Let's talk about visualizers. And your first question may be, what's a visualizer? Hopefully you've watched my video that you should be making three videos for every song you release over a six to eight week period. And if you have it, it's linked in the card now or in the description below. Anyway, I advise making a single screen video, then a lyric video and a music video. But a common question I get is what about instrumental music or songs where you don't wanna highlight the lyrics? Well, that's where a visualizer comes in. Since these are videos that provide a visually engaging image that isn't high budget and doesn't take the time and effort you often put into a music video and allows another newsworthy event to promote your music while keeping fans engaged and catching the eye of potential fans. So this video, I'm gonna discuss how to make a visualizer in a couple hours inside the free DaVinci Resolve software so you can promote your music more effectively. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, a music marketing nerd who's on YouTube teaching musicians how to go from zero to 10,000 fans. And this is Muse Formation. So let's talk for one more second about visualizers before we get started with the tutorial. You may particularly be thinking, what's the difference between a visualizer and a lyric video? A visualizer has no lyrics and instead of leaning on those lyrics, it goes a little harder on making appealing visuals for the song. One of the reasons a visualizer is so important is it's another opportunity to up the emotion of your music with something visual and grab the attention of fans instead of promoting the same thing over and over. So you can use this as another eventful way to catch fans' eyes so they build a deeper relationship with your music and then tell their friends to do the same. If you want to learn more on that, watch my video on how to keep fans' eyes glued to you, which is in the description. The key to a great visualizer is to find imagery that fits your song's emotion and then arrange it in a fashion that will help it synergize together. So your goal here is to do no harm and make a video that can sustain the listener's visual attention if they choose to watch. You want it to feel like the song's emotion and make it so it doesn't contradict or ruin the emotion of the song by being cringe. But it should be something that doesn't take a lot of time because an amazing visualizer is rarely rewarded with lots of views. That's what an actual music video is for, is putting tons of time in. So while I want you to be cautious about finding imagery that helps accentuate the emotion of your song, I also want you to not spend 10 hours on this. We really are doing this since it's something else to post about that you did in another piece of content a fan can use to build a deeper relationship with your music. So let's get into how to make one. Now there's two ways you can go about getting the footage for your visualizer. One, you can make imagery yourself. Many people go out and grab footage or take extra footage for their music video and then do loops or manipulations of it by putting on filters effects and put it through the visualizer. You can even use end lights suite of apps and make your images do crazy effects and then loop them throughout your video. The second way to do it is to go to a stock footage library. Now what these libraries are is a place where you can get footage you will be legally allowed to use in your videos. There's tons of services that allow you to do this like Shutterstock, VidEvo, VidEasy, Pisa Bay, and Pixels. And all of them are linked in the description. But honestly, a simple Google search will give you so many of these sites you can get a free trial membership for and often find what you're looking for and decide which one to subscribe to. But since I know a lot of you are on a budget of zero here's what you can also do. Search YouTube and put public domain in the search and then just make sure you check the description of the video to make sure the footage is actually public domain or you can use a search filter and select Creative Commons. You just have to get to know what the various Creative Commons terms are and give credit to the creator for whatever they ask for. Okay, so if we're gonna make a visualizer obviously the first thing we need is a song. So I'm gonna go in and we're gonna be using a song called Idiot Wave by my friend Zach's project Echo DDT. So I'm gonna pull that in first. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna chop off this beginning which and then a shift delete. We'll pull that forward. Let's make sure the end is trimmed, looking good. So if you're not familiar with the windows on DaVinci Resolve, what we have here is the cut, edit, fusion, color, the mixer and the deliver. I'm gonna do everything in the edit window right now because it's really nice and easy to do. So let me give you a little bit of the vibe with the song. So as you can hear it's like a synth wave. He calls it kind of like vapor wave pop type stuff. So we're gonna do a pretty retro feel for this video to try to match what he's going for musically. So I like to think of visualizers. When I'm thinking of doing this, I'm thinking it has to be pretty retro and I really see a lot of this stuff with when you're making a visualizer is is you're just gonna mess around inside here and get to know your video editing software a little bit better so that you know how to be creative with it and you're getting practice for how you be creative to make all sorts of things, whether it's social media or your other videos and you learn how to work with this. So if you're watching this video, I imagine you're not totally familiar with how to make a visualizer. So I'm gonna get started with that. So the first thing we need is we need some basis for the film that's gonna go on and the actual footage. So like I said, there's tons of stock footage sites but the one I wanna use today is called Pixels, P-E-X-E-L-S. And they're a great site because what I like most about it is is you can download the footage really fast and easily without signing in or anything like that. It's got a good search function and has enough there but there's tons of other sites like I said before where you can find this footage, you could search around till you find the right stuff but I thought what we got here today was good enough. So you just search, do some search criteria, they got tons of suggestions too when you do it that this search was headphones, now we got microphone. There's tons and tons of stuff in here that you can grab. Anyway, so I already grabbed some stuff to save us some time. That's been downloaded into a folder which I call my visualizer source material and let me pull that in here. I kept it nice and simple, just grabbed some footage of people listening to music here. So I just dragged that onto three new tracks and DaVinci and all you have to do is drag and drop and let's scan around and look at the footage we got now. So I feel like cause he's going for the retro thing, these other two while they're like electronic music type stuff, they're not quite right for this or is this one's got the nice retro throwback going on? So I wanna work with that one and I'm just gonna basically loop that one throughout the video. So let me do this, I'm gonna delete these and all I'm doing is clicking on them and hitting delete and I realize now though, I only have 20 seconds of this footage. So the first thing you could do is you could obviously slow it down. So let's see what it looks like if we put this down to half speed. Now that that was pulled to half speed, I can pull it out and we have to remember I'm on this pointer tool the whole time since that's what makes that easy. Let's see how that speed looks with this in motion. I'm feeling good about how that looks in there but the one thing is, is this doesn't have much character. So cause this is a visualizer, I wanna just loop this throughout the song and that's gonna be the main course of our visual.  You know, one of the other tricks you could do with footage where it works is you can reverse the footage, you can do all sorts of things. Under this inspector tab, there's lots of ways to transfer the video and like I said, I think if you're working on this and you're trying to do visualizers, you should be experimenting with these tools. There's always these little reset buttons on the side if you get a little too carried away. So the next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna cut off the end of this so that it doesn't exist any more after the song ends. So if you grab that razor tool I just grabbed, what's nice is as long as this magnet's on, it'll snap right to where the song ends and then you can go back to your pointer tool, select that, hit delete and now you have video that's through the song. Now we have this. So I feel really good about that but it has no character and the footage of that just is real boring so let's try to get something more exciting. So the next thing I did is I went on Google image search, I found a gradient. So what is a gradient you say? It's just a color like that. What I wanna do now with this gradient is I'm gonna drop it in here and then I'm gonna take this expand and what's nice is when you're using single images is you don't have to keep looping it like I did before, you could just stretch it through the whole thing. So DaVinci Resolve is interesting in the way that whatever's on top is what plays. As you're gonna see, we're gonna do lots of layering throughout this. So what I wanna do now is under this inspector tab which I just turned on and off when you click this, I'm gonna take the opacity, I'm gonna really bring it down so that it's just bringing a little bit of retro coolness to this image. It's like almost like a mist. Let's look at that. So that's already so much better but it's not quite enough. So what I also have done in the past is if you Google around, you can find free VHS Glitch Effects. I have a bunch of those downloaded already. So I particularly liked this one because it's really busy. So I'm gonna drop this into the timeline on a track above it. But as you're gonna see, it's now taking the audio there and it's gonna cover my track.  So if I hit undo, so I don't do that, I pull this into the file and then whenever you wanna get rid of the audio, especially if it's non-existent like this audio so it's not attached to some video, is you command click either of the regions then you click link clips and uncheck it and then you click away and click back and you hit delete on that audio and now you have this. So this is video and as you can see when I hit play, it's not showing us anything. It's got this black background here. So there's an easy way to get rid of that black background and let it do it. This is called removing the alpha. So the way you remove the alpha is actually counterintuitive because you just go up to the inspector again and under this composite mode when you just click add and all of a sudden that's gone but watch what happens when I hit play. So there's one problem here is that as you can see here, this is meant for a normal size TV and it doesn't extend to the 1080p that we have of this. So what I then do is then I pull that zoom out so that it then covers it and then we hit play again. All right, and now I've authentically made this retro enough. The one thing though I wonder is are these VHS effects a little too intense?  And that opacity just looks great. That maybe doesn't look authentic to me but it looks damn good. So now let's pull this so that it stretches through the entire length of the song and we now have a nice little visual and yet again we're going to cut this and hit delete and so that these little levers here at the top are fade outs. We're going to put that to where the song is. So I'm going to zoom in which I do. So DaVinci is interested that it zooms to wherever your cursor is. So I want to bring this to the end of the song and I'm going to put nice little fade out there and a fade out here. We'll hit play on that. Nice. So I could mess around with that and get that fade perfectly if I wanted but that's not what we're here for. So this visualizer is missing one thing though that I like to do which is tell people what the song they're listening to is so that they don't forget it during this. So the way we do that is by going to a photo editor. So you could do this with free software like GIMP if you wanted to but I find it way easier instead of using Photoshop and paying all this money for instance I don't do a ton of graphic work is I use a program called Pixelmator which is $40 and then you own it. And so on Pixelmator I'm going to make a new file that is 1920 by 1080 because that's the size of the video file we're working with and then the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to get rid of the background so it's transparent which I do using the erase button and then after that I'm going to make a nice little block and in that block I'm going to dump black so that we can do some work here. So I want to make a little title card for this so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go get his logo. So I went over before to his band camp and I liked this logo of all his releases so I downloaded that so I'm going to open this file then I'm going to take this I'm going to copy it I'm going to paste it into this file so the one issue is first is we want to get rid of everything around that so we want to select this layer we want to use our magic eraser and try these colors are real similar so let's see this one's going to be a little tough because of those colors around it and we'll touch this up with a little bit of a racing on our own okay so now that we have that nice image we're going to take that and we're going to bring this down to the bottom of the screen and as you can see it's a little too big so I'm going to shrink it down pull this over here and I'm going to write so one tip for you is anytime you're writing a song title especially if it's not your own is double check every bit of the casing and the spacing and all the things about the name so I just checked it I realized it's one word like this and I don't like how that color is matching so I want to make sure I get this so that they're similar and maybe I can do better font-wise that looks much more 80s and then I'm realizing a nice dash like that so if you export this now as a PNG not a JPEG like what was just selected this transparency will stick we can save it here as visualizer title card hit export now if we go back to DaVinci Resolve we can take this bring it in pull it upwards so it creates another track since we want this on top of everything we're going to stretch it out to the end of the song we're going to put that same fade out on it and now what do we have I'm pretty happy with that so one last piece of pizzazz that I feel like that might make this a little cooler and to experiment with this is to do transparencies through this block text so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go here I'm going to sit merge all layers so that these layers are all one thing and then I'm going to go in and I'm going to magic erase out all the blue then I'm going to export this again and I'm going to pull that in so I'm going to bring this up to here and then I'm going to turn off this track by hitting that cut-mute button I'm going to see if I like the way this looks better yeah that way is better so that's what I'm going to go with so now you want to know how you get this to YouTube if you hit this deliver button you push the delete YouTube button and you name it so we'll call it idiot wave visualizer and you select where to send it to you hit save then you have to do one small detail you hit add to render queue you make sure that's highlighted and you hit start render and then it'll be done you upload that to YouTube and then you have a visualizer thanks so much for watching am I missing anything? is there any other way you would have done this? I need to know your questions and what no one else is telling you since I want to answer them so leave them in the comments since I answer every comment in every post I hope you liked this video and if you did please like, subscribe and get notified and I'm going to be breaking down the concepts in this video along with how to promote your music and how to make songs you're happy with in the future I have a Facebook group linked below that is only helpful information no playlist or con artists only artists having helpful discussions allowed if you want to learn more about me work on a record with me or check out any of my books, podcasts or anything else I do go to jessecanon.com or at jessecanon on all the socials one last thing there's two playlists here one is on how to grow your fan base from zero to 10,000 fans and the other is on how you make songs you're more happy with and the other is on how you promote your music with Spotify and the other is specially chosen to match this video or you can hit the subscribe button below and stay tuned as I have tons of tips for musicians


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Give me a thumbs up if you can see this good perfect. All right. Let's dive in. So I I'm from press books My name is Sarah Fennessey. I am the sales executive here You can reach me if you have any questions after this Presentation you can reach me at sales at press books calm. I will say we are a very small team There's just eight of us so you can rest assured that that email is going directly to me as the only sales agent on this team So to give a quick introduction of why I want to be presenting about press books today and how it's relevant in this day and age right now I think the force to push everything online this past year has definitely exposed some long-standing challenges That have been ever present. So things like The exorbitant cost of textbooks. I mean that's always been a problem for students But right now with everyone's budget being spread very thin That's definitely something that is of a bigger concern furthermore if you're using commercial textbooks You don't really have the ability to edit or adapt those or customize those for your courses. You often have to rate wait for the next edition to be released For new studies or new information to be added to the most recent text With everything going online Accessibility issues are definitely a concern to make sure that All of these online technologies accessible by by all of the students on campus And then finally we want to make sure that our students data is safe So the reason I'm highlighting these things is because these are also very much top of mind for press books We are definitely firm believers of Zero textbook costs for students the ability to remix and adapt materials and customize them for your course Everything we build in press books is always built with accessibility in mind And then we take extra steps to just make sure that any data that enters our system is is private and safe and Cannot be be accessed by anyone outside of the institution So let's dive into what press books is what you can do with press books. What are the different features? So with press books what you get when you get a press books institutional network you get your own branded network where you can play around with the Adding your logo changing the colors of these textbooks. So this is a network that is hosted online. You don't need to download anything. You simply need the URL to be able to log into it. You can host this on a URL that you own and operate. So you don't have to use a press books domain. You can keep it consistent with your Your school's branding. And this is where your faculty would come in log in to start start creating and editing Their textbooks. It can also be a way for you to surface all of the books that have been produced by your institution and and have a nice way for people to to search and discover those those materials. Next, what I wanted to talk about is with press books at the core of what press books does is the ability to create A web book. So these are online texts that can be read online and are openly accessible to anyone with the URL. So any book you create will have its own custom URL that students can go to to access the text. This is just a basic example of a book's web page. Where you can see the title brief description of the book. You've got a button here to go through and read the text online. And you also have the ability to surface download links for your readers. So sometimes not everyone's going to have access to to Wi Fi. So it is always a best practice to download the coffee for for that offline reading in case it is needed. So you can surface download options such as PDFs e pubs mobies. All of this for for your students and other readers of that content. Next, I'm going to dive into some of the features that you have access to through the editing platform. So one of those is math jacks of math jacks is a plugin that's built into press books and this allows you to create accessible math notation. So not only does it allow you to produce Formula that that actually look the way math notation is supposed to look, but it is also built in a way that allows us this to be accessible for students. So oftentimes Some formula or equations will have those really tiny exponents that are hard to read. So we've built some excess or math jacks have some accessible Factors built into it such as click to zoom. So this is an example of what that looks like it allows you to expand the image of that formula or that equation so that you can Ensure that all students can can read it a little bit better. Furthermore, it is compatible with screen readers. So that is definitely a perk there of using that if you're using any Text that are heavy in equations. Next, you have the ability to add different multimedia files to to your text. So here's an example of a music text where you can see the instructor included the audio file to go along with the score. So students can listen to parts of their text. If you want to embed audio, you can also embed video. So if I click through here. This is another music text. You can see that the instructor has embedded some YouTube videos at the beginning of her chapters. So this is actually the instructor herself teaching the lesson. At the beginning of the chapter. So students can go through click to play that and then scroll down and continue reading the rest of the chapter. So she all she needed to do was copy and paste the link to her YouTube video and she was able to easily embed that directly into the chapter by navigate back here. We will move along. In addition to those multimedia elements such as audio video gifts and the like. You can also build out interactive activities for your texts. So with press books, you get access to the h5p hub. So you can create an unlimited amount of these interactive activities. And there are a number of different activity types that you can choose from. So you can build test your knowledge quiz sets with different question types such as multiple choice tour false Fill in the blanks things like that. You can also create study tools for your students like flashcards and if you have all you already have some h5p content created or There's h5p that obviously already lives out there in the OER ecosystem, you can pull that in and just upload this Into your press books network and then embed those materials throughout throughout the text. So here's an example of what a quiz that would look like. So this is one that was built on h5p I'll actually just navigate directly to the chapter itself with the quiz so that you can see what it looks like in the interactive element of it. So here's the chapter 11 quiz the student go through start the quiz. See if they understood the lesson they could go on to the next question. And check their answers and if they get that wrong. This teacher has allowed them to see the solution here so we can see this one is is the right answer so they can go through And retry it there. So that's just an example of a quiz set and they can skim along to the other questions in there. So next with press books. You also have the ability to clone existing OER Built within the press books ecosystem into your press books network and edit it and adapt it from there. So, so we make it really easy To clone these materials. So all you would need is the URL of the book in question and then you could pull it directly into Your press books network so long as it is openly licensed and then you can edit it and adapt it from there and then republish it Under your own schools that network and it would pull over all of the attributions of that clothing process. So you would get all the original metadata in with that text. Furthermore, you also have the ability to produce a number of different export formats, one of them being the same common cartridge exports. With web links. So this enables you to package up your entire textbook into a thing common cartridge file and pull it directly into an LMS. So this would be one way that you could Display your text to students so that they don't need to navigate away from the LMS to access that material and they can read it directly from there without having to Link away to another URL. So this is what it would look like in canvas because we're using the same common cartridge file with web links. It does show up In an iframe here and because it is with web links. The book would first need to be published the web. If you would prefer to keep your text private. We do also offer an add on which is the LTI integration. So you can securely integrate Your pressbooks network with your LMS and pull seamlessly pull content in and display it directly within the LMS without This iframe. So I can give you a sample of what that would look like. Oops, I think I actually already have it open here. So you can see that great iframe in canvas is now gone and the student can go through and read the text directly from there without ever having to navigate away. Next, if you were to opt in for that LTI integration, you would be able to use our pressbooks results service, which enables you to Record student performance on those various H5P activities directly into the LMS gradebook so you can start to get a sense of how students are performing and not only does this enable you to build Oh yeah, you can also really use pressbooks to build out courseware and build out assignments for your students. So that's kind of a neat direction that we've seen a lot of institutions go with how they're using pressbooks And then finally here I wanted to show you the pressbooks directory. So this is a very new project. I think we're going to be doing the official release. Within the next two weeks here, which I'm very excited for and we've built this directory that has pulled all of the public content produced by all of the different pressbooks networks. Out there and it's pulled in all the content for you to search and discover it in one place. And if you find some material That you would like to edit and adapt, you could pull that into your pressbooks network. If you don't have a pressbooks network and you don't need to edit or adapt the material. You could simply use this tool to discover materials online and provide your students with a link to that material so they could read it for free. So it's a free tool that anyone can have access to right now the directory is hosted on our staging site right now when the formal release happens. It will simply be hosted at pressbooks dot directory and then you can go through and search and discover text. So right now we've got A little over 5000 different books that have been produced across 79 different pressbooks networks and you can go through and search and discover so we've got A number of different filters here, but we also have a global keyword search. So I'll just quickly do a quick demo of what the search would look like. So let's take a nursing, for example, so Nursing texts as well as economic texts that they're always kind of notorious for being very expensive. So here I've done a quick search. I've come up with 20 or we are materials that are available for me to use And I can scroll through and see what has been produced across various different Pressbooks networks and there's a great one down here that was produced by triple a valley technical college nursing pharmacology. One of the reasons I love this one so much is it does have a number of h5p activities embedded throughout. So this book has 43 activities. Now let's say you were building out a nursing text and you wanted to add some interactive elements, but you didn't want to build all of those from scratch. What you could do is surface a list of the h5p activities in this text and then you could download them and upload them directly into your pressbooks network to repurpose them. So I'll give you an idea of what that looks like when we do our public release this button will be clickable. But for now I just have a quick little work around Which is to add h5p dash listing to the URL and that will pull up a full page of all of the questions. So I can see what type of h5p activity it is I can go through and look at The activity to see if it's one that I might want to reuse and repurpose And just give it a second to load there. And then if it is one that I do want to use within my course. So if I go through all the questions, they look like something that I might find relevant. I would simply click that reuse button download it and then I could pull it directly into my pressbooks network and reuse it within a course of my choosing. So that was the bulk of what I wanted to share with you today. I think I rushed through that very quickly. And If because I didn't want to to go over time, but maybe I will stop sharing and see if I missed any questions in the chat because I must admit I did not have a chance to look at that yet. There are a couple of questions. Sarah. So let's start with a with a fairly straightforward one like can books only be produced if you have access to an institutional network. No. So we also offer faculty author licenses that give you access to all of the features that I just showed you today. So if you're at an institution that doesn't have its own pressbooks network, there are still options for you. We also have a premium version of pressbooks. So this comes with limited features, but the accounts are free to create. And there would just be a one time book fee of 1999 or $99 to publish to the web and produce those exports. For example, PDF for print. So there are a number of options for you if you don't have an institutional pressbooks network. That's a great question. I mean, then I see Delmar asked a more techie kind of question around the use of H5P. I can see you reading it right now. Oh yeah. Maybe I'll read that out loud for everyone who's not looking at the, at the chat there. So it was a question about the use of H5P and pressbooks. This tech is client side tech and it's easily hacked by talented students. As an instructor, I wouldn't allow such a loophole. Is there a way to make a more secure, summative homework system? So this is this is a great question, especially with these books being published online. If the student has the URL to the to the text, they could definitely go through without you knowing who they are, because we don't record IP addresses. And they could go and test out those activities. So the reason why this is relevant is because if people are pulling this into the LMS and they want to record student grades, you really want to think of this as a formative assessment and not a summative assessment. Because there is that loophole. So it's just a way to get a gauge a sense of students and how they're where they are in the text, if they're understanding the text. It gives you just some high level overviews of that, but it wouldn't be used for, for example, an exam or a midterm exam, because there is that that issue there where the student could test out the questions in advance and and get some of the answers there. So it's really more so seen as a as a study tool at this present time. All right, let's see if. I think you've answered almost everything you can see some some people are impressed to see the level of interactivity now available in press books so that's fantastic. Yeah, that's great. Did I miss a question that sorry I'm just frantically scrolling through the chat to see if there was anything that I missed. I think so. I think that was everything. Well, thank you guys so much for being here with me today and letting me share all of this with you. And if you have any more questions or you want to see a custom demo tailored for you and your situation or your institution. I'm available. I'm reaching out sales at pressbooks.com.


Once again, here's a class that creates an object that represents a rectangle. And here's a program that defines three rectangles, two of which have the same width and height, and one of them that has a different width and height. We want to compare these rectangles for equality. Just as with strings, when you want to compare objects, you need to use the equals method. Let's compile this program and run it. It's no surprise that R1 and R2 aren't equal, but it is a surprise that R2 and R3 are also not considered to be equal. What's going on here? The source of the problem is that the default equals method compares the objects for their memory locations, not the values in their fields. Let's comment out our custom-made two-string method so that we can get the default two-string method that returns the memory addresses of objects. And recompile. And here, let's add some code to show the memory addresses of our three rectangles. Let's compile that. And as you see, they all have different addresses in memory, and that's why R2 dot equals R3 comes back as false. In order to fix this problem, just as we had to write our own version of two-string to overwrite its default action of giving us a memory address, we also have to create our own equals method to override the default action of comparing the memory addresses. Here's what our method will look like. It's going to be a Boolean method called equals, and its parameter will be another rectangle that we want to compare this rectangle to. In the body of the method, we'll create a Boolean variable for our result and set it to an expression that does the comparison. We want to see if the width of this rectangle that's calling equals is the same as the other rectangle's width and the height of this rectangle that's making the call is the same as the other rectangle's height. We'll return that result. The keyword this means the instance that's calling the method. Let's recompile. Come back to our test program and recompile it and run it. And now we get the answers we want because equals is comparing the fields, not the memory addresses. The moral of the story, if you want to compare your own objects for equality, you'll have to override the default equals method by providing one of your own.


We're back, this is Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org and this is theCUBE where we bring you the best guests that we can find. We're here live at HB Discover in Frankfurt. We try to extract the signal from the noise and we're going to focus right now on people. We've been talking a lot about technology. When you talk to CIOs and you ask them what their secret recipe is to success, they always talk about three things. People process and technology and people are the biggest investment that they make. And we're here with Susan Underhill and Patrick Eitenbickler who basically are involved. Susan's the vice president of HP's Expert One. We're going to talk about the skills gap, how CIOs and practitioners are transforming their skills and to meet the new challenges today that we see in this industry. Welcome Susan, welcome Patrick. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having us. So we heard Meg Whitman yesterday talk about this new style of computing. Really driven by cloud. She talked about the whole mobile, the big data. These are new things for IT practitioners. Susan, let's start with you. First of all, tell us about Expert One, what that's all about and then we'll get into it. Well why don't I start back with why we even have Expert One? Because I spend a lot of time traveling around the world meeting with our channel partners and our customers, listening to the challenges that they have in their business and consistently the largest challenge that we hear relative to deploying new skills or deploying new technologies as the skills gap. And I started talking about the skills gap a couple of years ago where we were seeing the aging of the workforce or the baby boomers getting closer to retirement and a lot of the skills leaving the IT workforce. And that combined with the student population not seeking degrees in technology. So you have that combined with the factors that Patrick talked about in a moment around the changes in technology and you start to see a really big skills gap develop. So Expert One has been developed, we have a number of different programs that we'll talk about while we're here together that address some of those things. So you noticed this, what was the timeframe where you really started to see this dissonance between the skills that were required and the skills that were in place? We're talking about two or three years ago, five years ago? From a technology perspective, the things that Patrick will cover over the past really significantly in the past to one to two years. But the looming skills gap that we've been talking about because of the other factors I mentioned, we've been talking about now for five or six years. So you could see it coming, we're talking about the fiscal cliff a lot in the United States. It's like the skills gap cliff. Okay, so you sort of, this was relatively recent from a skills standpoint but you've seen this trend coming. So how did you respond? So when I was here six months ago, we talked about converged infrastructure and we had just completed a white paper with IDC where we basically compared the kinds of IT labor resources required in a traditional environment where we look at a networking specialist, storage specialist, server specialist skills in one particular silo of IT that then moves to convergence where you need skills to run a service catalog, to build a hybrid cloud, completely different skillset. So up until the non-converged time, yeah, they had the skills, once it converged there's very few people that have those skills. And that's where that skills gap comes in because now CIOs, VPs of IT that go out to the market and say, I want somebody to run an HP cloud system, vCloud director, Microsoft systems and orchestrator, they can't find the people that have the experience to make that happen. Okay, so talk about expert one, what it is and how it adds value to your customers. Okay, so historically, vendor training and certification programs have been very product oriented. They were designed initially to address the gaps and as a new product or technology came out that you would train and certify on that. And the HP certified professional program did exactly the same thing from an HP perspective. But as all the things that Patrick have talked about, driven us to look at how we develop skills in both our own workforce and our channel and in the IT departments of our customers in a different way. So we are starting to design our learning solutions to address the new technology arena. So when we look at the core of expert one, we talk about optimal skills to accelerate business performance. So it's all about business performance. We want to help customers have their IT, innovate, help the business move forward. We want to help partners sell more, win more. We want to help students get a job right after they get out of college because they have better skills. And we want to have HP employees, sales and pre-sales employees be more successful in their careers, be more successful for HP. And we do that through optimal skilling. And optimal skilling means they have the skills for their particular job role to be successful. And when we talk about those job roles, there's actually three that we focus on. There's the architect role, whether it's pre-sales or an architect in a customer environment. There's the integrator role that's more about installation, implementation, as well as service and support. And there's the administrator role so once something is implemented that they can make the most out of technology really get the value of their technology investment. So you mentioned converged infrastructure before. I wonder if we could talk about that as an example. Sometimes you use an example and it just resonates better with people. So you're right, you had a situation where you've got silos of server storage and networking expertise. You've got all this data locked inside those professionals heads. And now you say, okay, we're going to converge the infrastructure. Might be on different buying cycles. It might be different vendors. And I was saying, okay, we're going to bring this lock in and you guys are going to now manage it as a cloud infrastructure essentially. So what happens in that case and how were you able to affect change in that example? Right, so while we have always had and continue to have networking storage and server certifications, we also have now our conversion infrastructure and cloud certification. Like we just said, there's a cloud architect role, cloud integrator, cloud administrator. And then actually our highest level certification is a converged infrastructure master architect which means they actually have to have 10 years of industry experience. They have to obviously train for the particular exam, but then it is a board level exam, so in front of the board, where they get a business problem that they then create a presentation to address that business challenge through technology, through an architecture, and they have to present that to the board. So just like in the real world, where an architect or IT needs to stand up in front of the board of a company to present a technology solution to a business problem to help innovate, to help make them more competitive. This is the skill set that I'm hearing primarily when we're talking to CIOs that they're lacking and they're looking for. And the role of expert one is to what? Actually take them through that training cycle, that education cycle, can you describe that a little bit? It's to provide the skills necessary for the job role, to validate the skills through certification and then to provide an enablement community for them to have a long-term relationship. So you obviously, in that example of the cloud architect, you just can't take somebody off the street and say, hey, okay, we're going to make you a cloud architect overnight. No, you've got to have a certain set of skills. Now, assuming you've got those requisite levels of technical talent, business experience, et cetera, how long does it take somebody to go through the program and it's probably variable, but maybe you can give us some examples. Yeah, for entry level certifications, it may take a week of worth of training and some reading. For the highest level certification, it would be a couple months of in-class training plus the certification and the certifications are done in a testing center to make sure it's the right person that has the skills that are actually being tested. Specifically for the master CI architect, there is a process that you go through to actually apply to go through the training and take the exam. So there's a set of criteria. The interesting thing is that it doesn't have any prerequisites for prior HP certifications because we recognize that the kind of person is not necessarily the very technical type of person that we would have trained in a particular product in the past. So you mentioned before, Susan, that traditionally this type of education was very product focused. You might have as an example that Patrick and I know well EVA training. That's right. That's our EVA certification, right? Okay, great. And you probably still do that, right? I mean, HP provides that level of product training. I even get store serve or whatever it is. Is Expert One a separate sort of training organization that is focused on these higher level skill sets? Is it part and integrated as part of the current curriculum? Can you describe that a little bit? So I think about Expert One as the external brand, if you will, of learning and knowledge and skill we're designing it in a way that as somebody who goes through one of our programs actually has the technical expertise, the business acumen and the hands-on experience to do the job. Again, taking it further and beyond what the traditional training certification programs look like today. Right, okay. And the education is provided by whom? Is it provided by HP? HP partners who actually does that? So HP develops the content and the curriculum and the exams and the competency requirements and then the actual training is delivered in many modalities. Instructor-led training can be delivered through a broad learning channel that we have our HP Education Services Organization as well. So all partners in delivery of our content. So partners can deliver it. They obviously have to be qualified to do that. Right. And do you have online certifications? Yeah, we sure do. And how about collaboration with universities globally? Is that something that you're doing? That's a great question. So that's something that we've really spent a lot of time on recently. We launched a new program called HP Institute in February this year. We've reached over 1,200 institutions in 86 countries to date rolling around the world launching this program. We're really approaching learning in academia differently. So what we're hearing from the employers who are looking for people the higher that have skill is that the students that are leaving the universities with technical degrees are lacking the business acumen or expertise to actually be effective or highly effective in the job when they get started. So we designed a new level of certification, the ATA, the accredited technical associate, to address that particular area. So the content for the curriculum has been developed at concepts of connected devices, designing and deploying connected devices, designing and deploying network solutions and designing and deploying servers and storage in a way where you're taking the technology, the business requirements or business acumen and hands-on experience. So the students that are graduating from university that have this certification are really job ready. The HP Institute is the program that we put around that to bring employers to the table. So right now we have 100% of the certified professionals employed that have received the certification. And actually going back to the skills gap we talked about earlier, by having all those students come out of the academic institutions, there's a pool of skilled individuals then that are ready to get more certifications or get ready to get into the workforce with both lab skills, the hands-on experience, the business experience and the technical experience. It's a great pool to draw from. How do you measure success? What are the metrics that you're looking at, your management is looking at and that you're monitoring to determine how you're doing? I think we have a lot of different metrics and a lot of different drivers. For me, having what I like to call a marketplace of skills so that our customers and partners can easily source the skill they need to drive their business results. The biggest challenge they have to driving innovation in their business and shifting the spend from operations into innovation is having the talent to do so. The new technologies are not a large community of people that have this expertise and making it easily available at a reasonable cost and highly effective is really what we're driving for. And let's see, so this, the new curriculum really started in what timeframe? We launched the ATA, which is the program that's being run through academic institutions. It was designed for academia and we're also rolling it out in commercial training companies as well. And that becomes the foundation of learning for students and then they have the career certifications, the ASC and master ASC level credentials that they can move into as they want to pursue a career leveraging HP. So do you have objectives in terms of the numbers of people that you want to run through these programs or are you still sort of trying to figure that out? Everybody. I actually, I feel like HP is in a unique position today to be able to, with our open industry standard approach to technology solutions, that we are the vendor to partner with in terms of technical and business acumen around these solutions. You mentioned something else that triggered something in my head. Everybody talks about this 70-30 problem. In other words, that 70% of the spend is on keeping the lights on, 30% on innovation. And you mentioned something about innovation before. You're obviously trying to change that mix. And I don't know, I don't really know how you measure that, but you probably can, you can categorize things. Do you feel like you can have an effect on flipping that? Maybe you're not even flipping it. Maybe getting it to 50-50. Is it a skills problem primarily? Well, I certainly think that skill is part of that. How you implement your operational efficiencies is going to be another part of that. But technology is certainly the platform for that. Absolutely. I think most IT individuals, because of the pressure and all the demands and all the trouble tickets that come to them, they're in the weeds. They just try to keep the lights on, meet the SLA for the day. Once they get out of the weeds, actually go to training and get certifications, get the bigger picture, they're actually able to raise themselves up above the trees and then make recommendations at a more strategic level to flip that around from 70-30 to 30-70. Meg Whitman yesterday laid out this vision of a new form of computing, and she talked about cloud, mobile, and big data. It seems like your current curriculum is really focused on the cloud piece. Do you see it evolving? And maybe I'm just missing some other pieces, but do you see it evolving into those other areas? Big data, everybody talks about the data science skills gap. Is that something that you're trying to fill in? How are you trying to align with Meg's vision? Is that an appropriate way to think about the direction that you're headed? We actually think that that's why people are computing, so we're absolutely aligning to support that from a skills perspective. I also think that security and big data are all part of the cloud solution, and those capabilities are being embedded in our curriculum and our certifications now. No, exactly to that point. Traditionally, our highest level certifications were very technology-focused and storage networking and so on, and going forward, we look at alternatives as well that our solutions focused like a big data marketing master architect to really address that need in the market. Well, this is a big problem, and so congratulations on identifying it, and good luck with getting this off the ground. We need big solutions to these problems. We need large companies with resources and have a big partnership network and can affect partnerships with universities and others to actually attack this issue. So congratulations and good refreshing change from all the geek speak that we've been having this week. Susan and Patrick, thanks very much for coming in the queue. All right, keep it right there, everybody, we'll be right back with our next guest. This is Dave Vellante. We're live from HP Discover in Frankfurt. This is theCUBE.


Revelation chapter 15. We'll read the chapter, all of it, all eight verses, and then we'll get into our study. Revelation chapter 15, beginning at verse 1, then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous. Seven angels having the seven last plagues were in them. The wrath of God is complete. And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire. And those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark, and over the number of his name standing on the sea of glass having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, in the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O king of the saints. Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before you, for your judgments have been manifested. After these things I looked and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues clothe in pure bright linen and having their chest girded with golden bands. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power. And no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. Cheerful, isn't it? Americans. Americans live in fear of many things. I was thinking about that today and so I started Googling instant information, right? What are the things that Americans confess to being afraid of? And I found lists. What are the top 10 things? And there are a variety of things that people are afraid of. And I'm not going to give you all 10. I mean, there were various lists. Some of them were done by Barna groups and others like Barna that actually do some real scientific testing in terms of taking polls and all. But as I was looking at the things Americans confess to be afraid of, one of the things I did in this, for example, is one of the top fears is speaking in front of people. But there are various fears they confess to. There's the fear of natural disasters like earthquakes and tornadoes and hurricanes and flooding the belief in a global warming. There are people who are afraid of those kinds of things. I've shared with you how I've been teaching Bible studies here in the church, whether it was in the main sanctuary or in other places, when earthquakes have hit. And it's almost like the rapture happens. People get out of that building so fast. I mean, they're moving to get out of that. The earthquake hits. You know, and there are a lot of people who are afraid of earthquakes are concerned about that. I understand it, but I was born and raised in California. I've gone through thousands upon thousands of earthquakes over the years that I've lived here, and you get kind of used to it. And others respond differently. We had an earthquake and years ago now and my children were small. And I sleep on the assigned position of the bed that Marie gave to me when we got married. I sleep on the right side. And she sleeps on the left and the earthquake hits. A earthquake hits. And I feel the house being beginning to move. It's two, three in the morning, four in the morning, whatever. And I feel the blankets explode off of me. And something hurdles over me, hurdles over me and runs into the hallway. And the children are being pulled out of bed, put under the under the door. And I'm laying there in bed. And the earthquakes over and Marie comes and climbs back in the bed. And I say, uh, yeah, you forgot me. I said, you ran off to the kids. She said, you can take care of yourself. That. Marie moved quickly. We used to have a secretary here who was afraid of earthquakes. I mean, really afraid of earthquakes. And there was a wall that her desk was next to. And every once in a while, we'd go and hit it real son. Then, oh yeah, it was great. It was, we had a lot of fun with her. We scared her to death, but you had a good funeral. But there are people who are afraid of things, right? I mean, let's face it, earthquake, natural disaster. There are people who are, they'll, they'll confess my great fear is terrorism. And, and with the rise of ISIS and all and the various things you can understand the fear that sometimes people have, they're afraid of, of plagues. Uh, right now we're dealing with the Ebola virus. And there are quite a number of Americans who are very afraid. All the polls that are coming out right now is pointing that out. There are those who will confess to fear over the loss of a job. Some go through pressure with economic stress. One of the fears that people confess to is personal failure. Um, there are some who are afraid of insects. They're, they're afraid of animals. Um, they're afraid of confined spaces. So there's a variety of fears people have and, and many will admit to having a fear for the future. They're afraid of the future. Now concerning this fear of the future, what's going to happen? Though there are many Americans who confess to wondering about what is going to happen in the future. Um, few really consider what is actually awaiting them in the future. They have this, this nebulous fear of what may happen. But not that many actually fear what is actually going to happen. And because they don't have a concern about having a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, they fail to realize what is awaiting them. And Jesus said it like this when he spoke concerning fear in Matthew 10 28.  He said, if you want to choose fear, fear God. That's what he was saying. And so these two chapters, chapters 15 and 16 actually reveal the final pouring out of the wrath of God, speaking of the future, what is going to happen? And this pouring out of the wrath of God occurs before the return of Jesus Christ. And this final outpouring is proceeding from the series of judgments that we've already seen from the seal and the trumpet judgments and, and this, this continuation through what is called the bowl judgments actually is proceeding from the trumpet judgments. And we've seen the trumpet judgments earlier in our study. And so what we're looking at is the bowl judgments in just a moment. Now I mentioned that chapter 15 is the shortest chapter in the book of Revelation. And so what it does is it contains a scene of heaven as preparation for the final judgments is finalized. And these are the chronologically ordered events that lead to the second coming of Jesus Christ that we'll see in chapter 19. So he says in verse one, I saw another sign in heaven, he says, great and marvelous. Now up to this point, two previous signs have been mentioned. Revelation 12 one speaks of the sign of the woman, which we know to be a picture of Israel. Chapter 12 verse three spoke of the sign of the dragon Satan and his control over world empires and governments. This sign is a sign of seven angels having the seven last plagues. Notice that is completing the wrath of God. This is speaking, in other words, of the conclusion of this seven year period called the tribulation. Now I mentioned to you earlier as we've gone through Revelation that the tribulation that which we refer to the tribulation is a seven year period where God is pouring out his wrath on on mankind that has rejected him rejected Messiah. There is the first three and a half years called the tribulation. The second half three and a half years is referred to Jesus spoke to of it as a great tribulation and combining the three and a half as it begins into the continuation and conclusion. It's a seven year period where God pours out his wrath against rebellious planet. And we see in Romans chapter one verse 18 how how Paul had said the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. So what we're looking at is the wrath of God that is being revealed or poured out in the book of Revelation. The word wrath is used 13 times and it's used in connection with this period called the tribulation in Revelation for example chapter six verses 16 and 17 it says they called to the mountains and the rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of their wrath has come and who can stand in chapter 14 verse 10 it says he too will drink of the wine of God's fury which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath and so we're looking at wrath God pouring out his wrath on a Christ rejecting world. Now for the believer for us as Christians God's wrath has been fully satisfied through the what has been called the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Jesus died for us the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and the Bible makes that clear Hebrews chapter two verse 17 in all things he he had to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest and the things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people when it speaks of Jesus being the propitiation or making propitiation the word propitiation is just a it's a term a theological idea that speaks of satisfying God's wrath that's what propitiation is. It's a satisfaction of the wrath of God and the Bible says Jesus satisfied his father's wrath when he took upon himself our sins in Romans three twenty-five speaking of Jesus it says whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith to demonstrate his righteousness because in his forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. Once again Jesus is the propitiation by his blood and another scripture first John chapter two verse two he himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world the death of Christ satisfies God's wrath on behalf of of any who would embrace him by faith now the grounds of our relationship with God isn't by works which we have done there are those who try to get right with God because they try to do good works in order to get on his good side but the Bible teaches that doesn't happen the grounds for our relationship with God is based on Jesus's death for us he took our place and that way he satisfied his father's wrath the son of man came not to be ministered to but to minister and to give his life he says a ransom for many Matthew twenty verse twenty-eight and so Jesus Christ gave his life a ransom for us and thus he satisfied God's righteous indignation as his children we do not suffer his wrath that is now settled in heaven in first Thessalonians one ten Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come first Thessalonians five nine God has not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ Romans five nine being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him so believers are saved from wrath if you're a believer tonight God is satisfied because you received Christ as your savior his blood washed you cleansed you and God is fully satisfied because you embrace the offer of salvation but for a non-Christian God's full expression of his wrath his full expression of his wrath on earth occurs during this period called the tribulation now at this point God has already begun pouring out his wrath in two sets of judgments we saw the seal judgments and the trumpet judgments to God has given the world their chance to repent remember with me in chapter fourteen verses six and seven how how there was an angel that flew about and was preaching the everlasting gospel well now his wrath is coming to its conclusion and so he says in verse two of Revelation 15 I I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire and those who have the victory over the beast over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name standing on the sea of glass having harps of God and so I saw something like a sea of glass the sea of glass can represent the purity of God and that would be revealed by this crystal platform that is before his throne we saw that in chapter four already at verse six it says it's mingled with fire that may speak of the fire of God's judgment that is being poured out on earth but John sees people and he identifies them and that's what we'll look at for a moment here he identifies them as those who have the victory he says over the beast now who are these people well these would be what are called the tribulation saints these have been martyred because they did not take the mark of the beast they were redeemed during the tribulation you see them in chapter six verses nine through eleven chapter seven verses nine through seventeen you see them in chapter 12 verse 11 and 17 chapter 14 verses 1 through 5 and 12 and 13 these are tribulation saints remember in revelation 13 how it says in verse 15 he was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast so that it could speak and cause all who refuse to worship the image to be killed well these are those who refuse to worship the image and they have been martyred now what are they doing singing the blues no notice what they're doing verse three they they sing the song of moses the servant of god the song of the lamb and this is what they're saying great and marvelous are your works lord god almighty just and true are your ways oh king of the saints who shall not fear you oh lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy for all nations shall come and worship before you for your judgments have been manifested and so they're singing they're singing notice the song of moses and the song of the lamb it's interesting how he presents it that way they're singing the song of moses and the song of the lamb moses had a song he was also a songwriter amongst other things and the song that he he has penned in scripture is found in the book of of exodus in chapter 15 verses one through 18 it's a song of victory because god had given the nation of israel miraculous deliverance and and they had crossed over that red sea and and it had parted before them and and the waters were walled and when you have in your mind's eye a picture of the crossing of the red sea i don't know if anybody here thinks like i i did for a long time i i never really pictured this i have to be honest with you i never really i don't have that kind of an imagination that can really picture but i did see an artist's conception that gave to me some insight into how majestic this would have been because for some reason for me when i thought of the red sea i didn't think of the depth of it i just kind of i just kind of pictured it like a six foot high wall that's kind of what i pictured it at and they went across and there's like a wall and a wall here but somebody and when i was in israel i actually got this painting and brought it back painted it and the wall of the water that's up like a heat the scripture says is probably in that in that in that painting the artist at least his imagination was much greater than mine is probably 30 to 40 feet high on either side at least 30 to 40 feet high on either side and you see the armies of israel marching across it and then i thought well you know what that probably is yeah that's probably what happened this huge wall of water because when the lord allowed the water to come back it was able to just it wiped out the the most powerful army at that time in just the water itself it just drowned the mom their bodies were found on the shore and so moses saying the song of amazing victory because he saw what god can do and how awesome and powerful our god is so they sing the song of moses the one who sings concerning god delivering and they also sing the song of praise to the lamb because the lamb has saved them so notice what they they they they sing it in verses three and four they they sing concerning his power great and marvelous are your works they they sing concerning his ways just and true are your ways they sing concerning his holiness who shall not fear you oh lord and glorify your name you alone are holy and and they sing concerning his worthiness all nation shall come and worship before you for your judgments have been manifested and that's the song of praise that they sing to him a song of victory and a song of praise so there's a worship that is powerful and wonderful as they're thanking god for what he's done and that's by the way that's what auto motivate us as believers to the state when we sing songs to the lord it's supposed to come out isn't it it's supposed to come out of a a heart that is grateful because you have delivered us and you are our savior and that's why we worship the way that we do he goes on in verse five after these things i looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was open and out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues clothed in pure bright linen having their chest girded with golden bands and one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of god who lives wherever and ever the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of god and from his power and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed the holy of holies in heaven is opened god's righteous judgment begins to pour forth the seven angels probably are the same angels that were mentioned throughout the book and they come out of the temple and why do they come out to execute the will of god and the clothing that is described here is something that represents righteousness as well as service the angels have seven golden bowls full of the wrath of god and what this is basically saying is the rejecters of christ are now having their fate sealed and so chapter 16 i heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of god on the earth so the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image oozing sores strike those who have trusted the beast notice the target is those who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image and their bodies are attacked why because they had been looking to the beast for health and security so as they've been looking to him for health and security god deals with that it says in verse three the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea it became blood as of a dead man every living creature in the sea died now when we looked in chapter eight versus eight and nine a meteor crashed into the Mediterranean and remember with me that a third of the sea became blood and when a third of the sea became blood a third of the animals died well this plague destroys every living creature of the sea now think about that for a moment this is fantastic and it's beyond us i it's beyond me i i don't know do you guys like do you like do you guys like seashore do you like the beach some of you do some of you don't i you know i i do i i think it's beautiful i mean there's some you know i could go on and on about this because i really marine i really have a a fondness for the beauty some of the beaches that i've seen and you've seen amazing you go up the coast i mean i see have to be careful because i want to talk about this i mean i like the beach um i just don't go to it unless i have my speedo's but that's another story but you go up the beach you know and you can go i mean california beaches are gorgeous but they are and they're beautiful i love it up up in the Monterey area they're beautiful up there in big sir little sir all of that it's gorgeous if you have a chance if you haven't ever been there you can you can sit there and you can drink a cup of coffee and just say god you're too much if you have a chance if you haven't been before you go to hawaii some of the beaches in hawaii are so beautiful there's this particular beach on Maui that it has black sand it's just amazing there is a shoreline in the red sea in egypt that the sand is purple and the water is turquoise and i have never seen anything as beautiful as that contrast so beaches there are some beaches around the world we used to go to a place called tin can beach not that that beach was not pretty but there are a lot of a lot of beaches that are amazing and so think about it when it speaks concerning all the sea life dying which means that the the water putrifies with the decaying animals which means that the bodies of all of these animals name them their billions of them begin to fill the seashores of the whole world the stench and the pollution is the picture that we have here from what at one time we could imagine as pristine and beautiful everything is changing as god is bringing judgment in such a powerful way and the stench of dead and decaying bodies will be incredible you know god created every living thing in the waters and now all those living things that he had created will die in verse four continuing the third bowl judgment the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water they became blood and and i heard the angel of the water saying you are righteous oh lord the one who is and who was and who is to be because you have judged these things for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets you have given them blood to drink for it is their just do the third trumpet judgment resulted in the third of all water becoming polluted we saw that in chapter eight now all fresh water becomes blood and it reveals god's judgment on those who desire the natural water you can have and here's your spiritual application to that he who drinks the water that is natural will thirst again jesus said but he who drinks of the water that he said that i give you will never thirst again so the application is they thirsted for natural water and they will never be satisfied with it again but you and i we who have tasted of the living water will never have a spiritual thirst for any other water you see just to make that practical i came to christ and after coming to jesus i didn't look to see what buddha had to say and when i when i you know what i'm saying when i got saved i didn't go to see what muhammad had to say because i already have truth and my thirst was already quenched if it's natural water any water that you drink you will naturally thirst again right jesus said that but when you drink of the water he gives you you never thirst again so i have no spiritual thirst for anything other than the living water that jesus gives but those in the world while the water that they trusted in is now taken from them in verses eight and nine the fourth angel poured out the ball on the sun and power was given to him to scorch men with fire men were scorched with great heat so what do they do they blaspheme the name of god who has power over these plagues and they did not repent and give him glory so you would think that under this incredible suffering they would be repentant but they're not they're blasphemers they're they're suffering from intense heat and and with the heat there are going to be boils they don't have any drinking water they're in incredible agony yet instead of repenting they they utter he says blasphemies it's been said they have a taste of hell but they refuse to repent and their skin is literally blistering away by the sun and in the midst of all of that they do not repent and they do not give him glory verse 10 the fifth angel poured out of his bowl on the throne of the beast his kingdom became full of darkness they nod their tongues because of the pain and they blaspheme the god of heaven because of their pains and their source and did not repent of their deeds darkness falls over the kingdom of the beast it's a darkness that you can actually feel if you will a darkness that is as dark as anything could possibly be and what do they do they they nod their tongues in pain and yet again they refuse to repent and give glory to god listen they know where the judgments are coming from but they obstinately refuse to get right with god they would prefer to continue in their sin instead of repenting from it and this by the way is a picture of bondage i'm sure some of you have have seen or know people who have had tracheotomies because of throat cancer how many of you have anybody you know or have been around i'd like to know because i always assume everybody has and apparently not some of you have most of you have it i have and there are people who've gotten throat cancer because of their addiction to nicotine their smoke they got throat cancer there's a whole cut in their in their throat they have a little an insert there they speak through it and it's very it's very difficult for them and i have known of guys who had throat cancer because of smoking who removed that little plug to put the cigarette in it so they can take the hit from their cigarette that's bondage that that's bondage they know they know that they got cancer they know it because of their habit but they would rather smoke and die than be free from it that's bondage guys that's bondage and there are so many people in sins bondage i can't tell you and i'll be careful not to even try but i can't tell you how many times i have spoken to people who know to do right but refuse to they just won't give you one example lady who said came in to speak to me about does god forgive um adultery no a guy does god forgive adultery he called me it was lunch day me says i've got to talk to you pastor can i see you i said i'm sorry i'm preparing a minute i need to see you it's an emergency i'll i have to see you and i i felt well i better it's an emergency i'll talk to him this was 30 plus years ago now but he came and sat in my office he says i won't take too much of your time i know it that you're studying and it's my lunch time i have to get back to work i need to ask a question does god forgive the sin of adultery and i was a young pastor and i i said god forgives every sin he says even the sin of adultery i said there's not a sin that god cannot and will not forgive if it's not repented of he said thank you he left my office but he didn't what he didn't tell me was he was married and was planning to commit adultery so he went out and he came back to me later and started an affair with someone a co-worker because he had in his mind one of those little tickets get out of jail free because in his mind god forgives sins so i can go out and sin willfully and he's going to forgive me because i got permission from pastor so i learned my lesson at that time not to ever ever even give a sense that you can go out and get away with sin but i'm telling you bondage and people will argue i'll give you one more story lady comes in with her husband and says to me god has a permissive will and he has a perfect will his permissive will was for me to marry my husband but his perfect will is for me to be married to his best friend and so she divorced her husband so that she could be in the perfect will of god sin brings bondage brings bondage never forget that and even though they're going through this and it's beyond anything we can imagine they still refuse to repent even though they're gnawing their tongues in pain they still do not repent they prefer to continue in sin instead of repentance in verse 12 then the six angel poured out his bowl on the great river euphrates and its waters was dried up so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared i saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet for they are spirits of demons performing signs which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty behold i am coming as a thief blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments lest he walk naked and they see a shame they gathered together in the place called in hebrew armageddon and so the preparation begins for this battle the kings of the east are moving their armies to the middle east these would be armies that are in what we today would refer to as the orient and they're coming to fight the war of armageddon the battle of armageddon and they're on the way and it's going to move towards the city of jerusalem in zekariah 12 1 through 3 it says this is the word of the lord concerning israel the lord who stretches out the heavens who lays the foundations of the earth who forms the spirit of man within him declares i am going to make jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding people's reeling judo will be besieged as well as jerusalem on that day when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her i will make her i will make jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations all who try to move it will injure themselves he says in chapter 14 of zekariah 1 and 2 a day of the lord is coming when you when your plunder will be divided among you i will gather all the nations to jerusalem to fight against it the city will be captured the houses ransacked the women raped half of the city will go into exile but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city this is speaking concerning armageddon what is taking place just before the return of the lord jesus christ and so these oriental armies are going to be marching towards jerusalem now when in history would people have ever thought that's a possibility i mean you have to understand that some of the theology is called eschatology last days that is the last days some of that a much of what was held fast to be truth concerning the last days was written prior to the the rebirth of the nation of israel and so the commentators that you'll read very often will speak concerning the church and they'll say that the church has replaced israel in the plans of god prophetically because there was no nation is real and so the commentators are going to thought they could see at that time and for them it was out of them it was just not possible for this nation that that no longer existed this nation called israel that no longer existed it's just not possible that these prophecies could relate to a nation that doesn't exist and so what happened over time is that theologians as wise as they are began to say there has to be another meaning that perhaps we're missing and so they created what was called there's a school of thought that is called replacement theology where they say well the church has replaced israel in the promises of god and so the things that what at one time literally seem to apply to israel are now applying to the church it's called replacement theology well that's because there was no nation of israel so imagine in 1948 when that nation was rebirthed and now you begin to say now wait a minute for almost 2 000 years there was no nation and now it's back maybe we need to see what god's word actually has to say and then you begin to look at those who who in the 1800s and times before that said no no god still has a plan for israel look at romans chapters 9 10 and 11 it's very clear right there and there have always been a remnant of those who said no this is literal there's going to something's going to take place and it's going to surround israel and lo and behold every day you hear something about israel every day you hear something about jerusalem every day you hear that why is that because we're living in the last days we're watching this take place did you know that many years ago now that there's a road that has been built from china that goes through the himalayas through kashmir to pakistan so armies already can use this road that has been built and the armies of the east will be marching against israel and they're going to be gathering in a place to have the battle of armageddon now when he said in verses 13 through 16 there were three unclean spirits like frogs these are deceiving spirits they're the ones that inspire the evil world leaders of the tribulation period they have false signs and in through the false signs they muster the west to oppose these oriental kings but what's happening is they're being prepared for the final destruction when jesus returns and we'll see that as a matter of fact i'm considering giving you a study just on armageddon because um i'll give you more information when we get there in chapter 19 armageddon has been translated the hill of slaughter it's an enormous valley we've been there many times it separates the north galilee from a region called samaria um it's really geographically not large enough to contain all the armies of the world but it is the central focus of the invasion and there are going to be battles that are going on throughout all of israel we'll look at that closer in chapter 19 he says in verse 17 the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done there were noises thunderings lightnings there was a great earthquake such a mighty and great earthquake has had not occurred since men were on the earth the great city was divided into three parts the cities of the nation's fell great bablin was remembered before god to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath every island fled away the mountains were not found great hail from heaven fell upon men every hailstone about the weight of a talent around 75 pounds hailstone 75 pounds and what was the result men blasphemed god because of the plague of the hill since that plague was exceedingly great blasphemy god's wrath completed upon the earth this incredible earthquake the capitals of the world destroyed every island fleeing away mountains leveled hail from heaven weighing 75 pounds falling on men and instead of repenting they braised their puny little fists and shake their little fists in the face of god the hardness of man's heart