Hello and welcome to the chart of the week video with me David Madden. Today's date is Thursday the 21st of June 2018 and the time has just gone 1135 British summertime. This week's chart of the week is the gold market and Gold has fallen to a fresh six-month low on the strength of the US dollar There's actually been a inverse relationship between the gold market and the US dollar and given that the US dollar index has reached 1135 if no surprise that the gold is under pressure. So we've fallen to a level not not seen since December back last year only yesterday Jerome Powell the head of the Federal Reserve stated is the case he made for additional tightening in terms of interest rates in the United States and now the speculation It's continued speculation. We could see two more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year Keep in mind. We've already seen two so far There's already shattered that we could see another very high from the Fed in September and also one in December But this is obviously dependent on an economic situation in the US and also what's going on with the potential trade war So taking a look at the price action of gold since since April We can see it's been in a classic example of a downward trend We can see the first leg lower here lower low and lower high and lower low and lower high And then yet again another lower low So it's a test for example of a downward trend in the gold market If you take a look at the MACD histogram mark the indicator We can see that the momentum has turned negative and it's actually increasing So as the gold market is driving lower, you'll actually see an increase in setting pressure So they would at the time being the momentum is with the bears So if it could if the gold market does continue to push on lower from here We could looking look at a targeting 1250 or indeed the December low of 1236 And if you go beyond that we could be looking any back down towards the 12th 20th region or perhaps even as low as 1204 if you do see any pullbacks in the gold market Resistance could commit to play in around 1284 this high here only only a few sessions ago And if you go beyond that I know to keep a mile for where it will be this red line here The dirty moving average which comes into play at 1305 and notice how the dirt the dirty moving average acts as both support and resistance in recent weeks When a market when an indicator as active recently acted as support and our resistance it makes it the more likely It will do so in the near future. And if you take out 1305 the attorney moving average the next year to keep a mile for will be the the high of May in mid-May at 1326 And if you go beyond 1326 that could be an indication that the recent downward trend in gold has come to an end And if you go beyond 1326 the next 30 keep a mile for will be the 1335 region. Well, that's all for me this week Thank you very much


Okay, on today's vlog I've got a ton of stuff to show you guys, I'm really excited, happy Friday to everyone. Today what we're gonna go over is a long layered haircut, you guys have been requesting this for quite a while, so we used the carving comb, we went in, we created a face frame, long layered haircut, we did the blow dry with a round brush, we iron it at the end, so a ton of things packed into this Friday, hope you guys liked this vlog, make sure you post in the comments below, let me know what you think. I guarantee you guys can use this technique in the salon today, tomorrow, and every day for the rest of your career, so let's get started with this step by step, thank you guys so much for watching, here we go. Alright guys, so like I said in the beginning of the video, we're gonna be using our Donald Scott carving comb today, I love this tool, it's a brand new tool that we have on freesaloneducation.com. We're replacing the blades first, so every haircut that I do with a carving comb, I always put fresh blades in because you're gonna get the best cut lines, and also you're not gonna damage the hair if you replace the blades, the blades are not expensive, and you think about how much you charge for a haircut, it's definitely good to at least change it every two hair cuts, but I try to do it every single haircut, you slide both blades in, there's a 50% cut side and 100% cut side, so we're gonna be using the 100% cut side throughout the majority of this haircut, then we're gonna go into the 50% cut side, which will cut 50% of the hair at the end of the cut as well. Like I said, we're using the fine tooth carving comb, there's also a wide tooth carving comb, so depending on what you're looking for tension wise, you can choose which carving comb best suits the cut. We're preparing the hair with prepare, so that goes well. This is a liquid tool glide, it's also made by Donald Scott, it matches up perfectly with the razor because it allows you to glide through the hair when you're combing, and also glide through the hair, it conditions the hair for razor cutting, so it's specifically made for cutting hair. So we're gonna start off by taking a diagonal forward section from the parting, so she's got a right hand side parting, that's all the sectioning there is in this cut, I clipped away the right side of her head and now I'm taking diagonal forward sections from the part down to the hairline, right around the fringe area. Now the over direction plays a key role in this cut, this is one of my favorite techniques to do when cutting layering and cutting longer hair, but you need to know how much elevation and how much angle you're putting on the hair when you over direct it, so the more I over direct it, the sharper or the more of an angle I'm gonna get on the haircut, the higher I bring the hair, the more elevation I give the hair, the lighter it's going to feel, so if you have really thick hair, you want to go higher like I am right now, you could even go higher than that if you wanted to. If you have fine hair, you want to stay lower with your elevation, because that's gonna help build up a little extra weight throughout the face frame, and it won't allow it to look weak, and I think that that's the biggest challenge with fine hair, is that when you over direct it and you elevate it too high, you're cutting out too much weight, so it just has a weak feel to it. This mannequin has really, really thick coarse hair, so we don't have to worry about that at all. So the over direction just keeps coming over. I keep taking diagonal forward partings, exactly the same throughout the haircut, just following the head shape, and then over directing it to myself. As I work back on the head, my elevation may change, it could change, so let's talk about the thicker that your guest hair is, the more you move back on the head throughout the partings, you may want to elevate more to just remove more and more bulk, because you can see how the head's rounding off right there, and if I don't elevate, if I keep the elevation the same, what's gonna happen is I will build up extra weight into the back of the head. So we're keeping that over direction coming, we're wrapping it around the face. I like to get a really severe over direction on this, because it's gonna give me a real nice angle, but it's also gonna remove a lot of bulk. And the key to this is just to keep working around the head shape until you run out of hair. So until there's no more hair to cut, and you're over directing it over, you just keep going, that's what's gonna help blend that entire cut together.  So this is kind of an all in one haircut, it's a lot of condensed cutting, you could take bigger sections if you wanted to, to have to get a similar result with this cut. So now I'm gonna take out my guideline, I'm just taking a piece, a little triangle from the front, and clipping the rest of the hair away, and then I take a diagonal forward section on the right hand side, exactly the same as I did on the opposite side. Now I want to go through and I really want to find that guideline, because there's gonna be a little bit of an angle on this, so I want to find that last piece that I cut, which is the first piece of the fringe, to really use that as my guideline and not that whole chunk of hair. You see how the angle that I'm running the carving comb, I'm going at about 45 degree angle onto the hair, that's what's gonna give you the best cut with any razor that you're using out there, so make sure that you keep that angle in there nice. So this side of the cut is what I would consider the weak side of the cut, there's a less density, less hair, so my elevation is not gonna be wrapping all the way around the head and high elevation, we're gonna consider, we're gonna think of it like it's fine hair or fine or low density that we're working with, so a little bit lower elevation, quickly run through that side and we're good to go. So now I'm gonna work into the back and what I'm gonna do is take a vertical panel out of the back, center back, that's about three inches wide and I'm gonna work the 50% carved side of the carving comb right down from oxypro bone down to the ends. It's just a one fluid solid slide of the carving comb, which will help build in the layers and just skinny up the back of the haircut, because if you think about it, we've taken all of the weight pushed it into the back of the hair, you could leave it if you want to, but I just like to go in and skinny it up. So we take three inch panels throughout the back, just over directing it straight back to us, keeping pretty much a square feel to those layers, and then just use your eye, use your common sense as you're going in there, that you wanna just take out a little bit of weight into the back of the cut to allow those layers to kind of free up. Now we're going in with our blow dryer, we're using no nozzle on the blow dryer to begin the blow dry, because what I'm doing is just trying to remove a lot of the moisture. Now I'm gonna put the nozzle on my blow dryer, take my Ergo round brush, and just start working that round brush through. I don't like to work the round brush into the hair right away. I don't like to really work any brush into the hair right away, because I personally feel that too much brushing on wet hair, trying to rip out those tangles and all that stuff, is really what is affecting and damaging hair to begin with. So I like to go in, get the hair as dry as possible, then start working my round brush blow dry after that. So we're using a working spray in between each section. The elevation you can see on the round brush is over towards the face, elevated nice and high, so we're over directing it just like we did in the haircut. So I think that's a cool little tip is however you cut the hair, whatever angle you put on it, you're over directing it because you want it to go somewhere. So over direct it in the blow dry, so it goes there as well. Now we're gonna work the front, the opposite side, same thing, nice, high elevation. Same thing with blow drying guys, the more you elevate it, the lighter it's gonna fall. So in the more volume you're gonna get. So just go through there, get nice, high elevation, we're gonna work the top. This is that whole top panel, the Mohawk section. I'm just gonna work that round brushing it forward to create a lot of volume in the top of the hair. This is where our the layers that we've created with that carving comb in the beginning, this is where they're really gonna come to life in the cut is just giving it that volume and utilizing those shorter layers that we cut in there. You can see I pull the hair almost towards the screen which is over the parting just to give a little pop of volume over where the part's gonna be as well and then you'll notice that my elevation is a lot lower in the fringe area because I'm not trying to build up 80s bangs in there. So I that's the only part of this blow dry that I use low elevation is right in the fringe. All right now working with my hands just pushing the hair back off the face a little bit of working spray through it to activate it and that is our end result guys. I hope that you like this cut. I know that you can use this in Islam because I've been using it for 10 years and I love this technique and believe it or not you can actually use this technique as a straight haircut as well. So it really works. It's very versatile. You can use it in pretty much every aspect of your cutting from short hair to really really long hair. This technique works perfect. So there's the end result guys. Thanks for watching. All right guys. So I hope you enjoyed the video. If you have not yet picked up a carving comb from free salon education dot com. Make sure you do that. They're 3495 and you can use it every single day in the salon. If you like this video make sure you hit the like button. Hit the share button. Share it with all of your friends. Thank you guys so much for the support. 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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم في نهاية أمران نحن نحن نحن نتعلم about the process of social change هذا change يحدث في كل ديمنشن of society ونحن نتعلم about some dimensions and some aspects of this change في مجموعة مجموعة مجموعة مجموعة ونحن نتعلم about the source of power and wealth and status ونحن نحن نتعلم about the aristocrats ونحن نحن نتعلم about the industrial revolution ونحن نتعلم about the increasing importance of commerce trade production ونحن نتعلم about the wealth generated by this commerce ونحن نتعلم about the wealth of the landed aristocracy ونحن نتعلم about major changes in society شاهد من المعاريات فا攀دت أرس بينهم فالط Vloginator's قول لمينكم و пап كالي وليس لديہ العالم و걸سي'll وعش امران وفاكر وطاه ويمانة ويمانت This also became a powerful force in driving the society. You might analyze the interaction between these societies and argue that. The capitalist exploited labor in order to create surplus which was the source of their wealth. And this exploitation was bound to continue under the dynamics of capitalism until. فعندهم كانوا يتكلمون بأنهم يكونوا مجردين لتكلمون وهي سلوشنة كانت لكي تقوم بعمل كبتل لكي لا يكون هناك كبتلس كلاس وهذا سيكون لكي تقوم بعمل كبتل كما تغيير مجموعة لكي تقوم بعمل هذه المجموعة المفتوحين عن ما يقوم بعمل مجموعة و one of the key contributions of Karl Polanyi is to analyze the birth of economic theory itself and what he has to say is that economic theory was born in this period of social change and all of the great 19th century economists are analyzing a society which is in transition from a traditional society to a capitalist society and so they are caught with the analysis which is obsolete because it analyzes a structure which is a temporary transient set structure which is the struggle between the ancient ways of thinking and the new ways of thinking the dimensions of this change also played out in the religious dimension which is analyzed by Max Weber how did capitalists come to believe in the pursuit of wealth he says that the protestants believed in predestination and therefore work could not contribute any good deeds could not contribute to salvation because it was already written and they thought of worldly success as a sign that one has been saved so they worked to achieve prosperity acquire accumulate wealth without actually meaning to use that wealth for luxury in this world and so this is what he calls the spirit of capitalism the accumulation of wealth without any intention to use it for the pursuit of pleasures that comes from wealth so this actually this strange and irrational spirit where one accumulates wealth without having any purpose for this accumulation because wealth is seen as a symbol of salvation something explicitly denied in the Quran by the way this is what led to capitalism because it led to the accumulation of wealth and that led to the dynamic increase in the capitalist economic structures around the world one of the concepts of Weber is also called the iron cage he said that the way of thinking that this represented to accumulate capital without having any purpose for this this way of thinking continued people were locked into this way of thinking even though they lost faith in religion tony also pursues the same line of thought as Weber and analyzes the changes in religion through this period 16th to 18th century and he shows that religion was central to all human pursuits in 16th century but in the 18th century it was مجن لائس to a personal belief system the social norms of the market society replaced christian religious norms so how did this happen the process is spelled out in tony but the key indicator of the change is that the biblical saying love of wealth is the root of all evil was replaced by uh bernard shaw's statement that lack of wealth is the root of all evil so this was a great change in the ways of thinking that occurred due to transition from a religious traditional society to a modern market society so we can conclude by noting that social transitions are complex and multi-dimensional as we have seen the famous parable of the elephant and blind man tells us that each blind man captured one aspect of the elephant but they couldn't put it together into a coherent picture and similarly if we look at all of the dimensions together then we can get a coherent picture of social change and this is an illustration of the multi-plexity theory of regeb shantouk who has argued that this idea of multi-plexity مراتب العلوم is characteristic of islamic epistemology and one of the key problem is western theory of knowledge is that they reduce the multiplex worldview to a uniplex worldview and he has argued that decolonization of social hinders requires us to go back to the multiplex uh view of islamic epistemology in particular one of the problem is that when we think of economics as a scientific theory then it's either true or false and so there is only one theory so all of the diverse perspectives that we have been discussing in this lecture they just get lost is it true is marxism true this is just a wrong way of looking at things when when we look at social theories they represent different perspectives of looking at a complex phenomena and they complement each other and they allow us to understand different dimensions of the social change process


All right. Good. So let's take a moment to pray and then we'll get started. Maybe I'll just, I'll just just a little bit, bring it down so that the ceiling is okay. All right, let's pray when we'll get started. Father, we thank you for this day. Thank you for a new week and a new day in our lives. Father, as we spend time in your word and as we learn how to study and interpret your word, we pray that the Holy Spirit will give us understanding, will help us learn the things that we need to learn to rightly divide your word of truth. We pray that each of us, God, those present in the class here and those online, those who will be watching on eLearning, that we will be good students on the word and be ministers to handle your word. Right. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. We are continuing in our journey here on learning how to interpret scripture. And last class, we talked a little bit about avoiding allegorizing, which we've emphasized quite a bit. And then we also started talking about how to interpret prophetic scriptures. So that's kind of where we started and we stopped, you know, just about when we got things going. So I'm just going to quickly review a few things and then we will move forward. Let me go ahead and share the PDF that's been put out. So we had lesson number 10 on avoiding allegorizing. So basically, in this whole aspect of allegorizing, when we try to put in meaning into the scriptures, which was not intended by the Holy Spirit through the original authors who wrote the scriptures, then we are allegorizing. We are assigning a meaning. We are putting meaning into the text, which was not part of the original context. And we should avoid doing that. However, like we said earlier, there are two things that we can do. One is to recognize types and shadows that are in the scripture. The scriptures already point to each other, like the New Testament points to the Old Testament. That was a type, that was a shadow, here's the reality, the New Testament. So that we can do. And we can also use the scripture as an illustration. So you take a story, you take a person's life, you take a passage, you use that to illustrate spiritual truth. That's fine. We're not adding to what is there. We're only explaining what is there. We're bringing out insight from that story. The other thing we talked about was parables. Parables are real stories from our worlds, but are used as illustrations to teach us spiritual things. So even today, we can use illustrations from our world to explain spiritual things. That is fine. Now, we started talking about Bible prophecy and how to interpret Bible prophecy. This is not a complete lesson on interpreting Bible prophecy because there's a lot. There's a lot, especially when you study Daniel or you go through the book of Revelation. It has a lot of images, a lot of things that we have to look into. But I'm just giving a few pointers, a few tips how to work with Bible prophecy. Now, when we go into our second year, that time we will get into some amount of Bible prophecy. In third year, we will actually read Daniel and Revelation in depth and we will study that. So first thing we said is to understand timeline or timing in Bible prophecy. We must keep in mind that in a single sentence, there could be various time periods being addressed in a single sentence. We shouldn't assume that just because it was part of the same sentence, everything will happen at the same time. Not so. In a single sentence, some things will happen then, something different time. So we gave one or two examples. We used the classic one from Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 where it talks about the birth of Jesus unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government will be on his shoulder. So it is just one sentence, but there is a time period of almost 2000 years, 2000 plus years in that one sentence. The child is born, but when is he going to be king? Well, the government will be on his shoulder when he comes and establishes his kingdom during the millennium. So there's almost 2000 years in that one sentence. And then Isaiah 65, that passage there from Isaiah 65 verses 17 through 24. We saw how the timeline, the time period is actually interchanged. What comes last is mentioned before, and then what was before is mentioned last. He begins by talking about, behold, like create new heavens and the new earth. He says a few things about the new city of Jerusalem. And then the prophet starts talking about the millennium. So actually the millennium comes before the new heavens and the new earth. But in that prophetic passage, he's first talking about new heavens and the new earth, then he's talking about millennium. So we said that the way we will understand timing in interpreting scripture is we have to match it up with the rest of scripture. What else does the Bible say? Right? So that's how we will be able to cut this. Oh, this comes before that.  So for instance, when you read the book of Revelation, it's very clear. Revelation chapter 20 talks about the millennium 1000 year reign of Christ. Then chapter 21 and 22 talk about new heavens and the new earth. So it's very clear. Millennium comes before the new heavens and the new earth. So that's how we know. Okay. So we have to understand Isaiah 65 in that sequence, that order. So like that, we have to understand timeline by looking at other portions of scripture and understanding it. The next part is prophetic imagery. That means, and this is where we're going to start today, that when God is speaking in prophetic texts, he got often uses images. We call it prophetic imagery. Right? So if you turn with me in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 12. And if we look at verses one through six, and this is just an example. And like this, there are just numerous chapters in the Bible where prophetic utterances are given using images. And sometimes the images are strange when you read it. So what is all this? Right? So let's go Revelation 12, one through six. See, rather you're looking very lost today. Revelation 12, one through six. So it says here, follow with me in Revelation 12, one through six. In verse one, John is saying, a great sign appeared in heaven.  So when you read that, what is he talking? Woman, sun, moon, 12 stars. What is this? Right? So that image, you're trying to imagine in your mind, what is he talking about? And it looks very strange. Right? But what you will notice about prophetic scripture, and this is something very simple. Many times the interpretation is given in the Bible itself. Many times. And you look at Daniel's prophetic scriptures, you read Daniel 7, 8, 9. You read those chapters, or Daniel chapter 2. The interpretation is given many times in the chapter itself. So what do you have to do? You read the whole chapter, and then you put the pieces together. Right? So that's what we will do here. Same thing in Revelation 12. When you read verse one, it looks very strange. So woman, sun, moon, stars, 12 stars. Then you read on, then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. So now he's talking about this woman giving birth. Even more strange. Right? And another sign appeared in heaven. Behold, a great fiery red dragon. Oh, red dragon. What is that? Having seven heads, ten horns, seven diadems on its head. Now even more confusing. Dragon, seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns on those heads. That means each head had a crown. Trying hard to imagine this. What is he saying? Right? Very strange. But this is, God is speaking, God is showing vision. So let's read on. His tail, the dragon's tail, drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born.   Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God. That they should feed her there 1,260 days. Now 1,260 days is basically three and a half years or 42 months. Okay. So again, three and a half years. So now he's giving us some information here. The dragon was waiting to kill the child, which the woman was going to bear. Because the child was to rule the nations with a rod of iron. So whom do you know is going to rule the nations with a rod of iron? Jesus. Right? He's the one who's going to rule the nations with a rod of iron. So we can cross reference that, of course.  It's very clear here. Revelation 19 verse 15, it's talking about Jesus. And now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword. That with it he should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with the rod of iron. One mystery we cracked. Who's the child? He's cracked, right? Because we know from Scripture, cross reference. Who is going to rule the nations with a rod of iron? Jesus. So who's this child? Jesus.  That means he ascended. That's clearly Jesus. So two clues. See, we play hide and seek. He give one clue here, one clue here. Then you put the clues together. It's the two clues. One, this child will rule the nations with a rod of iron. Two, he was caught up to the throne of God. Jesus ascended. So both these are pointing to Jesus. So now, how do we find who the woman is? There are two things about this woman in this passage. Sun, moon, 12 stars. One clue. Second, she gave birth to Jesus. Question. Did the church give birth to Jesus or did Jesus form the church? Jesus formed the church. So this woman cannot be the church. Cut. So who is this woman then? Sun, moon, 12 stars. Who had the Old Testament? Joseph had a dream. Sun, moon, stars bowing down to him. Who was the sun and the moon? His parents? Jacob? Who's Jacob? Israel. So who is this woman? Israel. So two clues. One is using an Old Testament picture. Joseph's dream, right? Joseph had this dream. This is in Genesis 37, verse 9. He had this dream. He saw the sun, the moon. That means his father, Jacob, mother, son, moon and his brothers. So if he added himself there, he would be 12. But he saw sun, moon, 11 stars, excluding himself. But here they're saying 12 stars, including all the brothers. But it clearly is talking about Jacob or Israel. And Jesus was born through this woman. Who was Israel? Be clear. So two clues. Crack the code. Who is the woman? Israel. Witness, right? Because both counts, it's correct. Sun, moon, 12 stars, points to Jacob, Israel. Jesus was born through Israel. The Jewish people. Both are correct, right? And who is the dragon? Red dragon. Does that represent China? See, sometimes we can say, hey, red dragon. They like, red, they like, they all have big dragons and all. So it must be China. No. Don't come to that conclusion. You read on some more in the same chapter. So I'm skipping a few verses here, because if you go to verse nine, it tells us directly. So the great dragon, verse nine, was cast out. Who is the dragon? That great serpent of old called the devil and Satan. So who's the dragon? Red dragon. Very clear. Satan. It's given here. So it tells us here. Dragon is eight. Then you say why he has seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. So again, we have to understand the bigger picture. And I'll just mention it to you. Number seven is used often in the book of Revelation. Seven stands for perfection. That means perfect. So he's been given the dragon at that time was having authority, full authority on our perfect authority in the sense to do what he was going to do during that time. Ten horns. We would see a parallel to this in Daniel chapter two, ten toes. Daniel chapter seven and eight is talking about ten horns. There you see very clearly the ten horns representing ten leaders. So there's a bigger picture to this. And then there's a little horn that is the Antichrist who comes and he overpowers three of these ten horns, ten leaders. So in that context of that bigger picture, this dragon has ten horns. It's all connected. So we have to understand that ten horns in that context. There's a bigger picture there. There's meaning to that ten horns. But if you just read this passage, you know, that time he said why seven heads, seven crowns? It just means he's been given dominion at that time. And he has, there are these ten leaders who emerge from that region, which Daniel talks about, the Roman Empire, the former Roman Empire. And from there, you know, the things of the end times, things unfold. We will study that in detail later. But what I want to point out is this. We saw this image woman, child, dragon. When you read it, it looks very, who's this? But actually the meaning is there. Right there in the chapter and you cross reference other scriptures. Okay. Very clear. This is who it is. Yeah. So the one thousand two sixty days is that three and a half year period. That's the second half of the tribulation. So all of that has meaning. We won't go into it now, but I just wanted to illustrate the fact that in prophetic scriptures, there is there are a lot of images that are being used. But many times the meaning of the image would be given within the same chapter or definitely within the scriptures somewhere else.  Sometimes it's in the same chapter itself. It's given. Right. So we can interpret those prophetic images by just reading further and understanding. So let me give you a little quiz. You don't need to do Revelation chapter 17. We'll read verse one. Revelation chapter 17 verse one. Now John is seeing something again strange, very strange. He says, then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me saying to me, come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters. So now two images, one is a great harlot or like the word harlot means a prostitute.  So I will ask a simple question. So two images, great harlot, many waters. So what is this? It looks very strange. But actually the meaning is given in this chapter. I want you to crack the code. What are the waters? In this chapter itself it's given. What are the waters? What do the waters represent? I've given you one clue. I said look at verse 15. Otherwise you'll take time to read the whole chapter. Just jump to verse 15. What are the waters? Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Atlantic Ocean, nations. See it's given there itself. So he sees a harlot sitting on the waters. Now we shouldn't say, oh waters, where is John? He's in Patmos. So waters means Mediterranean Sea. We shouldn't make those conclusions. Just read the chapter. Read further on. In the same chapter he's telling us what do the waters represent? The nations, people, multitudes, people of all nations. That means what does it mean for the harlot to be sitting on the nations? What does it mean? She has influence. Her influence covers globally. It's a global influence. She's having influence over all the nations, peoples, all tribes, all kinds of people. That's the picture. Now the harlot, if you read this text and you look at what's happening there, we can come to the conclusion. I'm not going to force you to do that. But we can come to the conclusion that this harlot represents a world religious system. A world religious system. The reason we say that is if you tie that into Revelation 13, in Revelation 13 we read about the beast and the false prophets. So the beast represents the Antichrist. He introduces a world financial system. And the false prophet introduces a world religious system. So keeping that in mind as you read through and you come to chapter 17, it's easy to conclude that this mystery Babylon, and by what happens, what this mystery Babylon, this woman is doing, you look at she's persecuting the saints and all of that. We conclude, very easy to conclude that this is a world religious system where people are made to worship the beast. Okay, Revelation 13. But we're not going to go into that. I just wanted you to look at waters. What does waters mean? Meaning is given right there. So like this, when you first read prophetic scriptures and you read all these images, it seems very confusing. What is this mystery Babylon? What is this great city Babylon, the great city that's chapter 18? It looks very confusing, but actually it's very simple because the meaning is given in the Bible itself. Very often, maybe even in the same chapter, the meaning is given. So we should look for that. So keeping that thought in mind, I want to emphasize that when we are interpreting prophetic scriptures, always stay with the meaning given by the scriptures. If you don't stay with the meaning given by the scriptures, then we will come up with all kinds of ideas. Example, I tell you Revelation 12 verses 1 through 6, we read. Now, I think the year was 2019, if I'm not mistaken. In 2019, NASA, the American Space Agency, they put out information saying, hey, in the heavens, the stars are aligning together, some formation, and it looks just like a woman. All the Christians got excited because Revelation 12, in the heavens, I saw sun, moon, 12 stars like a woman. So emails are going everywhere. People were preaching sermons. Revelation 12, 1 to 6 is happening.  Even I got the email and they give the date. I think it was sometime in September, I forget the actual date. I think it was September 19th or something. That's the day Jesus will come because NASA put out all this information. Christians took it. So I got an email from somebody saying, please tell all your church people to be in prayer on September 19th, whatever the date was. That's the day Jesus is coming. It is the fulfillment of Revelation 12, 1 through 6.  What nonsense? Because Revelation 12 is the meaning should be taken from the Bible. I can't use something happening here, something happening there, until I try to interpret it in the Bible by using something outside the Bible. But this was actually happened. 2019 means we're talking about four years ago. So we should be careful. If the Bible is pointing to like the sun, the moon, the moon will be dark and the sun will become blurred and the sun will be dark. You read that two times, Revelation 6 and Revelation 8, also in Joel 2. These are signs in the heavens, but they are part of judgments. Part of God's judgment during the tribulation. It's telling these are things that will happen. Okay, earthquakes, pestilences, those are things outside. But the Bible is saying those things will happen. So you look and say, yeah, it is happening. But here it is clearly telling us this woman gave birth to Jesus. Then why are we looking at the stars as that gave birth to Jesus? It's not pointing to something outside Scripture. It's pointing to something that was actually happened in Scripture. So if we don't interpret prophetic images, imagery, using Scripture, then we will come up with all these kinds of funny ideas. Everybody will get excited. September came and when nothing happened, all these people went quiet. So these kinds of things happen. The third part of interpreting prophetic. Okay, any questions? Let me just see if there are any questions from online class. Any? Okay, Samuel, you have a question. Please go ahead. Sorry, Pastor, by mistake. Samuel, one minute. I can't hear you. Let me just hold on, Samuel, one minute. I can't hear. Okay, Samuel, please speak, maybe. Sorry, Pastor, by mistake. Okay, fine. No problem. Thank you. Anyone has any questions online class? You're following? Fine. Any questions? Okay. Let's move on. Just one more thought there on interpreting prophetic text. So one more important thing is about timing. That means when will the prophecy be fulfilled? Prophetic text. When. So one was timeline. That means which time period is this concerning? The other was images. The third one is time. When will it happen? Or what time period it's talking about? Those kinds of things. Okay. Now again, what we find in prophetic scriptures is sometimes time is given literally. For example, we read in Revelation 12, when we look at verse six, he says clearly 1,260 days. He's given that 1,260 days. But if you'll miss it in the same chapter, if you go and look at verse 14, if you look at Revelation 12, 14, but the woman was given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time. Now he is speaking in a different language. Time times half a time. So how can I have half a watch? I have only one full watch. What is half a watch? Time times half a time. How will you... So if you read this, Revelation 12, 14, time times half a time, it looks very confusing. But he's talking about the same thing. He's talking about the same thing in Revelation 12, verse six. He's saying the same thing, right? In verse six, he says the woman goes to the wilderness and she's kept there for 1,260 days. Revelation 12, 14, same thing. The woman is going to the wilderness. She's preserved there for time times half a time. Then you say, ah, this is not very difficult. 1,260 days and time times half a time should mean the same thing. So what is time times half a time? One plus two plus half is how much? One plus two plus half. Three and a half. Three and a half is same as 1,260 days. Same as 42 months. Equal. So he's talking about the same thing. You got it. So therefore time times half a time is three and a half years. So a time means one year. Times means two years. Half a time means half a year. That is 1,260 days. That is 42 months, three and a half years. It's the same thing. So like that, when you match scripture, you will be able to find out, understand timing or what is he talking about? So this phrase time times half a time is used in Daniel also. Book of Daniel also it's used. But now we know what it means. We know it means three and a half years. We know it means 42 months, 1,260 days. So we know that. So we will keep that time times half time. Three and a half years is what he's talking about. So like that, we can interpret times. Example, if you look at Daniel, Joseph had a dream. Sorry, who was the one who had a dream? Pharaoh had a dream. Yeah, Pharaoh had a dream. He saw seven fat cows. He saw seven lean cows in that dream. So God is speaking prophetically to Pharaoh. Giving him a dream. But then when Joseph interprets it, he says, seven fat cows represent seven good years. Seven lean cows represent seven years of famine. So each cow representing one year. Right. So how did Joseph get that? It came through by Holy Spirit. We'll give him wisdom saying, hey, this is what it means. Right. So in dreams, I mean separate dreams, prophetic dreams, then okay, that is through a word of wisdom. The Holy Spirit gives you when Daniel, if you go to Daniel chapter nine verse 24, when Daniel sees a vision or rather the angel comes to Daniel, then angel Gabriel is speaking to Daniel. Daniel nine 24. He uses weeks. Daniel nine 24. He says 70 weeks are determined for your people. So he's saying, Daniel, I have come to speak to you about 70 weeks that are concerning your people, your people, meaning the Jewish people, Israel. 70 weeks. Now, if you just take it literally, oh, we're talking about 70 weeks, one year, 52 weeks. So this is a little more than one year, a year and 20 weeks. You may think like that, but in scripture, the term week is used to represent a period of seven years. Seven years. One week means seven years. Like just how in order for his dream, one cow represented seven years. Here a week represents seven years. So how do we know that? Well, again, if you go to the book of Genesis in Genesis 29, 27 and 28. Genesis 29, 27 and 28. There we see an example where week is used to represent a year. Genesis 29, 27 where Laban tells Jacob, you work for your wife for one week. One week very easy. Only seven days. He meant seven years. You work for your wife for seven years. But the language is used, it's a week. But the week represents seven years. You understand it? So in Hebrew language, in Hebrew understanding, going back to Daniel 9, 24, 70 weeks. Each week represents seven years. So how many years total? Seven times 70, 490 years. So he's not referring to one year and 20 weeks, one and a half years almost. He's not referring to one and a half years. He's not referring to 490 years. So he's saying, Daniel, I come to talk to you about these 490 years concerning your people. Now, how do we know that our interpretation is correct? I'll just give you one thing. We can study this later. But if you look at verse 25, he says, know therefore and understand Daniel 9, 25. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks. What is seven plus 62? South plus 62, seven plus 62 is 69. So he says from the going forth of the command to build Jerusalem until Messiah there will be 69 weeks. 69 weeks, 69 plus seven is 400 times seven is 483 years. That means from the time the command was given, Cyrus the king of Persia, he gave the command, go and rebuild Jerusalem. From the time he gave the command till the time Jesus came was 483 years. Correct. Historically, correct. Okay, now historians, meaning people who tell us about the time of the past, they can only estimate times in that period of time. So they say, oh, King Cyrus probably was there around this time and then this happened, this happened, estimate it. We don't know for sure. So any dates put out by historians are estimates. They're not accurate. Only in recent history, we have accurate dates because you have birth record, birth certificate, all that we have. But this is talking about before Christ. You're talking about more than 2000 years before. So we only have estimates, but this prophecy is correct. Gabriel said, Daniel, there will be 483 years between the time King Cyrus comes and gives the decree to go and rebuild Jerusalem till Jesus Christ comes. And that happens. Even the estimated time is roughly there, maybe a little bit more. But remember, their historians are estimating dates. But Gabriel said correctly, 69 weeks, 69 times 7 is 483 years. And that is historically factual. You're understanding, right? So in prophetic scripture, sometimes time will be given literally, 1,000 to 60 days. Sometimes it will be given figuratively, time times half a time. Don't get confused. Just if you read the scriptures, you'll be able to know there's a clue there. Oh, that's what it means, right? Or like 70 weeks. Oh, what are 70 weeks? Well, you understand Old Testament weeks meant seven years. Oh, 70 weeks. That means 70 times 7, 490 years. And he gives us one more clue or one more statement. The time from King Cyrus to Jesus Christ will be 69 weeks, 483 years. Historically correct. Oh, so that means every week represents seven years. Okay. So let's sum up and then we will go for a break. What can we say? Follow normal principles, historical, grammatical, literary. I'll take words of prophecy in their grammatical sense. Consider the literary elements and when there is symbolic content, or always see if the literal makes sense. If the literal doesn't make sense, then, you know, use language and interpret it within the Bible itself. And look at prophecy as focusing on Jesus and his reign or not. That means ultimately that's all it's pointing to, pointing all prophecies, speaking forward to pointing to Jesus. So prophetic foreshortening means that the Old Testament prophets, when the Old Testament prophets prophesy, they did not understand everything about timing. Now they spoke as the Holy Spirit showed them. And they spoke as God was moving. When God told them, hey, hurry up, I'm coming quickly. They said, Lord is saying he's coming quickly. But in our time quickly is 2000 years. I mean, it seems very long, but for God is very short. Because 2000 years very short. So Jesus telling John, John, tell the church I'm coming quickly. So John is saying, Jesus is coming quickly 2000 years. But he was saying what the Lord was saying. He wrote it down. Behold, I come quickly and my reward is with me. We are saying 2000 years. So it's a long time. But for Jesus is nothing. He's living outside time. So they're communicating the way God put it in their hearts. Number six, look for built-in interpretations. Like we said in the chapter or in the book itself, the meanings are given. Compare parallel passages. So it is always good when you're studying Bible prophecy to put everything together. Don't take something in isolation. If you take something in isolation, you can make mistakes. But if you look at all of Bible prophecy together, study it alongside, then you get a clear picture. So that's important. Also understand, and maybe I didn't say this. Okay, let me explain this point number eight. Let's go for a break. I'll come back and explain it. It'll take a little bit of time. So let's go for a break. We'll come back in about 10 minutes and then I'll pick up with point number eight because that needs some explanation. Okay, let's go for a break and back. Thanks.


did you do? Okay, I hit the right error, control shift down. And I look at all my data, it adds up to 100%. Right. Also remember that in order to get this at the 100%, that we represented our data on the left, which represents test scores, not in the format of decimals or percentages in this case, but as whole numbers. So if you have the information of test scores in the format of percentages or decimals, sometimes it might be easier to multiply at times of 100, representing the data as basically whole numbers so that when you get your percentages over here, then it'll basically add up to the 100%. So now we can ask questions such as, or this calculation, for example, means that what would be the likelihood, for example, that we would get a 64% we're at the 2.2% likelihood. That's not the question of what's the likelihood that I get 64 or under. That would be one of the cumulative types of questions. So then we can of course ask questions. What's the likelihood that I get 64% or above, for example, and we'll do some of those calculations in a little bit here. But for now, let's continue plotting out our graph. Now you could just take these percentages and plot the graph out this way. So I can select my item up top. I'm going to hit control shift down. And then I'm going to say control backspace taking me back to the top so I can insert another histogram so I can go into or let's let's do a actual chart this time. So I can say this is going to be charts. And this is going to be a bar chart, not a histogram. So the bar chart. And of course, you get this nice smooth bell curve looking thing because of course we did this with our our actual formulas and functions. So this is going to be the P of X. I'll leave I'll leave that there and it's graphing now the percent the percent likelihoods. But we need to fix that bottom bit. So I'm going to select the data up top. I'm going to go into the select data and on the I'm going to edit this side and we want to pick up our numbers, which are starting at 34 not one. That's why it's that's why it's messed up here. So we're going to put our cursor on 34 control shift down and then I'm going to say okay now you got to be kind of careful making sure it picks it up over here because sometimes Excel gets a little little finicky over here. So if this just has one number then something got messed up when you did that you have to do it again. But I'm going to say okay. And so now if I scroll up top so now we've got this nice bell curve in that middle point is around you know the 75 at that middle point nice and smooth. Okay. And so then we can also add an area type of bell curve. I'm going to pull this to the side. We will get back to it soon because we could then think I would like to compare is there a way to compare my data to the actual data the actual data versus the bell curve. So we'll think about that and a little bit. But first note that you can also plot this with an area. So I'm going to select this item again control shift down and then I'm going to hit control backspace. And this time we're going to go into the insert tab and we're going to go to the charts and graphs. And if you select I believe this one then down here you've got your areas down below. So we'll pick this is the area. And so I'll pick that one. And so now you've got a graph that gives you that the area graph. And this is the one that we can we can work with because oftentimes when you're thinking about the bell curve you're trying to get the area under the curve that's going to be part of our calculations because that's going to give us our probability. So let's once again I got to fix this bottom bit. So I'm going to go up top and go to the select data. I'm going to go to the edit over here and select this one again and then pick our X's holding control shift down. Usually like you could hit the control backspace. But again sometimes that messes it up. So I just like to go OK and then OK and see if it picks it up and be awfully careful with Excel when we do that part. Because again Excel gets a little wonky sometimes right there. So there we there we have it. So we'll get a little bit more fancy on this one and say can we can we plot questions like if it's over a certain amount or under a certain amount. And can we get the Z score on there. So we'll do that in future presentations. But for now let's put this at the bottom of our stack of charts cool charts that we've been making. So notice that if you just want to see the shape of it the bar chart works well. The area chart is going to give us that area. However which is what we're usually thinking in when we're thinking of the of the normal distribution. Now we could compare this to our actual data. So let's do our actual and then let's put our frequency frequency. That's totally not spelled right. Is it. There's no way I'll spell check it. Oh they say it is. I don't know I'll take their word for it. I still have my doubt font group. Let's go black white rapid center it. I'll make it a little bit larger and now I'm going to do a frequency of our actual data to see how many times out of the thousand test scores we have that we get to each of these X's. So this is going to count our actual data in accordance with these X's. So I'm going to say this equals the frequency tab. And then I mean this is an array formula. So fancy array formula. I'm going to pick my data over here control shift down all of the data control backspace up to the top. Then I need to pick my X arrays. So I'm going to say comma and then put my cursor on the X arrays control shift down control backspace taking me back up. So this is saying all right Excel I would like you to find all of this data and see and put it into the groups are buckets with these numbers being in essence the top part of the bucket right. So it's going to take everything below 34 up to and including 34 and then everything from 34 or above 34 up to and including 35 and so on. Hopefully I got the cutoffs right there. So if I scroll down there it is not picked up this last bit down there which I don't want to hang out that far. So I'm going to change this to three and so there we have it. And so then if I put my totals down here I can say alt enter. This should add up to 100 percent. Let's percentify at home tab number percentify and then alt enter for the sum function. This should add up to a thousand because that's how many we told Excel to count. That's how many sample test scores that we had in our data set. Now if I want to compare this I can't compare this to the P of X directly. I could make a histogram from this right. I could make a histogram and I'll come up to a similar kind of histogram. But what I'd like to do is say well how can I get the percentages. So I can either I can either make this into percentages or I can make the percentages into a frequency by multiplying the percentages times a thousand. Now normally it'd be easier to say percent of total to make to make our data into a percent.  So I'm going to take every number divided by the total. This equals this number divided by control shift down. I just want that thousand. So enter double clicking on it. I'm going to make this second number absolute at four so that that bottom number doesn't move down as I copy the formula down. I'm going to make it a percent before copying it down. Home tab number group percentifying it couple decimals fill handle double clicking it copying it down. So now I have a set of data similar to this set of data. So this is my actual percent of the total. And this would be my predicted you know percents of whatever total I'd be using. And so then I can I can take my difference and I can say okay what's the difference between my actual data and this is the perfect bell curve minus my actual percent data percentifying this home tab number percentify add some decimals and then copy it on down. So now we can see our differences here. So when we're thinking about our data then I'll stop it here. We'll continue on with this next time. But the general idea is we can take our actual data set in real life and practice. You can actually build your data set but you would need the mean and the standard deviation to do so in practice. You might not know those numbers of course and you would take your data and then calculate those numbers to mean the standard deviation. If the median is similar to the mean it's likely it might follow a normal distribution. So you might then plot a normal distribution in this format being then able to create our graphs. And then we can also look at our actual data and compare it to the normal distribution at each point which could also give us an indication as to how close the actual data mirrors a normal distribution. We'll continue on with our graphs in a future presentation.