picture, I'm showing it to you at some fixed value of u. So again, I'm showing it to you at u equals 1. OK, so in this case, the sigma u is given by the equation lambda cubed plus phi 2 lambda plus phi 3 equals 0. So that has some branch points where the discriminant of this is 0. The discriminant is the cube of this minus the square of that. So it turns out there's four discriminant points. And for each one of them, we shoot out the trajectories. And what do we get? Well, we get some slightly more interesting picture. Right, first of all, the things can cross each other now. They couldn't before, because before, they all satisfied the same differential equation. They lived in a global foliation. But now, they satisfy different equations, so they can cross each other.  And so sure enough, here, when they cross each other, we shoot out another one. And we get some picture. OK, slightly more complicated looking picture, but fine. Once again, we can kind of vary the phase and see how the picture changes. There are some critical moments where something happens. Well, it's a picture in the patch of CP1 that's missing infinity. So it's a patch. Yeah, so we're taking our curve on which everything is happening to be CP1, but we're allowing everything to have a singularity at infinity. So all the pictures are drawn in the complex plane. No, no, no, they don't come back. Yeah, good. So I mean, that's a dynamical question you have to answer in each example. In this particular example, the singularity is strong enough that it attracts them and they never come back. That's actually what makes these examples much easier is the fact that they have the singularity that attracts all the lines. Had we not had that singularity, the lines would tend to kind of wind ergodically around the Riemann surface. That makes the pictures much harder to draw. OK, so this is our new notion of spectral network. It's introduced in a paper of Greta Moore and me. OK, fine. So now, as I've alluded to, there's a new phenomenon that occurs here that didn't occur in the sort of pure two-dimensional examples that we talked about before, which is that Sn of theta and u jumps at some critical phases. Theta equals theta critical. So let me go back to the sort of simplest example of that. Well, actually, here's the very simplest example. This is a case of a quadratic polynomial, but here this already shows you the basic feature. So now I've just got two zeros. As I change the phase, there is a critical moment, we're coming close to it, where the topology of the picture suddenly jumps. You see two lines going into the northwest and southeast, and then, bang, suddenly they're going the other way. And right at the moment when the jump occurs, you can see what's kind of special. What's special is the appearance of this trajectory that directly connects to the two branch points. So at theta critical, we have a picture like this. We have a trajectory that goes straight between these two branch points. So that kind of thing has a name. This is a classically studied thing in Teichmeler theory. So if you Google for, it's called a saddle connection. If you just Google for saddle connection, you get, there's also something in like welding that's called a saddle connection. But if you Google saddle connection, Teichmeler theory, then you get a lot of references to the right thing. So we're going to, these are going to be a new kind of particle for us. We're going to keep track also of the charge of this particle, and the charge of that particle is something simple and geometric here. Namely, let's remember we have this covering, sigma u, which is branched over these points. So associated to this saddle connection, there's a very natural homology class up here. Namely, I just take the saddle connection, and I lift it up to the cover in both possible ways with opposite orientation, there's some way of fixing the orientation. And exactly because these are branch points, this thing will be a closed cycle. And I'll call that cycle gamma, it lies in the lattice capital gamma sub u, which by definition is the first homology of the spectral curve. So we'll call this saddle connection with charge gamma. Well, that's not the only kind of topology change that you get in this business. So in some cases, the simplest kinds of topology change come from the saddle connections, but there's also other things that happen. So other, let's see, how can I say it? Other objects that cause topology jumps for the spectral network. So one that can happen already in this double cover situation is you can have trajectories that actually go, start at a branch point and end at the very same branch point. And when you get them, you actually get a ring of them. So you get something like this. So a whole family of closed trajectories. So let me call that a ring domain. Another thing that can happen in the higher rank situation, but not in the SL2 situation, is you can have something like this. You can have three leaves of different foliations that come together, a 1, 3, yeah, 3, 2, and 1, 2 like this. When this kind of object appears, it also causes a topology change. I'll call this a finite web. And maybe I'll show you a picture of that one, how that one happens. Here's the simplest example of that one. So this is with, this is an example where I have phi 2 is 4z dz squared and phi 3 is epsilon, whatever epsilon is. Epsilon is 1, okay. Phi 3 is dz cubed. So there, I'll just show you what the pictures look like for that example. So as we change the phase, here's the spectral network. And now as we change the phase, it starts to look like this. And now we're coming close to the critical moment. Okay, and you see what the picture looks like here. And now we go through the critical moment where there's that three string web. And on the other side it looks like this, so it goes. So, okay, so we have these kind of special kind of finite objects that can appear inside of the spectral network. And when they do, the topology of the thing suddenly jumps. Now the importance of these jumps for us, well they're gonna be important in our scheme for setting Higgs bundles, but first, they're physically important. So these jumps are associated to BPS particles. So again, BPS particles, but this is a kind of BPS particle that we haven't talked about until this moment. So so far we've been always talking about things that live on the little string. But now we're gonna talk about BPS particles of the full four dimensional theory in its vacuum U. So for example, for G equals SL2 I could define, let me define the invariant that counts these BPS particles, omega of gamma and U, so this is for any gamma in the lattice gamma which was remember was the first homology of sigma U. Omega of gamma and U is counting, so it counts the number of saddle connections with charge gamma minus two times the number of ring domains with charge gamma. So also for the ring domain you can define a charge, just lift this loop up to both sheets, take their difference and you get an element of gamma. So that's a kind of, so that's a mathematical definition of a number the way you're supposed to think of it physically, what do you mean by generic? They don't occur in these polynomial examples. They occur essentially generically in any example that's fancier than these polynomial examples. So they're kind of equally in sort of typical examples, they're sort of equally generic as the saddle connections. So there may be some domains of the Hitchin base where they don't exist, but there's plenty of domains where they do exist. So physically this quantity, omega of gamma of U is a BPS index counting BPS particles of charge gamma in the theory T4 of G in vacuum U. Ah, very good, very good. So we didn't talk about it in lecture, but in the notes I wrote down the kind of, the general definition of such an index in terms of the representation theory of the supersymmetry algebra in N equals two supersymmetry in four dimensions. And so just like the N equals two comma two situation you count things, but you have to count things with signs in general in order to get an invariant. So here unlike the two-dimensional case, in the four-dimensional case there's a bunch of different kinds of short representation. So in fact the saddle connection is giving you one kind of short representation which is called the massive hyper-multiplet. And the ring domain is giving you a different kind of short representation which is called the massive vector-multiplet. And so I wrote about what those representations actually are if you look back in the end of the notes from the first lecture. But anyway, I think all we need to know right now is that there's some BPS index that counts these things like the indices I defined for you before. And this number omega of gamma that we're computing in this way is one of those BPS indices. Okay, you sum over all theta. So you look at the theta where the saddle connection appears. Yeah, so for every charged gamma there's only one theta where the saddle connection could appear. In fact, this is the argument of Z gamma. Yeah, maybe that's one of the things I should say. For these particles, so just like before, they have a central charge, Z gamma, which is just the period of the holomorphic one form over the cycle gamma. That gives the central charges of these particles. So now in the end, I wanna try to sketch out what's one kind of geometric application of this stuff, of this construction. Yeah, yeah. In the examples from before it would be zero. Because this has to do with, well it would have been zero for two reasons, right? It would have been zero because this homology lattice would have been trivial. But also morally it should be zero exactly because this has to do with the four dimensional physics. This has to do with a phenomenon that happens in the four dimensional theory, T4 of G and C. In our previous examples, there was no four dimensional theory. Everything was happening in just two dimensional physics. So this is a new phenomenon that occurs here and didn't occur in those other examples. Let's talk about it later. For sure there can't be any BPS particles because all the periods will be zero. This lambda is exact in that situation. Okay, so let me try to sketch for you the application. So among the properties of this spectral network, SN of theta of u, so it controls in the same sense as before, it controls Stokes phenomena happening on the curve C. For families of connections, so just as before we had these two families of connections which are called NABLA H bar and NABLA Zeta. So here too, if I take in fact any Higgs bundle E over C whose spectral curve is given by sigma u. So yeah, so I take my curve, I've got my Riemann surface. I put a Higgs bundle on that Riemann surface. Its spectral curve is gonna be one of the spectral curves sigma u where u are the points of the Hitchin base. And now I wanna study, eventually I'd like to do non-Avillian-Hodge theory, so I'd like to solve Hitchin's equations, but I don't do it directly. Instead I study these one parameter families of connections first. So let me remind you one parameter family of connections. So this one parameter family of connections, NABLA Zeta was Phi over Zeta plus the Tern connection DH plus Phi dagger Zeta where H is the harmonic metric, the solution of Hitchin equations associated to our Higgs bundle, our Higgs bundle E Phi. Yeah, Higgs bundle I should write as E Phi over C. So you recall that whenever you have a Higgs bundle, by solving Hitchin equations, you can produce this one parameter family of flat connections. And now I wanna study this one parameter family of flat connections. The way I'm gonna do it as before is to study its Stokes phenomena at small Zeta. And for that, the key tool is exactly this spectral network. So let me say exactly what I mean. So the way it works is a little bit subtler than before. So before, in the previous story, I said, well, you look in the complement of spectral network. In every domain of the complement, you just get a distinguished basis of sections. And that distinguished basis, you know everything about their asymptotics. That was a good way of studying those connections. Here we don't get exactly that. We don't get exactly a distinguished basis of NABLA Zeta flat sections in each domain. Rather what we get is a distinguished line decomposition. So before we were kind of trivializing this connection completely in every domain of the complement of the spectral network. Now we're not trivializing it, what we're gonna do is we're gonna reduce it to something abelian. And so here's the precise conjecture. So the conjecture is like this. So there exists a family of flat GL1C connections. I'll call them NABLA Zeta ab over the spectral curve, sigma u, so remember the sigma u which projects to C, let pi be the projection. Such that the following things happen. So number one, these connections have to carry somehow the same information as the connection that I'm really interested in studying. So what I want to do is to study this connection. I'm gonna relate it to these connections over the spectral cover like this. So the statement is that away from the spectral network, the theta equals argument of h bar, there's an isomorphism, yota which identifies NABLA Zeta with the push forward of NABLA ab comma zeta. What that means in concrete terms, what that means in concrete terms is if I have some path that's avoiding the spectral network, let's say the spectral network is somewhere over here. If I have some path in the base curve and I wanna do the parallel transport of my flat connection along this path, to understand this flat connection, what I'd like is to understand this parallel transport. Yeah, they're both flat. Yeah, absolutely, these are flat. Sorry, that's very important. Hitching equations exactly means that this is one parameter family of flat C star connections and we're trying to describe in some efficient way that one parameter family of flat connections. If we can do that, we can, for example, find the hypercalametric. So we wanna understand these connections. The way we're gonna understand them is to describe their parallel transport in a concrete way. And the first thing I'm saying is, away from the, away from this spectral network, the parallel transport can be related just to parallel transport in a line bundle over a sigma. So like in this picture, we've got some rank three bundle. We're trying to do the parallel transport and we just relate it to a sum of three line bundles here and we do the parallel transport in those three line bundles. It's not as good as having a distinguished flat basis. If I had a flat basis, that would be even better, but this is almost as good. I just relate it to three a billion things. So that's what this number one says. Number two says, so away from the spectral network, it's as good as it could be. All of the spectral network of types say IJ, this isomorphism jumps, but it jumps in a very specific way. It jumps by kind of like the change of bases that we wrote before. It's a unipotent matrix, which looks like the identity plus some number times the elementary matrix EIJ. So just the kind of change of basis that we were writing before. That same kind of change of basis intervenes here. So that says if I wanna do the parallel transport along this path, it'll be almost the a billion parallel transport, except that when I get to here, I'll have to splice in some explicit unipotent matrix. That's still pretty good, we can control that if we know exactly where the spectral network is. Okay, now, the conjecture's not done yet. So far this part is, if you only wanted this, it wouldn't be that hard to get. So this conjecture is in GMN, by the way. If C was compact, I would formulate the same conjecture actually, but it would be much, when you press me about details, it would be very tricky to say it precisely, right? Because in that case, the spectral network is dense. So I have to be very careful in, yeah, so morally yes, but in practice it's a serious thing. Aaron Finneas has done some work in that direction. But for now, let me just stick to, I'd be very happy to do it just in any one of the examples I showed you. Okay, so I'll finish just by stating the rest of this conjecture. So one and two are kind of algebraic in nature, but the third thing is definitely not. So suppose I define now a function x gamma of zeta to be the holonomie of nabla, what's my notation, nabla ab zeta around the loop gamma. So here's sigma again, here's C. I've related my connection down here to an abelian connection up here, and now I just look at its holonomie around a loop. Those are in some sense the only real invariance of this connection. I think it's holonomie around the loop. The statement is that that function has nice controllable asymptotic behavior. It goes like exponential of z gamma over zeta plus something of order one as zeta goes to zero. So this is a function with a kind of


Investigative report reveals culture of corruption and tribalism at the Nigerian integration service. These are likely responsible for the shortage of passports. We'll be speaking with the journalist David Hyundai. Independent National Electoral Commission INEC discloses it can handle electronic voting and transmission of results. All the details this morning. And also much more details on the front pages of newspapers. So back for Off The Press. It's another Monday morning here on Class TV Africa. Thank you for joining us. It's the breakfast here. And I am Osao Ghee. And I am Annette Felix saying good morning and thank you for joining us on the last week's edition of the month of September. It's September the 27th and we're so excited to just get you through the rest of your day with the top trending stories, current affairs all across Nigeria. And good morning to you. Good morning. How was your weekend? Fantastic. How was yours? It was pretty interesting. I think one of the highlights of the weekend for the whole of the nation is the fact that after spending almost three months in captivity, about 10 students of the Betel Baptist High School in Chicken Local Government area of Kaduna State have been released. We heard news of their release. State authorities confirmed that these students have been reunited with their families and that about 11 more are still in captivity. But let's take your minds back to July the 5th, 2021. On that very day, bandits basically stormed that school, that Betel High School. They shot into the air and they whisked away over 100 students, specifically about 121. They took them to an unknown destination and they've been there ever since and that's for like 83 days now. And about 110 students have been released and that's been in batches. They released 10 today, they released one tomorrow. It's just been headache and heartache for parents of the students battling to make sure their kids come back alive. And even though state government and law enforcement keep saying that they stand on this matter is that they would not pay ransom, they would not negotiate with bandits and parents of these victims have a different story to tell. But a good thing is that 10 more students of the Betel Baptist High School in Kaduna State have been freed and that the process of releasing 11 more have basically been kick started. Well, like you said, there's always some confusion whether ransom has been paid or not. But if you look at the way that it has been happened, either the bandits had a change of heart with five today and then two weeks later had another change of heart with 10 or the parents and whoever is able to raise money, they contribute and then they take the ones who have been paid for and they set them free and the rest will wait until they have enough money to pay for them. Nobody knows. The Kaduna State government obviously and the Nigerian government cannot say that for the last 83 days they've not been able to figure out any tactic whatsoever to release Nigerians who are in captivity. It's not possible to put that information out. They can't say that in the last 80 days they've not been able to in any way, either negotiate or find ways to use security and tactics basically from the army, the DSS, the police, everyone to get those people free. So it almost feels, you can almost look at the story and almost interpret it to mean that the government itself has not really been interested in getting those kids free. And another thing is the fact that the story broke over the weekend but I'm sure a lot of Nigerians at this point didn't even bother opening the story or looking at it or caring that much and that's really because of how much kidnapping has become a part of our lives as Nigerians. I'm sure a lot of people have also seen the NYSE booklet that basically was saying that you build a relationship with your kidnappers. Don't resist. They can't be traveling. They exactly don't resist. They tell people where you're traveling to because of all of that. And if people can gather around some for you, all of that. It almost feels like kidnapping is like a regular market day across Nigeria. And that's why not very many people care so much about a story like this anymore, which is shocking. But obviously these are the times that we currently have found ourselves in Nigeria. And so what would make the other 11 be released? That everyone has to fold their arms and wait or hope that the same reason that got this turned out that we'll get the other 11 out. And what has been done? Are there going to be more kidnappings? And the Nigerian government honestly saying that in the last 80 days they've not been able to figure out where these people have been taken to. It's almost impossible. And it would make you continue to question what really this current administration has been able to achieve with regard to security and what their stance is really with the light and the value of the Nigerian life if we have been honest with ourselves. Because I don't say government can continue to make those statements and say, well, no ransom would pay in the state on some of all of that. But it hasn't changed anything. People are still being kidnapped. And if you can sit in your office as governor for 80 days while dozens of kids are in captivity, what exactly are you there for as a governor? Who is the commissioner of police in Cardona State? What are you there for? What really has been your role in protecting the lives and property of people in Cardona State? I can only just celebrate with those parents and hope that the parents of the other 11 eventually find a reason to smile soon and wait for next time it happens or pray that it doesn't happen again. So, some sort of bad news for the Nigerian community is this. Professional British boxer, Anthony Joshua, over the weekend lost his WBA, WBO and IBF World Title belts. He got this bitten by this boxer and that was over in 12 rounds. People really didn't see this coming. Anthony Joshua, the more bulky guy, has all the support of home and abroad. And this just happened on Sunday. And I think one thing sports analysts really have been pointing to is that there was this contract extension with the company. It's called Matchroom Boxing. And this is basically his first match just after that signing. He just potends a very bad omen for the rest of his career. But anyway, every match is likely to be scheduled soon. That's supposed to happen probably in February 2022. Let's just see how that happens. They're talking about either Ukraine or the UK, but he might just have another chance to win those back. You don't think so? I don't know. I don't think so, if I've been honest. The guy who he fought, Yusick, I think that's his name. He's a really, really good fighter. He's a really fast and powerful fighter. Has better moves, leg movement, everything. Anthony Joshua really just went in there like a bouncer and got himself beaten up. This is the first time I've seen Anthony Joshua with swollen eyes after a fight. And it definitely was disappointing for a lot of people because in the build-up to the fight, there was pictures. He was on social media. He was gathering all this emotions towards the fight.  Well, look at his face after fighting Yusick. I don't know how to explain this to anybody that our own Anthony Joshua, well, British born and Andrea born, nobody will show anymore. Anthony Joshua got beaten so badly in 12 rounds. I watched the fight. I watched it online. I was embarrassed. The final round of this fight was probably the worst, to see him just being slapped left and right and it felt like he didn't even train for the fight at all. I had conversations over the weekend. I was talking to a few people and said, I genuinely have never really seen Anthony Joshua as that fighter. Yes, we support him because he's partly Nigerian and some of all of that, but I've never looked at him fight or looked at his, yes, he's an Olympic champion this and that. He beat the other Ukrainian brother, Klishko, a guy and some of all of that, but I've never watched him fight and looked at him and said, this is a completely dangerous and skillful fighter. I don't know what his tactics are with boxing. I'm not so fast with boxing, but I've never seen it and every time, it's embarrassing really because every time that he, they set up this Tyson Fury fight and then for some reason, the Tyson Fury fight can't happen and then they pair him with some random contender and it makes it even more embarrassing that this random contender that they just put to him, beat him. It happened the last time. Luckily, he was able to win the rematch and now it's happened the second time. How is this same Joshua going to fight Jonte Wilder, all fight Tyson Fury? He may not survive two rounds with any of these people and that's honestly the way that I feel. And it's not because I'm looking down on Anthony Joshua or not being patriotic. I just have never seen him as a very, very prolific fighter. But he's vowing to come back. Let's take a listen. We're going on to the winner and we'll be back again. Get back into training. Great 12 rounds. Great experience as well. And then we progress from this point on once again. So we'll be doing it all again soon. We'll be wrong, just taking a loss. But we'll get it right. Probably the knife. From the knife, I couldn't see in the knife round. I couldn't see anything really. I was shot. But it was a good experience because in adversity, you just got to learn to control yourself, stay on top of things. So I'm not going to see anything. It's the first time it's happened in a fight. It's the first time my eyes close up in a fight. I can't see nothing. I'm looking at a one-eyed kind of thing. You've got to apply pressure behind your jab and your right hand and you've got to keep him off balance and you've got full shots together when you get there. As we've seen tonight, U6 are very good boxers. But look, Anthony's already addressed that he's learning on the job and we showed that in the Roo's rematch. I've got no doubts that if he applies himself, which you will, you'll get a great performance in the rematch. Because U6 box tremendously well tonight and Anthony will learn loads tonight. You've got to apply better pressure with a fighter like that and not give him too much time. And that's really what should happen. Weirdly, it's a lot easier to take because you know how good U6 is and you always know that if you don't get it right, there is a chance you can get beat. The Roo's fight, I guess we were probably a bit naive at the time almost walking on air that Ajay would just steamroll for everyone and that was just one bolt from the blue that you sort of couldn't get over for weeks. Tonight you just say, sport, you got beaten by the better man, we're going to do that.  Good luck to Anthony and Joshua. I'm really not even excited. Did he steal? Why was he beating so bad? Let's cut him some slack. If he had won, the conversation would be different and you can't expect to win all the time, so please.  I'm just really saying that I've never, and this is me personally, it's okay that I could be wrong. I've just never seen Anthony Joshua and thought he was a completely dangerous fighter, really, really skilled fighter. People have thought a lot of things about people trying to prove they're wrong. Well, he's failed twice now. Yes, he will always get a rematch or another fight to hopefully claim his title back, but this is the second time. Guess who proved someone else wrong? Arsenal, tell us more about that match. I don't care about Arsenal. It's a combination of things that made my weekend very, very bad. First of all, Manchester United lost. Chelsea lost also, I don't care about Chelsea either, but they lost. And then also Manchester United lost embarrassingly. And then to make matters worse, I thought it was our decision to complete the weekend with everybody losing, including Arsenal, but then Arsenal won Tottenham. And then Anthony Joshua lost. It was just a very, very bad spot in weekend. But congratulations to Arsenal. Finally returning to winning ways. I'm sure by the last game, a lot of people were already tweeting Ateta out, but hopefully this one will keep him there for a little long time, so they eventually will finish that into the season. He wouldn't be sacked. And that's the way it always happens with Arsenal. They win one game, and then everybody relaxes. And so Ateta is a good coach, and then they lose another five, and then they want him out, and then they win one game, and then eventually they finish 11 Tottenham this season. So good luck. Congratulations to them. I didn't get to watch the game, but for Arsenal fans across the world, I'm sure that we're very, very excited. It's a local derby with Tottenham. I think the end of three goes to one, I believe, which is really, really good. To see Arsenal score a modern one goal in a game, or even get to win any game. I'm not happy for them, but congratulations to Arsenal fans. I mean, it's sports. Anything can happen. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's it on Top Trending this morning. Let's take a break and see what's trending on the papers. Stay with us.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Professor Leon Morenoz from the School of Planning and Architecture. We are going to discuss the smart cities. Currently there is a hype that we are going to have smart cities. It is not something specific to India, but India we have chosen 100 cities to be the quote unquote smart cities. So what distinguishes the smart cities from the not so smart cities in terms of the basic concept of the city? The smart city the way it is sort of there is no official definition but the larger sort of ideology that is driving it is that we can use information technology in order to either make the city more efficient or rationalize resources. So this is basically what is driving the larger project of the smart city. You know the fundamental issue for a city to me as being a citizen as it were is that what is the city for? Is it for the people? Is it for public good? Is it for essentially a set of economic activities that go into the city or is it for the real estate developers who develop the city? So there could be various ways of looking at a city and do you think the smart city in the sense is a way of looking at the city how to maximize the data that is being generated within the city? You know when the smart city sort of the first trust came out I remember seeing a concept note on I think the smart city website it had Comic Sans font on it and there was a funnel like structure and the entire goal of the smart city was competitiveness. So I mean unlike well I would think larger goals would be about giving people a healthier environment conditions for economic prosperity and services like that. Unfortunately it looks like the smart city at least the initial way in which it was conceived was to sort of bring about competitiveness and this drives back to the larger concept of global cities and you know the way in which one was able to classify them based on how finance would move in and out etc. So I think the smart cities are in some ways a new avatar of the global city phenomenon that Saskin had. That's an interesting proposition now that means there are also two kinds of problems you get. One is you want to set up a smart city quote unquote in virgin territory that is rural areas you want to grow a new city and you start from the beginning having it is quote unquote a smart city which has been tried in a couple of places South Korea there is one case there are other cases in other developing countries and then there is a smart city for instance which already is a city Barcelona London Delhi which are already cities then how do you look at these cities you can't really have a common template for both of these two kinds of cities can you. I don't think yeah you're absolutely right in that we can't really have a similar template and it's kind it's also quite unique to the Indian phenomenon in that sense where it's not really again when you talk about Songdo in South Africa I think Mazda city these were you're right they were virgin sort of cities that sprung out in the middle of nowhere whereas here we've actually seen cities that have competed for smart city funding and about 100 acres to 500 acres of some of that nature has sort of been allocated for major interventions and I think they've been studies that suggest about 97% of the funding is being spent on 3% of the land. So it's sort of unique in the Indian the way the Indian smart city project is. Is it then creating small enclaves essentially and class for essentially well off well the individuals or upper middle class who will get quote unquote global lifestyles in the 3% of the of the space. I think that that's where the paradox lies in the sense that for the city to be sustainable the what's going to drive the city is going to be data it's going to be data driven and these small smart enclaves are for instance in Delhi where we're sitting is just confined to the NDMC area and so these so it's how the how these small little enclaves are going to survive on just this much of data is a little it's sort of a beggars belief that it's only going to be sort of focused on this small portion of land because it doesn't make sense economically or in the long term shall we say that it doesn't really make sense to consider a city on 3% of its land when you are 3% of its citizens but the city is relatively an organic whole in the way the various parts mesh into it the people who work the people who live even of the fact of the land that they also need work for their survival and when you therefore look at the city that the older way of looking at the city was planning the city as a whole and without that this kind of vision really doesn't work for a city. I'm not so sure about the master plan effort also which was looking at the city as a whole because I don't think it looked at the city as an organic whole. Our master plans are at best sort of looking at cities machines that try to then see if how one cog may have worked in the other and you know and therefore it with that metaphor comes in all the trouble of things breaking down and being replaced and some things becoming obsolete and stuff but I think the larger point where for me at least when I look at the smart city is that it completely ignores the larger concept we've had constitutional reforms like the 74th amendment which says that ordinary people are capable of being able to figure out their urban futures and we're not giving them a chance to do that. It's extremely top I mean driven from the center in the way it's conceived and it's also going to be run by anonymous machines that are going to rationalize how you know and some of these smart cities they talk about the fact that you know the machines are going to determine when you open your window or whether you need to open your window or when an elevator will come up to take you down and because it's rationalizing the sources so I think it takes away all of those larger. So it's a further shall we say shift to an even more alienated city but coming to the other issue that you just raised about the 74th amendment and so on which basically meant that the local self-government authorities had certain powers which the citizens decided then the future of the city based on the elected representatives. Now what the smart city agenda seems to be that they will actually give away all their revenues to a certain body which will be non-elected will take decisions for the city on their behalf and they will only have the power to give the money but no authority to decide what they will do this is special purpose vehicles in all which are being created to run the so-called smart city. Isn't that completely a violation of the fundamental rights of the citizen? Absolutely and that's problematic because again like I said we have a constitutional mandate that does suggest that we can make our own plans and we have we now have a CEO it's not even a CEO who will run a company that's how the special vehicle special purpose vehicle is actually registered under the company's act who will again who has no accountability to the local populace who will be selected by the center to oversee this particular company and I think for 30 years or something like that all the revenues will be going back to go back to the to the smart purpose vehicle in order to pay back the cost of capital costs. It's also quite interesting because if you were to look at the most neoliberal of our cities in India I think Navi Mumbai is you will come closest to that they actually saw through this and refused smart city status the first time around I think they've been forced to now try and accept funding for the smart city status but this was something they said so we'll provide the infrastructure the water the electricity the land everything and we won't see a penny for 30 years where's the incentive for the the city the local city to I mean for them to grow economically. Do you think it's even a viable does it make any sense is it viable is it something which really a city can survive in this fashion or do you think this is something which is going to break down very soon and this will really have to be thrown into the waste paper basket very very soon. One of my favorite writers G.K Chesterton he argues that when one views a murder you don't ask whether murder is efficient or inefficient if there's a murder that happens that's the end well so similarly I think the kind of what could I say the methods that have been put in place the structures that have been put in place it might be too late to sort of scrap the city to in you know it it's not a blueprint that can just be scrapped I think it's really tinkering with larger governance mechanisms with things that can't just sort of you know the next day turn around and say that okay we're not going to follow that model if you look at it look at look at Delhi again the Delhi master plan I mean 60 years it was started in 1962 I mean what we have till today are revisions of the master plan right so there's no I don't think especially when it comes to experiments like urban experiments I don't think we can just sort of say this can be scrapped I think we're going to have to live with a lot of these decisions for many many decades to come thank you Leon for being with us and we hope that we can discuss these and other issues in the future as well this is all the time we have for news click today keep watching news click do visit our website and our facebook and our page


So I want you all to ask yourselves a question. Do you think that since Roe v. Wade was overturned, any of these forced brothers have began to feel regret after seeing some of these horror stories that were witnessing 10-year-old girls, who are the victims of rape, having to get abortions out of state, women who have miscarriages, who have to carry their dead fetuses for two weeks, because the doctor doesn't necessarily know that he has enough evidence to protect himself in the events, you know, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going to prosecute him for doing an abortion illegally on a live fetus. Do you think that any of them have been introspective at all? You know the answer. The answer is obviously no, and if anything, they've become more emboldened and they're trying to expand their operations, at least when it comes to crisis pregnancy centers, which is, you know, the headquarters in your local city for forced brothers. Now, we're going to talk about a crisis pregnancy megaplex essentially being built, but this entire story really demonstrates how utterly insane these forced brothers are. So as the Washington Post reports over the past 50 years of legal abortion in America, crisis pregnancy centers have been one of the top tools of the anti-abortion movement and a target for intense criticism from abortion rights advocates. With more than 2,500 locations across the United States, these centers deploy what critics decry as overly aggressive, even deceptive tactics to talk women out of abortions, often religiously affiliated. They typically offer free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, sometimes initially presenting themselves as abortion clinics or objective sources of abortion information. Now that abortion is banned across much of the South and Midwest, including Texas, many crisis pregnancy centers in these regions are preparing to assume a larger role, stepping into a void left by shuttered abortion clinics as the go-to place for ultrasound exams and pregnancy resources, despite the fact that they are not licensed medical facilities. The goal is to intercept women before they can access abortion some other way through an online pharmacy or across state lines and convince them that they'll have support. The executive director of the pregnancy center of the Coastal Bend had recently overseen the purchase of what she sees as the most strategic plot of land in the Corpus Christi, a city of 300,000 people on the South Texas coast, right next to the local Texas A&M campus, looking out over the Oso Bay, Jena Pinsen's $10 million crisis pregnancy center will be built to attract female undergraduates with a coffee shop and a thrift store visible from the road and a patio where students can sip their cafe lattes. So if this sounds a little bit sus to you, if it sounds a little bit predatory even, that's because it absolutely is. They dupe unsuspecting women into getting religious dogma shoved down their throats, guilt trips, making them feel as if they dare to exercise any level of autonomy over their bodies. Well, that's bad. And they don't always use guilt. Oftentimes, they'll use positive reinforcement.  Here's some, you know, food banks, here's some clothing banks, there's individuals who are willing to donate, some churches will help you. They do that, sure. But then they also have like these models of fetuses and they're like, this is what you're killing. So it's really, really gross. Now, most of the article talks about this $10 million pregnancy center, megaplex, which is bizarre.  So if they can get an abortion-minded woman to have a conversation, Pinson feels confident that the center staff can change her mind. In their counseling sessions, Pinson says they pour into girls persuading them that no matter the obstacles in their lives, they can become successful mothers. Pinson welcomes even the most devastating cases. I've seen a lot of 13 year old girls do phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal, she said. It doesn't have to be a negative thing. She closely followed the case of the 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion in Ohio last month. If that girl came into her center, Pinson would suggest she consider adoption, she said, adding that abortion would not fix the girl's problems. That life is still alive. And even at 10, she knows a life is inside her. So what she's admitting there is that they literally guilt trip child rape victims into having their rapists baby. I don't even know what to say about that. That is nauseatingly unethical and despicable. Just despicable. Now, look, ultimately, if that little girl and her mother and the doctor come to the decision collectively that this is what they want to do, the choice should be theirs. But ask yourself this, do you think that Jaina Pinson is going to present that little girl and her mother with objective information? Do you think that she's going to explain what is entailed with pregnancy and childbirth and the toll that that takes on your body and the expectations of motherhood, the difficulties associated with that? Is she going to get a fair and balanced view of what her life will be if she decides to have her rapists baby? Absolutely not. It's going to be skewed. It's going to be guilt trips. It's going to be have it. Otherwise, you're murdering. Now, maybe they're not that explicit every single time, but that's the implication. You have a life inside of you. So if you have an abortion, you're murdering. I mean, in most abortion cases, it's done within the first 10, 12 weeks. So we're talking about clumps of cells here. We're not talking about an actual baby, but these absolute freaks, these religious psychopaths are saying, no, we actually want to convince children where the victims of rape that they should carry their rapists babies to term, and these children will be able to care for their children and make great mothers. If this doesn't tell you how sick and twisted these people are, nothing will. So this is why we should never take forced birther seriously. They cannot be reasoned with. This is why I asked at the beginning of this video, do you think that they've been introspective at all? And that's because they don't base, you know, their view here, their supposed pro-life view, their pro-birther view, forced birther view rather, on facts or data or anecdotes. They literally are strictly adhering to a fundamentalist religious belief that as soon as that child is conceived, God has a plan, right? There are some forced brothers who believe that life begins before conception because like even before child is born, that soul is destined to become a physical life. So, you know, to abort that is to take God's creation out. You know, they don't ever put any of the burden on men, try to guilt-trip men for masturbating.  Like, do they do this to men? Of course not. They only do it to women. So they are participating in the subordination of women and the lengths that they will go to force women to give birth, even to their rapists' babies. Even if they are children, they still say, no, give birth to that rapist's baby.  That's all I can say. That is all I can say.  So we just have to politically overwhelm them and reverse this decision because that is sickness that we cannot allow to happen in this country. The decision must be left with women or in some instances when it comes to rape children and their doctor. They're the ones who should be making that decision.


All right. Tell me when we're back. Okay. We're back. We're back. Yeah. Okay. I don't know where we lost each other, but regardless, I had to bring up this guy again. So this is eat and beyond. When I was talking about lab based meats. There's only a couple of companies right now that are involved in this that are public. Eat and beyond is actually invested in quite a few and they're coming out of Asia. Now these guys back in the plant based food times hit a high of $31. They're at 14 cents right now. One company that they're very heavily invested in is called eat just and eat just makes lab based. They make pretend chicken in a lab and they make pretend eggs in a lab. And they have quite a few very large supplies. So I think this guy is going to wake up again. And as you can see, it's up 33%. The biggest one that actually the only one that's public already in the US. That is making this making and distributing lab produced meat is Tyson foods. Yes. So this is an old guy. They've been around for a long time, but they are now this lab produced meat is super expensive. So they're actually selling it a lot as like a delicacy. So there's going to be big profits coming through this. So seeing Tyson food sitting at $49 and I'm not so far away high of $100. I think it's a great opportunity. There's also a dividend of 3.8%. So McDonald's. Sorry guys to disappoint you, but McDonald's is in the lab based. The lab meat business already. I did some digging to find this out and they are but regardless of that McDonald's is just always going up because people always like a burger.  Everyone does every once in a while. It's like one of those long time things that isn't actually going to go anywhere. But another reason why I had to bring up McDonald's is it's just busting off trend line it had a little pullback it's still falling in my theme of the lab based meats because who knows what else is there, but it's also summertime. Keep in mind this is our summer or summertime list. Amazon. When it comes to people getting ready to go camping and doing all their stuff like summer things. What's the best and the fastest way to get something. 100%. Yep. Amazon is a key winner for so many reasons, but it has busted out resistance and it's on a clear uptrend, like a clear uptrend cannot deny it. No real resistance to about 146 and even so I doubt that's going to hold, because Amazon is everything. Amazon is AI, Amazon is in electric vehicles, Amazon is like the cheapest and fastest way to get anything you want. Amazon. Amanda, we got six minutes. Okay, I'll make it quick. Yeah. I'm going to look at this. Look at this guy has not stopped. So they're giving out a 2.9% dividend. And it's summertime. So if you look at what these guys do throughout the summer they make their biggest money in the summer because that's when people are out sporting. There's a little pullback on that, but there is a ton left in that and the momentum I think is going to get pretty outrageous. Academy sports though is just starting out. So they had a good pullback, and I think there's a lot more to go in Academy sports and if you look into what they have it's a lot of the top sports brands. So looking at what Dick sporting is doing, almost reaching all time high, I think we have an awesome arbitrage opportunity on ASO CWH, camping worlds. Now we all know that it's summertime. So again, they've already had a pretty decent run out from April, but they were sitting at a bottom. And as we know people weren't going camping and they weren't buying all their stuff and doing these things because it was a pandemic and then it was almost a recession. So we're in the summertime and clearly we're not in a recession. I think we've got a good handy in that, not a financial advisor. Right. Cool. These guys are the biggest company in the US for cool chemicals and everything you need. Everybody right now is renovating their house because it's summertime which is why Home Depot is in here again and every time we've tapped Home Depot on those levels they've been awesome. Everything was held down for the same reasons that everything else was held down, but the opportunity in here is crazy. So just in December 2021. Now remember, everything that happens over the summer those revenues come out before December right. Yeah, last time I was 580. So we got four minutes we got to rip through it. Home Depot. Home Depot, same thing, different story. Home Depot has always posted their best profits after summer. So if you want to get a good opportunity in Home Depot it's got a ton in it and they're going to you're going to see the best profits come after summer. So there's a good 40 in that lows, exactly the same. The chart is a little bit, little bit more uptrend on it, but again, great opportunity if I was going to position this would be the time. Then we have to get into car rentals. We talked about all our travel stocks last week. We had all our airlines and travel we had Expedia and booking but we didn't talk about was car rentals.  Then we have hurts. This is again hurts is a second top biggest car rental company just coming off a bottom. Again at summertime $17 with a high of 46 can be hurts really. And there's a couple more I'm going to go as fast as I can. Now, we were talking about how great things are for the retail markets. When it comes to summertime retail markets, this is look it up yourself but blooming brands. Crazy I think we have a dividend yet 3.6% dividend. When you do your DD and you see the brands that blooming brands has you'll be like, I see it. This is a similar sectors. I'm just going to go through this. These last ones are all the foods that people go crazy for in the summertime when they're apparently by Chipotle right now it's way too high, but this is an arbitrage for the others. Yep. Here's the charts Darden restaurants. They have tons like they're a huge company covering most of the chain restaurants all through the US. They have a 2.9% dividend and just give it ready to rip. Then we have Domino's Pizza. We've always seen Domino's usually around this time of year. They have the biggest momentum and then they explode. So Domino's Pizza is chilling at the bottom again at 300 all the way to 560 summertime. No one's cooking for the kids. Then we have Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola is one of Warren Buffett's top holdings. 3% dividend, beautiful dip and holding $60 up to 68. But it's a good long timer. What does everyone do in the summertime? They drink beer. So we have to put out tap and we have to watch Bud. The top is pretty high, but is not. So if you're looking for an arbitrage opportunity, they're both beer, Budweiser took a little drama and then people forgot about it and cracked their beer again. Jack in the Box. Huge, huge company all through the US. It's summertime and this is the road food. Cake. You guys all know the Cheesecake Factory, right? Cheesecake Factory is one of the biggest family go-tos that everyone likes to do. It's road trip time. It's been riding off that bottom. I think it's got a handy in it. Wow. Do you see that? Well, hey, I'm writing it down and putting an asterisk beside it. You think it has 100% in it? I'll definitely be looking at it. I think it has a handy in it. Texas Roadhouse I think has already peaked out, but you can watch for a dip on that. But just to show you what the opportunities we have. Papa John's. Papa John's is sitting at its bottom and I think it has a handy in it as well. It's sitting at its long time bottom and it's got a recent high of 140. So 73 to 140. I like Papa John's. I know that's your favorite pizza restaurant. I do like Papa John's pizza. Then we have another one. Now again, these are the summertime go-tos. We have Fat. When you take a look at what's in Fat, Fat is like they have so many fast food joints in there. They're at $6 with a recent high of $16. 8.5% dividend. You're welcome. See that? Yeah. Just a couple more. I'll be really super quick. Yum. Yum Brands is very, very popular. A lot of people are in it. Similar brands to Fat and this one, QSR. So you can see some of these have topped out already and others that I've given you with those great big Fat is my favorite with that 8% dividend. Others have topped out, but there is really nothing separating these guys. I like dividends. 8% dividend is like music to my ears. Right? So yeah. The others I was just going to show you as an arbitrage, but I'm going to save them for next week because we can actually get it next week. 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But today we're in chapter 21. We're going to continue our study here in second Samuel and we've arrived at chapter 21 And we're going to look at verses one and two but go through the several verses here in chapter one today and and I chose to entitle this particular installment what shall I do? And you'll see that in just a moment now at verse one reading verses one and two There was a famine in the days of David for three years year after year and David inquired of the Lord and the Lord answered it is because of Saul His bloodthirsty house because he killed the Gideonites So the king called the Gideonites and spoke to them Now the Gideonites were not of the children of Israel But of the remnant of the Amorites the children of Israel had sworn protection to them But Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah and so Israel is experiencing three years of of famine that famine would have been associated with a drought Because when drought comes food is not produced and therefore this famine is really associated with with with the weather and It is dried up and so as they're experiencing these three years of famine David Obviously knows that God has something to do with this He believes that God may be behind this now the reason that David believes that it's because he knew that he worships the God of Creation David knew that God is not in nature He is not part of nature, but that God created all things and therefore God is the creator of nature There are some people today who believe that God is found in trees and in the wind and in you know All of the natural substance they think that that is God Well, God is not part of that God Created all of that all you need to do is read Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth to see that God is above all things he created all things and He is the one who is sovereign over all things in Psalm 102 verse 25 It reads of old you laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands So David knew that God is the creator and that God would use nature to fulfill his Purposes and he knew that the famine could very well be the result of God bringing judgment on the nation of Israel Because God would use nature when he brought judgment very often In Ezekiel in chapter 14 verse 13 We read when a land that sins against me by persistent unfaithfulness. I will stretch out my hand against it I will cut off its supply of bread send famine on it and cut off man and beast from it So God takes responsibility for those things God is the God over all nature. It's interesting in Matthew's gospel in chapter 24 How Jesus Christ was approached by his disciples who were asking him a question related to his return and The consummation of all things and when Jesus began to give an answer to them concerning the signs of the times That would pertain to his return He spoke concerning a few things. It's found in Matthew 24 verses 6 and 7. He spoke of wars. He said there'll be wars There'll be rumors of wars. He said nation will rise up against nation He goes on and he begins to speak to them and he says there also will be famines He says there are going to be pestilence and and he said there'll be earthquakes in various places earthquakes in various places The earthquakes and the various things that we see today I've been asked do you think that that may have something to do with the signs of the times my answer obviously would be absolutely Jesus Christ made it very clear that there would be these kinds of things just prior to his return So I do believe that indeed we can see the the amount of Things that are happening today and we can say, you know his his day of returning is very soon He's even at the door. There's no doubt about that I heard about a guy and some of you read about him in the newspaper or perhaps saw him on the news saw his story on the news He was in Haiti and he was there for that earthquake and so he survived and he said I'm getting out of here So he went to Chile. I will never travel anywhere with that man. I promise I promise you and Earthquakes is it possible that these are part of God's warning system? Is it possible that the Lord may be allowing these things to take place to awaken us to the reality of the soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ? There's definitely a possibility. You see God does Create all things and God is the God of all creation and therefore David recognizes that this is something that God may very well be behind and and so what does he do? Well, he takes his concern before the Lord he inquires of God about it Because he knew that if it is of the Lord that in other words that God is doing this He knew that he could seek mercy from the Lord in Psalm 33 verses 18 and 19 It says behold the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him on those who hope in his mercy To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine And so David is inquiring of the Lord. What is it? Well as he takes it before the Lord God answers in verse 1 It's because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house because he killed the Gibeonites and So God says that I'm bringing judgment because of Saul killing these people who are referred to here as the Gibeonites So the Gibeonites were in the land prior to the nation of Israel occupying it The Gibeonites were there when Joshua came in some 400 years earlier And when Joshua had entered into the land the Gibeonites who were living in that area as he was taking Jericho and and AI and the various other places the Gibeonites being aware of what was taking place Deceived Joshua and his soldiers. You can see the story. It's found in Joshua chapter 9 And they deceived them what they did is they put on old clothing that was ripped and torn They put on old sandals that were well worn They came with their bags filled with bread that was intentionally let Become stale and moldy and and they came in they said we come from a far country And we've heard of what is taking place here And we wanted to seek peace with you and have a covenant a treaty so that you don't come and destroy us And so as they did that the the people they were speaking to did not realize that these people actually lived in the land That they were going to occupy and so without inquiring of the Lord without praying They made a treaty or a covenant with them and in doing so made a big mistake because they discovered later on that these Gibeonites indeed lived amongst the people that they were Subjugating at that time and and so what happened is Joshua had to make a treaty with them And the treaty was that they would live but they would become their hewers of wood and carriers of water in other Words they became subservient to the Jewish nation and had lived there for some time at the time of Second Samuel that this is referring to four hundred years or so had passed by The covenant was still in effect though God had never negated that covenant and and so what had happened is Saul the first king of Israel had gone and in His zeal had actually attacked them and killed many of them and the Gibeonites are very upset about that And God is upset also because an oath had been made and the oath should be kept In the book of Numbers in chapter 30 verse 2 the Bible says if a man makes a vow to God or Swear as an oath to bind himself by some agreement. He shall not break his word He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth Deuteronomy 511 says you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain for the Lord will not hold him Guiltless who takes his name in vain when you take the name of the Lord in vain. It's it's ascribing to the Lord's name a Weakness it's it's not valued. It has no validity to it. It's not just cussing and using God's name like that It's saying that God's name has no prophet and no power It's saying that that God himself is weak and ineffective and God says listen when you take my name in vain when you say I'm powerless and and Useless I'm not going to hold you guiltless you took your vows in the name of the Lord because the name of the Lord is great And therefore I'm to keep my vow that I have made in his name And so what had happened is a treaty had been made between the Gibeonites and the Jews But now Saul has violated that and that caused God to be upset over that and so what does he do? Well, he says this is what has happened well in verse 2 the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them The Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remnant of the Amorites the children of Israel had sworn protection to them But Saul had sought to kill them in his deal for the children of Israel and Judah Therefore David said to the Gibeonites. What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord? the Gibeonites said to him We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house Nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us? So he said whatever you say I will do for you So he asked the question what shall I do for you and with what shall I make atonement that word atonement is An Old Testament word it speaks of a covering and the Old Testament atonement was made in the sense that sins were covered But they were not completely doubt with until Jesus Christ came died on the cross and was able to Satisfy the righteous demands of his father and so the question here is related to atonement. What can I do to make atonement? How am I going to be able to cover this and how am I going to be able to satisfy you in the New Testament? The word atonement can often be associated with the word propitiation the word propitiation speaks of satisfying anger And so he's saying how can I satisfy this and what can be done in order for you to No longer be so upset and notice how he says what shall I make atonement with what shall I make atonement that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord? When that takes place when forgiveness actually takes place not only Are you able to release the debt? But you also are able to bless the one who was indebted to you In the New Testament forgiveness is portrayed by Jesus as as a debt Even said forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors Because it speaks of somebody owing me something you did me something wrong you wronged me in a way and Therefore I sense that you owe me something you owe me a request to forgive you You have done something to me you offended me and so what I can do is I can take that as a personal debt And so I can say this man owes me and Jesus taught us that we're to to forgive our debtors And and when you actually forgive those who have sinned against you You're really releasing them from the debt that that they owe you you're releasing them of their debt And one of the ways that you can know that you actually have forgiven somebody The way that you can know that is when you can bless them It's when you can actually pray God bless them now some of us pray for those who've heard us, but we have Old Testament prayers God smite them in the name of Jesus break their teeth. Oh Lord You know and some of us are very familiar with praying like that in the name of Jesus We do that sometimes we get upset and Lord in Jesus name may they be raptured immediately, you know We can be upset But the bottom line is is and this is a good way for you to know if you've really released a person is when you can actually Bless them in the name of the Lord when you can actually want to see God bless their lives Something miraculous has happened in your life. You've understood forgiveness We have been forgiven and we with the forgiveness that has been given to us Learned to extend that to those who have need of forgiveness and so David is saying what atonement can be made So that you'll bless the land of Israel Well notice what their response is in verse 4. It says the Gibeonite said to him We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us So they said listen, we're not going to accept monetary payment and we don't want you to be the one to exact justice for us Money doesn't replace lives and not just any death is going to satisfy us And so David as he's listening to him is willing to hear more from them And so in verse 5 they answered the king as For the man who consumed us and plotted against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of Israel Let seven men of his descendants be delivered to us And we will hang them before the Lord in Gibeon of Saul whom the Lord chose and the king said I will give them Now they want notice verse 6 let seven men of his descendants be delivered they want seven men Seven is not the amount of Gibeonites who were killed by Saul Seven is a number that often signifies something and seven signifies completeness or perfection And so what they want is this to completely satisfy them That's why the number seven is used here And they're saying we want to execute these men and when we execute these men justice will be served We will be satisfied this will remove God's anger over Saul's sin and will deal with ours And so that's what we want deliver unto us seven of his sons descendants Deliver them to us. Well in verse 7 The king spared Mephiboshet the son of Jonathan the son of Saul Because of the Lord's oath that was between them between David and Jonathan the son of Saul now you know that David and Jonathan were very close and When Jonathan knew that David was going to be elevated to to be the king He had David swear an oath to him that he would be merciful to his sons and descendants You see that in 1st Samuel chapter 20 verses 14 through 17 So because of that oath that he had sworn to Jonathan David knowing Mephibosheth is Jonathan's son makes a decision to not have him delivered But he has to deliver some so in verse 7 the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul because of the Lord's Oath that was between them between David and Jonathan the son of Saul so the king took Armonie and Mephibosheth the two sons of Rizpa the daughter of Aya whom she bore to Saul and the five sons of Michael the daughter of Saul whom she brought up for Adreal the son of Barzali the mehulathite and He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites and they hanged them on the hill before the Lord So they fell all seven together and were put to death in the days of harvest in the first days in the beginning of barley harvest Now verse 8 Armonie became famous He made suits later on in life And actually that's just a lie Armonie and Mephibosheth Armonie and Mephibosheth were sons of one of Saul's concubines Her name was Rizpa and you see her in 2nd Samuel chapter 3 verse 7 But you have some who are referred to as the five sons of Mekhal Now Mekhal was David's first wife But these five sons were not born to her because it says here they were born to her sister a woman by the name of Marab Marab is the one who had married Adreal But she had died and so she left her sons in her sister Mekhal's care These are all put to death and they're put to death in open humiliation And I want you to see this is i'm going to develop an application in a moment I want you to see it verse 9 It says that they were put to death in the days of harvest in the first days of the beginning of barley harvest That tells us when this happened it happened in the month of april The month of april is the time when pass over takes place So it gives to us when this took place Now as it happens Verse 10 Rizpa the daughter of aya took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock From the beginning of harvest into the late rains poured on them from heaven The beginning of harvest is april the late rains is october She was there for six months She did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day Nor the beasts of the field by night David was told what Rizpa the daughter of aya The concubine of Saul had done And David went and took the bones of Saul the bones of jonathan his son From the men of Yves Gilead who had stolen them from the street of betshan Where the flistings had hung them up after the flistings had struck down Saul in Gilboa So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of jonathan his son from there And they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged They buried the bones of Saul and jonathan his son in the country of benjamin in zealot in the tomb of kish his father And so they performed all that the king commanded And after that god heeded the prayer for the land When david was told of what rizpa had done it moved him to compassion And it stirred him and he gave an honorable burial For these remains to saul and his sons It says that he went and he took the bones of saul and jonathan and all We remember that when saul and his sons had died their bodies were hung on the walls of betshan The men of uh, uh, Yves Gilead had taken the bodies. They cremated them. They buried the bones You see that in 1st samuel 31 Then they took the remains and buried them in an honorable way And so what happens is god heeds the prayer for the land and he ends the famine What i want to do at this point is i want to bring some points of application for us You read this passage is there's something we can learn from it that helps us to understand and know the lord Well first as we look at this It's interesting how this worked out to remove anger to obtain forgiveness and ultimately have a blessing When we see that god is angry god is over angry over sin God is angry because his word has been disregarded and has been violated A second thing we see is atonement Atonement had to be made to bring satisfaction and reconciliation We see that golden silver was not was not desired because only death would satisfy the anger We see that they were hanged on a hill as a spectacle in a humiliating way This took place around the season of Passover And the anger was satisfied on both man's part and god's part And as a result god heeded their prayer for the land the rain came and once again They're being blessed i want to look at this with you at each one of those things very briefly one God was angry because his word had been violated god was angry over sin God was angry over sin because the word of god was being violated god had said You have made an oath in my name, and you didn't keep it And that angered him because they were to take their oaths in his name and honor them And god said i will not hold the one guiltless who takes my name in vain Not honoring god's word is very typical and very common For us who don't know the lord when you don't know the lord prior to coming to christ It doesn't really matter what his word says It doesn't matter that he said thou shalt not to most people It doesn't matter because they don't even really believe that there is a god let alone one who communicates They don't even know how god communicates to us today. I mean you can ask people How does god speak and does he speak and and people have various responses? I was reading this just today The question was asked does god talk to people today and if he does how does he do that? And people on the street were asked this question One person said I think god speaks to us in some way You just got to listen close with all your senses Somebody else says and based on what I was taught as a youngster. Yes god speaks to people But how he does it. I don't know how do you know when he is? He can't be speaking to us all the time if that's evasive so be it Somebody else says well god speaks to us through symbols or signs My grandma died my dad asked If you can hear me if you are there. Can you give me a sign? A little butterfly came and sat where he was He was like that's a sign No, that was a butterfly Some say well god speaks to us through prayer Last night when the packers were losing so bad. I prayed And I felt warmth fill me And then they started to win They lost But it was wonderful how god responded to me And then somebody else says I think god speaks to us in a way from mother nature with weather and everything That's my way of believing in him And finally one said I personally don't believe But I guess he speaks to us through the Hebrew bible I don't believe but if god speaks at all he speaks through his word Now that's somebody who says I don't believe But if he's going to talk to us it's going to come through the bible now I thought that was the most insightful comment of all because that's the absolute truth If god's going to speak to you it's not going to be through a butterfly It's going to be through his word It's not going to be because your favorite team begins to win I've never experienced that i'm a Bruin fan I stopped praying a long time ago for them to win It's through his word And god had given his word to the nation of israel they had violated his word They had made an oath in his name And violated it and it caused god to be angry in leviticus chapter 18 verse 5 He said my statutes and my judgments Which if a man does he shall live by them I am the lord If a man does these things he will live he lives by them because these are These are statutes and and these are judgments from the lord that aren't just things out there that he he uses as some kind of Of a template in life What it is is is a person who lives by them has ordered their life to be pleasing to god And when you walk by faith you want to please the lord And so god is making it clear that you're going to live because you do these things because you actually live by these things Jesus in john 5 24 said i say to you He who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life shall not come into judgment But has passed from death into life So god was angry because his word had been violated Also atonement had to be made and atonement had to be made to bring satisfaction and reconciliation In the new testament you see that that is called propitiation The word propitiation means to satisfy the anger of someone else Jesus christ dying on the cross is the one who satisfied his father's righteous demands God's word says do these things and live but we can't do those things Because i don't have it within me to even desire to do those things if god says this is black I say this is white if god says this is sweet. I say this is sour if god says this is evil I say this is good, and I have an argumentative spirit with the lord It isn't till i am broken by god and i understand what god has done That i could finally have a relationship with him and the way that i can have his anger satisfied at me Is not through righteous works that i've done but trusting into the one who satisfied the anger of his father Because i used to think that god graded on the curve I used to think that god perhaps would would see the good works that i've done and If i live long enough perhaps they'd outweigh all the bad ones at least be close to outweighing them And maybe god would give me some kind of benefit or a break and i'd be able to get into heaven based on trying to be good in my Older portion of my life I looked at the ten commandments because i was taught to to memorize them when i was seven years old And and as i grew older I realized That i had broken one by one nine of those ten commandments The only one that i did not break prior to coming to christ was i had not ever killed anybody Every other one i had violated and as i grew older i thought well perhaps the lord will give me Break and i could get in based on the fact that i you know i at least Didn't kill anybody and that's kind of where my heart was I didn't realize that god's standard was perfection and there was only one who could meet that standard And that's jesus christ and when jesus christ met the standard of his father That satisfied the anger of his father who demanded a perfect sacrifice Notice the third thing here golden silver was not enough They didn't want gold and they didn't want silver because redemption is costly We were redeemed but not by gold and not by silver Ephesians one verse seven says in him we have redemption through his blood The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grapes It's interesting how it speaks of these these men being hanged on a hill That word hanged means literally impaled What would normally happen is they would be put to death first and then their bodies would be placed on On a stake as an open Kind of exhibit to those who would walk by and see them and know them to have been people who had broken the law And it was a curse to be placed on this on on a tree like that And so they were placed on a hill And they were impaled In open and so the public could see and they were humiliated That's what happened to jesus when he was placed on the cross On a hill and people came by and they wagged their heads and spoke against him And so we see that god's righteous demands were met by jesus christ who suffered an open humiliating death This took place Right around the season of Passover And according to first carinthians 5 or 7 christ our Passover was sacrificed for us And when it happened god's anger was satisfied In first john 4 10 it says in this is love not that we loved god but that he loved us And sent his son to be the propitiation For our sins Now god hears the prayer and notice that in verse 14 he heeded the prayer for the land What he did is he brought rain and once again Crops were able to be Raised and the people were able to eat In the old testament when the children of israel were in egypt in bondage God was speaking to them and he said i've got a land i'm going to give to you You're going to enter into the land it has houses you never built it has crops you never planted And i'm going to give you these things he said now you're going to be coming out of egypt Egypt has the nile river It's a main water source there and is revered by the egyptians as a matter of fact They had a nile river god that they worshiped because they recognized the water that came from the nile As being so important for their survival. They actually worshiped it God says to the children of israel i'm taking you from egypt Where you have relied on the water of that river To a place that doesn't have a river like that when you go into the nation of israel they have the jordan river the jordan river is so So it's not a very large river at all. There are places you can actually jump across it Or it's not hard to get across it because it's that small So he said you're not going to be surviving on the water that comes from the jordan He says what you will survive on is the rain the early rain and the latter rain The early rain and latter rain were the rains that came so that their crops could be planted irrigated and come to fruit And it was a symbol of god's provision. He said when I bring the early and bring the latter rains It's a symbol that I am blessing you later on jesus christ spoke of god and his goodness when he said that God causes his rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike What he was saying is god is gracious and provides because I might be a Farmer who who trusts the lord? I have a relationship with god I rely on that rain for my crops But my next door neighbor doesn't believe in god at all The rain doesn't stop at the border of his land and mine only falling on mine and not falling on his Jesus said look at I caused the rain god causes the rain My father brings the rain on both the just and the unjust alike and we see that as a symbol of the grace of god He provides for them and so this rain is a symbol of the grace of god And so when the famine is broken it's because god is bringing the rain again because god has been satisfied and god is a god who blesses Last week we had as you know ryan and and sonny here and And they're very special to us and we love them very much and Ryan I was talking to ryan on friday this friday He was in texas And he's losing his voice He said i'm talking so much That i'm losing my voice And I said i hope that happens to your dad. No, he said i'm talking so much that i'm losing my voice And he said but the lord is doing some great things and I said where are you now? He says i'm in austin He says i was in austin and i'm on my way to houston He says you know what happened last night He said i was in austin and we were invited By a church. He says i don't know the church. He said I think they call it an emergent church. He says i don't know what that is He says but They're kind of touchy feely. I said yeah, and he goes I was there He said and and they had invited us and told us they have a youth group of about a hundred kids Can we come and speak to them? And he said so we did when we arrived there He said there were a thousand kids there We gave our testimony and shared with them and over 700 of them came forward to give their hearts to jesus christ And and yeah, I think that's worthy of applause. Absolutely. Absolutely We heard the testimony just last week of a young man who had run from god His life was going down Downhill so fast God has a way of when his when his demands are met in the sense Jesus did that when we simply say lord jesus christ look at what you did I believe god will take that famine and that dryness from our life and he blesses us and that's what happened here That's what we are seeing taking place in this young man ryan and sonny and the others who are finally saying I'm tired of playing i want to be real I'm tired of being somebody who is only really extreme in in the evil things of the world Why can't I be extreme for jesus christ and what we're seeing is god move in that We're seeing god because god is a blessing god All he requires of me to do is to look at the son jesus christ because I realize that jesus is the one Who who has has forgiven me of my sins and just to receive from him Paul in romans chapter 8 verse 32 said this he who did not spare his own son But delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things When you gave your heart to christ god washed away all of your sin by the blood of christ Jesus was openly lifted up satisfied the demands of his father and as he died there in humiliation in an open fashion God's wrath was satisfied as god's wrath was satisfied. I as a believer now cast my cares on him Jesus said if i'm lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself and what happened is I heard the gospel I came to christ by life was changed and now it's blessed because of him That's how it works and god's anger was satisfied now.  I am a sinner Forgive me for jesus' sake And god says I do Because you confessed that word confessed simply means to agree. It's a greek word homo lego. It means to say the same thing I have confessed my sin god I'm a sinner because all have sin and fall short of the glory of god And I agree with you that the demand for justice I ought to be perishing But you you love so much you gave your son so that I wouldn't perish but that I'd have everlasting life So I do believe in him. I trust in him and as a result of that My life has been transformed Absolutely and god blesses because that's how he does