Today on The Anxious Truth, we're going to look at the difference between success and recovery and the struggle and recovery Because they're not as different as you might think we're gonna get a little nerdy with some brain stuff that I think you're gonna like because I know I do so let's get going Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode number 197 recorded February of 2022 if you are new to the podcast I am Drulan Salata creator and host of The Anxious Truth This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety and anxiety recovery So if you are struggling with things like panic attacks or agoraphobia, you're afraid to leave your house OCD, social anxiety, health anxiety, this is the place for you I'm glad that you are here and of course if you are a returning listener or viewer on YouTube Welcome YouTube, then I'm certainly glad you're here. Welcome back And thanks for taking the time to hang out with me for another week. Today We're gonna talk about some of the differences or one possible difference between Success and recovery and the times when we struggle in recovery because believe it or not Success and struggle look very similar for a lot of people not everybody for a lot of people And we're gonna talk about one possible reason for that What what's the demarcation line between succeeding and struggling? So we're gonna look at that But before we do I will take a minute or two here to remind you That the anxious truth is more than just this podcast episode So if you are new here and this is your first listen again Welcome, but go to the anxious truth calm Well, you will find the three books that I have written an anxiety and anxiety recovery that everybody seems to really be Getting a lot of use out of I'm really proud of those books and they seem really helpful So go check those out at the anxious truth calm if you do not know of my books And also you'll find all of my social media links There's just a ton of free information that I put out all the time on the different social channels So go check that out especially the anxious morning Which is a free email newsletter that shows up in your mailbox every morning when you wake up unless you're down under and then Wait in case you're gonna get in the afternoon But it's a little three to five hundred word email that shows up every Wednesday Monday through Friday with a little three to five Minute podcast attached to it and that is the favorite thing that I do right now It is the best work I've ever Created I think in this space and everybody that's reading the emails and listening to that little mini podcast seems to really love It so go check that out That's a hundred percent free you can find that at the anxious morning calm or the anxious morning dot email either way So go check it all out avail yourself of all the resources because this is why I do this I want to try and help So let's talk about the difference between Success in recovery and the times when we kind of struggle in recovery Because believe it or not for many people not everybody so this isn't going to apply to everybody But for many people if you look at what it looks like it looks very similar So succeeding and struggling looks from the outside in like two very similar things hear me out Somebody who is making progress we would say maybe succeeding in recovery there or they're progressing down the road Toward they want where they want to be they work in the process and they're working at heart So we talk about this all the time. This is difficult work. This is scary work. We're intentionally doing hard things We always acknowledge that none of this is a walk in the park ever This is difficult work. So there's people that are succeeding or getting further down the road They are out there doing the work. They're doing it consistently. They're doing it tenaciously They're doing it in chromatically and systematically and they have a plan and they executed to doing all that stuff And and they're making some progress and that's great And if you're one of those people I'm applauding you and I'm rooting for you keep going down the road man You can do it Other people that are maybe struggling with recovery might look very similar, right? So I'm doing and then this is the thing we hear all the time in the community. I don't avoid anything I'm doing all the things I do all the things but yet nothing is changing. I feel like I'm not getting any better What's the matter? What's going on? And it's true if you look at that person They would look very similar to the person who is saying that they're progressing or succeeding in their recovery Their activities look very similar. They get up. They go to work. They go to school. They take care of their families They're there it looks like they're living life and the struggling person will say I am doing all the things true Like why is it not getting better? Here's one possible reason why so let's get a little nerdy with some brain stuff because I'm a huge fan of the brain It's amazing So there's a part of your brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the we're not going to get so technical on here But the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is generally associated with kind of filtering So it's sort of the importance and attention filter if you will The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and I'm not going to say that anymore because that's a mouthful and I'm gonna screw it up But that part of your brain is responsible for filtering generally speaking and deciding where your attention is going to go Like I'm gonna let this in but I'm not gonna let that in I'm gonna filter this app But not that so it's kind of in really layman's terms Starting to become pretty acknowledged as it's sort of like a filter it decides what is important or not what it decides for us What we're gonna think about what we're gonna consider we make our decisions It's sort of like the gatekeeper to the brain or the gatekeeper to your cognition might be a little bit more accurate I don't know. It's a pretty fascinating to me I don't claim to be an expert But some of the research and the studies that are being done in this area are pretty pretty cool And I got this kind of took this out of some studies that are happening Believe it or not in the business world like what's the difference between the entrepreneur that? Successfully bills that big business and goes public and cashes out and everybody thinks that's great and the entrepreneur that fails You know or the company that fails. What's the difference? Well, they look the same, right? So in business that person has to work hard. They are dedicated to their idea They don't take no for an answer. They keep going. They're tenacious They get other people to follow along with them and they succeed But guess what giant epic business failures have the same characteristics in terms of operationally Generally speaking committed to the idea work really hard won't take no for an answer keep pretty persevere They won't be they won't be denied they get people to work with them But they fail at an epic scale sometimes at a huge spectacular flame at explosive gun a scale or those failures So the behaviors are the same. What's the difference? Well, sometimes the difference is the information that's allowed into the decision-making process as we go So if we if we talk about that in terms of recovery and the role of that that brain filter the gatekeeper If you will the door so lateral prefrontal cortex somebody should write a song about that because it just sounds so melodic Could be part of this and in recovery. I think the difference is the the person who is Achieving what they would say would be success and this is very subjective, of course We're gonna define that slightly differently But the person who says hey, this is working. I'm starting to get better I'm seeing improvement. I'm loving it and they keep going that person is allowing Information in to their cognitive mechanism the machine up here That's a little bit different than the struggling person That person is willing to take the lesson that say the exposures the challenges the hard scary things are Providing and I've talked about this before I've done a whole podcast episodes on this refusing to learn the lessons of recovery and You know the the story that you tell yourself after your exposures and your challenges Which I wrote about in the anxious truth very extensively like these are the critical parts and when people say to me I'm doing all the things, but it's not really working. What's the matter? We will often look at yes, but tell me what the experience is after you do the things or during the things What what is your experience look like? That's where you start to find the difference because the person who's progressing down the path to recovery Will say things like well it was this is really hard and I'm really scared right now, but I but I know why I'm doing this Paraphrasing I know I'm doing this and my job is to allow this all to happen so I can move through it Whereas the person who is struggling recovery is doing the same exact activity Sometimes the exact same activity the supermarket the mailbox going you know driving on the highway We're all familiar with these common life activities the struggling person is doing those same activities except Their cognition is based more on it feels like I think I'm going to this is super scary This is hell. This is really hard now. We can never fully share another person's experience I can't be in your head. You can't be in mind. So I can't really tell exactly what you're experiencing. That's true But if you take two people in a very similar context one is progressing one is feels like they're stuck in struggling What's the difference that seems to be the difference and that might be a dorsolateral prefrontal cortex filter function Like what what am I going to let in what is my filter? What is the gate tuned to let in or not let it? Now if all you're going to do if your filter is tuned right now to say I'm going to drop all of the good stuff on the floor, which is nothing bad actually happened to me I was in fact capable. I did handle it. I did cope because these are the common struggle statements It feels like I can't handle it. I don't know how I'm going to cope. I'm worried that I'm never going to get better So the reality of the situation is and I post about this on a social media all the time You always have handled it.  This is hell. This is too difficult It's too much. I'm going to snap it feels like it feels like it feels like so there's definitely a difference in What information is going into the machine here to process that experience during and after say the exposure or the challenge? Whereas the person who's progressing recovery is going to say yes I do acknowledge it's really scary and I have all these thoughts and everything But I have they're going to let the filter is going to let reality come through and get factored into that So that the story that they tell after the exposure is that was really hard. That was really scary But I did it, you know, I did it. I'm okay. And what did I learn from this? It's not always that smooth It's not always that easy. Let's be very clear about that Everybody stumbles everybody struggles everybody falls back to old habits sometimes so don't you know I'm not trying to describe like oh as soon as you change your filter. Everything just goes great It's a struggle for everybody. It's up and down. It's not linear We know all that but the difference seems to be at least when you talk about it in these terms that The person who is progressing is allowing reality to get through the brain filter if you will and become part of that inner Discussion that that creates what the experience is after how are you going to tell the story afterwards? How are you going to what experience are you going to take out of that that situation out of that challenge out of that? You know exposure whatever it happens to be well I thought if your brain is tuned right now to do nothing But it's gonna filter out reality and only let in the bad stuff and the oh my god It felt like stuff then yeah, it's really hard to progress and you wind up in a situation where you say well I think I'm doing it. I'm accepting. I'm not avoiding. I'm doing things I'm I'm floating however way you want to describe it to me yet. I'm not getting better Look at that like well, where is my attention all the time? And this is not a thing we can necessarily you're not choosing to do that by the way This is not what am I paying attention to but that filter exists for all of us What we decide is worthy of getting into going into the math You know, so if you look at all of your if you look at cognition as math Which it's not I'm using an example here But and you're solving life math and you're doing your equations to come to your conclusions and form your perception of your experiences Then that filter that we talked about doors to lateral prefrontal cortex Just I'm getting good at saying that is is really kind of involved in deciding well Which variables am I going to plug into this equation to solve this math to come up with some conclusion from this experience? And for people who are struggling the only variables that get let in through the filter are the negative ones How bad it felt what they thought was going to happen how uncomfortable they were there's the only variables that go into the math So they have they have the same experience physically as the the recovering person of the person who's advancing down the road Yet their math in their head that equation gets solved very differently based on a different set of variables to get plugged in And you get two completely different outcomes. That was really scary But I did it and I'm okay, and oh my god. This is amazing. I learned something I can't wait to do it tomorrow again is is for you know One person's response and the other person's response is it felt like it was going to pass out I have to hang on to the shopping cart. I had to call my husband. I had to drive home. This is terrible. It's awful I can't get it. I'm never going to get better same exact experience two very different descriptions And we might argue we might just throwing this out here. This is stuff for us to think about We might argue that that was based on the different variables that got plugged into the equation What is your filter look like?  I think you find people who begin to say well, okay, I'm gonna sort of embrace this process I'm gonna do this stuff that you talk about I got it I'm on board you avail yourself of all the psycho education now I know what I have to do even though don't want to at some point that filter does change now Let's let's throw some stuff against the wall here. This is not therapy. This is not medical advice I cannot I'm not giving you like bona fide Neuroscience here that you should hang your hat on and say Drew said this is exactly what happens But let's throw some stuff out and talk about a few things my friend Bridget Cooper. You've seen her on the podcast doctor Dr. B. She likes to use Different operators like Boolean operators in her statements when she coaches people and she helps people in her writing And she's brilliant. I love dr. B. She likes to use and but Right, so those are powerful words. Yes and But these are good good words now I I am not a fan of but because but is usually used in the negative But if you find that your filter right now is set to only Plug in the negative variables to your your life math if you will then one tool that you might use stolen right out of dr. B You can find her a dr. Bridget Cooper.com is using the words and But so look at these two examples the person who is succeeding in their recovery might say or moving down the road I might give you this or let's let's talk about the struggling person first the struggling person will say That was terrible. It felt like I was going to die. That was hell Those are three really powerful statements that would absolutely not make you want to do that again And when and would tell somebody listening that like oh, you're not getting better at all But somebody who is maybe working on tuning their filter a little different and allowing reality to factor in might say that was terrible And I was terrified, but nothing happened And I was okay. So one of the things that I'm really fond of saying is always finish the statement So the person who was allowing reality in through the filter in their brain and allowing reality to become part of Part of the experience will always finish the statement. I was really scared But I did it anyway and nothing happened to me that is Tremendously powerful where the person who's still struggling might be having the same physical experiences But we'll end the statement after the first part of the sentence That was really terrible. I was terrified and they end the statement. They don't finish it So use and and but to your advantage there. Well, what can I tack to the end of that statement? Oh and I was okay But nothing happened to me Those can be really useful and that starts to at least acknowledge. Oh, I'm filtering out all the good stuff here How can I actively bring the good stuff back in here? I could do it by using those kind of statements All right, so this is not anything earth-shattering. I believe it's just another way to frame it in some instances Another way to approach it But if you find that yeah, I get it drew like I'm focused on the negative But what do I do? How can I not be negative because it feels so bad? Well, try that try finishing the statement So instead of that was awful It felt like I was going to pass out and being stuck there and stopping and then throwing your hands up and saying well It's just too much for me.  I thought that I was going to die But nothing happened and I was okay or and I am okay now and I did it But I learned that I was wrong again. My brain was wrong again Finish the statement that is a way to maybe to begin to tune that filter a little bit differently So if you are in the struggle camp right now and you don't understand why you're doing all the things But nothing is changing consider that you may have a filter that's tuned to only allow the negative into the into your Processing process the processing machinery in your head like gross over simplification But this might help you if you think of it that way Oh wait My filter is tuned very finely right now to drop all of the positive and only allow the negative in what can I do? Oh, let me go out and grab the positive by using words like and and but and I wound up okay But nothing actually happened try it it could be a big difference it may start to help you shift that a little bit and trust me in the beginning you're not really believing it so much I know you're not but that's okay. The belief comes after we do it So there you go That's the difference between or one possible difference between why some people may be moving forward sometimes in recovery While other people may be doing the exact same things yet feel like they are struggling Right remember your friend the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex remember that it filters your experience and decides what to let in To your equations and not and if you find that all my equations are always based on negative variables What can I do? Let me add words like and or but thank you dr. B Like how can I finish the statements and in that case you're reaching out from behind the filter? Grabbing a big dose of reality and dragging it in and plugging it into the math So it's a little bit more of an active process try it. You never know that might change things for you So I love this sort of stuff and we will talk about it some more I'm sure we will down the road But I just want to say dorsolateral prefrontal cortex more and more and more because I thought I didn't want to say but now I want to say it all the time a little bit obsessed anyway guys, and that's the episode that is episode 197 I hope it's been helpful. You know it's over because the music which is afterglow by Ben Drake Ben actually wrote this song Inspired by a very early episode of the podcast and some of the things that I've written and said and he's kind Enough to let me use this as the intro and outro music you can find Ben and all of his work at bendrake music commies a good dude Tell him that I said hello What else do I tell you at the end? 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Hi and welcome to Nursing School Explained. Today's video is a little bit different from the usually content heavy videos that I present and this will go specifically into how to be successful in nursing school. These are some strategies that professors many times discuss with students either at the beginning of their nursing career or at the beginning of each semester, but then sometimes these techniques or strategies kind of fall by the wayside. And then many times, for example, I find students coming back to me after they have been unsuccessful on an exam and I will go through all these different steps with them and come up with personalized strategies to help them out. So let's look at those and see how you can be successful going through a nursing school. Number one, plan your day, week, month and semester. There's something to be said about being well prepared. There are only 24 hours in a day and certain activities have to happen. You have to eat, you have to sleep, you most likely have to go somewhere and the more you can plan out your day, the better prepared you'll be. If you know you have an exam next week on Friday, it's probably not enough to start studying for it on Thursday evening. So plan your day out and that also means planning out time for lunch, planning out time for getting away, planning out time for maybe spending with family and friends and so forth. We'll discuss that a little bit later. So getting a planner when it's electronic or on paper will certainly benefit you.


As you may know I aim for perfection here on movie feuds and I hardly ever make mistakes. That's why it was very odd last year when I announced a contest to be a guest host. The viewer could do this. It never happened.  You perhaps don't know about this, didn't see it or blocked it from your memory, in which case that's good on you because I've tried to do the same. It was months of back and forth getting video submissions, me saying, yeah just hang on I will get to it as they keep piling up. I get overwhelmed and realize I don't have time as a one-man army to make this a happening thing. It just can't possibly happen with the amount of entries. But there's a Silver Linings playbook here.  I'll even watch the movies if I haven't seen them which is unlikely I've seen everything. So here's what you have to do. There's a couple steps and I will put them in the description of the video as well. Number one, the important one, you got to have your own YouTube channel. You got to have something to promote because YouTube's all about promoting yourself. Okay, believe me I know as I am terrible at doing it. Number two, you film your own feud. You do your own movie feud episode. You follow the format I should say of my show. You have the rounds, you have an intro, you have your little title. You have round one, cast. Round two, story. Round three, effects and music. And then you got yourself a conclusion.  Next thing you're going to want to do is upload that bad boy to your channel. Tell your friends and family, share it around, get some support. I'm also going to want to share it with me via either Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.  And put the hashtag MFHOST. That is important. I don't know why but it is. At that time, I will watch all these videos. I'll gobble them up. I'll digest them. I will then have my friends and potential family members come over. We'll get a nice group of people. We'll watch them. We will each individually tell our thoughts about the best of the best. We will take five or ten of those submissions. We'll say these are the ones that we think really have a shot here. And I'm going to make another video in February presenting these five to ten videos. I'm going to say, look, this is what you have. These are the ones to work with. I want you to watch these videos in their entirety. I will post links to their channels. The viewers will watch them. And then they're going to vote like they do for versus episodes right in the polls on the YouTube video. And that's what it's going to be. And the one winner is going to be picked. And then I'm going to work with you directly. If you're the winner, not you. If you're not doing this at all, you can just watch and enjoy the disaster that this will potentially be again. But no, this is going to happen. Okay. You have my word.  I think I gave my word last time too. But it's 2017 coming up people. New year. This is potentially the last year for my channel. At the rate YouTube's screwing things up. And I just have a real job. This isn't my real job. This is a passion and a hobby. It is impressive how much it's grown over the years. I appreciate your love and support.  So do the contest. Submit your videos.  And who knows where this thing can go in a year. That's a long time. You know the drill. Feud on.


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Future E here after having spent eight hours. Yes, eight hours Editing this video down into what you were about to see And rewatching this these two episodes in particular. I had I said that regulators was my favorite of the old Stephen King theorist stuff, but I think this video this video here with the edited content from the original videos is Now my favorite you can see the excitement and the passion in my eyes When everything starts to click together and how happy I am to have proven myself that I wasn't just you know, cuckoo Also, if you are a fan of the channel or a friend of mine I like to consider all my fans friends So if you're a friend of mine hang around to the very end of the video or you can even scrub all the way Until this this dude with this shirt shows up again in the video After the black house section and I want you to listen to what I have to say because I have quite a bit to say And I got a bit emotional, but anyways, that's all Future E has to say on with the video Welcome to church of the chair where we don't always hate the stuff we did in the past I'm your host E and today we're heading to the territories if you're new around here I need to give you a warning in this series. I will be spoiling all of Stephen King's work So if you haven't read everything he's published I suggest you click away now you've been warned today we're talking about the talisman and Black House the Jack Sawyer series that he wrote with Peter Straub So how does the talisman and black house tie into the Stephen King universe in the dark tower? Let's get into that a word of warning.  You're probably looking at close to a 30-40 minute video So sit back grab some snacks and relax. Let's jump into it. I'm gonna start right off on page 6 There is a reference to a movie called blaze now We know from the introduction to blaze that Stephen King wrote blaze way back in the way back before this one Was published one thing we need to keep in mind as we're going through this episode of Thursday theorist is The time frame in which Stephen King and Peter Straub wrote this book the mention of a movie called blaze that The mother Jack's mother ends up winning an Academy Award for I believe on page 80 slope mentions a train They there's a lot of this stuff and we'll get to black house also But there are some fan theories that I am enjoying right now about the Institute because the cover has a boy on a train so I'm Wondering at this point if all of this is going to tie back around I'm also wondering if the Institute is the third Jack Sawyer novel Without straw. I'm gonna stop you there bub because I have something to add to this While back then before the Institute came out I believed that the Institute was the third Jack Sawyer novel just because of the themes and everything and Of course, that was not the case But I still would like to talk about the similarities Between the ideas and the way black house ends. We will talk of course get to black house in a minute but with the way black house ends and this Institute of kids and multiple Institutes and more than one black house, which you will hear when we get to the black house section of this video I can't help but feel like this was maybe supposed to be the third Jack Sawyer book and because Straub was in ill health or because he was slowing down or for whatever reason King decided to take what they were working on That might have tied into the Jack Sawyer world or the territory series. Whatever you want to call it and made it his own This is all speculation, but this is also the Stephen King theorist. It doesn't have to be true I find it interesting that given the parallels between how black house ended and what happens in the Institute I can't help but feel like these two books Like these three books the talisman black house and the Institute were at one time all connected If not still connected by our own fan theories because we were told back in 2005 by Straub that they were working on a third book and King in 2006 or 2007 I'd have to look at the interview again But King said that they were working on another novel and all of a sudden there's no more talk about a third Jack Sawyer novel So but it seems like they were going somewhere else with the trains It with the with the train idea and having a train on the front of the Institute has given me Has sparked even more having read fan theories. There's a Tony's King page. I think it is on Instagram. I can't I can't recall that's it or not I'm sorry but I think he brought up this idea first at these that the trains were connected to The talisman and why she the black house, but we'll get to that when we get the black house right now We're focusing on this one page one twenty one. I'm gonna go ahead and read this one. I don't remember exactly what my note was Oh, yes, he was trying to fasten the front of his uniform over his bulging gut While holding a curly French horn like instrument at the same time now. I'm not saying this is the Horn of Eld I'm saying that the Horn of Eld is is carried by guards and knights and all that stuff So could this be a kind of not running joke, but a running theme with with Characters in mid-world, you know could could these characters just carry around these horns And maybe the Horn of Eld is almost like, you know, Excalibur kind of deal I don't know. It's a wild theory, but it peaked my interest. So I thought I'd tell you guys about it Let me know what you think down there in the doo-doo-doo at three ninety-two I don't know this is this is completely nuts This one blew me away because nobody's mentioned it not a single person But on page in this edition anyways on page 392 of this edition of the book probably all the paperback copies He mentioned Sidewinder, Colorado. I mean come on. It's And it's definitely it's definitely the mountain because he talks about a mine We're gonna get to mine stuff again here in a second. I'm not really mine stuff But what you'll see he mentioned Sidewinder and nobody Side of Winder is of course where the Shining occurred It's where the Overlook Hotel was located And nobody online that I can find has mentioned that whatsoever. So now we have a hard connect I had some loose connects for the Shining But I either I didn't catch this the first time I read it or you know Just completely slipped from my memory. He ain't hard. It's a hard tie And this book has a hard tie connection to the Dark Tower series So we have our hard connection for the Shining also Carrie Let's see here Carrie Abra from Dr. Sleep Charlie from Firestar all these different Psycho of the psychic psychic abilities or telekinetic abilities or whatnot There's also stuff with all these kids are breakers and we'll go into breakers more as we get to that discussion Because there's a lot of spoilers for the Dark Tower stuff when I start talking about breakers next up with page 449 they talk about the Rainbird Towers now. I didn't bother looking this one up So Patrick if you want to check your your your list your your search and find for King isn't the Agent in Firestarter than any American Man isn't his name Rainbird. I think it is loose connection loose connection. Let's see here And let's look at we're going to talk about how all these books tie together But I want to look at the publication date for I think this was what 80 and 1980 so all of this stuff There's a five-year period that I'm going to focus on here in a second Even when discussing the Tabitha King book the blasted lands are the blasted lands the wastelands I think they are I think it's the same the same area the train Trains go through there. Well, there's a train track through there at the very least and of course We know blame the mono in the wastelands. That's all we're gonna talk about there But there's another connection for you that there's a huge and I didn't notice this at first until my friend Patrick Costin sent me Email about how many times the color green pops up in the Stephen King universe and then in this one I saw it everywhere if you know the ending of Wizarding glass You will know that green or emerald green is an important color But there's a green bottles green hallways at Richard Slope school a green metal green sand There is so much green in this book I can't help but feel like it is an illusion to something and if it is an illusion to Wizarding glass I don't know okay There's a quonset. He talks about wolves the the quonset huts In the book and it seems awfully familiar to where what was it Jake goes in is it Wolves of the Kala? I think it is Jake goes to the the quonset huts and finds all the bodies everywhere I'm wondering if that is if that scene in Wolves Harkens back to to this little village community from Wolf. We're going to go We're gonna say one more thing and then I'm gonna go to The final note so this is this is a stretch, but bear with me there's During the night segment at the end of the book Even though I believe that that section was written by Peter Straub There is a certain red-eyed entity that inhabits the the suits of armor there at the end of the book the more I read about it the more I saw similarities to tack from from the regulators and from Desperation there is a bunch of stuff that that feels like it is from that especially Regulators, you know how the regulators all the eyes are popping out of the head what is said that the eyes exploded in this one and they have the red-eye entity and We have tack who has red eyes now I'm not saying that the regulators was written way back then I'm saying that Stephen King of maybe took from this section to do the monster from that and I've already connect. I've already theorized that the entity known as tack is nothing but those red lights just like I believe the entity it is The dead lights that is they are nothing but the lights at the same time at the same time as all of this You look toward the wizards rainbow the different colors of that and then you have the talisman in here I mean if the talisman isn't one of the balls. I don't know what it is I mean come it's either all of them or one of them The talisman does feel like it is all of them is what it feels like like they're all encased in that because they're Talking about all the worlds and galaxies and everything now. We are going to go Talk about Wendy's button box. I have it's up here in the stack. I'm not going to drag it out but in and here's where the connections come into play with all these books being written at the same time I Said a long time ago. Well, not a long time ago when I did a small world by Tabitha King I did my theory video on that one. I said I brought up That one of the characters talks about a box that you could press a button and something would happen in the world And is this a character's thoughts is like I always thought about this box that you know, what whatever it sounds like Wendy's button box That's it even though it's the imagination of that character and it's not an actual item in the story it does feel like Wendy's button box and Small world was let's see. I don't want to move figure, but I think it's between 81 and 84 That's really the time frame. We're working on here Also between 80. It was just basically 80 and 85. There's a bunch of stuff that Stephen King bundled together Like he got the idea of how to end it and connect all the worlds while he was riding the wastelands And he wrote it between 81 and 85. I believe I know it's published in 86 Now going back to Wendy's button box on page 263 of this edition of the book I'm going to read you an entire section also another thing to keep in mind in the talisman when people flip and go to the territories Items become either subtly different or massively different like I think again. What is the guitar pick turn into? I can't remember but the guitar pick turns it. Well the guitar pick is a pick in the territories And I can't remember what it is in the real world, but that's what Jake Jack That's what Jack uses to kill the Knights, but here interlude Slote in this world too from the pocket of his bulky parka He had bought it convinced that from the Rockies East America was a frigid wasteland after October 1st or so Now he was sweating rivers Morgan's Slote took a small steel box below the latch were ten small buttons and an oblong of cloudy yellow Glass a quarter of an inch high and two inches long He pushed several of the buttons carefully with the fingernail of his left hand pinky and a series of numbers appeared briefly in The readout window. Slote had bought this gadget billed as the world's smallest safe safe in Zurich According to the man who had who had sold it to him not even a week in a crematory Oven would breach its carbon steel integrity. What do we know about Wendy's button box? Wendy's button box has all these buttons on it and every time she pressed a button. She got a shiny new coin this Item from Morgan Slote is a bank Now is Morgan Slote a Twinner of Randall Flag. I don't know we do know we do know of his twinner in the book But there are other worlds than these there are indeed and now on to a whole another world With a much darker video for a much darker book here are my initial thoughts from the original theorist video for black house I have a quote here. It says the human soul contains an infinity of Rooms after all some of them vast some no bigger than a broom closet some locked some few imbued with a radiant light I I felt that that was a Whether it be Straub or King who wrote that I feel like that is a quote not only a true a true quote As far as the brain is concerned and later and not later on It's very well very close behind this one You have dreamcatcher where the idea that you have your memory storage unit and all that stuff I find these little passages in King's books that that harken to other stories And maybe they do maybe they don't maybe he wrote them around the same time And he just you know piecing together or he had one idea And that's one thing that I'm going to talk about later with the dark tower series is but basically decade by decade He had certain ideas that he cobbled together and added to the dark tower universe That's why all of his stuff eventually even the early stuff like Carrie ties into the dark tower Because he went back and made it tie in to the dark tower I thought I think that's exceedingly cool that he would do that to make sure that his entire Bibliography connected My my theory by the way is you know that the Tommy knockers and mid-world and all that as far as that's concerned They that they will the Tommy knockers and aliens are from mid-world. They're the old they're the old ones They're from the premium or whatever it might be their creatures from that universe And we just happen to call them aliens penny wise from it is one of those creatures the outsiders one of those creatures The aliens from dreamcatcher are those creatures because all these treat creatures react in the same way They either feed off of fear they eat children all these all these creatures have the same characteristics so and There's way too much in the Stephen King universe for that to be oh, that's just him reusing ideas I honestly feel especially in the outsider if you want to watch my Thursday theorist on that Especially with the end of the outsider you cannot say that that these Creatures are not connected penny wise dreamcatcher Tommy knockers, but where I go with Kerry is I connect Kerry And this is episode number one way back in the way back I connect Kerry because Kerry was in Chamberlain, Maine and Haven where Tommy knockers happen isn't too far away from Chamberlain, Maine But with Kerry I think that the the farther away from Haven you get the less the powers are the less the effects of the ship happen, but as far as like tainting water supplies or Taining the air whatever you want to call it that ship has existed for a long time in the dirt But before Bobby digs it up in the Tommy knockers. There are plenty plenty of There's plenty of time that the ship has been down there in the earth Whereas yeah, she digs it up and it gets more powerful, but who's to say that that That force has not you know bled over because once she start once Bobby digs it out of the ground all of these All the people in the town end up with some kind of ability or psychic ability or some kind of mental ability basically And I think that that has over that's why all of Stephen King's books have some kind of psychic Now as far as that tying to mid-world like I said Pennywise is definitely a creature from mid-world Whether he's like the Crimson King or part of the Crimson King or whatever it is or like mr. Munchin in this book we'll get to that going back to this one That's how I connect all of this stuff and that that's not really important to this This book, but just to I mean we're 57 episodes away or 56 episodes away from the first episode So just to give you guys a recap of where we've gone so far. That's it on page 49 There's a lot of stuff. I'm I'm marked in here. That is obvious. Of course it ties into the dark the dark tower directly With the Crimson King and she'll or how do you want to pronounce it? It's like it's sh e o l Which is I have to go back and do an update video for revival because revival connects hard to this one With revival the end of revival obviously happens in end world now I mean, there's so much she'll is mentioned in revival There's so many connections there that I completely forgot about like I said I was not in a good place the first time I read this And they were so far apart, but I do believe that revival and black house were written close together I could be way off It could have just been an idea that he had sitting around or it could just be part of his canon universe in his head He's like, I'm just gonna tie this together here at the end. I find it strange that he he tends to tie in weird books to each other like Forget all the connections that I mentioned Penny wise is mentioned in dreamcatcher with that So he ties these things like eleven twenty two sixty three that has Richie and Bev from from it And I find it fascinating Also, it is a centerpiece of the entire king universe It's right smack dab in the middle and things branch off from that book all the time even more so I think Than the dark tower because he's bringing up dairy and all that stuff. We're constantly going back to dairy Penny wise or the town of dairy is mentioned as much if not the crimson king throughout this or the Randall flag in this even king universe on page 249 the Wizard of Oz is mentioned This is the second time in this talisman series that the Wizard of Oz has been mentioned and the color green is important We discussed that in talisman. It pops up all the time Patrick looked it up and it's found the color green is a green Is a symbol throughout the the Stephen King universe and then when you get to wizarding glass The fourth dark tower book it literally ends in the emerald kingdom or something like that Which I thought was pretty cool But the Wizard of Oz is mentioned in this one and there's a character named Wendell green So once again, we're back on that Wizard of Oz bullshit. Uh, 259 someone says thank you T-h-a-n-k-e-e that's of course from the dark tower 264 there's a green car 300 page 300. There's a revival reference Of course, it wasn't a revival reference back then unless of course it was okay There's I actually didn't check this but if you guys want to do some fact-checking for me Let's see here. We are talking about About Tyler mr. Sawyer Do you know that lookout point on highway 93? Right where it reaches the top of the big hill about a mile south of Arden Where do they go to the lookout point in revival if I'm completely off base? That's why it just seems like with the hard connect for the ending of revival and she all being mentioned in revival I'm wondering if this is the same thingy area that they're talking about and I said it could be completely off base I forgot to check it before. I don't know. I just looked right over my Right over that one, but that's something for the community to do I always like to leave something for you guys to find so if you guys want to fact-check that go ahead There's also something to take into account that highways and byways and county roads and all that stuff change all the time So maybe it could also be a twinner of the area, but it's a lookout point. There's a lookout point in revival Take that for what you will. I like connections like that 417 oh actually no we want to talk about 398 first 398 I seem to remember that I have found a connection to the regulators and Desperation and it's see here when Jack said said it was back in the woods I knew what he was talking about in a clear place around about all these sparkling lights once again. We have Any illusion or glamour used in the Stephen King universe is usually just lights. You have the dead lights from from It from Pennywise. I think the entity Pennywise is Those lights the dead lights I think that is the entity and he just got stuck in the form of the spiders King says in the book that he got that Pennywise got stuck in the form of the spider and that's not his final form He just couldn't remember what his final form is What's more forgettable than some lights, right? Next on on that list. We have tech who in the regulators is basically reduced to a bunch of red Lights, so you have another entity that is just basically lights And then to top that all off we have on page 417 I brought in here exploding eyes. Yes two separate things destroy his concentration The first is that he sees mouse slamming himself back and forth on his bike as he goes into the curve as If he's trying to scratch his back on the thickening air, I love that line by the way The second is that the pressure behind his eyes triples in force and immediately after he sees mouse Going into what he is What is surely a fall the blood vessels in his eyes explode from deep red his vision shifts rapidly to almost Black once again, you have exploding eyes now. These are just the vessels, but there's a pressure If you remember in the regulators, I think in desperation Also anytime tech took someone over the eyes bowls because there was an immense pressure in the head 431 he talks about a thousand thousand Doors world spin. Oh, yeah world spin around world spin around him I'm not good at reading out loud y'all. Sorry world spin around him worlds within worlds and other worlds alongside them separated by a thin theny thin membrane composed of a thousand Thousand doors if only you know how to find them Talking about the doors and the thinnies and all that good stuff 456 he literally mentions the little sisters of allurea You can't get any stronger connections here next up. We have a 467. We talked about breakers yet Ted brought again Oh that that whole crew Breakers are just you know these children with psychic abilities psychic powers again We're dealing with this theme of psychics and mind powers carry fire starter Abra from dr. Sleep. The list goes on. There's new Danny from the shining that numerous children throughout this time and all of them I feel are breakers they all there's all of them have that quality and Most of them I think Danny is the one Danny is the one on the outside most of them are from Maine or around the area now There's also you know the the reach of the dark towers not just in Maine So I'm not saying that you know it's only in Maine I believe it can be just anywhere of course But the reasoning for the psychic ability so much in Maine's like everybody in Maine's a psychic the Stephen King My explanation my theory is because of the Haven ship, you know over the years It's who this and that and the other but it's also funny in the comment section of my carry video people said well It says specifically that she got the powers from a grandfather but Carry Martha White's mother had these powers also So I'm not quite sure what y'all are talking about with its only from dudes like it can only be passed down from dudes because Martha White's mother had had these abilities. It skips a generation. Yes, but her for her I think it says her he got it from her father has passed down right there So I'm not sure someone else mentioned skipping a generation So that's not correct either because the father passed and baby passed it down to carry But what I'm saying is this stuff that doesn't have to be the reasoning people get stuck wrong all the time And if you remember when they said that in the carry in carry, it's someone else writing in the book It's speculation inside of the universe. It's not fact. It's not the narrator saying hey This is it. This is the speculation of people trying to make sense of an odd occurrence age of poisoned Thought rational beings have always harbored telepaths among their number. I was just saying that That's true in all worlds, but they're ordinarily rare creatures prodigies You might say but since the age of poisoned thought came to your world Jack since the age of poison thought What does a ship in in Tommy knockers do it poisons these people it ends up giving them psychic powers And whatnot, but it poisons them all the teeth fall out of their head. They look like ghosts. They're they're gone They're terrifying looking individuals. They got Vaginotenticals all different kinds of these people are fucked up man. These people are messed up The age of poisoned thought so you have thought Psychic ability the age of poison thought it literally says rational beings have always harbored telepaths among their number That's true in all worlds, but they're ordinarily rare creatures Prodigies you might say but since the age of poison thought came to your world Infested it like a demon Such beings have become much more common Common not as common as slow mutants in the blasted lands but common. Yes. I come on that ties into my entire My entire theory my entire theory now does it does that technically? Come on this stuff is too is too close together to actually be a coincidence now King intended probably not but the theory works 57 episodes in and I have proved myself time and time again that the theory does pan out if you look at the small details People have mentioned issues with some of my theories in the past and I've said, you know, I'm wrong It could be whatever I've even found some better theories from you guys So the community is a whole I want the input But I think I did it y'all 57 episodes in I think we have finally come full circle that all these things are connected to the dark tower even as far back as Carrie there was a lot of comments like I don't see how this could be connected because it was his first book He didn't have it in his mind. Yeah, but he also wrote the gunslinger before he wrote Carrie So I mean all this he also wrote the Bachman books people said I don't think the Bachman books tie into the Stephen King Universe, that's fine. It's fair, but there's connections in there Dairy is mentioned in the running man. All these things I feel are connected 567 that he literally name drops rose red Which is a movie and not a book the diary of Ellen Bremer our brim whatever the heller name was was not written by Stephen King So we're not gonna talk about that here and I don't talk about Stephen King movies Even if he wrote the 569 the gray man, so let's see here What did I find with the gray man grays are a thing, of course I mean even from early early King from night shift a gray matter Is again, you know ailing kind of kind of thing and then you have Pennywise you have dreamcatcher you have Tommy knockers all these creatures have the same Not same abilities, but the same characteristics, which I find fascinating Let's say Billy Gaffney playmate Evers. It was the gray man that took Billy It was the boogeyman that so they're talking about that. I think that's an actual quote from the From the New York world telegram it may not be but it's in regards to Albert fish being the gray man, so I found that that was interesting also So how long had this Albert fish connection been been there for for Stephen King's and Stephen King's mind Or is that a straw connection? Let's see here in 471 and tack An-tak is mentioned 591 they're talking about the trains Blaine and Patricia and then there's one other one that we never actually see 603 there. I think there's a fight that happens. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's okay. Yes Okay, this is a whole section. I'm gonna read to you because I hear it too and feel it in my stomach This is when the crew is that black house trying to you know win the day.  That's the way he said it. I guess because it's not about secret weapons or secret formulas It's certainly not about honey. That's when they're putting the honey that around their nose. It's about belief Again, we tie it back to the Stephen King universe in it They beat Pennywise by believing they can again this all comes down to mind powers It all comes down to the power of imagination even telepaths telekinesis Pyrokinesis all that stuff is the imagination they imagine things happening and it happens the entirety of Stephen King's universe Even mid-world as a whole is about Imagination mid-world is a collection of all these stories. You got Harry Potter the Marvel universe the Wizard of Oz all this stuff is Connected and I know I'm getting super excited that light You know like it's like a like a net job conspiracy truth or something like that But I dig how he is connected all of his stuff over the years And I'm super excited to finally have proof in in in this book that so many of these things do actually connect And it's not just my crazy mind because he has gone back and connected these things now the first You know two times I read these books. Did I notice all these connections? No But the more that I read them the more that I see the little nuances the little times where King has just thrown in a line Explaining something and it's like whoa. Wait, wait, wait. So how that connects that connects and it's one of those things It's all about belief and the power of imagination and if there's one theme for the Stephen King universe that I find just Irresistible a siren's call for the Stephen King universe is that thought that imagination is all powerful and that's what to this day This dude this author is still Creating vast worlds and doing things differently and taking risks that no other author his age is doing or has done before I honestly believe he is our greatest living There's a story teller and I truly believe that through that History will be very very kind to Stephen King in it in the later years We were all around that people will look back at Stephen King and go he was better than Shakespeare He was better than Dickens He's the one that we need to be focusing on because I don't think any other author has the output that he has The eclectic output that he has and has been consistently good throughout the years You know the old King's best King Yeah, but we still have this whole this whole shelf down here and over half of this the shelf from after 99 after the accident or after King sobered up for good kind of deal It has fantastic literature in it. Lisa's story do McKee the outsider Numerous numerous one as far as belief is concerned I love that idea that belief is a thing that holds together all of Stephen King's universe because he's a fiction writer I mean, what else would right? It just makes total sense And on page 617, you know, I tied I tied very loosely I tied tack Into talisman universe. I'm sorry because of the nights with the red eyes, right? Well in here in 617 There's a room with living cartoons in it. I Mean come on. Hey, you got the regulators there. Yeah, of course. We got Ted brought again And 631 631 is important for a tie-in to to revival, but It's kind of it's not literal what he's talking about when he's talking about ants here so they're talking about end world they're in end world and Jack points at the ugly complication of struts and belts and girders and smoking chimneys Okay, that is it's not word-for-word, but that is a almost perfect description of what What's his name Charlie Jamie Jamie sees in revival Charlie's the bad guy or the bad guy? It continues on Jack points to the ugly complication of struts and belts and girders and smoking chimneys He points at the straining ants Okay, the straining ants the big combination disappears up into the clouds and down into the dead ground How far in each direction a mile to? There are children above the clouds shivering in oxygen mass as they trudge the treadmills and yank the levers and turn the cranks now Are there so many children the down below that they look like ants or is it the literally? Is it literally the ants from the end of revival 635? This is just a silly one that I picked out three worlds over from ours Okay, three worlds over from ours and in the great city there known as almost London orium so London basically Turner Topfum or for two decades a respected member of Parliament and for three a sadistic pedophile Bursts abruptly into flame as he strides along the crowded avenue known as Piccadilly Not Piccadilly square, but Piccadilly and dairy once again, man all this shit's connected. I love it I absolutely love it Things like this excite me and I did not plan for black house to be this far down the line I plan to do black house, you know in order of publication But for some other reason I left I decided to leave the talisman books for way far down the line And I'm glad I did because black house is one of those books that is hard connects my theory And it's starting to feel less and less like my theory and more like Stephen King's game plan That boy do be excitable though I also find it funny that throughout the video the original video for black house You can see my the collar of my shirt get darker and darker It was a hundred degrees in my office when I shot that video Well, it felt like a hundred degrees. It was 91 with a heat index of a hundred and Back then I couldn't run the air conditioning while I was out in that shed I've since moved offices and I have more. I have a better climate controlled Office, but here at the end of the video I want to thank everyone who has stuck with me over the years and the reason why I'm saving it for the End of this video is because if you sat through all that You're my people and I appreciate each and every one of you this video The black house video was uploaded on June 20th of 2019 I would go on to lose my mother six months later and Everything changed for me the excitable man that you saw in That video is no longer with us and it breaks my heart to have to say that but I rarely get excited like that anymore and I'm trying to Rekindle that passion that goofiness and yes, you do see a lot of it on the live streams, but at the same time It's mostly a mask. So here at the end. I just wanted to thank everyone for Hanging out with me all these years and being there supporting me through everything that I've been through the future is Is scary. I don't know where I'm going from here and There are more videos after this one But this is the last video. I'm shooting because this is the video that Means the most to me. I spent years trying to tie together these books and then I finally I Finally came full circle and everything that I had said made sense I proved all the detractors wrong and I proved that I could stick with something or Other than my writing for the first time in my life something that wasn't paying me I was making maybe 30 40 dollars a month back then from YouTube revenue if that And I had to fight for that. I had to fight for monet monetization But like I said here at the end, I want to thank every single one of you for being here We still have I believe sleeping beauties will be up after this one and then we have all the short story collections and all the novella collections and Those don't matter nearly as much as all of the books that I have done So far with the redux series up until this point the rest of it is just going to be fun But this video is so important to me In fact, I'm planning on going back and shooting a different intro that I can put before the intro Letting you guys know if you don't watch any other Stephen King theorist video of mine, please watch this one Yeah, I'm gonna do that. But anyways, that's all the time. I have for you today. I love you guys I appreciate you guys and I need to know did I miss anything? Do you have any corrections for anything I said in this video and Do you have your own theories about how? The talisman and black house tie in to the dark tower and the Stephen King universe in general But until next time I'll hail the chair


Okay, recording started Right any questions before we go to the next chapter we've completed chapter 2 Shall we go to the next chapter any thoughts any questions, okay All right, let's move to chapter 3. Let me just project the notes Okay So we'll go to chapter 3 understanding blood covenant Now if we've read the Old Testament We can understand that the blood covenant is The most powerful covenant that the Lord initiated right now. We established the fact that Covenant is serious binding agreement between two parties. It's a biblical covenant. It's a promise. It's firm It's unbreakable every covenant has these aspects but What is a blood covenant? Right, and we see the word biblically the covenant means to cut covenant. It's an agreement that involves shedding of blood Right a blood covenant is the highest form of covenant that can be made right now. We look at The example of the covenant that God made with Abraham But before that just a few aspects of the blood covenant when we enter into a blood covenant With somebody right in the Old Testament Maybe two people enter into a blood covenant it was binding until death and in some cases continuing through generations Right So for example, just an example, right? So for example if two men in the Old Testament said, okay, I want to Through this blood covenant, I will want to make sure that the land that I have and the The camels and the flock that I have will go to you and your next generation as well so if it's binding by blood It is the strongest covenant that is made, right?  You'll do anything for them at any cost right, we cannot you know say no, I don't do this because you know, I You know, I prefer doing it for somebody else. No, no if we have Partake in that blood covenant. We have to be willing to let go of anything for our life and For love we have to do anything for them third one is protection to protect them No matter what it costs you protect the other person until either one of them is dies Right, so we see that this covenant Has it's it's like a give-all covenant nothing to hold back Right, you have to give it all Right, well both parties must be willing to give all that they have for this covenant So that is why it is the most powerful binding covenant Right and this covenant is ratified, which means comes into effect only With the sealing of blood Right, and we look at what God told Abraham to do and how the first blood covenant was established But the covenant is backed up by your life Now violation of that covenant will cost life Right, so for example in the old covenant if somebody broke a blood covenant It could cost life right So let's look at the blood covenant that God initiated with Abraham Abraham believed God it was credited to him as righteousness. He obeyed God Genesis 15 1 to 6 we see how God called Abraham gave him this wonderful Promise and this wonderful covenant. Let's read Genesis chapter 15 1 to 6. Yes, one of us. Please read that Can I read? Yes, please go ahead Genesis chapter 15 1 to 6 After these things the word of God came to Abraham in a vision Saying do not be afraid Abraham I am your shield your exceedingly great reward But Abraham said Lord God, what will you give me? Seeing I go childless and the hear of my house Elysia of Damascus Then Abraham said look You have given me no offering Indeed one born in my house is my hair and behold the word of God came to him saying This one shall not be your hair, but one Who will come from your own body shall be your hair Then he brought him outside and said look now to all heaven and count the stars If you are able To number them And he said to him social your descendants be Amen Amen, that's verse six also and he believed in the Lord. I'm sorry And he believed in the Lord and he He accounted it to him for righteousness. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes So this is a wonderful promise that goddess can we all know the story of how god called Abraham God's telling Abraham. Look, I'm going to make you the father of many nations and to that Abraham is responding god Right now I don't have an offspring I don't have an air right now the air to everything that I have is Elysia of Damascus This person who's not my offspring Right now he's heir to it How is it that I'm going to be A father to many nations now here's an important thing that I'd like you to see God is Here the word is still a brahm right and we'll get to when he calls him Abraham right and then Worstly Abraham then Abraham said look you have given me no offspring indeed one born in my house is my air And behold the word of the Lord came to him saying This one shall not be your air But the one who will come from your own body Shall be your air now. This is the promise that god gave Abraham Right, but how does he establish this promise? How does he establish this covenant? God doesn't just he doesn't just say it and you know, he can do it right God can just say and it will be done But god is being so practical also and he's saying listen, this is what I've said. You will be a father of many nations now. Let me Do my part of the covenant by ratifying or confirming or Endorsing or bringing into force what I have just said And so what does god tell Abraham to do? Let's read from verse 7 onwards 15 verse 7 to 21 It's a big passage, but it's important that we read the entirety of it. Yes. Go ahead any one of us 15 7 to 21 Genesis 15 7 to 21 Then he said to him I am the lord who brought you out of ore of the chaldeans to give you this land to inherit it And he said lord god, how shall I know that I will inherit it? So he said to him bring me a three-year-old hypha a three-year-old female good A three-year-old ram a turtle dove and a young pigeon Then he brought all these to him and cut them in two Down the middle and placed each piece opposite the other But he did not cut the birds in two and when the vultures came down on the carcasses Abraham drove them away Now when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and behold Horror and great darkness fell upon him Then he said to Abraham Then he said to Abraham Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not There's and will serve them and they will afflict them 400 years And also the nation whom they serve I will judge Afterward they will come out with great possessions Now as for you you shall go to your fathers in peace You shall be buried at a good old age But in the fourth generation they shall return here for the inequity of the amorites is not yet complete And it came to pass when the sun went down and it was dark That behold there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces On the same day the lord made a covenant with Abraham saying to your descendants I have given this land from the river of egypt to the great river the river euphritis The canites the kenozites the cadmonites the hittites the perizites the refime The amorites the canonites the giga shites and the jebusites Amen. Thank you. Thank you for reading that portion. Right. So god made the promise Was seven to twenty one god is ratifying confirming the promise he says to Abraham. Okay, Abraham Listen, I brought you out to this land now I'm going to continue to be with you. I've given you the promise Verse nine bring me a three-year-old have a three-year-old female goat a three-year-old ram And a turtle dove and a young pigeon. So bring all these here And cut them and be ready And when the vultures came Abraham was probably, you know chasing them away But what happened was 12 when the sun was going down he fell into a deep sleep right and then The lord god Himself was 17 and it came to pass when the sun went down It was dark and behold there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces Here we see that god himself ratifying confirming and passing by The the offering that Abraham had laid out Now it's so wonderful to see that when god is making this covenant Yes, he tells Abraham listen listen, Abraham you're going to do be a father of many nations and this and You're going to be a blessing and all of that, but he also says some things he says look verse 16 Sorry, no verse 16 verse 13 Then he said to Abraham no certainly that your descendants will be strangers in the land that is not dares And will serve and they will afflict them for 400 years. So he's also telling them god is telling Abraham I've blessed you You will be a blessing your your offspring will be a blessing, but there will be a time When your people the the people that who are in covenant will be in bondage for 400 years and that's what happened right and god used moses to bring them out and What do we we see here On the same date the lord Was 18 made a covenant with Abraham He he passed through the offering. He walked through that offering his presence Just moved in that place ratifying and confirming that offering It's wonderful to see in genesis 17 god tells a brahm You will no longer be called a brahm, but you'll be called Abraham the father of many nations And he says to serai you'll no longer be called serai, but you'll be called serah When god calls us into a covenant He changes our identity Right And that's what he's doing even now Second Corinthians 5 17 says if anyone is in christ He's a new creation.  There's a new nature There are new attributes. Why because the presence of god is working in and through us I'm sure Abraham must have felt really excited after coming down that mountain thinking. Oh Finally, I'm gonna have a child I'm gonna have my own offspring And as god promised he will it'll be a blessing to the generation and the generations And maybe Abraham is coming down that mountain You know just an awe of god and what he and the promise that god gave him But little did Abraham know that he would have to wait for 25 years for that promise to come come through That's where we see the faith of Abraham Probably Abraham taught year after year. When is this covenant going to come to pass? The bible teaches us that Abraham did not diminish in faith He continued because maybe I believe that this picture Of god himself walking through the offering through the sacrifice And making a blood covenant. Maybe that was in his mind. He said no If god himself has said it, it will be done So sometimes even in our lives Covenants god has made for us and when we align ourselves into that covenant We may have to wait We may have to walk in faith But remember that the day god told Abraham You'll change your name from Abraham to Abraham Abraham to Abraham His identity was changed That day it was not after 25 years Okay, god came to Abraham and said okay, remember Abraham 25 years back I met you on that mountain that time you were a bram. Now you change your name to Abraham. No, no on that day itself He says you will be called Abraham You will have a new identity. You will have a new nature And after he changes their names as a new identity He also Gives them a sign A token a memorial of that covenant A circumcision which is a seal that is even followed even now Especially by many Jews Circumcision let's read Genesis chapter 17 10 to 11 Genesis 17 10 11 go ahead Can I? Let's go ahead please Genesis chapter 17 verse 10 and 11 This is my covenant which you shall keep between me and you and your descendants after you Every male child among you shall be circumcised And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your four skins And it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you Right Amen, thank you Rosalind Right, so we see a pattern that God is following right first He calls Abraham to He makes a covenant with Abraham Three he binds that covenant as a blood covenant For He changes their identity and their nature Abraham may be coming down that mountain may have been thinking Okay, I'm going to have a child. He went up that mountain not knowing what's going to happen But he came down with a new identity with a new name with a new nature And fifthly God is saying Now made this covenant So there is going to be a sign and a seal not only for you But for the generations to come If you follow this if you have this seal You are expressing your belief In my covenant with Abraham Right now what happened When after Genesis 17 10 11 says this is my covenant You shall keep every male child among you shall be circumcised And it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you So after being circumcised especially in the old covenant What is it that you and I get? What are the benefits or the blessings that we are aligning ourselves? You know for in this covenant Let's look at some of them first one God called Abraham a friend of God The ultimate purpose of God's covenant with us is to have a relationship. We looked at it in chapter one These covenants are not so that we can fill up pages in the bible Or these covenants are not so that you know God has certain you know Commands and no The whole point of this covenant that God made with Abraham was to have a relationship When we align ourselves into this covenant That's like Abraham Abraham was called a friend of God when we align ourselves in God's covenant We can say God We are called your friend Genesis 18 17 and the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing? God was so open. It was a it was a relationship that had been established God reveals to Abraham what he was planning to do Right he tells Abraham. This is what is going what I'm going to do ahead And and and that's what You know Abraham's test We see here the covenant that Abraham walked in obedience to That we just spoke about about Isaac and how he took Isaac up that mountain What happened after that? Abraham you see God is revealing himself in different aspects to Abraham God Abraham probably had a deeper revelation of God being the Jehovah Jairah Genesis 22 13 and 14 then Abraham Lifted his eyes and looked and there behind him was a ramp caught in a ticket by its horns So Abraham went and took the ramp Offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son And Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide As it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be provided What a what a picture this would have been When we see Abraham Heartbroken taking up his own son up that mountain But the moment God spoke to him and said Stop Abraham look at the ramp take it and burn it as an offering Just picture picture the joy That Abraham would have seen in his heart It felt caught you Art really Jehovah Jairah A deeper revelation He's already seen the revelation of God.  I have to read one chapter two chapters this day more than that It's stronger when we ask God to give us a revelation of who he is You know, I've I've said this and I say it again John 3 16 is a wonderful verse Probably quoted it many many many times But it really becomes revelation In my heart when I had my son and I thought to myself God gave his only son For us A deeper revelation and there are many many scriptures Uh that we can look at and say God You came And and you did all of this It brings a new revelation in our heart a new meaning of who God is Right when we probably read uh the new testament It brings up so much so such great revelations of who God is Right of his love of his grace his mercies His of who he is Such a wonderful God He goes on to say by myself. I have sworn so God backs up his covenant with himself Just like what we did in chapter one. We saw that God himself is backing up that covenant. He's not sending an angel He's not sending Seraphims or cherubims or anyone else to back up the covenant, but he's saying I Will back up this covenant Let's read Genesis 22 15 to 18 Yes, one of us. Please read this Let's go ahead. Genesis 22 15 to 18 Genesis 22 15 to 18 Then the angel of the lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven And said by myself. I have sworn says the lord because you have done this thing Buster it went And said was 16 and said by myself I have swoon says the lord because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son your only son Blessing I will bless you and multiplying. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven And as the sand which is on the sea shoe And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice Amen, so Thank you Rosalind. So god here is saying I am backing up the covenant And and said by myself I have sworn says the lord The god himself is saying by myself. I am I am standing on this covenant I'm not going to send anybody else Nobody else. I'm going to stand for the covenant Hebrews 6 30 into 15 for when god made a promise to Abraham Because he could swear by no one greater. He swore by himself the highest form of Making a covenant he says By myself I will swear it Verse 14 saying surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you and so after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise I love that verse verse 13 for when god made a promise To Abraham because he could swear by no one greater No one greater Because god knows that he's the greatest and he's the only one who can back up the covenant Now even as we look at our lives and our covenants and and we are part of the messianic covenant and Everything that the lord has done remember He is backing up himself For the covenant And we pray and say god Your word says that You will bring restoration We say lord, you said that you will bring healing god. You said that you will uh, you know Grant me peace and comfort lord.  What are we doing? We are standing on what god has said for us what he has sworn as a promise to us And so we're not saying something out of the blue But we're saying god you you have said it and since you have said it You are the one who is You know standing for this covenant. So you have to do it Now here's an important point to remember Just because you know, it's not like we We are holding god's hand twisting god's hand and saying No, you have to do it because i'm part of the covenant now God has his ways like we we saw uh, how he worked with abraham God told abraham i will make you a blessing but there was there was this whole waiting period Right god made him god made abraham wait god made him go through that season of waiting So again just because if we are we are part of the covenant There will be times god will take us through seasons through trainings through seasons of learning And and through those seasons of learning god will bring revelation to our hearts Amen god will bring revelation to our hearts right, so I don't want to move on from To the next portion. What we'll do is we'll stop here If do you have any questions any thoughts? Anybody has any questions on this covenant. Is it Uh, is it something that you're able to understand? You know as we move on from the covenants to the cross We will also see how uh, you know god fulfilled his promise through the cross and what the blood of jesus Is doing has done and is doing in our lives. So Anything else anyone would like to share any thoughts? You know a lot of old testament material, but it's very important because these are Promises that hold fast even now You know the names of god and all that we've learned it holds fast even now. So Okay, so no questions no thoughts all right Okay, uh, let's let's uh take some time and close in prayer Maybe two of us if two of us can close in prayer Just thank god for you know That he has called us into a covenant Right, even we were yet sinners Christ died for us and he has called us And also let's pray that god will enable us to align ourselves Uh to the covenant that he has called us for Right that we may not be in a hurry That we may have faith walk in obedience and we know That whatever he said in his covenant He himself is backing it up. So it will come to pass in our lives. So maybe two of us Can just pray and close this time. Yes. Go ahead any two of us Any any two of us? Can just pray Can I can I start go ahead Isaac? Father lord in heaven who want to thank you For your masses and your revelation We accept and we know that your word is here and amen We thank you for the word that you have spoken And we pray that We revelation we take seed in our heart And as humans We guide us to God's all feelings that we align ourselves To the covenant and not be covenant breakers But be covenant keepers so that we will be able to endure The patience that he gave to Abraham so that we'll be able to endure Learn more so that will be A seed that will dominate and provide Fruits so that the kingdom will be go ahead and prosper in Jesus name we pray Amen. Amen. Anyone else? this lead close in prayer Pray that you know we can all Align ourselves and the lord will Empower us to fulfill Our side of the covenant because we know god will Thank god for everything that we have learned thank god for his for who he is Although all the nature that he reveals himself To each one of us in different seasons of our lives So let's just lift up our hearts with gratitude and thank the lord One last person go ahead so we pray that we would be able to walk according to Your word lord Jesus as we heard today help us to Walk in their understanding that you are our covenant god And you continue to keep your covenant of god and we thank you That you have enabled us to be partakers of your covenant lord We thank you for the revelation of covenant lord Jesus We pray o god that even as we live our life forward help us to experience All of your covenant names to be manifested in our lives in a special way lord We pray o god that we would experience the fullness Of what you have finished at the cross And the fullness of your name Through your covenant lord jesus in our in our lives and in our hearts of god. We thank you For being our sanctifier. We thank you for being a healer We thank you for being our provider. We thank you for being our father lord We pray that we will continue to experience you lord jesus We thank you for teaching us this wonderful revelation today god. We praise you In jesus precious name. We pray Amen, amen Amen, thank you. Isaac. Thank you john for closing in prayer. Thank you each one of you Have a great week ahead. Do spend some time reading whatever we have studied We'll catch up next week. Have a great week. God bless