Today we find ourself at a critical point in time. In the coming period we will need to make pressing and important decisions. Iran aims to gain nuclear weapons and threaten not only Israel but the entire world, the state of Israel seeks stability and security. We are interested. Iran remains the primary driver of instability in the region. And we remain deeply concerned by Iran's support for terrorism, its dangerous proxies, its nuclear advances, its aggression at sea, its cyber threats. Well, good afternoon everyone. It is terrific to be back in Israel. As President Biden has said, the genius of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong institutions, on checks and balances, and on an independent judiciary. And level, and how decisive should that be regarding Israeli and American policy in Iran, not just this week. We are still calling on all of our allies and partners to step up now at this hinge moment in history. Nations of goodwill, and especially our fellow democracy, must all urgently do their part to help Ukraine fight for its freedom. The issue that I have to consult with the United States before announcing it. So we had a very frank and candid discussion among friends about the need to de-escalate, to lower tensions and to restore calm, especially before the holidays of Passover and Ramadan. As we always have, we're calling on the Palestinian leadership to combat terrorism, and to resume security cooperation, and to condemn incitement. As I always have, I was very clear about Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism.


It was important for me to do an internship because there's no other way to really feel what a company culture feels like. I could advise anybody to do an internship because it really teaches you what do you do on a day-to-day basis.


Yeah, I'm headed truly through Bangal from Tanzania, where I work with a local organization to which I'm also the founder and executive director. Emedo works towards building the capacities of small scale fishers, men and women. And through that work, we have confirmed the national metric of women fish workers in the country. Why do they need subsidies? It's because the role that women play in the sector is very, very significant. And yet, I'm always sad to mention that this significant role is not well appreciated, is not well recognized and you cannot see anywhere data mentioned in the national economies. So with this, women work in a very difficult situation in terms of the infrastructures and in terms of numbers in the processing sector, women are the majority, almost 90%. So they contribute a lot towards feeding the world. They contribute a lot towards the livelihoods of the people in the countries. So why would they need subsidies is for them to be able to add more value in today's fish and the fish products but also to improve the processing facilities, for example. And for them to reach the market, they need to transport their fish and fish products to the market. So what about the infrastructure that would enable them to be into the market on time while the products are still good? So all these subsidies are important in creating an enabling environment for women to be able to enjoy their work in a very potential actors in the sector, but they have limited capacities. And these limited capacities, I can look at it in different ways. One, if the capacities to organize themselves. Because for these subsidies to work, I mean, we need to bring the women together so that they can unify their voices and to amplify their needs, you know, and that will be able to improve the environment that they work in. So capacities is not just in terms of like finances for them to organize, but also to facilitate them to be able to be mobile, to participate in decision-making processes that happen at different levels at the national level, at the, you know, regional level and even at the international level because in the end all these policies impact on the women. So without the voices of women in the decision-making tables, then we will be missing a significant portion of these policies, of the fiscal policies that will respond to the needs of the women.


CHAPTER XIII. What are governments? Is it possible to exist without governments? The cause of the miserable condition of the workers is slavery. The cause of slavery is legislation. Legislation rests on organized violence. It follows that an improvement in the condition of the people is possible only through the abolition of organized violence. But organized violence is government, and how can we live without government? Without governments there will be chaos, anarchy. All the achievements of civilization will perish and people will revert to their primitive barbarism. It is usual, not only for those to whom the existing order is profitable, but even for those to whom it is evidently unprofitable, but who are so accustomed to it that they cannot imagine life without governmental violence, to say we must not dare to touch the existing order of things. The destruction of government will, say they, produce the greatest misfortunes, riot, theft and murder, till finally the worst men will again seize power and enslave all the good people. But not to mention the fact that all this, for example, riots, thefts and murders, followed by the rule of the wicked and enslavement of the good, all this is what has happened and is happening, the anticipation that the disturbance of the existing order will produce riots and disorder does not prove the present order to be good. Only touch the present order and the greatest evils will follow. Only touch one brick of a thousand bricks piled into a narrow column, several yards high, and all the bricks will tumble down and smash. But the fact that any brick extracted, or any push administered, will destroy such a column and smash the bricks certainly does not prove it to be wise to keep the bricks in such an unnatural and inconvenient position. On the contrary, it shows that bricks should not be piled in such a column, but that they should be arranged so that they may lie firmly and so that they can be made use of without destroying the whole erection. It is the same with the present state organizations. The state organization is extremely artificial and unstable, and the fact that the least push may destroy it not only does not prove that it is necessary, but on the contrary shows that, if once upon a time it was necessary, it is now absolutely unnecessary and is therefore harmful and dangerous. It is harmful and dangerous because the effect of this organization on all the evil that exists in society is not to lessen and correct, but rather to strengthen and confirm that evil. It is strengthened and confirmed by being either justified and put in attractive forms or secreted. All that well-being of the people which we see in so-called well-governed states ruled by violence is but an appearance of fiction. Everything that would disturb the external appearance of well-being, all the hungry people, the sick, the revoltingly vicious are all hidden away where they cannot be seen. But the fact that we do not see them does not show that they do not exist. On the contrary, the more they are hidden, the more there will be of them, and the more cruel towards them will those be who are the cause of their condition. It is true that every interruption and yet more every stoppage of governmental action, for example of organized violence, disturbs this external appearance of well-being in our life. But such disturbance does not produce the disorder, but rather displays what was hidden and makes possible its amendment. Until now, say till almost the end of the 19th century, people thought and believed that they could not live without governments. But life flows onward, and the conditions of life and people's views change. And notwithstanding the efforts of governments to keep people in the childish condition in which an injured man feels as if it were better for him to have someone to complain to, people, especially the laboring people, both in Europe and in Russia, are more and more emerging from childhood and beginning to understand the true conditions of their life. You tell us that but for you we shall be conquered by neighboring nations, by the Chinese or the Japanese, men of the people now say. But we read the papers and we know that no one is threatening to attack us, and that it is only you who govern us, who for some objects, unintelligible to us, exasperate each other, and then under pretense of defending your own people, ruin us with taxes for the maintenance of the fleet, for armaments or for strategical railways, which are only required to gratify your ambition and vanity, and then you arrange wars with one another, as you have done now against the peaceful Chinese. You say that you defend landed property for our advantage, but your defense has this effect. That all the land either has passed or is passing into the control of rich banking companies, which do not labor, while we, the immense majority of the people, are being deprived of land and left in the power of those who do not labor. You, with your laws of landed property, do not defend landed property, but take it from those who work it. You say you secure to each man the produce of his labor, but you do just the reverse. All those who produce articles of value are, thanks to your pseudo-protection, placed in such a position that they not only never receive the value of their labor, but are all their lives long and complete subjection to, and in the power of, non-workers. Thus do people at the end of the century begin to understand and to speak, and this awakening from the lethargy in which governments have kept them is going on in some rapidly increasing ratio. Within the last five or six years the public opinion of the common folk, not only in the towns, but in the villages, and not only in Europe, but also among us in Russia, has altered amazingly. It is said that without governments we should not have those institutions, enlightening, educational, and public, that are needful for all. But why should we suppose this? Why think that non-official people could not arrange their life for themselves, as well as government people can arrange it, not for themselves, but for others? We see, on the contrary, that in the most diverse matters people in our times arrange their own lives incomparably better than those who govern them arrange things for them. Without the least help from government, and often in spite of the interference of government, people organize all sorts of social undertakings, workmen's unions, cooperative societies, railway companies, cartels, and syndicates. If collections for public works are needed, why should we suppose that free people could not, without violence, voluntary collect the necessary means and carry out anything that is now carried out by means of taxes, if only the undertakings in question are really useful for everybody? Why suppose that there cannot be tribunals without violence? Trial, by people trusted by the disputants, has always existed and will exist, and needs no violence. We are so depraved by long-continued slavery that we can hardly imagine administration without violence, and yet, again, that is not true. Russian communes migrating to distant regions where our government leaves them alone, arrange their own taxation, administration, tribunals, and police, and always prosper until governmental violence interferes with their administration. And in the same way there is no reason to suppose that people could not, by common agreement, decide how the land is to be apportioned for use. I have known people, Cossacks of the Orals, who have lived without acknowledging private property in land, and there was such well-being and order in their commune, as does not exist in society where landed property is defended by violence. And I now know communes that live without acknowledging the right of individuals to private property. Within my recollection the whole Russian peasantry did not accept the idea of landed property. The defense of landed property by governmental violence not merely does not abolish the struggle for landed property, but, on the contrary, intensifies that struggle and, in many cases, causes it. Were it not for the defense of landed property, and its consequent rise in price, people would not be crowded into such narrow spaces, but would scatter over the free land of which there is still so much in the world. But, as it is, a continual struggle goes on for landed property, a struggle with the weapons government furnishes by means of its laws of landed property. And in this struggle it is not those who work on the land, but always those who take part in governmental violence who have the advantage. It is the same with reference to things produced by labor. Things really produced by a man's own labor and that he needs are always protected by custom, by public opinion, by feelings of justice and reciprocity, and they do not need to be protected by violence. Tens of thousands of acres of forest lands belonging to one proprietor, while thousands of people close by have no fuel, need protection by violence. So too do factories and works where several generations of workmen have been defrauded and are still being defrauded. Yet more do hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain belonging to one owner who has held them back to sell them at triple price in time of famine. But no man, however depraved, except a rich man or a government official, would take from a countryman living by his own labor the harvest he has raised or the cow he has bred and from which he gets his milk for his children or the shovels, the skies, and the spades that he has made and uses. If even a man were found who did take from another articles the latter had made and required, such a man would rouse against himself such indignation from everyone living in similar circumstances that he would hardly find his action profitable for himself. A man so immoral as to do it under such circumstances would be sure to do it under the strictest system of property defense by violence. It is generally said only attempt to abolish the rights of property and land and in the produce of labor and no one will take the trouble to work lacking assurance that he will be able to retain what he has produced. We should say just the opposite. The defense by violence of the rights of property immorally obtained, which is now customary, if it is not quite destroyed has considerably weakened people's natural consciousness of justice in the matter of using articles such as has weakened the natural and innate right of property without which humanity could not exist and which has always existed and still exist among all men. And therefore there is no reason to anticipate that people will not be able to arrange their lives without organized violence. Of course it may be said that horses and bulls might be guided by the violence of rational beings, men. But why must men be guided not by some higher beings but by people such as themselves? Why ought people to be subject to the violence of just those men who are in power at a given time? What proves that these people are wiser than those on whom they inflict violence? The fact that they allow themselves to use violence towards human beings indicate that they are not only not more wise but less wise than those who submit to them. The examinations in China for the office of Mandarin do not, we know, ensure that the wisest and best people should be placed in power and just as little as this ensured by inheritance or the whole machinery of promotions and rank or the elections in constitutional countries. On the contrary, power is always seized by those who are less conscientious and less moral. It is said how can people live without governments for example without violence but it should on the contrary be asked how can rational people live acknowledging the vital bond of their social life to be violence and not reasonable agreement? One of two things either people are rational beings or they are irrational beings. If they are irrational beings then they are all irrational and then everything among them is decided by violence and there is no reason why certain people should and others should not have a right to use violence and in that case governmental violence has no justification. But if men are rational beings then their relation should be based on reason and not on the violence of those who happen to have seized power and in that case again governmental violence has no justification. End of Chapter 13. Recording by Matthew J. Heath Van Horn. Chapter 14 of The Slavery of Our Times. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Matthew J. Heath Van Horn. The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Almer Maud. Chapter 14. How Can Governments Be Abolished? Slavery results from laws. Laws are made by governments and therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments. But how can governments be abolished? All attempts to get rid of governments by violence have hitherto always and everywhere resulted only in this. That in place of the deposed governments new ones establish themselves often more cruel than those they replaced. Not to mention past attempts to abolish governments by violence according to the socialist theory the coming abolition of the rule of the capitalists for example the communalization of the means of production and the new economic order of society is also to be instituted by a fresh organization of violence and will have to be maintained by the same means so that attempts to abolish violence by violence neither have in the past nor evidently can in the future emancipate people from violence nor consequently from slavery. It cannot be otherwise. Apart from outbursts of revenge or anger violence is used only in order to compel some people against their own will to do the will of others but the necessity to do what other people wish against your own will is slavery and therefore as long as any violence designed to compel some people to do the will of others exists there will be slavery all the attempts to abolish slavery by violence are like extinguishing fire with fire stopping water with water or filling up one hole by digging another therefore the means of escape from slavery if such means exist must be found not in setting up fresh violence but in abolishing whatever renders governmental violence possible and the possibility of governmental violence like every other violence perpetuated by a small number of people upon a large number has always depended and still depends simply on the fact that the small number are armed while the large number are unarmed or that the small number are better armed than the large number that has been the case in all the conquests it was thus the greeks the romans the knights the bazaaros conquered nations and it is thus that people are now conquered in africa and asia and in this same way in times of peace all governments hold their subjects in subjection as of old so now people rule over other people only because some are armed and others are not in olden times the warriors with their chiefs fell upon the defenseless inhabitants subdued them and robbed them and all divided the spoils and proportion to their participation courage and cruelty and each warrior saw clearly that the violence he perpetrated was profitable to him now armed men taken chiefly from the working classes attack defenseless people men on strike rioters or the inhabitants of other countries and subdue them and rob them for example make them yield the fruits of their labor not for themselves the assailants but for people who do not even take a share in the subjugation the difference between the conquerors and the governments is only that the conquerors themselves with their soldiers attack the unarmed inhabitants and in case of insubordination carried their threats to torture and to kill into execution while the governments in cases of insubordination do not themselves torture or execute the unarmed inhabitants but oblige others to do it who have been deceived and specially brutalized for the purpose and who are chosen from among the very people on whom the government inflicts violence thus violence was formally inflicted by personal effort by the courage cruelty and agility of conquerors themselves but now violence is inflicted by means of fraud so that if formally in order to get rid of armed violence it was necessary to arm oneself and to opposed armed violence by armed violence now when people are subdued not by direct violence but by fraud it is only necessary in order to abolish violence to expose the deception which enables a small number of people to exercise violence over a large number the deception by means of which this is done consists in the fact that the small number who rule on obtaining power from their predecessors who are installed by conquest saved to the majority there are a lot of you but you are stupid and uneducated and cannot either govern yourselves or organize your public affairs and therefore we will take those cares upon ourselves we will protect you from foreign foes and arrange and maintain internal order among you we will set up courts of justice arrange for you and take care of public institutions schools roads and the postal service and in general we will take care of your well-being and in return for all of this you only have to fulfill certain slight demands which we make and among other things you must give into our complete control a small part of your incomes and you must yourselves enter the armies which are needed for your own safety and government and most people agree to this not because they have weighed the advantages and disadvantage of these conditions they never have a chance to do that but because from their very birth they have found themselves in conditions such as these if doubts suggest themselves to some people as to whether all this is necessary each one thinks only about himself and fears to suffer if he refuses to accept these conditions each one hopes to take advantage of them for his own profit and everyone agrees thinking that by paying a small part of his means to the government and by consenting to military service he cannot do himself very much harm but as soon as the governments have the money and the soldiers instead of fulfilling their promises to defend their subjects from foreign armies and to arrange things for their benefit they do all they can to provoke the neighboring nations and to produce war and they not only do not promote the internal well-being of their people but they ruin and corrupt them in the arabian nights there's a story of a traveler who being cast upon an uninhabited island found a little old man with withered legs sitting on the ground by the side of a stream the old man asked the traveler to take him on his shoulders and to carry him over the stream the traveler consented but no sooner was the old man settled on the traveler's shoulders than the former twined his legs around the ladders neck and would not get off again having control of the traveler the old man drove him about as he liked plucked fruit from the trees and ate himself not giving any to his bearer and abused him in every way it is not even needed for war when the war is defensive and national as the bowers have recently shown it is wanted and wanted only for the purposes indicated by william for the perpetuation of the greatest crimes fratricide and patricide the terrible old man who sat on the traveler's shoulders behaved as the government's do he mocked him and insulted him knowing that as long as he sat on the traveler's neck the ladder was in his power and it is just this fraud by means of which a small number of unworthy people called the government have power over the people and not only impoverish them but do what is the most harmful of all actions pervert whole generations from childhood upwards just this terrible fraud which should be exposed in order that the abolition of government and of the slavery that results from it may become possible the german writer eugene schmitt in the newspaper own stolt which he published in budapest wrote an article that was profoundly true and bold not only in expression but in thought in it he showed that governments justifying their existence on the ground that they ensure a certain kind of slavery to their subjects are like the calabrian robber chief who collected a regular tax from all those who wish to travel and safety along the highways schmitt was committed for trial for that article but was acquitted by the jury we are so hypnotized by the governments that such a comparison seems to us an exaggeration a paradox or a joke but in reality is not a paradox or a joke the only inaccuracy in the comparison is that the activity of all the government's is many times more inhuman and above all more harmful than the activity of the calabrian robber the robber generally plundered the rich the governments generally plunder the poor and protect those rich men who assist in their crimes the robber doing his work risked his life while the governments risk nothing but base their whole activity on lies and deception the robber did not compel anyone to join his band the governments generally enroll their soldiers by force all who paid the tax to the robber had equal security from danger but in the state the more anyone takes part in the organized fraud the more he receives not merely of protection but also of reward most of all the emperor's kings and presidents are protected with their perpetual bodyguards and they can spend the largest share of the money collected from the tax-paying subjects next in the scale of participation in governmental crimes come the commanders in chief the ministers the heads of police governors and so on down to the policemen who are the least protected and who receive the smallest salaries of all those who do not take part in the crimes of the government who refuse to serve to pay taxes or to go to law are subjected to violence as among the robbers the robber does not intentionally violate people but the governments to accomplish their ends violate whole generations from childhood to manhood with false religious and patriotic instruction above all not even the most cruel robber no stenka resin no cartouche can be compared for cruelty pitilessness and ingenuity in torturing i will not say with the villain kings notorious for their cruelty john the terrible lewis the 11th the elizabeth's etc but even with the present constitutional and liberal governments with their solitary cells disciplinary battalions suppressions of revolts and their massacres and war towards governments as towards churches it is impossible to feel otherwise then with veneration or aversion until a man has understood what a government is and until he has understood what a church is he cannot but feel a veneration for those institutions as long as he is guided by them his vanity makes it necessary for him to think that what guides him is something primal great and holy but as soon as he understands that what guides him is not something primal and holy but that it is a fraud carried out by unworthy people who under the pretense of guiding him make use of him for their own personal ends he cannot but at once feel aversion towards these people and the more important the side of his life that has been guided the more aversion he will feel people cannot but feel this when they have understood what governments are people must feel that their participation in the criminal activity of governments whether by giving part of their work in the form of money or by direct participation in military service is not as is generally supposed an indifferent action but besides being harmful to oneself and to one's brothers is a participation in the crimes unceasingly committed by all governments and a preparation for new crimes which governments by maintaining disciplined armies are always preparing the age of veneration for governments notwithstanding all the hypnotic influence they employ to maintain their position is more and more passing away and it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary but are harmful and highly immoral institutions in which an honest self-respecting man cannot and must not take part and the advantage of which he cannot and should not enjoy and as soon as people clearly understand that they will naturally cease to take part in such deeds for example cease to give the government soldiers and money and as soon as the majority of people ceases to do this the fraud which enslaves the people will be abolished only in this way can people be freed from slavery end of chapter 14 recording by Matthew Jay Heath Van Horn chapter 15 of The Slavery of Our Times this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings earn the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Matthew Jay Heath Van Horn The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy translated by Almer Maud chapter 15 what should each man do but all these are general considerations and whether they are correct or not they are inexplicable to life will be the remark made by people accustomed to their position and who do not consider it possible or who do not wish to change it tell us what to do and how to organize society is what people of the well-to-do classes usually say people of the well-to-do classes are so accustomed to their role of slave owners that when there is talk of improving the workers condition they at once begin like our surf owners before the emancipation to devise all sorts of plans for their slaves but it never occurs to them that they have no right to dispose of other people and that if they really wish to do good to people the one thing they can and should do is to cease to do the evil they are now doing and the evil they do is very definite and clear it is not merely that they employ compulsory slave labor and they do not wish to cease from employing it but that they also take part in establishing and maintaining this compulsion of labor that is what they should cease to do the working people are also so perverted by their compulsory slavery that it seems to most of them that if their position is a bad one it is the fault of the masters who pay them too little and who own the means of production it does not enter their heads that their bad position depends entirely on themselves and that if only they wish to improve their own and their brothers position and not merely each to do their best he can for himself the great thing for them to do is themselves to cease to do evil and the evil they do is that desiring to improve their material possession by the very means which have brought them into bondage the workers for the sake of satisfying the habits they have adopted sacrificing their human dignity and freedom except humiliating and immoral employment or produce unnecessary and harmful articles and above all they maintain governments taking part in them by paying taxes and by direct service and thus they enslave themselves in order that the state of things may be improved both the well-to-do classes and the workers must understand that improvement cannot be affected by safeguarding one's own interests service involves sacrifice and therefore if people really wish to improve the position of their brother men and not merely their own they must be ready not only to alter the way of life to which they're accustomed and to lose those advantages which they have held but they must be prepared for an intense struggle not against governments but against themselves and their families and must be ready to suffer persecution for non-fulfillment of the demands of government and therefore the reply to the question what is it we must do is very simple and not merely definite but always in the highest degree applicable and practicable for each man though it is not what is expected by those who like people of the well-to-do classes are fully convinced that they are appointed to correct not themselves as they are already good but to teach and correct other people and by those who like the workmen are sure that not they but only the capitalists are in fault that their position is so bad and think that things can only be put right by taking from the capitalists the things that they use and arranging so that all might make use of these conveniences of life which are now used only by the rich the answer is very definite applicable and practicable for it demands the activity of that one person over whom each of us has real rightful and unquestionable power namely oneself and it consists in this that if a man whether slave or slave owner really wishes to better not his position alone but the position of people in general he must not himself do those wrong things which enslave him and his brothers and in order not to do the evil which produces misery for himself and for his brothers he should first of all neither willingly nor under compulsion take any part in governmental activity and should therefore be neither a soldier nor a field marshal nor minister of state nor a tax collector nor a witness nor an alderman nor a journeyman nor a governor nor a member of parliament nor in fact hold any office connected with violence that is one thing secondly such a man should not voluntarily pay taxes to governments either directly or indirectly nor should he accept money collected by taxes either as salary or as pension or as a reward nor should he make use of governmental institutions supported by taxes collected by violence from the people that is the second thing thirdly a man who desires not to promote his own well-being alone but to better the position of people in general should not appeal to governmental violence for the protection of his positions in land or in other things nor to defend him and his near ones but should only possess land and all products of his own or other people's toil in so far as others do not claim them from him but such an activity is impossible to refuse all participation in governmental affairs means to refuse to live is what people will say a man who refuses military service will be imprisoned a man who does not pay taxes will be punished and the tax will be collected from his property a man who having no other means of livelihood refuses government service will perish of hunger with his family the same will be fall a man who rejects governmental protection for his property and his person not to make use of things that are taxed or of governmental institutions is quite impossible as the most necessary articles are often taxed and just in the same way it is impossible to do without governmental institutions such as the post the roads etc it is quite true that is difficult for a man of our times to stand aside from all participation in governmental violence but the fact that not everyone can so arrange his life as not to participate in some degree in governmental violence does not at all show that it is not possible to free oneself from it more and more not every man will have the strength to refuse conscription though there are and will be such men but each man can abstain from voluntarily entering the army the police force or the judicial or revenue service and can give the preference to a worst-paid private service rather than to a better paid public service not every man will have the strength to renounce his landed estates though there are people who do that but every man can understanding the wrongfulness of such property diminish its extent not every man can renounce the possession of capital there are some who do or the use of articles defended by violence but each man can by diminishing his own requirements be less and less in need of articles which provoke other people to envy not every official can renounce his government salary though there are men who prefer hunger to dishonest governmental employment but everyone can prefer a smaller salary to a larger one for the sake of having duties less bound up with violence not everyone can refuse to make use of government schools though there are some who do but everyone can give the preference to private schools and each can make less and less use of articles that are taxed and of government institutions between the existing order based on brute force and the ideal of a society based on reasonable agreement confirmed by custom there are an infinite number of steps which mankind are ascending and the approach to the ideal is only accomplished to the extent to which people free themselves from participation in violence from taking advantage of it and from being accustomed to it we do not know and cannot foresee still less like the pseudoscientific men foretell in what way this gradual weakening of governments and emancipation of the people will come about nor do we know what new forms man's lives will take as the gradual emancipation progresses but we do know certainly that the life of people who having understood the criminality and harmfulness of the activity of governments strive not to make use of them or to take part in them will be quite different and more in accord with the law of life and with our own consciousnesses then the present life in which people while themselves participating in governmental violence and taking advantage of it make a pretense of struggling against it and try to destroy the old violence by new violence the chief thing is that the present arrangement of life is bad and about that all are agreed the cause of the bad conditions and of the existing slavery lies in the violence used by governments there's only one way to abolish governmental violence it is that people should abstain from participating in violence and therefore whether it be difficult or not to abstain from participating in governmental violence and whether the good results of such abstinence will or will not be soon apparent are superfluous questions because deliberate people from slavery there is only that one way and no other to what extent and when voluntary agreement confirmed by custom will replace violence in each society and in the whole world will depend on the strength and clearness of people's consciousness and on the number of individuals who make this consciousness their own each of us is a separate person and each can be a participator in the general movement of humanity by his greater or lesser clearness of recognition in the aim before us or he can be an opponent of progress each will have to make his choice to oppose the will of God building upon the sands of the unstable house of his brief and elusive life or to join in the eternal deathless movement of a true life in accord with God's will but perhaps I am mistaken and the right conclusion to draw from human history are not these and the human race is not moving towards emancipation from slavery perhaps it can be proved that violence is a necessary factor of progress and that the state with its violence is a necessary form of life and that it will be the worst for people if governments are abolished and if the defense of our persons and properties abolished let us grant it to be so and say that all the foregoing reasoning is wrong but beside the general considerations about the life of humanity each man has also to face the question of his own life and notwithstanding any considerations about the general laws of life a man cannot do what he admits to be not merely harmful but wrong very possibly the reasonings showing the state to be a necessary form of the development of the individual and governmental violence to be necessary for the good of society can all be deduced from history and all are correct each honest and sincere man of our times will reply but murder is an evil that I know more certainly than any reasonings by demanding that I should enter the army or pay for hiring and equipping soldiers or for buying cannons and building ironclads you wish to make me an accomplice in murder and that I cannot and will not be neither do I wish to nor can I make use of money you have collected from hungry people with threats of murder nor do I wish to make use of land or capital defended by you because I know that your defense of it rests on murder I could do these things when I did not understand all their criminality but when I have once seen it I cannot avoid seeing it and can no longer take part in these things I know that we are also bound up by violence that it is difficult to avoid it altogether but I will nevertheless do all I can not to take part in it I will not be an accomplice to it and will not try to make use of what is obtained and defended by murder I have but one life and why should I in this brief life of mine act contrary to the voice of conscience and become a partner in your abominable deeds I cannot and I will not and what comes of this I do not know only I think no harm can result from acting as my conscience demands so in our time should each honest and sincere man reply to all the arguments about the necessity of governments and of violence and to every demand or invitation to take part in them the conclusion to which general reasoning should bring us is thus confirmed to each individual by that supreme and unimpeachable judge the voice of conscience end of chapter 15 recording by Matthew J Heath Van Horn in afterward of The Slave River Times this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Matthew J Heath Van Horn The Slave River Times by Leo Tolstoy translated by Almer Maud in afterward but this is again the same old sermon on the one hand urging the destruction of the present order of things without putting anything in its place on the other hand exhorting to non-action is what many will say on reading what I have written governmental action is bad so is the action of the landowner and of the man of business equally bad is the activity of the socialist and of the revolutionary anarchists that is to say all real practical activities are bad and only some sort of moral spiritual indefinite activity which brings everything to utter chaos and inaction is good thus I know many serious and sincere people will think and speak what seems to people most disturbing in the idea of no violence is that property will not be protected and that each man will therefore be able to take from another what he needs or merely likes and to go unpunished to people accustomed to the defense of property and person by violence it seems that without such defense there will be perpetual disorder a constant struggle of everyone against everyone else I will not repeat what I have said elsewhere to show that the defense of property by violence does not lessen but increases this disorder but allowing that in the absence of defense disorder may occur what are people to do who have understood the cause of the calamities from which they are suffering if we have understood that we are ill from drunkenness we must not hoping the men matters by drinking moderately continue to drink nor take medicines that short-sighted doctors give us and continue drinking and it is the same with our social sickness if we have understood that we are ill because some people use violence to others we cannot improve the position of society either by continuing to support the governmental violence that exists or by introducing a fresh kind of revolutionary or socialist violence that might have been done as long as the fundamental cause of people's misery was not clearly seen but as soon as it has become indubitably clear that people suffer from the violence done by some to others it becomes impossible to improve the position by continuing the old violence or by introducing a new kind as the sick men suffering from alcoholism has but one way to be cured by refraining from intoxicants which are the cause of his illness so there is only one way to free men from the evil arrangement of society and that is to refrain from violence the cause of the suffering from preaching violence and from in any way justifying violence and not only is this the only way to deliver people from their ills but we must also adopt it because it coincides with the moral consciousness of each individual man of our times if a man of our day has once understood that every defense of property or person by violence is obtained only by threatening to murder or by murdering he can no longer with a quiet conscience make use of that which is obtained by murder or by threats of murder and still less can he take part in the murders or in threatening to murder so that what is wanted to free people from their misery is also needed for the satisfaction of the moral consciousness of every individual and therefore for each individual there can be no doubt that both for the general good and to fulfill the law of his life he must neither take part in violence nor justify it nor make use of it the end end of the afterward recording by Matthew J. Heath Van Horn End of The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy translated by Almer Maud


This video will cover the following objective from cardiovascular physiology part two blood vessels compare and contrast the structure and function of arteries arterioles capillaries venules and veins blood flows out of the heart into arteries the largest arteries known as elastic arteries are able to stretch out in order to receive the increased volume of blood as blood is pumped out of the ventricles into the arteries the aorta is the major elastic artery that receives oxygen-rich blood at high pressure from the left ventricle and then blood flows out of the aorta into smaller branches and These smaller branches will then distribute blood to different regions of the body. They're these medium-sized arteries are known as the muscular arteries For example, there's a brachial artery that carries blood through your arm And this is an example of a muscular artery or on the diagram here We see the hepatic artery that would be an example of a muscular artery that's distributing blood to the liver Or the renal arteries are muscular arteries that deliver blood to the kidneys arteries branch into smaller and smaller arterioles and the arterioles then deliver blood into capillaries so arterioles are the smallest arteries and Because they have a relatively small diameter, but they receive blood That's coming from larger arteries at relatively high pressure the arterioles play a major function in regulating the blood pressure and regulating the Distribution of blood to different capillary beds in the body. So the arterioles are the primary resistance vessels that are critical for slowing down blood flow and As blood flows through the arterioles into the capillaries the blood pressure drops So arterioles deliver blood into capillaries, which are the smallest blood vessels The capillaries have very thin walls and are specialized for exchange Nutrients and waste move out of and into the blood at the capillaries throughout the body and then blood collects from the capillaries into Venuals, which are the smallest veins and the veins then drain blood Into the heart draining blood into the atria of the heart the the largest veins That are draining blood from the systemic circuit or the the vena cava that drain the deoxygenated blood into the right atrium Then the the pulmonary veins drain the oxygen-rich blood Coming back from the lungs Into the left atrium. There are three layers To the blood vessel wall in an artery or vein The outermost layer known as tunica externa or tunica adventitia consists primarily of Fibrous connective tissue lots of bundles of collagen fibers This helps to provide structural support for the blood vessel wall and anchor the blood vessel to its surroundings the middle layer known as tunica media Contains smooth muscle tissue to regulate the diameter of the blood vessel contributing to regulation of blood flow and blood pressure The deepest layer of the blood vessel wall known as tunica intima contains a sheet of cells known as a simple squamous epithelium called the endothelium Which functions to create a barrier containing the blood within the blood vessel The largest arteries known as elastic arteries Have a large amount of elastic fibers enabling them to stretch and recoil in response to high blood pressure The elastic fibers are illustrated with the dark blue squiggly lines in the drawing illustration below Muscular arteries are important for regulating the distribution of blood to large regions of the body and Muscular arteries contain a relatively large proportion of smooth muscle in their wall Arterioles are the smallest arteries. They also have a thick tunica media relative to the three layers of their wall and This smooth muscle of the tunica media also allows the small arterioles to constrict decreasing their diameter Arterioles because they have a small diameter Contribute the majority of resistance the majority of total peripheral resistance which helps to maintain blood pressure And arterioles can regulate the distribution of blood into capillary beds this image shows us a Cross-section through an artery and a vein that are of comparable size a Muscular artery and a medium-sized vein that are running parallel to one another On the bottom left you can see the artery has a nice round shape with a thick muscular wall to withstand high blood pressure in Contrast the vein has a relatively thinner wall and has an irregular shape While arteries receive blood at high pressure veins carry blood at relatively low pressure however veins do contain the majority of the blood volume and veins have a high capacity to stretch out to expand and order to store this large volume of blood even at low pressure because the arteries are involved in regulating the distribution of High pressure blood to different regions of the body They have that thick tunica media smooth muscle layer that regulates the diameter of the artery and the tunica media then is the thickest of the three layers in the wall of an artery In contrast in a vein you can see tunica Externa is the largest of the three layers in the wall of the vein Veins have the same three layers that we saw in the walls of arteries tunica externa is the outermost superficial layer of Fibrous connective tissue anchoring the blood vessel to its surroundings and The tunica externa is the majority of the wall of a vein the smallest veins are known as venules and The venules have a very thin tunica media. They are primarily The endothelium and a surrounding layer of connective tissue the venules drain into medium-sized veins A distinctive feature of medium-sized veins is that they contain valves to prevent backward flow of blood the Valves are inward folds of the endothelium in tunica intima and The valves function to create compartments inside of veins where blood can only move towards the heart and Blood cannot flow backward towards the capillaries medium-sized veins then drain into large veins and the Largest veins will drain into the atria of the heart. So the vows inside veins enable a Skeletal muscle pumping function where as a skeletal muscle contracts it squeezes on the blood in a vein that's deep to that muscle as that Muscle is squeezing on the vein increases pressure in a compartment of that vein in between two valves this Increased pressure causes the blood to be forced Back towards the heart through the valve because blood is not able to go backwards The valve prevents blood from flowing backwards and so in the leg blood would be forced up Towards the heart Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels that provide the site for exchange of substances between the blood and other tissues for example oxygen moves from the air of the alveoli of the lungs into the capillaries of the pulmonary circuit and Carbon dioxide moves from the blood of the capillaries out into the air in the alveoli in the lungs and then in the systemic capillaries we have the opposite thing happening where oxygen will move from the blood out of the capillary into the tissues to provide oxygen to support the metabolism of cells and carbon dioxide and metabolic waste produced by cells moves from the tissue Into the blood inside of the capillaries other substances such as hormones Can move in and out of the blood at the capillaries? So the capillaries primary function is exchange Blood flows into the capillary from an arterial and then capillaries drain blood into venules while the arterials have a thick smooth muscle layer in their tunica media that helps to control blood flow and regulate the distribution of blood to capillaries There are also pre capillary sphincters that are smooth muscles wrapped around the entrance of the capillaries These pre capillaries sphincters can contract in order to reduce blood flow through the capillary bed allowing blood to bypass as it flows through the meta arterial Directly as a thoroughfare channel into a venule This would occur if the tissue Has sufficient Oxygen and has a low metabolic rate isn't producing a large amount of carbon dioxide So the blood can be bypassed through this capillary bed Or this would occur in the capillaries of the digestive system when You're no longer absorbing nutrients from the diet or if you're having a fight-or-flight stress response But in contrast one a tissue needs an increased exchange of nutrients and waste for example when a skeletal muscle is contracting in order to produce motion The high metabolic rate will produce lots of carbon dioxide and rapidly use oxygen This will stimulate relaxation of the smooth muscle in the arterials and relaxation of the pre capillary sphincters To increase the blood flow through the capillary bed helping to provide nutrients and carry away waste Capillaries are these small blood vessels and they have a simple structure with just an inner lining of endothelium surrounded by a basement membrane of loose connective tissue There are three major types of capillaries Continuous capillaries are the most common type found in the majority of organs in the body Capillaries inside skeletal muscles would be continuous capillaries or the capillaries found within the lungs in the pulmonary circuit would also be examples of continuous capillaries These are known as continuous capillaries because the endothelium is consisting of cells that are held tightly together by Tight junctions which help to prevent large substances from moving through the wall of the capillary Small non-polar molecules like carbon dioxide and oxygen can move through the capillary wall by simple diffusion There are intercellular clefts little spaces in between adjacent endothelial cells Which can open to allow larger substances to pass through the wall of a continuous capillary, but continuous capillaries are the least permeable of the capillaries So fenestrated capillaries have numerous small pores known as fenestrations Which enable fenestrated capillaries to be highly permeable to fluid So there are fenestrated capillaries found in the kidneys in a special capillary bed known as the glomerular capillary bed where the blood is filtered Inside of the kidney another place where fenestrated capillaries are found is in the coroid plexus inside of the Ventricles in the brain where cerebrospinal fluid is produced So these fenestrations make the fenestrated capillaries very leaky very permeable to pressure to liquid being forced out of the blood by the blood pressure by the hydrostatic pressure or the capillary hydrostatic pressure the force of the blood that's pushing the liquid out Through the wall of the capillary into the surrounding tissue Sinusoids are the most permeable of the capillaries Sinusoids have an incomplete basement membrane and large intercellular gaps in the endothelium This enables large Particles such as cells to move in and out of the blood Sinusoids are found in the liver and in the bone marrow in the spleen and in the lymph nodes And so the sinusoids in the bone marrow enable the cells of The blood to move into blood as they're being produced in the process of hematopoiesis Where the stem cells are dividing and differentiating to form all the various Cells of blood those cells are formed in the bone marrow and then migrate through the intercellular gaps of These sinusoids to get into the blood Similarly at the at the spleen the sinusoids enable worn out erythrocytes to be removed from the blood and In the in the lymph nodes And in the liver These sinusoids are also going to enable Lucocytes to move in and out of the blood


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday. Today we are talking about five books that I love that I remember absolutely nothing about. One of these actually won my favorite book of the year, the year that I read it. I don't remember a dang thing about it. Nothing. Now, these are books that it's not that I remember that I don't remember some of it is that I don't remember any of it. Books that I have gone back and I have looked at my review. I've been compiling this for a while because I've been going through reading some of my old reviews on Goodreads. And these are books that I have read the review for. It's like, I don't remember any of that. Now, as far as books like this are concerned, I could do an entire list of just Dean Coombs books that I've read that I really enjoyed that I can't remember anything about. It is hot here. It is still hot. I think it's like 80 degrees here today. It is the not really middle of October. But anyway, so you can see me raining. That's why. But yeah, we're going to go ahead and jump into it. But these are books that I loved. I can't remember anything about. Not a single plot point, not a single character, anything. Also, they're not really numbered. They're just five books that I can't remember. Our Souls at Night by Kent Heruff. I've read three or four of this dude's books. I can't remember any of them. But this one, I mean, I kind of remember, this is like, there's one with a really long title. I can't remember that one either. I've read Plainview even long, even tied, even tied. And then there's another one. But I remember like bits and pieces of the plot point. I can't remember anything about this. I had to go and read the back of the, well, not the back, but the the dust jacket for this. And I still don't remember it. That's going to be another running theme for this is after I read the description, I don't recall it. I know I both read it and listened to the audio book. So that's impressive. I don't know why, but this one is completely, like I said, I loved it. I don't know what frame of mind I was in. But I loved it. I just don't remember it. And these are books, none of these, these aren't books that I talk about often because I just don't consider them. So that's, I guess, number five. This one, this one's going to be a shame because after she passed away, I said it was my favorite one of her books. And as far as emotionally, it is, but I can't remember why. So I got to reread it. That's Sula by Toni Morrison. I don't remember anything about this. I don't remember who the character Sula is. I don't remember what happens in the book. None of that stuff. And one of the, one of the reasons I'm doing this is this, this video and last week's video, which was five books that I love that I don't, that I didn't understand upon finishing, a lot of these are things that most people would not admit to. And I'm trying to, I'm trying to break down those walls and get people to say that there's no shame in admitting these things. There's no shame in going, Hey, I love that book. I don't remember anything about it. But it also goes back to the, what I was talking about a few weeks ago is like reading is not a competition. We're all doing this for fun just because you read something and enjoyed it and don't remember it. There's nothing wrong with that. And there's a lot of shame going on in the book community right now. And I'm trying to get past that. So let's talk about things that maybe we wouldn't normally admit. I would love to have that discussion down there in the doobly-doo. But yeah, Sula is another one, Toni Morrison. And I'm sure there's people like, How, how in the world can you not remember this? I just can't. I can't. Next up is one that I remember being fascinated with while I was reading it. I have no idea why. That's auto fiction by Hitomi Kanahara. I don't know. I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong, but it's auto fiction. Fascinating book. I don't remember anything about it. I remember enjoying it while I was reading it and that's about it. That's pretty much all of these books. And I've gone back and I've read my reviews and I still don't remember the books. I don't remember those things happening. And I also tried, I did line these up with times when I was on a lot of pain medicine or so on and so forth.  Because of the medicine that I'm on, I have to keep track of what I'm on when I'm on it because my doctor rotates so I don't get a tolerance for any one drug. And this one came right around the time when I was on lore tabs.  I just don't remember this one at all, but I do remember liking it. Again, that's going to be a running theme. Next up is one that is pure art. Like I said, I don't recall this. Just like I don't recall every nuance of every painting I've ever seen. That's The Body Artist by Don DeLillo. And this is kind of what inspired me to do this list. Somebody mentioned in my one, in my book, top five books that I love, but didn't understand. They mentioned this book. And I remember reading this book, loving it. It's a beautiful piece of art. I don't remember anything about it. So it's, yeah. Also, these are the only five that I can, that I could think of other than Dean Koontz books. And I, like I said, I could do an entire video just on Dean Koontz books. But yeah, this one is one of the, I don't remember a thing that happens in this, not a thing. And I'm just now realized how boring this video might be because of that. But we're going to get through it anyways. If nothing else, let's just have that conversation down there in the doobly-doo about what, you know, what things that you, you do not want to admit. And maybe I'll even do a viewer special of things that most readers, well, not most, but things that, five things that readers don't want to admit to. That would be fun. So yeah, definitely leave your, leave your stuff down there. No shame. If anybody comes in here shaming you, I'll get, I'll get rid of them. Okay. Promise. So the body artist. And last, but certainly not least, is the book that I, that, that won my favorite book of the year. I think it was in 2016, is a book that I got four of you from Crown Publishing that I don't remember anything about. That's the Glorious Heresies. Heresies? Heresies? Heresies. The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney. I couldn't even begin to tell you what this book was about. And one of the problems I think with this one is it was also, it was the year that I read, I think 125 books. I was in kind of a reading competition with two friends of mine. They've since blocked me, which is why the, you know, the air quotes. But yeah, so I read this with those two and I enjoyed it while I was reading. We had a lot of back and forths. I don't know if I blocked it out of my head because I blocked them out of my head. But it's one of those things that I love the book. And I went back and I read my review. I can't remember anything. Like, I was talking about how great the, in the review, I was talking about how great the characters were. I don't remember thinking about the characters. I don't remember the people that I mentioned in the review. I don't remember anything about them. Another thing I like to talk about is, do you think it's right to have, you know, my five star review up there for that book, explaining everything I loved about that book? Is that okay to have that as a bubble in time? To have, I love this book at this moment in time and that's why I loved it. Or should I reread it and remove that review because my opinion has changed? Obviously, my opinion has changed. If the book is that forgettable, it doesn't deserve five stars. That's how I feel. So what do you guys think about that? Let's have that discussion down there in the doobly-doo also.  This has been another top five Friday, a very weird, rambly one. I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye-bye!


Hey, everyone, welcome to another video of figure fantasy. So a lot of things going on today We're gonna be discussing sweet adventure and how to get milim nava so First objective of the today is how do you get her? Okay, so you get her by Getting these so these are honeypots. So you need to get honeypots Up to 200 to get her. So she's here. Okay, so Ways to get her obviously is there is going to be a free one Every I think this is going to be every 20 hours. I forgot but this is this is roughly a whole day of wait. So And the event runs for how many days 20 days, so roughly you're gonna be getting 23 So that is more or less from this one We're to collect more. I'm gonna show you where Okay, so if you click honeypot obtain from number one is from this event season two As soon as you claim this I presume that this is going to move forward So I already got room to tempest to three stars. So we're gonna claim this one So the rest you'll have to be able to complete These are easy ones that you could also get for free by the way So let's go back to the event other ways to get is Also demon lords trial, but unfortunately this is I think the most Expensive one because this involves you getting out your credit card so more or less This is going to be the way that you're gonna be going for it If you want to spend then this is the route you're gonna have to take it to okay especially if you're gonna move forward move more than 200 then You're gonna need that one. Okay, so as you can see the rewards goes up to 600 even so It's a lot of rewards. So it's your choice guys So next is also obtained from sweet friends are the most important So this is also going to be a grind is going to be free So again, it's not impossible for you to get to 200, but But there's a caveat for that one You do need to spend Your fully wish here to convert these Into honey pot right honey pot. Okay. Just want to clear that out Okay, is it really worth it? Is it worth the conversion as you can see?  So again, it's not a bad exchange at this point You just have to grind the others. So as you can see here, you also get a adornment for This is going to be for Rimuru So again, it's not really a you know, it's not really a waste to use your Use your fully wish here so also guys in terms of The prizes and the store the store as well So as you as you convert for example as you convert these As you convert these you're gonna get currencies for your store here So they're gonna be helping you along the way as well into Gonna redeem later So just an example for the store as you progress and as you unlock this is how you unlock it So as you progress is as you unlock you could actually get Rimuru here You could also get a this is a badge for him. I think So there are a lot of things here that you could unlock save this up do not use this for any minor prices save this for Rimuru and Probably here if you go up to 400 save this for his badge So again and millions true feelings. These are just extra items to claim You can get these extra items again, which fuels your store. So just want to you know, show you guys how good this is I'm gonna spend the sorry already spent I already spent one so I'm gonna collect like one time just to We're at 20 now. So just gonna collect these ones for you So actually should it so you're gonna have to select which ones definitely so select Very limited blind boxes because I need to summon for Rimuru more copies of him more copies of him Hopefully for for free or additional roles or whatever Try to Collect ten times then you get free goodies This is going to be millions true feelings collect that as well So collect these Okay, why is it it moving? Should have moved here already. Oh, is there a bug? Is there a bug? Okay, I don't know what happened but The I'm gonna figure that out later and Try to collect these while we're here Okay, so I'm not sure Let's try to collect one sweetness if it will move Okay, so it's a bug. So I'm ready here. I'm at 40 Okay This is kind of weird So I'm ready here. I think I don't know if I collected this already, but it's not lighted here. So let's move on to The so it's lighting up here. So I have let's do this Okay, so Okay, so the next prize is going to be this one and you can't collect two so we have to select this Okay, so unfortunately, there's a bug in the system So this didn't light up I'm gonna wait for them to to what they call this to repair this bug Gonna I'm actually far ways here so I'm at 61 but this reward is did not light up. So I'm just gonna claim these Okay, so I'm sure that the quest for mellum is going to be that long It's gonna be a grind So please do this event guys every day as much as possible don't miss a beat because I Don't want you guys to be to miss out on mellum because she has a great synergy with Rimuru so Hopefully you could you know good could get her. I'm at okay. So there it is. It's just a refresh So just gonna be collecting this again collect collect collect So hopefully I'm at 65 Okay, it's it's kind of a small bug So collect 10 times redeem insufficient so we're gonna just have to Collect these I'm gonna be up to 70 waiting to be 80 and getting more so Spend as much as you can don't be afraid and you know spending your fully wishes.  So that is it guys. That is how you get mellum just a little bit of patience for this event and Spend your fully wishes. Those are my suggestions to you. So anyway guys, thank you very much for staying this far So hopefully you are this far ready or by this time you've probably been ahead of me already and ready claim your mellum So that's very good news for you. But anyway guys, please do consider subscribing because this helps my channel a lot and Thank you. Stay safe. Take care. This is the warden and I'm out of here


morning radiant church we are gathered today in a morning day of prayer as we continue in 21 days of prayer and fasting for Israel and for God's plans and purposes to be accomplished in his chosen people Israel and so we are joining this morning from downtown Kalamazoo we're so glad you're here those who are joining in your cars and in your homes this is gonna be a special time we're gonna read out of Psalm 122 and so we're gonna start this morning with a few moments of intercession for Israel right on the front end then we're gonna go into a time of worship then we're gonna come back up and continue to just pray God's heart for his people and that as you do this you will our hearts are growing more and more every day as we pray for Israel our hearts grow for God's plan and his story that he's a God that has chosen to live among a people and now we are all part of that people as Gentile believers but he also has a special call to the end of time where he's coming back to rule and reign in this city of Jerusalem the very place where he was taken and given his life is the very place that again he's gonna come back and rule and from the beginning we see that God's heart was to be with his people but over time as his people would reject him he would send them out and then bring them back and then restore his covenants with them and his promises to them he would bring them from afar and we're in a time now even here in the mid 1900s where Israel has been called a state again a nation we've seen Jews coming from all over the earth back to Jerusalem and we're in an hour where God is stirring over a million believers right now and many more actually a number is even hard to track but who are praying right now over this 21-day fast for Jerusalem for God's plans for his people for his chosen so we're joining in these voices from every continent we're joining in with millions of believers today this is a significant moment I know some of you are watching with your kids and praying along at home this is a significant moment for us to understand that we are not the only ones that God is looking at and caring for and loving chasing after but also he's stirring up jealousy as it were in the hearts of the Jews as they look and they see that God the Messiah has come even to the Gentiles and our witness in our life is stirring this call back to back to Israel to say who is this Messiah who is this Jesus Yeshua so we're praying this morning for dreams and for visions we're praying this morning with millions of believers around the world that the Lord will show up and to show off his power in a place that has been one of the most contested cities on the world one of the most hated peoples because God has said this is my people so let's read in Psalm 122 verse 6 says pray for the peace of Jerusalem may they be secure who love you peace be within your walls and security within your towers for my brothers and companions sake I will say peace be within you for the sake of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your good be within you in those three or four verses pieces mentioned three or four times that one of our goals is to be on the watch towers as it were on the walls of the city praying for the peace of Jerusalem we know when Isaiah 9 that as Jesus comes he's actually comes one of his names is the prince of peace so we're gonna start our prayer time not just praying for peace in Israel but praying that the prince of peace is established again in the holy city in Jerusalem Lord we lift our voices that the prince of peace would come in Lord that you would be welcome in your city Lord that you would be welcome in Jerusalem that the Messiah would be welcome that Yeshua would be welcome that the prince of peace would be welcome we say throw open the gates we say throw open any spiritual gates any strongholds over Jerusalem and we say open the gates for the king of glory to come in we say that the veils would be torn into that scales would fall from eyes and that Jesus the Messiah would be accepted and seen for who you are the fulfillment of all the Old Testament prophecies the one in whom salvation has come Jesus be lifted up in the holy city of Jerusalem Jesus be exalted oh prince of peace come come and establish peace in the walls of Jerusalem come and gather oh Jerusalem Jerusalem come and gather your people as a hen gathers her chicks come and gather your people and you be their God and they will be your people Lord we pray for peace scum peace in the city peace around the walls peace for the people peace for the holy people who are called after your name and Lord we know that that peace is found in you the Prince of Peace so we say Prince of Peace come enter in enter in Prince of Peace come Lord even as young people are reading your word in Jewish homes all over Israel and all over the world right now as they open your word though and it would be easy to miss the one to whom at points but God we're asking you for mercy Lord we're asking you for divine grace the same grace and mercy that has found us and changed our hearts Lord would you come to your people and reveal yourself as the Prince of Peace as the peace of Jerusalem as the one who enters against every enemy even as nations conspire and rise against your people in your holy city yet Lord they will not prevail because you are the peace of Jerusalem you are the Prince of Peace come and rest on the walls Lord come and walk through the streets of old Jesus Lord you've walked these streets once before but you're gonna walk them again as a ruler and the King you're gonna reign for a thousand years Lord we invite you to come and to walk among these streets feel yourself as the Prince of Peace and the King of glory feel yourself Yeshua reveal yourself to your people Lord we ask for mercy in this hour Lord have mercy hear the prayers of millions of people coming up to you right now for your chosen nation God for your plans to be established from above Lord you have not forgotten or despise your people but Lord know your plans will be brought to completion Lord no one can stay your hand your mighty hand Lord when you move and when you act and so God we ask you move and act on behalf of Jerusalem on behalf of your people God mercy Lord Prince of Peace be the peace within the walls of Jerusalem come and walk the streets to see the Messiah may they see you Jesus as the fulfillment of all of the prophecies that are spoken of so many times throughout their scriptures are the Messiah Jesus you are the Son of God for the one who makes the city holy it makes your people holy now through Jesus Christ that you gave your suffer and died of sin Jerusalem this morning let the gospel of Yeshua be preached in Jerusalem with signs and wonders and dreams and visions tell the Jesus the Messiah the one who was and is to come Jesus that is your name bring revelation right now to Jews all over all scattered throughout and in Jerusalem right now Lord we're asking for revelation look at the eyes of their heart would be enlightened to see and to know what is this mystery what is this mystery in Jesus Christ our gospel our good news for the remission of sin Lord we ask for mercy in this hour where we join the prayers of millions of believers right now around the world on every continent and we ask for mercy God we ask for grace we ask for revelation but into Jerusalem again bring life to your people by as they read Old Testament passages may their hearts burn within them and God would you show would you show that these are pointing to mercy God the Prince of Peace be the peace in Jerusalem let's just bring that song back one more time real quick sing this out together as a declaration his name is to know to see this name to see you Jesus of Israel God dreams and visions and signs and wonders and burning of hearts as they read the scripture and hear the teaching of this wonderful name the powerful name of Jesus the sweet name of Jesus with the prophets described and who is to come again a special place mercy and grace God open the eyes the hearts of your children Jesus well we thank you God that the Prince of Peace is welcoming in Jerusalem you're the one who's gonna bring peace you're the one who's protecting right now Lord we join we join with millions of intercessors those of you who have walked into the room since we started maybe started streaming being called globally the Isaiah 62 fast go to Isaiah 62 fast calm church resources available we can stand with Israel and how we can pray and how we can stand with believers all around the world messianic believers Gentile believers all around unprecedented time which means we can expect unprecedented results as God moves in this hour and this time in history establishes kingdom on this Lord Jesus is now exalted at the right hand of the father but he's coming again he will gather all of his people and so this is what we're seeing all around the world right now a gathering of God's people is establishing them in this land and so we're praying in the Isaiah 62 fast we're gonna have a time of worship right now so just be vocal come into your time of praise with God right now and let's exalt him for who he is and then we're gonna come back up towards the end and we're gonna pray again and intercede out of Isaiah chapter 62 we're gonna continue to add to the bowls of intercession that God would pour out his spirit so worship team you lead us and everybody at home in the room let's worship God let's praise him let's not let our hearts or our lips be silent this morning as we worship together let's open to Isaiah chapter 62 being out of the ESV oh no that's I have it with you today I'm gonna read some chunks of this passage there's 12 verses in this book it's talking about the coming salvation of Zion what God says in verse 1 for Zion's sake I will not keep silent for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a nation such shall see your righteousness and all the kings your glory and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give you'll be a crown of beauty in the hand you shall no more be termed forsaken more be termed desolate land shall be married for as a young man marries a young woman so shall your sons marry you and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride so shall your God rejoice over and look at this in verse 6 and on your walls oh Jerusalem I have set watchmen all the day and all the night they have never been silent you who put the Lord in remembrance take no rest and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth this is our part right now to be on the wall as it were as intercessors as watchmen day and night reminding God of his promises reminding God of his people of his time to act Lord to remembrance that he will take no rest he will not be silent but for Jerusalem's sake he will cause her brightness to go forth that all nations will see her glory the glory of the king in Jerusalem so we're partnering in the Isaiah 62 fast with millions of intercessors on every continent to stay right here Isaiah 62 6 on the walls of Jerusalem to not be silent but to declare the purposes of God for his people for Israel so would you stand with me and before we close today we're gonna have a time of rapid fire but right now would you join with me and we're gonna pray right out of Isaiah 62 we're positioning ourselves as watchmen we're praying right out of Isaiah 62 verse 10 says go through go through the gates repair the way for the people build up build up the highway clear it of stones lift up a signal over the people verse 11 behold the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth say to the daughter of Zion behold your salvation comes behold his reward is with him his recompense before him and they shall be called the holy people the redeemed of the Lord and you shall be called sought out a city not forsaken God we pray right out of your scripture here in Isaiah 62 10 11 12 Lord that you are raising up a beacon right now in this hour Lord that you are drawing Israel from the four corners of the earth Lord and you are bringing them back to be in the midst of them it's your message is being proclaimed to the end of the earth that you say to the daughter of salvation comes that wherever Israel is scattered all over Lord that their heart would hear during this fast of salvation coming from your from your throne room God from the lips of the Messiah would come salvation Lord there would be a call and a draw to the Messiah an undeniable draw by the Holy Spirit Jesus you chew on the anointed one to find you for who you are to see how you fulfill all of the prophecies asking you even as you said I will send out my proclamation but we say send out your proclamation Lord we stand on the walls as watchmen we say send out your proclamation to Israel remind them Lord that they are chosen that they are the apple of your eye Lord that they are valued Lord that they have a name that is not forsaken but that is chosen Lord that you chose them in you before the foundation of the world that you swore to their fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob Lord that you would be their God Lord call your people from the four corners wherever they are right now remind them that they have a holy inheritance in their God a holy inheritance in you Lord in the Messiah in Jesus the anointed word lift up a call send out your proclamation you said you would do it but it's reminding you God send out your proclamation to your people call them home to you God and call them home to this land where you've made covenant with that your dislike is on Israel and in Israel Lord this nation that has been despised and over history no nation has been so hated so many other nations rising up against it swearing to take it out even in our recent history even now nations conspire to seek and to destroy to take away the land that you've given them and to destroy them to wipe them from the face of the earth but Lord we know that will never happen Lord you have purposes in mind the enemy has purposes of hatred Lord you have the light for Israel forgive us as a church give us if we want into our commitment before you in this time of fast we renew our commitment to pray for the peace of Jerusalem for the Prince of peace to enter Jerusalem we renew our commitment to pray Saul and Isaiah 62 the Lord your vision will come to pass for Israel for Jerusalem they will not be known as despised and rejected but they will be known as the ones who host the presence of Jesus Christ well no matter what state Israel is in right now Lord we know that you see a prophetic gathering we know that you see a prophetic dwelling Lord we know that you see a time where you're going to be dwelling among them and dwelling among us and you're gonna be ruled to make them holy with the holy God have your way as intercessors and watch me to low all we say Lord have your way Lord show your power and show your glory reveal your power against every enemy of Israel reveal your power God against every enemy that would seek to destroy your plan God reveal your glory and your power even as you have done for millennia past you're doing it right now you're establishing your people in the face of every enemy in the face of every persecution you are establishing your place of rest and dwelling yes be your plans God verse 12 I'm praying this out of Isaiah 62 verse 12 where they will be called the holy people the redeemed of the Lord and you will be sought out the city not forsaken God thank you thank you we look at the world today and we say God we look with the prophetic on and Lord our hearts are inspired by scripture and we know that your word is good Lord if you say it it's gonna come to pass and Lord when you say you're gonna make this holy a place where every king will come and see the glory of the most high God we say let it be we say yes Lord let it be so the hearts even of the Gentile church to pray right now in this hour to pray that you would show up and show up in Jerusalem and with Israel your people God that you will come Lord you say of yourself I will not keep silent we remind you Lord you said you would not keep silent Isaiah 62 verse 1 that your voice will go out Lord that you will accomplish all of your plans and purposes and no matter what demonic voice talks against you against Israel against your plan Lord your voice is the loudest your voice has authority your words are true and life so Lord we remind you that you will not keep silent but you will draw your people and you will make them a holy nation unto yourself and everyone will see it proclaim the king of glory is here and is with them the king of glory rest with them he did lights in them even as we sing this out I want to invite you to come and just line up for rapid fire praying out of Isaiah 62 just thank you that your word says that today is the day of salvation so we just join you in that prophetic proclamation over Israel low your salvation comes today so Lord as the world aims the prayer cannons of the earth at Israel we ask that blinders would fall from eyes today that deaf ears would be unstopped God that locked hearts would cling wide to receive Jesus as Messiah in your name we pray for the local church Lord that the hearts would begin to burn for Israel free for your chosen Lord I ask Lord that intercessors would even arise Lord people that are willing to partner with your heart and your purpose for Israel Lord at this time at this day Lord right now Lord I ask that intercessors would arise even under the sound of my voice Lord even even Lord that you would begin to press your heart upon people for your nation and we don't take it lightly Lord and thank you Holy Spirit for even letting it weigh heavier on our hearts in this season so Lord right now we bless the very land the very ground of Jerusalem give it rest be it's Sabbath rest Lord before you say yet here now oh Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen thus says the Lord who made you and form you from the womb oh Jacob my servant and you just run whom I have chosen for I will pour water on him who is thirsty and flood on floods on the dry ground I will pour my spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring among the grass like willows on the what by the water courses and one will say I am the Lord another will call himself by the name of Jacob and another will write with his hand the Lord and name himself by the name of Israel I want to invite you night at 630 this weekend in our services then back here again Monday morning we're gonna continue be inspired and let me just remind you pastor Lee spoke an incredible word right before we joined into this prayer he titled it why Israel matters if you haven't heard that or if I would encourage you even if you did here go back and listen to it again it's called why Israel matters and pastor Lee taught them within the last several weeks here at radio now will help you just align your heart and know how we can be for Israel or go to Isaiah 62 fast calm and there's a lot of resources there as well God bless you guys we love you go in peace continue to pray even for the peace of Jerusalem