So I wanted to cover today ZFS and snapshots and I've set up a little demo here I remember there's a lot of questions that people had and I wanted some clarifications So people have a better understanding of how snapshots work in the ZFS Now I like free NAS, which is based on free BST Which also uses ZFS as the file system underneath to manage all the storage and I'm a huge fan of ZFS You've seen maybe seen my video on ZFS torture testing and it's really really a resilient finance system I mean no file system is absolutely bulletproof But I tell you what they've come a long way with this and a lot of it has to do with the way It's a journaled file system in a way that journaling works on this file system So a journal file system that does copy on right I'm not going to get real deeply technical But in short you're keeping almost like a ledger of all changes to the hard drive those ledgers Have a series of checksums before the next piece of data is written. It also very intelligently And this is one of the reasons they asked ZFS is a little bit memory hungry Which creates the concern that people have about ACC memory is it uses a lot of memory to try to manage all the Rights in a very efficient way because it's not caching in the normal sense it's pulling that ledger putting it into memory to Quickly and intelligently distribute the data across the raid rate arrays if when that you have in here And it also minimizes the read and writes But the other advantage of a journal file system is the snapshotting feature Now what you're doing when you're snapshotting is you're creating a snapshot of that journal and saying don't delete these files But the snapshot itself doesn't take up space Which is also really cool because it only is a differential of space between files added or data added Changes to the drive and it's syncing on the delta of the change So if you have a very large file and that file only changes a little bit it doesn't Have to account for the entire file and keep two copies of the file It is the differential change that that file had this also makes it really interesting That's one of the reasons I put a VM on here because VMs are one large file And so let me show you the data we have on here so we can get into the hands-on Which is how I really learned and I think a lot of other people do is I could probably sit and explain this for a long time And not get it, but we're actually going to show you ZFS in action here So Here's my box. I copied some files and move that one out of the way This is the share mount for drives raid my creatively named for drives raid And V box test because there's a V box on there. I called it V box test But there's also some data on here. This is your standard Data set so here's the some data which I threw a video in here and here's the test Which is a windows 7 a clone of my windows 7 machine virtual box machine in a VMDK file So the file itself. Let's see is We got 30 gigs file here And there's some data this is 92 megabytes so there's some data in here about you know 30 gigs roughly Now let's go to look out of a ZFS reports this so here's the free NAS box and we're gonna head and jump over and refresh this again So because ZFS uses compression here's my V box test on the creatively named for drives raid It's using compression. So the actual use size is only 17.3 gigs because by default it has LZ for compression turn on which it really doesn't have much of a loss But because of the way of the VMDK's are it actually is able to go I can store that more efficiently so I only have an actual stored usage of 17 17.3 gigs in this drive and currently there's no snapshots of this So we're gonna go ahead and create one by going down here and hit create snapshot Now you can turn snapshots as an automated task to snapshot in it Increments and we will show that in a minute for now. We're just gonna go ahead and create a manual snapshot All right, and we're gonna do snapshots We're gonna filter it because I have a lot of other snapshots going this is One of my machines that we're using in production. So here we go. It's using zero the refer 17.3 gigs And so there's the use so clone snapshot delete snapshot rollback snapshot. So we'll just do something simple here Let's dump a couple more files here.  So now we've added to this now if we go here and refresh again That's the only difference it took up now It's only 81 kilobytes of difference is what it says and let's see how big does this this was only four megabytes But because of compression again, it's only Showing the difference on there now if we go here we see the thumbs are in there and we're gonna go back We're just gonna clone this or gonna roll back this. I'm not clone it but roll back it So we're gonna roll back snapshot. Are you sure? All right, and let's go refresh and it's gone Now that snapshot is destroyed that because we rolled it back to the previous state There's nowhere. You can see those files. We've now destroyed them the same thing here Let's go ahead and delete these two things.  It's still showing usage on there because we have a snapshot So go back over here Now it has 17.3 gigs that it's holding and now that's why you're seeing this in here So we have this and then we can go and dump some more files. Let me find something a little bit bigger All right, we copied over one of our vlog Thursdays, which is about four gigs So let's go ahead and go look at our storage again. And as you can see here the V-box test now has 21 gigs because even though we've deleted that it's being held by the snapshot So we go over here and filter for that particular snapshot And it's still holding at 17.3 gigs I think it does refresh and it'll show that there's another a little bit more But now you can see the volume actually has to keep reserved that much data. So it's showing 21 gigs to have both of it in there so Here this is and this is how it was looking and if we just go the snapshots and we're gonna jump over here and filter again, and let's just go ahead and Roll back that snapshot we hit okay We rolled it back Refresh instantly now. This is one of the advantages not like I have some super incredibly fast machine I mean they are NAS drives. It's a reasonably fast machine But the beauty of the way ZFS works is because you're just looking at the ZFS journal You're just manipulating it very quickly. So it doesn't have a bunch of files to copy the files aren't being moved You're only changing Essentially the journal slash pointers in the file system. You're saying okay put the journal back to where it was So everything points exactly how it did when you took the snapshot. This means that quickly I can roll back data I could have created another snapshot and roll back and forth between them This is one of the beauties of ZFS is your snapshotting a journal Not the actual files in the way that a lot of people think of it like you're making a backup copy of all the files This allows the snapshots to be non disruptive and almost instantaneous even with very very very large data sets It takes very little time So we've actually created clones of like three four terabytes at a time and they just pause for a second done So as long as machines under generally not high load on the on a hard drive and it's not you know completely at weight states Then it snapshots data really really fast, which is Fascinating to me like how well this works. So if you go, oh, no, I need to roll something back You can simply run it and just roll it right back and it's very very quick Now I have here and I'll show you that the replication tasks. I'm sorry the periodic snapshots I have a couple of them with mine. I snapshot my production VMs Once a day and I snapshot my syncing data once a day That's the only real things I have running on here and it works really well and it creates when you go to the snapshots That's why there's so many of them in here auto auto auto and you can see the different ones And you can roll back or clone to the last one on there now when you do a clone Let's go back to our snapshots and filter for test Cloning it's a little bit different. So if we go to clone it actually creates in the storage over here Here's the clone now When it clones it that is a great way to do it and we just had do this for a client the other day the clone They had changed something But we had a snapshot of their entire file system But one person had somehow goofed some things up and we had it set to snapshot a couple times a day And what they'd actually done was delete things at the beat They created some data to be in the day that they deleted before the end of the day Which meant it didn't have a way to back it up So we just ran and found the clones because we clone a couple times a day for this client with their System and they have several terabytes with things but lots of people made file changes. So that's where clones come in and with the clones It's a snapshot in time of that one. So it's kind of like a fork off the file system So what we do is because we don't want to re-change the entirety of that data set the clone creates a separate one Now I have to go in I can't see this a cloning. It doesn't give me any visibility in here to that so I actually have to take the clone and Manually make another share for it So I go to sharing and I create another share on the clone And this is very handy in the circumstance that we had for the client because they will sit We didn't want to change the whole data set We only wanted to change find the file that that person had therefore we created a clone We actually found the person's files They were absolutely in the snapshot and then we copied them back over to the main chair and when you're done you destroy the snapshot So we're gonna go ahead here to the clone and destroy it the data set of the clone Gives you a nice red warning because you're destroying a data set and you cannot come back from destroyed data sets So now that data sets sort and we're left with only this one and when comes the snapshots filter This one's still here now. Let's see how this works in a VM environment So we're gonna go ahead and fire up my windows 7 virtual machine, which is there's the VM DK and it's pointed towards it So let's go ahead and open that up. Oh, and I let this boot in real time to show you I'm running my VM across a gigabit network Not a 10 gig but just a 1 gig network and you can see that running a VM across there actually works really well a Boots up really fast. No problems here. So here's the hard drive for the system Here's some stuff on the desktop and let's go ahead and open up the FreeNAS again, so here's the free NAS control and We're gonna head and I Guess we can destroy this snapshot. We'll create a running snapshot So I'm just gonna get rid of them so we don't not using this one anymore and While the VM is running so windows as you can see is in the background here actually running We're gonna go ahead and create a snapshot of it So we go to storage We go to here Create snapshot manual snapshot, you know, it will even put the word VM running So I know which one this is so mainly create the snapshot Now this is a running open file system right now. It's attached. It's running and You know windows is running in the background This is this is kind of an important because there's also a few concepts here One thing I will tell you and I'm not going to demonstrate it here because it causes my computer to hang But it does work you can restore a live running VM and roll back while it's attached but it will absolutely crash whatever operating system whether it be Linux or Windows you'll end up with a system not running properly because all of a sudden you change the underlying virtual drive so We cloned it while running and let's make some changes. So let's just delete these things off the desktop and We'll open up. I think there's some stuff I can uninstall So let's look for something. Yeah, I don't need team viewer in here anymore So remove it So we're making changes to the system now and let's go back over to ZFS Yeah, we don't care. We don't need to fill out that All right, and we're gonna go over here to snapshots Now here's what's interesting. We only removed a little bit of things So there's only been a little bit of change but this is technically one giant big file in here because it's the It's the VM file itself So even though that this file is a twenty nine point seven gig file Freenas only has to track the little changes made This is kind of an interesting thing because normally if you're backing up files or creating snapshots of them You're thinking of creating a snapshot of file But because Freenas is only looking at the changes made at the file system level It's not a duplicate. You'd normally have another 29 gig file or because compress at 17.3 gigs you'd end up with that This is what's interesting about the way this works. It's referred to as I believe syncing on the delta changes So it actually looks at the differential changes of that file That's what makes CFS super efficient by doing that because it's storing it almost like a database It says I'm only tracking that there was 17 megabytes of changes, which was me removing The team viewer from there. That's the only changes in that So now let's go ahead and shut this VM down. We remove team viewer. We not in there We deleted some stuff off the desktop And we took a snapshot before we did this so while the VM is not running I can roll it back while the VM's running It's gonna crash. I did the test it locks up and then it causes my computer to go a little bit Crazy, so we're gonna head to roll back snapshot. Are you sure you want to roll it back? Yep We're gonna undo that change I'm gonna go back and open up Windows 7 again. Now Windows 7 is gonna give me an error when it comes on Because it realizes it wasn't shut down properly. Yeah, we're gonna head and start Windows normally. I'm not even gonna bother Doing a file system check on it and it still boots up reasonably fast and There's all the icons on a desktop Team viewer still installed And away you go So it actually lets you take snapshots while the VMs are running The only downside is it's the same as when you restore it as if you just pull the plug on it because you grab the file system As it was at that time So when you reboot it up and Linux does the same thing it goes Hey, this file system was not shut down properly because you grabbed it while it was running But nonetheless it works and I can easily roll back to several versions So you can create these snapshots of your VMs while they're running and be able to restore it I mean granted you're gonna have to deal with the corrupted Possibility of file system corruption of when you took the snapshot But that's generally not big deal because most modern operating systems They're they're somewhat fault tolerant to be able to do with this and you're creating multiple snapshots generally so I create one a day and let them keep for a week and That's how you can you know keep nice safe states of not just your files But things like your VMs and the fact that it's so efficient and the reason being because it's only looking at the changes So even though the VM file is one bot, you know big contiguous file It only sees the changes in that file. That's the only thing it's sacrificing on storage now Let's talk about how we automate the snapshots so you can be worry-free in there So if you look at the snapshot tasks and we'll look at the one right here for example on my pbox store for these I Am keeping one week and I say begin at 4 a.m. And air and do once a day so that means it's going to run here But you can actually change this so if I wanted to change the interval to be hourly 30 minutes 15 minutes you could actually have your file system Going through and taking even more snapshots. I also like when you do this in case you can't wrote you change It highlights the last one you had So If I wanted to have hourly snapshots of things Let's say you're running a mission-critical system that you want hourly changes that you want to be able to go back to you Can set this to one hour and you can set it between these hours to do it So that becomes a very interesting way to do it because it gives you a start and end time So during business hours go ahead and run these snapshots because there's not changes happening after business hours And then how long do you want to keep them one week one day now the important part about this? There's limitations to storage as in there's only so much storage you have so you have to do this Consciously with making sure you have enough storage to do it because eventually you could overrun the system and fill it all up Because someone makes a lot of changes on a production system make sure you plan ahead generally you want the ZFS also To eliminate fragmentation by having plenty of space on the drive By doing this CFS gets more leg room to kind of stretch out and spread the rights across So always over plan as best possible. I know it gets a little pricey But if you over plan your capacity You will have a better time because you can keep more snapshots The ZFS can spread the rights across the drive and it's a more intelligent way to do it But that's my introduction and kind of overview to snapshots and how they work. It's Not too complicated other than the cloning because you have to create that And you have to create the different share if you clone something back But on the other side of it if you just have like I have these clones here I can easily just jump backwards in time and go hey Let me go back to this refer or that you know with my VMs with anything else And you can set it to once a day or like with some of our clients We have a very large raid a raid with them running free nas and we set it up a couple times a day That kind of saves them for people who do things like create data and don't have it backed up in time And then they goof things up So you can just roll back You know our release may be good. It's all decisions you can make but it actually lets you do that and you can do this with VMs Now this also works for other ZFS devices. I haven't tried it But as far as I know it works fine with like the ice cuz the interface You can create block devices and still snapshot them. You can snapshot anything really that you have on Here so if you want to get to the more complicated ones definitely works It's also interesting because that's how GF ZFS and free nas handle the jail system when you create the templates it creates a Snapshots for those templates that way they can easily be restored or cloned To create more features. So if you create a jail and you want to duplicate that jail again You just go ahead and Create a snapshot of it clone it and now you can duplicate that state of one of the free nas jails So thanks again for watching if you like the content here like and subscribe If you have more comments questions or something I wasn't clear about in zfs or if you think this needs a part two To do some type of test scenario. Let me know But hopefully this clears up zfs and snapshots and how they work and why I think they're amazing. Thanks for watching


Hi, thank you so much for having me today. My name's Laura. I'm the marketing manager at Pragmatic, a Brighton-based WordPress agency. I'm the lead organiser of our local WordCamp, WordCamp Brighton, which is taking place this August. I also have a generalized anxiety disorder, which I try to manage on a day-to-day basis. So today, I'm going to be sharing with you four tips for how you can help yourself, and four tips for what your employer can do to help you. But before I get into that, I thought it would be useful to try and explain what anxiety actually is. If you don't suffer with it, even if you do, it can be pretty hard to understand. It's often banded around as just worry or stress, and whilst those do come into it, it doesn't really touch upon what it really feels like. This is a personal favorite description of mine.  Yeah, that, but you never actually go down. Anxiety is a constant, and it doesn't matter how seemingly big or little the worries and concerns going through your head are, anxiety can treat them exactly the same. Say, for example, if I think I've left the oven on at home all day, that can inflict the same amount of anxiety as standing on a stage like this. I'm talking to you guys. There are dozens and dozens of symptoms of anxiety ranging from headaches, severe stomach pain, and full-blown panic attacks. And last year, my symptoms got so bad that I was signed off work for four weeks. I wasn't sleeping, and panic attacks were becoming a daily occurrence. Now I love my job, so I wasn't that happy about this when the doctor told me I couldn't go in for four weeks. So I spent the first week of my four weeks off doing as much as I possibly could. I cleaned everything, I rearranged all of my wardrobe, and so like not relaxing like the doctor suggested. So when it came to week two, this happened. So if you can't read this, it says, Maenor is really anxious because she can't find a reason to be really anxious at the moment. Now, this makes no sense, but it really does happen, and it is up there with feeling anxious about the fact that you're anxious. Like what is that about? But yeah, it's a really horrible feeling, and this is a bit of a turning point for me as I realised that having four weeks off work to binge watch all the Netflix series I could ever hope for is all and good, but that isn't going to help me in the long run. So these are the few of the things that I've done to help myself. As the name suggests, a worry diary is a journal in which you log all your worries in real time, and you give them a rating between one and 10 depending on how anxious they make you feel. Then, on a weekly basis, I'll go through and review this, and starting with the most severe, try and map out some practical ways I can make that activity or task a lot easier for myself. This is a real excerpt from my worry diary, which is Travelling by Train. As you can see, I've broken this down into exactly what about travelling by train makes me anxious, and this is like an eight out of ten on the anxiety on the top for me. And most of my concerns revolve around being late and train delays and not being able to get a seat. Now, I'll be thinking about these leading up to the day of travel during my journey when I'm at the destination because then I know I have to get back home, and it's utterly exhausting. So these are the few of things I've done. I will always get one or two trains earlier than I need to get in case of any delays. Where possible, I'll travel during off-peak times. However, if I'm travelling for work, this isn't always possible. So in that case, I'll upgrade to the first class ticket to make sure I get a seat. And then I also looked at what my local travel service could do for me. TFL, Transport for London, are one of these travel services. And I discovered that they have this fantastic initiative of these please offer me a seat badges. Anyone with a disability can apply for one of these. And it means that I get a seat every time I need to use a tube, which makes that journey so much more comfortable for myself. They've also released a tube map which highlights all of the routes which have the most tunnels. And again, it just makes travelling on the tube a lot easier for me. Number two, Make plans and stick to a routine. Try and schedule as much as your work into your calendar as you possibly can. I know this can be difficult if clients or project managers sort of dictating what you need to do on a day-to-day basis. But even if it's just when you should check your emails, it will stop you thinking about those tasks when you're trying to focus on other things. And this goes for your home life as well. So I set days which I will do by laundry, by cleaning, and I'll also try and make meal plans. And again, it just prevents my brain sort of worrying about those tasks when I'm trying to do something else. Talk about it. This can be the most difficult thing to do, but it is by far the most beneficial. Before I had that time off work, hardly anyone knew that I had anxiety and that in itself would inflict more anxiety because I'd be really worried about people noticing or finding out what they'd think. But so when I was signed off, I kind of figured that I need to start talking about it because having four weeks signed off work is not a standard thing to happen. And I did it and it was amazing. Slowly but surely I started opening up to friends, families and colleagues. Anxiety had been quite alienating at times and you often feel like you're the only one suffering and everyone else around you has got it together and they don't. When I was chatting to people about this, loads of people were like, oh, I have anxiety too and I had no idea. It shouldn't have really been a surprise to me. 60 million people in the EU are affected by anxiety every year. So the only crazy thing is that we're not talking about it more. And finally, be kind to yourself. You'll have good days and you'll have bad days, but it is totally okay to not be okay. It's just a sign that you need to spend more time doing something for yourself and give yourself a break. Now, how your employer can help you. Under the Equality Act, there's legal duty on employers to make reasonable adjustments for employees with a disability. And if you have a mental health condition, you do have a disability. This is the case for all countries within the EU. But what's a reasonable adjustment? It's defined as an alteration an employer can make to make sure that employees with a disability are not at a disadvantage to others. So this will vary from workplace to workplace. But these are a few things that I think are pretty easy for most workplaces to implement. Flex for working. Nine to five doesn't work for everyone. Allowing an employee to come in an hour earlier or an hour later can make the world of difference. It might mean that they miss that horrible rush hour commute that really stresses them out. It could mean that they could attend a meditation session or even just get an extra hour's sleep. And similarly, the office environment can be too much for people. So giving someone the option to work at home when they need to may prevent them from having to take a day off sick. Keep a nice working environment. Generally small, cluttered spaces really heighten the symptoms of anxiety. So try and keep your workplaces open plan and clear as possible. If that isn't possible, maybe say to your employees that they can use a co-working space or work from home if that's a better environment for them. Promote a healthy work-life balance. Don't put pressure on people to put in extra hours. Make sure they leave on time, they take their holiday and don't message them when they're not supposed to be at work. Yes, sometimes urgent requirements will come up, but maybe offer your employees some extra time off to compensate. And you can help yourself in these situations too.  And finally, listen. Take the time to listen to your employees if they've come up to you with a worry or concern. It may seem trivial to you, but it obviously isn't for them, otherwise they wouldn't have made the effort to speak to you. A fractured mind can be just as serious as a fractured leg, so do whatever you can to help. And finally, they have some really good resources that I've found useful. I'll be sharing my slides after this talk, so if you want to check them out, I'd recommend it. And I'd now welcome any questions. Thank you, Laura. Do we have any questions? Anyone on the mic? All right. I have a question. So I imagine people might want to talk to you about this. Are you going to be around here to the rest of the day? Yeah, definitely. I'm going to be busy for the next 45 minutes, half an hour, so I'm in a media room. But after that, please do come and find me. I'll try and make myself available in the main sponsorship area near the cool Google networking place. So, yeah, come and grab me. I'm more than happy to talk about any of the things covered in my slides. All right. We still have maybe a minute or two left for questions. I actually have another question. Do you... What of the things that you recommended right now has made the most impact in your kind of battle with anxiety? I think talking about it, definitely, it was, yeah, really scary at first, and you kind of feel like you're sort of exposing yourself as being weak or something, but that's really not the case. And everyone I've spoken to has been super, super supportive and lovely, and now, you know, it just makes general life easier as sometimes I'd be feeling anxious about even going out with friends.  Actually, I was just feeling anxious.  That's the best thing. Talk about it. All right. Thank you so much, Laura. Thank you.


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I want to share with you today a message that will focus more on what's happening in this world today, as well as especially with what's happening right now in the Middle East. United States has experienced events like Pearl Harbor where over 2,400 people died. We had the opportunity to visit the memorial in Hawaii and be reminded of the death toll and trauma and all the craziness that hit America. 9-11, most of you were alive when you saw on the news 9-11 where about 3,000 people died because terrorists decided to fly airplanes into twin towers as well as Pentagon. Well a few days ago, about a week ago, Israel has experienced America's 9-11. The worst mass deaths that has happened in Israel since the Holocaust were in one day 1,300 people were killed and 25 of them were people from the United States. Over 120 people were kidnapped where Hamas and Iran-backed terror group controlling Gaza launched an unprovoked and vicious surprise attack on Israel using rockets, paragliders, boats, motorcycles and other vehicles and whatever means they could to infiltrate Israel. Killing babies, families, murdering, snatching older people on the streets and killing young women, burning families with their children. And Hamas of course pushes a propaganda to the world by saying that you know look but Israel kills women and children when in reality they use women and children as shields. They're not the only ones, Boko Haram uses children as human bombs.  Indonesian Islamists deploy women as suicide bombers. It happens everywhere. What happened to Israel is a modern-day Amalekites attacking God's people. When Israel came out of Egypt, Amalekites came against them, attacked them in unexpectedly viciously, indirectly. And God said after that that God will defend His people and punish Amalekites. For those of you maybe and you're Christians or you're watching online and you feel like well you know this attack on Israel they deserve it because Israel, they're not right. Israel they're not good. America is responsible for killing over 60 million babies. Yet 9-11 and the attack of the terrorists on American soil is not morally ever justified. Ukraine is the number one and number two country after Russia. The most corrupt country in Europe yet the invasion and attacking of hospitals and civilians by Russian army is not absolutely justified. What we must understand as Christians is this, we grieve with the people in the Palestine. We pray for the people in the Palestine and we love because we are gentiles just like them. Yet at the same time we must understand is that Israel has not always acted blamelessly in its conduct toward Palestinian people but it doesn't make terrorist attacks less demonic and morally justifiable. God said in Deuteronomy chapter 7 verses 6 and 8, our God whom we call our Father. I want you to notice what He says about this particular family, a Jewish family that started with a guy named Abraham, his wife Sarah and it grew to their children, grandchildren and it became a nation.  Word holy means separate. God took them from the ore of Haldians, he took this guy named Abraham, he chosen him, he gave him some promises and then his family, this is what God says about his family. He says for the Lord your God has chosen you to be people for himself, a special treasure above the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love on you nor choose you because you were more than a number than any other people. For you were the least of all peoples but because the Lord loves you and because he would keep an oath which he swore to your fathers. So while different families of the earth that we became descendants of were slaughtering animals, babies and practicing witchcraft, God takes this man Abraham with the vision in mind to teach him his character, his vision, it's where we get a lot of the Old Testament is God dealing with the family that became a nation. And these people they renounced witchcraft, they renounced all of this stuff but they struggled, they had problems. If you think that Israel is holy moly God Almighty, righteous, absolutely not. In the Old Testament they made mistakes, they disobeyed God, they worshiped idols, I mean they complained. They're not, the reason why we pray for Israel is not because Israel is perfect. It's because God makes it clear in his word, he shows them to be his special people. Now if that's a trigger word for you, see a therapist. But that's God's word, that's what God says in his word. You don't come to God as the Lord but I don't like that. We accept God's word and we find out why did God do that. And then it did run a little bit later in chapter nine verse five it says, it's not because of your righteousness, meaning God makes it clear. Guys, Jewish people, Israelites, he's like, it's not because you're righteous, because they were not super righteous. This is nor a brightness of your heart that you will go and possess the land. God says it's because of the wickedness of the nations, that the Lord, your God drives them out from before you. And then I want you to see this, that he may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I want you to notice in just two references I gave you, it says this. God says, I chose in your special people, I'm bringing you to this place called promised land, which I promised to Abraham, I then made a promise to his son Isaac, made a promise to his grandson Jacob. Israel suffered under the hands of the Egyptians, I took them out through Joshua, I'm bringing them into a piece of land. This is not symbolic, this is not an allegory, this is a physical piece of real estate that is the size of New Jersey, it's about nine million people that is there right now.  Israel has never occupied that size of the land God gave them a promise. They keep getting that land chopped and that's why you see this circle where the Palestine, this whole land belong to the Palestine and Israel is pushing the Palestinians away. I want to make something very clear, that land never belonged to the Palestinians. You know why? Because thousands of years ago God gave to Abraham, there was no Palestinians. Joshua occupied that land, Islam didn't even exist for like 2000 years yet, David the king of Israel was a king there, Solomon built a temple there, God punished his people because of their disobedience, the Babylonians captured them, the Assyrians destroyed some other stuff and then God brought them back and only 600 years after Jesus that Islam started to make its way in the Middle East. Roman Empire to insult Jewish people called that area Palestine, from the word Philistines because Israel always fought with Philistines and Philistines were thrown in a flesh. So Romans to insult them called that area Palestine, that area was given by God. Not UN, not United States, not Donald Trump, not even Abraham, God came to Abraham and made him a promise. A few things he said, number one, I'll make you father of many nations. Number two, he says your seed will bless the nations of the world. And number three, I'm going to give you real estate. Now that was God's promise. Now some are like, well, I find it offensive, be offended. But that's God's promise. If you have a problem with that and you think God should break his promise to Israel and Abraham, why should he keep his promise to you? He promised to forgive our sins. He promised to take us to heaven. He promised to be with us. So God keeps saying, the reason why Israel is going to enter the promised land, the reason why God is dealing with them, does God just keep saying this because I made a promise to their fathers. God is going to be faithful. God is a faithful God. Is somebody saying amen? This land that is the fight over right now, again, as Christians, please understand for some reason like, well, this is politics. This is the Bible. This is not politics. This is God's word. God keeps his promise. Now you would say, why would God promise people real estate? He's God. He made the real estate. He wants to do whatever he wants with it. And if he would give me land, I would take it too, because land is very expensive. Small piece of land that is being fought and contested with for many, many years. This land is permanently belongs to the Jewish people because God said this piece of real estate will belong to Israel forever. Israel has always historically been a Jewish territory. This idea and this graphic that are circulating online that somehow this belongs to the Palestinians. We must understand, we don't see a lot of mentions in here of God giving different pieces of land to different people except one. That is to particular family God chose out of which he will bring his son Jesus who will impact the world. And one of the things that God gave them to Abraham was piece of land. And God made it very clear that land is his. In 1948, Israel became recognized nation by the United Nations. The moment after its recognition, neighboring countries attacked Israel. Israel won the war in 1948 against countries like Egypt, Syria and Jordan. In 1967, these countries attacked Israel again, which led to what we know as six-day war. Israel won the war, controlled areas like West Bank and East Jordan. Israel returned to the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in 1979, but still controls other areas like West Bank and Gaza. Why am I speaking about this today at church? It's because the danger at church is this, is when Christians are drinking, getting their theological understanding from CNN than the Bible. And when we allow the propaganda of our culture to affect our worldview. And this is how it happens. When Christians believe this doctrine, it's called replacement theology. What is replacement theology? Israel has been replaced by the church. Meaning Israel was good until Jesus came. Now Jesus came, all of these prophecies were fulfilled. All of the future prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus. All that matters is Christians, Jesus, and God took Israel completely crossed it off of the map. They're no longer on the table. God will not deal anything with Israel. The future prophecies of Jesus coming to Israel, saving Israel, all of the stuff is completely off the table and it's only Jesus and his church. That would mean that God canceled his promise to Abraham. If he broke his promise to Abraham, how long is it going to take him to break his promise to you? That's a dangerous way to believe. And for those of you who believe in that, I'm going to tell you that you are in error, because the Bible does not teach that. This is what the Bible teaches in Romans chapter 11 verse 25. For I do not desire brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion. The blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Paul is very clear. There is a blindness that has taken place with Israel. If you watch the interview with Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan, and Joe Rogan asked Ben Shapiro about what he thinks about Jesus and Ben Shapiro straight up what normal Jewish people who don't believe in Messiah say about Jesus. Jesus got killed. He deserved it. Why? Because he rebelled against Roman Empire. He never rose from the dead. He's not the son of God. It's just Christians made him into a son of God. This is Jewish Messiah. How could somebody smart like Ben Shapiro say that? Paul says to us, who's also a Jewish writer and says this, that there is a blindness in part, meaning not all Jewish people are blind. Dr. Michael Brown, who I interviewed just a few days, a few weeks ago, he speaks and has a PhD, he's a Jewish believer, Sid Roth is a Jewish believer. And so many more, Jonathan Kahn, who just also recently interviewed about the return of the gods, he's a messianic rabbi. There's a lot of messianic believers all around the world, but there is in part partial blindness and hardness that is allowed by God when they rejected Messiah. But Paul is saying this so that the fullness of Gentiles, meaning as they are blinded, God almost like extended open wide door to the rest of us heathens, the Gentiles, the pagan worshipers, the one who worshiped the moon, the stars and weird, bizarre stuff who didn't know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but we worshiped Jupiter. We worshiped some other Baal. We worshiped some other stuff and God says, while the hearts of there are blind temporarily and in part the fullness of Gentiles, the Slavics, the Asians, the Hispanics and so many of them will come into my kingdom and worship Jesus, the Messiah, and love him and will serve him. But I remind you, Jesus revealed himself when he was underserved as a Jewish king. He said of himself that he is the very king. Jesus himself was rejected by Jewish people, but it was predicted by a Jewish prophet, Isaiah. And then Jesus took his Jewish disciples and gave them the good news and said now and go fulfill Abraham's promise that you will in the seed will be blessing to the nations and go to all the nations because for the first time Jewish descendants who have this message of Jesus are spreading this to all the nations. Up to that point they were staying away from the nations. They were trying to not to get contaminated by the nations and now they're spreading the good news everywhere until this Jesus comes back and restores things back to its order. Saint Romans chapter 11 verse 26, Paul says this, and all Israel will be saved. But this idea that God is done with Israel, God is only working now with the church and Israel they just went kind of their own way, they killed Jesus and all other stuff. Paul is saying, God says all Israel will be saved. I love verse 28, concerning the gospel, the Israelites, Jewish people, are enemies for your sake, ouch. That means when we talk Jesus, Messiah, gospel, they're enemies. But concerning the election, they are beloved. A friend of mine, Joel Richardson says they are your beloved enemies. Jewish people concerning the gospel, they're enemies. They don't believe in the gospel. They think we cuckoo crazy. But concerning the election, and you remember the Bible says that God's callings and God's election is irrevocable. God doesn't take it away. They are our beloved people. Amen. Now, in the Old Testament, there are different prophetic pictures of the future of Jesus, the Messiah, that he plays in the history of the church, but specifically to Israel. And that's what I want to, the next few moments I want to talk about is his future as it relates to the Jewish state and to the people of Israel. One of the pictures that I personally always enjoy in the Bible is the story of Joseph. Joseph is one of the clearest pictures of Jesus like a shadow and a type. Joseph was beloved of his father. Joseph was like a savior. He brought bread to his brothers. Joseph gets rejected by his brothers for the price of 30 shackles. Joseph gets falsely accused. Joseph gets thrown into a dungeon between two crazy people, one of which gets beheaded or killed and the other one gets promoted. Joseph marries a Gentile bride. And Joseph is the second right-hand man to the main guy in charge Pharaoh. And Joseph spends time feeding hungry people. Now do you see Jesus? Is God said about Jesus? This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. Jesus is sent to his own, the Bible says, but his own received him not. Jesus gets rejected by his own. Jesus gets sold for a price of 30 coins. Jesus gets falsely accused. In fact, they held a trial at night. And by six different courts, he gets falsely accused. He doesn't get hanged for his crimes. He gets accused falsely and he gets killed. On the cross, Jesus is hanging between two criminals, one of which goes to paradise and the other one goes into the lake of fire, renouncing Christ. Jesus gets raised from the dead, goes from a prison to the palace and he sits at the right hand of our father. Jesus has a bride and that bride is the church Gentiles. You and I, but do you know how Joseph's story ends? Joseph and his brothers reconcile. First time they come, they don't recognize him. So they don't reconcile. Second time they come, they don't recognize him. In their mind, Joseph is dead. That's how a lot of Jewish people today, in their mind, Jesus is dead. He never rose from the dead. He's not who Christians claim him to be. He's gone. They're still waiting for a Messiah. While he, Jesus is currently feeding the Gentile world through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, healing the sick, driving our demons. And we, not being Jewish, worship Jewish King. We're benefiting like Egypt is benefiting from Joseph and his own family is not recognizing, thinking he's dead. And that's exactly what's happening. Jewish people in part are blind to the fact. Joseph reigns. He's not dead. Jesus reigns. He's not dead. He's not a heretic who was using magic to do miracles. He was filled by the Spirit of God. He fulfilled 333 prophecies given by God in the Old Testament. In fact, somebody did the math and they said, 150 of prophecies about Jesus occurred in six hours when Jesus hung on the cross. That's a lot of prophecies. So about half of the prophecies about Jesus were fulfilled in six hours. Now, a doctor or professor, Peter Stoner, professor of mathematics said this. The probability of just eight out of 333 coming to pass is equivalent to covering the state of Texas, which is about 268,000 square miles, two feet deep in silver coins, one of which has a special mark on it, and then expecting a blindfolded man to walk across the state on the very first try to find the one coin you marked. A professor of mathematics says to just take eight prophecies out of 333 and have one person fulfill them, the chance of that is filling the state of Texas, two feet silver coins, marking one coin, and sending a blindfolded man to find exactly that coin. The probability is it's mind blowing. It's supernatural. So Jewish people, they reject their Messiah, just lack the brothers of Joseph. But I want you to notice on the third visit to Egypt, Joseph hides no more. He tells him, I am Joseph. And what happens is they wept.  Did you know that Israel entered the promised land third time? The first time was in Joshua. The second time was when Ezra and Nehemiah came back from the exile. And that exile was about 70 years. The third time, this exile lasted about 2,000 years. It's when they lost Jerusalem after the destruction of the temple. And now in 1948, Israel came back the third time into the land. The Bible says, if you want to know what's happening in the last days, you look at a fig tree. The fig tree is Israel. Meaning when you see it budding, the summer is coming. Something is happening. Jesus is going to land on the Mount of Olives. He will defend Israel during a very difficult war. But that couldn't happen if Israel didn't exist. That means the time is coming. When they came into the land third time, Jesus, AKA Joseph, is about to reveal himself again. He is coming back. And the Bible says, every eye will see him. The Bible says there will be a sound of a trumpet when he will come.  Come on somebody. You know, the Old Testament is messiah concealed. The New Testament is the messiah revealed. The whole Bible is not really about a family. It's about God choosing a family to bring forth his son that will touch the world. And that God controls the whole narrative. And then that family will be the family that God will use to bring his son back. And take the seed as the king of David, as the son of David, on the throne of David. Israel had seven feasts. In America, we have holidays. Fourth of July, Memorial weekend, Labor Day weekend, Martin Luther Day. It seems like every month we're celebrating something. And every day is some kind of a celebration.  So and it's good to have days where you celebrate things. Israel had seven main holidays. Interesting. All the seven main holidays are really symbol of Jesus. Four of them happened in the spring. Three of them happened in the fall. The first one was the Passover. You probably heard of it. It's when the lamb was killed. Interesting. When Jesus came and the actual Passover is when Jesus the lamb was killed. The second holiday Israel had is called unleavened bread. Now this might go over your head right now. Just hang in for a second. Unleavened bread was symbolic of Jesus' burial because Messiah's sinless life as leaven is picture of sin in the Bible, making him the perfect sacrifice for our sin. The third holiday Israel had is called first fruits, meaning you bring first fruits to God. And he speaks of Jesus' resurrection as the first fruit of the dead. Interestingly Jesus is getting raised from the dead as the first fruit. And then there is one more holiday, few days, about 50 days after. And this holiday is called the day of Pentecost. And on this day God pours out his spirit upon the church. And then we hit the spiritual summer. Because in Israel then they get the summer. There's no holidays. And this is where we are right now. And then there comes the fall and the fall has three more holidays. And the first one of this is called the trumpets. The second one is called the day of Atonement. And the third one is called the tabernacles. Hang in with me, are you still with me? Okay, the trumpets as you blow the trumpet. The Bible says that the angel will sound a trumpet. And those who are dead will rise and they will meet Christ in the air. And there is gonna be a reunion of this Jesus, the son of God, coming down on earth. And we will be changed in a twinkly on my eye and we will be with the Lord. The sound of a trumpet, the feast of trumpets is symbolic of Jesus' second coming. Then Israel has one more feast called the day of Atonement. It's kind of not a feast more like a fast because they were supposed to afflict their souls and not eat. It's when they mourn. It's when they repent. You know what that speaks of? When that happens, Israel will mourn. And weep, looking at him whom they've rejected before. And there is one more feast called the tabernacles. It's when Israel lived for seven days in booths. And this is the same word that is used in Revelation that the Lord himself will tabernacle with us, meaning he will dwell with us on earth for 1,000 years. And then another 1,000 years, then another 1,000 and forever. Come on somebody, let's give King Jesus the Messiah, our Savior, our Lord and our King. A round of applause. Now, Israel missed Jesus' first coming because they were fixed on his second coming. Most of us are not interested in the second coming because we're so impacted by his first coming. When Jesus came, they expected the King to come but instead they got a priest and they also got someone who was a prophet. He has three functions, Jesus has three functions. As a prophet, he fulfilled that in the three years of his ministry. As a priest, he fulfilled that by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. There's one more function and that's what Israel was expecting is the King. He will rule in the rain. Did you know there is eight times more verses in the Bible about Jesus' second coming than about his first coming? Eight times more. Did you know there's at least 300 references in the New Testament about Jesus' second coming? Paul refers to it in his epistles at least 50 times. Few things about his second coming. It will be visible, personal, literal and glorious. Some people say, and this is what now becoming trendy in Christianity, that this second coming of Jesus is symbolic. There's gonna be no trumpet, it's just in your heart. No cloud, no, this is when you feel the presence. He's not gonna be hitting the antichrist. Antichrist is the bad nature in you. Yes, you can apply some symbolism and everything but Jesus made it very clear that his appearance will be visible. It says it's from one side of the earth to the other and I think how that's gonna happen is live streaming and lightning will shoot up throughout the earth and Jesus, it will be a loud sound that will come in. It won't be quiet. It won't be like people, wise men trying to calculate the stars figure out where is the king of the Jews? No, no, no, it won't be like that. It will be so loud. The Bible says that there will be a loud, so those of you who don't like loud stuff get some earplugs because this is gonna get loud. The sound of a trumpet from heaven. There's the lightning that's taking place. It is visible and the Bible says every eye will see. This is not gonna be hidden. Fox will stream it, CNN will stream it, TikTok will stream it, everybody's gonna see it. It's gonna be glorious.  That light is not working and that light, everything will work.  Gotta get them horses again. Come on somebody. Or maybe, just got this idea. Maybe he's gonna have some spaceship that has horsepower. I don't know, there's just speculation. His second coming will be gathering the saints. So not only it's visible, glory is powerful. It's gathering the saints. I have another message where I deal with will Christians go through tribulation or not? But I wanna highlight just one thing. The Bible says, we will be caught up to meet him in the air. It will be immediately transformed as this is happening. Our bodies will change. The dead will be raised and we will meet the Lord in the air at his coming. Now, the traditional mainline teaching in American culture is this.   But the word at his coming, the word coming there is the Greek word for Parasia. Parasia is when an important person comes to a city and a delegation from the city would go out to meet him and then escort him on his way to the city. It's used 24 times in the Bible. My personal and many people in this room believe that Christians will be protected during tribulation but we will not be rescued completely from it because God didn't rescue people before in the last 2000 years and Christians are the only ones who can endure it and he will use them still to expand his kingdom. We can disagree with that and still be nice but the benefit why people in America believe that we won't be going through hard stuff is because we have the luxury of growing up in a country that has Christian values and if somebody hurts you, you sue them. That's not the luxury the rest of the world has or had for 2000 years. So it's important that our ideas don't come from the place of our experience but come from a place of biblical understanding. The Bible makes no distinction between two comings of Jesus, one at rapture and then one at second coming. The Bible says about one second coming of Jesus and the Bible makes it very clear that it will be Parasya. Let me give you an example. If I bring a guest speaker to Hungry Gen in a given direction to get to Hungry Gen, usually one of our guys would go in the parking lot, Parasya, they would go at the parking lot, meet him as they're coming in, help him to find the parking space and escort him into one of the offices. So what the Bible says about Jesus coming, Romans would do that. Roman emperor or a general would go conquer a nation, come back with a bounty and then some of the officials would meet him halfway right outside of the gates and together escort walk into the city in the parade. That's the word Paul is using. The church gets raptured, we get transformed, we meet the Lord mid-air and we come with Jesus as his feet, the Bible says in Zechariah 14.4, lend an amount of olives. While he's lending an amount of olives, the beast, the antichrist, who the spirit of antichrist has already been running everywhere, but there is still the bad boy antichrist will come. He will be a man that will somehow organize the Middle East and create one global currency at least in that part of the world. He will be extremely charismatic and likeable. He will be wealthy and try to restore the wealth and the dignity of that world and he will have one religion. His specialty in his religion will be beheading people. Which kind of gives you a cue. Which religion right now has a goal of dominating the world and as its punishment, they cut people's heads off. And which religion in the world has an expectation of a coming Messiah that point for point fits the description of our antichrist. I'll let you stew on that. This bad boy antichrist makes the deal with Israel. Interestingly, Islam as a scatology, meaning the end times for Islam, has their Messiah coming and this Messiah of Islam will sign a seven year peace treaty with Jews. So who they're expecting to be their Messiah is who Christians believe is antichrist who signs a seven year peace treaty with Israel. And in the middle of that seven year treaty, he, the temple is already built, he desecrates the temple and for Jewish people you just desecrate the temple, that's it, you go, you it's bad. And then the war begins to happen against Israel. The nations come against Israel. So the temple has to be built. The institute of temple, the temple institute in Israel already have the schematics and pretty much everything ready to build the temple except the location that the dome, the Islam headquarters is on that place. And I believe we are standing very close what we might be seeing and even in our lifetime, maybe not in the lifetime, in our children's lifetime where this shift can happen in Israel where the temple will be built, where this peace will be made with this person who's gonna try to invade Israel eventually cause headache and suffering. We go to the Lord in the air, we come down and his feet lend not in London, not in Kiev, not in Moscow, not in LA, not in New York on the Mount of Olives. And when he lands, he's not arriving as a guest speaker at Jerusalem Baptist Convention. He's not coming as a guest speaker in the Christian organization. He's coming as a man of war. And I know some of us do not know that kind of Jesus yet. We're like, man, I love Jesus that gives hugs and kisses. You know, turn the other cheek 100%, the priest, the prophet, but we will see another nature of our maker of galaxies of what is seen and unseen. When he arrives and his feet lend on the Mount of Olives, few things will happen. Number one, he will defend Israel because Israel will need that.  Oh no, I'm not talking about spiritually, cow.   And then what Jesus will do, something that's also shocking, he will judge the nations and rule them. There will be no voting, no mail-in voting. Nobody's gonna be asked about do you want him or not. Kings don't operate like that. He's not a dictator. Dictator is wannabe king. The real king of the universe already died, came on a donkey humbly and had humanity strip his beard, beat him, and smite him and he took all of that for the sins of humanity. He's the only one worthy to rule the earth because his robe is dipped in blood and this Jesus who went to heaven in a cloud, the Bible says the angels came back and said the same way he went up and the same way, not symbolically, not in an allegory spiritually, the same way, physically, visibly, gloriously, he will come down with the church and his feet will land on the mount of olives and he will establish his kingdom, defend Israel, kill the bad boy Antichrist and he will judge the nations. But what if they will get triggered? The Bible says every knee will bow but when the devil will be bound, most people will not be triggered anymore. They'll be okay. They'll recognize Jesus is Messiah. He's the king. He has stripes in his hands. He bled and died. He's the rightful king. That's what the second coming is coming. What do we do about it? Well, number one, the Bible actually tells us to wait for his second coming. My recommendation, we should wait for Jesus' second coming, not for Trump's second coming. Our hope, we're not expecting to make America great again. Not against that. I love America. And I think we need a good president and I think Trump is a great one. I'm not saying Trump is a pastor. Good, can make a good pastor. No, no, no, absolutely not. He's not a good spiritual leader. But we're not voting for a pastor. We're voting for somebody who can establish things that honor God. But our hope, we don't wait for the second coming of Trump. We wait for the second coming of Messiah. Can somebody say amen? Secondly, God is not done with Israel, therefore we pray for its peace. God is not done with Israel, therefore we lift Israel in peace. Again, does it mean it justifies some of the other things that Israel has going on? Absolutely not. Somebody sent me an article with Israel, sold weapons to countries that were attacking Armenia. Make no mistake, we are not whitewashing and making Israel pretend that everything they do is right, absolutely not. What we're saying is, according to God's word, it's God's special people because of the promise he made to Abraham. All the writers of the Bible came from this territory. Jesus went up from this place. He's coming back to this place. They have a special role in God's plan and we have to honor that and pray for Jerusalem. Why is there such an attack on that small piece of real estate? Because the devil knows that's what the future king. That's when the uncontested, once he arrives, it's the end game, it's the end game. And he will do whatever it takes, make sure that Israel does not exist as a nation before that. But the devil tried it before, he will try again and it won't happen, he won't succeed. And we have to lift God's people in prayer. Just because they're blind right now, it doesn't mean God is not merciful and it doesn't wanna open their eyes. Number three, while we wait for Jesus' second coming, we must work hard to make sure everybody else hears about his first coming. Many people don't know Jesus. They know about him, they don't know him. Number four, we must train believers to endure suffering, not just teach them to enjoy blessings. Now again, I lived in the United States for 23 years. I love blessings, I love peace. I love that if you threaten us in school, we can sue you. I love that if the government comes and says you can't meet and take you to court, you get good lawyers and you sue the living lights out of them. Make millions of dollars in the process, make Jesus know. I love the fact that we have more lawyers in America than I think all the world come by. I love that. I love the fact that we have freedom in America and I have a gun and a license to carry. I love that. I love that we live in a blessed country. But please make no mistake, the rest of the world and for the last 2000 years, that's not the pleasure people have enjoyed and we should protect these liberties. But we should also understand with all of the liberties we and blessings we experience in America, we should never take him for granted and we should always remember this is not heaven. There is still bones are gonna break. There is still hearts are gonna break. We still live in a difficult time where you will be misunderstood, you will be judged.  I can't go to church, why somebody offended me? We cannot build this easily offended, selfish little centered. Now if you're just a baby Christian, you're totally welcome. Babies are also welcome in the church. But if you've been with the Lord for 10 years, it's time to take the pacifier out, take the sword of the spirit in and become strong in the Lord, endure hardship. That means it's okay to go through difficult times. The way of Jesus is narrow and difficult. Endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ for crying out loud. Let's not be snowflakes, let's be soldiers. Let's be an army, but we will be misunderstood. They kill Jesus, we'll be called with names. They call him heretic. Oh, but they will hurt us. They stone Stephen, no, not stone, like he could drop physically stoned. The Christianity went through them. My great grandparents suffered for the cause of Christ and then was murdered. They couldn't meet freely and they still served Jesus. My mom was baptized during the winter in cold eyes and that was fine, she's still serving Jesus. She didn't denounce Jesus. They say, oh, the cameras were not there. My hair didn't look good. And you know what? It was not super comfortable and the water was not warm. And so we have to raise new believers from our youth today that are not easily offended, that are not just afraid or allergic to hardship. They live, if hardships come, if persecution comes, not that we have a martyr mentality, but we're not scared. We're not afraid. What can they do? They can kill the body, but that's it. And if the time comes and over, you know, if I stand up for faith and if I, you know, confess Jesus, I may lose my job, come on. You know, and it happened during COVID, people were like, man, but I don't wanna say anything. I don't wanna do anything. I know it's against my conscience, but I don't wanna lose my job, come on. When we reopened our church shooting COVID, I knew it was illegal. But also with our board decided that, you know what? If a million people can riot, loot and defecate on the parking lot with masks, and that was okay, then if people wanna come and worship Jesus, we will let him. And we let our local governments know, hey, we honor the local government. We love these people. We don't blame them because it's really comes from over there. Dr. Pepper, I mean, the fouch and other people and the government and all of the stuff and all of these restrictions, but we told our local law enforcement, the chief of police and the state representatives and others say, listen, this stuff, we know now that it's not some big scary thing. People recover from it. We will tell our elderly people to stay home and we will reopen our services. We will not require masks and we will not enforce social distancing. And we made it very clear. I gave him my personal number and I said, when you're gonna make the arrest, text me first, I will come out quietly. Because if you come out storm, we do have people that are armed and we just do not want any problems. We do not wanna have any news, just arrest me, put me in jail, lawyers will hush it out next morning, I'll be back home, everything will be fine. And all of our local representatives messaged back and they said this, this was during COVID, so I can say that now. They said, who, arrest, what, Vlad? Chill. None of us agree with most of this stuff, just don't tell your congregation that we're okay with it. So that's why I didn't tell you guys that during COVID. Now I can tell you that because that's your limitation past. And not one person died, but the church quadrupled. Why? Because we have to endure suffering, misunderstanding. I was made fun of by local pastors with who I'm friends with and the week where we opened with a pastor's meeting and a lot of very harsh words were spoken to people who re-open against the mandates.   We're gonna preach the gospel, we will gather. And there is nothing the governor can do about it. We will serve Jesus. We must obey God, not the government. And the government is not gonna be our God. We respect the government, but when the government has an overreach, we're not gonna allow that. And if that comes with the price of a little bit of suffering, and if that scares some, we're like, man, I don't wanna go to church like that. I'm okay, there's plenty of churches that will not take a hard stand. But I wanna tell you here is that we do not see controversy for the sake of controversy. But we believe the Bible is the word of God. It might be narrow, Jesus is the only way to salvation. We believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. We believe you cannot choose your gender and boys should not be in gross bathrooms. We believe the state has no right to indoctrinate our children and to teach them things that are contrary to biology and to common sense. And we believe the state has no right to shelter, steal children, mutilate them, indoctrinate them and to brainwash them. We stand on that and it's not political, it's our family, it's our faith, and it's gonna be our future, amen? And we're gonna build a church that is strong, church that's sacrificial, a church that will lay their life for Jesus and live without regrets, amen? Number five, we will not merely maintain, we will multiply, meaning we're not hiding. We are going to multiply. We're not going to, we're not on a quarry of exotic fish. We're gonna fish for souls. What you saw today in the presentation about schools, our church is not a destination, it's a gas station. That means we go into the world and if they kick us out of schools, they cannot kick us out of football games. And that means that we will go and reach students, we will help other people. We're not here to maintain. There are churches today, their goal is to preserve their tradition. That's why you see in America speaking a different language and the goal is this, we just wanna keep our family, we just wanna reach our kids, we just don't wanna lose our kids. My pastor who started this church from the beginning, when I was 13 years of age, he said this, we are not here to save our family. We're here to touch the culture. And he says, all of you 13 year olds, learn English fast. I wasn't born in the United States. That's why you hear this little cute accent. Or scary little harsh, strong aards. Why is that? My wife is not Ukrainian, she's Russian. We got people from different nations here. Why? Because our church doesn't exist for us. Our church exists so we can multiply. That's why we're getting a new building. Why? Because it's not because we wanna have a big church. I don't get a benefit from that. It's about the fact that Jesus wants us, while this is happening, he says, until I come, occupy. Until I come, do business. Disciples said, is it now? You will reestablish the kingdom. And Jesus says, don't worry about this part. I'll come back when it's my time. But you receive power, heal the sick, cast out demons, preach the gospel, start small groups, start on the shame clubs, build families, get married, have children, buy a house, build a business, support God's kingdom, have revival in the church and reformation in the society. Why is there a focus on schools? Every Sunday you come in, like, man, I thought it's an adult service. Why are we talking about that? Because the school is the source of society. It's where all the young children go in. It's where seeds are planted that germinate in colleges.  These people are our lawyers.  And these people are our football players, influencers. And if we fill them with garbage in high school, middle school and college, and what we have is we have these people who are now broken in their mind by the world system. We don't want just revival in the church. We want reformation in society. And that cannot happen if we only hide in the church. We gotta go into the world. Revival in the church, reformation in our society, reformation in tri-cities, reformation in our schools, reformation in our school system, in our media and in the world. That's why you see the youth service moved from Wednesday night to Sunday night. The old traditional model is this. A kid, if you get saved, quit football. Leave the world. Meaning any activities and go to church and spend all the time in church. When that model, the problem with that model is this. You have revival at the expense of reformation. The model of hungry Jen is this. We're fishers of men and you don't go fishing in the bathtub. You have to go to where the fish is. That's why there's an emphasis online. That's why one of the things that your pastor does is streams online and does all of this stuff. Why? Because that's what the world is at right now. We are not here to put light in the lightroom or put light in the dark place. Put salt where it needs to be. We are here not to maintain, but to multiply. In the midst of persecution, Israel multiplied and so will we. China's church is multiplying in persecution, so will we if persecution comes. And the last thing, we don't have fear. We live on fire. We don't fear antichrist. We don't fear Hamas. We don't fear terrorism. We don't fear jail and we don't fear death. Now, will we feel it if it comes close? Maybe for a little bit, but what we do is we take all of our life and burn for Jesus. We fear God too much to fear death. We live for the one who died for us. We don't live with fear. Even the end times for us, when we look at what's happening in the world, it doesn't bring us fear. What we do is we get on fire for God. Let's pray, let's fast, let's build things for God. Let's live for Jesus. Why?   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Today, Thursday, November 12, 2020, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of eight new cases of COVID-19. This brings a total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 156. Case number 149 is a 14-year-old male from the Viewfort District. Case number 150 is a 25-year-old female from the Viewfort District. Case number 151 is a 53-year-old male from the Goseley District. Case number 152 is a 59-year-old female from the Goseley District. Case number 153 is a 35-year-old male from the Goseley District. Case number 154 is a 15-year-old female from the Viewfort District. Case number 155 is a 37-year-old male from the Viewfort District. Case number 156 is a 22-year-old female from the castries district. These individuals were seen at the community health facility where they were assessed and tested for COVID-19. They were all placed in quarantine by the health practitioners while they awaited the return of their test results. Epidemiological links have been established for six of these cases. Cases number 149 and 150 have been linked to case number 141. Cases number 151 and number 156 have been linked to case number 113. Case number 154 is linked to case number 115 and case number 155 has been linked to case number 126. As per protocol, these individuals have been placed in isolation. These new cases now bring the total number of active cases in country to 108. At present, there is one COVID-19 case in critical care and all of the other active cases remain stable. It is imperative now that each and every one of us play our part to keep ourselves and our most vulnerable safe, particularly the elderly and people living with chronic conditions. We remind each citizen that if you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, you should not be gathering with other people, whether for work, to undertake business or for recreational activities. It is important to instead seek medical attention promptly. If you are sick, this is not the time to be at bars, at the gym, restaurants, church, or any other place where people gather. This gathering of people is one of the behaviors which increases the risk of being exposed to and becoming infected with the virus. The Ministry of Health and Wellness, we once again remind every citizen of the importance of consistently practicing the infection prevention and control measures. These include to wash and sanitize your hands often throughout the day, ensure a mask is always worn while in public, and to follow the floor markers which have been placed in public spaces to assist in maintaining the recommended safe physical distance. Where these floor markers are not available, the separation from the next person should be about two arms length apart. As usual, the Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing updates as new information becomes available.


Almost exactly 10 years ago when I visited Mumbai as Vice President, I emphasized how important it was for India and the United States to continue building the partnership, small steps, small steps in the time. Over that past 10 years, those small steps have transformed in a large progress. And today, the partnership between our countries is stronger than it was ever before. We've seen our major defense partnership now till our end of the Pacific peace and security structure. We've seen our economic ties and that was the most inclusive economic growth for people and, of course, many people all around the world. And you see in our growing cooperation of a whole range of civil space, emerging technologies, clean energy, global infrastructure. Well, thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for your decision to, and hosting the G20 this year, focus your role on the challenges of the matter, not just for me and my country, but for all of us. I look forward to discussing how we can strengthen our partnership to build the future together worthy of both our peoples. One grounded on democracy, human rights, freedom, and rule of law. So welcome again, Mr. Prime Minister, we have a big agenda. We continue to build our progress, again, step by step. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. I once again express my gratitude to you and to Dr. Pillai for the hospitality and the respect that you have shown to me and my delegation. And more importantly, because you opened the doors of the White House today for the Indian American people, and they were there in thousands to impress the future of our strategic partnership. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Your Excellency, you've always been India's friend and a well-wisher for a very long time. And whenever you have got an opportunity, you've always given force and strength to our mother populations. Excellency, eight years ago, while passing the U.S.-India business council, you had said our goal is to become India's best friend. And it is this first incumbent of yours towards India that is inspiring us to take many bold and ambitious initiatives. Today, India and the U.S. are working shoulder-to-shoulder in every field, from the depths of the oceans to the heights of the skies, from ancient culture to artificial intelligence. From a diplomatic point of view, whenever two countries are connected, then there are often joint statements, working groups, and in addition to that, we are working shoulder-to-shoulder. This is very important. But India and the U.S. have a real engine for our involvement, people-to-people's involvement. Or is the engine a job with the heart? I mean, right now, why does the loan permit me? Excellency, whenever there is talk of relations between any two countries from a diplomatic point of view, people often talk about some common joint statements, working groups, and we use them. Obviously, they typically have their own importance, but the real engine of the India-U.S. relationship is our strong people-to-people ties, and we just heard a spirit root of that engine out on the White House cost. Excellency, as you said, I will go to the farthest place, the highest point of view of the U.S. is the view of the world. The two largest countries of the world are India and the U.S. I believe that our strategic strategy is for the development of human resources, for the stability and stability of the environment, for the development of people-to-people relations, which are very important and are far more important than before. I believe that together we can make the entire world a better place. Your Excellency, as you said, and I would like to reiterate that today's rapidly changing global situation, all eyes are on the two largest democracies of the world, India and America. I believe that our strategic partnership is important for welfare of the human kind, for global peace and stability, and for all countries believing in democratic values. And this is important than ever before. I am confident that working together we will be successful in enhancing the space of the whole world. I will talk about many such issues today. We will have been managed through our strategic partnership. I once again express my heartfelt gratitude to you for your friendship. Thank you, Mr. Phil. Thank you. Thank you.


Item Number – SCP-169 Object Class – Keter Special Containment Procedures – Because of its size, SCP-169 cannot and almost certainly will never be contained. No structure on Earth is large enough or strong enough to contain SCP-169. The location of SCP-169 is not precisely known, but imaging satellites and analyses of eccentricities in the Earth's orbit suggest SCP-169 is located in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, possibly stretching around the tip of South America. Any satellite footage of a shift in the land masses produced by SCP-169 is to be excised and destroyed by embedded agents. Description – SCP-169 is surmised to be a marine arthropod of enormous size, known as the Leviathan, by generations of sailors and oral history. Presumed at first to be a myth, SCP-169 was detected in 19… by Mobile Task Force Gamma 6 during an investigation of paranormal activity around an undisclosed archipelago. During Gamma 6's investigation, Dr. R-Gamma 60912 discovered the archipelago to have moved at least three kilometers from its original location. Though initially said, Dr. believed this motion to be due to unusually quick continental drift, a reconnaissance mission performed by the USS R-Revealed the archipelago to be the protrusions of rock-like plates, covering an enormous organic mass. The Foundation was brought in immediately to begin threat management. Dr. Gamma 60912 and Dr. R-Gamma 60421 estimate SCP-169's body length to be between 2,000 and 8,000 kilometers. The creature is thought to have existed since the Precambrian Era. No other specimens have been sighted. Almost nothing is known about SCP-169's habits, such as its reproductive capabilities, if any, food source, and nesting area, if any. Research regarding SCP-169 is pending approval. The archipelago, known as the P-Islands, have historically been uninhabited, though claimed by P-17, upon handover to the Foundation, their presence was evacuated on the pretense of rising sea levels. Though the archipelago has remained above sea level for several millennia, any change of depth by SCP-169 could result in the disappearance of the entire archipelago. SCP-169 moves slowly, less than one kilometer per week, but seems only to be adrift. Its method of propulsion is unknown. Regular seismic tremors seem to indicate breathing about every three months, causing minor shifts in the island's terrain, suggesting that the creature is probably dormant. The USS was scuttled with all hands immediately after the discovery of SCP-169, with the permission of the American government. The public is forbidden from entering the archipelago created by SCP-169, due to the conveniently large number of resident endangered bird species. As indicated above, satellite footage is to be doctored in order to suppress knowledge of SCP-169's movement. NASA is currently cooperating with the Foundation in keeping the existence of SCP-169 quiet, and is currently permitting the Foundation use of their satellites for photographic use. Addendum 0-20, in 1991, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an American scientific agency, unaffiliated with and unaware of the existence of the Foundation, detected an ultra-low-frequency underwater sound emanating from an undisclosed location, approximately 1 km from the southwestern coast of South America. Despite the best efforts of embedded agent IA-1522, news of the sound leaked to the media, receiving significant media coverage, Foundation analysis concluded that a massive underwater organism was the source of the noise, and SCP-169 was hypothesized to be its source, as its head is well within the possible locations of the rest of SCP-169. The sound confirms Gamma 60421's hypothesis that SCP-169 is gargantuan in size. Future efforts by scientific or civilian teams to determine the source of the noise must be stopped by any means necessary. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-168, Sentient Calculator, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Enrico asks, your thoughts on the Kiva protocol and distributed ledger partnership between Sierra Leone, the UN, and Kiva.org? Enrico says, I have been a lender to the microfinance charity Kiva.org for many years. Hey, so have I. I've been a lender on Kiva for almost ten years now. This year, Kiva is partnering with the government of Sierra Leone and the UN agencies to provide a nationwide digital identification system. Designed to help the country's 7 million citizens access the financial services they need to improve their lives, the development called the Kiva protocol is based on hyper ledger technology and is intended to solve the problems of identity and credit history for the 80% of the country's citizens who are unbanked. While I have no doubts about the good intentions of Kiva, I'm concerned about the choice of technology. Would you clarify the pros and cons of distributed ledger technology in such a situation? What are the chances of this project making a positive contribution to the financial future of the people of Sierra Leone? Here's the thing, this distributed ledger technology is centralized. That's the key insight. One of the reasons it's centralized is because the very process of providing identification, traditional human ID, in places like Sierra Leone, is itself centralized. So whether you use a decentralized blockchain or a centralized blockchain doesn't make a huge difference if the source of the identity documents, the source of the truth, the things that you can't control by consensus, but has to be input into the system by an external party, let's call this an oracle for consistency purposes. The government of Sierra Leone in this particular case is acting as an identity oracle that is providing identity documentation for its citizens. That is a centralized function that is prone to corruption, vulnerabilities, lack of access, and all of the other problems of identity systems. Whether they take that identity information and put it in a database, in hyperledger, or in a blockchain, it doesn't really make any difference to the truth of that information, nor does it make any difference to the availability and access of that information. If that ledger is being run with all of the inputs being a single governmental agency, then whatever truth goes in, that's what truth comes out. And if it's a lie that goes in, a lie comes out. You can't create truth with a blockchain. You can only preserve truth that is already there, or you can enforce the things that are subject to the consensus rules. Of course, human identity isn't managed by consensus, certainly not a decentralized consensus. What is the benefit of this? Arguably, if you were to build a database, one of the interesting things about that database, or interesting questions for that database, is how open are the application programming interfaces that give access to that database to a variety of agencies, and even private organizations, to access the identity information that is contained in that database? One of the advantages that you have by using something like Hyperledger, arguably, is that at least you have an open API, a known API that can be used for cryptographic validation of integrity, validation of the records, making changes to those records, and all of the other things that a DLT can do. So, is it slightly better than a database? Marginally better than a database. Could you make it better by putting it on an open, borderless, decentralized, censorship-resistant blockchain? You could make it marginally better, but it would become significantly less efficient. Here we have a trade-off between the efficiency of using a Microsoft SQL server or an Oracle database on one side, all the way up to using, let's say, an open public blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, whatever, in order to install this identity information. Here's the bigger problem, though. If you give access to these APIs to public-private partnerships or private organizations, how do you protect the privacy of the people whose identity is on this blockchain? The problem is that open access to these databases effectively exposes everyone whose information is on this system to everyone who has access to this system. It becomes a surveillance database. Now, is this a good trade-off to have in a country where 80% of people don't have banking, identity, or credit information, and therefore do not have access to loans? The reason I invest in Kiva is primarily because of the opportunity it gives me to extend lending to people who don't have identity documents through the use of a network of relatively decentralized, non-governmental organizations and charities that help people present their needs, document them, and then use a number of techniques to help them repay their loans, including building communities and group lending, consortiums, cooperatives, and things like that, which provably decline default rates. If you have a group of people applying for a loan together in a community to build something that benefits the whole community, they are far more likely to repay their loan because they can both support each other and act as a check and balance on each other in order to make sure that loan is repaid so that the credit of the group can continue to improve. None of that involves documentation. When I invest in ten Kenyan women who are building an agricultural cooperative, or a sowing cooperative to make garments, I have no idea who they are. I don't need to know who they are. It doesn't matter to me whether they're documented or have a good credit rating or not. It's the power of the group that makes it. One of the things I really don't understand is this doesn't help the Kiva bottle, which is rather surprising. What it does is it moves the Kiva model more to traditional banking, where the importance of identity and credit is emphasized. I'd like to move to a world where we can do lending more and more based on the power of numbers and decentralization, where by spreading default risk across many lenders and borrowers, removing the need for identity opens banking to more people. We don't solve poverty by creating more identity. We solve poverty, in my opinion, by making the demand for identity less prevalent, by opening more doors to the availability of funds, credit, commercial opportunities, and liquidity to people who don't have a valid government identity. I'm very skeptical about this. I don't think the problem here is the fact that they're using hyperledger versus whatever else. I think the problem here is the centralized origin of this identity, and the idea that the primary problem with default in third-world and developing countries that have credit problems is identity. I don't think that's the case, but who knows? We'll see. It's a good project. Maybe they'll do some research, and we'll all learn something.


Well, this is the 20th anniversary of yes, as we've mentioned, but this is a big year for you and and and when the news came out during the winter, I was so overjoyed and I dropped you a text and I can't even imagine Jim what you felt. Tell me what you felt when you got the phone call that you were in the Hall of Fame. I see the number flash on my phone is 917. Well, Cooper's down is like 603. So I said, well, that's not it, but I'm going to answer it. And so I answered and said, well, this is Jane Clark from the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Well, as soon as you hear those words, your life changes. And just this flood of emotions comes over all the thoughts that, you know, especially at my age and with the length of time that it took. It's a pretty emotional time and and as I will probably mention in my remarks at Cooper's down that call those words will resonate with me for as long as I live. And as if the year can't get any better Jim, you'll also have your number retired by the twins. What does that mean? Yeah, that's that was such a cool conversation. Julie at the twins who does a lot of the community stuff and probably sit and Dustin Morse media relations said, can you be available for a call on Monday is zoom call with some of the writers. So I said, sure, so I'm waiting and waiting. And he said, well, we're almost ready. Well, what they did in the zoom call and all seven were were on the screen. Rob Carew was the spokesman. And then they had burnt by 11 and Herbie and Joe Maurer and Tom Kelly everybody. That's living that had their number retired they were on the screen as one welcoming me to the retired number crew. So that was really true. You know, I'm probably going to have more of a close family time at the number retirement then at the Hall of Fame because my grandkids who threw out the first pitch with me when when I left Yankee games back in 2006. Now they're 16 years older, and they're all going to be in Minnesota, and they're going to be on the mound with me when they unveil the number and so forth. So it'll be a cool family time.