Okay, I'll come back everyone to our second lecture today on Revelation and Daniel. We are going to continue from Revelation chapter 20. So where we have reached so far in Revelation 19, we saw there is the married supper of the Lamb happening in heaven. And right after that, the Lord comes, the Lord Jesus comes. So you and I will be coming with Jesus. So remember that at this time, at this time, the church has already been taken up into heaven. We already have our resurrected glorified bodies as saints of God. And they're also the saints who were killed during the seven-year tribulation. Okay, so all the saints till the beginning of the tribulation have received glorified bodies. They're up in heaven now, seven years of tribulation. There are more saints, that means more people who are believed in Jesus, who've died during the tribulation. When the Lord is coming in heaven, with the armies of heaven, there are those, there are of course the angels of God. But there are all the saints who have received glorified bodies coming with him.  So that means at the end of the tribulation, when Jesus is setting up his kingdom on the earth, every saint, every person who believed in Jesus Christ and died or who is alive upon that time is going to receive glorified bodies. Every person who, let me correct myself, every person who believed and died in Christ is going to receive glorified bodies. Now there will also be people at the end of the tribulation who, you know, who are coming through the tribulation, who will enter the thousand-year reign of Christ, the millennial reign of Christ. They will enter in as natural people because they won't have glorified bodies. But there will be the saints of God who have glorified bodies, meaning these bodies will not die, so they will be there. So you have two kinds of people in the millennium. You have people with glorified bodies. You have people with their natural bodies coming into the millennium. And Jesus sets up his kingdom here on earth and he will rule and reign on the earth for 1000 years. During this 1000 years, Satan is going to be taken out of the picture. He's going to be bound, taken out during this 1000-year period. Christ is going to rule and reign on the earth. So we read about this now in Revelation chapter 20. We will look at verses 1 through 6. And parallel passages that describe life in the millennium are found in Isaiah, specifically Isaiah chapter 11, chapter 2, chapter 11 and chapter 65. Three chapters from the book of Isaiah that describe what the millennium, or the 1000-year reign of Christ will look like. So let's read, please. As there are revelations of the 20 verses 1 through 6, can somebody read that for us, please? Aaron? Yeah, sure, first time. Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the appears and a heavy chain. He sees the dragon, the ancient servant, that is the devil or Satan. And chanted him out for 1000 years. The angel threw him into the appears, locked it and sealed it, so that he could not deceive the nations anymore, until the 1000 years were over, after that he must be let loose for a little while. Then I saw thrones and those who said on them were given the power to judge. I saw the souls of those who had been executed because they had proclaimed the truth that Jesus revealed and the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image nor had received the mark of the beast, on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and ruled as kings with Christ for 1000 years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1000 years were over. This is the first raising of the dead, happy and quickly blessed. And those who are included in their first raising of the dead, the second dead has no power over them. They shall be priests of God and of Christ and they will rule with him for 1000 years. So here we are having a clear description on all the details, but it's telling us what will happen during this, or how this whole 1000 years is going to be set up. So he's telling us that, first of all, Satan is going to be bound into the bottomless bit or the abyss for 1000 years. Satan is taken out of the picture. Then we are seeing that the people who refuse to receive the mark of the beast during the tribulation, they are going to be resurrected. That's verse 4. So they are going to have glorified bodies. They're going to be resurrected and they, along with us, the saints of God, they're going to rule with Christ. We're going to reign with Christ for 1000 years. That's referred to as the first resurrection, means the resurrection being raised, those who are being raised right after the tribulation. We have been raised just prior to the beginning of the tribulation. He's taken the church out of the way and now here the rest are raised up after the tribulation and they're raised up here. So we will be as priests of God and of Christ and we'll reign with Him for 1000 years. We will reign with Christ 1000 years. Now, what would life look like during this 1000 years? Or we refer to it as the millennial reign of Christ. Now, the Lord God is fulfilling what he spoke in Isaiah chapter 9. The government will be on his shoulder. So this is the literal fulfillment of that. That means Christ is ruling. The government is on his shoulder. He is king. So he's ruling from Jerusalem. And so here, when you look at some parallel passages, which I mentioned, Isaiah chapter 2, Isaiah chapter 11, Isaiah chapter 65, you also look at Daniel chapter 7. He talks about the saints possessing the kingdom. The Apostle Paul wrote about this in 1 Corinthians chapter 6. He said, don't you know that we will judge the world? The saints will judge the angels. Yes, so we are ruling here with Christ. We are helping, we are administering his kingdom. So during this 1000 year period, we will administer Christ's kingdom on the earth. Life will go on. Isaiah 65 talks about people being born and life happening, which is their building, buildings, planting vineyards and so on. I mean, life is going to go on here on earth for 1000 years. But the nature of things will be very different because God is going to transform the nature of things. So Isaiah describes it saying the lion will lie down with the lamb. A child will play with the serpent, so to speak, meaning the nature of things is going to be changed during this 1000 year reign. They will beat their swords into plowshares. That means that they're not going to learn war. They're not going to be fighting Satan is taken out of the way. So life is going to be very, very different. The very nature of the evil is not going to be there in the sense of the sin and the wickedness that was there. That's taken out. So we have these descriptions given to us in these passages, which I'd encourage you to read. Isaiah chapter 2, 11, 65, and also Zechariah chapter 14, and also Daniel chapter 7, which we read through. And we will, the saints will be teaching people about the kingdom, about Jesus Christ and the kingdom. Why? Because we will have people coming through the tribulation, the natural people. I mean, they're still in the natural bodies, and so they will be able to procreate. They will, you know, the multitudes will, they will people be born during the millennium reign. And so the human race will be multiplying. And those of us, the saints will be teaching them about God. And so nations will say, let us go up to the house of God. Let us learn about his ways, teach us his ways. So nations will begin to flow together into Jerusalem to learn about Jesus Christ and so on. And so all of that will be happening during the millennium, the thousand year reign of Christ. These are some of the insights that we have now given to us in Scripture. But now, at the end of the thousand years, something happens. And we read about this from verse 7, Revelation 20, verse 7 onwards. Satan is released for a brief moment at the end of the thousand years, released back on the earth. So Satan and his demons are released back on the earth. They've been taken out of the earth for 1000 years. Satan and the demons have been taken out. Now they're released back on the earth. And they go about to deceive the nations, meaning people. They go about to deceive people once again. Not the saints, not the ones who have glorified bodies, but the natural people who have been born, who are alive at that time. And it tells us that they gather these people towards battle. And once again, Gog and Magog are mentioned here. Gog and Magog, we read about them in Ezekiel 38 as leaders of what we would say as modern-day Russia and those parts of the earth. Now it's their names come up here again in Revelation 20, when you were Satan, Gog and Magog. But that doesn't mean they are the only people who are going to join with Satan at that time. But it says there's going to be great number of people who will be deceived and who will join with Satan. And they will actually go against the camp of God. But God once again intervenes.  So let's read about that in Revelation chapter 20, verses 7 through 15, please. Somebody could read that Revelation chapter 20, verses 7 through 15. I'll be positive. Go ahead, Thomas. Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth. Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. Whose number is the sand of the sea? They went up the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and divided them. The devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire. And bermstone where the beast of their false prophets are and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. The great white throne judgment. Then I saw a great white throne and who sat on it. From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead small and great standing before God and books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged according to their works. By the things which were written in the books, the sea gave up the dead who were in it.  Each one according to his works. Then death and heads were cast into the lake of fire. There's a second death and anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. So as we said, Satan, thank you Thomas. Satan is released for a brief moment at the end of this thousand year reign of Christ. Now, again, I think we discussed this in our second year course and we try to think on reasons why God plans to release Satan on the earth. Obviously, he succeeds in deceiving the nations because it says the number of people who join him is like the sand of the sea. This shows us how strong Satan's tactics for deception are. He can deceive people. So even at the end of the millennium, he succeeds in deceiving people. He succeeded in deceiving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden when there was no sin and they were in the presence of God. And once again, he succeeds in deceiving people at the end of the millennium. And his tactic of deception is just similar. He gets people to question what God has promised. In the Garden of Eden, he said, did God really say questioning what God had said? And I'm sure that even here at the end of the millennium, when he goes out to deceive the nations, he's probably going to use a similar tactic. Did Jesus really say that you're going to go into new heavens and the new earth? Did Jesus really say he's going to deceive them by getting them to doubt what God had spoken? That's his tactic, question what God has spoken. Get people to question. So that's his tactic for deception, which he uses against believers even today. He gets us to question what God has promised. So he deceives the people. They go up against Jerusalem, against the city, the beloved city, but God intervenes with fire and Satan, his demons, they're all cast into the lake of fire. Now this is the end of it. No more release, no more nothing. And then there is the great white throne judgment. So this is the final judgment. And the Bible says that every living person, this is verse 12, relation 20 verse 12, the dead small and great stand before the throne of God. That means every person from the time of Adam who lived on the earth, who was not been saved, will stand before the throne of God. And they will be judged. And whoever's name was not written in the Lamb's book of life, will be cast into the lake of fire. So the lake of fire is the final destination. But also do not know Christ. In that lake, he says, death and Hades was cast. So death itself is no more. Hades, which was the place of the dead when people died, that is also cast in. Everything is wrapped up now in the lake of fire. This is a second death or the final death. And then what happens? Only those who are saved are left on the earth. And momentarily, they are taken out of the earth. It's not described here, but I'm just filling this in because of the sequence of events. So people are on the earth, they're taken away. And all the heavens and the earth are renovated. So Bible talks about new heavens and the new earth. Second Peter chapter three was sustained to 13. Peter says, you know, everything heavens and the earth will be renovated by fire. So I can understand or we can say here that everything, this entire universe, this earth, God is going to just change everything. It's going to be renovated by fire, meaning the old will be gone, nothing of the old. It's going to be new heavens and new earth. So Revelation chapter 21 and 22 talk to us about life or what will happen after this renovation has taken place. Second Peter chapter 3, 10 to 13 describe the renovation. Peter writes that everything will be renovated by fire so that everything in the past would be destroyed. So obviously, that's why I said, you know, we'll be taken out of the way, taken into heaven so that this renovation can happen. And then heaven comes down onto the new earth. Okay, so we're going to read that in chapters 21 and 22. Aaron, I see you've mentioned Hebrews 9, 27, you know, yeah. It's important to man wants to die. After that, there will be the judgment. You have a question, Aaron? Okay. All right. So let's get into Revelation chapter 21. So this is after the renovation, everything's been renovated by fire. New heavens, new earth. What's it going to look like? Revelation 21 verses 1 to 8, please. Somebody could read that for us. Revelation 21 verses 1 to 8, sorry. Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride at dawn for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven sing, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them and be their God. And God will bep away every tears from their eyes. There shall be no more dead, no sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain. For the former things have passed away. Then he who said on the throne said, Behold, I make all new, all things new. And he said to me, Right for this words are true and faithful. And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely to him who thirst. He who overcomes, shall inherit all things. And I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the cowardly unbelieving abominable, murderer, sexuality, immoral, sources, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burned with fire and brimstone, which is the second dead. Okay, thank you. So, John is saying the new heavens and the new earth. So, first heavens and the first heavens is this entire universe which is today, which is referred to as the first heavens and the first earth is passed away, is destroyed. And there's a new heaven and a new earth. That means a new universe. God puts it in place. It's been renovated. And this new new earth, there's no sea, no water. And that's the only dependence on the natural water. There's going to be the water of life. That means our life is going to be sustained from the life of God directly, the water of life. And on the earth, this new earth comes heavenly city Jerusalem. So the city of God, heavenly city, which means there is a city in heaven. That city, which has our mansions and the mansions that God has prepared for us and all of that, that heavenly city is transferred to the earth or relocated to this new earth that's referred to as the new Jerusalem. And in this new Jerusalem, and he's going to tell us a lot about the new Jerusalem as we read on, but the first thing he says here, is that this new Jerusalem is basically God dwelling with his people. So that's the first thing about the city. This is God dwelling with people. And God always wanted to dwell with people, with his people. People who are choosing to worship him. People who are, you know, choosing to do what he, you know, his be like him, represent him. Right? So the first thing about this heavenly, new Jerusalem, this heavenly city is, this is the place where God is dwelling with people on earth, just like how he wanted it from the very beginning. And in this city, just like how he, in the beginning, there's going to be no more dead, no sorrow, no crying, no pain. All of that's gone. No, none of that. No death, no sorrow, no crying, no pain. The former things are passed away. All things are new. So God has done such an awesome work. All things are new. But I just want to highlight, you know, the very first thing about this new city is this. It's a tabernacle of God with man. It's God dwelling with man. Revelation 21, verse 3, God will be with them and be their God, and they will be his people. That's the heart of God. He wants to dwell with us. And this here is the fulfillment of what God really wants, what God is working towards, that God will dwell with man.  Revelation 21, verse 7, and the others are forever separated in the lake of fire. So let's continue reading a little bit more about this heavenly city, Jerusalem, and what is life going to be like in this new heavens and new earth? Verse 9 on Revelation chapter 21, we are going to read verse 9, and let's just read verse 9 to 13, please. Revelation 21, 9 to 13. Brents, you want to read? Then one of the seven angels who had the seven balls filled with the seven last flames come to me and talked with me, saying, Come, I will show you the pride, the lamb's wife, and he cried, me, way in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem descending out of the heavens from God. Having the glory of God, her light was like a mound, precious stone, like a just pearl stone, clear as such still, also crystal, also she had a great and high wall with 12 gates and 12 angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel, three gates on the east, three gates on the north, and three gates on the south, and three gates on the west. Till 21, right? Okay, just read. Let's see now. Okay, let me just pause here. It was still verse 13, and then we'll continue afterwards. So verse 9 to 13, I will listen 21, 9 to 13. Thank you, Brents. So he's saying the angel spoke, speaks to John says, and let me show you who is the bride, the lamb's wife, and he shows him this city, this great city, the holy Jerusalem. Now, keep in mind, it's not just the city, but the people who are in the city, the people of God who are in that city, they are the bride of Christ, but they are living in this great city. And what about the city? He says, this city is filled with the glory of God, verse 11. So people, God's people dwelling, are living in this great city, the holy Jerusalem, and the glory of God saturates the city. So imagine a city. He has told us earlier that this is the place where God tabernacles with man, God dwells with man. So obviously people are there. They are the bride of Christ, and they are in this great city. They are saturated with the glory of God. God's presence fills us. And he tells us a little about the city. It's got 12 gates, and the name of each gate is the name of one of the tribes of Israel. So the 12 tribes are going to be remembered forever by their names written. On the gates of the city. Then let's pick up in verse 14. What else do we know? What else does he tell us about the city? Verses 14 to 21, please. Revelation 21, verses 14 to 21. Yeah. Now the wall of the city and 12 foundation, and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. And he who worked with me had a gold rip to measure the city. Its gates, its gates, and its wall. The city is laid out. A square, its length is a great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the rate 12,000. For long, its length is breadth and height are equal. Then he measured its wall 144 cubits according to the measure of man. That is of an angel. The construction of its wall was of just one and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundation of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. With first foundation was just for the second sepiae, the third caldoni, the fourth imbelle. The fifth sardonic, the sixth sredius, the seventh sardic solid. The eighth beveli, the ninth tropeur, the tenth sardius of A, that's all. Okay, yeah, these are all, that's okay, we will skip the names of all of these precious stones, and yeah, till last for anyone, that's fine, okay. Then West 21, the 12 gates were 12 pearls, each individual gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. Thank you. So these are all the details of what the city is going to look like. So it's a square, the length, the width, and the height are about the same, are the same, he says, and you know, in verse 16 he gives us an idea, verse 15 he's talking about somebody, you know, that the angel who has this golden read to measure the city, just to give us an idea of the dimensions. So he says here, the city, it's 12,000 for longs, 12,000 for longs, this is verse 16 in Revelation 21, verse 16, and a note in my Bible in the margin says, that's 1,380 miles. So 12,000 for longs is about 1,380 or almost 1,400 miles. Now I was just looking at, you know, the distance between India east to west, which is around 1,800 miles east to west. So if you imagine India, our widest east to west point, which would some be something like, you know, from the northeast point to the west, the full length that way is about 1,800 miles approximately, or if you go from the north to the south, our longest point from the north to the south is 1,997 or almost 2,000 miles. Now the city, the city is the width of the city is almost like the width of India. Okay, so let's try to imagine, we're talking about not the width of a country, we're talking about the width of a city, the width of this new city, Jerusalem, one direction is almost from India, the width of India coast to coast, I mean, end to end, from eastern most point to the western most point, that's just the width of the city. So that means, the city is like many, many, many cities put together, it's like a big country. So I just want us to understand that, that this city, New City Jerusalem is like a big country. Okay, so it's not a small city, you know, in our minds when we think of cities, you know, you think of a city of Bangalore or something like that, you know, we have this idea, okay, there are cities like this, but this city, New Jerusalem, it says the width is like the width of a country. Okay, then the length and the height, it's like that, meaning this is huge, huge. Okay, so although it's called the city, Jerusalem, it's, you have to think in terms of like a huge country, right? And then he says, you know, the wall and the city is describing, he's using the colors of precious stones to describe it, he's using other things like gold and clear glass to describe the city, meaning the city is very, very magnificent. It's, you know, so John is just using precious stones and colors of precious stones to describe what he is seeing, right? It sits beyond what we can imagine itself. And he sums up by saying, he ends up by saying in verse 21, the gates are pearls and the street is pure gold. So can you imagine a city that's as wide as a country whose streets are gold, pure gold? It's so magnificent. And he mentioned earlier that the names of the apostles were on the 12 foundations, that's verse 14. So interesting, the 12 tribes and the 12 apostles are remembered in that new city, new Jerusalem. And the city is so magnificent, so great beyond, you know, what we can imagine. Let's continue further, please. We will just maybe read, we will read from verse 22 to 27. Revelation 21, 22 to 27, please. But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it. For the glory of the God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light. And the kings of the earth bring them glory and honor into it. Its gate shall not be set at all by day. There shall be no light there. And they shall bring the glory of the honor of the nations into it. So 26. Verse 27, yeah. But there shall be no means, inter-eat anything that defiles or causes an abomination or a lie. But only those who are written in the Lamb book of life. So the city is the city where God himself is dwelling with his people. So he says there in verse 22, the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. So there's no need for a physical temple. God himself is there. God is dwelling in that city. The glory of God is there.  People are and God is dwelling there. And he says there's no need for sun and the moon. And I mean, there's none of this, those kinds of, there's no need for those kinds of things. So the new heavens and the new earth are going to be very different than the first heavens and the first earth. The first heavens, the first earth which we are living in right now has all the sun, the moon, the stars, planetary bodies. You know, I don't know what the new heavens and new earth are going to be like. But he just tells us there's no need for the sun or the moon. God himself is dwelling here, but that's on the earth. And all the king, all the leaders of the people who were before leaders and great men on the earth, they're all there in that city. People of everyone who's been saved whose names are in the book of life. They're in the city and they are here bringing, they're just, you know, giving all glory, honor to God himself. Beautiful picture. So there's no evil, no evil, no wickedness in the city. God Almighty is dwelling. His glory floods the city. Revelation 22, let's maybe try to complete this and what time we have, maybe. So let's read Revelation 22, please. We could go from verses 1 to 11, Revelation 22, 1 to 11. Then he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as a crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. In the middle of its street and in either side of the river was the tree of life which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servant shall serve him.  There shall be no night, there no need lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them a light, and they shall reign forever and ever. Then he said to me, those words are faithful and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show his servants the things which must shortly take place. Behold, I'm coming quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. Now I John saw or heard these things, and when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, see that you do not do that, for I am your fellow servant and your brethren. The prophets and those who keep the words of this book worship God. And he said to me, do not see the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still.  He who is righteous, let him be righteous still. He who is holy, let him be holy still. So some more details about this city. There's a river of God, the throne of God. There's a river of water of life. Now remember, we just said earlier that life is going to be very different. We don't need physical water and things like that, but this is something different. It's the water of life. So there's a life of God is flowing from God to his people. And there's also the tree of life, very fruit, and which is for the health of the nation. So really, God's people are going to be walking in perfect health that is given to them by God himself, life and health flowing from God to his people. So it's pictured like this. And there's no curse, verse three, no more curse. Remember, in the Garden of Eden, after Man fell, there was a curse. There's going to be pain and sorrow and toil, none of that in the city. No more pain, no more sorrow, no more toil, life and health that flows from God himself. And we will see the face of God. We will see the face of God in that city. And he once again repeats, there's no need for any physical light. God himself is the light. And we're going to rule. We're going to be in a place of authority and dominion. We're going to live like kings in this place, sense of complete. Just describing to us that there's not going to be any form of being a slave or anything like this. We're going to be like kings. That's how life is going to be. And then he says verse six, these are things that are going to take place shortly. So think about this in Revelation 22 verse six and also in verse 10, he says, the time is at hand. Things are near. It's going to happen. Now, I know it's been 2,000 years since John wrote this, but for God and for the way God sees it, he says, so I'm getting ready to wrap these things up and bring these things into what I have in mind. And he's just assuring us. It'll all work out well. It'll all be fine. It'll all be fine. And we look at things today. It looks very distressing. It looks very perplexing. It looks very confusing. But you read the book of Revelation, God says, look, it'll all be fine. What I've planned will be fulfilled. God will dwell with his people. He will be their God and they will see his face.  So he encourages us. He says, you know, keep the words of this prophecy and I will come. Worship God. Let's read the last part of this Revelation 22. Somebody could read the final portion for us versus 12 to 21. Revelation 22 versus 12 to 21 please. Listen, listen says Jesus, I'm coming soon. I will bring my rewards with me to give each one according to what he has done. I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Happy are those who wash their robes, glean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city. But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral, the immoral and the murderer, those who worship idols and those who are liar, both in words and deeds. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to announce these things to you in the church, in the churches. I am descended from the family of David. I am the pride morning star, the spirit and the pride says, come everyone who hears this must also say come, come whoever is thirsty, accept the brother of life as a cave, whoever wants it. I, Joan, so long, so longly warn everyone who hears the prophetic words of this book. If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to his or her punishment. The black described in this book and if anyone decks anything away from the prophetic words of this book, God will take away from them the share of the fruit of the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book. He who gives his testimony to all says, yes indeed I am coming soon, so be it, come Lord Jesus, may the grace of the Lord Jesus be with everyone. Amen. So the book of Revelation closes off with the Lord affirming I am coming quickly. Just look, I am coming quickly. So stay strong, stay firm, continue with what you're doing and he says, I am Alpha and Omega and he also says verse 16, I Jesus, so he identifies himself. Look, I am this Jesus and I'm the one who has sent this message to Joan and those who are saved are going to be part of this eternal heavenly city outside of the city of means people will are you know who rejected Christ, they will have no place in this city.  So the Holy Spirit moving on the church, moving on the people of God, cry out and say come and as we are anticipating, we are living with that sense of saying Lord Jesus come, we want you to come. We want, you know, we want what you have spoken off the things that you've said you will do, so come Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit is empowering the bride, the church to be in the state of readiness and say come and then he closes by saying, you know, don't add to these words, don't take away from these words. These are final. This is what the Lord Jesus has spoken to John, to the churches through John. Don't add to these words, don't take away from these words. And so he says, surely I am coming quickly. And then he closes out this book of prophecy. All right. So that completes this course on Daniel and Revelation. We've read Daniel and Revelation, the prophetic scriptures together and what I'm going to do in the month of April, so we won't have lectures from next week, no lectures on Revelation and Daniel, but what I'm going to do is create an assignment, assessments, three short assessments that basically walk us through Daniel and Revelation, the things that we've spoken off and discussed. It will be a way for you to review, open up the Bible and just go through it as you answer the questions and it will also form the assessments based on which you will be created. Okay. It's not going to be anything difficult, it's just going to be more of like a way for us to revise everything. Daniel and Revelation take you through it and then you will have plenty of time to do the exercises or basically the month of April to do it and submit it back online in Google Classroom or for those who are doing it in the eLearning Portal, you can submit it in the eLearning Portal. Okay. So next week you will be receiving an email to let us know how you want to graduate, whether you'll be coming in person or whether you will just be joining us online so that we can prepare accordingly for your graduation, which will happen on Sunday the 8th of May and everyone, all of you will graduate of course, but we just need to know whether you're going to come physically or you will join us online so we can be prepared for that. Okay. We will close here today. Thank you for being part of this course. Thank you for studying with us and let us know about your plans for the ministry, what you plan to do after your graduation. If you need any help, you need any guidance, please just drop an email and we would be happy to respond. Okay. Let's close and prayer. Any questions, any comments? Okay. All right. Okay. Good. Let's pray together and we will wrap this up. Who would like to pray the closing prayer? All right. Thomas, why don't you? After an Ayurveda summit, I want to say this is our final class. You can pray and bless us the word of prayer. That will be nice. I will do that. I will do that. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for this journey over the last several weeks and months that we could journey together through your Holy Word as we read chapter by chapter. Thank you, Lord, for understanding and for truth. Father, I pray over all the students who are part of this class or part of the e-learning course and Lord, even as we bring this semester to a close and this course, I pray a blessing on each one. I pray especially for those who will be graduating and moving into different roles in ministry. Father, we pray of wisdom. We pray your guidance upon them. We pray that each one, Lord, will take all the learning, all the equipping and put it in good use for your kingdom as they serve, as they minister to people. May there be much fruit in their lives. May there be much grace. May there be much wisdom, much anointing flowing through their lives as they serve others, Lord. And may your work be done through them. And Lord, all of us, we pray that we will live faithful to you till our very end so that God together we will be in that new city, in that heavenly Jerusalem, looking at your face, glorifying you. Thank you, Father, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Pastor. Thank you, each one. Thank you, Pastor. I appreciate you being part of the course. God bless. We will be in touch. Amen. Thank you.


Tell me first about your work. What is this foundation about? What is its mission, and what do you hope to achieve through it? Actually, I have to say that at first I really didn't mean to build the foundations You know, but it comes from the movement and from the heart of young people that cannot just stay and do nothing Looking at the situation so what social issues what human right issue and environmental issues that happen around us in Kalimantan so This foundation just founded last year in 2016 and actually just my 16th, it's one year anniversary actually of this runaway long foundations and runaway loom Itself comes from the word of dayak manyan language. That's my mother tongue. So it means living water The idea is to use the media as a tool for social transformations whether it is to educate people and to do advocacy work and to Bring up the stories and the voice from the ground so to be heard around the world And why did you feel the need for these stories to be heard? Do you find that they haven't had a platform? Yeah, I love that question yeah, so I Mentioned on the stage previously when I go out, you know from Kalimantan I love people will ask me to main question. So first is do dayak people are still if human myth They ask and then the second question is a do dayak people Wearing, you know, like bark skins or naked So they they like many people outside Kalimantan have a top that we were still very primitive Because Kalimantan is very famous in the forest and they think that okay Maybe we live in the forest just like orangutan. That's what they think and I realize that it's because of lack of Informations and the Francis that Provided about us. So you talk about social issues and indigenous rights issues Through your media activism. Do you also talk about environmental issues? Is that a big focus for you? right, so As a diet people really very close with the forest like with environment So when you talk about indigenous group, you cannot separate it from the environment issue because like I said The net tips always the guardians of the forest the guardians of the water the guardians of Of the soil because we really know how to treat it as we live already hundreds years even thousand years in the island So looking at the situation in Kalimantan now, which is very famous now known by forest fire pitland fire and toxic haze issue so environmental issue become one of our focus and Yeah, we started, you know, like keep driving on bringing the voice from the ground related to this issue Because it's not only about environmental itself But it's also about the lives and the identity and the culture of their people. Have you seen a change yourself? You know growing up you had happy memories of a healthy peatland ecosystem today You know, there's a lot of talk that a lot of it is being dried or burned for agriculture So now it's almost a tender box for fire. Have you firsthand observed that in your community? Yeah, so It's it's not by research, but it's really by experience, you know, like I first I mentioned about smell When 2015 Big Boris fire happen pitland fire happen in central Kalimantan It's very traumatic for us and stop from that point. It's very easy for us to smell, you know There's something burning somewhere in the pitland now. We just just only Just a bit, you know, you know, this is a smell up to 2015 we recognize that and it's really, you know, like in opposite bit I remember what I remember when I was a kid and I also like like to go adventure still, you know, like going to the pitland area and pick the wild fruit like what I did when I was a kid and I Realize something the taste is different. It's it's Bitter, you know, but I remember this fruit. It must be very simple why it's bitter It grows in the same pitland or it's already different. So that's why I realized the pitland already changed Now that you've seen these changes. What are some of your concerns? What do you think some of the biggest challenges are? For yourself and your community Previously, we didn't realize anything about this, you know, when the pit and fire happened We just think okay, this is a natural things that always happen because it's already started since 97 so including this year it will be 20 years for us to see the fire around the fitland, but what become our concern now is This pitland actually when it burns, you know It resulted the particle a very small particle only size 2.5 micro and It cannot be filtered by your lung if it enters your lung It will dissolve with your blood and if we go to your like bloodstream or your brain if it causes stroke it can cause lung cancer and also it can cause heart attack and It's different with the particles that produced by vehicle pollution. This is produced by pitland fire and This is the thing that we keep breathing, you know in our body for 20 years So it's very essential issue for me. It's it's really related, you know, the destroy Destruction of the pitland the fire of the pitland and the health of the people because this is the matter about About the lives, you know, so pitland matter people matter So it becomes one thing that we cannot just separate it and it becomes our concern Yeah, and I think on that note in 2015 you you lived through that you experienced that You were referencing some of the things you saw which were quite traumatic. You can just recount Yeah, how that how that changed your community and and maybe spark something in yourself the Thing is It's so painful, you know when you lose someone that you love it's so painful and I Saw that in the eyes of the people that I met I Went to the villages to bring the medicine to bring help for them and they say this is what we need this is what we wait so far and they didn't have any access to get masks and to get medicine and We recorded the stories about those who loved their loved ones and they cried It's it's really painful, you know for us like it's different. You only know, okay there some people died and Because of hate because of fire But when you listen to their story when you watch everything about your own stuff, you just cannot stop It's very difficult for me because I'm not the outsider that come to help the people You know, I'm the one that live there and I experience it that it's very difficult for us to survive in that that kind of situations We live in the town in the city and we have Mask at least compared than the others that live in the villages They have nothing to survive and to protect themselves. So that's why I said this is this is very essential And we started from a very small thing. I started to talk to my friends in my communities What we can do about it, we are not the one that can change the policy We are not the one that have a lot of money to bring these people Maybe like if I quit themselves out from Kalimantan or to bring the tank of oxygen to each house To help their children so they can live and breathe we couldn't do that But what we can do we just start with that like I said in the stage we start with cooking We cook for for the local firefighters and When you have a very good Intentions and determinations to do good things to help others by sacrifice yourself so The way will be open You know, and that's exactly what we experience We just keep ourselves. We ride motorbike for hours to bring all the supplies to the villagers and Start from that point You know like we bring the stories we We make it be hurt and people say we never know that Because now we know we want to help you and and that's what I feel Media is very powerful thing to change, you know for social transformation And it changed us not only in our mind But also in our hearts and even though sometimes it's very challenging to do this because Yeah, like I said we are actually can choose if we want to be a victim But no we don't want to be a scientific thing. We want to be a hero We want to be the one that stand for our people. So that's why we keep doing this


My name is Peter Njage. I'm the managing partner of Mwen Njage and Kapani Advocates, situated at Seattle City Mall, Kiambu Road, Rwanda, Block K, that floor. And for purposes of today's show, I'm the council on record for many karyuki in Jogona, and I think we're here to discuss what you all know has been happening in the media, and I'll be ready to answer any questions that would be forthcoming, or maybe to enlighten the position of my client, because I'm here to speak on her behalf, and maybe to give some comfort to her fans and to purposes of responding in terms of what has been happening on the media recently. Maybe you can take us through maybe the letter you've shared with us, the demand letter from your client. Very well. The day before yesterday, my client was awakened to a buzz of social media activities alleging that a case has been filed against her person by one Michelle Nkala Talami. Unfortunately, my client had not been served with court documents, therefore she was at a loss to respond or to know the allegations that were being pedaled in terms that a defamation case has been lodged against her. And you all know that we don't prosecute or mitigate matters in social media, matters to do with court cases are won and lost in a court of law. So that now my client was equally astonished just like all of us in terms of the allegations that were levied against her because she did not have a chance to respond to it. As of today, we had to respond or rather receive any concrete material which would know the nature, the substance and style of the allegations that are before her. So that having broadcast kind of information without being served with any sums of court papers, we just treat it like a defamation or libel. Even a thing from where we sit, it's my client character which has been put to test and she'll be proceeding and pursuing to the greatest levels of justice to ensure that her hard and reputation is jealously protected. And that's what you're here to do. Just to go through your demand later, there are three demands that we wanted to address. The one was to cease and desist from making any move for the second one was the provision of public trust. And then the third one was our process version because of fee involved. We're going to take us through the three demands. Very well. You know, a good name is to be desired and is to be desired more than silver and gold. That's the value of a name. So that my client is an influencer, is a public figure and is somebody whose currency is a good name. So that by broadcasting that kind of unchecked and malicious information would necessarily be going to the heart of her bread and butter but it is very unfortunate. The broadcasting having happened, we felt it's important that we don't continue with that kind of dissemination and as we are telling her to cease and desist, notwithstanding what has happened. Secondly, we have the considered view if she could give us an acceptable apology of Vico magnitude and of Vico broadcast, we could consider having this matter solved through alternative dispute resolution because that apology should be looked into the context of how this information has also been disseminated. So we don't have an apology of Vico measure. Thirdly, is that what she's done has been termined before by our courts of law and our courts of law has said that a man is as good as his name and when I say a man he includes a woman and to be specific my client meaning. So that when I was raising the damages that are brewing is being informed that in event that she does not cease and desist, in event she does not consider an apology, in event she does not consider even having a lot of court settlement, then we are under very strict instructions to pursue damages that are available within our judicial system and that is what that's our position. Are there options when we have a conversation, you have been a capable team communicating with the accused in Telami, are there any conversations, perhaps this matter may be of social media conversations outside our court? Precisely because such a media is a tool of information and if it is used well, it can also assist our people and especially it can also be a good source of income and a good source of sharing information and data. But it's a double-edged sword, it can also be abused like in this particular instance whereby it's very unfortunate that my client is being accused of very heinous allegations of a case of defamation having been filed against her and unfortunately the platform does not have an opportunity to be heard therefore my client has been condemned and heard and we know that the rules of natural justice every man should be heard, you cannot be condemned and heard but most importantly since you already have communicated our position we are looking forward to a meaningful resolution of this dispute because my client is somebody who would wish to have peace and quiet and be good terms with everybody including the said aggressor. You've mentioned your client who wished to have a peace of mind and doesn't want to speak about this matter because so many Kenyans are willing to hear the story of Menakei, is it going to happen anytime soon? What I can tell you is that my client is currently going through therapy because she suffered great mental distress and she has elected through consultation of her family to come out of social media for take a sabachiko because mental health is a big issue to her and she's a very strong crusader of that particular issue so it's very unfortunate that now she's becoming the victim who needs mental assistance and mental wellness so to that extent you may not be hearing anything soon from my client because we are under contact under this matter and if any case would come or happen the rules of engagement are very simple that you cannot litigate a matter in a court of public opinion because it would among the subjudice but we felt that it's important that we give this particular interview and we give this aside of the story because from how we see it my client has not been given a chance to respond as much but most importantly I would wish to mention that this is a double edged sword that it's very unfortunate when you make allegations which you cannot substantiate and even if you file a case that's where the courts are there and also need to emphasise that the one who runs fast to court may not be necessarily the one who has a good case even if that case would be forthcoming you also have a counter claim and we are looking forward to see how this unfolds I hope you are ready to rambo So is this case filed in the court of law or is it yet to be filed? As a matter of good faith and disclosure I received a letter today from the law firm of Kilonzo and company advocates and they were telling me that I have instructions to receive summons and they were quoting a case number which was on the reference of the letter I have since responded to that letter saying that we are fully instructed to receive the summons and any court documents so I'm also very anxious just like all of us to see the context and the nature of this case so as of now I can only disclose that indeed my demand letter was replied to she has her own lawyer, she has her own variable representation so we are looking forward to see the nature of the context of the allegations and thereafter we shall inform our client accordingly and we shall give a side of story if such a case exists but from where we see it we have no documents whatsoever as of now If we should add here your client is going to a sabbatical break therapy session in terms of now how much has the client spent for the therapy session and then for how long will the client be off the social media? That question should be looked into the context of also the nature of the business that my client has lost and the nature of business that she was actively involved in remember that the real house over in Nairobi and the people that were being alleged they are multinationals and the last thing they would want to engage with is an engagement of a person who is not feasible through the engagement my client is under binding contract with her employer and the rules of engagement on how to go about it so she opted for purposes of wellness to take a sabbatical it can be a day, it can be a month, it can be a week what she is more interested is because what happened yesterday and the day before yesterday has taken a big toll on my client's life and welfare including trolls on media and many other social media bullying and harassment and the unfortunate thing is that the only one side of the story was coming through either paid up active accounts or pseudo accounts and my client felt that responding to this would actually be an exercise in futility remember when you fight with a pig you always end up with a mark so the best thing is to give it a break and my client being a smart woman opted to give such a break what do you refer to people you mentioned? the facts speak for themselves the facts speak for themselves I don't need to explain the obvious alright of course there are so many conversations going on in social media and most people want to know maybe it's Shobi, it's Kiki in order to try to pull a stunt I'm aware that those kind of activity happen but from where I sit and as a council representing my client if those things would be happening they have only to be looked into the context of also not injuring the reputation of somebody else remember defamation is a very big issue because the reason why somebody would engage you is the reputation or the name you've built in the market and it takes a while back even when you have broadcast our images you don't care to be where you are so if somebody is maligning your name just for the sake of Kiki or maybe Shobi it has to be looked into the context of the damage we are with again or it has also to be consensual but from where I sit my client has not consented to any such kind of Kiki or any such kind of activities so it's on them to tell us why they feel my client is liable and we shall respond accordingly from the time we post a dimension I can say but to pretend I caught it I don't know anytime soon maybe we will see you guys walking into the did you hear the system when we see it at any call anytime soon you know at Kwan 159 of the constitution promotes also alternative dispute resolution and I'm a strong proponent of mediation as a way of solving disputes the era of telling somebody Dr. Nakotini is long gone he's on his ikuzanyayo but now if indeed you have a grievance you could also write to that person just that we have done telling them you did this, can you desise and desise can give an apology if you look at the nature and the context of our demand our reason and our claim for damages is on the last tail because my client is not really interested with such kind of a monetary gain she is only here to defend her heart and reputation so saying that Dr. Nakotini I would take that because when Nakotini there's not necessarily amount you will win you also have your own counter claim she may also end up paying us through the nose so I would imagine that what is important here if somebody has a known as grievance they are procedures and you're not saying that she has no right to address her grievances all you are saying is that the mood and the format and style is unlawful and it's illegal the real house of Susan Tv is still ongoing I don't know your client now will he take a break are we expecting to see her in the series on going Kama Kawaita are there maybe changes in terms of now being featured in the series just as I said before that my client is under contract and she is very keen to honour her contractual obligations and there is nothing stopping her to even perform better at season 2 the only question that I would like maybe to emphasise is that in a beach to be a better performer at season 2 she has opted to take a break from social media and to seek professional mental aid which she is doing and that's a very good activity in terms of even her her personality so in terms of her response whether she'll be in season 2 the answer is a resounding yes she'll be there and you can only expect her to be just like fine wine which is refined through fire so what would you tell people that say that your client and Kalani are doing all this to push season 2 their coming season 2 you know pushing an agenda can only be looked into the context that there should be a meeting of the minds meaning what you call a contract like I tell you come for the interview to my office at this time and you agree you've already made the mind but you cannot agree to come to my office without me having confirmed the time so what I'm trying to say in a simple language my client is not aware of any such kind of engagement with her she did not consent to a kind of activity and she also feels that the other better ways to have promoted the season 2 and you cannot promote a season 2 at the expense of my client's reputation remember my client is a household name and it's a brand so that housewife is just one of the activities she's engaged in and she cannot do that it's going to injure her other kind of engagements she has with other players including international engagements which she was supposed to do recently so it's very unfortunate and you'd have wished that this matter would be handled with the most superiority for the interest of all of us but if things come to show I think that's why the contract exists so that people can square their disputes there just to wind up you have confirmed to us maybe in terms of burning terms of money now actually condition art confirmed art in terms of losses how many how much can we say amount we can estimate your client has lost so far the loss can be looked into two days and maybe futuristic loss and that's why I felt that some of 3 million is reasonable because the case that I was relying upon was a similar fact so when somebody goes to media and misalign somebody else was already 2.5 million it is 2019 and the ceiling has depreciated so when I looked at the facts of the case again is what the courts have pronounced themselves before I think 3 million is a moderate amount for compensation so in general and wind up there is this thing of cyber bullying and judiciary find some clubs a lot of people will find what would you encourage or what would you tell people about this whole issue of framing or posting pictures for example you went to a club some photographers they took a picture posting without your consent what would you tell them you know the right of privacy is a constitution right and your privacy cannot be infringed without your consent and it's also very very grave when your privacy or your picture is used for promotion of purposes by a club or any entity without your consent or without any compensation and that's why you see the communication authority of Kenya pronounce itself very strongly that if you had to use somebody's photo who has come a revealer who has come to a club to have some good time and use their club then you post in your website or in your social media handles by enlarge that would amount to advertisement and the decent thing would be to ask that revealer would you be agreeable for you or for this photograph to be used and in this day of interfinite technology nothing stopping them even to have an online signature the person could sign of course you can argue that was inconstoxicated and agree yes you can use my photograph or even maybe give an incentive if you agree we will pay you extra amount of money as an incentive or maybe give you a voucher but what is happening is you are having a good time somebody takes a photo to their own liking tomorrow it's posted on social media handles and those things we know that internet never forgets what you don't know and this something have to disclose they have also learnt to break up of marriages or break up of homes because when somebody sees a kind of a photo maybe in the context you are in missing the pretty differently and also miss use of photos of minus because the child you have used the photograph of a child and should not give consent so it's important for our people to understand that right of privacy should be protected generously because it is the basic engagement that others as a citizen have but when it's infringed including tampering of your phone using of your image and particularly if your image for commercial purposes then I think it's only fair that those finds were reasonable what I can tell them I must say that two things is that the question about reputation is as old as humankind and the reason why somebody would hire or not hire you and name your build in the market my client has attained those great height of success as an artist and as an influencer through hard and dealings so it's only fair if you did have such kind of a grievance the decent thing would not even have to go to court even assuming there was a court even assuming there was a court case it's been alluded the decent thing would have been serve my client with a demand letter and tell them could you cure this issue or could you rectify it so that a court case could be the last resort but what you're finding here my client is being told is a court case in the social media she has not been served with any demand letter she has no summons there are no court documents then after writing and expressing our instructions to be served or even file a formal case again if she doesn't season the system give an apology and receive a very hasty response being told there is a court case so that you can clearly see the element of good faith is not fair because if indeed somebody felt aggrieved which is within her rights the honorable thing would have been giving us a demand letter and you could have rectified that wrong but now we see that demand letter is absent that court case even as of now is unknown so we need to see really what they have to and I think it's only fair that alright thank you so much for your time may be I want you to your client sorry I want you to your client out my client is that she should consider being resilient and be ready first in her safety belt we see how it will unfold it's going to be a good week let's see how it unfolds tomorrow hopefully we'll be served by the documents thank you


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