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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4584?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Kathey Marsden reopened DERBY-4584: ----------------------------------- > Unable to connect to network server if client thread name has Japanese characters > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-4584 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4584 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Network Client > Affects Versions: 10.0.2.0, 10.0.2.1, 10.1.1.0, 10.1.2.1, 10.1.3.1, 10.2.1.6, 10.2.2.0, 10.3.1.4, 10.3.2.1, 10.3.3.0, 10.4.1.3, 10.4.2.0, 10.5.1.1, 10.5.2.0, 10.5.3.0 > Reporter: Brett Wooldridge > Assignee: Tiago R. Espinha > Fix For: 10.6.1.0 > > Attachments: DERBY-4584-fix.diff, DERBY-4584-fix.diff, DERBY-4584-test.diff, DERBY-4584-test.diff, DERBY-4584.diff > > > I am opening this bug, which is probably a duplicate of bug#728 so that other's may find it and save the hours I spent chasing it down. Feel free to mark this as a duplicate. However, while related, it may not be a true duplicate of 728. > The exception is similar to 728: > Exception in thread "main" org.apache.derby.client.am.SqlException: Unicode string can't convert to Ebcdic string > (Here is the version of the exception I received -- excuse the Japanese characters): > Caused by: org.apache.derby.client.am.SqlException: Unicode ストリングを EBCDIC ストリングに変換することはできません。 > at org.apache.derby.client.net.EbcdicCcsidManager.convertFromUCS2(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.Request.writeScalarString(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.Request.writeScalarString(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnectionRequest.buildEXTNAM(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnectionRequest.buildEXCSAT(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnectionRequest.writeExchangeServerAttributes(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.writeServerAttributesAndKeyExchange(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.flowServerAttributesAndKeyExchange(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.flowUSRIDPWDconnect(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.flowConnect(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.initialize(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection.<init>(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetConnection40.<init>(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.ClientJDBCObjectFactoryImpl40.newNetConnection(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetXAConnection.createNetConnection(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.net.NetXAConnection.<init>(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.derby.client.ClientPooledConnection.getNetXAConnection(Unknown Source) > ... 45 more > However, the difference is that the database name (and connection URL) does NOT contain unicode characters. In this case, the *thread name* contains Japanese characters. If the thread performing java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection() has characters that cannot be translated into EBCDIC the above exception is the result. If the thread name is changed to contain only standard ASCII characters, the connection to the DB is successful. Note again, in my case, the connection URL is a standard connection URL with no i18n characters, something similar to: > jdbc:derby://localhost/database > It is only the thread-name that contains i18n characters. I don't know why the client feels it necessary to marshall the client-thread name, but that seems to be the problem. The fix for this issue is likely easier than 728 if the requirement that the client marshall the thread name can be removed (it seems senseless). > Finally, just for the record, a typical thread name that tickles this bug is: > "Running-2 (MOTDバナーの設定 for 10.0.0.90@Default)" > If the Japanese is removed from the thread names, there is no problem. > The workaround in our case was to change the thread names in our code to not contain Japanese characters. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Xbox SmartGlass: Not Quite the One, But Worth a Date or Two
Nov 26, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Xbox SmartGlass, an app by Microsoft for iPhone and iPad, is available free in the Apple App Store.
I've been watching Microsoft's Xbox 360 transformation from online gaming console to living room media center for years, so when Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app showed up earlier this month, I had to give it a whirl.
My personal Xbox 360 use is fairly limited to playing a few games here and there as well as assisting small children as they attempt to play games. Many of the new Xbox 360 apps and features demand that you buy into the Microsoft Xbox ecosystem, which I don't really do, but I am a subscriber to Amazon.com's sweet Prime deal, which gives me fast shipping and an on-demand movie and TV streaming and rental system similar to what Netflix offers.
The Xbox 360 has an app for Amazon Prime customers, which makes using the formerly gaming-only console as an HDTV set-top box pretty easy. My Apple TV, on the other hand, is more dedicated to media consumption, and while it has apps like Netflix, it does not support Amazon's Prime service. Since Amazon is turning into a powerful competitor to Apple in the tablet and media worlds, I'm not sure if Prime will ever make it to my Apple TV. Pity.
Enter Xbox 360 SmartGlass
To control an Xbox 360, the easiest and most common tool is the controller. Since the controller was born out of controlling little game dudes, robots, and vehicles, it's not exactly an ideal input device for browsing and media consumption -- and yet, Microsoft has done an admirable job of retrofitting the controls to navigate the new SmartGlass-ified Xbox 360 and Xbox Live interface. The downside is, it's still a clumsy remote, good mostly for pointing and clicking, so to speak.
Entering text with it -- without any sort of add-on device -- is painful. So why not use something else that's ubiquitous like an iPhone or iPad? Works for me. Logging into the app was easy, but since it's been ages since I logged into my Xbox 360 on purpose, I had to reset my password online so I knew what to input into the app.
After I logged in, it connected to my Xbox 360 right away, giving me a pop-up notice telling me I was connected. The controls are a combination of swiping, tapping, and pinching, and it's mostly responsive and intuitive. Depending on where you are in the app, the corners of your screen will show the familiar green, blue, yellow, and red buttons from the Xbox 360 controllers. They function the same way virtually, of course, as they do on the controller.
What is odd for me is that the button I push to stop or go back -- I don't know which is which, I just do it with a habit that's lodged into my basal ganglia. Looking at my iPhone screen at flat colored areas, my habit isn't triggered so I wasn't sure what to tap to get the desired effect. Of course, I don't have to look at a traditional Xbox controller to use it; I can do it by feel and habit.
In addition, unlike a traditional controller, the app won't launch the Xbox 360 when it's turned off. Consequently, as a remote control, the Xbox SmartGlass app is only mediocre at best.
Another Xbox app that you can use with your Xbox SmartGlass app is Microsoft's IE browser. So yes, you can use the touchscreen to move a virtual mouse, as well as a virtual keyboard, to surf the Web. Anyone at all used to the crisp screens found on MacBooks and iPads, etc might be disappointed at the resolution of websites viewed through their Xbox 360 and HDTV, which might only be 720p.
Still, the app works. I could navigate with minimal fuss, even zoom in on text to make it more readable. Thankfully, zooming was fast and resulted in sharper text. Unfortunately, I experienced both spot on mouse pointer control as well as confusing lag -- workable always, just not delightful.
Extra Features and Content
Where the Xbox SmartGlass app shows promise, however, is in the ability to provide extra content that's related to the Xbox 360 experience. For instance, if you stream music from Microsoft, the app provides details about the artist. Since I'm not a subscriber to this service -- and as an Apple-tech enthusiast, probably won't be any time soon -- I could only mess around with 30-second clips. The extra information I saw was basic bios, nothing groundbreaking.
And yet, the promise is there. Microsoft could easily create much more interactive or social content surrounding most any action on the Xbox 360 and push it out to the app in your hand. I'm sure there's some interesting advertising and sales related models already well into development for this sort of purpose. If Microsoft's partners got involved, they too could create richer app experiences for their users.
All-in-all, if I'm going to be searching for content -- opposed to browsing or navigating to it -- using the Xbox SmartGlass app is a good choice, if only for the ability to use a virtual keyboard. As for the rest of it, it doesn't exactly fill a glaring need, but it does extend the Xbox experience just a bit farther.
Most importantly, it lays the groundwork for updates and features that might actually turn into something awesome. So if you think the Xbox 360 is the best thing Microsoft ever created, put the Xbox SmartGlass app on your radar.

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December 2011 Nuts & BoltsPosted in How To on December 1, 2011
Nuts, I'm Confused
Don't Rock the Block
I'm 16 years old and have a '93 Ford F-250 with the 5.8L 351 engine. I want to lift it 4 inches, but here in West Virginia it's illegal to use blocks in the front. I was hoping you guys had some ideas to help me out. Thanks.
AJ Glotfelty
West Virginia
Front lift blocks are illegal because they are dangerous. If a lift block comes out from between the leaf pack and axle, the truck can crash and kill you, a busload of nuns, and the little old lady walking her dog on the sidewalk. It may sound funny, but it's serious. Just say no to lift blocks up front. Rear block applications do not see the side load stresses that a front axle does, so they are more acceptable in the rear, but even there I usually recommend a new leaf pack or add-a-leaf in the rear if available.
I assume you want lift blocks because you are on a budget, but you'd be better off saving up for a proper suspension than trying to cobble something together that is unsafe. Because your truck has a twin traction beam front axle and leaf springs, it also has additional brackets that make lifting it 4 inches more expensive. I would either wait and save up the $1,200-$1,300 for a proper suspension or, if your truck is infected with rust around the wheelwells as many East Coast trucks are, trim open the wheelwells and stuff in bigger rubber on the stock suspension.
Since I feel your question is important for many readers I'm awarding you this month's Nuts, I'm Confused prize from BDS Suspension (www.bdssuspension.com): a BDS gift certificate toward a suspension system. BDS has many suspension products for a wide variety of 4x4s and can help you upgrade your truck for bigger tires and better off-road performance. I currently have a BDS suspension on my '79 F-150, and it rides good and easily clears 35-inch tires. BDS has long supported our Ultimate Adventure trip and has a 4-inch suspension that would work on your truck with a lift block in the rear and new leaf springs up front. Plus BDS has the No Fine Print guarentee: If you are the original purchaser of the part and it fails, BDS will give you a new part, period.
8.1 Get-R-Done
I have an '02 Chevy 2500HD with the 8.1L engine. Have you done any projects with this motor, and what upgrades did you make?
David R.
Aiken, SC
Funny you should ask about the 8.1. I have a big 3⁄4-ton Avalanche outside my office door with an 8.1 in it, and I also came across an 8.1 in the local classifieds for pretty cheap and started thinking about these last of the GM big-blocks. The Avalanche has had nothing but an aftermarket air cleaner installed and a cat-back exhaust, but I have drooled over the Raylar Big Power engine kits (866.496.8181, www.raylarengine.com). Raylar offers a line of mild to wild upgrades for the 8.1 in truck, motorhome, and marine applications.
I spoke to Raylar about your project and they recommended a Stainless Steel long tube header from Stainless Works (www.stainlessworks.net) and a MagnaFlow (www.magnaflow.com) or Dynomax (www.dynomax.com) crossover 3-inch dual in-and-out muffler. The Raylar team recommends the factory air intake for maximum cool fresh air compared to aftermarket air cleaner setups they've tested. And finally, they have found an ECM tune that removes the Torque Management and can help power and torque where the factory reduced it for drivetrain protection.
After that, Raylar offers everything from aluminum heads and cams to complete engine packages with superchargers and custom intakes. The smog legality of many of these upgrades may be an issue depending on where you live, and the price of building a big-block is never small. However, with claims of power upgrades in the range of 400-500 hp, not to mention the crate engines at over 750 hp, you have to agree that there is no replacement for displacement.
Readers, what do you think about big-blocks these days such as the 8.1 (496) GM? With the price of fuel and smog issues, many here in California are scared of them, but do you guys in other regions still like big-block power for your 4x4s? I don't like paying $4/gallon any more than the next guy, but there is something about big cubes that is just so cool. Let us know at email@example.com and use the subject line "Yes to big-blocks!"
Come to the 'Con
I live in Germany and I have a small Jeep flatfender. I have been working on it for a few years and would like to come to America to drive the famous Rubicon Trail. What should I do to the Jeep to prepare it for that trip? When is the best time to go do the Rubicon? Can I hire a guide? Any advice would be helpful.
Joseph K.
Four-wheelers have been driving the Rubicon from the beginning in Willys flatfenders. You could do the trail in a completely stock flatty, but locking differentials, power steering, reinforced steering components, and aggressive tires will make the trip a little easier. The best event for experiencing the Rubicon has got to be the Jeepers Jamboree. This three- or four-day event is great for beginners and experienced wheelers alike. They feed you, they help newbies over the hard obstacles, they can help fix broken Jeeps, and there is a great party at the halfway point with vendors and plenty of food and drink. If you want to come experience the 'Con, come with the Jeepers (www.jeepersjamboree.com).
Grand or Grander
I recently purchased a nice one-owner '98 Jeep Grand Cherokee, all stock with 68,000 miles. The Jeep thing is new to me, always having had trucks with suspension lifts. Now that I'm getting older I'm not wanting to do a 4- or 6-inch suspension lift on my Jeep, but rather a 2-inch lift with 30- or maybe 31-inch tires. I've been looking at some coil spacer kits. That looks like what I need. Can I put a 2-inch coil spacer kit on my Jeep without having to change my shocks? The shocks were just put on when I purchased it, and I assume they are stock-height shocks. Half the people I've asked say yes, I can. The other half say I can't. I would appreciate your help in solving this matter. You always seem to have the correct answers in your tech articles.
Colby A.
Via email
The simple answer is you don't need new shocks if you don't take the Jeep off-road. But the '98 Grand is such a great 4x4 that I would think you would love taking it off-road. And if you start four-wheeling it and maxing out the suspension, you'll quickly find that the stock shocks are limiting your travel and reducing your performance. Get the spacers installed, and if you want more performance then upgrade the shocks down the road, after you get some more miles and it loses that new-car smell.
What Up Front?
I have an '04 Chevy Colorado and want to replace the IFS with a solid axle and replace the rear axle with a stronger one. I'm new to building 4x4s and still learning all the good and bad parts to use and ways to build one. I have always heard that the Dana axles are great, but some of the people from the forum that I'm a part of have said to use a Corporate 10- or 14-bolt. I'm not sure what to use, and they have used several different ones. My goal is to get my truck to where I can use it on- and off-road as well as for rockcrawling. Any feedback would be great.
Mickey Y.
Lillington, NC
I am surprised that we are not seeing more of the Chevy Colorados built like you describe. For your truck I would recommend a Dana 44 front and Dana 60 rear for up to 37/38-inch tires. If you are going larger than that, I'd lean toward a Dana 60 front and either a Dana 70 or Corporate 14-bolt rear. The Corporate 14-bolt and Dana 44 front are very similar in size and strength, but I feel the Dana has more options for aftermarket support.
As for suspension, I'd keep the rear leaf springs and build or have built a custom coil/link front suspension. This work can be done at home, but I recommend working with a qualified fabrication shop if this is your first project vehicle, as getting the suspension geometry correct is important for a safe on- and off-road vehicle.
Play Then Pack
I have a '76 F-250 with a Dana 60 front axle. I have replaced the front wheel bearings two times already. The original bearings where shot, so I replaced bearings, races, and seals. Then three months later I had a bearing go out. This time I changed the axle seals, spindle bushings, wheel bearings, wheel seals, and all related parts. I recently pulled it apart to inspect, and I'm still getting water and crud into the bearings. These bearings are a month old and already need a repack at minimum. I'm getting a nasty rust-colored grease and water coming out. Where's it coming from? I replaced all the seals last time and spent a decent chunk of change, and I don't want to have to do this so often.
Forks, WA
If you are playing in mud and water then you need to regularly clean and repack bearings. The seals may be new, but the spindle seal surface may be pitted or rusty, the axleshaft may be allowing water in behind the spindle, or the locking hubs may not be sealing up as well as they used to. If this is a closed-knuckle Dana axle there could be water getting in past the knuckle balls or axle vent, but I assume it is open-knuckle. The fact is mud that covers your axle hub for any length of time can find its way in. I know many frequent wheelers of the wet stuff who repack their bearings after a long weekend in the slop and replace them yearly.
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Transferring / Re: Please Help!« on: November 15, 2013, 11:53:57 AM »
I think I'd worry more about whether an ABA law school would accept a non-ABA law school's credits, not the other way around
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I think the reason the OP heard it was difficult was because even top grades from a lower-ranked school won't help if your LSAT isn't up to snuff or they don't need more people. Law schools accept very few transfers, usually only to replace people they lost through attrition or transfers out.
I'm a 2L at a T4 school in California. After the first year I finished in the top 10% of my class. From what I've read online and on this forum it seems that unless you have a compelling story it's usually difficult to transfer upwards to a T3 or T2 school. Just wondering if anyone has had any success by reapplying and starting at the new school as a 1L?
Thank You
I don't know where you are currently attending, but moving across county to a school where you don't know anyone and all the 1L clicks have developed can be tough. I had a friend that transferred from my school to USC and she regretted the decision. Obviously that is not the case for everyone and maybe it will be a good decision it is personal for everyone, but if your doing well somewhere it may not be worth rocking the boat.
You seems like a problem child that is why you are getting school transfer once again you can request for the stay.
Can anyone offer any tips or advice when it comes to drafting a transfer personal statement?
Also, in terms of transfer admissions, does anyone know what the admissions committee is looking for?


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Using community-based participatory research to develop the PARTNERS youth violence prevention program." Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2010;4(3):207-16."
Traumatic Stress, Depression, and Recovery: Child and Parent Responses After Emergency Medical Care for Unintentional Injury." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015;31(11):737-42."
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementing a Firearm Safety Intervention in Pediatric Primary Care as a Universal Suicide Prevention Strategy: A Qualitative Study." JAMA Netw Open. 2018;1(7)."
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OK, so those glistening ladies aren't Santa's helpers, but they could be, right?! On the 5th day of TSF's 12 Days of Giftmas, we hear from four more WTA ladies on what they're hoping for from Santa, what they're getting their loved ones and their hopes for the year to come.
The other elves: Caro, Jelena, Elena and Vika tell us about their Christmas plans
TSF: What is one of your favorite Christmas presents from the past? Or something you look forward to during the holidays? A present you're hoping for perhaps?!
Sam Stosur: "I haven't even thought about it! Actually one of the best presents I've had was a few years ago when my brother brought me a 'swim with the seals' ticket for SeaWorld which was really cool."
Kim Clijsters: "What I would really love is for Jada to draw or paint something for us, now that she's getting old enough, and we can continue to do that every year. Maybe we could send that out as a Christmas card. What we've done in previous years is have a group photo with all the family and our 5 dogs! The thing I like most at Christmas is time at home with the family."
Francesca Schiavone: "The most important thing for me every year at Christmas is to be there with all my family. In terms of presents, we're not so focused on them, because it's more important that for this one day of the year we can all be together. For sure I'll be asking my parents for something! I just don't know yet! Usually I arrive home on the 23rd or 24th and I think 'what am I going to do now for presents?!' So I go to the big mall and at the very last moment I buy everything!"
Vera Zvonareva: "A voucher for a spa, just spend the whole day relaxing, that would be nice! I'm not sure if it will happen this year, but I love spending that time with my friends out in the snow with all the decorations up and a hot chocolate in my hand."
TSF: What are your 2011 resolutions?
SS: I was thinking about that the other night and I was considering giving up French fries for a year…but I'm not sure I'll be able to stick to that….so maybe safer not to make that my resolution! So I think mine will be to stay healthy, fit, happy, and enjoy what I'm doing.
KC: "I'm not really good with electronics, and I've never been great at keeping track of my personal schedule on a computer or phone, I still use a diary to write everything in. I always start the year so neatly and I want to keep it like that but I usually find that by one month in I have scribbles and crossings out everywhere and it's all messy, so that's going to be my resolution – be more organized with my planning!"
FS: To be better and improve every day of my life.
VZ: To keep improving myself every day, keep fighting and keep my courage – that's the most important thing.


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Nicholas Kirkwood and preppy: These two concepts don't seem to go together. But, at second glance, resort '15 may convince you otherwise. Kirkwood uses chevron patterns — a prep's wardrobe staple — as a jumping off point for his latest designs. And, since the brand is not known for safe silhouettes, the results are an unlikely marriage sure to please all fans of the statement shoe. (Not just the polo-wearing kind.)
The resort collection features lucite chevron cutting into heeled booties, metallic chevron bordering a lucite heel, and chevron straps lining knee-high sandals. If you're pattern purist, there's an all-over black-and-white option with your name on it, too. As we've seen in past Kirkwood designs, the new offerings feature oversized pearl accents — another nod to a proper, but not too prim, aesthetic — that cling to the back of heels and playfully dangle beneath soles.


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Demps files paperwork to play in NFL this season
Fresh off a silver medal in London, Jeff Demps wants to come back home to football. The former Gator football and track star has filed paperwork with the NFL and wants to start playing this season, according to NFL.com. April's draft came and went, and Demps' name was never called after telling teams he would be a full-time track athlete. However, Demps has signed a standard representation agreement for football with the goal of playing in the 2012 season, a… Read More »


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Update: Good news for UK users who patiently waited for Google WiFi, as it is now available to buy.
As peripherals like Netgear Orbi and Eero have shown us: routers and range extensions are complete. The future is a Wi-Fi or tri-band system. Of course, the Google, obsessed at home, is everywhere with the Google Wifi eponymous.
If so, Google may well have designed the best Wi-Fi mesh system to date. Google has managed to generate a system that offers more than a few competitors. The result? We never wanted to look at our walkway again.
We want to reinvent the router.
Price and Availability
Not surprisingly, Google does not ask for much money for what is offered. Google Wifi costs $ 299 (about $ 389 US) for a three-unit set - it's a primary "Wi-Fi" point (the one you connect to the modem or gateway) and two secondary WiFi points.
In the UK, Google Wifi comes with a set of two units that costs £ 229.
A single Google Wifi unit can be provided for $ 129 (£ 129, approximately AU $ 167). Google promises that three Wifi points can cover up to 418 square meters in a house.
Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, Google made no mention of pricing or available in Australia. However, when we talked to Google just before the UK, Google Wifi on a global scale in the future.
Google offers more units for less money than any competitor, such as the Netgear Orbi, with all other costs of at least $ 400 (about £ 320, AU $ 520) for the same amount.
Design and configuration
Not only does Google have the obvious advantage of pricing, but also the best-designed individual units and the simplest configuration of any offer. Each Google Wifi unit, a modest small cylinder with a simple white LED strip in its center, is capable of having the same functionality.
This Internet connection is not included in the price and is not included in the room rate. All three units are powered via USB-C.
The installer is as sublime as Google's hardware design, using a free iOS app and Android to facilitate the process. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone or e-mail.
From there, the application tells you to name your network and set a password, and then the additional WiFi points and label them in the application for reference. Again, it takes seconds for the "router" to recognize the Wifi points and start broadcasting.
Netgear Orbi provides, so no tape will move for you. However, Google Wifi handles this in the background automatically.
However, the application offers many more useful features, such as constant monitoring of your network, points and connected devices. The Ookla is a computer-assisted Internet connection that can be used to connect to a computer.
You can also prioritize bandwidth on a device for a while, monitor intelligent smart devices, and pause Internet access to certain devices in a family setting - all in this application.
By far, it is the most complete and elegant suite of control parameters that we have seen since a Wi-Fi mesh system so far, despite the lack of drop-down boxes and scales.
We have seen just as impressive, if not better, the performance of the Google Wifi system because we have Netgear Orbi. Google Wifi makes the most of our 100Mbps Wi-Fi service that we can see from any room in our house, even if small.
We were able to broadcast a 4K video via Netflix to our Roku Premiere in the basement as well as in the basement. Wi-Fi mesh systems like Google Wifi do not focus on both throughput and coverage, but this product offers independently.
The Traffic Priority feature that lets you get the most out of your HD video.
In addition, the network can automatically repair itself if one or more of the Wifi points are accidentally disconnected or lose their power.
The Wi-Fi bands (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) on the 802.11 mesh protocol on the Netgear Orbi tri-band system which communicates on a second 5GHz Wi-Fi band, we did not find a terrible difference between The performance of one or the other. We do not want to miss a lot of music on the road.
The real advantage of Google Wifi compared to others is, quite simply, coverage for the price. You can get equal amounts of coverage in pure square images of competing systems with fewer units, but the versatility that offers you more units lets you ignore dead spots.
We liked
Google Wifi is incredibly easy to set up and manage day to day despite its lack of finer control. The fact that it is the only one of the two systems which are used for the purposes of the present invention. Finally, these units are even better in terms of design systems like Netgear Orbi, and are much easier to hide at sight.
We Disliked
Although there is a lot of information about Wi-Fi settings, it's not always easy to see what happens. Also, since it uses AC1200 technology, Google Wifi is not capable of the AC3000 or even the AC2200 rate that Netgear Orbi and Linksys Velop are respectively able to extinguish those who pay big for super fast internet speeds.
Final verdict
Google Wifi is the easiest router we have ever set up, period. And, taking into account the two additional devices required to complete it. For a reasonably priced price, Google offers more units than most competitors and the best configuration and management application away.
For all the finer hardware checks, Google lacks it, considers all the wheels and the test can present itself easily understandable through its application. (There is even a bandwidth priority control.) A couple that has an easy-to-find hardware design.


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Tonight's facet of study regarding the subject of prophecy and the destruction of the nations takes us to the alignment and war of the nations. And that perhaps would be a title that we might chose if we were going to entitle the message the alignment and war of the nations. You know, it's amazing the last few days the whole attention of the world is focused upon the Mideast. Some exciting things have begun to happen with some very direct relationship to God's plan for the world. Israel is at war with the Arabs. Egypt and Syria are battling on two fronts, and I understand Jordan is now in the battle. Russia, which for a little while seemed to be rather passive, has become active and in just the last couple of days has really unleashed a certain form of involvement by sending material to supply the forces of the Arabs and ships and airplanes as well carrying tremendous amount of arms to arm the Arabs. Brezhnev quoted in the L.A. Times about three or four days ago, said this. "All our sympathies are on the side of the victims of aggression, the Arabs." Now that's an interesting thing that the Arabs are fighting Israel, but that's nothing new. But what makes it prophetically exciting is the involvement of other major powers in what's going on. Particularly the involvement of the nation Russia.
To see a battle going on the Middle East isn't anything new, but to see all of the formations that have been so familiar to us over the last say, 15 to 20 years, has exciting prophetic significance.
What we're really seeing today is a preview of Armageddon, at least in its initial phases. Now let me hasten to say this. All of the wars that make up all of the battles that make up the great battle of Armageddon complex will take place during the tribulation. The tribulation is a time after the church is removed the world. So what we are seeing now is not part of that final battle, but it certainly shows that the nations are lining up in the right configuration for that final battle. Now just to remind you of God's plan a little bit, I'll give you a little insight into what we've been talking about. We're living in a period known as the church age. The church age ends with the rapture, New Testament saints, as the arrow indicates, are taken out of the world. Immediately, a period begins on the earth known as the period of the tribulation, the last three and a half years are called the great tribulation.
That period closes with a final conflagration known as Armageddon. At the end of Armageddon, Christ himself returns with those of us who went up there in the rapture. We come back with Him and He sets up His kingdom. Now we have been studying the various facets of this period known as the tribulation. We found, first of all, that the church age is going to end with the rapture. And we studied carefully about the catching away of the church.
Then we found out that after the raptured church leaves, then God begins to deal in judgment with those left on earth and that really involves two groups, Jews and Gentiles. And for the Jews, the time of tribulation involves two things, punishment and salvation. God chastises them for sin and God redeems them as a nation.
Then it involves also the Gentile peoples who are left here who did not go with the church for they were not believing in Christ. During this period of time, there is going to be a tremendous God appointed destruction that's going to come upon the nations of the world. Now it is true that there will be a believing remnant from the nations, right? Revelation 7, so many they can't be counted. But the residue of all men will fall under terrible destruction. And that seven year period will end with a horrible worldwide battle call the battle of Armageddon, because that's one of the areas where it will be fought. And that battle is ended in the coming of Jesus Christ. Now we then have discussed all of these various features. In fact, we discussed at least for three weeks in a row why believe the church does not go through the tribulation. Why we believe we're going to leave. Now the question is this, we know when man's day is going to end as we know it. It's going to end at the end of the tribulation. We know that.
The question we want to answer tonight is how it's going to end. How it's going to end. We know it will end. We know it will end at the end of the tribulation, but how and what is the actual sequence of events that takes place. Now let me hasten to add to that that there is much theory and speculation in regard to all of the features of Armageddon. And I'm not going to stand here as any expert. And while I'm saying that to say this, there are some things upon which we cannot be dogmatic. And I am not saying tonight that I have found the answer to all of the sequence of events of the tribulation in terms of the final alignment and the final war. That really focuses on the end of the times of the Gentiles. I do not propose to have the answers as opposed to everybody else's supplied answers. But let me say this, I have come to some conclusions in my own mind. To one degree or another they satisfy me. Some satisfy me more than others. I'll just present them to you and if you want to pursue the study further, the Lord blessed you have a great time. You'll run into the same difficulties that I ran into.
There are many people who are offering speculation today about how the world's going to end, right? We hear all the time...I told you three weeks ago about the guy who said that it's going to end in five billion years because the sun's going to all of a sudden run out. And another guys said the moon's on a rubber band kind of thing, and eventually it's going to snap back and destroy the earth. And this is going to take X number of millions of years. And there are all kinds of seers and visionaries and prophets and even the philosophers are into the thing now and they have decided that man is going to destroy himself with certain particulars. And the scientists are involved as well and man is going to pollute himself out of existence by the year 2000 and so forth.
So there are many people that are giving us a dooms day reports. But let me add in the words of Peter, "we have a more sure word of prophecy" than human speculation and that is the testimony of the word of God, the Scripture. And so what we'll endeavor to do tonight is to give you a picture of the ending of man's day as it finally comes to an end in the tribulation as it is revealed in the word of God, the Bible. Now we find ourselves in our study in the tribulation. And discussing the nations in the tribulation. Now we've given several points, let me mention them in retrospect. One, we studied the times of the nations. And in that study we found that God has set a time in which Gentiles will rule over the land of Israel. It's called the times of the Gentiles by Christ Himself.
It began around the year 600 B.C. and it extends until the second coming of Christ. This entire period of time in which there is Gentile rule in the promised land to Israel to one degree or another, this Gentile rule extends itself, but during this time, Gentiles will rule and it's call the times of the Gentiles or the times of the nations.
It's been going on for 2,600 years. But there are boundaries on it. It will end at the coming of Christ. Now just prior to the coming of Christ, this whole Gentile kind of rule in the world is going to begin to fall apart. And that's what we're going to look at tonight.
Now secondly, not only do we look at the times of the nations but we look at the ruler of the nations. And we saw that during this seven year period there's going to be one man who is going to rise to the for to rule the world. He is going to kind of bring together all the Gentile nations in one great world government. He's called the little horn. He's called the king of fierce countenance. He's called the willful king. He's call the lawless one. Son of perdition, the beast, etc., we know him as antichrist.
He will be a final world leader, an intellectual military, economic and religious genius. He's going to pull off a real...well, unheard of non-historic kind of a thing that has never been done before, and that is he's going to unify the world under one banner. Thirdly, we saw not only the times of the nations and the ruler of the nations, but last time we saw the religion of the nations. And we saw that during the tribulation, since religion is the opiate of the people and people always have religion, they event it because the need it, there will be religion in the tribulation even though the true church is gone and we've been taken up to heaven and we're having the marriage supper, the lamb, and the beamacy, which is the reward judgment.
Even though we're out of here religion will exist. False religion will take off and we talked about the false church, the great ecumenical church. We talked about Babylon, remember, how Mystery Babylon all of the false systems are going to come together again. I was so interested to get an article in the paper that recently said that the Dali Lama...you say who's that? The Dali Lama is the leader of 1.3 million Tibetan Buddhists and he just had a historic meeting with the Pope.
I picked up the L.A. Times today and read a big spread on one of the inside sections of the Times that informed us that in North Hollywood at the Congregational Church they are now sharing their church with the Tauists, which is a false religion from the Orient. They have a Tauist priest and a Protestant pastor. And when the Protestant pastor needs to be on vacation, he lets the Tauist preach in his place.
What we're seeing is all of this system moving together for a final consummation in one world system of false religion. And we saw last week that the beast uses it as long as he needs it and then he gobbles it up and sets himself up as the only one to be worshiped and makes the world worship him.
Now tonight we're going to look at the fourth point in our little outline regarding the Gentiles. We've seen the times of the nations, we've seen the ruler of the nations and the religion of the nations, tonight we're going to see the alignment and war of the nations. The alignment and war of the nations.
During the tribulation, the world is going to divide itself into great powers and these are in reference to the land of Israel. And in that time there's going to be a great war. There are four major powers that are going to exist during the tribulation, four of them. And all of them are designated in geographical relationship to Israel. One is west, one is north, one is south, and one is east. They are all designated, as I said, in geographical reference to the land of Israel. And little by little we'll try to unfold them to you by using the overhead. Now all of these great powers ultimately are going to converge on Israel. They're ultimately going to just kind of converge on Israel in a final great holocaust, war like no other war in history and this is called in the Bible, Armageddon. Now, let me give you a little idea, just a reminder of what Satan's attempt is going to be. Satan has always desired to hinder the purpose of God. And so throughout history, he has had two particular things that he attacked. One is the seed. Remember how in the Old Testament he always tried to destroy the messianic seed, the messianic line and tried to destroy the Messiah? He always wanted to destroy the king.
Secondly, he always wanted to destroy his kingdom. Throughout all of history not only did Satan attempt to destroy the seed, but he always attempted to destroy the people of God, didn't he? Now in the tribulation Satan again is going to attempt to wipe out all the Jews and to slaughter everybody who names the name of Christ. We know that in that time there's going to be tremendous slaughter of all those who name the name of Christ. Right, if they don't take the mark of the beast, what happens to them? They get killed. Satan's plot is to destroy the kingdom by destroying all the subjects so there can no earthly millennium because nobody's alive. So he attempts to destroy all the Jews. In order to get all of this destruction done, he winds up with all the major powers in the world landing in Israel. And Israel is in a bloodbath. Now in the midst of this bloodbath, Jesus Christ arrives and believe me there are some subjects left for His kingdom. And He arrives in glory and power. And Satan finds that all of his effort has gone to not. Now let me begin by just giving you a simple start. The center of history in the Bible is Jerusalem. The red represents or pink whatever it happens to be up there, represents the great power of the revived Roman empire. Now we've talked about this in reference to Daniel and again I'm backing up and if you'd like to get the tapes, you can so you can pick up where you missed, but we know that in the last phase of Gentile world government, there is going to be a revival of the Roman empire, right? Remember Daniel's image, the final phase of the great image was the legs and the feet of iron and clay mixed and they were symbolic of Rome. There would be a final phase in the Roman government, and then ten toes and the ten kings and the ten horns all signify a ten nation confederacy and we know that the common market in Europe now is flirting with a ten nation confederacy. I don't know if there's exactly ten, but they're flirting with that. And it's a revival of the old Roman empire. They even make statements like that.
So we've seen this western European confederacy growing up. They tell us there's going to be common currency very soon, and there may be a common government. One government governing all of Europe, except the communist block. Now this great power then, during the tribulation is going to sweep over and encompass the holy land. In fact, this great world leader who runs that revived Roman Empire, you know the little horn that rises out of the ten nation confederacy, he's going to make a covenant with Israel isn't he?
Daniel 9, he makes a covenant with Israel. He says, "I'll protect you and I'll take care of you" and so forth and so on and I know what...you can imagine what he gets in return for protection. He probably gets oil or chemicals from the Dead Sea or some of the tremendous wealth of the land. So under his leadership he brings a false world peace. However, it only lasts for three and a half years for half of the tribulation.
Now watch, at the mid point, I believe his power is challenged. He's managed to establish himself, he's made a covenant with Israel from the very beginning because it says it's a covenant for one week, which is seven and it's a period of seven years, not seven days. But the covenant is already established. He's already swept into Jerusalem. He's in control, but at the middle of the three and a half years, his power is going to be challenged. And I'm telling you from that time on, the first at that mid point when his power is challenged, from then on all hell breaks loose.
That literally blows the lid off the tribulation period. And it stays that way until Jesus returns. From that moment on, the big war machines begin to roll. And the next thing you know the north comes down, then the south comes up, then the east invades and you've got world war landing on the land of Israel. Now I want to show you three things tonight just to give you a simple outline. The war, the victory, and the aftermath. The war, the victory, and the aftermath. First of all the war. In order to understand the war, we have to understand who's fighting, because I don't understand the power to begin with. The first power is this power represented by Roman empire. They begin to dominate that part of the world. They are in control, and they rule in Jerusalem. And the beast is riding high. This is the empire that Daniel predicted was going to come to pass. You can read it in Daniel and several different passages. It's all framed there. We've been through that detail by detail.
Now, I told you somebody's going to challenge the power of this revived Roman empire. I believe it is going to be the army from the north. And I believe from the north is going to come a great army to challenge the power of this great revived Roman empire that has managed to recapture the world for Rome. Now let me add this, one of the most...and I'm not a very much of a student of political science, but I'm enough of a student of it to know this and so are you. One of the most amazing, political features that has happened in modern history or any history is the rapid rise of the nation Russia in the last 25 years.
Do you know that after World War II Russia was totally crushed. It's army was beaten. It's cities were in absolute ruin, and if it hadn't been for the United States, Russia would have been totally destroyed. And in 25 years, Russia became a prominent nation with worldwide influence which few nations in history ever achieved outside of those four that ruled the whole world.
In just 25 years from being smashed, Russia became a great world power. Now such the...such a fantastic rise of so godless and blasphemous a nation is significant. It's also significant that Russia's where it is. Russia is not on the lower tip of South America. And Russia is not in the eastern part of Africa. Russia is to the north.
And this is significant. It fits the biblical picture. You say does the Bible talk about Russia? It doesn't mention the word Russia, but turn to Ezekiel 38. And I want to show you where I believe Russia fits in to the picture. Ezekiel 38, now remember the scene, the church is gone, the tribulation period starts out with peace, remember? This guy sets a world peace kind of in motion. He conquers without arrows, Revelation 6. Everything's going kind of hunky dorey. He promises a utopia and it looks pretty good. Everything's going great. He made a pact with Israel. He's protecting Israel in exchange for something that Israel may give him. I don't know what. It doesn't say what it will be. Now in the midst of this there's a power to the north that gets jealous of the land of Israel. I don't know one power in the world that wouldn't like to have that land. And the great power in the north begins to get jealous of this western control over Israel. Now, I want you to notice verse 14 of Ezekiel 38. And I want to show you first of all why we believe this to be Russia. Verse 14, "Therefore son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog," and we'll talk about that in a minute, "thus saith the Lord God in that day when my people of Israel dwell safely." Now what period of time is going to be a time when Israel dwells safely? There's only one period in their future history and that's a three and a half years at the beginning of the tribulation, right?
For the 2,600 years in between have they been dwelling in peace? Are they dwelling in peace now? No, for the last three and a half years have they dwelt in peace? No, there's only one period of time in all their history when they dwell peace. That's the three and a half years at the beginning of the tribulation. All their history since the times of the Gentiles.
So Ezekiel says when they are dwelling safely don't... "shall you not know it and he's talking to this prince." Gog is the name of a prince from the north. "And thou shalt come forth from thy place out of the north parts. The literal Hebrew is out of the uttermost part of the north. Some of you say oh that's Turkey. No, no, no. Turkey is not out of the uttermost part of the north. The Lord put uttermost in there for a reason so you wouldn't think it was Turkey.
God has a way of saying what He means and meaning what He says. So "thou and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, and a great company and a mighty army." Interesting that the Russians still have so many of their troops on horseback. But they're coming out of the uttermost part of the north, the extreme north.
Interesting thought over there in verse 6. It says, "Gomer and all his hoards, the house of Togarmah of the north quarters." And again this force is coming from the north. Chapter 39, verse 2, "I'll turn thee back and leave but a sixth part of thee and will cause ye to come up from the north parts." Again, it's the uttermost part of the north and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. Now there you have three times Ezekiel is speaking of future times. During a time of Israel's safety, verse 11 of 38 says "they're living in unwalled villages." It's a time of peace.
It's a time of safety and it has to be modern times because only in modern times, watch, has Israel built cities without walls, right? Some of you will say oh that's been fulfilled centuries ago. They never lived in unwalled cities until modern days. It's a modern prophecy. Now three times it says an army's coming from the far north. Now you go far north and you're going to stretch 6,000 miles across and you're going to cover Russia.
You can go this way, this way, or this way north and it's all Russia. It has to be because Russia's 6,000 miles wide. Now the amazing thing beloved is this, 25 years ago, Russia hardly had an army. In 25 years they've become a world power. At the same time that every other feature of prophecy seems to becoming to its fulfillment. Now I want you to go with me not only to the evidence of geography that this is Russia, but the evidence of language, linguistics.
Verse 1 of 38, let's go. "The word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man," two people are called son of man in the Bible, Ezekiel and Christ, "son of man set thy face against Gog of the land of Magog," Gog having to do with the prince or the ruler of that land. Now you'll notice the term Magog. Magog is mentioned in Genesis 10:2. Magog is the second son of Japheth, who was the son of Noah. Now from the loins of Magog as best historians can trace it came a people known as the Scythians, s-c-y-t-h-i-a-n-s, the Scythians.
And Josephus says that the Scythians lived directly north of Israel's land and some of them immigrated as far as the edge of the Artic Circle. So Magog people then descendents of Magog were people who migrated to the north of Israel and occupied all of that area precisely the territory today known as Russia.
Now notice that it also says the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, which is interesting. Because some say Meshech could be an old reference to Moscow and Tubal is interesting because of Tubalisk. Now as the prophecy reads on, it's interesting too, because you find some allies that gives us interest. Verse 5, Persia which is Iran, Cush and Cush is the ancient name of Ethiopia, the African states, Put, haven't got any idea what that is and all of them were shield in armor and helmet.
The Gomer, Gomer we do know is an ancient name of Germany. Now we know that Russia has allies in the Mideast. We know that Russia has allies in Africa, and we know that Russia has allies in east Germany. And then the house Togarmah. Togarmah is simple an old name for southern Russia.
In fact, it was a territory of the Armenians who lived north of Israel. Interesting also this man who is Gog, this particular prince is also called the prince of Rosh and Rosh maybe an ancient equivalent to Russia.
So from linguistics and from geography, it appears that this great power in the north is Russia. Now you say well, what's going to happen. Well, let's look at verse 8 and find out. "After many days thou shalt be visited." Israel's going to get visited. They're not going to like this visit, but it's coming. "In the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword and gathered out of many peoples against the mountains of Israel, which have been waste, but it is brought forth out of the nations and the nation will dwell safely all of them. Now thou shalt ascend and come like a storm and shall be like a cloud to cover the land down like hoards and many peoples with them. Thus saith the Lord God, it shall come to pass that at the same time shall things come into thy mind and thou shalt think and evil thought and thought shalt say I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates."
Now he's talking to Russia. Now I'm going to bring you down in a time when Israel's dwelling safely and you'll say, verse 11, "I will go to the land of unwalled villages." In other words, it's going to be no big deal to knock off Israel. We'll go down there and take care of them. "We'll go to those at rest, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates to take a spoil," and they want what Israel has.
"And take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited upon the people that are gathered out of the nations who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land." So there's the regathering is going to take place, and this north power is going to come down.
Now it's again repeated in verse 14, "In the day when the people of Israel dwell safely shalt thou not know it." In other words, what a fool. When they're dwelling in safety, don't you know that's of God. You're going to come out of the north parts, verse 15, "A great army," verse 16, "you'll come against my people like a cloud to cover the land and it shall be in the," what, "in the latter days and I'll bring ye against my land that the nations may know me when I shall be sanctified in the O Gog before their eyes."
Now the point is, God's going to bring them down. You say, you mean, it's God that's behind this invasion from the north? Absolutely. Why? God wants to display His glory and boy does He ever do it. Now I want you to notice several things here. First of all in order for this happen, Israel has to be in the land, right? They can't be invaded unless they're in the land. Are they in the land? Then they can be invaded. Secondly, they must be dwelling in safety. A place where there are no walls. That's true of modern times. Jerusalem is being rebuilt, no walls are being built around Jerusalem. It's becoming an area of unwalled villages.
Verses 12 and 13 indicate there's going to be a time of tremendous prosperity. They're going to come to take a spoil. Verse 13 says, "to carry away silver, gold, cattle, goods, and so forth." And that is true. You know that up until 1948 and a few years after Israel was desolate, absolutely desolate and now it's just priceless. And so it has to be a time when Israel's in the land when they're dwelling safely in unwalled villages and when there's prosperous times.
Two of those things have already been fulfilled. The only one is that they're not really dwelling safety, but that will be true in the first three and a half years. But you can see the things beginning to formulate right now.
Now look what happens in verse 19. "In my jealousy," here comes the big army, when they get down there it's going to be too bad. Verse 18 is very vivid. It says at the end of verse 18, "my fury will come up in my face." God's face is going to get red. God doesn't have a face, but you get the message. He's going to get so angry it's as if His face turned red.
"In my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken surely and that day is going to be a great shaking in the land of Israel so that the fish of the sea and the fowls of the heavens and the beasts of the field and the creeping things that creep on the earth and all the men that are on the face of the earth shall shake at my presence. The mountains shall be thrown down and steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground and I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains saith the Lord God. Every man's sword shall be against his brother." The whole Russian army is going to go into confusion and chaos and start killing each other.
"And I'll enter in a judgment against him with petulance and with blood and I'll reign upon him and upon his hoards and upon the many people that are with him and overflowing rain and great hail stone, fire and brimstone." God's going to destroy that whole bunch right there on the mountains of Israel.
"Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself and be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord." Now God says, I am going to come down in judgment. Notice Chapter 39, verse 4, "Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all their hoards, and the peoples that are with thee, I'll give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field for I've spoken it saith the Lord God. I'll send a fire on Magog and among those who dwell securely in the coastlands and they shall know that I am the Lord. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel. I'll not let them pollute my holy name anymore and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the holy one in Israel."
Now God says, I'm going to destroy this army. And so you see the little broken area symbolizes the fact that this great army is smashed and supernaturally. There's not even a battle as far as we can read here. God just wipes them out with earthquake, hail, fire and brimstone. Now the results of this thing are fantastic. Chapter 39 gives us some of the results. Verse 9, "And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, the bucklers, the bows, the arrows, the hand spikes, the spears, they shall burn them with fire seven years." You know that they're going to be burning their weapons actually on into the kingdom?
Verse 10, "So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forest, for they shall burn the weapons with fire and they shall spoil those that spoil them and rob those that robbed them saith the Lord God." All of those weapons that were brought down are going to be used for fuel somehow in some way.
To add to that, they've got a problem burying all their dead. Can you imagine having a whole army wiped out on your mountains and getting rid of the bodies? Verse 11, "It shall come to pass in that day I'll give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the travelers on the east of the sea, it shall stop the noses of the travelers." The place is going to stink to high heaven. "And there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude and they shall call it the valley of Hamongog." They're going to be buried there. Hamon has to do with a large group.
"And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them." Seven months just to get rid of the bodies. "That they may cleanse the land. Ye all the people of the land shall bury them and it shall be to their renown on the day that I shall be glorified saith the Lord God."
And so God protects His people. And God destroys this great army. When God goes about to do something, He does it totally. And indeed, in that case, He did. And so Russia instead of being a nation that's going to dominate the world, is a nation that's going to be destroyed by God himself. You say now well what happened? Now watch what happens. This guy is in control. This revived Roman empire with the beast at the head. He's already in control of Jerusalem.
When this army comes down and gets smashed into absolute oblivion, and only one-sixth of them are even alive to crawl back to Russia, that's in Chapter 39, the first two verses, the world is going to look at that beast and say wow, don't mess with him. And there will be some who will give glory to God, but the world is going to say in Revelation 13:4, "who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
In other words if you think he had a grip on the world to begin with, imagine what kind of grip he's going to have there. This is when he really feels his oats. And he says, I'm going to take advantage of that and at that point he gobbles up the church, the false church, he destroys all of the false religion and he sets himself up as the one to be worshiped, right?
And the false prophets sticks up a big image of him in the city of Jerusalem and he demands that the whole world worship him. He goes in and desecrates the Jewish temple and he says, I'm taking over. His power then is secured by the tremendous victory over this Russian army. He really takes over.
Verse 5 of Revelation 13, now he opens his big mouth and starts speaking great things and blasphemies. "And power was given to him to continue forty and two months." How long is that? Three and a half years. This happens in the middle and for three and a half years, boy he really exercises power. And he blasphemes God and he begins to persecute Israel. And he overcomes them and verse 7 says "power was given him over all kindreds, tongues, and nations." And everybody's got to worship him and his image. Boy he really takes over when the Russian army is smashed. He thinks there's nobody that can touch him. He's invincible.
Now you know what happens? At the same time, fantastic, at the same time, this guy gets to feeling like hot stuff. God begins to open the seals. Recorded in the book of Revelation Chapter 6. And you know what happens when God opens those seals? All of the terrible plagues begin to hit the world, the same plagues that are specifically stated, and I'm not going to...I don't want you to turn to it, let me just tell you. First peace is taken from the earth, right? Immediately following that there is...there is slaughter, people kill each other. Then there is terrible famine. Then there is death and one-fourth of the people in the world die. And then the whole heavens begin to creek and an earthquake and the sun becomes black as sackcloth and the moon like blood and the stars fall. And heaven departs and is rolled up like a scroll. And everything begins to go crazy. And the people start screaming for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them.
Now all of that comes crashing down at the same point that this guy exercises his power. Well, you know what this does? Sure they're all saying oh who can make war with him? But you know his big power and his big utopia is pretty short lived. Because when people start seeing this happen, they get a little bit disgruntled. And they don't like what's happening and they will evidently blame him for it some way or another. And though Russia has been crushed and he has established his power, it's not very long until the other powers of the world get pretty sick of this guy and what he's doing and the terrible things that are going on and then we have the movement of the third great army that appears in Armageddon and that's the army of the south.
Now the great army of the south then begins to move and this is the final, at the end of the three and a half years, it takes them a little while to get mobilized and then they move. You say what's the army of the south? Well, apparently it's Egypt and the Arab states. Beloved, I just can't believe. I'd get keep reading in the paper about Russia's attitude towards Israel and Egypt's attitude towards Israel connected with the Arab states and it just...it's unbelievable. It's just biblical all the way down the line. I mean, you know, I'd be scratching my head if this was all going on in South America.
But it isn't. For more than 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egypt was one of the greatest civilizations in the world. But Egypt sank into relative obscurity in more modern times. But there was one man who made Egypt into a power and his name was Nasser. Up until Nasser, Egypt was nothing to reckon with. You thought of Egypt and all you thought of was those pyramids and the sphinx and people go there and look at that strange stuff. And there's a lot of desert and there's a river called the Nile and that's about all you thought, but Nasser began to build Egypt into a power.
And the building is still going on. You say does this fit into the picture. Turn in your Bible to Daniel Chapter 11. Daniel Chapter 11, now remember, I'm doing the best I can to put these things into an understanding knowing that there is much that is speculative about details. And so we endeavor just do what we can and not to try to imply all kinds of truth that isn't in the text. So if it seems a little scarce, that's because the Bible doesn't say any more about it than we will communicate.
Now in Daniel 11, verse 40, we need to make a little note here. We want to know if we read a passage of Scripture whether it's prophetic or not, don't we? Because we don't...we don't want to misapply it. So we go to verse 40 and we read a simple phrase. "And at the time of the end," now that helps doesn't it. Now that helps. So now we know when we're talking about. The time of the end. "At the time of the end," what's going to happen to Israel, "the king of the south will push at him."
There are ten references to the king of the south in this chapter. The first seven of them have to refer to Egypt it seems. Then we would conclude that the last three do too. So the king of the south is going to be Egypt. At the time of the end Egypt is going to fight against Israel. Oh my. That is so current.
Now I want you to notice something else very interesting, very interesting. "The king of the south shall push at him," but look at this, "and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, chariots and horsemen and many ships." Guess what? Guess who regroups? Russia, a Russian/Egyptian alliance. Right now who is supplying Egyptians material? Russia. Russia.
Now notice the time of the end. This indicates the end of the age. It's also mentioned in verse 35. "Even at the time of the end," it says there. So we know what we're talking about. The general warfare is then described. Look at verse 36. "And the king," this is the antichrist, "shall do according too his will." That's why he's called the willful king. "And he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every God and speak marvelous things against the God of gods and prosper until the indignation be accomplished. For that which is determined shall be done."
He'll get along just until God says that's all. "Neither does he regard the gods of his fathers, not the desire of women, nor regard any God for he shall magnify himself above all. His only god," verse 38, "is the god of fortresses, the god of might, the god of power, the god of war." So he's really going to rule. He's going to knock off Russia, but he's only going to have a little time and all of a sudden the south's going to get uptight.
And the king of the south is going to go and the plan is this, when he turns to fight Egypt on the south, he's going to get hit from the north by this preplanned alliance. And this begins the final phase of Armageddon. The first great movement of the final battle known as Armageddon is the movement of the south. We can certainly see that already is such a possibility. The hatred of the Egyptians towards Israel is clearly indicated. And their potential alliance with Russia, very, very obvious.
Well, the king of the north's going to come down like a whirlwind with chariots and horsemen and many ships and, of course, you have to understand that biblical terms, speaking of warfare, were used because this is the only concept of warfare that they had. And so we would translate those into modern terms in terms of the actual warfare.
And they will march down with all of this on land and they will come with ships. So there's going to be an attack from the north on the land and there's going to be an attack from the Mediterranean Sea. Now I want you to see what happens. In verse 40 we read this statement at the very end. "And he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass through." Beloved I wouldn't even begin to try to tell you how many different options there are on who that he is.
Some say the he refers to the king of the south. Some say the he refers to the king of north. Some says they don't know who the he is and others say the he is the willful king. Now there is no way to be dogmatic. We just have to kind of say who he and leave it at that. But I am not...I am not at all hesitant to give you what I think. This is just a speculation, really it is. No more than that. But I think the he refers to the willful king, the antichrist. The reason I think that is because it seems to fit the context best and I'm not going to go into all the details. There are all kinds of ways that you defend which he you believe it is.
But I think to introduce the willful king in 36 to 39 and just drop him there doesn't make sense. I think to insert him at the end of verse 40 makes the rest of the context meaningful and explains what goes on in the rest of the battle. And I hope you'll understand what I mean.
Verse 41, "When the king of the south comes up and the king of the north comes down, then he," that is antichrist, "begins to fight back and he enters into the countries," the allied countries around which Russia will have Arab allies and so will Egypt, "and he overflows and passes through." He wins.
Now watch, "He shall enter into the glorious land and many countries shall be overthrown." He occupies all of Israel. He conquers the territory God promised to them, at least in great measure. "And many countries are overthrown, but these shall escape even Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Ammon." And I don't know why the Holy Spirit allows them to escape, but they do. "And he shall stretch forth his hand upon the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape."
Now that eliminates the possibility of he being the king of the south. The reason I don't believe he can be the king of the north, is because if Russia was wiped out like the Bible says it was a few earlier, I don't think they could have the force to dominate on a return basis. So I feel it must be the willful king. And so he goes down and conquers Egypt as well as these other allies. He has power over the treasures of gold and silver and all the precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
So what happened? Now watch the little diagram. This guy who has been here all the time then sweeps and begins to conquer more territory and he really lays heavy his power in the world. You see, he's got to be in power when Jesus comes, because that's Satan's plan to have this guy get so much power that Christ can't take the earth. And so I can't see the willful king getting defeated here.
He takes all of this under his power. And he's down there in Egypt and he's conquering away, having a great old time. And then comes a most significant thing. Verse 44, he gets some really scary news. "Tidings out of the east and out of the north." Now you say what is that? Well, whatever it is it troubles him. And not only that he goes forth with great fury to destroy and utterly sweep away many. Whatever this tiding is out of the east and the north, it involves a whole lot of people coming with a big army.
I believe that that's the fourth great army at Armageddon. The great army of the east. Now the reason I split the arrow is the idea of coming from the east and the north may mean that they split into two forces. One coming straight at Jerusalem, the other coming down so that they can have a kind of a collapsing two front attack.
It may mean when he hears tidings out of the east and the north that being there what he hears is northeast, so it accompanies both the north and the east, either way. I believe what he hears is this great power coming from the east and this introduces us to the fourth, the fourth great participant in the final great war. Now notice how he sets his defense, verse 45. "He plants the tabernacle of his palace between the seas and in the glorious mountain." In other words, he gets between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. Between the seas, between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. "And he plants himself in the glorious holy mountain." That's Mount Zion right in Jerusalem. "Yet, he shall come," what, "to his end and none shall help him."
I believe this has to be the willful king because he is the theme of Daniel's prophecy. He is the theme of the Chapter from verse 36 on. Here comes this tremendous army from the east. He hears them coming. Now you say, well, how do you know about this army from east. Turn in your Bible to Revelation 9 and I want you to meet the army from the east.
I think if you don't learn anything else from all of this prophecy series, you're going to learn which two books it's all in. Daniel and Revelation and you need to do them together. They just really fit. Now in Revelation 9, verse 13, we're in the middle of the terrible conflagration of the trumpets. Trumpets signified final judgment coming at the last part of those three and a half years. "The sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet loose the four angels who are bound in the great River Euphrates. The four angels were loosed to prepare for an hour, a day, and a month and a year." Which just means that God pinpointed the time. A certain hour, a certain day, a certain month of a certain year, God said that's my time "to slay the third part of men." Some great army is coming to slaughter a third of men.
"And the number of the army of the horsemen," verse 16, "was two hundred thousand thousand." That's 200 million. And where did they come from? The angels loosed the four angels who are bound in the great River, what, Euphrates. Do you know where the Euphrates River is? Which direction from Israel? East, east.
And whatever this devastating army is it's got 200 million people. Time Magazine, May 21, 1965 said the Red Chinese Militia now numbers 200 million. They already have 200 million. Do you realize that at no time in the history of the world has anyone ever marshaled an army of 200 million? A great oriental confederacy and believe me Red China would like to get her hands on the Mideast.
A deadly army and millions die. Verse 18, "By these three things was the third of men killed by fire, by smoke and brimstone," which could really speak for warfare couldn't it? Bombs and guns and even nuclear things. A third of the people are going to die. Tremendous slaughter as this massive army of the east just moves across just slaughtering in its way.
Now I want to show you another thing about this army. Verse 12 of Revelation 16. Now here we come back to the Euphrates River again. Revelation 16:12, "And the sixth angel poured our bowl." Now we have three sets of judgments in Revelation. The seals are broken and that brings judgment, the trumpets are blown and they bring judgment, and the bowls are poured out and they bring judgment. The bowls are the most rapid fired judgment at the very end.
So we know that the kings of the east are coming at the end of tribulation. They have to be after the other three armies have already met. They have to be the last one because they're already at the sixth bowl which is right next to the end. "The sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great River Euphrates and its water was dried up. That the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." This whole army comes across and they don't even have to hassle with the Euphrates.
It's an interesting thing friends, I don't know if you ever take note of this, but on December 9, 1971, the L.A. Times did about a four page feature in the second section on the new Russian project to dam up the Euphrates. They're already into it for several years now. They're rerouting it. You can find out all about it. It's being done right now.
God says the Euphrates will be dried up. Now whether it's going to be dammed up by human hands or supernaturally dried up, I don't know. But it's interesting that they're fooling around with.
And then there's going to be an army coming. This tremendous eastern army moves to Armageddon. Now notice verse 13, this is fascinating. And John in his vision, boy after all the visions he had in this book he couldn't have been the same guy. He says, "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs." And you know why they were like frogs, because they came out of the mire and the slime of the pit of Hell. "They came out of the mouth of the dragon, the mouth of the beast, and the mouth of the false prophet." There's the false Trinity.
Satan's the dragon, the beast is antichrist, the false prophet. And out of their mouths come three spirits, evil spirits like frogs because of their slime. "And they are the spirits of demons working miracles and they go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty."
Now watch, The king of the east is moving in all this power and then these demons start bringing everybody to Armageddon. The whole world begins to converge on that place. And you know what they're coming for? They think they're coming to destroy Israel. You know what they're coming to fight against? They're coming to fight the battle of the great day of God El Shaddi. God the warrior. Listen friends, there's one person you do not want to fight, and that's the one.
"Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments." He's warning the saints don't get spiritually undressed and miss out what's going on. "Lest you walked naked and they see your shame." Don't get caught without your clothes. Be ready for this. It's coming.
"And He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. We've tried to just place Armageddon the Valley of Magedo, right there where that little pink area is. The Valley of Magedo. God's going to converge the world and they're coming together. And they're going to try to destroy Israel. Satan is bringing them all to this place. His last final shot. If I can wipe out all these people and hold the land, maybe I can hang on.
But it all begins to fall apart. They begin to fight each other and a terrible war breaks out. You say why is it called Armageddon? Because that's the Valley of Magedo. Har Magedo means Mount Magedo. It's also called the plain of Eztralahn. Napoleon said "That all the armies of the world could gather there." It's a fantastic thing. You stand on Solomon's stable. There's a place there where Solomon used to have his stables and you can stand on the edge of that and you can see that valley as far as your eye can run. It's a mammoth thing.
And that's the battlefield. That's the north part. The Bible says in the prophet Joel, that the battle is also going to be fought clear down in the south in the farthest part of the south in Edom. It's going to cover the city of Jerusalem and the valley of Jehoshaphat. It's going to run for a length of the Magedo to Edom. Do you know how long that is? It's exactly 200 miles, the length of the land. A tremendous war. The length of that land.
Let me show you something interesting. Revelation 14:20, this is something. And you know they're going to fall right into the winepress of the wrath of God to be stamped out. And verse 20, "The winepress was trodden outside the city and blood came out of the winepress even unto the horses bridles." Can you imagine five feet deep blood? "By the space of a thousand six hundred furlongs. Do you know how long that is? Two hundred miles exactly. Exactly the length of Armageddon.
There's going to be terrible war and terrible carnage and fighting among the nations. Well, there you have on that simple little picture the final war of the Gentiles and the whole world converges there and they fight and they're going to destroy God and they find out they're fighting each other. It's a horrible thing. We don't know any more detail than that, but let me go to step two, the war, then the victory. And this is simple, do I love to see who wins this war. Verse 11 of Revelation 19. You know you can't bring together that many terribly godless people even if Satan had a plan it wouldn't work. You can't bring them together without having them fight each other. And they all fight and all of a sudden, verse 11 of Revelation 19, John says, "I saw heaven open."
And look at this, "Behold a white a horse and He that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness in doth judge," and what, "make war. And His eyes were like a flame of fire." That's righteous judgment. "And on His head were many crowns, the symbol of sovereignty. And He had a name written that no man knew, but He Himself." You say what was that name. It says right there it's name no man knew. Don't ask that question. Verse 13, "And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and His name is called the word of God." And we know who that is, Jesus Christ. And you're going to say well boy I'd like to be there. You are, verse 14, "And the armies that were in heaven followed Him with white horses clothed in fine linen, white and clean."
I'll never forget at camp one time a girl said "Do you think there will be horses in heaven?" Listen I know there will be horses in heaven, but not like any horse you ever saw. Verse 15, "Out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword that with He shall," what, "smite the nations." You see out of all this Christ comes down to make war on all these nations, "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron and treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of wrath of there's El Shaddai God, warrior God. And He has a name on His vesture and His thigh, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Do you think Satan in all of His efforts could ever hold this world so that Christ couldn't take it? No way, not a chance. Not a chance. "And I saw an angel standing in the sun." What a vision that would be. "And he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together under the supper of the great God." He calls all the birds. "You're going to eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men free and enslaved, small and great, and I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse and His army."
Do you know what happens? They're fighting each other, they see Christ and they turn to fight Him. And an angel stands in the sun and calls all the birds to the dinner that they're going to have on the flesh of those that are destroyed. "And the beast was taken," verse 20, within the false prophet that wrought miracles before him and they were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant was slain with the sword of Him that sat on the horse which sword proceeds out of His mouth."
Do you know what that is? That's His word and by His word they all die on the hills of Israel. The world of Gentile power is wiped out. "And the fowls were filled with their flesh." That's how it ends. They are destroyed by one blow. The word of the Lord Jesus Christ and all of Satan's effort throughout all of the centuries have come to absolute zero. You know, this is not new. Zechariah prophesied the same thing. Oh do I love this. Listen to this. 14th Chapter, verse 1, "Behold the day of the Lord cometh and they spoils shall be divided in the midst. And I'll gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and they all come. And the cities shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished or raped. Half the city shall go forth to captivity, the residue of the people shall be cut off." All this terrible thing. But look at this, oh do I like this. "Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when He fought in the day of battle. And when God comes His feet are going to stand that day on the Mount of Olives before Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives is going to cleave in the midst towards the east and the west and it's going to be a great valley, half of the mountain removes to the north, half to the south. He stands there and creates a valley." You know what that valley's called? The Valley of Decision and he gathers all the godless nations into that valley and they're judged according to their sin and that's the final phase of Gentiles in the tribulation, the final judgment of the Gentiles.
It's a fearful thing to see the victory that's coming and there is no way that any power of Satan could ever stop that victory. You say how is this judgment going to take place? What's going to happen to these people to make them die? Listen to Zechariah 14:12, "This shall be the plague which the Lord will smite all the people fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes or sockets, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth." They will stand there and begin to disintegrate.
You say that's a fearful thing. That's right, and I wouldn't tell you except God said it in the Bible and I want to tell you because He said it. And He said it because He wanted you to know it. That's the end of man's day. You say what's the aftermath? We've seen the war and the victor, what's the aftermath?
Revelation 20, verse 1, Satan is bound. "I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He took that old dragon, that old serpent, the Devil and Satan, bound him a thousand years, cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years shall be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season."
So for one thousand years, he's bound. Satan's taken care of. You know what follows that, verse 4. "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark on their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
That's the kingdom beloved. You see that all of the features of the end time are all predicted? We know exactly where history's going. You say well, John, what are you trying to tell me? Well, one, I'm just trying to give you the information. I think the information itself ought to motivate you. But in case it didn't, let me motivate you a little bit with the words of beloved Peter. Words that I've shared with you many times and I don't hesitate to do it again. Listen to them.
Peter says this, "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. The heaven shall pass away with a great noise. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also in the works that are in shall be burned up." Listen to this, "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be?"
That's the message isn't it? If you know this is coming, what kind of person should you be? I'll tell you what kind of person I want to be. I want to be on God's side. I want to be in the army with Him. There's only one way and that's through faith in Jesus Christ. And beloved if this doesn't motivate us not only to come to Jesus Christ, but if we already know Him to get out there to find those people who don't know Him and bring them to Jesus Christ, I don't know what will.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you tonight that we've again been able to focus upon such tremendous and powerful truth. And father we, like John, feel not only joy because Jesus deserves to reign and at last He's going to reign and He's going to take what is rightfully His and it's sweet to our mouths to hear it. But we like John feel sick in our stomachs. There's a bitterness because even though Jesus shall reign He deserves to reign, and even though we shall be glorified to reign with Him and Israel shall be restored to the place of blessing, yet there will be multitudes, multitudes of nations of people who will die, who will perish in a horrible Armageddon of judgment.
God, may there be no one leave this place who, were Jesus to come tonight, would be left to be a part of the system of antichrist and to be in the judgment that shall follow. And Lord God for those of us who love Jesus, give us the desire above all things to share the blessed saving gospel with those who do not know Him. That they might not suffer the terror of the Lord. While your heads are bowed as we just spend a moment in silent prayer. Perhaps the Lord has spoken in your heart tonight about a specific thing. Maybe you do not know Jesus Christ. And perhaps you're thinking to yourself, boy I may be in on that judgment. If that's the case, you don't have to be. I like what it says in Romans 8. It says this, "There is therefore now no judgment to them who are in Christ Jesus." And tonight you can put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You say how do I do it John? Just down in your hearts say Lord I want salvation, I believe in Jesus Christ and I want Him to take over my life and that settles it. Just an act of faith.
Others of you who are Christians maybe saying down in your heart, boy I really haven't been using my moments and my days and my hours to warn people. Maybe you need to talk to the Lord about more zeal and faithfulness and the commission that is yours. Some of you Christians ought to spend some time on your knees about how to use the last days that God has given us. Oh as we see what's happening in the world, I don't see how we can put it off. Father as we close we pray that you'll bring those to the prayer room that need to come. That the counselors there might be prepared in their to meet the needs. That no one would leave not knowing Jesus Christ. We prayed in His blessed name. Amen.
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