Okay. Good afternoon. My name is Surya Dugurala. I'm an STSM with IBM's Cloud Division. And with me, I have Melorad from RBC, Royal Bank of Canada. Today we're going to talk about cloud foundry in action in banking and financial sectors. RBC is at the forefront of exploiting cloud foundry in their digital transformation. Today, Melorad and I are going to talk about how this whole cloud foundry journey at Royal Bank of Canada started. And what all the applications that we are using deploying on cloud foundry. And in fact, Royal Bank of Canada has 40 applications in production right now on cloud foundry, both in retail online banking as well as the commercial banking. So we're going to just talk if you are some of you are an account holder of our Royal Bank of Canada. If you are looking at your account summary or paying the bill pay or anything, you are in fact using cloud foundry right now. In fact, we have rolled out to six to seven millions of the retail banking customers. So it is a very highly scalable platform. And how we started this whole journey, actually this RBC's cloud foundry journey started back in 2015. So from 2015, now as of last week, we have around 42 applications also in production. So I'll just talk about the RBC itself. Some of you may not be familiar, but this is Royal Bank of Canada is a global bank. RBC is number one in Canada, but also it has full global footprint. It has around 80,000 employees and also you have operations in 42 countries. From RBC's strategic point of view, like any other major bank, RBC has multiple lines of business. You can see that you have personal commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor and treasury services. All of these lines of business have multiple applications, enterprise applications that we are looking at getting to the digital transformation. And today we're going to talk about mainly the personal and commercial banking. So those are the lines of businesses that these 40 applications belong. And we have a technology and operations, TNO, strategic branch which will be overseeing the digital transformation across RBC. So the main reason why we're actually talking only about the personal and commercial banking right now is because that's in the forefront and that's the number one leg of this whole LOB. And then the wealth management and other lines of business are actually following through. So when we talk about RBC's business financial services portfolio, one of the key pillars of that is the commercial banking. And I would like to have Melorot from RBC talk mainly about what is the strategy in the commercial banking and how the business financial services digital portfolio is actually adopting the Cloud Foundry here. So Melorot. Thank you, Surya. And I'm really sorry for missing the first portion of our presentation here today. So as Surya pointed out, my name is Melorot Stefanovic. I have been with RBC for some time and prior to that actually I lived here in California for about a year. So it's always good to be back. So very briefly, RBC as Surya pointed out is the largest Canadian bank. You may or may not be familiar with RBC in case you actually have wealth management products here in the U.S. You may be working with our U.S. wealth management business. And we recently have acquired another business here in California as well, Citinational. So what I'm going to talk about... Sorry. Yeah, no problem. What I'm going to talk about here today is our business banking platform. On the business banking platform we serve a broad range of clients from small business clients all the way up to the largest business clients in commercial clients in Canada. The group responsible for the time management lead is focused on digital business banking, so online and mobile for our business clients. What's interesting to know about RBC is that like all other banks it has been around for a while and in case of RBC the number is 150 years, around 150 years. Of course there is a long history of technology, legacy technology that we have in our stack. And the group that I manage is no exception to that. What you're seeing there is our current technology stack in terms of digital business channels, which is the group that I mentioned, and online banking. They all sit on a set of all their legacy systems in the back. So what we have done in the last year or so is we have had significant push and progress in terms of digitizing everything that we do from the full adoption of agile methodology in terms of delivery all the way down to using cloud platform for everything new that we are developing. And so far the journey has been very positive, I'll talk more about that later. In terms of the clients that we serve, we serve more than 600,000 small business clients. We have around 60,000 large commercial clients and of course with commercial clients we have a large number of users within those businesses to the tune of around 180,000 users. In business banking as you know payments play an important part. And the payments, when we talk about payments we talk about business to business payments, large corporate payments which are more than our kind of Starbucks shopping for coffee. We're talking about millions of dollars that are being moved. So why that's important? The critical importance of this is that we cannot afford for our assistance to be down or for those transactions not to be completed in a timely and reliable resilient manner, which is something that we have taken into account as well. We also provide a number of value added services to our business clients. And that's where innovation comes in. So in addition to innovation that we drive within the organization it is important for us to be able to work closely with external partners and to partner up with FinTech companies as well. And that's another important component of that puzzle that I mentioned earlier in terms of agility, cloud infrastructure and the ability to integrate through APIs. Should we go to the next slide? Okay, so I think I may have actually covered some of these points here. What is important to highlight is that everything we knew that we have been developing over the last year or so has been done as cloud native micro applications, micro services. And we also are on in the journey of taking our existing legacy monolithic applications and porting them or moving them to the cloud platform. We are doing that both as lift and shift, but in cases where it makes sense, we are actually making those applications much more modular and making them closer to the cloud native type of design. Okay, so maybe, sorry if I can cover this part. Thank you. Okay, you can hear me now. So the main thing when we have segregated all these applications, as I said, around 30 to 40 applications, they all under like retail online banking portfolio risk management, rewards mobile and all these different categories. All of these we started with one POC. The POC is about the online retail banking. So if I were an RBC customer and trying to check my account summary or trying to pay the bills, as I mentioned. So what we were trying, initially we were focusing more on the UI and security and the services, because all these applications are currently deployed in mainframe and using the existing middleware. So we wanted to take one small piece of that and then see whether Cloud Foundry can actually scale to the levels that we expect. And the ask was, okay, can we showcase 400 to 500 transactions per second with sub-second response time when we run this on Cloud Foundry. RBC has both, you know, Bluemix Cloud Foundry local as well as dedicated. The way they're using that is they have, for high availability, they have two data centers from a Bluemix Cloud Foundry local point of view. They are both active-active and they get the data back from the mainframe. So that's a typical pattern for most of the banking and applications. So what we did, we have redesigned the front-end with AngularJS and we have, you know, we have been using the trust association receptor plugin for security, for authentication. We have actually used that and we have customized the TAI module and then we have used for security and we have used both mutual SSL, you know, authentications there. And also we have these services because the way we access the service from the back-end is through a data power in between and that's the whole topology. So the simulation of that, we started with two Java applications. One application is simulating the orchestration layer. The second one is the stub layer which is simulating the back-end interaction from the mainframe. So those are the two main pillars that we have actually deployed in Cloud Foundry. And the goal of this whole initial POC was to make sure that, you know, we can scale and also we can use the autoscale features also to, you know, seamlessly scale and, you know, expand and shrink. And also we wanted to demonstrate whether Cloud Foundry can handle this massive load with stability at this peak load running for like 24 hours, right? So those are initial asks when we started this POC. And of course, you know, we have come across initially when we started this whole thing, we were at 12 transactions per second with 90 seconds response time. So we were thinking this whether Cloud Foundry is ready for the prime time for, you know, this kind of banking applications. And then we started working through and we have some of the issues that will be applicable for everybody, right? When you go from an on-premise middleware solution to Cloud Foundry, you have to look into your application, whether some of these things are ready. For instance, you have session affinity if you're using. The session affinity, if you start using autoscaling, then if you provision, of course autoscale service, you know, based on the traffic, based on the policy you specify, you can have multiple instances provisioned. But if you have session affinity there, then the traffic won't be directed to the other instances. So it will stick to the first instance. So those are some of the things that, you know, you need to look into when you move your applications to Cloud. And then other thing that we have come across was the, when you're running your Java node applications from within the runtime, then what will happen is the autonomic threading algorithms that these runtimes will use, they may not be working, they may not be agile when you are having the backend service latency. That is when you're accessing the mainframes. If the service latency is really high, then it may not really work. So those are some of the main things that, you know, we have identified and we have looked at the alternatives to fix those things. And that's how we could get from, you know, like 12 transactions per second to not only beat our goal of 402, like we have gone up to 900 transactions. So just to put some context that we are talking about almost 80 million transactions per day. These are all the financial transactions. They are heavy in terms of you have to bring a lot of data from the mainframes. And then you have to render that back onto the GUI with AngularJS. And also you have a lot of computations in between. So these are CPU intensive transactions that we are talking about with 80 million transactions per day. So some of the main benefits that we got out of this Cloud journey with RBC are, you know, you can see that the return investment and the client experience that we have, and then the digital banking channels that we have actually reduced the risk and cost. For instance, previously it used to take almost an year for us to release a second version of an app or so. That from an year to almost, it has come down to like hours. We can actually release the new functionality in terms of whether the front-end or any other channels. And also the quality and the production resiliency. So I would like to give it to Milorot to talk a little bit about what we have gained in this journey in terms of the production resiliency and stuff. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you, Surya. So as I mentioned earlier, this is really very much part of our digital journey. From an old school banking institution to a digitally enabled relationship bank. And what you can see here is some of the key benefits that we have seen so far. The benefits that we are looking at here are the result of the agile delivery model that we are following today. And we have within digital business banking, we have 10 persistent agile teams. They are also the result of the DevOps processes and tools that we have adopted within our portfolio and the cloud platform that we are using. What you are seeing here is the improvement in production resiliency. And I mentioned earlier how critical production resiliency is for business banking. We want to make sure that our application is always available for our clients and that there is no issues in terms of the payments that we are processing. We have seen more than 90% improvement in terms of production incidents. So we have reduced the number of production incidents by more than 90% over a short period of time of about just slightly more than a year. We also during that time have seen significant improvement in terms of quality. So we measure quality of course in terms of defect arrival rate and the quality has improved by more than 40%. In some cases for our maintenance activities by 90%. What you can see here as well is the portion of the maintenance and new design and development projects or agile teams that we have in our portfolio. Do you want to talk a little bit more? Sure. So just to provide a summary maybe of everything that we have said so far. We had a very positive experience so far developing everything new in our portfolio using cloud native microservices based architecture. And we are very much aggressively pushing in terms of modernizing and cloud enabling our legacy applications as well. At this point we have a portfolio of close to 10 micro applications that are used by all of our business banking clients. And with our release schedule based on a monthly implementation we expect that number to double in the coming months. So basically from our RBC's cloud foundry journey using Bluemix has been exceptionally positive in terms of basically there are two types of applications. One is the lift and shift because they have a lot of investment that they did invest in the middleware like maybe WebSphere or any other message broker. All these applications without any changes to the applications they want to just deploy them and bring them onto cloud using cloud foundry. They were very successful in that and of course we had some migration tools that we had to use for verifying that you have any other capabilities that you had on on-premise that are not there so that you filter out so that it will be easy for. The second type of applications are the pure cloud native and microservices. The one that online banking retail application that I was talking about which is rolled out to six million retail customers that is a cloud native microservices application. It has been written from ground up and of course it has used some existing security modules and things but the application is a cloud native. So it has been a mix of both. So the third important point that cloud foundry usage by RBC Royal Bank of Canada is the operations and monitoring and how you can diagnose any problems that you may have in production as well as during the development. So we have another session around 2.30 to 2.25 that talks about the monitoring and diagnosis tools that are available in cloud foundry and how RBC is using those tools to monitor and diagnose any performance issues that we have encountered in the production as well as DevOps. So with that I can open up for any questions. Okay so the question is okay do we see any kind of performance, what is the performance characterization differences between an on-premise same application running an on-premise versus the same application ported and migrating in cloud foundry. We saw similar performance except we found if the backend service latency like when you are talking to the main frame and if the backend service latency is actually much higher because of any reason it may be a network or anything then you may have to tweak and tune the run times because certain algorithms in the liberty or the middleware run times they may not be agile enough if the backend service latency is much higher. Typically main frame latency is anywhere from 100 to 200 milliseconds that's what we expect. We simulated to 1000. That's when we saw really the autonomic algorithm doesn't really adjust the thread pool size for the traffic so then the performance will come down. But if that is the case you have two options either you adjust that latency or if you can't do anything in that then you have to override that autonomic algorithm with a manual you can specify the manual scheduler and then tune it that way. Okay so these legacy applications on cloud foundry we are running them on cloud foundry both. Yes web sphere application let's say you have a web sphere full traditional web sphere application like Java E application and you are trying to actually run that on cloud foundry in cloud foundry you have liberty applications you don't have the full traditional WAS so you have a smaller footprint liberty so as long as your application runs on liberty it will run on cloud foundry. Okay so the question is okay where these clients are residing and where the actual data center the cloud foundry is running the data center is in Markham that's like a real in RBC's on-premises and it is exactly the same like where our on-premise servers used to be there right so it's exactly the same as far as the data center is concerned for end customers. Yes yes we have both RBC has both BlueMix local which is in production and also RBC has BlueMix dedicated which they are using for development and testing so they have both BlueMix dedicated as well as BlueMix local for security reasons you know they want to keep this on the local that's the production you can actually you know developers can code their things on and test it on the Markham computer center that is MCC and they can actually push it for production on to the local. Okay so yes we did on both local as well as dedicated because the architecture of BlueMix cloud foundry is exactly the same so you will see exactly the same performance on both only difference you may see is because if you are having multiple tenants like sharing the environment let's say you have dedicated with like so many users that they're running then you may see a slight little bit difference in performance otherwise you will see exactly the same performance on both local and dedicated. Yeah so the network latency is the latency between the runtime on the back-end services right as long as you have we have a dedicated line between these two so because you have the dedicated line the latency effects are taken care of. Yeah of course again the end of the day you know if you have your runtime in Dallas and your database is in Toronto for instance obviously you will have the network latency as long as you know you have you know like the dedicated line with maybe you know 10 miles 20 miles 30 miles the performance won't be that much impacted on the latency sorry. Okay shall we use any certain window or you can do any time push application. We have some controls because this is production right so we have all developers cannot just push it so we have to promote and we have a process to promote that and we don't have any window as long as we follow the process anytime you can actually push the promote the application from development test to production. Okay online all app like online processing versus the batch kind of applications can you use both kinds of applications deploy them in Bluemix Cloud Foundry that's your question right. Yes yeah so the question if I understand right but this is a common thing if you are trying to access and bring large sets of data results sets from back in database Bluemix you can use some caching services to cache so that you can reduce the round trip costs so Bluemix can handle that caching you know you can attach your application to a caching service maybe you know Redis or something right so that you can reduce the latency of going back to the data service multiple times that's one thing we can do and then the second if you're talking about batching the applications yes you can do let's say you have a Cloudant in the back end as a data service and if you want to just have some kind of you know like because Cloudant is like an HTTP based if you're pushing each time when you go post or get or anything it's an HTTP call so you can batch those things together and then actually you can push at one time yes Bluemix has those features I apologize I'm gonna have to run to pick up make a call so thank you thank you very much right thank you


Hey, this is Brett and this 2016 Chevy Silverado 2500 Crew Cab Short Box LT1Z71 Midnight Edition is stock number 12507Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2016 Chevy Silverado has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LML engine which pumps out 397 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside, underneath the hood, start it up, underneath the truck. In this video, black clear coat is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. 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DCU's Drama Society performed Sweeney Todd the musical last week. This gory thriller is about the demon barber of Fleet Street who murdered his customers. The cast involved students from all across DCU. We wanted to make a new version of Sweeney Todd and hopefully a version that people aren't familiar with and haven't seen before in their local amdram scene. So we put a concept together that hopefully is a little bit different and tells a different version of the story. Still we're all the same songs but with a new design. I just thought he was a good character. I kind of played the villain in a few different things so it was kind of just kind of a natural choice for me to go for that on Sweeney Todd. So yeah, he steals Sweeney Todd's wife and then that kind of leads to the whole plot so I won't go into too much detail. Misses love it.  And I just really wanted to give it a go. Maybe release some inner demon. He's just such a diverse character. He's not a character that you see very often, especially in musicals. There's a lot of like, even the musical there's a lot of symbolism and like, it's just a really interesting story and it's kind of a fun character to play to like, you know, be an evil person but you still kind of empathize with them as well. That's really good. It doesn't seem like it's amateur or like, it's really good. They play really well. It's really entirely so good as a lead. Love it. Yeah, really enjoying it. That was Sweeney Todd with a twist here at St Patrick's Campus at DCU. An amazing production, well worth all the time and effort that has gone into it. I'm Ola O'Driscoll and this is DCU TV News.


Don't face, don't face, naturally and their nature is to grab and shake, okay? That is their nature. That is their passion. That is how they hunt in nature. When they grab animals, small animals, wolves, dogs, they grab them, especially smaller ones than them, than their size, rabbit, cat, you know, possum, anything like that. They grab and shake it, right, until they kill it. So it's the death shake, right? So the purpose of that is when they grab and they start shaking, the animal has no way of balancing itself out to be able to get out and run away or fight back, okay? If you've been in a suit before, like I have all day with all our protection dogs that we teach that, that really gets you off balance to the point with a powerful dog and they're shaking that you will go down, right? So the shaking, again with animal, it keeps them off balance, the animal doing this, he cannot get his senses and get any grip or mental balance, right? And then the dog will put after the shaking and put more pressure and dig in and crush, right? And see if he can crush it and end it. If not, the animals moving still, they crush and they shake, shake, shake, shake, right? This is nature. Dogs built this way. So in protection, my emphasis, after getting good, hard, solid, deep bites, I want shaking and passion as well. Whoa! That was crazy, okay? Because that's how you tear things, right? It is damaging. All right, he's got my arm now. Hi, look, oh, ow, he's got my arm. All right, let it go.  How was that? Through the sleeve? Wow! His teeth went through the sleeve, just so you know.  This is a Shudson seminar, IPO, one of the top Shudson IPO trainers in the world, right? This is nothing against the trainer. He's fantastic. I respect him. But he's teaching people about the Shudson bite and the holding, okay? So you're going to see a pit bull being worked here because in Shudson IPO sport, you're not a dog's not supposed to come in and shake, right? He's not supposed to do real protection, real aggression. They want to be calm, steady, and go and get the bite and stay there and calm. That is anti-dog's nature. So I'm going to show you a clip here of the Shudson IPO seminar where they are trying to take away the natural aggressive instinct of this pit bull, okay? And the pit bull's got game, right? This is a great dog. For me, I would love this dog, right?  And you can tell in the beginning, it's hard to keep your balance when he's doing that, which is what we were talking about there in the beginning of when dogs go and grab their prey and shake it to keep it off balance so that they can have their way with that animal. It's all about getting the animal off balance mentally and physically, right? To have the advantage. Same thing in bite work. So when you see this pit bull here going and grabbing and shaking that sleeve, you can tell the guy is like this and if he wouldn't have a line on him and holding him, trying to pull him in steady on a line so he can control them, he'd be all over the place that would be very difficult to deal with that dog with that massive shaking he's got. So here you're going to see the trainer trying to control the pit bull and take away his natural aggressive instincts, right? So he's going to hold, he's got a leash with the prong collar, got an electric collar there too just in case he needs it, and the moment the pit bull starts shaking, he puts consequence on him and starts jerking the prong collar and jerking him to stop him from thrashing, okay? So trying to calm him down and get focused on the bite and stay still and relax into the bite, taking away all aggressive natural tendencies, okay? And that pit bull, Scott Gabe, right? I'd be one of those looking at him going, man, that's an awesome dog. He gets in there, he thrashes, that's the kind of dog I want in protection, okay? Because that dog's going to put it on you. And when the dog's doing that and you have no equipment, it's hard to fight them because they'll switch, they'll come off there, they'll switch, they'll go, if a dog is taught to hold there all the time, right? So what the sport is doing, I don't understand how this is not seen that something has to change somewhere in the sport. And sports, cross the board, that you are going against and teaching a dog to be more passive and not truly do bite work and true protection work. And this is how you see to with the aggression and all of that, what a dog is really made of, right? So in shots, you can't tell in the sport how good that dog is off the field because he's doing pre-work and not real protection work in aggressive state. He's not showing it on the field if he has it, you won't know unless you know him off the field. Because they all competing, have to go and hold on, they're just going to chase their toy, they're in pre-drive. So 99% of shots and dogs are pre-driven dogs. And if you want to win in shots and you better have pre-drive, it's all about these days, pre-drive, not defense drive.  Not go hold on and hang on there and just stay steady and calm while he holds there, right? The dogs that I've taught, we get them on those suits, you see people throwing the suits off in pain, crying, right? Because we don't do here, we always end up here because one shot and one tiny little shot will make you cry, up here, right? Just like this. I'm back trying, back. Oh, I got you good? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, damn. Oh, he got you good. Oh, damn. Come on. Come on. Let's try to hold on there. Good. Oh, he got you. Because again, I've said this in many other videos of protection work and to people who come and train with me, to be trainers. This whole thing in calm grip puts the dog at disadvantage, okay? So if I have an object and he just holds there and he won't let go, but he's not shaking me, I can punch him in the eye, right? There was years ago, a police officer went into a bar with a big German shepherd. The guy in the bar refused and gave mouth off to the officer and engaged with the officer in conflict. The shepherd was sent, bites him in the arm. The guy beats the daylights out of the dog and the dog squeals and cries after about five, six shots in his eye. Let's go and takes off back to the officer and that was the end of his fight, right?  I've always said that and that's why I only do sleeve work in the preliminaries. When teaching a dog beginner bite work, it's just pre-stage. To me, a sleeve is just pre-stage. Here you see Mao Puppey Khaleesi, I think she's nine, ten weeks old here. You automatically write genetics, but a genetic dog that has fight game, right? So you hear that defensive as a puppy shaking, right? As a young puppy, natural, natural fight drive, aggression, what we're seeking when we pick dogs for personal protection work or police work, not necessarily sport work, right? Especially Shotson, right? So they want dogs that are going to play nicer, not go after the decoys for real. It's not for you. And here, just show you two of my Malawa puppies, had a little problem with each other and look at this aggression and how they tried to work it out naturally. Ready? Yep. Yes. I mean, that's crazy fight, right? That's nasty stuff. And it was grab and shake each other. That's the nature, natural instinct. Here you see a Rottweiler that we were working with. This is a leg bite. And this is the example that I'm saying, here you're going to see we were working with this Rottweiler and not in protection. This dog, we were trying to cure his aggression because he was out of his mind when to bite everybody, anything, dogs, everybody, right? And you're going to see him just grab the back of my other trainer right in the calf and naturally shake, right? Because he wanted to kill us, this guy. So he just grabbed the back of the pant leg and started shaking my guy. And I had the camera, you see me going, wow, I was trying to help him and stop him from falling because he did fall, right? You got shaking in the leg and there he went. He couldn't hold his balance and he went and hit face first on the floor. But I caught as he was standing with the camera as he was starting to fall because I moved the camera and I tried to help him to stop him from falling on the floor because I didn't want the dog to jump on top of him and maul him, right? Because this is a serious dog, right?  This is what we're talking about. He immobilized Moshe, the trainer here and when Moshe went down, the rottweiler clamped on the back of that calf and dug in and shook and it was the most painful, excruciating that Moshe, the trainer, has ever been through in his life, right? Because with those kind of guys, were they that aggressive, that shake and digging deep and he pinned the calf against the floor and shook and dug in natural aggression, flares, right? That shaking, that is what we want and it took him right down. Advantage to dog when dog can flail and shake, right?  Dangerous, dangerous territory and if Moshe wouldn't have the protection suit on, he would not have a calf today. No joke, not even kidding. The power that this rottweiler has, I mean you're talking serious, serious power and he was not playing so that flailing rips muscle tissue. So he would have dug in there and ripped that muscle right off, crazy, crazy stuff but just examples of that shake and the advantage the dog has and bringing out that true aggression and the passion, let them flow naturally and enhance it, give reward for it, okay? Because then you know if you ever need the dog, they know how to take care of business. That shaking is going to do that dog a good service because they go and shake somebody that breaks in the house like that, it is very difficult to get yourself together to try to fight the dog.  So you're, oh, it is hurting and you're trying and the dog is, right? So that is real protection. Till next time, Miami Dog Whisperer.


Okay. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining class, The Faithful Tree. Can I ask John Paul to lead us in worship? I'm saying can lead us in prayer this morning? Yeah. Father, we want to thank you for this morning. Lord, as we come before your presence to learn from your word, you pray to God that you would speak to our hearts and open the eyes of our understanding, Lord, that you'd be able to listen to your voice and also to apply what we learn in our lives. God, we submit personally to your mighty hands. So God, we pray that you would anoint her and speak through her Lord. We give you praise. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, John. Just a minute. Okay. So remember what we studied last week, the chapter we were learning, what we were studying about, which doctrine we were studying about. Anyone remembers? Angels. Thank you, Anita. So what did we learn about the doctrine of angels? Anyone remembers? Yes. Go ahead, Anita. Ma'am, angels are created spiritual beings with moral judgment and high intelligence. Thank you. So they are created spiritual beings and they have moral judgment and high intelligence. The different types of angels. Okay. Thank you, Lubega. What else did we learn about angels? They are created beings. They're not human beings, but they are spiritual beings with high, you know, intelligence and moral judgment. We also saw that they are many in number. They are mighty and have great power. We also saw that angels sing praises to God. And what do angels do for us? They minister to God by singing praises to Him and how do they minister to us? They guard and protect us. Thank you, Anita. They guard and protect us.  It's because of the angels that God has sent to God and protect us. Angels also minister to us, care for us. So they are there to minister to us according to what God tells them to do. We also see that since angels are created beings, you know, and they are mighty and have great power, but we know that they are not omnipresent. They are not omnipotent. And since they are spiritual beings, they are also not omniscient. They don't know everything. So they are not God. They are created spiritual beings who worship God and do what He asked them to do. Okay. Then we looked at how we need to relate to angels. We said that we need to be aware of angels in our lives. We need to be open to them, ministering to us. And then we also looked at how we need to be aware of receiving false doctrines from angels. And the Bible warns us about this. The Bible warns us against receiving false doctrines from supposed angels, angels who are not from, you know, coming from the throne room of God, from heaven, but angels of darkness, Satan and his demonic forces. And so Paul warns us about this in Galatians chapter one, verse 18, where he makes known to us that there is a possibility that, you know, that these, that Satan and his demonic forces can possibly deceive us. And he mentions about this in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 14, he says, even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Okay. And then we look at one example in the Bible about, about this lying prophet who deceived the man of God in first Kings chapter 13, where he says in verse 18 that this lying prophet says that an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord saying, bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water. And we see that this man of God, who God wants that he should not return back the way that he came and he should not eat bread or drink water in that place that he's going to meet the King, but he gets deceived by this prophet who is himself deceived by who says an angel spoke to him. And we see what happens that, you know, this, this man of God goes with this prophet to his home just before he's going to eat the meal.  We see how he goes on his journey and a lion kills him and this lying prophet brings him back and buries him. So we see that, you know, there are instances of false doctrines or, you know, guidance being conveyed by deceptive angels that are demons. You know, and it's interesting that this example shows us that there is a clear possibility of satanic deception, tempting us, leading us astray to disobey the clear teachings that is being given to us in scripture, clear commandments that God has given to us. So we too can be deceived by, you know, so-called the angel of light that is Satan and his demons, but, you know, whatever we hear, we need to always go back and see if it is in line with what scripture says. Is it in line with the revealed word of God? Another example that we can look at is, you know, especially Christians need to be kept, to keep themselves away from the claims of the Mormons because Joseph Smith, who kind of started this whole movement of the Mormons, said that an angel called Morini spoke to him and revealed to him the basis of the Mormon religion. And we know that their teachings are clearly against the scriptures, the doctrines, especially the doctrine of Trinity, the person, work of Christ, justification by faith alone, and many other doctrines that is quite contrary to what the Mormons believe. And so we see that, you know, this angel brings about these revelations to them, to this man called Joseph Smith. And so we need to be warned against these kind of accepting these kind of claims because, you know, we learned in the lesson when we learned about canon of scripture that everything that God wanted to be revealed is revealed to us in his word, in the Old Testament, in the person and work of Jesus Christ through the writings of the Apostles and Paul. So everything that God wanted for us to know what he wanted to be revealed to us is already been given in scripture. And anyone who's claiming, you know, henceforth, who claims that they are receiving additional revelation of doctrine from angels, we should immediately reject that as false, because we know that whatever God has wanted for us or whatever God wanted to be revealed to us has already been revealed to us through scripture. And nothing will be added to that. But everything what, you know, we will understand or what God will speak to us will be based on the revealed word that is in scripture. And so scripture is our basis, our foundation is what we go back to, even when we receive a prophetic word, we go and pray about it, we see if it's in line with scripture. And it's not against scriptures, what scripture teaches us, the doctrines of scripture. Even if we hear somebody teaching us something new, and they say that this was revealed to them by an angel, you know, we need to go and see if it is in line with what is in God's word. And we know that God's word from beginning to end, there were contradicts itself. And truth runs throughout the entire scripture. And so we need to look at all of these various doctrines in the light of or the new teachings or new revelations that people bring in the light of what has already been revealed to us in scripture and something that is not revealed to us in scripture, we need to immediately reject that as false. So should we pray and seek angels and worship them? What do you think? Should we pray to angels? Do we need to seek them because they protect and guard us and minister to us? Should we seek them? Should we pray to them? Should we worship them? Okay, Lubega strongly says not at all. Okay. Thank you, Zillatoli. Yes, we shouldn't. How do we know this? It's given to us in scripture. Colossians chapter 2 was 18 and revelations chapter 19 was 10. Colossians chapter 2 was 18 says do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen. They are puffed up with ideal notions by their unspiritual mind. So Paul is writing to the church at Colossae and he's saying that, you know, those who worship angels, sorry, you know, they are people who are puffed up with ideal notions. You know, they don't know the truth. They don't believe the truth. They don't even know what they're believing. And they are somebody who have an unspiritual mind and don't follow them or don't give in to their teachings or what they are saying. But interesting to note what is mentioned in Revelation chapter 19 was 10. So can one of you please read Revelation chapter 19 was 10, please? Revelation 19, 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, see that you do not do that. I'm your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Thank you. So here we see that John who's writing the book of Revelation has been given all of these, you know, his vision is seeing, you know, all of heaven and the angel is revealing things to him, showing things to him. And we see that he's so awed at, you know, the awesomeness of God's presence, the greatness that he just falls at and begins to worship the angel. But the angel says, you know, do not do that because I'm your fellow brethren and your fellow servant. But he says worship God. Okay, so that is the main emphasis that we need to worship God and not worship any saints, apostles, angels, God, man, nobody but just worship God. Okay, so this is about briefly about angels. Anyone has any questions? Any questions anyone has about the doctrine of angels? Does the scripture mention any specific names of angels? Yes, it mentioned Angel Michael. Thank you, Isaac. Yes, Angel Michael and also Gabriel and Lucifer. Yes, straighten devil. Okay, so we see that Michael is mentioned in Jew chapter nine, Revelation chapter 12 was seven and eight and in Daniel chapter 10 was 13 and 21, where he's called as Michael, one of the chief princes, sorry, chief prince. And we also see that the angel Gabriel is mentioned in Daniel chapter eight was 16 and chapter nine was 21 as a messenger who comes from God to speak to Daniel. We also know that, you know, the Christmas narrative Gabriel is also, you know, seen as the angel who who's God's messenger to Zachariah and Mary. We read this in Luke chapter one and we know that it is Gabriel because the angel answers Zachariah says, I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of God. Luke chapter one was 19 and we also read in Luke chapter one was 26 and 27. In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin and the virgin's name was Mary. So we see the names of these two angels specifically mentioned in scripture. Okay, anyone has any questions about the angels, the doctrine of angels? Yes, can I ask one? Yes, sure, I say. Yes, how do angels minister or serve us as human? From what we know from scripture, you know, we see that they, you know, they protect us and they guard us as I had mentioned. You know, we read this in Hebrews chapter one was 14 where it says that not all angels ministering spirits are sent to serve those who inherit salvation. We also read in Psalms chapter 91 verse 11 that, you know, for he will come on as angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. So we see that they guard and protect us. They are spirit beings who minister to us and we also know that they guard and protect us so that our feet will even not dash against the stone. So they just basically protect us and guard us. Also minister to us in terms of caring for us, you know, maybe even showing us like we see in in the case of, I think it was Peter in the prison, right, in acts where, you know, Peter was asleep and the angel comes to him and wakes him up and tells him, wake up, you know, put on your clothes. So he puts on his clothes and then he tells him to put on his, his cloak and then, you know, he leads him out and Peter just follows behind the angel.  We also see that the angel opens the main gate of the prison and leads Peter out in the city and the city streets and finally Peter realizes when he's walking down the street that, you know, he's all alone and he realizes then that he is, you know, he's not seeing a vision, but it was real and it was an angel that helped him. So we see the angel tapping him, waking him up. We also see that the angel tells him to put on his clothes and, you know, and leads him out safely through the prison doors, the cell, the main prison door into the street and he goes out free. Okay. And we also know that, you know, when he goes and knocks on the door, when he goes to see the disciples, it is this, you know, they think it is Peter's angel who must be knocking on the door, you know, but it is Peter himself. So we see how, you know, the angel ministered to Peter. We also see how the angel brings messages to, brought the message to Zechariah, brought to God's message to Mary. We also see that, you know, they fight battles for us in the spiritual realm. You know, we see that the angel, Michael, who was also called the archangel in Jew chapter nine, you know, we see him mentioning also in Daniel to Daniel in Daniel chapter 10 that, you know, that there was a war that rose in heaven and Michael and his angels were fighting against the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated. So we see that they fight on our behalf, you know, they defend us against demonic forces. We see that Michael also is referred to as a leader of the angelic army. So we see that angels fight for us when the demons come to attack us. They fight against us. They also guard and protect us from the forces of darkness, from any physical harm and danger in this world.  And we also see that I think in, in, when Jesus was tempted, does anyone remember where that is? I think it is in Matthew chapter four. We see that, you know, after Jesus was tempted, we see that you know, the angels come and minister to him. So we read this in, in Matthew chapter four verse 11, after he was tempted, the devil left him and behold angels came and ministered to Jesus. So we don't know in what way maybe, you know, would have strengthened him or bought him food or water or, you know, whatever, we don't know. But we see that, we just read that behold angels came and ministered to him. So does that help Isaac? Yes. No, thank you very much. God bless. Thank you. Anyone else has any questions? No questions. Then we move on to the last chapter, the doctrine of end times. We did this quite briefly in the last lesson in Christology. Here as well, we will just look at a few things. It's going to be quite repetitive, but we'll just look at some things that we can, we can understand and learn about the doctrine of the end times. And of course, you will be studying this indeed. This is very briefly mentioned in this lesson, both in Christology and in systematic theology, because you will study this in depth, I think next semester. So that's why it's very briefly mentioned. Okay. So we looked at, we look at the doctrine of end times. The Greek word for the doctrine of end times is eschatology, which is the Greek word eschatos means last. And eschatology means the study of the last things, the last days, or the end times. And we know that the Bible talks about certain major events that will happen, which will affect the entire human race towards the end of the age. And specifically tells us about the second coming of Christ, talks about the Millennium Kingdom, the final judgment to the new heavens and the new earth. Okay. So we'll just look at the return of Christ. We know that the Lord Jesus often spoke about his return. He said he's coming back again. And we look at this in various scripture passages. Even as we look at these scripture passages, we see that, you know, his coming will be all of a sudden, it will be something that's very personal, but visible. And it will be the bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Okay. So there's few scriptures that we will look at.  That is what Matthew 2444 says, that we do not know when the son of man is coming, he can come at any hour. But how should we be? The important thing is that we need to be ready at all times, even though we do not know when he's coming. And he will come in an hour that we least expect him to come, but we need to be ready. Okay.  And he says, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself so that where I am, there you may be also. So we know that Jesus ascended back to heaven, but he will come back. And when he comes back, he will receive us back to himself and we will be where he is also. And Acts chapter one was 11. It says that, you know, when Jesus ascended into heaven, it says that, you know, men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up at the heavens? The same Jesus was taken up from you into heaven will also come in like manner.  And that is what it says in Acts chapter one was 11. Just the way he was taken up to heaven, he will come in the same manner as you saw him go into heaven. First Thessalonians chapter four verse 16 says, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Okay. So, you know, we know that the dead in Christ will rise and then all the others who believe in him will be caught up with him in the air. Hebrews chapter nine was 28 says that, you know, to those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear a second time. So even as we are eagerly waiting for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, he will appear the second time. He will come back again. And James chapter five verse eight says, the coming of the Lord is at hand. It's at hand means it is very close to you. It is at hand means something that is reachable, that you can reach, touch, take for yourself. So something that is at hand means something that is very close, something that is very near. So his coming again, coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand. It's very close. It's very near. Can somebody read second Peter chapter three verse 10 please? Second Peter chapter three verse 10. Anyone would like to read second Peter chapter three verse 10? Second Peter chapter three and verses 10. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar. The elements will destroy by fire and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Thank you. So the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. So it will, thief in the night means we don't, you know, thief comes when we least expect him to come. We do not know when he's coming, how he's coming. So we don't expect him, but you know, Christ's turn will be like that to come at the time when it's least expected. You know, but we need to be prepared at all times. We need to be ready at all times. One John chapter three verse two says, you know, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. So just as he went up, you know, ascended into heaven the same way he will descend, we will see him just as he is. And we shall be like him. That means our earthly bodies will receive new heavenly glorified bodies, you know, that is not perishable. We will no longer have unnatural bodies, but we will have our spiritual bodies. Revelation chapter one verse 17 says, behold, he's coming with clouds and every eye will see him. Even they who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him, even so. And so we know that when Jesus comes, you know, you come in the clouds, everyone will see him. And, you know, people will then realize that he is the true and living God. And but they would be sadly left here on the earth for the seven severe years of tribulation. But those who go through that time just holding on to their faith in Jesus, when he comes back again at the battle of the Armageddon, you know, he will, he will assure them into his millenium kingdom and they will live with him for the thousand year rule in the millenium kingdom. But we know that when he comes, you know, everyone will see him and people will mourn because they have refused to believe in him, but many will put their faith and trust in him after that. Okay. And Revelation chapter 22 verse 20 says, he who testifies to these things says, surely I am coming quickly. Okay.  Okay. So what do we do as his disciples? Okay. We know that the coming of the Lord is at hand. It's near. And even as we are looking at the events around us in our world today, in our present situations, you know, there's a big talk, everyone is saying that it's, you know, Christ's return is soon. It's very soon because of the events that are happening here on earth. So what should be our response? What should we be doing? What should we do? Because we know the crisis is coming. Scumming is at hand is soon. What do we need to do? We should be prepared and ready for our King. Okay. We need to be prepared and ready. We should long for his return. Okay. How do we be prepared and ready? Be ready in the sense in every area of our life, consecrating our lives and living a life free from sin and spotless, blameless. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, John. You know, consecrating the members of our body totally to Christ, you know, living a life that is holy and pleasing and acceptable in his sight, continue being like him, yes, offering ourselves to be sanctified, to be cleansed, so that we can be more Christ-like. Thank you, Robega. So what should be our response? One of our response should be like what the Apostle John wrote in the book of Revelation.  And John's response is amen, even so come Lord Jesus. So that should be our response that's written by John in Revelation chapter 22 was 20, amen, come Lord Jesus. And we also see that, you know, that should just not be our response, but the Bible also admonishes us, trains us that in Titus chapter 2 verses 12 and 13 that we need to live sober, upright, holy, godly lives in this world, even as we await our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. And so that is what Titus chapter 2 verse 12 and 13 says that we need to live sober, upright and godly lives, even as we await the coming and the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Savior. And Paul in Philippians chapter 3 verse 20 reminds us that our citizenship is in heaven and from it we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So we don't look at ourselves as earthly citizens, but we look at ourselves as heavenly citizens, and we need to live like heavenly citizens in the way that we think, our actions, our reactions, in our attitudes. Okay, Matthew chapter 22 verse 44 again tells us that we need to be ready for Christ's return. So we just don't say like John has mentioned in Revelation chapter 22 verse 20, Amen, come Lord Jesus, but even as we do that, even as we say that we need to be faithful in obeying him in everything that he, you know, he in every area of our lives, we need to live in faithful obedience to God. And we also need to be actively engaged in whatever work he has called us to do. Sometimes, you know, look interpreting the times that we are living in, we can think, okay, these are end time, you know, so let's not, let me, I wanted to actually, you know, do a Bible course. So there's no point now in doing a Bible course, because, you know, or study in a seminary or go to a Bible college and study, because anywhere we are in the end time, you know, Jesus is coming as soon because of all that we are seeing, and all that people are interpreting from scripture, it's happening, it's happening, it's happening. So, you know, let me not go to Bible college and study, or some of us are thinking that, you know, God has called me to go to the mission field, and I thought that in 2022, I will launch out into the mission field. But there's no point in going now, because, you know, Jesus coming is at hand, it's very soon. Things are no longer safe in this world. So let me not venture out, let me just stay here and, you know, share the gospel with those who do not know Christ.  You know, so let's just plan for a year or two and see how things goes. And if Christ has not come back in a year or two, then we may plan for another year after that. But let's not make long term goals or plans. And so as pastors, you know, or missionaries, or people in the business field, we will kind of become a hindrance for us to plan things, to venture out into new fields of doing ministry, or business, or putting our hands into starting a new business, or launching into some new fields that we think there's great possibilities in venturing, because we think that Christ's return is coming soon. But that's not how we need to live. You know, we need to be actively engaged in whatever work God has called us to, as is to say, we have, you know, the rest of our lives to live. So, yes, we do not know when he's going to return. But, you know, on that day, there will no doubt be some missionaries just who are leaving to the mission field, but they cannot go to the mission field because Christ has come back, they will never reach their destination. There will be some students who are studying in schools, or colleges, in theological colleges, who have finished their studies and Christ has returned, and all of their training and all of their studies, you know, will never be put to any use because, you know, Christ has returned, or, you know, some people who are doing research in certain fields, you know, they're just handing in their doctrinal dissertations on that day and Christ returns, and all their years of research that they have put in, you know, their papers will never be published. It will never have an influence on the world.  Jesus will say to us, well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over little things, I will set you over much, enter into the joy of your Master. We read this in Matthew chapter 25, verse 21. So, that should be our attitude, not thinking that let's not venture in, let's not plan, let's not get into anything new, but, you know, put your hands to the plow, do things faithfully, diligently, plan, execute your plans, even though we never know Christ may return the next hour. He might come any moment today, but we just go actively planning, engaging, using the resources, the time, the calling, the gifts, the talents that he has blessed us with.  So that should be our attitude, that should be what we as his disciples do, even as we eagerly long for his return. We do not know when Christ will return. There are several passages that indicate that we do not know and cannot know the time when Christ will return. Matthew chapter 22 verse 44 says, the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 25 verse 13 says, watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the hour. And Jesus said in Mark chapter 13 verse 32 and 33, but of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father. And he says, take heed, watch for you do not know when the time will come. Now you know wherever in these verses we read about the word hour, did not know the hour, the time when Christ will return, the word hour is best understood in a more general sense and not just referring to a time when something will take place, not necessarily a 60 minute time period, but it's just you know pointing, the point of these passages is actually that Jesus is telling us that we cannot know when he is coming back because it will be an unexpected time, but we should be ready at all times for his return. Next week we will look at the signs that precede the return of Christ, we will stop here. Any one of you have any questions? Any questions? No questions? Okay, I just noticed that the final assessment for I think systematic theology is on April 15th, right? And April 15th, yes, that is the third assessment for a doctoral foundation systematic theology is scheduled on April 15th, but April 15th is Good Friday. It's a holiday and it's a busy weekend for all of us, most of us who are ministering in church because of Good Friday and and Easter Sunday, so I don't want to disturb you with you know submitting your assessment, so could we move that to April 20th? Is that okay? April 20th is a venice day. I'll release it on April 20th and you can submit it on April 22nd or April 23rd, which is a Saturday. Is that okay? Can I post the assessment for systematic theology on April 20th, which is a venice day, and you can submit it by April 23rd, which is a Saturday or April 22nd, which is a Friday. Okay, two of them, thank you ladies. Two ladies have said okay, what about the men in the class? It's okay, Pastor. Okay, thank you John, thank you Siddiquanu. So then we'll have the, thank you Linden, we'll have it on, I'll post it on April 20th and then you can take two or three days to submit the assessment. Linden, you had posted some message on the stream page. I didn't quite understand when you were able to post your. Initially it was confusing when I tried to access the classroom from a mobile, it showed I had a pending assessment, so immediately I dropped in a message as if I've missed one and then I tried to log in from my computer and then I saw that I've already submitted my assessment, so I've said kindly ignore my previous message. Okay, okay great, yeah, thank you. Anyone has any questions, any doubts? Okay, if not we'll end class here, thank you all for joining class, have a blessed day ahead and a blessed weekend and I will see you next Friday. Thank you everyone.