Hello everyone, I'm Paola Corti from Spark Europe and I am the Open Education Community Manager of the European Network of Open Education Librarians. And I'm sharing the floor here with Mira Buisuk from Groningen University sitting close to me. And Tatiana Kolesnikova from Nipro University, Uzust University in Ukraine. Tatiana, the floor is yours. Hello, I am Tatiana Kolesnikova. I am the Director of the Antishek Library of the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Uzust. I live in Nipro, Ukraine, and this is the landscape we were used to. It's been for hundred and six days since for the start. In the morning of February 24, 2022, mass rocket strikes in cities and villages changed the lives of each Ukrainian, the lives of the peoples of Europe and the world. The Russian Federation began a large-scale war with the aim of protecting the territory of Ukraine, destroying Ukrainians as a nation, our language, culture, science and the world. On the morning of February 24, 2022, massive missile attacks on cities and villages changed the lives of every Ukrainian, as well as the lives of people in Europe and around the world. The Russian Federation started a full-scale bloody war with the intention of seizing Ukrainian territory, destroying Ukrainians as a nation, our language, culture, science and education. The years of life in the conditions of a large-scale war of Russia against Ukraine led us to overcome fear, despair of the very first days and weeks thanks to family and friends, our glorious wars, and also thanks to work. When you do something for others, it gives you life and helps you move on. A year of living amidst Russia's horrific full-scale war against Ukraine proves that we have managed to overcome the fear, despair and confusion of those first days and weeks. We have done so thanks to our families and friends, our brave soldiers and our work. After all, when you do something for others, it gives meaning to life and helps you move forward. After a year of operation in the conditions of a bloody war, the Scientific Library of U.S.U.S. has gained some valuable experience in crisis library and information services. After a year of operation in the conditions of a bloody war, the scientific library of Osus has gained some valuable experience in crisis library and information services. We have already analyzed each area and decided which services should be temporarily put on hold and which ones should be focused on and expanded. Ukrainian libraries continue to support students, even working from the bottom of the own buildings or through the areas of inequality, using common computers and taking care of children of one another, not relying on air-tripping and everyday disconnecting of electricity and heating. Despite working remotely from their home basements or from points of invincibility, Ukrainian librarians continue to support students, teachers and researchers. They share computers and take care of each other's children, even during air raid alerts and daily power and heating cuts. Our work has also taken on new meanings. Librarians are passing the humanity test every day. They are actively engaged in volunteering, making camouflage nets for the armed forces of Ukraine, collecting food and forming food packages, helping the wounded in hospitals, donating blood and contributing their own funds to support the armed forces. However, our work extends beyond these efforts. Since 2009, we have developed a clear activity vector that is relevant during the university's transition to distance education and research in wartime. Providing information support through digital educational resources. The library of the Karyosost took philosophy and practice of openness even 15 years ago and explained the advantages of the university community by creating products and services. The availability is a key factor, a key question, but it includes not only access to academic resources. It continues to explore the problem and the need to quickly create high-quality material in our nation. Since Russia has continued to link the Ukrainian people, in the rapid creation of high-quality material of our nation's language. Since Russia has continued the language of the Ukrainians, that is, through the direct destruction of Ukrainian language, as is the basic sign of ethnos. The library of the U.S.U.S. has analyzed the foreign practices of giving language barriers, especially the practices of the NOEL. And we came to the conclusion that giving calls is not enough, for example, for modern Ukrainian speakers to be able to help the OER. And we did it. The war in Ukraine became a catalyst for the development of the OER in the U.S. And already in April 2022, the U.S.U.S.U.S. projectors gave green light to the OER community. The U.S.U.S. librarians analyzed foreign practices of overcoming language barriers, especially the practices shared by the European Network of Open Educational Librarians, the NOEL. OER can help and address and overcome the challenges of the lack of, for example, modern textbooks in Ukraine. And we did it. The war in Ukraine has become a catalyst for the development of OER at U.S.U.S.U.S. In April 2022, the rector and vice-rectors gave the green light to the OER community. And although the world is still officially unrecognized in the national documents, but we have certain positive changes. For example, the Novi Redaktion of the Law of the Country, the Novi Redaktion of the Law of the Country, from April 2022, completely legalized the license of the rights of the citizens of the country. In October, the national plan for the open science of Ukraine was approved, where the open science is called the OER. Although open education has not yet been formally adopted in Ukraine's national policies, positive changes are already underway. version of the law of Ukraine on copyright and related rights of December 2022 fully legalizes creative commons licenses. Additionally, the National Plan for Open Science of Ukraine approved in October 2022 recognizes OER as a component of open science. The National Plan for Open Science of Ukraine approved in October 2022 recognizes OER as a component of open science of Ukraine. The National Plan for Open Science of Ukraine approved in October 2022 recognizes OER as a component of open science of Ukraine. The National Plan for Open Science of Ukraine approved in October 2022 recognizes OER as a component of open science of Ukraine. With the support of the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine hosted webinars in December 2022 in February 2023 was the Open Educational Research Search Engine, OER-C, represented by the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology and University Library. The Ussost and R Library were highlighted as examples of OER-C's cooperation with Ukrainian universities. Our tireless educators, in partnership with librarians, created six open textbooks which have been integrated into OER-C. These are the only open textbooks from Ukraine so far. Additionally, OER-C features four video lectures presented by IT professor Viktoriy Ahnatushchenko. The library of OER-C uses the tactics of small steps, a little bit, but constantly, because the connection of electricity, the connection of heating through the missile strikes of the Russian object, critical infrastructures, makes it impossible to speed up. Ussost librarians use the small steps tactics approach, trying to advance little by little, but constantly. This is also due to the blackouts of electricity, communications and heating caused by the Russian missile attacks on critical infrastructure, which makes it impossible to work at a fast pace. The specific steps of the library of Ossost, on the path of OER-C and OER-C, at the level of the university, have become webinars for students, lecturers, lecturers, and PhD students to create an information block of open-world resources on the library website. Our librarians also created an OER information block on the library's website. We also explored the technical possibilities for creating, curating and preserving open textbooks and using multimedia in them. Furthermore, we prepared for public discussion normative documents on the creation of open textbooks and open access methodological and teaching guides. Ussost librarians have also started a series of 10 video lectures titled Open Education and OER, the importance for Ukrainian higher education. Three of these lectures with accessible subtitles have already been created and published on YouTube. At the national level, we conducted an OER awareness session for the Ukrainian library associations on school for university librarians and a survey on the OER readiness of Ukrainian higher education libraries. We have also provided consultations, presented at conferences, and published articles and posters on the topic. Most of our activities and the international level are related to NOLs per Europe. This is not just the professional support from highly qualified experts who teach, answer questions, provide their suggestions, and offer possible solutions to the difficult questions. This is the sincere support of friends who care about us and our families. I feel their warmth even at a great distance through the monitor, because this is a very important part of our work. This is not just the professional support from highly qualified experts who teach, answer questions, provide their suggestions, and offer possible solutions to the difficult problems we are facing. This is the sincere support of friends who care about us and our families. I feel their warmth even at a great distance through the monitor, because this is humanity. We are proud to be a member organization of Spark Europe, and this is a great honor for us, but also a great responsibility. Together with Spark Europe, we have presented at conferences in different countries to share our libraries' first steps in the development of open education and OER. In October 2022, the USO Scientific Library won the Open Resilience Award from OE Global for the advocacy work of our librarians in advancing open education in Ukraine. During this year's Open Education Week, we participated in a live podcast from OE Global Voices. As a guest, I had the opportunity to share our lived experiences of OE Global. At the beginning of August, our project received grants from Creative Commons Open Education Platform for translation and localization of MOOCs using OER in teaching. This online course, with an open license, developed by the Polytechnic University of Milan, will be adapted to the needs of Ukrainian lecturers and professors of academic libraries. Our goal is to provide language barriers and provide fair and inclusive access to the world, to the world, and to the world. In early March, our project was granted funding from the CC Open Education Platform to translate and localize the MOOC using OER in teaching. This openly licensed online course, developed by the Polytechnic University of Milan, will be adapted to meet the needs of Ukrainian lecturers and professors of academic libraries. Our goal is to overcome language barriers and ensure equitable and inclusive access to education, especially in times of full-scale work. At the beginning of August, our project received funding from the Polytechnic University of Milan, to the world, and to the world. At the beginning of August, our project received funding from the Polytechnic University of Milan, to the world, and to the world. At the beginning of August, our project received funding from the Polytechnic University of Milan, to the world, and to the world. At the beginning of August, our project received funding from the Polytechnic University of Milan, to the world, and to the world. Many people with disabilities, who suffered from the Russian aggression, want to receive higher education or qualify, but physically they cannot. They are not ready to go to the university. And the library itself should be ready to support inclusion with its resources and services. And in conclusion, our efforts to promote open education and OER are grounded in the principles of inclusion, equal rights and opportunities to obtain knowledge and education without barriers for individuals of any nationality, gender, age, region of residence, financial situation and physical ability. We understand, and we can already see this from the enrollment figures, that after the war ends, hundreds of individuals with disabilities who were impacted by the Russian aggression will seek to pursue higher education or retrain. But they might not be physically able to attend the university. And it is the library that has an essential role to play in supporting inclusiveness with its resources and services. This is Social Justice. For Ukrainians, time is measured in more than just days and hours. It's measured in the human life's loss to conflict and violence. We also strive for inclusivity for the sake of our students, including those with disabilities such as Katya and Olexii, who have been unable to speak OER since childhood. Last year, they graduated from our university and gave birth to a healthy boy. The young couple dreamed of returning to their home university this year and getting another qualification. Unfortunately, on January 14th, 2023, a Russian missile killed Olexii and their young son, Mykita. Katya survived the attack but was trapped under the rubble of their house for over 20 hours in the freezing cold. Due to her hearing impairment, she could not hear when the rescuers announced a minute of silence and was unable to call for help at that time. The library utilizes every opportunity to promote openness, increasing qualification for mutual education, taking part in international networks, adapting to existing and creating new OERs. We are building bridges between the present and the future. And once the war is over, the Ukrainian library will accept the expansion of the possibility of teaching thanks to new professional skills and external cooperation. Librarians use every opportunity to promote openness and inclusivity, and we do so by improving our skills through peer-to-peer learning, participating in international networks, adapting existing and creating new OERs. Essentially, we are building bridges between the present and the future. As soon as the war is over, Ukrainian librarians can contribute to expanding teaching and learning opportunities for new professional skills and international cooperation. And we thank all the people, the organization, the country, all those on the side of the light, for the invaluable support of the Ukrainian people. Thank you. Glory to Ukraine! We would like to ask the audience if they have any questions or if they would like to comment on them. Thank you very much for joining us in knowing more about the advancement of the work and what is doable to support Tatiana's and her colleagues. Thank you.


What's good everybody Chris from jessuscasebreaks.com doing our last filler of the 2023 Panini legacy football one box break number seven but the last seven spots of our Big Hit Express number four being given away at the very very end. No big common ship in this one box filler. Let's do it. Let's grab our random dice and our transfer Brian down to Tristan and our teams from the Cardinals down to the Commanders. We'll throw the dice in random eyes for the box three and one four times. We got one, two, three and four fourth and final time. Going to be Nicholas down to Brian, a which football break prime time and then four times on the teams one, two, three and four fourth and final time. Steelers down to Ravens since this is just a filler even though it is a hobby box. No no trim window but if you would like to see what the dice rolled out how it all shook out. Take a look right here. Nathan with the Cardinals down to Chad and the Commanders. We're about to do this legacy football break and then our Big Hit Express case. Let's switch screens real quick. Let's have a schedule that you can check so we're up to what's breaking and what's close to breaking also as well. There's our legacy box, two autos, had a pretty solid first box that we had today so Nathan with the Cardinals all the way down to Chad's seat with the Commanders. Top seven at the end Let's do the box though. Good luck y'all. I think you hear nice. Charlotte looks like coming up so good luck everyone. Devin Weatherspoon on the rookie Sminy, Kim Jarrett, Silver, Lauren Jason Taylor, 169 out of 199 for the Dolphins. I go to Eugene. First autumn going to be Zach Charbonnet, 46 out of 50 on the auto. Went to UCLA, let's see where this is going to go though. Running back from UCLA for the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle and I go to Tim. Seattle. Prize prospects on the Hendon Hooker, Orange out of 249, Troy Goliens going to be for Chad C and Devin Cook out of 299 for the Vikings and Tim. Orange Minis slides out, going to be Jalen Carter, first rounder from the Eagles. It's going to go to Tim. One more time, 75 out of 125. Devontae Adams under the lights for the Raiders and Eugene. 105 out of 149. Fran Tarkington-Green for the Giants on the Legends and going to be Quentin Johnson, futures dual-patch auto for the Chargers. Now it's going to go to Nathan, Quentin Johnson on the dual-patch and rookie auto. 162 out of 249. Gives rookie in the Peyton Manning Legends out of 299. Rockers edition is going to go to Chad B. So Fran Tarkington out of 100 going to the Giants by the way. All right, let's do the fun stuff. So fun stuff though. Our box done. Let's switch screens one time. Let's grab our names. Nathan at the top, and Chad, our last fresh dice, our last fresh list. Seven spots. So top seven get in to the Big Head Express Troll the Dice and randomized two and five seven times. Seven times for seven spots. Good luck y'all. Thanks again. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, seventh, and final time. So 8 out of 32 sad times. We do have another Big Head Express case on the side right now with the filler for it going up after this. Number eight going to be Nathan. Down to Nathan. 8 to 32. So sad times. Thanks for giving it a shot though, but congrats to Danny, Chad B, Tim, Nicholas. Nathan does get it. Nice Nathan. Danny one more time and Brian C. There we go. Top seven congrats. When you see this legacy seven next to your name means you got in from this filler. Thanks again y'all. Let me come back our next break. It's going to be a full case of Jasmine's Big Head Express. Thanks again, jassescasebreaks.com. Goodbye.


Item Number – SCP-393 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-393 is to be kept in the possession of a designated D-Class Subject, hereby referred to as D-393, at Site B. The vitals of D-393 are to be monitored at all times to prevent SCP-393 from linking to important SCP personnel in the event of D-393's death. A secondary D-Class Subject will remain on standby for emergency reclamations of SCP-393 if D-393 should die. Description – SCP-393 is an ordinary 9cm x 14cm blue day planner, with a year embroidered into its cover that always matches the current year. The information on the back of the day planner reveals it to be a product of f***ing publishing. SCP-393 has the ability to link to a nearby Subject via unknown means. Once linked, the day planner will appear in the hands of its owner whenever it is not being watched. Additionally, any event written in the past dates of the day planner are instantly recalled by the Subject, as if they experienced it themselves. Events written in a future date of SCP-393 will elicit no change until the date of the event has passed, at which time the Subject will recall the event. If the Subject currently linked with SCP-393 dies, SCP-393 will choose a new owner within 10 minutes of the previous owner's demise, based on proximity. There appears to be no maximal distance for this ability. Experiment log, 393. All written input to SCP-393 is done by Researcher Assistant A. Test, 393-1. Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Mail. Description, Subject instructed to do nothing of interest for the entire day of date expunged and is monitored by closed circuit television. Written, Park date with the girlfriend today at 3 o'clock. Outcome When Subject is questioned about what he did the previous day, he responds, I went to the park with Cindy for a few hours. Review of the security tapes show that the Subject did not leave the facility and had a completely uneventful day, in accordance with witness testimonies from guards around the facility. Note. Well, at least this proves it doesn't change history. Just the Subject's memory of it. Additionally, SCP-393 seems to fill in details for the memory, such as for the girlfriend's name and the location of the park. More tests will have to be done to find its limits. Test, 393-2. Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Female. Description, New Subject instructed to do nothing of note for the day of date expunged and is monitored by CCTV. Written event to be as brief as possible. Written, Dentist, 130. Outcome, When Subject questioned in depth about her dentist appointment the other day, she gives a detailed report which includes the dentist's name and age. No doctor is found in local phone registry. The length of their weight, the sorts of magazines available in the waiting room in their contents, etc. The details were called surpassed the Subject's natural memory, according to previous mental cognition tests. Test, 393-3. Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Male. Description, New Subject instructed to do nothing of note for the day of date expunged as per previous tests and under CCTV entire day. Written, Getting hit by a bus today. Outcome, The moment the event is recorded into the day planner. Subject goes into a deep coma. Neuro-imaging scans show no brain activity past basic bodily functions. SCP-393 links to standby D-Class Subject after 10 minutes. Note, well, now we know what happens if you think you're dead. Doctor, Test, 393-4. Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Male. Description, New Subject instructed to do nothing of note for the day of date expunged and is continually monitored by CCTV. Written, Going to somehow defeat SCP-682 today. Outcome, Outcome is identical to the previous test, saved for the frozen expression of horror on the comatose subject's face. SCP-393 links to standby D-Class. Note, it was worth a shot. Research assistant, Test, 393-5. Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Male. Description, Subject instructed to do nothing of interest for the entire day of date expunged and is monitored by closed circuit television. Written, Going to favorite restaurant. Outcome, When interviewed about his day yesterday, Subject informed interviewers about his trip to the bar and grill, where he enjoyed ribs and beer on tap with several buddies. Subject is able to give names of his friends when questioned. Questions and the restaurant mentioned proved to be real from Subject's past, according to previous interview. Test, 393-5A, Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Male. Amnesiac, Description, Subject instructed to do nothing of interest for the entire day of date expunged and is monitored by closed circuit television. Subject recalls nothing about his time outside of foundation due to previous medical condition. Written, Going to favorite restaurant. Outcome, When interviewed about his day, Subject talks about going to the buffet, where he had Chinese food and tea with his girlfriend. Investigation into existence of said buffet proves it is not a real restaurant, along with the girlfriend he visited. Note, This proves that SCP-393 draws on the subject's existing memories, creating false ones where some are lacking. Doctor, Test, 393-6, Subject, 1 linked D-Class, Male, Buddhist, Description, New Subject instructed to do nothing of note for the day of date expunged as per previous tests and under CCTV entire day. Written, Reaching Nirvana Today. Outcome, After passages written in 393, Subject goes into meditative state, not responding to any outer stimuli. Neuroimaging scans show abnormal activity in the temporal lobe, an area of the brain often responsible for religious visions. Subject expired of thirst after days of inaction. Interview Log, 393-1A, Interviewed, Test 393-1, Subject, Interviewer, Doctor, Forward, Review of Subject's mental state after Test 393-1 and the extent of memory alteration. Begin Log, 531, Date expunged. Doctor, So you say you spent the day yesterday at Park with your girlfriend Cindy. Is this correct? Subject 393-1. Yeah, it was a pleasant afternoon. Doctor, How long would you say you have known Cindy? Subject 393-1. I don't know, about two years? Doctor, do you realize that you have been in this facility for a year now? And before that you were in the state prison for a life sentence. Subject appears deep in thought, visibly worried. Subject 393-1.  I used all my conjugal visits to Sear. Doctor, I see. How exactly did you see your girlfriend yesterday? You haven't been let out of this facility for months. Subject appears distressed and begins to fidget nervously. Subject 393-1, you guys gave me leave to Sear. It was our two-year anniversary. Doctor, we don't give leave to any D-class at this facility, subject 393-1. I'm afraid that you never left the facility. Cindy does not exist. Subject is increasingly agitated and distraught. Subject 393-1. But I know her. We were high school sweethearts. We've been together 10 years. It was our anniversary. Subject stands up. Doctor, subject 393-1, sit down now. Your stories are broken and make no sense. Cindy is not real. Play the tapes. Video logs of subject 393-1 for the previous day begin playing with timestamp. Subject 393-1, those are fake. You're lying to me. This is just another damn test. Subject picks up video projector and moves to smash it. Doctor, sedate him. Guards tranquilize subject 393-1 and take the body to his holding cell. Doctor, gland that's done with. Turn it off. We're done here. End log. Closing statement. Subject 393-1 terminated after refusing to work and attacking any staff who entered his cell. SCP 393 has a heavy effect on the memory of the subject. But subjects memories fall apart under questioning. Doctor. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP 392, a plant now found in Site 103 and formerly found in the households of nobility, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


The single me that you see is only a mirage. A closer look will reveal that I represent not one but a long, long human chain. Never that you have made my life an end, I love you so. Fish in the water, all the frogs in the turtle. They've done it again, they've done it again. The children have done it again. Motion, they worked with devotion and changed how the outcome would end. Again, changed how the outcome would end.


Hi friends, my name is Fero Roche and today is my day of suffering. Today is the- You chose to suffer. End of all days. What's it called? D-Day? No, that's- That's World War II something. It's only one or two! Come on in. Oh no. Why don't you tell us what we're doing today. Remember her guys? We, the roommates, including me, Hannah and Emma are going to shave our own personal designs into Frederick's head. Y'all get to choose the left, the middle, and the right side because this is all I care about. But we first have to get rid of the Cheeto dust on my hair. And like I've promised, I was going to cut it again since the last video. Can you focus on me? Focus on me. Did you explain why you're wearing that outfit? You're just going to show up in it. I felt like it's the most appropriate one. I look most like her right now. Did you show them? Like the whole outfit? Oh yeah. Amazon. Is it good time? I guess. Okay. How does this work again? Ah! Is it working? Yeah, it's working. Okay. Should I go down the middle? Just, no. Just start here first to see if it actually gets it off. What do you mean start there? Like going like this? Yeah. Okay. You're good. Oh yeah. Most of it's off. Most? But not all? No, no, no. Yeah. It's all. Okay. See if you can get all of it off. There's still some left. All this progress.  And then I'm going dooo. You're going to tell me how to harmonize? Yeah. I've heard you sing part of your world. That's out of my range. When's it my turn? Yeah. I know. Okay. Let me get the back. Is it all coming off? Yeah. Yeah. Awesome.  What if you don't care about your socks? I care about my socks. Okay. You want to take your socks off? Too late now. Okay. Is it already on your socks? Yes. Oh wait. So this one hurt you, right? No. What? Oh. No. I was just like, oh. Good. No.  I'm back. It's a square one. It feels like I'm on the yesterday. Let me go on this side. Are you in your eye? No. Okay. It's not my problem right now. Okay. Ooh. What did Dan used to say last year? What? Sexy boy. Should I do this one this way? Yeah. Like this. Up. What? It's just so weird. My hair grew fast. Ew. Ew. Hair. Hair. Oh my God. I've been watching a lot of shows with toxic men. Like what? Like euphoria. And haunting by something blind manner. And I've decided I don't want sons because I'm afraid they're going to be scary. Yeah. How do people raise them to be like me? I have to ask your mother to get a Frederick. It's kind of like sculpting. Ooh. That's a nice tuck. Remember what you said? It's like an ecosystem. Well it was. There were so many things happening. It was an ecosystem. Now is like we're all back to amoebas. It's a barren environment. You know when the judge in the good place was like we're going to reset all the humans back to amoebas. I'm at amoebas. You want to clean up your sides. I can do it. I don't think you look bad with it. I thought we already discussed this the first time. I know but like every time I see you with it like freshly buzzed. Every time? It's been twice. Okay. In case something happens again and you buzz it. Oh my god. This is going to be a normal thing now. Like am I ever going to get my long hair back? You should go through your Britney stage and like just go bulb bulb. I'm not going bulb bulb. Is there anything like orange left? It's more like like extra here. Huh? Tough you here. When you wash your hair, do you even like wash your hair? I take like what do you do? I take like barely a pump just go boo-doo-doo-doo. And then when I dry it I go pfft. Done. It's so nice. Imagine that. Basically you're telling me to shake this part. Yeah. I don't want to do it. Like make it square. Or you can make it a little rounded here. A rounded square. Will this cut you? It won't cut me. I just have to ask. No. Do you have a mole back here? I do. Yeah. Interesting. Like a baby mole. I feel like I'm getting more moles. I'm scared. Do I have cancer? Does the cancer have cancer? Oh you do bad canna. I know. Good job. I didn't do great. I did pretty good. Yeah but it's good. So I had to have a son. I could cut his hair. Do you really have a son? Do I prefer to have a son? No. Oh. Oh my god. This is like smaller than a one right? Clip off. This is like raw. No condom. So how far will it shape? It will shape to the bone. To the skin. You have a lot of power. Like Britney Spears level. Okay. This is my sketch. Aww. It's cool. That's not the reaction I wanted. Why? You don't have to be scared? I'm not scared. Just like upset that I'm doing it. I don't really care anymore. Is that okay that I'm going to do that much? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to see if I can just do the wrap. I don't know if I'm going to do the letters. I'm worried about the letters. Wow. Did it work? Yeah it worked. It worked. You're fantastic. Did I cut you? You're bleeding here. He said don't worry. Wow. I'm doing pretty good. Is that the tail? I like it. I used to watch a ton of Instagram videos of guys getting their hair shaped because it's so satisfying. Okay. This is from the anime show.  It's kind of good though. It is good though. I don't know why I'm scared. Why did it be so bad? That's why it's on the side. I can't even feel. Okay. Your... It's really good. I really like it. Anyway. What just happened? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Focus. Staying straight. How's your day? What were you doing earlier? What just happened? Nothing's happening. Relax. Are you sure you're happy with this? No just for me. My design has like a lot of negative space.  Call me orange. Yeah. You are.  Can you do that? Yes. Thank you. That does not feel... That's a weird noise. What is that?  What? What is that part? What is what part? That part. That's nothing. I said nothing that can get me in trouble. Mine's simple and cute. Can I write pooch? Harder. I wouldn't say I'm an expert but... But I'm an expert. I'm an expert. Now I just need to... Do that. That's a pretty good job. Wow. That's pretty good. Thank you. It's so good. It's like I have my pet rat now. Oh my God. This was my second sketch. It's good. It looks like Ayn's era somehow. Or a demented appa. Okay. So which set did you want? Um... This is Emma, my roommate. Oh it's hot.  This makes me nervous. How do I even turn it on? Oh. Pooch. Should I start here? Bitch! No! I'm going towards the rat. Oh my God! No! You can't cut! I can do this right now. I did it! Oh my God. I will cut. It's pretty sure. It's like this is guarded. So you can use the corner. Okay I'll try to write pooch then. Maybe I'll just write cool or something. Cool! There you go. There you go Emma. I can't fit pooch. Oh no way. You're going to get cool. CTYL. Wait I should have written like... Hacked. Can you tell that to me? Yeah definitely. You're not even touching my skin.   Are you sure you can touch your skin? Yes. Ah!  No! Are you scared or what? It's just a picture that says cool made in cool. Okay. Can I fix it up anymore? You're still not touching my skin. I definitely am. No you can go like hard. That's what she said. I can't laugh. Why can't you laugh? Because then if I laugh I shake and then this goes deep. What are you doing? I'm not going to do that. You're going to put among us?  I might not have a ring for the sprout but... Wait let me see my rat. Cool. Ah! It feels so weird. Ah! I'm the cool. You can do this. I'm going to try but you're going to help me along the way. All right show them the sketch. Hello. Among us character this is Hobbs. It came made. And also if anybody watched AOC's twitch dream but we have the same character. Wow. Wow. Oh my god this thing is on fire. Yeah that's really burning. I don't know. I'm supposed to start. Okay. I'm going to hold the pencil. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. Show them. 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And more. I shaved rat into his head. And then Emma did koo. You're supposed to be koochi. And then Hannah did her Among Us character. You like it? Do you like it? Do you like it? No, I'm done now. I'll cut it when it grows out. What do you mean if? A little bit. Thank you. Now we have matching rat tails.  All right, so I'm done and I'll cut this off in a week because my hair grows that fast. So it's gonna be okay. Don't worry. I haven't gone crazy yet. Stop worrying. It's fine. That's all I have though. So if you enjoyed this video, like, leave a comment down below. Subscribe for more videos every Saturday. All my social medias are at FredericTrenYT. Follow our second channel and our podcast channel where I co-host with Keono. And as always, I love you guys and everything is less than three. Oh, Jesus.


Welcome back everybody to our second lecture on BC 308, Revelation and Daniel. We are going to be looking at Revelation chapters 4 and 5. There's a question in the chat from Charles. Could we say that chapters 1, 2 and 3, Jesus uses the known and chapters 4 going forward, he uses the unknown to speak about the future as he began with the past present. So the known and unknown is, what to say, is with respect to us, right?  He's the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, so he knows all things. He knows everything, right? So the known and unknown is from our perspective. And yes, if you want to state it like that, that's fine. We can say past, present, future, all in our terms, our language.  Okay, so what we're going to do is read through chapters 4 and 5 and then I will summarize the key points here from chapters 4 and 5. So chapters 4 and 5 are giving us a scene in the throne room. Okay, now John began in Revelation chapter 1 saying he was caught up, he was taken up in the spirit on the Lord's day. And it is most likely that all of this is, you know, a sequence of events that are being revealed to John, whether it is happening in that one spiritual experience of being caught up in the Lord's day on starting Revelation 1 or whether these were two separate experiences, it could be debatable in the sense we're 100% sure, but it seems like it was one long experience, right? Starting the Revelation 1, he was in the spirit of the Lord's day. The Lord revealed himself to John and then he spoke, gave him the message of the seven churches, which is chapters 2 and 3. And then in chapter 4 verse 1 is having another experience of walking through a door into the throne room. So chapters 4 and 5 is a scene in the throne room and let's look at that. So can we please read chapters 4 and 5, 3 verses each? Let's begin with verse 1, Revelation 4. Revelation 4, first verse. After this I looked and behold, it's stored standing open in heaven. In the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. At once I was in the spirit and behold, a throne stood in heaven with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Ternillian. And around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Thank you. Was for on somebody? Around the throne were 24 crowns and on the throne I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white heels and they had crowns of gold under heads. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, tumbling and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seventh spirit of God. Before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes and front and in the back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.  And they do not rest day or night saying holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. Whenever the living creatures give glory and honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. The four and 28 elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying, thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Chapter five verse one, and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside and sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll and to lose its seals and no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it. So I wept much because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me, do not weep, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has prepared to open the scroll and to lose its seven seals. And I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders to the land as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. Now when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the land each having a harp and golden bowls of full of incense which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, you are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals because you were slaughtered at the cost of blood you ransomed for God. Persons from every tribe, language, people and nation you made them into a kingdom for God to rule, priests to serve him and they will rule over the earth. Was 11 someone? Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them I heard saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever then the four living creatures said Amen and the 24 elders fell down and worshiped him who lives forever and ever. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So chapters 4 and 5, so John is invited. This is verse 1, chapter 4 verse 1. There's a door that opens the spiritual and this is his vision and in the vision he says, door's open and he's invited to come. I mean, look, I'm going to show you more things. So he enters in through the door and then the voice, the Lord speaks to him and says, look, I will show you verse 1. I will show you things which must take place after this. That means these are things that are going to take, going to take place. So what is what we read in Revelation 4 and 5 is not what is happening but what is going to take place. Now, I know that we have many songs that are written about throne room worship, you know, the elders falling down and worshipping and all based on Revelation chapter 4 and there's nothing wrong with that because obviously in verse, in happened right now there is worship going on and all the angelic beings are worshipping the Lord and so on and so forth. So there's nothing wrong with all those songs but correctly Revelation 4 and 5 is a scene into the future, things which are going to take place out in the future. So somewhere out in the future what we are seeing in Revelation 4 and 5 is going to take place. What's going to happen? The Lord is seated on throne and there are 24 elders. So, okay, it's another thought that we have to mention here. So as John sees all this, remember and I may have said this in the very beginning but remember he is seeing things that he's not used to seeing. This is not his normal, you know, things that he sees every day.  He's seeing various things. Whatever he sees, he has the language, he's using the language of earth to communicate to us what he's seeing in the throne room in the future. So it is difficult in the sense, hey, this is what I can relate that to.  It doesn't mean there is a calf there or there is an eagle there or, you know, there's no, or a lion there. It's just, he's saying this looks something like that or it makes, you know, it reminds me of that. Okay, so understand, he's using earthly language to communicate something that he's seeing. Another important thing to keep in mind is that he's getting an impression of something, but what is this slightly different example? When he says, I'm seeing a lamb as it has been slain with seven horns, seven eyes and seven spirits, it doesn't mean there's literally a lamb walking in front of the throne of God. No, this is the Son of God. This is the eternal Word. But the impression is this is the Lamb of God and John understands who the Lamb of God is. But don't think there's a lamb walking in the throne room with blood dripping from it, right? But this is him understanding, recognizing this is the Son of God, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Okay, so just want to set that background there as we begin to look into this two chapters. Okay, say you have a comment or a question. So I would just like to ask a question. Is there a bit of, is there, is there Hebrew culture here when we read the book of Revelation? Because it seems again that John might be communicating in terms of what the Jewish people understood. Like when you said the Lamb of God, many of the Jewish people understood what that meant. So is there also like culture here that maybe we may need to be familiar with? I know the Bible has references to which we can point to, but would that also help in explaining some symbolic statements basically when John is trying to interpret what he's seeing in the heavenly realm to us here on Earth? Yeah, definitely.  So he's using, as all of scripture, so all of scripture is written in a certain time period. It's written in the language and the culture of the writer of that time. So that's given for all of scripture. So John is obviously writing. He's using language, images and pictures of his day and time. This is, so literally saying 2,000 years ago, 80, the first 100 years, 80, 90. And he is using his context, which, as you pointed out, is that of a Jew. And as you progress, as we go through the chapters that come up, there's a lot of reference to Daniel, the book of Daniel, which we have studied, which John obviously has the background to. He understands it and you will see in Revelation, as we progress, there is that reference as well. So he definitely is writing as a Jew, who understands these images, who understands these pictures that he's saying. So the answer to what you said is yes. As with all of scripture, all of scripture is written in its context by the context of the writer. So what do we see in the throne room? Remember, this is a scene in the future, way out in the future. This is what the scene is going to look like. There's got the father sitting on the throne and John is seeing all these vibrant colors that he's relating back to the colorful stones that he knows, Jasper. It's like clear diamond and red ruby and colorful rainbow and emerald and so on. And then he sees around the throne, it says 24 elders. Now, who are these 24 elders? What do we know about them? Well, we cross-reference. So, you know, later on in Revelation, in Revelation 19-10, one of the, actually in two places, Revelation 19-10 and also in Revelation 22 and verse 9, these elders were speaking to John. In Revelation 19-10, the elder says, you know, I am your fellow servant and of your brethren. I'm your fellow servant and of your brethren. And then again in Revelation 22 and verse 9, he says this again. He says, I am your fellow servant and of your brethren the prophets. So, we cross-reference. Now, of course, John wants to worship, right? Who's a spiritual being? I've got to worship him. He says, don't worship me. You have to worship God. I am your fellow servant and I'm of your brethren the prophets. So, you know, we have that little indicator.  He says, that's not for me to decide what the father will decide. When you look at later on in Revelation 20, the 12 apostles of the Lamb, they are part of the foundation of that heavenly city, Jerusalem. So, they're honored that way. So, what can we say about these 24 elders? We don't know their names, but from these cross-referencing, we could say, you know, they are Jewish. They could be the prophets. Some of them could be the prophets because one of them said, I am your fellow servant. I am of your brethren, meaning Jewish, and I am of the prophets. Revelation 22.9.  So, we could say, maybe 12 of them are Old Testament prophets and 12 of them could be the apostles of the Lamb. We don't know for sure, right? But these are people, people, not angelic beings, the 24 elders, are people who've been given that privileged place to be seated there around the throne room, the 24 elders. So, what we can also say is, these elders are wearing white robes and crowns. So, white robes and crowns are rewards given. We saw in the chapters 2 and 3. The white robe, crown, these are rewards that are given to these elders, to God's people. So, we can say that, you know, by the fact that we see these 24 elders, seated on the throne, around the throne of God, with their white robes and crowns, it's likely that the saints have been brought into heaven and they have received their rewards and they are now, these elders have been made to sit around the throne. So, this is one way to infer, and I'm just saying it's an inference, it's not a clear statement, but it's an inference we are making, that because these elders are seated there with their rewards on, meaning they've got their white robes and they've got the crowns and they're seated on the throne, all of these are rewards. We infer that the church has been brought up into heaven and awards have been given to those who have served the Lord. Okay, so this is only an inference, it's not a clear statement. Okay, so we are seeing these elders around the throne and then we are seeing these four angelic beings. These are different angelic beings, they are like John says, one look like a lion, one look like a calf and so he's using earthly pictures to try to correlate what he's saying, doesn't necessarily mean they look exactly like that, there may be some resemblance, but these four living creatures, which generally people refer to them as cherubim, reason being they're not the same as other angels who bring messages or angels who engaged in worship seraphim or angels who are carrying out an assignment, either they are carrying messages or they are doing battle on behalf of God's people, but these are living creatures around the throne always engaged in worship and so these living creatures are typically referred to as cherubim around the throne. So they are in constant worship, constantly proclaiming holy, holy, holy. Now before the throne, this is I'm looking at verse five, there are seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of God. Okay, so here again, like we said in the very beginning, don't take these seven spirits to represent seven Holy Spirit, no. John is seeing something that he can understand like lambs, the presence of the Holy Spirit, conveyed to him like that, but really there's only one Holy Spirit and so seven here should be understood as symbolic, seven lamps of fire. Symbolic, representing the presence of the Holy Spirit, God the Holy Spirit in the throne room. Seven meaning perfection, completion. Okay, so the presence of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the living God in the throne room is communicated to John in this manner. Okay, but don't say there are seven Holy Spirits because there were seven lamps of fire, no. It's symbolic, communicating to John, this is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Say you have a comment or a question. Yes, sir, Pastor, I have two things. I know Jesus said we shouldn't add to whatever John had said, but again we see culture and you know, Hebrew context and Jewish context. I'm just wondering, the seven fold spirit as some of the versions we see are the seven spirits. Is it referring to Isaiah 11 verse one where it says that the spirit of the Lord is a prominent spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of might and knowledge, I can't remember exactly, but it just gives you a list of the seven fold or the seven, or let's say maybe seven expressions of the Holy Spirit. And again we see again a representative of the Manura. You know the Manura that has six branches and then one again, again all symbolic of the Holy Spirit. So I don't know, is this what John was communicating when he says the seven fold spirit I don't know. Yeah, so as Isaiah 11, 1 and 2, we read about the seven facets of the one Holy Spirit. He is the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord, the seven facets of the Holy Spirit. Now whether John was thinking about that or not doesn't seem, you know, we don't know, yes we can always correlate that, that there's one Holy Spirit, but there are seven facets to him, seven and more, right? Isaiah 11 was 1 and 2, talk about the seven facets of the Holy Spirit but he doesn't have just seven, he has more. So when he's talking about the seven lamps, yes we can correlate it with the lamp and the tabernacle just like we saw the lamp represents, in chapters two and three, the lamp stand representing the church can be correlated to Zechariah 12 where Zechariah is the vision of the olive oil and the lamp representing spiritual leaders. So yes, the symbol of the lamp is the lamp stand is there in their culture in the Old Testament. We see the lamp stand in the tabernacle. We see the lamp stand in Zechariah 12. So we see that. But I think the main takeaway here is, you know, not to, so this is symbolic, the seven lamp, because in verse five, it's self-explanatory. What do the seven lamps of fire, seeing seven lamps of fire, which is common, it's a common image for the Jewish mind. They've seen it in many places. They see it in the tabernacle. The seven lamps. But in verse five, he's talking about the spirits of God. Like we saw earlier in Revelation one and verse four, the seven spirits. And remember that time we mentioned these things. That seven is perfection. It's a number for perfection, but there's only one Holy Spirit. So keep that in mind as we look at, you know, that these are images, but the image is communicating something to John and to us. One Holy Spirit in the presence of the Father, in the throne room before the throne of God. So we see these living creatures. They're engaged in worship. They're constantly, and what's important? We're saying these living creatures are constantly acknowledging the holiness of God. And that's something to think about. God is good, but these living creatures are not saying good, good, good. God is compassionate.  The one thing these living creatures are constantly using or engaging in worship is the holiness of God. So the holiness of God is what we could say. It's the core aspect of his nature, which means everything else about God is wrapped or is intertwined with his holiness. So God is love, but his love is never outside of holiness. God is compassionate, but he's never compassionate outside of holiness. God is gracious, but he's never gracious outside of holiness. That means the core aspect of God is holiness. Like in the Old Testament we see, and I think in the second year we did this study on the holiness of God. The holiness of God adorns his house. We worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Every worship of God has to happen in the context of holiness. Outside of holiness, true worship cannot happen. So that's just here based on verse 8 an emphasis on the holiness of God. And at this time the elders are bobbing down and worshiping God. So I remember all of this is out in the future. So while John is seeing this worship of God, there's the Father, the Holy Spirit is present, four living creatures out there, 24 elders who have been clothed in white, given their crowns, they're all seated, they're all worshiping at that time. So somewhere out in the future, at that time. Verse 1, Revelation 5 verse 1, the Father stretches out a scroll. Now the scroll is symbolic, the book called the scroll is symbolic of all the prophetic words that are yet to be fulfilled. We saw that in Daniel 12, you know, the angel Gabriel told Daniel, Daniel, write it down, seal it, all this is sealed until the time of the future. So somewhere in the future, this is going to happen. The Father pulls out a scroll, meaning these are prophetic utterances, things that are waiting to be fulfilled. And then there's a cry in heaven saying, hey, who can take the scroll and open it, see it, meaning who can set these things into motion? Who's going to set? The opening of the scroll is representing, setting all of these prophetic utterances into motion. Who can do it? Nobody's worthy to do it. So the throne room, Father is there, the Spirit of God is there. And then in comes Jesus. So remember, verse Revelation 5, 5 and 6, again, this is communicating to John in way he understands, right? Line of the tribe of Judah, root of David, Lamb of God. John recognized, this is the Son of God. Who is this one who's walking in? He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King. He is the descendant of David. He is the one who was slain for the sins of the whole world. That's what's qualified him now.  He comes and he takes the scroll. So somewhere in the future, the Lord Jesus is going to take the scroll, meaning he's going to set things in motion. He's going to open the seal one after the other, saying all these things are going to start happening. So at that moment when Jesus comes to take the scroll from the hand of the Father, there is great worship. Now verse eight, it's talking about these living creatures and 24 elders. You can see they're having a harp. That means there is music in heaven. So does it mean just one harp? There's plenty of music happening in heaven. So can this side note, can instruments be used in worship? They are being used in worship in heaven. So why can't we use instruments in worship here or not? Some people say, hey, in the entire New Testament you don't find people worshiping with instruments. Well, you've got it right here in Revelation. They're worshiping in heaven with instruments. So it's perfectly fine to do it here on earth. And of course we can point them back to the Old Testament as well. So they're worshiping the harp and there's a bowl, there's prayers of the saints coming before the throne of God. So basically there's worship and there's prayer that's in the throne room. And now they're going to sing a new song and they describe the song that they are singing. Then all of the prophetic scriptures, the utterances that have been given is going to be unlocked in order for it to start to happen and then there's worship happening. So chapter four and five, a scene of the throne room when Jesus comes and says, let these prophetic utterances start happening. Chapter six verse one, he opens the first seal. That means now these prophetic utterances begin to happen and then we have a detail starting with chapter six verse one of what are the things that are going to happen. Is everyone with me so far? Okay, so let's jump into chapter six and let's read verses one through eight, please. Revelation six, one through eight, please. I saw when the land opened one of the seals and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder come and see and I looked and behold the white horse he who sat on it had a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering into conquer. When he opened the second seal I heard the second living creature saying, come and see. Another horse, very red, went out and it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth and that people should kill one another and there was given to him a great sword. When he opened the third seal I heard the third living creature say come and see so I looked and behold the black horse and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying a quart of wheat for a dinaris and three quarts of barley for a dinaris and do not harm the oil and the wine. And when he opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth beast say come and see and I looked and behold the pale horse and his name that sat on him was dead and hell followed with him and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth and when he opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls of them that was slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. Okay, thank you. So remember all of these things starting from chapter four are out in the future going to happen. So chapter four and five in the throne room Jesus has come and taken the scroll which are all the prophetic utterances things that are going to happen and chapter six verse one the Lord Jesus opens the first seal. So just to and I think we are familiar with this in the book of Revelation there are three sets of major judgments each set has seven judgments so there are seals, trumpets and bowls seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls and each represents something happening so as Jesus takes the scroll and he opens the first seal this is the first thing that's going to happen what do we see? Jesus opens up the seals one after the other the first and very interesting is the first four seals are depicting a horse a horse so obviously remember remember all of these is prophetic imagery that means the horse shouldn't be taken as a literal somebody coming riding on this horse now the horse represents symbolic it's talking about strength and it's always talking about speed meaning these things are going to happen very quickly and they're going to happen very forcefully so the first thing is this we see a man this is Revelation six verse two and so John is invited to come and see you know what's the result of the first seal being opened come and see John and so remember all of these things are visions John is being given they're not literally happening but it's like a movie that's being played out for John about things which are going to come so John is having visions he's seeing all these things and visions they're not literally happening they're going to happen but he's been given it's like this movie is being played out for him and he sees a man on a white horse now we refer to him as the Antichrist because he is not the Christ the real Christ in Revelation 19 also comes riding on a white horse but he is the Christ the real Christ this is the Antichrist and he has a bow he has a crown representing authority and what's he doing he's conquering and he goes out to conquer I mean he's exercising authority and influence over the world so the beginning of the Tribulation the beginning of all of these things it starts with the emergence of this man on the white horse who has a bow talking about his military power and strength who has a crown talking about his authority and influence and he's conquering and conquering he's gaining influence this is the Antichrist so the seven years of Tribulation begins with the emergence of the Antichrist the rider on the white horse the first seal and we have shown earlier in our earlier course in the end times that the church has been taken out of the way how do we know that? because 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 Paul says there's only one thing that restrains this man of sin the son of perdition from being manifest or revealed and then that which restrains is taken out of the way then he will be revealed so the church has been taken out of the way Revelation 4 and 5 you're seeing the people there the elders there they receive the crowns and along with all the angelic beings saints are in worship the church is taken out of the way and here comes the first thing the Antichrist emerges and right after that everything on earth is set into something you know we call it the Tribulation rightly so the Bible calls it the Tribulation the second half of that seven year period is called the Great Tribulation many things are going to get even worse but with the emergence of the Antichrist all kinds of things are going to take place so the child's a question so the Restrainer is stated the Restrainer is the church the church is taken out of the way so the one who holds the enemy the Antichrist from being made visible is the church and when the church was so far restraining him from being manifest it is taken out of the way so the second seal which is a red horse something is going to happen very fast very forcefully is that people there is going to be war see that's worse for people are killing one another with a great sword now again remember the languages of John's time during John's time there were no intercontinental ballistic missiles that he could imagine no nuclear warheads and no drones and all those kinds of things no so he has to describe war in the language he has which is bow and sword bow and arrow and sword that's all if God showed him missile flying through John would say John would describe it as a big rock a pointed rock flying in the sky here's something he obviously would not be using language of our day so God is showing him war in language he understands which is bow and sword but basically the second seal is representing war breaking out on the earth third seal black horse representing famine why? because food is being measured out to people and people say don't touch the oil and wine I mean hey that scares don't touch those luxury items food is scarce that's verses 4 and 5 there is a death a shortage of food then the fourth seal this is verse 7 is death people are dying and cause of death is given in verse 8 people are dying because of war hunger and even animals are killing people so somehow there's the beasts of the animals are now invading you know coming in to kill people and we have these things happening these days also we have encroached on areas areas where wild animals are living and so you have all these stories of wild animals attacking people because we've encroached on their space but here we see the beasts of the earth are killing people so there is death happening that's the fourth seal the fifth seal verse 9 are people are being killed martyred for the word of God and the testimony they're holding so you can imagine this the moment Jesus takes the scroll and he opens the scroll opening the seals one after the other here on earth things are happening the antichrist comes in he comes as a man on a white horse pretending to be a good person but with him emerging on the scene the earth is set into what we call the tribulation all kinds of things happening war shortage of food people dying because of various reasons hunger and beasts of the earth killing them and then we're also seeing people are being killed for following Jesus Christ that's verse 9 they're being slain for the word of God and the testimony they held so will there be people in the tribulation who will be believers in Jesus Christ we see them right here verse 9 they're holding onto the word of God they're holding onto the testimony in Jesus obviously who have come to faith in Christ after the rapture they've come to faith in Christ but they are being martyred for their faith so let's just maybe read a few more voices just the next two verses which is 10 and 11 I think we'll pick up with verse 12 next week verses 10 and 11 somebody can read that out loud voice saying how long oh lord holy and true does you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth and quite robes were given unto everyone of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also over their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled I reached out right, thank you so we will pick up from verse 12 next week but what we're seeing here is this verse 9 to 9 to 11 the fifth seal is telling us that on the earth there are going to be a lot of people for their faith in Jesus and it's going to continue because the question is oh lord how long is it going to go on how long are people going to be killed this is going to go on for some time right you have died, you've come into the presence of God you wait here, you rest here for a while you have your robe of righteousness that's given to you you wait here but people are going to be killed for seven years and we will see this happen again in chapter 7 we will see more people being killed but that's another thing that will happen during that time here on earth okay we'll pause here I was intensely going a little fast because I wanted to cover ground but yeah thanks next week and I'm sure I think if we keep up the space we should be able to go through this entire book of Revelation before the plan is to finish up by middle of April so I could then post the assignments and give you sufficient time to work on things alright let's wrap up please let's close in prayer could somebody pray with us and dismiss do you have any father we thank you so much for teaching us the hidden things that are yet to happen you revealed them to someone long time ago around thousand years ago we are still learning about them Lord we pray that you will continue to explain them to us so that we shall live a life that understands the times and seasons like the sons of Isaac we continue to thank you for our teacher and we pray that even as we continue to do the whole book of Revelation that we shall get more insights and be able to even pass the upcoming exams from Jesus name we pray amen thank you everyone let's take a break and see you in the next class thank you God bless bye now