Mě chcete teraz ani jeden tej tento, no to je to lepší človek, kdo nám musí děžit velce. No. Co zbukáma, vyspíte mnou vení. No dobra, tak jo, tak vycháme tej tento popení. Co jste tohle? Ty jo, úbece. Mám jednou, že to bude. To nevím, stáje do BVGAčko, ty otyf. Je to na výsledě, to je srečtě sa narovní. Vysledně si je 27,25 a 21 jako níc. Jak my nepas nejde. 1,2,3. Počkujiho mě, čestí to, na third day of devcon. The desktop tag will start with a talk about the Firefox development roadmap for this year. The speakers are Michal Stanké, who is a Mozilla community representative for the Czech Republic. And Martin Stancký, who is a Firefox developer. I'm Martin Stancký a I do some development on Firefox on Linux. And I'm going to talk today about some future development of Firefox and what we can expect. As you may know, Mozilla is not in very good shape today because there are Google and Chrome. Firefox is dropping market share, so Mozilla is doing everything to just be back in business to produce some good browser. There are some ways how to manage that. And my things, I believe, are multiprocess and also sandboxes as Chrome des and also some speed up. You may know that the main new thing in Firefox is actually the Rust, which is new programming language. And the Rust is something like, I don't know, if it's really focused on parallelism and safe memory handling. And this whole project of moving Firefox or some parts of Firefox to Rust, the name is Project Oxidation. So some small parts are moving to Rust and bigger and bigger and bigger than. So another big thing from Mozilla point of view, of course, is multiprocess Firefox. When Firefox uses more than one process like in past. And recently Firefox has, I think, one process for the content. And the latest nightly has two processes for content, for web content. And another process is for plugins and media plugins like video players, sorry, video decoders like Adobe and so. Well, sandboxes and the whole project, how to keep with competitors has named Project Quantum. So those are priorities from Mozilla point of view. Also, we as Red Hat, a company, we have also priorities, which are the GTK3 flatback to distribute Firefox in, I think, GNOME native, future native format or free container format. So Wayland and especially from Enterprise Linux, we want Firefox to be more friendly to enterprise customers. So better configuration, the fleet commander project, care barrels and so. Firefox 52 is, I think, some kind of milestone from Mozilla point of view, because Firefox 52 requires Rust. And no more plugins will be allowed, I think. And PAPI plugins like Java accept Flash. Flash is going to be here, I think, long because from telemetry, Flash is used by, I think, 40 millions of users.  Also on Linux, no Kyro, on Firefox no more. Firefox is going to skia library from GNOME and also GTK2 is going to be removed. So I think it's kind of milestone. Well, I think everything interesting in Firefox has happened just in a nightly, which is the open version of Firefox. It requires Rust. Rust is used for media detection and reading the media containers. And also parsing URL, internet addresses, the multiprocess issues there, and also sandboxes. There are sandboxes on Firefox. Sorry, I will talk later about the sandboxes. Why the whole thing about Rust and server? I have a screen here. You can see that this is just the regular gecko. And this is a benchmark of loading and calculating the flow and styles of Wikipedia page. So you can see the recent implementation of those things are pretty slow. And server, which is the future implementation in Rust, is much faster even in parallel in threads. So this is the reason why Mozilla tries to speed up and do that better. Well, the multiprocess Firefox has, as I said, content purchases, media plugins, and plugins like Flash in containers, and sandboxes. This is just the default sandbox in Firefox. You can see the main process. This is the main process, the gecko, which has access to file system network and so. And Mozilla uses only sandboxes to sandbox to child processes, like the web content and the plugins. So if the plugin or web content breaks this sandbox, it has complete access to system. But we in Red Hat want to do the sandbox complete over the whole browser. So even if the web breaks to the main process, the whole browser will be sandboxed. Right now it could be done as a Linux, but in future we want to do that by Flatpak. And yes, I think I'm going to show you some demos because I think it's much better than talking. Well, yes. So first of all I'm going to show you just the sandbox on the Linux. This is just, you can launch Firefox, Incentbox by SLI, by this command. And it runs Firefox in a complete environment, which is isolated from the system. So I will run it. So there is no profile. So it's completely empty environment. So I will create just some profile. And launch it. So I will try to open some files. So there is just the file system. I think it could be accessed by the sandbox. But the home is empty. Sorry. The sandbox, unfortunately the sandbox is not complete because the application could access X system. And when you have access to X, you have access to root window and also to all other windows. So this is why we want to use Wayland and do the isolation complete of Firefox. So if you visit some broken pages or want to try Flash and so, you can use this sandbox in Fedora. Also I have presentation of the processes. So here is Firefox. Nightly. Nightly Firefox. I will open some pages. I don't know. I need some page with Flash. OK, I will open more. I don't know. So I have five tabs. OK. So you can see there is the Nightly Firefox. And there are two processes for the content, for web. And one for the plugin container. If I killed content from some pages. This is the page which was killed by the user. So I think this Nightly works pretty well. But it's not finished in the recent Firefox, which is 51. But it works pretty well in the Nightly. So I hope it's going to be in the development or in the production. And the last thing which I have is the Wayland demo. This is our recent project in Red Hat. We try to make Firefox run in Wayland. Because the Wayland is faster than it's more secure. And because the application has only access to its window. There is no access to whole area. And much more, just new and better. So this is our recent Wayland development version. I hope it's going to start. So this is our Wayland version. There are some interesting bugs in the recent compositor. That the pages are not very thorough perfectly. So you can see some flipping between pages and between graphics. So as you see, this is back in Motor Compositor. So not everything perfect, but seems to be working at least somehow. Well, lot work to do. OK, so this is our recent Wayland port. OK, thank you. And I'm going to pass Mike to Michal. Thank you, Martin. So as you have heard, my name is Michal Stanke. And I'm here for the Czech Mozilla community. But I'm going to tell you more about what's coming, as Martin mentioned, Rust. In Rust Mozilla research started to build completely new web engine called Cervo. Today Cervo is more community-based than Mozilla. Less Mozilla paid people as Mozasta for working actually on it. But they still keep an eye. And found out that in Cervo they have made good progress, especially in the speed of rendering the pages. Basically what they have done in Cervo, they paralyzed whatever can be paralyzed. Starting with CSS to compositing DOM, everything. Project Quantum has been mentioned and has been announced, I think it was in December. They are going this year to port some cool stuff from Cervo back to Gecko and merge it. It's basically about parallelizing everything. And one thing that they have already started and experimented in nightly on Windows. And some subset of GPU cards that have been supported is GPU offloading. That means they have put everything, what interacts with the GPU to a standalone process. I actually have some numbers on my laptop. I will look at them and tell you. They have done some measurement and there has been about 50% fewer crashes caused by GPU drivers. On the other hand, there has been about 25% more crashes caused by flash. Because flash does not work well in general in Firefox. And that's why they are going to reduce it as well. They even think about using PepeRAPI for flash instead of NPAPI. Which seems to be more stable and basically use the same version of flash as Chrome does. This was the first experiment. It's not running anymore again and they are now summing up what to do and when to ship it. But this year they have three main things. They want to ship in Firefox written in Rust. One of them is Quantum CSS, the first one. Which is also codenamed Stylo. That's a library for CSS. Currently it's server, there is just about 120 CSS properties supported. But the aim is to support everything what now the CSS library in Gecko does. And replace the current implementation by the Stylo written in Rust. They are testing it on top 500 pages from the Alexa rank. And they do not see there any regressions. Except some they decided they are allowed, let's say. They will ship it. Then there is renderer. They are going to port web renderer and compositor from server to Gecko also. And that's the part that should paralyze everything that can be paralyzed. And use as much GPU as can be for the rendering. Currently it's unstable due to the drivers, photographic cards. So it doesn't even work well in server now unfortunately. The compositor is composing the pieces together on the page. I have mentioned also the DOM and Flow. Those should be the latest ones. DOM project is about unloading tabs which are not active. They want to detect what tabs you have open in Firefox. They do not need to run the JavaScript when they are not active and you do not have open them directly. For example, they want to detect, for example, the Google mail you probably want to see the notifications or some changes in the title bar when there arrives a new email. And maybe some more pages. But from the common web pages you don't need this. And they can stop the JavaScript from running and just do not use it. The decision has been made because they have started with electrolysis and trying to run as much processes for the content as possible. And the outcome is it doesn't make much sense to use more than eight processes because there is kind of overhead with the memory to run each process. So they decided to run four or eight processes and inside of them use some smart scheduling and standalone threads to render each tab you have. The last one mentioned is Flow. I found it recently on the Mozilla Wiki and Flow is about UI and everything else, what can be written in Rust and ported from Servo. The drawback is those are massive changes to the code base. So Firefox needs to drop something which is not compatible. One of the things is NPAP, so no more plugins except Flash and I think Google's Widevine will be supported. I'm not sure if Google Widevine actually uses NPAP, but it should be one of the plugins that will still work. And they are also dropping support for Windows Vista and older. That should happen starting Firefox 53 that cannot be, that wouldn't be able to run on old windows. And the last major thing that they are deprecating Zool advance. So basically the advance you know the older ones and moving to web extensions API that is in Chrome, Opera and partially in Edge. Zool advance should be dropped in Firefox 57. They will still work in extended support release, 52 for about a year, year and two months maybe, but then the Zool will be gone definitely. I wanted to show you Servo originally how it runs, but I wasn't able to connect my computer, so no Servo demo, but you can stop by the booth, which is next to the entrance to this building, and we will show you there directly. And now something completely different. We have been talking about backend stuff that user actually won't see directly. And I want to show you that Mozilla is also testing some new features. And they are not testing in any nightly special builds. You can install them and test even on release, even older release versions. That's test pilot. Test pilot contains, I think now it's six experimental add-ons built directly by Mozilla. And when you install them, you can try some features and Mozilla will unfortunately collect some data, which they need to know how you use the feature, if it's actually used and how you interact with it. If the features are successful and from the data they see that you want to use it and it's helpful, it will be built into Firefox eventually. If they do not see much interest, they will either kill it or upload it on addonsmozilla.org and make it a regular add-on. I can show you some of the experiments now, if it will work here, but here should be up-to-date version. So if I open test pilot, Firefox.com, it's in Czech, so I will switch it for you to English. Now it's in English. And first I need to install the test pilot add-on. It has been installed and now I see the experiments here. There are some kind of geeky experiments like when you hit a four or four page, it's going to check the archive.org if there's some older version of it. You might be interested, maybe in TAP center, but basically move the TAPs aside. So I just click enable, it will download the add-on and move the TAPs aside and there's some wizard how to use it. And it can be hidden this way, you can even search here. So here it will show me the TAPs here and some next TAPs, other TAPs. One of my favorites is actually there are two. It's Minwit. I've heard that this feature is in Opera already. When I enable Minwit and visit some YouTube video, let's open YouTube and go, for example, to Defconn. I can actually try to, when I enable Minwit, watch myself visit and yeah, some demo effects here. Let's open some other video, maybe if I put something, several browser, maybe it's another one. OK, now. Yes, this works. Who here has just rushed? I can see the video here in some small windows. I can even close the original TAP, it will stay here. I can hide Firefox, and I will see the windows still over the other windows. So this is the title of the talk. Now you can see the TAP is not here with the video, but there is still an icon, so I can turn it back to a standard TAP and put it back in the browser again. And one more interesting is a page shot, which is in English, who cares, if I enable it. I see a new button here. If I click it, I can make a screenshot. I can either track and select the era or I can just hit some text. I have turned it off. And it will select the HTML element automatically for me. I can download the screenshots, or I can hit Save, which will immediately upload the screenshot to the Mozale servers and copy the URL to share to the keyboard. The advantage of using this service is that the uploaded screenshots are automatically deleted from the servers by default after 14 days, but I can change it from 10 minutes to indefinitely to keep it there. I can go and delete it right now. And if I now paste the link, it won't be there. Maybe I should show you, it will be there before. I can't... Yeah, it detects, so I cannot take a screenshot of this page shot. Interesting. And this is the pilot. If everything goes well, there will be more experiments coming. One of them is, for example, container tabs. And if you ask me if it's about running tabs in Docker, it's not. Container tabs are about... if each time you open a new tab, either it is blank tab or open a link in a tab, you will be able to choose what kind of cookies and things should be accessible for it tab and what should be sent. By default, there are predefined tabs for personal browsing for banking, shopping, social networks and stuff. And it will allow you to be locked in to a single page with three or five accounts at the same time in different tabs and they won't know about each other. Currently, it's, by default, enabled in Nightly. You can enable it by preference in the developer edition for sure, but they want to enable it for testing to broader audience via the test pilot and get some statistics how it's used, if people use it what tabs and containers will be useful because you can add your own containers. And that's it. So that's all for me, but if you have any questions, please raise your hand. Yeah, the question was that we talk about desktop and if there is desktop is the main focus. The truth is that in the few years in the past they put a lot of effort into Firefox OS and they realize they are not successful and decided to kill it. And then they saw, okay, Chrome did for the years they Google developed Chrome into a very fast browser. So now they are like going to get on par with Chrome, at least. But there is also focus on mobile web browsers. Recently there has been a release of Firefox focus for iOS. Firefox focus is a very simple browser for iOS with some added features like tracking protection which blocks some ads and tracking elements including Google Analytics and similar stuff for you. And there is also an experimental tabs app called Prox which aggregates stuff from things like TripAdvisor and such and show the interesting restaurants and sites around you including the reviews from all known sites through the API. Actually threads are using Firefox Firefox is like 20 or 30 threads but threads have shared memory so all threads share the same memory and can write everything so actually it's not secure the threads are not secure so this is the reason so you say that Chrome processes are not secure it has sandboxes in the nightly Firefox and it's going to have more sandboxes so the processes are used to have the sandbox so this is the reason Actually on Windows there is also already some basic sandbox release and even in the release there are sandboxes for the content processes for Linux they will follow and in the next few releases they want to harden the sandboxes so the content process cannot do what it should not do Yeah, the question there How many tabs do you have open? Yeah, okay Yeah, that's true Currently enabling the EtonS which split UI and the content I think the increase was about 10% of the memory currently in 90 data think 2 processes I don't know the numbers someone did some measurement how much the number of how much the memory consumptions raise with enabling more content processes I think it was something like 20% or 40% when you double up the number of the processes but I've also heard about people that run but I've heard about people they have enabled about 100 content processes on 8 GB machine but they run nightly it should be slightly optimized but as I said, as quantum they know that it won't scale much and the limit currently the estimate is 8 content processes and inside of them they will use threads for rendering the tabs Yeah It will be easier compared with Chrome if you open I just did Well I did some testing with Chrome and Lightest Nightly yesterday and when I open some 5 5 different pages some video Sorry Well Just for testing because Chrome uses different processes for different domains so I opened some different domains and in Chrome it was 1 and 5 gigs and in multi-process Firefox the Lightest Nightly it was 700 megabytes so Well it could be better but it's still something I think it's still good and it really depends on the page Yeah There was a question about universal factor authorization right? If it's going to be supported in Firefox the answer is I don't know I haven't heard about for Firefox WebAssembly has been added to Nightly right? Usually when they add something to Nightly they wait for 3 cycles to make it work without too much crashes and they move to developer edition which is basically alpha then to beta beta is a very broad audience a huge number of users so in beta it could stay 2 cycles and then it probably will go to release so if I sum it up it's something like 6-7 releases that's about a year maybe to make it to release version Yeah The question was if there is any plan to support multiple profiles on Firefox for Firefox account I'm not aware of currently you cannot run cannot connect to multiple accounts at the same time for synchronization but you can log in into a different account for example if you log in to addonsmusel.org you can use different account then Firefox uses for synchronization so if any service decide to use Firefox account for login you can use different account than you have in the browser directly Yeah, the first question You can download Yeah, the question was where to get Nightly Yeah, actually I think you are talking about Linux, right? So there is a problem that the Nightly built by Mozilla doesn't work on Fedora because there is different SSL version so you need to buy it by yourself but I think we are going to provide some pre-built Fedora version in Flatpak or maybe in Copper but there is plan to provide the Nightly by users But if you want to compile it takes about 40 minutes yeah The question was or question comment Firefox looks much more like Chrome than Firefox looks like itself in the past that's true probably that's what the majority of the users wants to have the browser as simply as possible Still you can use stuff like Seamunkey for example which is another extreme that's basically Mozilla Suite put on top of the current Core, current Gecko version Yeah, right The question was about that Firefox is dropping the Zool add-ons and how much effort is put to port the current add-ons and make them work The answer is every single add-on developer has to do it on their own there is some documentation about web extensions up on mdn and currently they have done some measurements about how many how many add-ons from the Chrome Store are already compatible with the Nightly version of Firefox it was something around already able to run in Firefox if you repack them but there is no need to change in the code and about 11% of them won't be able to run without rewriting because Mozilla is not going to implement some already deprecated APIs and of course they are not going to implement some Chrome specific APIs for example and stuff like that and the recent info is that the Zool add-ons are going to be deprecated in like in time like end of this year or so so next year only web extensions are going to be support in Firefox this is the recent plan well it's because yeah the question is why there is no wrapper for the existing extensions well the answer is because Mozilla wants to get rid of the existing Zool extensions because they are too intrusive to the browser and they are too much powerful and Mozilla is just they cannot do much changes in the browser to move it forward to do big changes in the core so they just want to get rid of those dependencies and move faster forward to do bigger changes in the Firefox and make all extensions more compatible with their electrolysis so there are big changes in the core of Firefox yeah this is yeah the question is if there are any features that Firefox is better than Chrome for example what I have from the back was for example profiles in Chrome there is something like you can switch either TTs or stuff like that on the top right corner in Firefox actually you can run multiple Firefox instances next to each other having completely different data using completely different profiles and by profile I mean different directory different addons, different everything basically in your home directory you will find a place called by profile you have seen it when Martin started the demo he had to create a profile in the sandbox and those are completely separate they do not share anything anything yeah yeah the question was about is addressing the question that Zule is much more powerful than web extensions and if the web extensions are going to be more powerful probably in the future the answer is not that much they are working and talking with Google and Opera together to make web extensions kind of standard to standardize it and then Mozilla promised to get and gather feedback from the developers what API and they are missing or what features they would like to implement as an addon and it's not possible recently they have already shipped in Nightly a new API for themes because themes will be affected by Zule deprecation also but it won't be that powerful probably never that powerful as Zule because Zule was with Zule have access to everything in Firefox well if you have API you are limited to the API so you would need to yeah we are out of time probably sorry so if there are more questions just we have the booth you can you can go there and ask us anything and we will do our best to answer you so thank you I've got an announcement for you so if you've come for the GTK32 GTK4 talk I've got bad news for you we got a message from the speaker that he cannot make it because he's sick so we will have to cancel the next talk and we'll see you in one hour four yeah sure you can


If you need some good news this week, look no further than the latest surveys on the Freedom to Marry. We've got a bunch of new poll numbers this week, and support is up across the board. But we're not out of the woods yet in four key battleground states. At the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume, and welcome to Marriage News Watch for October 8, 2012. Let's start in Washington State, where a referendum on the state's proposed new marriage equality law is just barely squeaking by with 56% support, according to SurveyUSA. That's exactly where support was a year ago. But there's been much more movement in Maine, where another marriage law is up for a vote. A Portland Press Herald survey shows support at 57% to 35% opposed. That's a big jump from last year, when a public policy polling survey showed 51% support to 42% opposed. Maryland also faces a popular vote on marriage, and we've got a lead there as well. A Baltimore Sun survey shows 49% support the measure to 39% opposed. Washington, Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota will all be voting on marriage in just four weeks. And although our poll numbers are encouraging, they may not tell the whole story. Surveys tend to overstate support for the freedom to marry, so our narrow lead may be narrower than it looks. Now is a crucial time to get involved in those races. Visit a4.org slash election 2012 for ways that you can get involved and help protect marriage equality in those four states. Let's turn now to some states that face marriage fights in the coming year. A WPRI survey in Rhode Island shows 56% support the freedom to marry, with 36% opposed. In Illinois, 81% of Catholics support relationship recognition, according to the Pal Simon Public Policy Institute. That includes 41% who support marriage, and 40% for limited civil unions. In Nebraska, 32% of voters support marriage, and 22% are for civil unions, according to an Omaha World Herald survey. And a new survey from NBC Latino shows that 60% of Latinos support marriage equality. That's slightly above the 54% support that the National Council de la Raza found in April of this year. Finally, this week an anonymous donor has given $2 million to the National Organization for Marriage. NOM has kept the identity of many of their donors secret. The organization recently lost a lawsuit over that secrecy, and is now required to identify their funding sources in Maine, but so far have not released the information. Meanwhile, NOM has launched a series of anti-gay ads in key battleground states. You can visit AFER.org for a response to the statements in those ads. Those are the headlines. Remember to visit AFER.org slash Election 2012 to help protect the freedom to marry in those key battleground states. And subscribe here on YouTube for breaking news in the Prop 8 case. At the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume. Thanks for watching.


Peter Chambers by Henry Kane transcribed and starring as Peter Chambers Dane Clark You're a private eye. That's your business anything else That's for laughs you find yourself in a university, but you're not a student Generally, you're allergic to classrooms, but the lady talking to you the teacher by name Elaine Janice Well, she's a sort of an antidote for the classroom allergy. I need your help, Mr. Chambers.  I need your help, Mr. Chambers not for myself for another help. That's my racket help Public helper. Although sometimes I'm known as Peter Chambers a private eye. Oh, well, there will be a fee of course Don't worry about the fee. I'm like a doctor. It depends on what the traffic will bear and sooner or later You'll get your bill. It's It's about Professor Stanley Sanders Sanders?  Not Stanley Not Professor Sanders. He could no more harm any human being and not Stanley He's the sweetest kindest person in the whole world. Well, what do you want me to do, Miss Janice? I want you to try to find out who did kill Mrs. Sanders Well, does he a good professor know that you're retaining me? Oh, no, no, he doesn't and I don't want him to know I'll have to talk to him. Well, tell him tell him that you've been retained But that your client doesn't wish the name divulged Just one more little question. Yes. What's your interest in this? Mine. Yes yours. Well, I Have known Professor Sanders for a long time I think by his silence in his non cooperation with the police. I think he's been wrongfully suspected He's a fine person a good man a kind man Professor Stanley Sanders lives in a suburb at the edge of the Bronx You drive up there and you find a modest neat little house. Yes. Yes, Mr. Chambers Professor's a young man Sandy-haired and straight-eyed Yes, what is it, please, Mr. Chambers? Well, I'm not here as a student Professor Sanders No, what are you here as an investigator investigating? Are you from the police? No, no, no I'm a private investigator. I've been retained to Look into the well the death of your wife. I'm sorry, Mr. Chambers I don't know who retained you and I don't care But I've told the police what I know and that's that there's nothing further. I can add professor now if you please I'm a very busy man And that's how you read about it in the newspapers stubborn professor Stanley Sanders who disclaims any knowledge of the murder of his wife although he was home at the time Free children all of them up in camp So you go to the fountain head of information police headquarters and your very good friend detective lieutenant Louie Parker You're mixed up in a rough one this time Peter Milan Louie Louie what happened there exactly what happened Well, all we got is professor Stanley Sanders story. All right. What's the story? Well, it's about a week ago. It's a warm night three kids are off at camp Professor is alone with his wife at their home in the Bronx now. He's wearing slacks and a sweatshirt Louis I'm not interested in the sartorial of the interest. Why must I cause it's got a bearing on the case All right, okay. All right Well about ten minutes before the murder happens Professor Sanders is seen strolling outside in the slacks and the sweatshirt then he goes into the house Rest is his story. All right. What is his story? Hmm wife was in the kitchen. He went upstairs the bedroom to read So according to him he hears sounds of a scuffle. He runs downstairs and he gets hit a hard blow on the neck Knocks him out when he comes to his wife is on the kitchen floor Stabbed 15 times. She's dead Sweatshirt he was wearing it's gone missing So so that's the story period Guy himself the professor absolutely refuses to cooperate any further. What's he got to cooperate about? Oh, and I listen hard mr. Peep and try and think like a grown-up detective. I'm listening master.  I was listening Louie. All right It's an isolated home on Staten Island wife stabbed to death Nobody home except him and the missus kitchen knife missing sweatshirt missing right off his body What are your ideas on that well only that this sweatshirt was bloodstained he got rid of it together with the knife We accuse him he refuses to talk except to deny the murder We want him to take a lie detector test Refuses absolutely and what would you think don't ask me Louie?  Yeah Suppose you are What else you got Louie that the newspapers haven't got all now more come on Louie. It's confidential It's always confidential. I've been retained on this thing. I'm working. Whatever I dig up I turn into you so no bless a bleach tip for that. Come on All right, take a look Search of the house disclose these first note type written note. Let me see it. Yeah See Look out for yourself. You'll be sorry And it's signed by initials SS SS Stanley Sanders a couple of weeks ago. He was out of town So it figures that he wrote her this nice sweet little letter. We found it in her handbag and what's the rest of this stuff? Men use Men use from restaurants nightclubs looks like she was one of them collectors, you know menus. Can I see that help yourself detective?  There's absolutely nothing I can tell you mr. Chambers Nothing that I haven't already told the police what about that note professor that type written note that they attribute to you I didn't write that note and why don't you submit to a lie detector test because there's no reason to submit to it I'm not a criminal. I've lived an exemplary life all my life. I have three children whom I adore I'm not riffraff scum. Look, there's no reason to submit to a lie detector test I've told the police exactly what occurred exactly what happened that night Well, do you have any explanation for the disappearance of your sweatshirt right off your back? No What about the kitchen knife which in this case seems to be the murder weapon? I have no explanation for that, but it's not my province to find explanations. That's the business of the police Prof do you know a lady by name of Elaine Janice? Yes Yes, I know her she teaches at the university Look professor, how did you get along with your wife? Was there any chambers? I consider that an important question and one that will end this interview right now. Good day to you, sir And please don't trouble to come back So that evening you're an early night clubber Casino Rouge goes into action late, but you're early Sebastian Slocum owns a joint affectionately known as Sibbie to the Joe's in the note But you're not interested in Sibbie not now Now you're interested in a slick chick who goes by the name of Carmen La Rose She used to be nuts about her boss and maybe she still is but Anyway, you ask around for her. She's a singer at the joint. Have you been looking for me handsome? Carmen La Rose tall dark and electric Plenty of voltage Voltage like a third rail. I hear you've been asking around for me pity boy. Yeah I've been asking around tell you something kiddo I've been asking around for you like how I call your office a couple times when I got the chance Who's been stopping you nobody and what do you mean when you got the chance?  I hate him. I call you but you are not being I've been working on a case What's with you and Sibbie? I thought you were nuts about that mug.  I don't like no coppers in my place of business.   Or do you keep punching at your business?  Okay, Pete. We got the whole story. We even know that Miss Janice retained you to help our professor here Well, you said you didn't have enough on him Louie until you had a motor which is what we got right now Plenty of motive like what like love love That's motor for murder. It is when you're in love with the wrong party. I had to tell them Mr. Chambers, I had to talk. I couldn't hold it any longer Holding it back was cool. It was like lying and they should know everything. They should know the truth truth What truth dear professor Sanders and dear teacher here are very much in love Professor asked his wife for divorce his wife refused Good enough detective. Do we have a motive? See he didn't do it I'm perfectly confident and I want you to know everything, but but he didn't kill her I want to talk professor. I've told you all I intend to tell you I'll add that I did ask my wife for a divorce and that she refused but I didn't kill her as to that I've given you all the facts now. You in love with Miss Janice. I am and I would like to marry her But I'm not a murderer I have three children and it's my intention to try to save them from any possible scandal. Is that why you wouldn't talk? I didn't kill her that's all I have to say except I should like to call my lawyer You don't need a lawyer to answer the simple question And so it goes deep into the night They put the grill on professor Sanders, but he clams tighter than a teenager's evening gown Finally when Parker throws his hands up and disgust you get out of there where to Casino Rouge You owe a debt there your dignity has been bruised among other things But you're late Carmen La Rose left with Sebastian Slocum You throw the bartender a couple of tens and you learn that Carmen lives up at Rye Beach a little shack up at Rye Beach It takes you a half hour to get there and then You mosey over to a window And you make with a gander There they are drinking it up the two of them The windows locked from the inside But you can hear Nothing, I don't know what you're talking about you can tell me honey. I don't care if you saw But I want to know I Don't want you holding out on Siby No Have a little belt Have a little belt on Siby. Ah, you wouldn't hurt me Siby.   Come on Lucena Did you tell me that night? Yeah Yeah, I did.  I didn't see nothing. I don't want to talk no more.   Hold me. Please Easy does it Carmen girl Carmen my little boy. This isn't the time. It's not the place It is it is when I am frightened when when I am frightened. I am like little child. Please kiss me. Please please, please Okay And now um, yes Talk it up sister. Oh Yes, I will Once once I love him. I thought I love him no more. No more. He's like Tomcat women He does not care Anyway, this one came this one for once. He is entangled a society thing. This professor's wife. This is um, Mrs. Sandman She lead him on she lead him by the nose She is one to enjoy but she does not become entangled So Ben Siby talks to the wife and she laughed in his face She says she is happy protected as a married woman So so later on he types note to her from casino rouge office He thinks I do not see it but I see it I see a threatening note and she comes then to the club and again she laughed at him She laughed right in his face and then then last week he goes there I go after him. He does not know it, but I am telling him because I want to know I want to see The husband is upstairs. I am by the kitchen window. They fight they argue and He killed her Butchers her with kitchen knife. The husband comes down the stairs Siby wait behind the door slugs him. He falls near her There is blood on his shirt that Siby takes the shirt off and takes the knife and he goes Got any idea why he took the sweatshirt. I imagine to make something that cannot be Explained I imagine to put the suspicion on the husband. Yeah, I imagine that you imagine pretty good my little one So now please hold me. Please Kiss me. I am afraid And so once more you're at police headquarters Sebastian Slocum is confined to the Calibus Common La Rose is held as a material witness And professor sanders free as a lock is in park his office with Elaine Janice And you you're listening Professor, I don't get you. I simply don't understand. He is a good dear fine man But he almost got him so fried in the hot seat clamming up like he did Oh, there are all kinds of people lieutenant. Yeah, this certainly must be scandal lieutenant I shudder in it. I have three children.  I am in essence an old-fashioned man. So You knew about Slocum. He came to you to ask for your okay for a divorce. Why didn't you tell us scandal again lieutenant? Bad enough. She was dead. I wasn't going to heave scandal upon scandal My children my community my students. Oh, what a guy. Yes. He's the dearest finest But not taking the lie to take the test holding out on your affection for miss janice here and holding out on that Sebastian slocum thing and that that note the type written note Weren't you worried man? Not for a moment lieutenant as I said, I am a devout man I knew that one way or another truth would out Yeah, truth would out thanks to the crazy operations of this crazy private. I thank you louis Well then lieutenant may we go and peace go with you professor. You're quite a guy by miss janice By now What a man. Yes, sir. There's a certain simplicity. You're setting integrity. You got a hand into him. I suppose you have to All right now, let's get to you. What's sent you off to that casino rouge? Well, you did louis me Yeah, you Well, like how how did I send you? Well, maybe I'm a little bit of a rounder more than you let's say But I knew that the casino rouge was owned by Sebastian slocum. So what's that got to do it? Well, that note you showed me here. Let me see it again. I'll show you sure Hey, yeah, see it's a type written note mind you a type written note. Now it reads Look out for yourself. You'll be sorry and assigned by initials ss. That's right ss stanley sanders Professor stanley sand also ss for sebastian slocum, which it turned out to be Well, how in heck did you know that psychology louis psychology? First ask any married man in a world if he drops his wife a note Would he type it the answer is no Plus and this is even more incontrovertible psychologically Incontrovert whenever my name that what husband in the world would sign a note to his wife by both his initials Yeah, yeah, you've got a point there husband was signed by his first name Perhaps even by his first initial but think No husband is that formal with his wife Both initials it just didn't figure psychologically and that plus the menu from casino rouge plus ss owns casino rouge. Yeah, and it sure tickled me louis in the right place Look pal, can I say something louis? You can say anything.  I hit me easy louis. I'm gonna hit you at all p All I want to say for the record Honest fool private eye Well done young man Very well done indeed And there you've had crime and peter chambers Dane clock was starred as peter chambers Crime and peter chambers transcribed was created and written by henry cayne Others in the cast were bill zuckered heard as lieutenant parker Mary Patton as karman and bill lally as dr. Sheppman It was directed by fred way This is fred Collins inviting you to tune in next week same time same station For dane clock in crime And peter chambers be with us again next week at this same time For another adventure by peter chambers in crime and peter chambers This is the united states armed forces radio and television service


We have heard a report from the Lord and a messenger has been sent among the nations saying arise and let us rise up against her for battle. Behold I will make you small among the nations. You shall be greatly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you. You who dwell in the clefts of the rock whose habitation is high. You who say in your heart who will bring me down to the ground. Though you ascend as high as the eagle and though you set your nest among the stars from there I will bring you down says the Lord.  Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers had come to you, would they not have left some gleaning? Oh how Esau shall be searched out. How his hidden treasures shall be sought after. All the men in your confederacy shall force you to the border. The men at peace with you shall deceive you and prevail against you.  No one is aware of it. Will I not in that day, says the Lord, even destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding from the mountains of Esau? Then your mighty man, O demon, shall be dismayed to the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.  In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried captive his forces, when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his captivity. Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction in the day of their calamity. Nor laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped. Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress. For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near. As you have done, it shall be done to you.  For as you drank on my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes, they shall drink and swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been. You mean how he seated? If you remember in the book of Proverbs, there's a man who watches out of the lattice of his window, and he sees a fool that heads by the harlot's house, and he observes that fool. There once was a man who was watching out of the lattice of his window, and he was living in the bad side of town. And as he watched, he could see drug deals going on, he could see prostitution on the corner, and as he sat and watched, he saw suddenly that people began to scatter, and he didn't know why, but a police car came up, pulled up and stopped at the corner, and instead, after a time, he saw then children come or shop owners come out, and it was a result of the authority coming in. Those who were in sin ran away, but those who were under oppression from the crime were able to rejoice. When the day of the Lord comes, it will come in a way that causes the people of God to rejoice, the people of God to rejoice and to no longer be under the oppression of sin and tyranny, but it will cause those who oppose God's people to scurry and to hide and to run. This text is about the day of the Lord and how the prophet Obadiah, how God himself applies this to the people of Edom. We're going to cover verses 15 and 16, and then we're going to look at the broad topic of the day of the Lord in the Scripture. In verse 15, we're going to see the topic introduced of the day of the Lord. We're going to see Edom, their placement in the day of the Lord, and then the nations, so the day of the Lord for Edom and the day of the Lord for the nations. Okay? So verse 15, for the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near. As you've done, it shall be done to you.  So the text opens up with a word that is an attention-getting word that it begins verse 15. It could be translated indeed. Okay? Verses 15 and 16 begin with the same use to give the people's particular attention, because there's going to be a contrast here between verses 10 to 14 with verses 15. Do you see that contrast? It's very easy to get with the ear. Remember that Obadiah is something that is heard more often than it was read. People didn't necessarily sit down with the scroll and read it, but more often the more people would hear it as it is read publicly. So it's meant to be seen with your ears as much as with your eyes on a piece of paper. And when you hear it, you hear the emphasis of day, day, day, in verses 10 to 14, right? The day of the captivity, the day of the destruction, where Edom laughed, where Edom rejoiced in the destruction of God's people. And in verse 15, this contrast, now the same use of yom, the same use of that Hebrew word for day comes. So there was the day of distress, but now in great contrast, the day of the Lord is near. The day of the Lord is near. And Obadiah begins to say that it's not just for Edom here, it's upon all nations. The day of Yahweh is near. And he begins to say, refer back now to Edom in verse 15. As you have done, it shall be done to you. And it's very important throughout the book of Obadiah how we know that the prophets referring to Edom. He refers to them in the singular. He refers to them as Esau, as Edom. He refers to them as Timon, who as Timon was a descendant of Esau. And he uses the singular. So here in verse 15, we know he's referring to Esau, to Edom.  Okay, so what we're learning about the day of the Lord in context is it's going to be like what happens in verses 10 to 14. Distress, calamity, a day of captivity. It's going to be violence. As Edom did, the same thing is going to happen to them.  That can also be translated. If you have an ESV, you also see that it can be translated deeds.  So in the Hebrew, it has a repetition of, as you've done, it shall be done to you. And what you've done shall return upon your own head. It's coming back. This is just deserts. This is appropriate justice. You're going to get what's coming to you. You're going to get exactly what you've done to others. So the day of the Lord on Edom. But in verse 16, there's a shift. There's a shift that's very subtle in the use of grammar, but it's clear in the context of the book. You see where it says, for as you drank on my holy mountain, the you there switches now. It's not the same you as Edom. It switches to the plural as you drank on my holy mountain. And if you watch for the rest of the book, there's a shift in the address. Instead, where Obadiah is addressing Edom, how much pride you had, what you did to the people of Israel, and the judgment. Instead, now he shifts. And from now on, he'll talk about Edom in the third person after verse 16. And he speaks now to the people of Israel. In verse 16, for as you drank, and it's going to be to Israel on my holy mountain. And then as you look in the rest of the book in verses 17 to 21, he will refer to Esau in verse 18, but the house of Esau shall be stubble. And he doesn't refer to them straight anymore as in the second person. He refers to them in third person. He's done talking directly to Esau. He is now speaking to the people of Israel. And he continues on for the rest of the book. You'll know this by the attention getting words that he uses to change topic. It's difficult to see because of the antecedent is not been changed. But you can see it in the grammar and in the change of tone from greatly different change of tone from in verses 17 to 21. And this transition is about the day of the Lord in verses 15 to 16, these transition verses. So he says, as you drank on my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. So as who drank of the wrath of God on the holy mountain, but the people of Israel, for as you drank on my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yes, they shall drink and swallow and they shall be as though they had never been. So again, he focuses on the judgment and now it's a repetition instead of done, it's a repetition of drink. For as you drank, so shall all the nations drink. Yes, they shall drink and swallow. And this word for swallow is the only use in the Bible for this swallow. It's a word that means to slurp up loud drinking or vomiting. It has to do with a drunkenness usually. So shall all the nations drink continually. And they shall be, what shall be the result? It'll be as though the nations had never existed. So what do we learn about the day of the Lord here in these verses? We learn that it's near and we learn that it's applied to eat them. And we also know that it's applied to the nations. This is consistent with the use of the day of the Lord in the Old Testament and the New Testament. We see that it's got a near fulfillment and it's got a far fulfillment. We'll see that it's applied to eat them, but it will also be applied to Israel. It will also be applied to the nations. It will also be applied to anyone who does not obey the Lord. So let's begin to learn about the day of the Lord in the Scripture. Let's turn to the prophet Zephaniah and see what he has to say about the day of the Lord. Zephaniah chapter one. Zephaniah one opens up about the day of the Lord. He says, we'll read in verse two. I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land, says the Lord. I will consume man and beast. I will consume the birds of the heavens, the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked.  We see a widespread judgment of God coming, but then there's something localized here in verse four. I will stretch out my hand against Judah. So we see a localized and a universal judgment happening and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, now he begins to apply the day of the Lord here. I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names of the idolatrous priests from the pagan priests, those who worship of the heavens of the house tops, those who worship and swear by the host by the Lord, but also swear by Milcham. Okay, so you see the whos and the whys, who are being judged, but those of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Why? But because of idolatry. In verse six, those who have turned back from following the Lord have not sought the Lord nor inquired of him. So how do you respond to the day of the Lord? Be silent in the presence of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is at hand. Again, this imminent nature of the day of the Lord. When the day of the Lord is near at hand, there's only, grammatically, there's only three different possibilities. It's either near relationally. No, the day of the Lord is not near relationally. Is it near physically? No, the day of the Lord is not something that can be related physically. It is near in imminence. It is near, right, could be the next event on the calendar. It could be the next tick of the clock. It's right around the corner. It's not just an eschatological thing. It's not something just that happens at the end times. The day of the Lord is going to be an event where God shows up. And when God shows up, the mightiest men will cry. Those who have the most money will see that it's worthless. Those who have the least money will see that money would have not helped them anyway. It doesn't matter whether you're young or old. When the wrath of Yahweh comes, then it is to be, you're to put your hand over your mouth in silence in the presence of the Lord God. In verse eight, he continues, And it shall be in the day of the Lord's sacrifice. You see how the Lord refers to it? It's going to be a sacrifice where I will punish the princes and the king's children as such that are clothed with a foreign apparel. And he goes on to describe how those who leap over the threshold, those who fill their master's houses with deceit, violence and deceit, those who are stealing and committing acts of covetousness, he goes on to describe how the merchants in verses 10 and 11 will cry out. And in verse 12, those who say in their heart, the Lord will not do good, nor will he do evil. Those who say, the Lord won't judge either way. He's not going to come and do evil, and he's not going to come and do good. We have many in our day who refer to God that way.  Why should I do good? And God won't punish. I shouldn't just do what I want. But here in verses 14, look at the description of the day of the Lord and learn what the day of the Lord is like. The great day of the Lord is near. It is near and it hastens quickly. Again, he's emphasizing this judgment from Yahweh can come in a moment. The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter. There the mighty men shall cry out. The most hardened soldier who has seen death after death after death. There that kind of person will cry out. The mighty men, the day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress. What kind of day is it? It is a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high towers. I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord.  Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make speedy, speedy riddance of all those who dwell in the land. Turn to Isaiah 13. Again, we're looking at what the Word of God has to say about the day of the Lord. We're trying to piece together themes. We learn about how it's near. We learn about how it's a day of darkness and gloominess. The prophets are the ones who speak about the day of the Lord. Isaiah 13. There are at least 19 occurrences in the Old Testament prophets referring to the day of the Lord. In Isaiah 13, there's a proclamation against Babylon. In verse 6, wail, scream out, for the day of the Lord is at hand. Again, we see it's right near the imminency of it. God's judgment could come at any time. It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Do you believe in the destruction of the Almighty? In verse 7, therefore all hands will be limp. Every man's heart will melt. There won't be any defiance when God's judgment comes. There won't be any fists raised, but people will be like, it's useless. It's pointless to fight against God, and their own hearts will melt with terror. In verse 8, they will be afraid. Sharp pains and sorrows will take hold of them, and they'll be in pain as a woman in childbirth. They will be amazed at one another, and their faces will be like flames. Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate. And he will destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will halt the arrogance of the proud and lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. What are some of the themes that you see here? Do you see how it's to be a day that will be wailed at? The prophet takes the most painful event in humanity, the birth of a child, to say this is how it's going to come.  Who's it going to come to? But sinners. And we also see it's going to be a cataclysmic event. The stars, heaven itself, is going to be involved in this. And the whole, then the world will be punished. The prophets look at the day of the Lord, much like when the prophet Isaiah would begin to speak about Satan, and he begins to refer to some of the princes, and begins to talk about a prince, and then he changes topic and begins to speak about Satan, and Satan's fall. And he talks about both of them in one setting. The prophets do that about the day of the Lord. The prophets see the time of the day of the Lord when it will be the end of the universe. But they also talk about the imminency in their own time. In this context, it's coming on Babylon, and he's going to use the day of the Lord. Zephaniah talks about the day of the Lord coming on Jerusalem. Where does Obadiah talk about the day of the Lord? But on Edom and all the nations, the day of the Lord is a phrase that's applied to a current situation in the prophets. But then they also see it's going to picture something greater that's coming. When Babylon gets destroyed, it's a warning. There's a greater day of the Lord coming. When Obadiah gets destroyed, there's a greater day of the Lord coming. When Jerusalem gets destroyed with the day of Yahweh, there's a greater one coming. And so it applies to us. It applies to us because the day of the Lord is coming for us. Let's look in the New Testament. Let's turn, yeah, I didn't give you guys a text. I'm trying to decide which one to go to because we have so much time. Let's look in, there's four different occurrences in the New Testament. Let's go ahead and we'll look at, we'll try to look at all of them quickly. First Thessalonians. Let's go to 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5. But concerning the times and season, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord, you see how he uses the same phrase? He's picking up the idea from the prophets. So comes as a thief in the night. This time frame is going to come with great unforeseen wrath. For when they say peace and safety, then suddenly destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. Just like you never know when the pregnant woman is going to pop, right? Just like you never know it could happen. The day of the Lord is going to come in that same unexpected way in verse 4, but you know brethren, but you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief.  We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. You see how he contrasts? Who's the day of the Lord coming for? It's coming for those who are in rebellion to God, those who are not genuine Christians. It's going to come surprising to them, but the Christians, that this time frame is going to come expected. You see how he knows, brethren, this won't be surprised you. It won't be like a thief to you. So it's this time frame coming yet. Second Thessalonians, let's go to Second Thessalonians 2. Now brethren, considering the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, so we're talking about end times things. The return of the Lord. We ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by the word or by letter as from us as the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means. So in context, someone has been sending either a false letter or a false teacher, someone telling the Thessalonians that the day of the Lord has already come. But he says, let no one deceive you for the day will not come until the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, the anti-Christ who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he sits as God in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? So here's the day of the Lord coming and it's not going to come until the anti-Christ, the man of sin is revealed. But it's yet coming for us this time of the wrath of Yahweh. In Acts 2, the day of the Lord is also referred to and we can look at that very briefly in Acts 2. In Acts 2, verse 17, it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams, and on my servants and on my main servants I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above and the signs of the earth beneath, blood and fire, vapor and smoke, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. So here is from Joel and we see where Peter says what he's talking about is taking place. It's taking place in the prophesying, it's taking place in his spirit being poured out on all flesh and it's taking place in whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. But what's not taking place is the sun turned to darkness, the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. That is something that the Thessalonians, at first Thessalonians 2nd, say won't happen until the Antichrist comes. It's going to come and it's going to come and people are not going to expect it. That day the Lord looked once more in one more text in Revelation 6. Turn to Revelation 6. Before I read this text, consider some of the what we've covered tonight. The day of the Lord is not something that was just as some Bible teachers have talked about where it's simply an eschatological thing. It's something simply that's for the end times. It's a phrase that's used for the coming wrath of God. It has a near application and a far one. We see that continually through the prophets. Who receives the day of the Lord? But those who are sinning, who are opposed to God, those who are not generally converted, whether Jew or Gentile. It was that way in the Old Testament and it's that way in the New Testament. The grammar of it shows that it is talking about an indefinite period of time, but a period of time. And that day is a day that belongs to Yahweh. It's descriptions. It's cosmic. It involves the weather. It involves cruelty of judgment. It involves darkness and thick clouds. It involves promises and hopes, which we'll see next week in the day of the Lord. But for this week, we get the wrath. And its consequences are going to be on the enemies of God, on the proud and lofty. And it will have an immediate application and it's got a universal application in the last day of the Lord. Read Revelation with me and see the similarity with the description of the coming day of the Lord. Revelation 6, 12, I looked when he opened the sixth seal and behold, there was a great earthquake. The prophets in many places of the day of the Lord speak of the earthquakes and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood. Sounds just like Joel. Sounds just like many of the prophets speak about the moon becoming like blood. And the stars of heavens fell to the earth as a fig tree drops in its late figs when it's shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky shall be receded as a scroll when it's rolled up. Isaiah 34 talks about the day of the Lord and uses this same terminology. And every mountain and island will be moved out of its place. The prophet warns about this very event. And the kings of the earth and the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men. You see the men of war just like in Zephaniah. Every slave and every free man hide themselves in the caves and the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rock, fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne from the wrath of the lamb. And what do they know? They just know it's the end times. For the great day of his wrath has come and who is able to stand? Fear the coming judgment of God if you are not in Christ. If you are in Christ, then the day of the Lord will be a great blessing to you. You don't have to fear the antichrist because soon after the antichrist comes, the real Christ comes. Those who are not in Christ should tremble at his coming. Imagine now the Lord returns tonight. Tonight the Lord returns. What a blessing for the people of God. What joy to be with him forever. Think about all the difficult things in your life. You don't have to go to work Monday morning. You're going to work for the king. Think about how you love the Word of God and to know God. But then you can be with him and know him personally and see him physically. He'll right all the wrongs. You remember the analogy of the police car that comes into the bad part of town? When the Lord comes and this is a bad part of town, every town is a bad part of town in this world. And when the Lord comes, he's going to right all wrongs. In this particular instance we have here in Obadiah, that wrong needed to be righted. And there are many wrongs and evils, horrible things happening in our world. People's heads being cut off, right? And the Lord is going to come and he's going to right that. He's going to set it right. Don't you long for that day? Don't you want it? But think about most people. It won't be a day of joy. What would cause us to sing and cheer and dance as if we were at a wedding will cause them to scream, will cause them to howl, will cause them to cry out for the rocks to hide them because the day of the Lord has come. When Jesus Christ was on this planet, he divided people like Yahweh divided the Red Sea. When you came into the presence of Christ, then your hypocrisy was going to be shown and he would reveal it in time. Or your genuine, your desperate nature for Christ would be revealed. He revealed the hearts of men. And when he comes again, he will divide the world with sheep and goats. He will divide the world with those who are terrified at his coming and those who scream with joy. Where will you be? Where will you be at the coming day of the Lord? Where will you be one who is screaming for joy or with terror or with terror? Most, think of most that you know. They're not ready for the return of the Lord. And the day of the Lord is near. The wrath of the day, the Lamb, the wrath of the Lamb is near. Let us consider these things. This is what you need to be thinking about continually. The return of the Lord. Is the return of the Lord on your mind? Is this day something that you think about often? If you do, what will trials be? What will a bad back be? The Lord's returning one day when somebody mocks you or you get fired, the Lord's returning one day, do you see how it gives you the right perspective in all of life? Sin is so enjoyable, isn't it? You hear that lie? But the day of the Lord is coming.   When the Lord comes, it will fall out of their mouth as they scream in terror. Will sin seem so enjoyable then? This is the reality of life. The Lord is returning. This is more real than your work tomorrow morning. This is more real than your death that's coming. This is more real than your very hands that you can look at, than your family that you can hold. This is as real as any of those things. The Lord is coming and the day of the Lord is near. Let us live in light of these things. Second Peter, when he talks about the day of the Lord, he says, what manner of men should we be if the Lord is going to come and he applies it to the end of the millennium, when the new heavens and new earth are made and the earth melts away? How should we live in light of these things? Should we not live for the Lord because of the day of the Lord that's coming? Let's pray. Dear Lord, please help us to consider the reality of how the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near. Help us to live life in light of this. Help us to tremble at the thought of your wrath, to rightly respect, dread, fear you, to rightly rejoice in the work of your son. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that we can look forward to your return because of what you've done for us on the cross. Please help us to think of the day of the Lord rightly and have it to impact us. Amen.


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