we are always on the track of reaching these kind of indicators and everything can be connected to grants and projects. So you will get all this information in one single dashboard. So it's customized. We have predefined indicators but you can have also different breakdown. Everything can be download for any kind of report that you need to do from your institution. And of course you can customize indicators that should be showed or not. We have several institutions that are already part of our dashboard. We have not only universities but also research institutions and a cooperative research organization. So from Czech Republic to Finland, from Italy to international cooperation, Germany, Portugal, we have several possibilities to show you and to give you a demo. And finally open APC is another service that is helping you to assess the cost of the publication that your researchers are performing. It's offered by the University of Bielfield. You can have a global data set by measuring your APC cost but we are not just collecting the cost information. We are also enriching this kind of information with an in-depth analysis and give you also the metadata that are coming from the graph to give you a much broader perspective of the cost that you are spending in the article processing charges or book processing charges and so on. At the end you will have this three map visualization that you can download, export, you can work on this data to analyze, to produce all the research on top. And we give you all the ownership, it's yours. And it's for you just easy to use. These are all the institutional universities that are already part of our case studies. You can visit also the three maps in the dedicated website that you can see down my screen. But the services are nothing if there is not the skills or the training for using it. What OPNL does is that we have a network very strong in training to obscure your student and the staff. We also provide several material in forms of guidelines, guides, fact sheets, tutorials and podcasts that you can visit in our YouTube and in our webpage. We offer direct help with our helpdesk system. We create bootcamp to train your staff to give training in open science. And we create an open platform that is hosting a community and creating open courses. This is the platform that is already used or chosen by EOSC. So it will be populated by the training directly from EOSC. But you will find also materials from our open science community and the training on research data management plan because we know that not all the national and the universities are in the same stage. We offer learning path and badging mechanism. And we are giving the possibility of having a long-term access to this up-to-date material. So how we can start our collaboration? You can contact us, express your needs, say what kind of services you are not thinking to develop but you may need or you are in need of recent training. And we will provide the services that are more tailored made for you. Then we make it official. So we write all the parts of our agreement in a personalized one-to-one call. And then we will do a public lunch. So we will have dissemination of your activities in open science. The fact that you are really stepping up open science in your universities. All the services are coming for free till the end of the OpenERNAXUS project which we learned in this year. However, some of these services can have a subscription fee, not all of them. But this fee can be waived based on the founder's funding opportunities or no-profit pricing. Also, all the members that are part of OpenERNAXUNC or want to be part of OpenERNAXUS, will have a special discount. And in any case, our services are for co-designing and co-developing with your needs. So if there are already some questions, we can give the floor.