efore exploration of subject 15 weeks six days two hours incident incident 480 15 subject d39 147 description subject describes being prepared to enter observation chamber in anticipation of scp 480 fluctuation event Each recurrence consists of waiting for a length of time for scp 480 to encompass test subject with research staff communicating to test subject that scp 480 event is imminent time lengths for each recurrence estimated at 5 minutes 45 minutes 3 hours and 2 days before communication ceases presumption is that each recurrence consisted of a longer waiting time prior to perceived scp 480 event length of time before exploration of subject 12 weeks 5 days 21 hours incident incident 480 19 subject researcher more description unknown length of time before exploration of subject 31 weeks 6 days 17 hours item number scp 475 object class safe special containment procedures scp 475 is to be kept in a watertight containment locker and storage unit 45c of site 36 all testing with para religions requires permission from the site director to prevent religious groups of interest from learning of the object's existence knowledge of scp 475 is to follow level 3 info security protocol description scp 475 is an ornate sculpture of soap depicting an unidentified pope inscribed at the base of the statue is the phrase cleanliness is next to godliness analysis reveals the object to be composed of long chain saturated fatty acids ch3 minus ch2n totaling 89.7% of its mass with the remaining 10.3% corresponding to attached as the hydrophilic head it is believed that the gives scp 475 its unique properties but all attempts to recreate this compound have failed when scp 475 comes into contact with water and is applied to the skin all accumulated foreign contaminants are removed tested materials include dead skin cells perspiration bodily parasites mold dirt and detergents post test examinations have shown that 100% of foreign contaminants are removed a statistical anomaly this process only occurs when used on human skin all attempts so far to use scp 475 on non-humans have failed to produce its anomalous effects testing on anomalous animals such as scp 1845 or scp 2050 is pending approval unlike typical soaps the usage of scp 475 does not damage it scp 475 secondary anomalous effects manifest when it is used on a professing member of an organized religion subjects universally report greater mental clarity showing greater adherence to church doctrine and rate at least 15 centiakiva more on the brand and spencer piety scale these effects increase in intensity the longer the subject uses the object culminating in local reality changes signified by all bodies of water within a five meter radius turning into an equivalent liquid that is considered holy in the subject's religion examples of these changes can be found in test log 475 addendum scp 475 came under foundation containment when insubordinate elements of the horizon initiative relinquished control of it these elements cited a desire to maintain unity and prevent infighting as to why the object could not be kept scp 475 was allegedly recovered from the residents of the catholic cardinal who was found deceased from injuries consistent with upside down crucifixion the following materials were also provided access memoirs of access granted i write this document to preserve the personal revelation invested in me over these past years i have grappled with my faith having committed it to paper the idea seems absurd i a leader of the faith i whose vote has determined the successor of peter i who has undeniable proof of god's glory the initiative for all of its missteps and blasphemy has provided undeniable proof of god's glory proof that has to be withheld from the world due to inscrutable agreements with occult forces who do not have salvation in mind despite this undeniable proof i wrestled with fears that god is not almighty how can a god so glorious and almighty stand by as false idols exert their forces over man by the grace of god my fears have been quelled the night before i beheld an apparition of mary to try to capture the glory of it would be futile but it is an experience too magnificent to withhold we were out at sea below the waves i could see the church penitent awaiting purification further below that deep beneath there was creation all around us were the gilded statues of saints each linked to a church far below us the virgin mother herself was resplendent situated atop a pedestal the pedestal carried by a many-winged creature of fire in her right arm she held the savior in her left a block of marble she confided in me told me of my purpose encased in the marble were the keys of heaven the church's magisterium itself the authority to commune with saints i was to take it free the keys and cleanse the church militant then all will be made clear when i woke up there was a block of soap on my nightstand queer but i do not question the machinations of god every day since that night has been hazy i have worked with a fervor to accomplish this mission even to this moment i have my doubts but i am human it is in my nature to doubt if there is one thing i can be certain of it is that i am a cog in god's plan addendum scp 475 approved for extensive testing with para religions test log 475 note due to the scarcity of para religion adherence under foundation control scp has been approved to create suitable test subjects test subjects religion roman catholicism duration three minutes results water transmuted into a mixture of olive oil and balsam consistent with the chrysalm oil employed in various catholic rituals stigmata manifested in subjects hands notes subject was heard reciting confete or as anomalous effects to place the stigmata healed over the course of the next three days test subjects religion roman catholicism said a vacant list duration five minutes results water transmuted into mixture of olive oil and balsam consistent with the chrysalm oil employed in various catholic rituals no overt anomalous effects observed notes post test interview indicated that the subject accepted the current pope as rightful pontifex maximus test subjects religion pentacostal duration 11 minutes result water transmuted into pasteurized grape juice subject began exhibiting glossolalia subject displayed xeno glossy in the post test interview notes subject made the following requests access to site 36 is sick bay access to any demonic entities housed on site a pet snake requests denied test subjects religion acidic judaism duration 60 minutes results testing was aborted after failure to produce anomalous results subject vehemently denied any change in behavior or mindset notes cant counters measured a percent increase in ambient hume levels further testing warranted test subjects religion broken church duration 13 minutes results water transmuted into machine oil subject began manifesting symptoms of scp 217 infection notes subject was placed under quarantine within 48 hours the scp 217 infection present in its system had been rendered inert subject transferred to site 234 for further study test subjects religion cogwork orthodox duration 14 minutes results water transmuted into machine oil subject proceeded to transform into metallic ovoid object bearing numerous markings on the surface notes resultant object pending classification as an instance of scp 1564 test subjects religion Maxwellism duration 15 minutes results water transmuted into thermal adhesive testing terminated as subject began complaining about a splitting headache analysis indicates that part of subjects brain had been replaced with cybernetics inconsistent with standard Maxwellist augments notes subject claims to have experienced a continuation of the signal a hallucinatory vision all Maxwellists experience after undergoing implantation of their first augments in this vision data expunged test subjects religion neo sarcasm duration 30 minutes results water transmuted into blood subject began morphing into an instance of sk biotype testing suspended and subjects sedated upon resumption subject calcified into a roughly ellipsoidal object and began emitting thermal radiation in the microwave range notes further testing with neo sarkic cult suspended in order to prevent apotheosis events subject currently in secondary storage at site 10 test subjects religion children of the scarlet king duration 45 minutes results water transmuted into blood subject underwent a series of transformations turning into progressively more advanced in the divide caste system variants of the dv biotype transformations culminated with the subject becoming a colossal squid misani chotuthis amiltoni and expiring notes genetic testing indicates that the blood is from the common sperm whale phycidermacrocephalus test subjects religion fifth ism duration 25 minutes results water transmuted into 100 specimens of the sub phylum asterozoa subject melted into candle wax notes suspected connections to scp 1523 test subjects religion church of the second height of duration 30 minutes results water transmuted into blood subjects forehead developed pigmentation in the shape of a seven pointed star subject displays previously unknown knowledge of high totem rituals and the language of or totem notes analysis indicates that the blood is from the common seven arm octopus alephron atlanticus test subjects religion children of the torch duration 17 minutes results water transmuted into an aqueous flame similar to those created by scp 2814 subject and melted into a waxy substance yet remained modal and cognizant notes subject expired after 24 hours remains stored on site 23 test subjects religion australian church of australia duration one minute results data expunged note further testing with the australian church of australia requires unanimous approval from the o5 council research into preventing a u-class end of the world scenarios deemed a class 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Chapter three, this message is part four of the series, Israel, Iran, and the Rising Storm. This is the final part of it, although I want you to be aware of that this coming week, if you don't follow us on our social media platforms, they are at the Radiant City. So the Radiant City, you can jump on Instagram, Facebook, and elsewhere. And then mine is Lee Cummings. So if you just look that up as well, this next week, I'm going to be answering some questions about Bible prophecy and this series because we've had a lot of questions. And so now that we're kind of bringing it in for a landing, I wanna be able to answer some questions, but I will warn you, I can't promise that some of these same themes aren't gonna bleed into the next series because I really feel like this is important stuff for us to gain a grasp of and to understand, especially in the days in which we're living in. But I've entitled this installment of this series, Responding to the Storm. Responding to the storm. How should we respond to everything that we know, that the Bible tells us about the days in which we're living in, that we're witnessing right before our eyes, and that we anticipate and know as believers these things that are gonna come into our future. How do we prepare? How do we respond? So I'm gonna begin by reading the words from 2 Peter chapter three, beginning in verse number nine. Peter the apostle said, "'The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise "'as some count slowness, "'but is patient toward you, "'not wishing that any should perish "'but that all should reach repentance. "'But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, "'and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, "'and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, "'and the earth and the works that are done on it "'will be exposed.'" Verse 11, "'Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, "'what sort of people ought you to be "'in lives of holiness and godliness? "'Waiting for and hastening "'the coming of the day of God "'because of which the heavens will be set on fire "'and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies "'will melt as they burn. "'But according to his promise, "'we are waiting for the new heavens "'and the new earth in which righteousness dwells.'" This last week I was in Dallas for a couple of days, and I had the privilege of being invited to record some programs on Daystar Network. For those of you who are familiar with Daystar, it's a Christian television station. And I was on a panel with several other leaders talking about Israel, the war in Gaza, Bible prophecy, where things are going. And I was sitting in the green room with a couple of these leaders, and one of them happened to be a well-known leader in the Messianic communities, a believer in Yeshua. He comes from a Jewish family, he's very well known. And we were talking about anti-Semitism and Jew hatred that we have witnessed since October the 7th that has really demonstrated all over the globe. And he made a statement, he says, "'I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. "'I can't imagine how I could ever get worse.'" And I mentioned that because that was on Tuesday, and since Tuesday, I've seen it get worse. Let me explain to you. In 1938 in Germany, November the 9th and the 10th to be exact, something that became known as crystal knocked or the night of broken glass occurred under Hitler's sway and under the Third Reich's regime. On one night in Germany, Jewish homes, hospitals and schools all across Germany and Austria were ransacked, vandalized and destroyed. 267 synagogues were destroyed in one night. 7,000 Jewish businesses were shut down and destroyed in Germany in one night. 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up, arrested, and shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again in one night. 90 Jews were murdered in their homes that night with many more committing suicide because of despair and hopelessness and fear over what was taking place in Germany. And this all happened under the supervision of the German people and even the German government. Crystal knocked became the precursor and the lead up to the final solution in which 6.5 million, I want that to sink in, 6.5 million, literally 50% of the Jewish population in Europe was murdered in a window of four years. And you say, well, that's awful. Well, you're right. Crystal knock November the 10th was being commemorated this last week. And on Friday, November the 10th, 2023, while a group of Jewish citizens of the United States and some Holocaust survivors were commemorating this day at their synagogue in Florida, protestors dressed in Hamas gear, wearing Palestinian war scarves, gathered across the street from the synagogue to intimidate these Jewish people. And we're literally chanting and crying out, we wish we were in Gaza so that we could kill you ourselves. You think, well, that's an isolated incident. No, on the anniversary, the 85th anniversary of Crystal knock in London, the largest pro Hamas and Palestinian protest in the UK's history, 600,000 Muslims, pro Hamas, Palestinians, as well as sympathizers gathered on London Bridge chanting from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free. And then shifted over to synagogues where they set off smoke bombs in front of synagogues where people were commemorating and praying, holding up signs that had an intertwined swastika with a star of David and assaulted people, one individual saying this face to face to a Jewish person who was out there trying to reason with them. He said this, quote, Hitler knew how to deal with you people. In New York City, on the anniversary of Crystal knocked. On November 10th, protesters gathered once again in Times Square, here in our nation's largest city and took down American flags and replaced them with Palestinian flags. In our same city, on the same day, the United Nations, the same United Nations, which by the way is a joke, but the United Nations that after October 7th, the bloodiest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust could not muster two thirds of a majority of a vote to condemn the attacks of Hamas against innocent civilians in Israel. The very same UN on the anniversary, the 85th anniversary of this dark day in Germany wrote out eight resolutions condemning the nation of Israel. On November the 11th, just yesterday and the day before because of time zones in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 22 of the Arab League nations gathered together along with 30 other primarily Muslim nations to condemn Israel and to discuss actions that could be taken to cut off Israel from the rest of the world. And this picture that we have are the Arab nations that gather together. Here's what's eerie about this picture. Is every single one of the leaders represented in this picture also represent the individual nations listed in Ezekiel's prophecy in Ezekiel chapter 38 when it prophesies that all the nations of the surrounding areas will one day under the leadership of Gog of Magog will march into Israel from the north and to cities that are unwalled and people that are not expecting it and will invade that country as a confederation of the anti-Christ armies. All of those nations listed written 2,500 years ago are represented in this picture. One of those leaders, the Turkish president from Turkey the former Ottoman Islamic Caliphate said this at the meeting. He said, quote, what is urgent in Gaza is not pauses for a few hours rather we need a permanent ceasefire he added. We cannot put Hamas resistors defending their homeland in the same category as the Israeli occupiers. In other words, Hamas is innocent, Israel is guilty. And then lastly, there's the statement of the put this picture up of the Iran diplomat, the Iranian diplomat, Iranian foreign minister threatens Israel and says, quote, expansion of the scope of the war has now become inevitable. We are in America used to two week news cycles and then we get bored with something as if world events are a Netflix special that we've watched and now have taken out of our queue and we wanna move on to something else. Can I just tell you that we might wanna move on but can I just tell you that the surrounding nations have not decided to move on because they have not accomplished their goal. They're not looking for a two state solution. They're looking for a final solution. They're looking for the expulsion and the extermination of the Jewish nation. There's not room for a Jewish nation in the land because the problem is not geopolitical. The problem is spiritual and it is Jew hatred. It is the spirit of anti-Semitism. 2023 is starting to look a lot like a playback of 1938. And we need to be fully aware of it that the problem is no longer just a German problem. It's now a global problem. And my question is, and I'm speaking to the church of America, not just radiant church but I'm speaking to pastors, speaking to Christians across this nation and I'm asking this question, where are the Bonhoeffers in this generation? Where are the Dietrich Bonhoeffers? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor, a leader, a theologian in Hitler's Third Reich Germany who left Germany and came to the United States to teach but then moved back to Germany in the heat of all the persecution of the Jewish people to awaken the church, the confessing church in Germany to what was going on, calling them, you have to speak up. You have to take a stand of what is happening. Silence is complicity. We cannot be silent. We must stand. And my question is, where are the Bonhoeffers? Where is the confessing church in America? Where are those leaders who will courageously stand up and defend the Jewish people in the face of calls for their removal from their ancestral and covenantal homelands and their ultimate extermination? Where are those leaders who will not be satisfied with during church as usual, who will resist the spirit of a Haman that is stoking the fury of both Herod, Nero, Hitler and once again, flooding now in the streets of not just Germany but Western civilization and all across America and on social media and on TikTok and taking captive an entire generation whose mind has been captivated by nothing but ancient hatred. The only solution for an ancient hatred is the love of the ancient of days. And that's what we need and that's not gonna happen unless God raises up Bonhoeffers in our day in our generation. Where are those who will stand up and where are those pastors who will not ignore the rising storm? I'm speaking to pastors across America and I'm saying pastors, you have to teach the Bible. You cannot avoid prophecy. You cannot avoid God's love for the Jewish people. What they taught you in seminary when they said the church replaced Israel was a demonic lie. God's promises are yes and amen. He is faithful and the gifts and the callings of God are without reproach. It's time for you to go back to the foundations and to preach the Bible. Many pastors have kept quiet and refused to speak out against what is happening because they're intimidated. It's because they're afraid. It's because they've been threatened. It's because the rabid demonic spirit that is instigating this persecution of the Jews all around the world doesn't necessarily apply to us because we've got Gentile skin on. But I remind you of a individual in Germany who refused to speak out until it was too late. His name was Martin Niemoller. He's the one who famously said that first they came for the socialists but I did not speak out because I'm not a socialist. And then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I am not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I'm not a Jew. And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me. He died in a Nazi concentration camp and I'm speaking to the church of America and I'm speaking to Gentiles. I'm speaking to people who may think that this is far removed from you. I'm not a trade unionist. I'm not Jewish. I'm not living in Israel. Gaza is not my neighbor. How does this apply to me? I want to just speak to the body of Christ and say, church, we are living in an Esther moment. We are living in an Esther 4.13 and 14 moment. And if you don't know what that moment was, it was a moment when Mordecai, the Jew, came to Esther who had become the queen of the Persian empire, modern day Iran. And he said, it's time for you Esther to put it all out on the line and to risk your life to have an audience before the king to serve, to save the Jews from extermination under the spirit of Haman. And Esther realized the price that it would cost. And Mordecai said to her, this is your moment if you refuse to do this, relief and deliverance will come from another source. God will deliver his people. But if you don't do it, don't you dare think that you are going to be safe from the persecution that comes because you dwell in a king's cabinet room. He said, perhaps Esther, you have been brought into the kingdom of God for such a time as this. And I want to say to us, Radiant Church, and I want to say to the church of America of which we are a part of, this is an Esther moment that we are in. It is a pivotal moment. It is a moment for us to pray. It is a moment for us to stand and to support the Jewish people and the nation of Israel at this particular time. God's going to deliver his people. God is going to fulfill every promise that he has made. But I want you to know it is no accident that you are alive on planet earth right now because God has mandated and God has ordained you to be alive to be a part of what he is doing at the end of the age. And it requires us to awaken and seize this moment. We have been brought into the kingdom of God for such a time as this. And it begs the question, how then shall we live? If all of this is true, how then shall we live? What difference should this make? You know, one of the criticisms that I have had over the years of Bible prophecy teachers. And I love studying Bible prophecy. I've not probably taught on it over the 27 years of pastoring this church near as much as I should have. But it's been an area of study for me for many, many, many years. But one of the criticism I've had of many Bible teachers is that as we teach it, there's a tendency for people to shift into an escapist mentality instead of an engagement mentality. It's like we get into this mentality that, oh, Jesus is coming, so let's just hunker down and wait for the rapture and we're out of here. Well, many people may be surprised when the rapture doesn't happen when you think it's going to. And you find yourself experiencing the rising storm, not just on the pages of the latest and the greatest Bible prophecy book, but it's actually happening in your life. And I think God wants us to, Jesus in reference to his coming, he said, when the Son of Man returns to the earth, will he find faith? In other words, God doesn't want us hunkered down. Jesus said, do business, occupy until I come. In other words, we don't know the day or the hour. We don't know when Jesus is coming. I believe we are quickly accelerating and drawing near to that day. But even if it doesn't, our mandate is not to pull back, it's to engage and it's to make sure that our hearts are filled with faith. How then shall we live? Peter that we just read, an apostle, a Jewish apostle, of a Jewish Messiah who was sent into the nations of the world and Peter would have his life taken from him in Rome by the Roman emperor by crucifying him upside down for the name of Jesus. Writes two Christians in the midst of one of the most difficult seasons of the church. These words that we just read, but he starts by asking in verse number 11, since all of these things are gonna be dissolved. In other words, all of these things, we know that the world that we're in is temporal, we know that we're speeding towards the return of the Lord, the King, and that he's gonna make all things that are wrong right, he's gonna bring his kingdom. What sort of people ought we to be? That's an amazing question for us this morning. What kind of people should we be as the church? What kind of lives should we live? In other words, how should we respond to what we know? This is key and this is what I feel the Lord is speaking to the church. You know, there are sometimes when you preach a message and it's for the fold, it's for the sheep that God has given to you and there are other times where God will, as a preacher, God will anoint you or God will call you to speak something that's broader than that. And I believe that there's a prophetic mantle that God is releasing right now to awaken the church to the hour in which we are living in. That when we see everything shaken, we would be stirred. We would be stirred with zeal and we will ask the question, what kind of life should I be living? This isn't just entertainment. This isn't the latest Marvel movie. This is reality. The kingdom of God is coming. Birth pangs are shaking the planet. The spirit of Antichrist is at work and the spirit of God is at work. Which side of this line do I wanna live my life on? Do I wanna fall under a Luke 21 spirit of dissipation and drunkenness by the spirit of this age?  I don't wanna be drunk on the wine of this present age.   This is what Jesus says in Mark chapter 13. Verse 32 through 30, 70 says, but of that day and hour no one knows not even angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. And listen, take heed, watch and pray. That's what Jesus said, take heed, watch and pray for you do not know when the time is. It's like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to each his own work. And he commanded the doorkeeper to watch. That's the church to watch. And then he says in verse 35, watch therefore for you do not know when the master of the house is coming in the evening at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster in the morning. Last coming suddenly, he finds you sleeping.  When Peter says, how should we therefore live or what kind of lives should we live? There's three things I want you to consider this morning of how we should respond to what is happening on the face of the earth. I wanna reiterate to you that every single time you see on the news what's happening in Israel, I want you to know it's way more than political, it's spiritual. And when you see protests and marchers in the streets and hatred and anger on their faces, I want you to be reminded that there is a spiritual foundation underlying all of it. We don't wrestle with flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places. If you've ever wanted to see evidence of a spiritual battle, just look at what is taking place. And then respond by asking yourself, these three things. Number one, am I examining myself and the way that I'm living? This is what it means to respond. We must examine the way we're living our lives. This is what Jesus means when he says, take heed, watch and pray. It literally, that phrase, take heed, it means run, it's the equivalent of like running an x-ray over yourself. When the Bible says examine yourself of whether you're in the faith, this is what it means. Jesus is saying, take heed to yourself, watch and live a lifestyle of devotion and prayer. Peter says it's living lives that are rooted in holiness and godliness. What does holiness mean? Well, holiness means to be set apart, dedicated to the service of God. Godliness means devotion and the aim and the direction of our lives. Church, I want you to know this is not a time for your relationship with God to be joint custody. We don't need a part-time heavenly father and we don't need a Sunday savior. We need 100% absolute surrender and total devotion to the Lord. Even more so now as we see his arrival and his soon coming. We need to be set apart, dedicated to the service of God, not demanding that God is set apart to the service of us. We need to be examining our lives. Like, am I living in such a way that if Jesus came today, I would be joyful to stand before him. I'm not talking about a works-based salvation. I'm not talking about you earning your way to heaven. I'm talking about rewards and I'm talking about us fulfilling the call and the purpose on our lives. One of the greatest lies in the American dream is that Jesus saved you so you could just live your life and we treat this life like an airport terminal and we know that our flight is in three, four hours and so we're just kind of shopping around the airport, wasting time, scrolling on our devices, waiting for that departure. And we just think that whatever we do, we're saved and we're gonna go to heaven someday and right now it doesn't matter what we do with our lives. That's a lie of the enemy. We are called to live our lives in holiness and godliness. In other words, God examine me and see if there's any wicked way on the inside of me. The things, the weight and the hindrances that I used to tolerate and put up with, I need to bring to the foot of the cross and lay it down. Say, Jesus, no more. Because I know that that thing that starts in a seed is gonna grow into a weed and it's gonna culminate in a deed and I'm gonna end up far away from you. It's like one degree of separation can move me into a place that I don't wanna go, God. I wanna live a life of holiness. Church, I'm watching leaders that I've loved and respected, many leaders over the course of the last few years are falling away and their sin is being exposed. I would rather fall on the rock and receive mercy than to have the rock of judgment fall on me and be ground into dust. It's time for us to live right before God because everything that's done in darkness is going to be exposed by the light. And I'm not saying that, like, man, I'm throwing stones, I want you to know in humility, I just wanna love God and finish strong. And I know that the only way for any of us, pastor, parishioner, any individual to do that is gonna require us to have humility before God and to actually take heed to ourselves because if we won't take heed to ourselves, the enemy will deceive us. Listen, it's right here in Luke 21. Jesus says in Luke 21, 24, but watch yourselves lest you and your hearts get weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of this life. And that day comes upon you suddenly like a trap. Peter's telling us, look, this is what you, as we see the end of the age approaching.  I've had it on social media. I've had so much fun on social media recently. I've been called everything. I've been ridiculed and I've actually enjoyed it because Jesus said, blessed are you when men speak evil of you. I'm going, come on, baby, just keep adding it up. Just keep adding it up. I can just chiching, chiching, chiching, chiching. I'm like, you countin' that, Jesus? He's like, oh yeah, bigot, chiching. Idiot, chiching, dumb, chiching. I'm just like, hmm, glory. But I'm just like scoffers. So many people who are like, yeah, you're, where's this coming? Where's this coming? It starts by saying that God is slow and he's patient. Why? Because he doesn't want anyone to perish. The world oughta be glad I'm not God because I would have come back a long time ago and flaming vengeance. I'm like, God, how loving are you that you will allow the world to do what they do and shake their fist in your face? And yet God's like, it's because I love him. It's because I don't want them to be separated from me for eternity. That's sobering to us to say, God, I don't want to be deluded. I don't want the cares of this life that are temporal, that are dissolving, that are passing away. I don't want those things to dominate me. I want to be dominated by a kingdom perspective which leads to number two. It's not only examining the way that we're living but what are we waiting for? Waiting, I'm not talking like we're on pause. I'm talking about what are we looking for? What is the end goal? What's the aim of our life? So many people are looking for a utopia, the world to get better, waiting on the world to change because we believe that human beings are essentially just good and if we got law enforcement or we got this policy or we got these group of people out of the way, man, we could just build ourselves a good old tower of babble with our name on it and make a name for ourselves and we could build it up into the heavens in a utopian society. But that's never gonna happen. Some of us are waiting on getting to the top of the success letter where our name is in lights and our 401k is fully funded and divested and we become successful and we have everything that we want. Some of us are waiting on our big break to become famous, to have enough followers, to have our song sung, to have our sermons listened to, to have our artwork sold to whatever the case might be. What are we waiting on? We're waiting for our relationship that's gonna make us happy, that's gonna satisfy. We're waiting on our soulmate. We're waiting on all these things but yet the Bible says, no, I want you to wait urgently anticipating the day of the Lord. Listen to these words in Titus chapter two. It says, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled upright and godly lives in this present age, waiting for, here it is, waiting for the blessed hope and the appearing and the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Who gave himself to redeem us from the lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Church, we have to live our lives in such a way that we are anticipating and living our lives with a sense of urgency that Jesus is returning.     And then we have this mentality, I've had so many people say, well, you know what, I just wanna live in the world. I wanna see what the world has to offer. And then when I get old and I'm like 90 years old, then I'm gonna get it right with God. Can I just tell you there is no such thing as premeditated repentance. You don't get to premeditate and set a reminder on your calendar for 2057, get right with God today.  We need to live our lives today waiting for the return of the Lord in number three, hastening the day of the Lord. This is how we respond, hastening the day of the Lord. It's controversial because people will say, do you really believe that you can hasten? What does it mean to hasten? It means hurry up, speed up. And verse 12 says waiting for and hastening the coming of the Lord. I looked up the Greek word for hasten and it means hasten, which means, let me give this to you. There are certain things you and I can do by the way we live our lives that actually speeds up and accelerates the return of Jesus. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for him to come back. I'm longing for his return. Oh, what a good, what a glorious day that's gonna be when we see him. Can you imagine the Bible says when he comes back, he's coming back from fiery judgment on his enemies, but he's coming to be glorified in those who are waiting and looking for him. Man, when he comes back, drop everything. Caught up in the air, glorified, meet him, return to the earth as an army to reign and to rule with him. Somebody said, do you believe in pre, mid, and post? I'm like, well, I gotta, I believe it's at the end, but I'll tell you what, I'm not gonna argue if he comes early. I'm not pulling out my prophecy chart going, you're not supposed to be back yet. No, when he cracks that eastern sky, I'm meeting him in the air. But there are certain things that we, as the church, can do to hasten the return of the Lord because there are certain things that have to happen before Jesus comes back. What are those things? Number one is the Great Commission will be fulfilled before Jesus returns. Matthew 24, verse 14, Jesus himself said, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached to the whole world, to every ethnic group, and then the end will come. So what does that mean? It means when Jesus comes, there will not be one person without excuse because every small people group, every language on every continent and every nation will have a witness for the gospel. Today, there are 3.2 billion people that do not have access to the gospel out of 8 billion. We are a unique generation. We are the first generation in history that has two things. We're the first generation in history to see prophecy fulfilled before our eyes, Israel become a nation in 1948, Jerusalem come under their control in 1967, and we begin to see God bringing the dispersion back from the North, South, East and West, back into the land. That's never happened. It's always been anticipated. We're witnessing it in our day, but we're also the same generation that has the capability and the technology and travel and resources to actually fulfill the Great Commission in one generation. Think about that. We could see it happen in our day. Can you imagine if we got a notification that says Great Commission fulfilled? It's going to happen in our generation, but it's not gonna happen if we don't engage with it. That's why we do the big give. We're not doing it because we're a charitable organization. We're doing it because we are the body of Jesus, the carriers of the good news, ambassadors for Christ, who've been given not a Great Commission, but only one commission by our Lord and Savior to do until He comes, which is to go into all the world and to preach the gospel to the Jew first and then to everybody else until every single person has heard and then the end will come. How do we speed up His return? We get the job done. Church, it's time for us to get the job done. Number two, what else has to happen? How can we hasten the day? We as the church come into a state of maturity. Ephesians chapter four says, He's giving apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip the saints to do the work of the ministry until we come into a mature man and in the fullness of the stature of who Christ is. In other words, Jesus is coming back for a mature church, a mature church that's looking for Him that we're anticipating and longing for Him. And then number three, here's how we hasten the day of the Lord. These things have to happen. The Jewish people are going to receive their Messiah. I'm gonna read this and I preached a message last year on this, but Romans chapter 11, Paul's very clear, very explicit. He says, so I ask you, did they Israel? Did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means, rather, through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles. So as to make Israel jealous, now if their trespass means riches for the world and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean? How many of you know that means they're getting included back in? Verse 13, it says, now I'm speaking to you as Gentiles. And then verse 15 says, for if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean? Accept life back from the dead. And then jump down to verse 25. It says, lest you be wise in your own sight, I don't want you to be unaware of this mystery. What's the mystery? A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles. That's us, has come in and in this way all of Israel shall be saved. So what does that mean? You and I are the Gentiles. God's taken the gospel to the nations of the world. That's us. I'm 3% Jewish, but 97% Gentile.  But he says that this gospel is gonna go to all the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And then it says, and then all of Israel's gonna be saved, they're gonna be included back in. Just as Jesus was dead for three days and rose again, just as God has restored the nation of Israel after 2,000 years, brought them back into the land, after 2,000 years, the Jewish people are going to have their eyes opened during the storm of the tribulation to see their Messiah. And there is gonna be an unprecedented revival of the Jewish people to believe in Yeshua and be included back into the people of God. And it's gonna happen at the end of the age. And I believe we will see it with our very own eyes. And we have a part to play in it, to pray for it. And as Paul says, to provoke them under jealousy, how do we provoke them under jealousy? Sadly enough, during church history, the Christian church persecuted the Jewish people just like we're seeing all over the face of the world right now. And there's so many of our dear Jewish friends and family that believe, that to believe in Yeshua as Messiah means to side with those who persecuted our people. And I wanna look at the camera. I wanna say to every Jewish person, we're sorry, forgive us, we love you and we're praying for you. And we want to do whatever it takes to see you receive the love and the gift that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has given when he sent his son into the earth to not just be our savior, but your savior as well. I believe that in our generation, we're going to see a revival of unprecedented proportion among the Jewish people.  And in one moment, the hardening that's been in part is gonna be pulled off and we're gonna see them look up into the heavens and say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And they're gonna believe in their savior. I wanna end this series by reading to you the lyrics to a hymn that was found in Charles Hayden Spurgeon's own personal hymnal. This is a song that was written in 1795. But I love the message of this. It's our prayer as we end this. It says, arm of the Lord, thy power extend. Let Muhammad's imposture end. Break papal superstitions chains and the proud scoffers rage restrain. Let Zion's time of favor come. O bring the tribes of Israel home and let our wondering eyes behold Gentiles and Jews in Jesus' fold. Almighty God, thy grace proclaim in every climb of every name. Let adverse powers before thee fall and crown the savior, Lord of all. Let this be our prayer church and the hour in which the storm is increasing because when it's all said and done, we serve the one who speaks the storms and says peace, be still. I want you to stand with me wherever you are today. The question I would ask you is the same question that the apostle Peter asked and it was this. What kind of life should we live? In light of the fact that everything in this world is temporary and it's dissolving. Our fashions are dissolving. Everything in the physical cosmos is dying but yet the kingdom of God is eternal. What kind of life should we be living? And here's a better question. What are the things right now in our lives that need to change in order to live lives of godliness and holiness so we're ready? Are we ready to meet the Lord? Today I want to ask you that, are you ready? You may be a Christian but the Holy Spirit is moving on you already, convicting you of things that you need to adjust and shift. Priorities that you need to reorganize. Sin that you need to lay down to be ready. This is not a dress rehearsal. This is the real thing because life matters. Eternity is forever. You may be here today and listening to me and the sound of my voice and broadcast. And you have not repented and asked Jesus to be your Lord and savior. I'm not talking about believing in God. Believing in God doesn't save you. It doesn't give you eternal life.  Your best effort is not enough. I'm talking about you receiving the gift of God's grace to forgive you and to give you a new heart and a new life for you to be born again because of what Jesus did on the cross for you that you could not do for yourself. It's surrendering and saying, Jesus for now on I serve you and I follow you. Today you may be a prodigal where you've prayed that kind of prayer but you've walked away. Today you need to come home. Today you may be listening to me and you've never done that. And the Bible says if we believe in our heart and confess with our mouth, literally we need to confess it and surrender to make Jesus Lord we will be saved. Today, if you're not right with God, if you're not ready, today is the day of salvation. This is the moment. And with every head up and with every eye open and everybody looking around today, this is a sober eternal moment. If you say, pastor Lee, I know I'm not ready but today I'm saying, Jesus, I want you to be Lord of my life and I'm surrendering to you. You're either a prodigal and you're saying, I have had a relationship with Jesus but I've walked away and today I'm saying I'm coming home for real and I want to recommit my life or you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life today. You've never made Jesus Lord of your life ever but today you want to get right with God. I'm going to lead us in a prayer that's going to connect your heart to God but I want you to take a faith step and your faith step is this. If you know you need to get right with God and you want to accept Him as your personal Lord and savior, I want you wherever you're at to raise your hand and hold it up and I'm going to include you. We're going to pray together. Thank you. Raise it all over the room. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Come on, raise it. Thank you. All over the room. Come on, raise it high. Raise it high. Thank you. Thank you. Come on. Thank you, thank you. If you, keep it up, keep it up. Who else? This is the day of salvation. Thank you. See that hand all the way back there. Thank you. You can put your hands down. To everyone who called upon the name of the Lord, He gave the power to become children of God. So I'm going to lead us in a prayer on the whole room, everybody, all of our rooms, wherever you're at to say this prayer out loud. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I come in Jesus' name. And I know that you are Lord of all. And I believe that Jesus is your son, a savior of the world. And I believe that He died for me on the cross to pay my debt to give me life. And I believe that He was raised from the dead and that He's soon to return. Jesus, forgive me. Wash me clean. Come into my heart and be my Lord and savior. Fill me with your spirit and write my name in the book of life. From this day forward, I turn my back on the world. I turn my back on my past and I turn my back on the devil. I belong to Jesus. I have a destiny. And I will follow you because I am a child of God. Thank you for loving me, saving me in Jesus' name. Amen.  I had a Celsius and a Red Bull this morning. I'm on, whew. If you just prayed that prayer, welcome to the family of God. You are a brand new creation and we love you. I'm gonna invite our prayer team.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here. So in this video. I unfortunately have some bad news for us here today Halloween kills has officially been delayed to October of 2021 which is then pushing Halloween ends to October of 2022 now This came out to us officially today from Jason Blum David Gordon Green John Carpenter Everyone involved who was in the higher-ups in regards to the filmmaking of these brand new Halloween movies that we all know We've been getting been excited to been looking forward to since the release of the 2018 movie that they did so brilliantly It's unfortunate that this movie Has been delayed Jason Blum sent out a tweet saying this wasn't an easy decision But of course they want to make sure we get the most we get the best experience from this movie when it does in fact come out So in this letter from David Gordon Green apparently in John Carpenter It reads we write this to you heartbroken over the fact that the delay of our film is even a discussion But if there's one thing a career in the filmmaking industry has prepared us for it's the unexpected Over the past few weeks our film family has looked at the forecast of theatrical exhibition with obvious concern We have discussed and struggled with how best to present Halloween kills to loyal fans around the world As well as the new audience we hope to invite to this experience It was a wild and vibrant production We lined up a cast of legacy characters like Laurie and Tommy Lindsay Lonnie Marion Brackett in the shape then alongside some new faces. We aggressively made the second chapter of our Halloween trilogy It unfolded into an experience that was a creative playground and we feel confident that our misfit misfit pleasures will be seen as an unexpected entry into this franchise It will if we release it in October of this year as planned We have to face the reality that the film would be consumed in a compromised theatrical experience After weighing our options We have chosen to push the film's theatrical release by one year on top of a traditional release Universal has agreed to an IMAX presentation of the film in October of 2021 We are sound mixing with one of the greatest design teams that can slash scream and creep their way under your skin We're going to have time to complete the film with the quality the fans deserve and Preparation on Halloween ends has begun as well It is an honor to be working with these characters in spending time in Haddonfield We look forward to sharing our next chapters with you David Gordon-Green and John Carpenter Now that letter was very well-written something to also let fans know that they are Really sorry they had to do this and it's not an easy decision They all had to make and agree upon but of course for the benefit of the franchise and the benefit of them as a Business still wanting to make make the most money they can from these movies that they've put time and effort into and All the stuff they've done these past couple of months to work on this project and make sure that it Stays on track for this release They want to make sure that when it does come out all their hard work isn't just wasted or goes to the wayside with a Poor theatrical release a poor box office reception, etc So another thing they did release here today is a teaser trailer for Halloween kills now It's just 30 seconds. It's not necessarily really even a teaser trailer It's really just a small 30 minute 30 second clip similar to that announcement trailer We got when Halloween kills and Halloween ends got announced Earlier last year from Blumhouse So in the teaser it starts off with the pumpkin similar to how Halloween 2018 opens up with the pumpkin growing from the bottom or Basically rising from the ashes in a way and then we jump to the back of that truck where we have our strolled women We have Lori in the middle. We have Karen on her on her right. We have Allison on her left Her left not our left Allison's actually on your right and Karen's on her on your left But I'm speaking in terms of where where Lori sit and then while they're riding in the back of that truck Paramedics firefighters it looks like all the EMP all first responders are on their way to a nearby fire because the first another Shot we see first when this trailer appears or this teaser comes on is a shot of the house or Lori's house on fire Still where we know she left Michael Myers to hopefully burn to death And then as the EMTs in the paramedics look like they're rushing to get to that fire to put it out She's screaming in the back of the truck. Let it let him burn. Let him burn. Let him burn She's very emotional with it. She's This is like some of Jamie Lee Curtis is from that from that single moment That's one of the most emotional performances I've seen from Jamie Lee Curtis and I've seen several Jamie Lee Curtis movies and I honestly think that that's one of the most emotional Lines of dialogue. I've heard her bellow out or recite. She seems very much in the role She seems like she is Almost as if she means what she's saying is if it's not even her in character. She's actually this is actually her I know she's just playing Lori Strobe. I again just those this 30-second clip of what we saw of this performance from her. I feel like Jamie Lee Curtis, I don't think she's gonna have that much screen time And it's just I think she's gonna be a huge factor and a lot of the action that goes on But we might see one of her better performances out of the franchise in Halloween kills And I'm looking forward to that just based off of the way She's screaming let him burn in the back of the truck because she doesn't want these EMTs to get to her house To put the fire out. Now what I think this is gonna lead to I think this will lead to the EMTs being told by Or not the EMTs, but the man in the truck or whoever's driving this truck The strolls will start tapping on the back of the window the truck driver or whoever's driving this car that they're in The back of they're gonna be told to turn around. They'll turn around and take Lori and and her Granddaughter and her daughter back to the house. They're gonna start pleading with them to get to that house So they can tell them not to put the fire out or not to let him out Let him out let him out the person who's driving probably talking about who are you talking about let who out let who out And then all the while they're arguing about that and while they're driving as I made mention of I did make a video Talk about how I believe Michael Myers would escape and I believe anyone would have guessed this is pretty obvious Now how he's gonna escape the the teaser does nothing more than just enforce my my opinion on how he's gonna get out The paramedics and EMTs are gonna have something to do with this Somebody's gonna go into that house to try to put out the source of the fire Or maybe they just stumble for whatever reason or another they go down to where Michael Myers is Michael Myers will emerge somehow from some place He's hiding at in the fire where he's staying safe so he doesn't get burned and then he is going to kill that person or Whoever else is down there with this individual and then he would just go about his business And that's when we get that shot of him standing outside of the house With while it's still burning in the background With him it looks like he's holding a pipe of some sort to from what I recall seen in the announcement trailer for Halloween Kills and Halloween games, but I'm pretty sure now seeing this 30 second mini trailer mini teaser rather That's how he's gonna get out. That's not this did nothing But enforce my opinion on that and it's pretty obvious. That's what many people have already talked about and speculated That's how he will get out some EMT some type of first responder They'll be the ones responsible Unintentionally for letting this mass murderer out once again to continue doing what he was doing Now again as I mentioned Halloween kills sadly is not coming out till next October But the one thing I want everyone to remain positive about here is that at least we know that this gives them enough time To make sure that this movie is absolutely the best that it can be if they're if they need to do reshoots They'll do reshoots. I don't think they're gonna do reshoots Maybe they already have them if I'm not mistaken. I don't think I don't think they've done any reshoots for this particular movie I might be mistaken. I don't know if they did reshoots after the test screen or anything like that I think the feedback was just so positive that they just stuck with the final product Not how they did with the 2018 movie went back and they reshot the ending and everything of a few other scenes But They have plenty of time to make sure that halloween kills is up to par It's something that the fans and people of The fan base will love and appreciate and just something else that we can have to look forward to Because if they do actually get to shoot halloween ends Not only that you now have ample opportunity and enough time to Finalize and make sure that not only is halloween kills up to par And it gets a successful release and it's a movie that audiences and fans and like of this franchise can be proud of You now have an opportunity to make sure that the final chapter That david gordon green and dynamic bride and vision is up to par as well If they if and when because they already did say that they're in the early stages of working on halloween ends as well If and when that movie starts production and if it wraps that movie is not coming out till 2022 So you have ample time to make sure that movie is up to par now as well plenty of time if not halloween kills halloween ends definitely better be the best halloween movie i've ever seen in my life um And i don't mean that literally but it should just be one of the better entries in this franchise that we've gotten this and halloween kills In my honest opinion you now have no no excuses when you have all this time And of course bearing nothing happens to the people involved with the filmmaking They have no excuses now but to put on some of the best entries in this franchise They have so much time on their hands now to make sure everything's up to par And i can't wait for these movies to come out I'm really disappointed that halloween kills is not coming out this year But of course we all know why it's not coming out But that doesn't make it any more heartbreaking for a lot of us But let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below If you haven't already make sure you subscribe and turn on post notifications So you never miss a video in the description I have links to my social media accounts on my facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there to let me know if there's any movies news or reviews You would like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


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One. Okay, we're back, we're live with Energy in America with Lupu Yurishi of E-Princk in Washington, D.C. except this time it's not exactly like that. It's Energy in America from Japan because that's where Lou is. Lou is in Tokyo? Yes. Hi, Lou. Yes. Tell us about Tokyo and tell us why you're there and tell us how that all connects with Energy in America. So, as you may know, Prime Minister Abe visited Washington, D.C. and met with President Trump and then they went to Mar-a-Lago and Florida and played golf. And during that visit they discussed a lot of the issues including the mutual security interests in the Pacific Rim, particularly concern over the ballistic missile test by the North Korean government which is up to a lot of interesting shenanigans these days. And they also discussed finding ways to expand trade and Prime Minister Abe raised the issue of expanded LNG exports from the United States, not just to Japan, but to other countries in the Pacific Rim. And finally, I think, since they don't have a lot of officials in place yet, they started to initiate a trade dialogue through Vice President Pence and media, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Minister Seiko. So that's the main accomplishment. I don't think there were not a lot of details about LNG exports, but in my meetings with ministry officials yesterday, a question came up of LNG deliveries to Hawaii. Ah, and what was the discussion around that question? We really care a lot about this. There were two questions that were raised. One, would it be possible to get a Jones Act exemption so American ships could be used? Or, no, if American ships were not used, which would probably be the likely case there. No, American LNG carriers as far as I know. And my answer there was, I think you could get an exemption for something like that because the shipments are small and we already do some exemptions in the cruise lines for special cases. So you would have a large shipment, say, of LNG to Japan or Taiwan. And some small volumes could be dropped off for either military use or power plant use in Hawaii. I pointed out that the governor of Hawaii was opposed to any LNG shipments and they might have to wait a few years for a change in the administration. Let me, you know, I don't have to tell you that LNG is in, what shall I say about LNG in Hawaii? The governor doesn't like it. The Hawaiian Electric has not embraced it. I don't know if they have turned it off, but they haven't embraced it. And I think it has a very questionable future. It has a questionable future in Hawaii. Yes, I agree. And that was actually the message. Because of my discussions with you, Jay, I passed that message along. So it's not a critical issue for the efficiency of LNG shipments to Pacific Rim. It gives a kind of nice gesture, in a way, connection. But I don't think, as I say, it would require a change of administration policy or administration in the state of Hawaii. Yeah. Well, yeah. It has to be a pretty dramatic change because so much of energy policy in Hawaii is made by, I want to know, the people. The people who come and take advantage of the transparency and who speak about it. You know, a lot of environmentalists who characterize probably accurately LNG as a fossil fuel. It's a fossil fuel and they're dedicated to stopping old fossil fuel. Right. If it turns out that the renewable program in Hawaii reaches some limit, let's say, and that they're stuck with a certain volume of fuel oil as the fossil fuel, I suspect it could be raised again. Yeah, I don't think... No, I agree with you. It remains a possibility. And I don't think everybody can say the door is closed on LNG. We've got to see what happens in the next few years. It could be that we do need it as originally contemplated as a bridge fuel and to hedge against increasing prices for other sources of fuel, including oil, of course, and renewables. So it's a market. Among other things, it's a market issue as well as an environmental concern. Exactly. Yeah. So how do the Japanese feel about LNG? Is it an important part of their portfolio? Yeah. So as you know, a couple of issues for the Japanese on LNG. The first is that after Fukushima, virtually all the nuclear power plants were shut down. I know I sent you some data from 2014 which shows no nuclear power in Japan, but in fact, I think they've got at least a couple running another one scheduled to come on soon. The basic issue for the Japanese there is that when they lost their nuclear power, they had to switch to both fuel oil and direct crude burn to make up some of the shortfalls. So they had an aggressive renewable program. So this is one of the reasons. There's two reasons for LNG. One, it's a clean fuel that fits into their portfolio. And specifically, they're interested in the U.S., not just for sort of reinforcing trade and security relationship, but also that if you're a big purchaser of LNG, such as the Japanese, you want to have a portfolio of sources. You don't want to rely just on the Middle East or just on Australia. You want to have a broad set of suppliers. Isn't that true? You know, we talked about that here in Hawaii and, oh, way back in 2008 anyway, if not before, if not way back before then, that we don't want to be dependent on any particular geopolitical region. And since then, in recent years, gee, in the last three or four years, it became clear that geopolitical regions from which we obtain oil could be destabilized any time. And if that's the case, it's not even a question of price. It's a question of whether you can get it at all. And I think that thinking is now international. It's global thinking. If the region from which the fuel comes from is not reliable, you shouldn't rely on it. Simple, yeah. Yes, but oddly enough, I would think that most of that risk for oil, for crude oil, is it's lower in terms of reliability, you know, in terms of where you get it, because there are lots of production centers. So I just don't think it's a big problem. But it does have a higher price risk. But LNG, I would say, because the number of production centers are small, are relatively few, it may have a relatively low price risk, but it will have more of a diversification risk is high because there aren't that many places you can go to. Well, that calls for an interesting point. And that is if the number of processing plants which create LNG is small, but the market seems to be growing worldwide for LNG. I mean, people like it. They're finding a place for it in many countries. Then does it follow that we will soon enough have more processing plants in more places? It would be more commodification of LNG, don't you think? Absolutely. That is actually the theme of the Japanese policy initiative. And to make the LNG market look more like the crude oil market. And how you do that is you encourage the development of LNG sources outside the traditional suppliers, which they are doing. As you get more supplies, the Gulf Coast or the West Coast of the United States, it could be Rosarito, Long Beach, Jordan Coast, Oregon, Sabine Pass and the Gulf. All these different places do raise the potential for more suppliers. In fact, even Mexico is looking at in Baja, California where they have a big input facility to bring U.S. gas by pipeline to Baja, California and then re-export it there as LNG. That also takes me to the question of whether that would be subject to these new tariffs that the Trump administration is considering. If we're going to import oil from say Mexico or LNG from Mexico, whatever kind of fuel we import from that, is that subject to that 20% tariff they were thinking about? That would be subject to the border adjustment tax, which really is not a Trump proposal as much as a Republican House proposal from Speaker Ryan. But the information from the last couple of days and folks have talked to suggest that there isn't a very warm welcome for this border adjustment tax in the Senate. But it is a dilemma because if we're going to get tax reform, both corporate tax reform and personal income tax reform, they're going to have to find money somewhere else. And there is some discussion, you know, recently a lot of Republican luminaries like former Secretary Schultz, former Secretary of State Baker, George Mankow have all written op-eds and even met with White House staff to talk about that carbon tax. We're in transitional times. But let me ask you, before we go to the break, Lou, I just want to know why you're in Japan. Is this professional or is it personal? No, I was in Japan and I participated in an annual petroleum and energy seminar for both the government and industrial and petroleum companies in Tokyo. We do it every year. And there were three of us. There was Basim Patu from the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. There was me and Mr. Deserion from France who had a very bleak picture about Donald Trump. So he was very entertaining. It wouldn't be the only one. No, so you're going to present and give them, you know, your think tank views about energy? I hope he did it. I'll send you the PowerPoint and let me hang up so you can enjoy it. You can have trouble sleeping at night. But what do you get from them, Lou? I mean, you know, you're there and of course you're in a dosy dough, elbow to elbow with all these people who are interested in energy from the Japanese point of view, and maybe from other countries too who attend the conference. What are you getting from them? Who are they and what are you getting from them? So what I'm getting from them is that actually the Japanese are quite relaxed. I feel that actually Prime Minister Abe, like President Trump, have some similar outlook on the world. The primary concern is that there'd be no deterioration of security relationship. They're absolutely concerned about two major trouble spots. One is the expansion of the Chinese. They're completely naval forces throughout the South China Sea, the North Koreans, and I think behind the scenes also the Northern Territories or Irons, you know, the Japanese still do not have a peace treaty with the Russians from World War II, and they're still working on that. And there's some Northern Territories they would like to be returned. Well, let's take a short break, Lou. Lou Putirisi of E-Princk in Washington, but not in Washington in Tokyo instead, attending and presenting at a conference about energy there. When we come back, I want to talk more about geopolitics and how the formula, how the algorithm has changed in this administration between geopolitics and energy. We'll be right back. Aloha, Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Code Green Think Tech Away. I appear every other Monday at three in the afternoon. Do not tune in in the morning. My topic is energy efficiency. It sounds dry as heck, but it's not. We're paying five billion dollars a year for imported oil. My job is to shave that, shave that, shave that down in homes and buildings. While delivering better comfort, better light, better air conditioning, better everything. So if you're interested in your future, you'd better tune in to me, three o'clock every other Monday Code Green Aloha, and thank you very much. Well, bingo! It's almost lunchtime in Tokyo, and Lou was talking about the sushi place around the corner, and the food is so good in Tokyo. No kidding, are you enjoying it? Yes, I come here a year, and I'll probably be coming back in a few months. Are you staying in downtown at the Ginza, or where? I'm very close to Ginza, not too far. I'm at the cross the street from the United States Embassy. Oh, very nice. Very nice, very nice. It's a lovely trip, and if you go every year, I'm sure you know the ropes, you know how to get along, you know where to go, and all that. Japan is such a comfortable place to travel to, isn't it? So revisiting the issue you raised just before the break about, you know, the geopolitics in the South China Sea and elsewhere in Asia, what you have is an uncertainty and maybe an intimidation factor from China. That's got to affect, you know, the cost and risk of shipping, fossil fuel including, I suppose, not only oil but LNG, and therefore it's got to have an effect on global markets for fuel, and therefore it's also got to have an indirect effect on portable tech and renewables as well. So can you talk about how, you know, all this trouble in the South China Sea and maybe other places coming soon affect the global markets and affect the way these countries and the entrepreneurs, you know, reshape their ways of getting sources of fuel of energy? So, you know, historically there has been concerns about security supply and the potential for at least prices to spike because of insecure and expensive supplies of food oil. I do think the oil share revolution, the diversification of supplies, a lot of the measures and efficiency that we've undertaken in the West have changed the dynamics of that issue. I'm not saying it's not a problem. It is a problem but for Japan, they're concerned about access to, let's say, overseas supplies of OMG or crude oil are less concerned about sea lanes and communication and more about problems at the production centers. And also keep in mind that some of the Chinese build out, of course, is to spread their influence and power throughout the South China Sea. It's also because they import a lot of things and want to keep those supplies flowing. So it's an interesting diplomatic and security issue that's going to be worked out. But to your point, I would say, yes, concern over geopolitical risks, concern over financial risks and concern over climate have led the major countries of both the Pacific and the U.S. to begin to install more renewable power, particularly in the pro-electric generation. I think we might have a table you can pull up. If not, I can give you some of the number. Well, there's a table for you. Yeah, okay, so if you look at this date, one thing is that I really, all your readers, when they ever see this presentation, you'll see a very big renewable number. It's very important to ask how much of that renewable number is hydroelectric power? People like to show enormous progress on renewables, but they forget to tell us that sometimes a large percentage of it is hydropower. U.S. analysts, U.S. policy folks do that a lot. They say, well, we're up to 12% renewables in the U.S. Well, that's actually not true if you're thinking just about solar and wind. Actually, all renewables are 6.9% in 2014. They're slightly larger. Also, this table I believe, and I need to double-check this, is not necessary how much is generated, but it's installed capacity. So that's something to keep in mind. I am impressed at the high level of renewable penetration by Germany and Spain. You'll notice that the U.S. and Japan are at the lower end. And still a lot of reliance upon coal. If you look at the issue of coal, you know, any U.S. coal will continue to be to continue to struggle even with the new regulations and policy initiatives promoted by President Trump. And the reason for this is that natural gas is really cheap. And decisions on power plants are not made by the federal government. They are made by the states and the public. And I think that with the article that I saw in the Times this morning to the effect that coal mining companies are now making money and that they're in the black, that's a pun, you know. That's definitely a play on words. They're now in the black. It could be that first, you know, they sort of had their cost structure beat back. There's a lot of people who used to be due coal mining in companies and there may be a set of expectations that could do more exports. And I do think the big change for Trump will not be that we'll be expanding coal. But the way the client will clearly slow down a lot. So without the clean power plant the number of coal plants in the U.S. will not be quite as rapid. Well, you know, so wrapping around this seems to me that when I was a kid and you probably had the same experience back when, Lou, my mother used to say to me it's so great that you live in the best country in the world. You should wake up every morning and give thanks to God that you live in the United States of America. You know, and I mean, people have been questioning that and I've been questioning, you know, maybe if she were alive today, they would have a different view of things from what's going on. And I saw in the paper also this morning that life expectancy in this country which used to be so terrific is actually not as good relative to other countries anymore. And, you know, we have problems. So the question is... So I can tell you, interesting statistic. Yeah. If World War II, almost overnight armed forces removed 40% of the doctors, right? Mm-hmm. They put them in the armed forces. Mm-hmm. And the health data used to not deteriorate at all. So, the factors that affect... I mean, any health care is quite important, of course. I don't want to make a joke of that, but, you know, I have a friend who does a lot of research in this area. And there are other factors that affect your, you know, of opioid use. And there's a lot of other things having little to do with the delivery of health care that affect people's longevity. So I would be careful with those immediate conclusion on those. And income levels.  A direct effect, sure. But let me, you know, take that down the road to the question of energy. Now, you show us a chart, and the chart shows, you know, distribution of, you know, distribution of energy sources in various countries. And I would say that, you know, the U.S. is better than all of them, I'm not sure. Certainly there are countries elsewhere in the world that are trying really hard to be renewables. I remember I was traveling in Europe last summer, and there were a couple of countries in Europe that, for a time, because they were using wind, well, 100% renewable. 100%. Here's the problem. If this is not a local air pollution pipeline, which is low means of carbon, or carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, or another so-called global warming gases, if this is the central problem, this is an Asian problem, because the U.S., as the U.S. has, its carbon emissions have declined dramatically. And if you take all the measures that President Obama was so interested in, for example, stopping the Keystone XL pipeline, or implementing the Clean Power Plan, those measures in themselves had no effect on estimates of global warming or climate. If you ran the IPCC models from the United Nations, we would have been no effect. The problem is what would China and India do? This is like all those silly stuff people do in Hawaii. It's a small country. It's a small state. Small population. Who cares what Hawaii does? This is really a Hawaiian's want to wear a hair shirt. It's their business. I know a large delegation of energy analysts and climate specialists went to India about two months ago, and they went through all the climate things the Indians could do. The efficiency and stuff. At the end of this meeting, the energy minister got up and he said, thank you for all coming. As you may not know, we don't like to take advice from you guys. We're going to go ahead and build a lot of coal plants because we're a poor country and we need cheap power. But thank you nevertheless. So this is a real problem. Our climate strategy is focused on leadership which would get other people to go. And no one is talking about whether that's working or not. What would you say if I suggested that over time some of these other countries are going to be focused? Not today necessarily and economics rules, of course, but they're going to be focused on going through renewables for various reasons, including geopolitical reasons. The Trump administration is trying to encourage coal and oil pipelines and what have you. And not focusing so much as it was under Obama on renewables and solar and all that. So we're going one direction. Some of these other countries are going in other directions. There may come a time when the course has match and in fact the U.S. is doing less renewables than some countries that surprise us with their progress in this area. Will that come soon? That's quite possible but there are two facts alive. One, power demand is growing extremely slow in the U.S. We are going to naturally go through a process where coal plants retire and they are substituted by natural gas or renewables or fuel or efficiency standards, right? We are not going to see big growth in electric generation in the United States. You can spend a lot of time spending your wheels on this and gnashing your teeth. You can't really move the numbers a lot. A lot of this is symbolism that politicians love to play with. Sure. Well, if we lived in a world in which we just had people who were all very reasonable it would probably be the cheapest solution would be for the U.S. and the West to pay the Indians and the Chinese to convert at a faster rate. There you go.  There you go. A great solution. But let me ask, in Japan this is my last question of our show here today in Japan we are enjoying not only the sushi but the environment in general how much fervor is there? How ardent are people in a clean energy initiative? I guess they got concerned over the nuclear incident a couple of years ago. Are they running a mile a minute away from that? Are they running from coal? How ardent are they in moving to renewable? The Japanese will be building a new coplan, a super critical coplan not carbon capture in storage but a super critical one is on the board. And I don't think you can overestimate the driving force for renewables is really the concern over nuclear power. And that's a much longer story than we can do today because in Fukushima there were such greats at Fukushima but the real problem was the tie-away. And the way some of the safety procedures of the nuclear power was Fukushima. Something like that comes along and gets everybody's attention and that's likely to happen again if the same kind of tragedy repeats. I really love talking to you in Japan you know Hawaii is so interesting in everything that happens in Japan and we are interested in your adventures in Japan and I'm so glad we got the hook up with you and I guess if I next show you'd be back in Washington is that true? I will, I'll be in Cyprus next week but the week after I'll be in Washington. I hope you like and enjoy and I look forward to talking with you again catch up again, it's great to talk to you Lou Pululisi of E-Print talking about energy in America and elsewhere.


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After the war they went to the suburbs and pretended everything was fine it wasn't fine and spent the 1950s pouring emotional concrete over their pain and savaging their children and pretending everything was fine it wasn't fine. And now those houses are all haunted by ghosts pretending everything is fine it isn't fine and haunted by living people pretending everything is fine it isn't fine. As we fill our oceans and our blood with plastic and laugh plastic laughs at screens full of plastic people pretending everything is fine it isn't fine charging toward Armageddon carrying the anguish of our grandfathers on our shoulders the way they carried their fallen friends on the battlefield on their shoulders before they realized that their friends were corpses and fell to the ground and cried for their mothers and then got up and then went home and never breathed a word about it to anyone.


Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. I'm the Trash. I'm the Treasure. And today we're going to be covering 1973's The Boy Who Cried Werewolf, which is a Patreon request from Charles Marsh. But before we get going, what are we drinking? We're drinking near-dark, Czech-dark lager. Finger-lickin' good! This movie was directed by Nathan Huron. He did the attack of the 50-foot woman. This movie stars Curran Matthews and he was in the 7th voyage of Sinbad. This movie also stars Elaine Dury, as well as Robert J. Wilk, who is in tons of things. He's basically like a western mainstay.  So the movie starts out with this car sort of meandering through the hills. There's a werewolf following the car. He's like in the forest. He can introduce to Robert and his son Richie. Look for Richie! You haven't seen Richie! And they're on their way to their cabin to spend, I guess, the weekend. They want to take a long walk through the woods. This werewolf goes and attacks them and starts fighting with the dad, pushes the kid out of the way, and the dad's all rolling around in the dirt and everything. And right away he gets bit in the arm by the werewolf. The dad kind of pushes the werewolf away and the werewolf falls off his cliff and on to like these fence posts, impales him. They call the cops. Cops. Cops. They got the cops. Richie is telling them. And he's like, no, this was a werewolf. This was a monster. I'm telling you. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They go to look at the body and it's a man.  So the dad takes the kid home back to the mother's house. The kid starts telling the mother that there was a werewolf too. He's preaching the same thing. Just chalking it up to the kid being imaginative and all this trauma and stress of what happened. They take the kid to the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist kind of says the same thing. Maybe it's a good idea that they go back to the scene of where it happened so it can be kind of therapeutic and help them through all of this. Robert takes Richie back to the cabin because the psychiatrist says this is a good idea. Of course it's a full moon that night. Robert turns into a werewolf of course looking into a mirror as they always do. Very slow and... Yeah, and transforms. He turns into a werewolf and basically takes off and goes on a big rampage. He's running around the highway and these cars get into a big accident and he's all pulling the guys out and eating them. Does one car fall off a cliff? Like everything is falling off cliffs in this movie. Everything falls off a cliff at some point. Richie sees his dad in werewolf form go back to the cabin and bury something underneath the dirt in this kind of shed area. The cops show up at the cabin saying, have you seen anything like an animal or anything? There's all these people that have got massacred and the guy's head is missing. Massacre. Massacre. Covered in blood from head to his wrestling boots.  Why'd you cut that guy up so bad for? Needed my heat. Give my heat baby. I had to give my heat. Of course the dad says I didn't see anything and Richie kind of covers for his dad and says no I didn't see anything either. They go back to town again and Robert and his ex-wife kind of start hitting it off a little bit. He was very pushy in the beginning. She was pushing back and now she's kind of like ahhh maybe you know she kind of wants that wolf wang maybe I don't know. She brought some lingerie too and everything. She's ready to kind of consider getting back with him so what better thing to do? Go back to the cabin again. On the way to the cabin they come across with this group of Jesus hippies phrasing and they kind of stop to check it out because let's look at these people.     He's always full moons constantly. A typical werewolf movie right? The full moons is whenever. He turns into a wolf again but now his whole family is there for the slaughter. There's also the sheriff with a whole bunch of townsfolk with weapons and guns on the hunt for this animal that's been killing people and that's we're gonna end the plot if you want to see how the boy who cried werewolf ends watch the movie but is a trash or treasure. Well that'll start us off with the treasure.


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