Hello, I'm going to show you how to create a Facebook group page The these instructions are for October 21st 2013 Things change on Facebook quite often. So you may need to go to the Facebook Help Center Or you can Google how to create a group so from your home page you go to groups section on the left side of the menu and Click on create group a Window will appear where you'll be able to add a group name Add members and select the privacy setting for your group and then you click create when you're done And once the group is created you'll be taken to the groups page To get started you click the star at the top right of the page and select edit group settings from here You can add a group description tags set a group email address add a group picture and manage members Okay, so let's do that. We go to Facebook We look down here on the side. You may need to scroll down and it says create a group Okay, the group name Okay, and you could probably add your members right here as well if you have a list of the students So you have you can If you if you click on open that means anybody can see the group who's in it and what members post And we shouldn't do that So we want to either close or click on closed or secret So a closed as anyone can see the group and who's in it only members see the post or only members see the group Who's in it and what members post? So I'm going to choose closed you could choose either one for What you want to do? Oh, it wants me to add some friends. So I will add a friend here And then click create I'm not going to choose an icon, but you can if you want And now if you look down here, we now have the group listed. Okay Click on that group and to add people You can invite by email Or you can add their name to the group if they're already your facebook friends If they're not your facebook friends, you will need to invite them by email And if you go to the about page You can see who the members are okay, and then You can look around to see how to change the the settings so edit group settings. I just clicked on the star Any member can add or approve members? No, you want to click on any member can add members But an admin must approve them. You are the administrator And then if you want to click Set up a group address or a group name you can do that Put that in anything else you want to tag you want to You can have only members can post in this group Or if you want to check what they're post first before it actually goes on the group You can click only administrators can post to the group Um Actually, no, this is only members can post to this group or only administrators can post to the group So we want the members to post But if you want to approve the post first see them before they go on the group Then you can click all group posts must be approved by the administrator So when the students do homework and post on it, you can see it before it actually goes up to the rest of the class That might be a good idea So we can save that And that's our that's how you Set up a facebook closed group for your class Okay, good luck


Hello and welcome to this presentation of the STM32L4's Full Speed On The Go or OTG USB Device Interface. It covers the features of this IP, which is widely used to connect either a PC or a USB device to the microcontroller. This slide explains the range of USB interfaces within the STM32L4 product line. As shown, this presentation describes the Full Speed On The Go or OTG USB Device Interface supported in STM32L49X4AX and STM32L47X4AX devices. All devices with the FS OTG USB Device Interface can operate with a low-frequency crystal oscillator. STM32L4964A6 devices also allow a USB device to be implemented without a crystal oscillator. This figure shows the simplest connections between an STM32L4 microcontroller and a USB connector in a peripheral configuration. The STM32L4 features a Full Speed USB communication interface, allowing the microcontroller to communicate typically with a PC or a USB storage device. The simplest implementation is a USB peripheral device, but the STM32L4 also supports On The Go USB functions. The USB implementation includes low power features allowing the use of a low-speed crystal oscillator, On The Go host or device functions, and a battery charger detection, allowing more efficient charging possibilities. This slide summarizes the key features of this Full Speed OTG USB Device Interface, which is a USB specification 2.0 compliant interface operating at a bit rate of 12 megabits per second. In the simplest form, a Full Speed USB device can be implemented. Low-frequency crystal operation is possible, and STM32L4964A6 devices can work crystal-less. Its built-in support for link power management adds enhanced power modes on top of the USB 2.0 specification.  The battery charger detection feature allows for increased current up to 1.5 amps to be drawn from BC1.2 compliant chargers. In this block diagram, the Full Speed OTG USB controller core is shown in the center with its data FIFOs below. The physical layer or PHY on its right side handles the analog signal levels, including many specific level detections relating to OTG and battery charger detection functions. The USB interrupt goes to the Cortex processor to signal various USB events. The AHB peripheral bus enables read-write access of the controller registers and the power and clock control block. Several related peripherals work in conjunction with the USB device controller to link the USB activity to the system power mode and software requirements. The clock recovery system allows operation without an external crystal oscillator using the integrated HSI oscillator as the main clock source. The interrupt events are sent to the non-vector interrupt controller via a single line. The system events can cause the system to wake up from stop mode. For example, at the moment we resume from USB suspend mode. At any given time, one of the two operating modes will be in operation. Peripheral mode used for a regular device or an OTG device, or targeted host mode used for an embedded host or an OTG device. Interrupts from this USB block can be triggered by a large number of events or state changes. This slide and the following three slides show all the events that can generate an interrupt. As can be seen, these interrupt sources are diverse. They range from events related to low power management and OTG to events related to normal host behavior and regular USB reset and disconnect events. Note in slide, reset detected. In device mode, this interrupt is asserted when a reset is detected on the USB and partial power down mode when the device is in suspend mode. In this second slide showing interrupts, another diverse set of sources is described. In this third slide describing interrupt sources, many suspend, OTG functions and FIFO status events are listed, as well as a general register access error. The USB peripheral is fully active in run mode. After a suspend event, sleep mode and stop zero and one modes are available and the contents of its registers are kept. Stop two and standby mode should not be used. Within the USB mode, dedicated bits are implemented to provide some debug functions for USB applications. They relate to FIFO status and contents and the scheduling of periodic cues in host mode. Additional details of these debug bits are listed in this table. Here is an application example of a low power device. Power is drawn directly from the USB Vbus signal. A single low speed crystal oscillator at 32.768 kilohertz is needed outside. A scheme is implemented inside the microcontroller using this low speed crystal oscillator to trim the internal 48 megahertz oscillator, thus giving the required frequency accuracy to comply with the USB specification. Here is a second application example showing a battery powered OTG solution. The STM32L4 controls a power switch supplying Vbus to the receptacle and monitors for faults on the supply. In this example, a regular crystal oscillator should be used. Should dead battery support be required, Vbus should be connected to the STM32L4 via a resistor divider. For complete USB specification documents, please refer to usb.org. The USB 2.0 document home page has a zip file containing the USB 2.0 and OTG 2.0 specifications and an ECN for LPM. The USB device class documents page has the battery charger specification. Additional information can also be found in these application notes.


Yeah, I think we have the recording now, so we can begin. So we're starting off with the book of Nahum Nahum basically is a judgment made against the city of Nineveh Now if you remember when we were looking at Obadiah, Obadiah was a judgment against whom? Let's see if anyone is awake When we did the book of Obadiah that was a judgment against The Edomites so now here Nahum is actually a judgment being spoken against The city of Nineveh last week when we were looking at the book of Jonah We saw that God actually wanted to give them a chance to repent I know come into his kingdom be a part of his people So he gave them that chance and for a few years Many of the Ninevites did turn to the living God But then majority of them went back to their old ways is what we are assuming because You know, Tiglath Pileser is able to Defeat them and they no longer have Yahweh support at that point of time So we assume that most of them must have gone back to their idolatrous ways some of them However, do remain in the kingdom of God because Jesus talks about how there will be people from Nineveh who will stand up during the judgment time and Ja and speak judgment against the people who are refusing Jesus Because Jesus is a greater prophet than Jonah if those people were willing to listen to Jonah and Come to the living God Then these cities in Jesus time have no excuse because Jesus is a greater prophet than Jonah and The people of Jesus day were still rejecting him So this is the background which we saw regarding Nineveh last time when we covered You know the book of Jonah So today we will look at what happens to Nineveh later And the and the judgment which came upon them when they returned back to their idolatry. All right, so This prophet Nahum is a contemporary of Zephaniah and Jeremiah So around the time that Jeremiah and Zephaniah were having their ministries At that time you have even Nahum prophesying But his concern is not so much about the destruction of Jerusalem, which is going to happen soon his Prophecy is concentrating on how Nineveh also will be destroyed one day So just to know a little bit of background regarding the time of Nahum We see that he was doing his ministry At the time of Josiah the good king Josiah So if we could have any one person read out for us Nahum chapter 1 verse 15 Let us look at what God has to say regarding this time of Josiah Nahum chapter 1 verse 15 We hold on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings Who proclaims peace O Judah keep your appointed feats Perform your vows for the weak one self. No more pass through you. He is eternally cut off All right, so here we see God telling the people celebrate your festivals Judah and fulfill your vows No more will the wicked invade you So this is during the time of the good king Josiah who has tried to bring about a spiritual revival He is trying to follow the ways of God. And so at this time for a little while the Kingdom of Judah is allowed to have peace because these are people who are trying to come back to the Lord Trying to walk in the Lord's ways So even though judgment is going to come down for a few years During this time of Josiah the Lord allows the kingdom to enjoy peace because the people have turned their hearts Towards him. So we see that this is the setting in which Nahum is giving a prophecy against Nineveh Now in 722 is when Assyria had Destroyed on the northern kingdom at that time if you remember even the cities of the southern kingdom Some of the cities were also attacked. Some of the cities were also taken over That would that was in 701 BC. So around that time these Events had taken place the Assyrians had shown how powerful they are and So now God speaks a judgment against them and says yes, it is true that you were able to come and destroy the northern kingdom Yes It is also true that you came a few years later and Attacked the cities of the southern kingdom during the time of Hezekiah at which time you did have a lot of success So yes, you are powerful, but this is what I the Almighty one is selling that you Nineveh will also fall when your time of punishment comes. So that is what God is declaring over here And so it is in 612 BC that Nineveh completely falls. So Nineveh as we know is the capital of the Assyrian kingdom It was not the capital during the time of Jonah, but then now 150 years have passed by and now at this time Nineveh is the capital of the Assyrian kingdom and This is God's prophecy against it Looking to look at the structure of the book of Nahum there are only three chapters and we see in the first chapter that God talks about his Great power and he talks about the judgment which he is capable of bringing and then in the next two chapters You have details about how Nineveh will be attacked how Nineveh will be Destroyed so maybe we can have Maybe we can look at maybe one verse from chapter one which talks about the awesome great power of the living God If we could have someone read out for us Nahum chapter one verse five. Yeah, Nahum one five And the earth keeps at his presence. Yes, the world and all who dwell in it Here it's using poetic language It's talking about how the mountains will literally shake when God comes in his anger to judge And this is a statement made at the end of this verse where it says the world and all the inhabitants in it You know, they are the ones who will be completely Judged so The Lord is saying when I come to bring my judgment it doesn't matter how powerful Nineveh is going to be it will be brought down and So this is what God says specifically regarding Nineveh in Chapter three verse seven God talks about complete destruction of Nineveh so if we can have someone read out for us Nahum chapter three verse seven Now Nineveh was a powerful capital. So it had a lot of allies All the other kingdoms wanted to be To partner with it to be friends with it because it was in a powerful state But God says I will reduce it to a state where nobody will want to even come near you You will no longer have any supporters. You will no longer have anyone even Feeling sorry for the destruction which you have undergone. So God says that that is what I will do to Nineveh one day And so the verse says Nineveh is devastated. Who will grieve for her? Where will I seek comfort us for you? Nobody will even want to come forward and help Nineveh in the time of destruction So this is the kind of destruction that God speaks against a powerful nation which has attacked northern The Northern Kingdom which has also Successfully taken over many of the southern Kingdom cities and these are God's words against it Now just to look at a little bit of background If you remember we talked about how 150 years previously when Jonah was asked to give a word of judgment to Nineveh at that time Nineveh was just a provincial center It was not the capital city and moreover the dynasty that was ruling at that time The Assyrian dynasty that was ruling at that time did not have many powerful rulers There was a person named Shamshi as a adad on the throne and then after him his three sons They come none of them are powerful So the the at that time all the provincial centers are trying to break free from the Assyrian control Things were like that. But then after that, we you know, we talked about it last time Tiglath Pileser's dynasty comes and his dynasty is very powerful and that's basically when you have The Assyrian Empire regaining its strength. It becomes strong once again. So During the time of Tiglath Pileser It's when you have a series of powerful rulers one of them being Sargon the second around the ending of his reign he and Senna Sherib they come They destroy the northern kingdom take away all the israelite people from there as slaves And so the Senna Sherib He becomes one of the most powerful rulers and so while some people say that Tiglath Pileser made Nineveh the capital Many other historical records. They say that it was actually Senna Sherib who expanded Nineveh and made it his capital city So he builds for himself a very grand palace in Nineveh and he in fact builds a palace even for his son and he builds a large fortification wall around Nineveh and it's told that that City now had some 1850 acres, so it was supposed to be a large City, he expands the city makes it bigger grander He puts in a lot of gardens and all of that and then one of his descendants Ashur Bani Pal He's another very very powerful Assyrian king. So he also, you know Constructs many palaces and all of that so Nineveh becomes a very grand city and people look upon it as a successful Place they don't think about it as a weak place But God says even though you have become such a grand and powerful city I will bring you down when the time comes What we learn about this last dynasty of the Assyrians is that they are They were they were a very cruel people the Assyrians were a violent nation Their soldiers always were violent But this last dynasty is especially very very cruel and heartless Because in the historical records which are available We see some of the very evil things which they did in fact in Nahum chapter 3 verse 1 When God is describing the city he calls it city of blood Maybe someone could read out Nahum chapter 3 verse 1 Nahum 3 verse 1 It says that this is a city of blood.   It is full of Exploitation and plunder. It's always constantly attacking its victims That is the description which is given for this city of Nineveh and this was the city to which God reached out his hand and said if you will repent I would like to take you under my covering But now the people have gone far away from that repentance and this is what they have become They have become a city of blood. So not only did Nineveh backslide It has now gone to a stage where it is completely No way connected to Yahweh anymore. That is what has happened to Nineveh under the You know rule of this third dynasty under the rule of this powerful third dynasty and so During the time of Sargon the second and Sena share it when northern Israel is being conquered This is what they do to Manasseh. This is how Manasseh is dragged away If someone could read out the description of how Manasseh is defeated and how he's taken away You know when northern when the northern kingdom is falling Second Chronicles chapter 33 verse 11 second Chronicles 33 verse 11 Upon then the captains of the RV of the king of Assyria who took Manasseh With hoops bound him with bronze feathers and carried him off to Babylon it talks about how they put a hook in his nose and Dragged him off like as if he is an animal. The idea is that The you know Assyrian kings are saying look once upon a time you were a king But now we have reduced you to the level of an animal We have reduced to the level of a beast the same way we we carry I know we we drag cattle by putting a hook in their nose in that way We are putting a hook in your nose and they are dragging you away to our kingdom So in this manner they would humiliate the kings whom they were Conquering now they didn't exactly have any surgical instruments nor surgical procedures In those days so you can imagine how violently that Metal hook would have been placed in a human nose and a person is actually dragged Using that so it is brutal. No sense of mercy or kindness You know, so that's the kind of record that we see even in the secular writings regarding the Assyrian third dynasty In fact, we also see in the historical records mentioned being made that When they would capture the kings and the and the powerful officials of the of the different kingdoms They would put them on the ground, you know Facing with the face downward on the ground and then they would slice the skin along the back So that they can peel off the entire thing like as if it's one single, you know layer That was the level of cruelty. I mean when the person is still alive They would start peeling off his flesh so that they can display this flesh Which they have taken of off from the person, you know, the same way you would do with animals where animal the way the animal is Skin is carefully cut open and sliced open so that you know, the whole thing comes open like one single piece and That is what they used to do to the people whom they have to some of the powerful officials and kings whom they have captured now When God finally destroyed this city, he promised he said that it will be Devastated that it will be so completely destroyed that nobody will even live in that place anymore. That was the promise that God made and Just according to that prophecy, you know, nobody ever lived in that area any longer after the destruction of Nineveh and it was only in the mid 1800s that archaeologists even discovered that there was such a city existing, you know under the ground So when they began to do explorations in that excavations in that particular region, that is when in the mid 1800s they discovered this large Grand city they began to excavate all the palaces which were there and then they saw how grandly those palaces were constructed they had this huge large Stone slabs, you know in the palace on which they would carve out Their history they would make carvings about how they defeated enemies how they tortured the enemies All these are shown in the carvings which they You know did in on those large wall slabs So that's in fact available in some museum somewhere. I'm not sure where So those things are still displayed up to this day and if when you look at those Carvings, oh, you know, which have been taken from the palace walls Then you will see the level of their cruelty. They were proud to advertise that this is how they treat their enemies So you in fact you have one carving in which You know, it's it's that that particular carving is celebrating the victory which they had at which they had one at Elam and so you basically have a sure bunny par and his wife sitting over there Along with all the officials and they're having a huge banquet They're all feasting and drinking wine and all of that and then in the corner you have from the tree the head of the Elamite King hanging Like a decoration piece So they wanted to show off in their drawings, you know in their carvings how great they were and how they have reduced everywhere all the other Kings to you know, nothing and so that was the kind of Cruelty that we see in this Assyrian dynasty and God says to them that he will Bring them down and that when the destruction comes nothing will be able to save them Maybe we can look at some details about The actual attack Which are mentioned in poetic language in the Bible and then we can compare it to the historical records that we have about Actually, how Nineveh fell So if we could maybe first read out the scripture passage Now home chapter 2 if someone could read out verses 4 5 and 6 now home chapter 2 Versus 4 5 and 6 The gates of the river are open and the palace is dissolved So in these verses you have poetic language being used to talk about how Nineveh is going to fall one day Okay, this is the prophecy that is being given. It has not yet happened But here in this prophecy God describes this is how I will bring about your destruction And when we read these wordings, we don't quite understand what is being talked about over here But then when we compare this with what the Greek historian Cyculeus wrote down in his historical record then we begin to understand what these verses are saying So there was this Greek historian named deodorus cyclus S-i-c-u-l-u-s that was his name and he wrote something called the bibliotheca Historia and so in his history book, you know that word bibliotheca Historia literally means history book. So in his history book, he talks about the capture of Nineveh and how Nineveh falls it is basically the The Medes and the Babylonians who come and attack the city and this is actually what happens Um Sena Sherab we saw Build expanded the size of the original city and he built a new fortification wall So earlier when Nineveh was there in the time of Jonah, they had a city and they already had a fortified wall around it But then he expands the city. So he makes the city much bigger in size So the original fortification wall stays inside But now the city has become much bigger in size extending beyond those Fortification walls and so now you have an other outer fortification wall So Nineveh now basically has two levels of walls You have the wall which is inside the original wall and then you also have an outer Wall which is at a much many many kilometers away because now that entire Circumference of the city has increased and so they had two levels of fortification walls and when the when the Medes and the Babylonians come to attack They find it very very difficult to break through the outer walls because you know the soldiers who are attacking from inside who are standing on the walls and Fighting are in a strong position and the Medes and the Babylonians on that day when they first come and make their attack They're not able to have any success. In fact, they're quite badly defeated the Nineveh soldiers who are standing on the battle meant, you know walls, they throw arrows at them. They throw Huge rocks at them. And so the enemy is unable to come inside those outer fortification walls This is the what is recorded in Cyclops, you know a writings. This is what he says about the first attack So that night, there's a great celebration inside the city of Nineveh because the enemy was unable to get inside The people were able to you know, the soldiers were able to defeat the Medes and the Babylonians so that night they have a huge celebration and Cyclops writes that they all got very drunk So when they were in that drunken state At that time in the night the Medes and the Babylonians take advantage of the situation and Secretly during the night, they're able to make an opening in one portion of that outer wall and they are able to enter inside along with their chariots through that broken portion because all the Officials and all the commanders of the army everyone is drunk on the inside and they are not alert So this is what basically is talked about over here in Nahum chapter 2 verse 4 Where it talks about how the chariots are storming through the streets They are rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches They dart about like lightning. Those are the wordings that are used in the scripture in chapter 2 verse So it's basically talking about how the chariots have now broken through the outer wall They have entered into Nineveh and now the chariots are moving around in the sunlight and when the Ninevites wake up in the morning They are horrified to see these chariots moving about and it says they look like flaming torches You know because these chariots are made of metal and they are shining in the sunlight and so when they are You know passing by it looks like as if you know The the the metal is catching fire because of the sunlight which is falling upon it and so poetic language is being used and then What is Nineveh? What do the what do the soldiers do verse 5? It says Nineveh summons her picked troops yet they stumble on their way They dash to the city wall the protective shield is put in place So now all the soldiers realize that the outer wall has been breached So now they start rushing towards the inner city wall And so they put up defenses around the inner city wall Hoping that at least they can now protect what is left of the actual main inner city So it talks about how the protective shield is put in place in chapter 2 verse 5 so Um The outer wall has been broken through and now the Meads and the Babylonians need to attack the inner wall And now the soldiers are completely on their guard. The Ninevite soldiers are completely on their guard And it will not be very easy now for the enemy to attack So now they come up with another plan and that gets described in verse 6 where it says the river gates are thrown open And the palace collapses. What is it talking about over here? The river Tigris Passed through one small portion of the city of Nineveh So in one corner of the city you actually have the river Tigris going through the city So they are the inner wall was constructed in such a way that the waters go under the um They go under the city wall into the city at one particular portion and During the rainy season, you know, the rivers tend to become Over flooded and so to prevent flooding inside the city In the outer area of the city Sena Sherib. He constructs You know dam gates the way we have today in our, you know, current water dams where you can open the Gates to allow the water to flood, you know with all of its power or you can close the gates Where I know that they are called sluice gates the dams have something called sluice gates When you close the gates the water flow reduces when you open the sluice gates the water flow increases so They were controlling the flow of water into the city using these sluice gates So basically what the enemy does once it comes inside inside the outer wall, you know Once they make the entry through the outer wall They open up the sluice gates and the waters rush into the inner city And as the waters are rushing into the inner city, there's one portion of the wall which is weak Which is supposed to be on the north the north eastern side And that portion of the inner wall collapses and all the enemy goes in through that broken portion and Once they go inside The king who is there, you know inside the in his palace when he hears that the inner wall has also been broken down He burns down the entire palace with the entire royal family inside His idea is that they have humiliated so many other kings and nations Now the enemies are going to do that to them and he doesn't want to face that humiliation So he literally burns all his wives his children everyone inside the palace He sets it on fire so that the entire palace Just burns and collapses and the enemy comes and takes over the entire city So these are some some of the details that we find in the writings of syculus who records the downfall of Nene way So just as god prophesied the river gates are opened just as god prophesied the palace collapses So all these things god predicts even before these events take place And it's about only 600 years later after the fall of nene way that syculus writes down these details in his historical record all of this shows That we truly have a living god who looks into the future and tells us beforehand what is going to take place So this is not a god that you know the nation should take lightly. This is the living god who knows the end from the beginning and so The nations must actually you know pay attention So all of these prophecies were given so that the nations will realize that Yahweh is All powerful. He's aware of future events when he makes a prophecy of judgment It shall come to pass in his perfect timing. So these are all facts which The prophets were trying to convey, you know, whenever they proclaimed these prophecies Um, so these are some of the details that we see regarding the fall of nene way So when we look at the poetic language in the book of nahum, we don't get We don't get all the historical details But when we back it up with what syculus has written we see that god Made this happen when you look at just the historical writing which syculus wrote He writes as if the meads and the Babylonians were powerful enough to do this on their own But it's actually a living god who allowed them to do this to nene way He's the one he's the power behind these meads and Babylonians who are able to you know bring judgment on nene way So when you just look at the historical books, it looks like a series of events powerful people rise powerful people fall But it's actually the live god who is controlling these powerful people and allowing them to rise and causing them to fall In his time according to his you know a plan And so even as we see some of the things which are happening in the world today, you know in the When we look at the international scene and we look at the wars which are going on I don't want to mention any names But we can see the things which are happening right now and there are people in power today And they think that they are very powerful and untouchable But there's a living god behind all of this He decides who's going to rise to power when how long they will stay in power and when they are going to fall The nations even though they think that they are very great Actually have no control over what they are doing in the sense when the time comes for them to fall They will fall because the living god decides What should be done when and he knows how to watch out for his people and protect them So even though you know so much Our destruction had already started in the land of juda During the time of josea god protects the people god takes care of the people because during the time of josea The people repented and came back to him and so during that time God speaks to them these words of hope and says you know what mineveh came and attacked your cities But you know what mineveh is going to fall one day and when it falls its destruction will be complete Is what the lord, you know assures them. So this is what we see from the book of nahum Let's move into the book of haba cook Now haba cook was Written Also approximately around this time. So nahum zephanaya jeremaya Haba cook all of these people were doing their prophesying around approximately the same time Haba cook the book of haba cook is mainly known for the questions which haba cook asks god If you look at most of the prophetic books, it's basically the prophet Proclaiming and saying to the people, you know, you have sinned God is going to bring judgment upon you Even now there is time if you repent the lord will turn back. So that's that's the basic Format which we see in most of the prophetic books But here in the book of haba cook haba cook is not even talking to the people He's not even giving any prophecies to the people Haba cook is mainly a conversation between haba cook and god where Haba cook asks god questions and in return god gives him a set of prophecies All right, so that's basically the format which we see here in the book of haba cook so If we were to look at the structure of the book of haba cook chapter one Up to chapter two verse five Is where you have the first Conversation So haba cook one Up to chapter two verse five is where you have haba cook asking a question and god giving an answer So that's the first portion And then after that You have haba cook chapter Two verse five onwards where you have a second question which haba cook is asking and god gives an answer to that as well and then In the last portion of chapter two god talks about five things which he will do to the Powerful nations which are not following him including Babylon. Okay, so there are five judgments given That is in the in the second portion of chapter two And then finally you have chapter three in which haba cook makes a prayer of submission to god So you can basically divide this book of haba cook into three portions The first portion is where haba cook asks questions god answers the second portion god says don't worry I will bring judgment upon all these powerful nations, you know, which are opposing me and and are not submitting to me And the third portion haba cook just submits himself to god in prayer. Let's look at the questions which haba cook asks Um, this is in the first portion So if we could have someone read out for us haba cook chapter one verse two haba cook chapter one Verse two Haba cook starts off with a question of frustration He says lord i've been crying out to your help And you are not listening He says I cry out to you violence But you do not save because there's so much injustice happening or lord in this in this land of juda So lord, why don't you bring justice? Why don't you do something for the people the poor are being exploited? The rich are becoming more and more arrogant They think that nobody's going to judge them and so they're doing whatever they want But lord i'm crying out violence violence and lord you're not doing anything So he asks god lord When will you help us when are you going to you know save us? And when he asks that question This is what the lord says the lord says to him. Don't worry.  Maybe god will you know, uh punish the evil people Who are oppressing the poor and establish justice?  I'm saying that the judges are, you know unjust They are not giving justice. Yes, I have been complaining about these things And I admit that they are evil But lord you're saying you're going to use somebody even more evil To come and bring justice How lord how is this going to work because he says this about the character of god um He says, uh, you are you're not a god who looks at injustice.  I know what's going on. I have heard your prayers. Yes violence is going on But I will punish the people who are doing injustice I will bring the Babylonians the Babylonians will come and attack and they will be destroyed So now immediately habakkuk says but lord, you're such a pure and holy god. You cannot even look at impurity So lord, why would you use somebody as evil as the Babylonians? People who are even worse than the Israelite people. Well, how are you going to use them?  To bring up what pure justice Is what habakkuk asks and uh, this is what he says In habakkuk chapter one versus 14 to 17. He talks about how evil these Babylonian people are He describes them and so his basic question is how can you use somebody so rotten?   So he talks about the Babylonians and how evil they are in habakkuk chapter one versus 14 to 17 If someone could read out that portion and look at the details which he uses Look at the poetic language the images which he uses to describe these Babylonian people and the evil which they are doing Uh, habakkuk chapter one versus 14 to 17 Why do you make men like fish of the sea like creeping things that have no ruler over them They take up all of them with a hook. They catch them in their net and gather them in their Dread net therefore they rejoice and are glad therefore they sacrifice to their net and Burn incense to their dread net because by them their share Is sampath house and their food plentiful shall they therefore empty their net and continue to slay nations with without pity Habakkuk says lord when you created people you created them like the fish in the sea they were meant to you know Swim around the entire ocean and be free and to enjoy The life which you have given them so people were meant to be like the you know sea creatures Because the sea creatures don't have any government. They don't have any cruel king controlling them. You know, they're free So habakkuk says when you created people or lord, that's the way you wanted people to enjoy But then what did these Babylonians do? They are like, you know, he's using the image of fish.  He's using the, you know, language of fishing He's talking about how these Babylonians came along and he took this free people and he began and and this Kings began to hook them the way you hook fish They began to throw their net and collect all the people as captives You know the same way we capture the fish in a net So he says this is what the Babylonian people have done and they don't even acknowledge you Rather than saying the living god has allowed us to have victory. What are they doing? They're making sacrifices to their drag net, you know, like as if the net has brought them the victory Like as if their their weapons have brought them victory But it's actually you the living god was allowing it and they don't even acknowledge that Lord, how can you allow people like that to continue destroying? You know is the question which he asks and so he says in habakkuk chapter two verse one I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts I will look to see what god will say to me and what answer I am going to give to this Complaint, so habakkuk is very very troubled by what god has said He wants to know how god can use evil things To bring about good and so he says, you know, I'm literally going to stand on the city walls Of course, he's using metaphoric language You know, he's saying it's like, you know, I'm going to stand on the city walls and I'm going to wait No, the way or the way, you know the During times of battle the king waits on the battle wall to see, you know If any messenger is coming to bring news about what's going to happen So he says I'll wait.  It's a question which many of us have asked And so like this Habakkuk, we are standing on the city wall waiting eagerly to see whether god will give some reply Whether god will give some answer to our to our very honest Desperate question And this is the answer which god gave to Habakkuk And this is the answer which god gives even to us believers today Let us look at what god says. So if someone could read out for us Habakkuk chapter two Verse two up to verse four Habakkuk two two to four Then the lord answered me and said let the wisdom and make it plan on tablets That he may learn who leads who reads it for the vision is yet for an appointment time But at the end it will speak and it will not lie Though it terrifies me for it because it will surely come. It will not tell you we hold Proud his soul is not upright in him, but just shall life live by his faith God says the answer which i'm giving is a true answer No get the tablets ready because when i'm going to give you the answer It's going to be an answer which will really you know be genuine So, you know get ready to write it down and send it to all different places with messengers Because who knows how many people are waiting on their city walls waiting to hear what god is going to say regarding this So it's like you know all this is poetic language, which he is using to talk about god is trying to say Where there are people waiting Who are waiting for an answer from me? Because we believers are asking and saying lord why so much injustice lord when are you going to do something good or lord When will you set your people free or lord? You know people are crying out So he says write it down write it down on tablets and send the messages to give the Message which i am conveying and this is the message which i wish to convey and this is what god says um For the revelation awaits an appointed time It speaks of the end and will not Prove false god says the things which i'm going to do they will happen in the end time And when they happen in the end time every word that i'm saying will take place Not one word which i'm saying will be proved false All that i have promised i will do i will bring it to pass And he goes on to say though it linger Wait for it it will certainly come and will not delay So god says in my timing i will grant justice In my timing my people will receive the help which they require in my timing You know even though it looks like as if it is getting delayed He says though it linger wait for it It will certainly come and will not delay in my perfect appointed time Without delay. I will do the things which i am promising for my people So this is these are words which are very important not just you know for the people of haba cooks time They are for us as well and this is what it says in verse 4 Where god says the enemy is very puffed up his desires are not upright But the righteous person will live by his faith You know and it says in in some versions by his faithfulness So we will look at this in greater detail You know when we come back from our break because what god is saying over here is very very important for our christian walk All right, so um we can go for our break now. Yeah


no matter what announcing who you are to the world is pretty terrifying because what if the world doesn't like you. So Simon feels that everyone deserves a true love story. Well let's see if it worked out for him. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's going on everyone thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Love Simon I really do appreciate it. Now this movie Love Simon if you don't already know this is about a character in high school by the name of Simon who is gay and is afraid of coming out of the closet. No one knows his family doesn't know his friends doesn't know the high school that he goes to doesn't know and it is really just tearing him up on the inside that he just wants to come out and let everybody know you know how he really is he's he's afraid you know of any repercussions or you know people lashing out you know he just doesn't know how people are going to react and he just you know he wants to express himself. Now this film is based on a novel by Becky all battalion by the name of Simon versus the Homo sapiens agenda and when I first saw the trailer to be honest with you I was a little turned off because I was feeling the trailer up until the very end where they threw that line or that scene in there where it goes doesn't seem fair that only gay people have to come out by a straight to default and you know just to be honest I was kind of saying to myself like wait a minute you can't say that that doesn't make any sense that just doesn't add up and but going into this movie I completely forgot about that I just remember it as I was preparing for this review it is a very great job of just telling the story and just like filmmaking like it's directed by Greg Berlanti and I'm a fan of him because he is the producer of a lot of the cw tv comic book superhero shows like the flash black lightning supergirl legends of tomorrow and just you know that's just the first thing I noticed about the film is just directing other film by Greg Berlanti the way it opened up you know it felt very home and cozy just kind of like you know hey welcome come on in take off your shoes sit down you want some water lemonade coffee tea I got you you know we got something cooking over here got something brewing over here you just relax we're just gonna take care of you you're gonna have a great time I mean that's just kind of like the feeling that I had you know when this film opened up okay you know this this may be pretty cool you know I'm feeling this there was a long opening credit scene and I'm really not a fan of those but for some reason they worked in this movie and came a little later on the film but you know it's something that I did appreciate something else that I really did appreciate was the score of the film and if you've seen my reviews in the past you know I do love a good score you know I do love a good soundtrack and with this movie with the score and the soundtrack this really this movie really made me feel like it came from like the 80s or the 90s this really felt like high school and just kind of took me back and then we tied it in with the great directing by Greg Berlanti I was like okay you know I'm saying I'm on board this film I'm feeling it and the composer for this film is by the name his name is Rob Simonson and that name didn't ring a bell initially but he's done films like Life of Pie Moneyball Foxcatcher and a number of others when I looked at his filmography so you know I really did love the score I was I was really feeling that besides Simon himself of course I'm gonna talk about him the main titular character all the other characters in this movie like the side characters like you know he does carpool every day so he picks up one of his best friends it's a guy and then these two other girls so it's just kind of them for and just the way they interact with each other I found that very fascinating some of their dialogue seemed a little more mature than what it really would be in real life you know for somebody that is 16 17 18 years old but that's nothing that I'm just gonna complain about too much I would just kind of like watching him in the car like okay did I talk like that they talked you know back then you know one of the characters well one of them is a black and white the other one I don't know what he is he may be he may be all black but I was just like you know I didn't talk like that maybe some other people did but you know it's not a big deal but I did like all the side characters especially like a character he was the vice principal of the school just this kind of quirky dude really necessarily didn't fit in the film like I was kind of watching him just kind of saying to myself okay are you a realistic vice principal I don't see a vice principal acting the way you are acting right now in this movie but it was still funny so I accepted it there's another character by the name of Martin that was just kind of really kooky as well you know but he you know he fit well in the film unlike the vice principal did but the vice principal is still funny some other side characters that were just a little off to me they were great in the movie and their relationship was great but they didn't relate to Simon the way that I thought it would and that is Josh DeMille and Jennifer Gardner those are his parents they came across as a great married couple and somebody that can uphold the family but when you put them in the same picture frame Josh DeMille Jennifer Gardner and Simon and his little sister it just I was like you know I'm just really not buying you guys as parents right now you know you just just kind of just seeming too cool I'm not really feeling the the husband the wife the son relationship here in this family that you guys are trying to present but the crazy thing is is that was early on in the film when the film ended towards the end you know all that went away those preconceived notes that I had I was okay you guys are being not that there was being bad parents earlier but you know I'm really feeling you now I really feel this family dynamic here so I don't know whatever happened late in the third act of the film but it really picked up there and I really was buying a relationship now Simon himself you know do I like Simon um well the thing about Simon's character is his character was hit or missed with me uh his character was a roller coaster at towards one point in the film I was you know the dude was cool you know I'm saying I seem like a real cool dude but then later on in the film at some point I despised his character I was very disgusted by some of the things that he was doing but then at little after that you know he redeemed himself kind of stood up for himself kind of grew some nuts some cojones so I was back on board with him again but then like later on in the film kind of towards the very end I was kind of clocking out again so his character for me just was kind of like all over the place and I don't I don't know if I want to get too specific because I don't want to ruin anything for you um but I'll just say that's that another so that was like my real first gripe of the film but something else that I really just didn't care for is the whole story of Simon coming out trying to uh reveal to the world that he's gay the reason why I was not feeling that story is because Simon in this movie is making such a big deal about him being gay now I'm not gay so I cannot relate to Simon's character and growing up I've heard a little story here and there that you know sometimes gay people are afraid to come out because they are afraid of the backlash and I can only speak from my experiences of me when I was in elementary junior high high school in college and that is I have never in my entire life come across the situation to where somebody came out while I was there was a junior high high school admitted that they were gay and they got beat up or made fun of or just thrown in trash cans or whatever I've just never encountered that I'm not saying that it's not true or that it doesn't exist and if you're watching this video if that happened to you um I do apologize and I want to be sensitive to your situation but in my experience anytime somebody has ever come out if they're gay it's just like no big deal nobody cares you know what I'm saying but at the same time that situation can't relate to everybody because everybody has different walks of life the reason why it becomes a problem in this film is because the film itself treats it like it's no big deal so I'm sitting there asking myself I'm watching this on my assignment you yourself are saying that you're the narrative that you're and he did give great narration in this movie that hey my name is Simon and I am a normal kid just like you I have friends and we talk about coffee and on Friday nights we go to the movies and we binge on carbs and you know my parents love me uh my mom is a liberal my dad is not the macho super tough you know father like oh we got you gotta get in there and be tough and football and whatever he's not like that he's very sensitive I have a great relationship with my sister you know I'm mildly like this school so I'm like dude you have like what's the problem what's wrong with coming out you know what I'm saying like it would be see I would have liked this film a lot better if they if the film would have provided some repercussions like man if I don't if I come out that I'm gay my dad is gonna kill me or my mom is gonna disown me or I'm gonna lose all my friends or I have this football scholarship that I'm gonna lose or everybody at my church is gonna disown me because the church they say no gays you know I'm saying if the film would have presented some type of obstacle that he had to overcome and you know he had he just stood his ground and then like I don't care I'm gonna come out I'm gay and if you don't like me and if you want to dismiss me because of that screw you I'm gonna live my life that would have been a much better film to me but when I'm watching this film as I said nobody in my personal life whenever they have come out gay people like okay you gay so what whether you male or female you know what I'm saying and in this movie it was presented that way too I mean even Simon himself said because there's there's different levels of gayness you know what I'm saying to my understanding and what I mean about it is okay you just have gay people to where you only know if they're gay is if you either walked in on them and while they're in the middle of the act or they told you or something like that you know I guess normally but then you have people that dress up you know in opposite clothes opposite sex clothing or you know you know a man pretending to be a woman vice versa or just you know real flame and get like hey you know I'm over exaggerating but you know what I mean by the flame you know the super duper flaming gay person there was a super duper flaming gay person in this movie in high school that dressed like a girl all of that and nobody gave a crap nobody made fun of them and Simon said there's like you know I'm afraid of coming out that I'm gay but this super duper gay person came out over here and you know and nobody cared so I don't know why I'm so afraid and I'm just like bruh if you don't know I don't know either you know what I'm saying so I just really I just really would have liked this film a lot more is if like you know that Simon was like the most popular guy in school you know what I'm saying you know all the women like were just throwing the panties at him just like oh Simon I want to smash a good Simon you so fine Simon meet me behind the bleachers at 10 o'clock after the game Simon I want to give you my cookies and you know he just had all this stuff going but there was just like nothing for him to lose you know what I'm saying like I just kept saying to myself bro if you come out nobody's gonna care nobody's gonna treat you different and then I don't want to I don't want to spoil it for you but I'll just say that there was these two a-holes in high school that was trying to tease somebody else that they were gay and not like they didn't get any laughs everybody looked at them like dude what you're doing is not funny you're stupid you need to chill out making fun of people it's not cool go sit around somewhere you know what I'm saying and so that just goes on just like another reason why I just don't understand like why we got this story but then again the filmmaking was great the score was great all the surrounding characters were great it was very funny I did relate with Simon just a little bit as far as just kind of being afraid to like say something because everybody has secrets and skeletons in their closet you know I'm not saying everybody's gay but everybody does have something that they maybe have only told God or one of the soul you know so I can relate there but um you know the whole Simon making it a big deal that he's gay and not wanting to come out I just wasn't feeling that and I'm not saying that the movie is bad but it just could have been a lot better you know because it was some decent performances in this movie and another thing there was a love story that Simon was going through in this movie and for the most part I wasn't this I wasn't feeling that either because it was just too somebody gonna call me homophobic for saying this it just did it was just too mushy and just didn't really seem realistic and people that are in high school saying that they're falling in love I cannot take that too seriously you don't even know who you are yet I mean I mean you know I'm going with that um and so Simon potentially falling in love with somebody that you haven't even met before it's just like come on man for real like that'll make no damn sense you know I'm saying and the film if it would have ended on a certain point I would have been like man that was a good movie y'all need to go see this but the ending kind of ruined it for me not ruined it like this I'm gonna give it a feeling greater anything like that it did knock it down a few notches but you know for the most part I did like it but I did not I did not really care for Simon being afraid of coming out you know but it was a good film and I do have a question for gay people out there if you're gay did you have a problem coming out have you ever come out now don't please don't give me a whole four-page letter letter of you know hold when I for I'd give me a sentence or two you know and that's it I'm just being honest so it was something else that I wanted to say um well I think I made my point but if I have to rate love Simon out of a one out of ten I would give it a seven out of ten yes a seven out of ten so you thought I was gonna give it much lower than that but guys I did sell that but in the end you know we're all movie fans and this is just my opinion so have you seen love Simon or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me a thumbs up and if you don't disfine go ahead and subscribe to my channel go to my website check me out there book market and look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter all that good stuff it's right at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below but guys I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review of love Simon directed by Greg Berlanti and before you go don't forget that my name is Brennan Keith-Avery and that's just my opinion peace