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Let's open our Bibles at this time to Revelation chapter 7. We're looking together at verses 9 through 17, the second half of this rich chapter. We've entitled this section, "The coming world revival," and this is part 2 in a two part look at this text.
If you have your Bible handy let's look at Zechariah Chapter 4 tonight. The fourth Chapter of Zechariah. Now I realize that our study of Zechariah is not light, that it's rather heavy. Some of you have been going out looking like Pilgrim on his progress with the burden still on your back, but we hope that the Spirit of God will bless the word of God to your hearts. And those of you who have a great to plum the depths of that word I know are rejoicing in what God is teaching us out of this wonderful Old Testament prophecy. And tonight we're going to look at the fourth Chapter.
Since the creation God has always spoken to man. In the case of Adam before the fall God walked and talked with him in the cool of the day, the Bible says, and man had a perfect knowledge of God's truth and perfect fellowship with God's presence. Then sin came and the consequence of sin was that man lost the knowledge of God and became ignorant, and in Ephesians 4:17-19, the apostle Paul outlines something of the results of the fall. He says, "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart." One of the effects of the fall was that conversation and communion with God was hindered and man who had known the full knowledge of God and His full presence and fellowship and had had conversation with God was now in lonely isolation. But God was not going to give up with that and fall back into some kind of silence. To this ignorant world, a world that became a sinful world, God then began to speak and He sent His revelation to redeem sinners.
God from the very first time that Adam sinned began to speak and the first thing that He said was, "Adam, where are you?" I want to find you because I want to talk to you. God has always talked. God has always spoken. God has always communicated. And in the Old Testament time the vehicle of His communication was the nation Israel. After the founding of the nation they became His channel of information and revelation.
And if you'll look with me for just a moment, and if you don't want to turn to it, think with me in Romans Chapter 3, two verses: verses 1 and 2. The apostle Paul in reasoning through the logic of basic theology and asking himself questions which he proceeds to answer says, "What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?" In other words the message of Chapter 2 is that both the Jew and the Gentile are confirmed in sin and if that's true then what is the advantage of being a Jew? The advantage comes in verse 2. "Much every way, but chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of God."
Further on in the book of Romans in the 9th chapter and the fourth and fifth verse the apostle Paul says, regarding his own kinsmen, his brethren in the flesh, "Who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen."
Now notice, the Israelites to whom pertaineth the covenants and the giving of the law and the promises. Israel was God's vehicle for the transmission of His revelation. God has always spoken to man. In Isaiah 43:21, God says regarding Israel, "This people have I formed for Myself, they will show forth My praise." In Deuteronomy 4:5-6, it says, "See I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. So keep and do them, says Moses, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'"
In other words God wanted Israel to speak His truth so that the nations would know wisdom and endeavor to ascertain the source, which would bring them to Him. In I Chronicles 16:23, it says,"Proclaim glad tidings of His salvation from day to day." In Psalm 18:49, "Therefore will I give thanks to Thee among the nations, O Lord." In other words the responsibility of proclaiming God in the midst of the world." In Psalm 96:3, tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the people." In Ezekiel 5:5, "Then saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed mine ordinances into wickedness more than the nations, my statutes more than the countries that are round about her, for they have refused mine ordinances and my statutes. They have not walked in them."
Now that is a sad diversion from all the intentions that I read in the verses preceding. God had said you're My people, you are to proclaim My truth, you are to tell people what I am and who I am and what My will is, but instead Ezekiel says they violated God's principles, they disobeyed his ordinances, they kept closed mouth about His commandments and failed in the thing that God had called them to do.
Now basically when God chose Israel in the Old Testament it was to be a witnessing people and they were to witness in two ways: by their lifestyle and by their proclamation, as we've seen in our past studies. It was not just a matter of speaking; it was a matter of living. There was to be a lifestyle so dramatically different that it was a testimony to God. And then they were to verbalize the things that God revealed to them. And the tragedy is they failed. That's all that can be said, they just plain failed and God had to set them aside. And Israel today is not God's witnessing nation and they haven't been since the time Jesus was on the earth. And that's why the Lord Jesus had to find a new group, a new witnessing people, and that new witnessing people is the church, you and I and all those who have been a part of the body of Christ. We are His witnessing people, we are His witnessing community, but as we come to Zechariah 4, we find the most marvelous prophecy that tells us that in the future Israel will be reinstated as God's witnessing nation and this is an exciting thing. There is coming a new day for Israel. There will be a hope realized in that all that God had originally intended for them is going to come to pass in the future.
Now as we look at Chapter 4, just a quick brief review: The chronology of this vision is in perfect sequence with the others. You remember that I told you at the beginning that Zechariah has eight visions all eight of which refer to the restoration of Israel both historically as they rebuild their city after the captivity and prophetically as they will be a part of God's wonderful coming kingdom. And the first of the visions that we looked at presented the outward promise of the kingdom. And then they talked about the restoration of the city and the temple. And then after there was the outward restoration, the visions moved to the inward and we saw the inward salvation that occurred. And we saw last time in Chapter 3 the saving of Israel and the figure of the cleansing of Joshua the high priest. Joshua is a picture of the nation and as Joshua was cleansed and purified so Israel is to be cleansed and purified.
So there is an outward presentation of the kingdom, but the outward kingdom will never come until the inward salvation occurs. And now moving away from that to the next in the sequence we find that this vision deals with the usefulness of Israel in the outward kingdom when the inward cleansing has taken place. God is going to restore them to a place of wonderful usefulness. That's always the way it is. God has a plan in the world, God has a design to accomplish, but the people who accomplish it will be the people who are saved and then they will be useful to God within the framework of His plan.
So the nation is saved in Chapter 3, prophetically and the nation is used as God's witnessing people in Chapter 4. Now let's look at the vision and see several points. It's really a very dramatic and unusual one. I want to first of all talk about, and I'll give you a whole lot of p's in the outline. The first one, the presentation of the vision. These are just hooks to hang your thoughts on. The presentation of the vision. Let's get right at it in verse 1. "And the angel who talked with me," and there we are with good ol' faithful interpreter angel whose leading us all through these visions, and leading Zechariah as well. "The angel who talked with me came again and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep." Now we've noted each time that after Zechariah sees a vision the thing is so astounding and so dramatic and so provocative and so profound that the natural response is to slump in a state of meditation and here he almost gets himself into a sort of a semi-coma of spiritual exhaustion over the exercise of his mind and the comprehension of what he has seen. It's beginning to build on him now and he falls into a state of exhaustion from which the interpreting angel comes and wakens him.
Daniel had a similar experience in the 10th Chapter of Daniel the 9th verse. Now having been wakened he sees another vision in verse 2. "He said to me, what do you see? And I said, well I have looked and behold a lamp stand," Some of your Bibles may say a candlestick, but that probably is not the best translation because they aren't actually candles as we'll see. "A lamp stand all gold with a bowl on the tope of it and seven lamps on it and seven," watch this one, seven conduits or seven tubes or seven "pipes to the seven lamps, which are on the top of it and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and one on the left side."
Now you had no doubt the same reaction that I did the first time I read that. I was going to draw this for you but that would only confuse you. But let me see if I can draw the figure in your mind. Now what you have here is a lamp stand, now if any of you have ever seen what the Jews call a menorah that will help you. Outside the Kinnesit in Israel, which is the Parliament, the government, there is a huge menorah. It has a actually a base that goes straight up and then it has those candelabra like things coming out of it and there are seven of them and that was a rather typical lamp stand. So if you can see that in your mind you're all right.
Now also in addition notice there was a bowl on top of it. Now here we have this lamp stand all going out, fanning out like this and on the top of it is a great bowl. Now notice and seven lamps and seven pipes to the seven lamps so that it's going to get complicated because there are 49 pipes in all, all right? So out of this bowl to each of those little lamps comes seven conduits.
Now, look at verse 3, "And beside it two olive trees, one on the right side of the bowl and on the left side." Now watch. The lamp is lit by oil, okay? That's the way they lit their lamps, oil. Oil is flowing to each of the seven lamps on the one big lamp stand from seven pipes coming from a big bowl of oil, not watch, and the bowl of oil is getting its oil from what, the olive trees. This you see is an automatic lamp, as automatic as you get in Zechariah's time, folks. Now what we have essentially here is the seven-branched candlestick of the tabernacle and the seven-branched candlestick of the temple. It's the same thing, basically, however, there are three variations. Now watch: number one is the bowl of oil.
Now in the temple and the tabernacle the oil had to be supplied by the priests, so it was not automatic, but this is an automatic lamp. In the Holy Place, they were filled by the priests and they had to go in and trim the lamp, and trim the lamp, and trim the lamp, all the time, keep the oil in there, keep the oil in there because it would burn it up.
The second distinction is the seven tubes, or the seven conduits, or the seven pipes, and incidentally the Hebrew grammar and the Hebrew construction of the term here indicates that there were 49, seven going to each one. So there would be seven little pipes coming down to each lamp. Now in the Holy Place in the temple and the tabernacle no such pipes existed. And then you have the two olive trees on the right and on the left and flowing out of those is the oil going into the bull and then trickling down. And incidentally there are two great big giant golden tubes coming out of the olive tree. You say, "Where did you get that?" Verse 12, and it says, "I answered again and said unto Him what are the two olive branches which through the two golden conduits or channels or pipes or tubes." So let me reconstruct quickly: two great big olive trees living flowing olive trees. In fact an olive tree can last a long time. They tell us, if you're over there in Israel, that some of the olive trees are still producing oil were there as saplings when Jesus lived. They last a long time. Have you ever seen a little olive wood figure somebody brought back from Israel? It takes 40 years to cure that wood before it can be carved because the oil stays in it so long. It is an oily tree, and so there are these two olive trees, the oil flows down golden channels into this bowl and then into multiples of seven into the lamps.
Now you say, "What in the world is this trying to show?" Well it's trying to show whatever it is it has no human agency, right? It's strictly automatic. God is producing the life in the tree and out of that the thing is being lit without any human involvement. There are no priests to trim the lamp, there's nobody putting oil in it. It's strictly an operation by God. Keep that in mind. That's the presentation of the vision.
Now second, the purpose of the vision, verse 4. "So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me saying, 'What are these, my Lord.' And the angel who talked with me answered and said unto me, 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said, 'No, my lord.'" And you may be saying, "I'm with him." What is it? Well I'm not going to take a lot of time to give you all of the study of all of the rabbinical scholars who've commented on this because they all come out with the same answer. And the answer is this: the tradition Jewish interpretation and Christian interpretation is almost unanimous on this, that the lamp stand represents the combined testimony of Israel as a nation under God. That the lamp stand is Israel lit again to be the light of the world that God had intended originally for her to be. Now that's basically the simple interpretation.
Zechariah is seeing visions. The visions begin with a restoration of the people, a rebuilding of the temple, a rebuilding of the city, the salvation of the nations and then the witnessing ministry of the nation, and that's exactly what we see right here, a restored, revived, regenerated nation is now again God's witnessing people. They are the light.
Now ultimately, mark it, ultimately in the lamp stand you see a symbol of the one who is truly the light of the world. Who is that? The Messiah, Jesus Christ. Ultimately you'd have to see Him there. In Isaiah 49, I'll just give you a couple of verses here to compare with it, it says, "And now saith the Lord who formed me from the womb to be a servant to bring Jacob again to Him," isn't that great? Jacob will be brought back though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord and my God shall be my strength, and he said, it is a light thing that thou shouldest by my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel." Now watch, "I will also give thee for a light to the nations." And there it's referring to the Messiah. God is saying through Isaiah, I will restore the nation and I will make the Messiah the light that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth. So basically the ultimate light is none other than Jesus Christ. In Luke Chapter 1, a long chapter incidentally in verse 78, "Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the dayspring on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death." And there again the light refers to the Messiah. In Luke 2:32, it says of the Messiah, "He is a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel." In John 8:12, Jesus says, "I am the light of the world."
So the ultimate light, the ultimate one who diffuses the glow and glory of God is the Messiah. In fact in John 8:12, when Jesus stood up in the court of the women, in the temple treasury and said, "I am the light of the world," it was a dramatic moment because right into the middle of that was this huge candelabra, that was used during the feast time and they lit it every night to sparkle its light out the open top of that place and be like a diamond in the sky. They were celebrating the glory of God in the wilderness and they lit that thing every night and now the feast was past and the candle was out but the big thing was still sitting there and Jesus walks up and says you may have your candle, but I am the light of the world. And he turns the moment and the scene to Himself, and He is the ultimate light.
So the lamp stand then pictures Israel in full fellowship with the Messiah. The blessing of God is on the nation, they are restored to the place of usefulness, and they are the testimony to the world. And this is going to happen, beloved, in the future. You say, "Well since their light is out now does God have a light?" Yes, in Revelation 1:20, we find this: verse 19, "Write the things, which thou hath seen, and the things which are and the things which shall be here after, that's the outline of the book of Revelation incidentally. The mystery of the seven stars, which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lamp stands, now listen the seven stars are the ministers of the seven churches and the seven lamp stands, which you saw are the seven churches. The lamp stand in this day is what, the church.
But there's coming a day when the church will be removed. The true church will be raptured out of the world and the only thing left will be babble and the hoar, the prostitute, the false church and God will not use that church, and so He will restore Israel. The church is gone, He has no witness in the world and Israel will be reborn and regenerated and redeemed and placed in the position of being the light that God intended them to be all along.
Now what about the bowl? Zechariah says the, the angel, "What does this mean?" Well what did it mean? The angel really never gave him much of an answer. He really was saying to him, "Look Zechariah, think about it a little bit. Isn't it pretty obvious? What would the bowl full of oil represent?" What does oil symbolize in the New Testament and even in the Old Testament? The Holy Spirit! So the bowl on top symbolizes the Holy Spirit. This is a rather clearly defined symbol of the Holy Spirit because it's reiterated again and again as we shall in a moment.
But what's interesting to me is that fact that you have this bowl and out of this bowl flowing to the nation Israel in their millennial witness are 49 channels of the power of the Holy Spirit. You see the point that is being made? The point here is that there will be an unlimited supply of power from the Holy Spirit. And you remember the words of Joel where Joel says, "In the last days I will, what, pour out my spirit on all flesh and remarkable things will happen." And so in the millennial picture we see the nation Israel as the lamp stand, we see the Spirit of God being poured out in profusion so that the light becomes gloriously brilliant. And all of it really is a declaration of the one who is the light, none other than Jesus the Messiah.
And you note that it's all automatic. There's no human involvement at all. In the kingdom the witness of Israel will be spontaneous, it will be Spirit generated, there will be no other thing than the operation of the supernatural Holy Spirit. You know it's interesting to look into the kingdom pattern and you really don't find anything in the kingdom of an organizational nature. Everything there seems to be just the flow of the power of the Spirit of God through individual lives under the directorship of Christ Himself.
Now the two olive trees, what are they? Well they're mentioned in verse 14, and he's still asking the same question at the end. He says, "What are these? Basically, and then the angel says, "These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Now the two anointed ones, hmm, who would that be? Now in Israel there were two specific people who were anointed. You remember who they were? One was the king and what was the other one? the high priest, or the priest. So what you have here then is this: You have the office of king and priest. Now historically, and you have to keep your thinking hat on now because you realize this has historical meaning and then a prophetic meaning. Historically the man who stood in the place of king was a man named Zerubbabel. He was the civil leader. And the man who stood in the place of priest was whom? chapter 3, Joshua. The responsibility of Joshua and Zerubbabel was to stand beside the Lord and to lead the nation in the proper path and to bring them back to a restored place, a place where they would rebuild the wall historically, rebuild the temple historically and become again, if even in a small sense, a witness to the power and the truth of God. But prophetically who is the ultimate king and priest? Messiah! He is the king priest. And in Zechariah look at Chapter 6 verse 13, it talks here about the Lord coming, the Messiah, called the branch in verse 12, and this is talking about the millennial period, the kingdom to come. "Even He shall build the temple of the Lord, and He shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon His throne and He shall be a priest upon His throne." Now if you've got a priest upon a throne what have you got? You got a king priest.
And so Zechariah recognizes this and he is seeing Christ here. So summing it up we have the light of Messiah provided by the golden oil, and it's called golden oil in verse 12 because of its preciousness, the light of Messiah provided by the golden oil poured into the lamp stand of Israel and that's basically what Zechariah sees. And the actual source of all of it is none other than the Messiah himself so the thing goes full circle.
Now Israel's going to have this place in the future, the place of wonderful blessing, the place of wonderful usefulness to God, where what God had intended for them all along will finally be accomplished. In Isaiah 62:1 we find this statement: "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until her righteousness go forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns and the nations shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name." In other words God says I won't rest until this nation is my light to the world.
So we see the presentation and the purpose, but expanding the thought who in the world could bring this to pass? Who is it that has the energy and the power and the strength to bring Israel to this place? And so we come number three to the power in the vision. We've seen the presentation of the vision, the purpose of the vision, and here's the power in the vision. And I've already hinted at it but let's quickly look.
The power in the vision is in verse 6. And this is a great verse that you've heard many times. "Then he answered and spoke unto me saying, 'This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying, not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit saith the Lord of hosts." Now who is it that's the power for the whole thing to come to pass? The Spirit of God! One of the great verses in the Bible! I want to show you just a distinction here you need to make. Not by might, and in the Hebrew that refers to the strength of many, and not by power, and in the Hebrew that refers to the strength on one great one.
Now this, listen, the accomplishing of Israel's restoration will not be due to a collective operation on the part of strong men, nor will it be due to the efforts of one great and strong man. It will only be due to the effort of the Holy Spirit. There's no human agency at all. Human strength, human power, of every description physical, mental, moral, whatever combined or individual will never bring about the salvation of the nation Israel. There's no need for some preacher to think that he alone is going to save Israel. There's no need for some great leader to come along and think that he's going to pull Israel up from its quagmire and introduce it into the great golden age, because it'll only be accomplished by the Spirit. Not by might, that is the power of multiples of men, nor by power, that is the power on one great man, but by what, by Spirit. When it's done there'll be no comment able to be made but this: this was the work of God. So there's no problem with who gets the credit.
True witnessing, incidentally, is always done in the power of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1 says, in verse 8, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be My witnesses." All witnessing must be, to be effective, done in the energy of the Holy Spirit. In Acts 4:31, they prayed the Spirit of God fill them and they spoke the word with boldness. Effective evangelism is not a matter of education, it not a matter of methodology, although those things make a contribution, it is a matter of the power of the Spirit of God unleashed in the life and the heart of a willing vessel. And so when Israel is restored to the kingdom, when Israel reaches that great place of usefulness to God it will not be because of any human agency, it will not be because of any move upon the part of men, but only upon the part of God's Holy Spirit.
Now you'll notice something interesting in verse 6. It says,"This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel." And here Zerubbabel was the chief ruler over Israel. We know that from Haggai where that is recorded for us. Haggai, I think you might want to look for just a minute at verse 4 of Chapter 2, "Be strong O Zerubbabel saith the Lord and be strong O Joshua, and there's those two, the one in civil authority and the one in religious authority, and so forth, and so these two people are the ones who stand in the power. In Ezra 2:2 you have a similar indication of the authority that has been given to Zerubbabel as one who is responsible for leading the people.
Now this man had a lot of obstacles in front of him and a lot of them piled up. He was trying to lead the nation to the rebuilding of the wall and he was trying to lead the nation to the restoration of the temple and he was fighting obstacle after obstacle after obstacle. But God says to him, "Zerubbabel, it's going to be done historically and it's going to be done by the Holy Spirit and it was. Now the Holy Spirit used a human vessel to build that wall. Who was it? Nehemiah, but he did it in 52 days and everybody said,"It had to be God, it had to be God." So historically note he says to Zerubbabel, God's Spirit is going to rebuild this place, but Zerubbabel also, like Joshua, is a symbol of the whole nation and as historically Zerubbabel would see the city restored so future the nation will see the kingdom restored on its grandiose scale.
The nation at this time was a mess. Things were rather tragic, but God says, "Zerubbabel, it's going to happen," and the implication of the future it's going to happen again when all of those who are the nation once led by Zerubbabel see God's power.
Now notice what it says there at the end of verse 6, "But by My Spirit." The Spirit or the ruwach of God, the breath of God, this is the Spirit who worked in creation, where it says, "And God breathed and everything sprang to life." This is the spirit that opened and closed the Red Sea in Exodus 15, this is the Spirit in Ezekiel's vision in Chapter 37 where God breathed into the dead bones that had come together and the dead people came to life. It will be that Holy Spirit the ruwach of God who will restore and regenerate and rejuvenate Israel. Great, great future hope.
Now I want to just add a footnote: all God's work is done by God's Spirit. Did you get that? All God's work is done by God's Spirit. Anything not done by His Spirit is not His work even if you call it that. The Spirit always works through spiritual gifts, the Spirit always works through holiness, the Spirit always works through the word and the Spirit always works through humility and where you have the gifts in operation holiness, the word, and humility you have God's Spirit at work in any generation.
So the oil, then, is the picture of the Spirit and it's the flow of the Spirit in profuse quantity that's going to make that kingdom such a fantastic time. An interesting Bible study that I would just challenge you to do is to study the concept of oil in the Bible and how it relates to the Holy Spirit. Let me just give you a starting point, several little points. It won't take too long. This doesn't count in my sermon, okay? Number one: oil heals. Did you know that? Oil heals. Psalm 23, "Thou anointest my head with oil." The shepherd would put oil on the sheep's head when it had been bruised and it would sooth the cut. In the Bible oil again and again is applied to wounds. Luke 10:34, and James 5:14, and if we would make a parallel we would say it's the Holy Spirit who touches us in the time of our being wounded, in the time of our care, in the time of our sorrow, in the time of our distress, and the time when we've been cut and sooths those wounds with His marvelous presence. And oil lights as we see in the vision here. And certainly the Holy Spirit is the one who illuminates the believer's path. It is the Holy Spirit that leads us into truth. It is the Holy Spirit who lightens the heart of an unregenerate man and convicts him of sin. It is the Holy Spirit who opens the word of God to our understanding. He is light. And oil warms. Oil was used to produce heat. The unresponsive heart is warmed by the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Read Luke 24, and the response of those on the road to Emmaus. Fourthly oil is a sign of joy. Did you know that? Did you know that in the Old Testament feast times oil was never applied in periods of sorrow and grief because it was reserved for periods of joy? Read Psalm 104:15, or II Samuel 12:20. Oil is a symbol of joy in the Old Testament and certainly the Holy Spirit is the source of joy. Romans 14:17 says, "The kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." So you can follow that through yourself. The Holy Spirit is many things symbolized by oil.
So Israel fed by the Spirit of God, doing God's work, in God's power and marvelous things are going to happen. Now we've seen the presentation, the purpose, the power, who is the Holy Spirit, now let's see how the plan unfolds. The plan of the vision in verse 7, and we'll go by quick on this one. "Who art thou, O great mountain?"
Now this is kind of interesting. Zerubbabel's had a lot of obstacles and now after this tremendous promise from God there's good reason to feel your oats and so he looks at what has been a normal mountain type obstacle and he says, "Who are you mountain? Out of the way." See God's word is now giving him confidence. "Who are you O great mountain before Zerubabbel thou shalt become a plain." You're going to get flattened. "And he shall bring forth the headstone with shoutings crying, grace, grace unto it." That's kind of interesting. What this is is a defiant challenge against all opposition that tries to stop God from accomplishing His work in the power of His Spirit. Historically God is saying I'm going to rebuild this city even though it's not going to be like it used to be, in glory I'm going to rebuild this temple and nothing is going to stop me and prophetically God is saying I'm going to bring My kingdom and nothing is going to stop me.
So the courage that echoes out, "Who do you think you are O mountain? Before Zerubabbel you'll become a flat place." And the headstone, you know what that was? The headstone is the Hebrew designation for the final stone that marked the completion of a building. And He's going to bring forth the headstone. I'll be finished. It's going to be completed and Zerubbabel is the guy and he'll stick that headstone in there and it'll be done. And the greater than Zerubbabel, the future restoration of the kingdom will also be completed.
Now notice it's going to be accomplished with shoutings. It's going to be a great day when they get that temple finished. It's just going to be a time for everybody to scream and shout and holler and make, the Hebrew means, loud noises. You know sometimes Christians ought to make some loud noises. The Psalms even talk about a joyful noise. Well that's what you have here. When that headstone went into place in Zerubbabel's temple historically they yelled their head off. In fact that same Hebrew word is used to describe the rumble of thunder in Job 36:29. It sounded like thunder. It speaks of wild, tumultuous cheers and shouts and what their cheer was is here. Look at it. Grace, grace unto it. That was their cheer. That doesn't seem like such a hot cheer. Well it was theirs and grace means beauty. And what they're really saying is what gracefulness that temple has, what perfection it has, how beautiful it is.
Now they finally shouted that, but as the thing was being built during the time of Zerubbabel they really weren't that excited. Some of them were comparing it with the old temple of Solomon that had been destroyed. So when Haggai 2:3, which comments on the same period of time, they say this: "Who is left among you who saw this house in its first glory and how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison with it as nothing?" And this isn't built yet in Haggai. It's not finished. And they're saying hey you remember the other one, boy this is nothing. This is like going from the new auditorium back to here. This isn't anything like we used to have so they're gripping and murmuring but the vision says they will shout when it's done and there will be joy everywhere and Ezra records that and that event happened.
In Ezra 3:11 it is finished and this is the historical record of which Zechariah is the prophecy, "And they sang together by chorus in praising giving thanks to the Lord because He is good, for his mercy endures forever toward Israel." Now watch. "And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. And many of the priests and Levites and heads of the father's houses who were old men who had seen the first house when the foundation of this house was set they wept with a loud voice and many shouted aloud for joy." Now the idea there has to do with the completing of it. The final stone was put in place. The thing was set into its foundation and there was exactly what Zechariah said, there was great shouting and screaming and hollering.
But there's a futuristic aspect to this. You know that the first time the Messiah came the time He offered himself as a Messiah and came into the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. They threw palm branches in His path and they shouted and screamed, didn't they? But they didn't receive the kingdom because before the week was out they killed Him. But in the kingdom when it comes there's going to be shouting and praising like you never imagined.
Isaiah talks about it. I have to just tell you what he says because it's from God and you ought to know. Isaiah 12:1, "In that day thou shalt say, O Lord I will praise Thee, though Thou was angry with me, Thine anger is turned away, Thou comfortedst me. Behold God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and my song," verse 3, "Therefore, with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation. In that day shall ye say praise the Lord, call upon His name, declare His doings and so forth." Verse 5, "Sing unto the Lord." Verse 6, what does it say? "Cry out and shout for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." So when the Messiah comes you're going to have the same kind of screaming and yelling all over the place that you had when Zerubabbel finished the temple and stuck the headstone in.
Verse 8, still talking about the plan as it unfolds. "Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me saying, 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know the Lord of armies has sent me unto you.'" Now this stresses not only the certainty of completing the temple but doing so in the lifetime of Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel will finish it, this is the word of the Lord, and God's word is inviolable and incontrovertible. Zerubbabel will finish it in order that God may be glorified.
And I want you to notice something. Notice the word me at the end of verse 9. "And thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me unto you." It is very likely that the Me is best understood as the angel of the Lord again, who is the one speaking the word of the Lord in verse 8. Interpreter angel just interpreted what was seen. The proclamation seems to come from the angel of the Lord, so it is Christ and in that day when the temple, the ultimate temple looking beyond to the prophetic element, when it is finished then thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me, the angel of the Lord, none other than Christ the Messiah, unto you. He is the one.
So what is the plan? Now watch, the plan God the Father lays out the plan, God the Son directs its fulfillment, God the Holy Spirit supplies its power. The whole Trinity involved with Israel in the past as they built their temple and in the future as the kingdom comes. And just as the Davidic prince, Zerubbabel was to complete the restoration temple, so the greater Davidic king, Christ, will build the millennial temple. And again you see that two-fold element in prophecy.
Verse 10: Now listen to the translation that I read. "For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice," actually read it this way: For those seven, which you see two lines further down, but read it this way: "For those seven shall rejoice when they shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel." Stop right there. For who has despised the day of small things for those seven shall rejoice when they see the plummet in the hands of Zerubbabel. Now they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth. Now what are those seven? The eyes of the Lord. Why are there seven? Perfection. God is omniscient.
Now this is most interesting. Now watch. Some of the people, as I told you, were skeptical about Zerubbabel's temple not matching to the Solomonic temple and they thought it kind of a loser, and so the Holy Spirit says, "Who has despised the day of small things?" Listen. The seven eyes of God shall rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Listen to me. If God gets happy over this thing you ought to be happy. If an omniscient God, who knows everything, rejoice when the plumb line is dropped to start the thing, you sure ought to get happy about it and not despise it just because it might be a small thing to you. You know why God gets happy, because God sees His plan coming to fulfillment, see. God gets happy when He sees that thing begin because He sees the end from the beginning. The point is: don't despise what God rejoices over.
Now listen, if God rejoices over such a minor activity as the building of Zerubbabel's temple, what must be His joy in contemplating the entire objective in the future when He rebuilds the nation into the kingdom planned for them and tasks them. God is excited about the future of Israel. Did you know that? He is excited. He is thrilled. He rejoices. You and I sit around and we say, "Man, it's exciting to see Israel in the land." God's saying the same thing, "Boy we're getting there." The plan is on the way and it might not look like much now, but don't despise small things. And Zerubbabel's temple didn't look like much, but you know what, it re-instituted a nation that could have been lost right there. It got a wall up and it preserved that little people so that the farther objective could be accomplished. God was happy. God rejoiced.
And so we move on to the next element: the promise of the vision, verse 11. And we'll tie it altogether in a minute. Verse 11, "Then answered I and said unto him, I got everything except the two olive trees on the right side and the left side. What are they? That's a free translation, but that's what he's asking. "And I answered again and said to him, 'What are these two olive branches, which through the two golden conduits empty the golden out of themselves?' And he answered me and said, 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said, 'No my Lord.' And he said, 'These are the two anointed ones.'" You can stop there.
These are the two anointed ones. As the lamp stand symbolizes Israel in full fellowship with God, the Holy Spirit, the source of fuel, and becoming a light bearer to the world, as he was called to be, we know see the two olive trees through which the blessing of God is flowing to the nation. And those two things are the office of king and priest, the royal and priestly offices, as we mentioned.
The two anointed ones, literally that means the sons of oil, have to be the king and the priest. And the word for oil there is incidentally fresh oil, which indicates that it is fresh oil out of a tree rather than manufactured oil. And again we go right back to the absolute accuracy of the word of God that God is trying to present something that has no human instrumentation and even uses the right word for oil, so we know it's not the manufactured kind, but ischar, which has to do with fresh oil.
So he's saying it is the pure power of the Spirit of God flowing through the priestly kingly office into the life of Israel that makes it radiate messianic truth. And we know who the king priest is none other than Christ himself. So it is Christ starting and finishing the cycle.
And that brings us to the conclusion, the person in the vision, none other than Christ himself, the Messiah. The end of verse 14 says, "That stand by the Lord of the whole earth." Now listen, here the Lord of the whole earth is a messianic title. It is a messianic title. It identifies Christ with His reign in the world. Messiah is the source, the channel of blessing flowing through the Spirit of God to the people and then radiating back His glorious reality. And He is none other than the Lord of the whole earth.
Now we know that is a messianic millennial term because of how it's used in Micah, that little prophecy of Micah Chapter 4 verse 1 and all the way down through verse 13. At the end of verse 13 it says describing Christ in the kingdom, and their substance will be given essentially unto the Lord of the whole earth." There's that same term and it is definitely used in the millennial context because in this fourth chapter of Micah you have the last days in verse 1, you have the Armageddon battle predicted and all of these things, so we know that's when it is. And that tells us the prophetic futuristic element of Zechariah's prophecy.
So the Lord of the whole earth is really the key to the whole thing. It's the messianic Christ that pervades this thing. Sometimes in the Hebrew figures and in the Hebrew thinking there will be a dramatic change in thought and we don't always pick it up. It seems very clear that initially these two olive trees are the priestly and kingly offices of Christ, but then there seems to be an introduction of thought altogether when in verse 14 it describes these anointed ones as those standing by the Lord of the whole earth, almost as if they are persons. This same transition can be seen explicitly in Revelation 11:4 because there you have a description of two witnesses who will come in the time of the tribulation and they will announce to the world that the king-priest is coming to take His kingdom and they are described in the 11th Chapter of Revelation and the 4thverse in these words: "The two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth."
Now there's an obvious parallel in the terminology of Zechariah 4:14 and Revelation 11:4, and so it may be that both are the same. That what you have here in 4:14 of Zechariah is a prophecy not only of Messiah as king-priest, but of two very specific witnesses who will declare that truth during the time of the tribulation. And as you certainly know if you've studied the book of Revelation, from Revelation Chapter 6 through 19 is the record of how the Messiah, the king-priest becomes the Lord of the whole earth. So there is an interesting connection.
Now summing up very simply Zechariah has a vision. His vision sees Zerubbabel completing the temple and the people restored. But far beyond that he sees the nation restored, the nation having been redeemed brought back to the place of being a witness as they're energized by the flow of the power of the Spirit of God to radiate the truth of the very Messiah, who is the source of their blessing. And you know what's going to happen in that day? Look with me at Revelation 7 and I'll show you.
When Israel becomes that witness nation, Revelation 7, the first 8 verses describe them as the witnesses. They're going to proclaim a hundred and forty and four thousand of them, you can see all the way down to verse 8, there's twelve thousand from each tribe, they are the servants of God and they go out to proclaim. And the results in verse 9, notice, "After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations. and kindred's, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands, cried with a loud voice saying, 'Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.'" Now watch, that is a multitude of Gentiles who have been saved and they are the direct result of the witnessing of the hundred and forty four thousand out of the tribes of Israel. Listen, when Israel is turned loose as God's witness nation, at the period of time known as the tribulation and the anticipation of the kingdom, as they are turned loose there will be more Gentiles converted than could even be counted. Greatest revival in the history of the world, when Israel finally does what God called her to do from the beginning.
In Revelation 12:17, closing out that chapter where Satan persecutes Israel, the dragon was angry with the woman, that is Satan was angry with Israel, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed. Now watch, her seed is Israel, who keep the commandments of God, now watch this, and have the testimony of whom, Jesus Christ. Israel will have the testimony of Christ, proclaim it, and a world of Gentiles will be redeemed to God. Great, great day! And so Isaiah says this: listen, he calls to Israel, "Arise, shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you for behold darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples, but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you and the nations will come to your light and the kings to the brightness of your rising." That hasn't happened yet. And believe me, it will.
You say, "Well John that's all great and glorious sweet by and by stuff but what does it have to do with the nasty now and now?" How does it fit in? Here's how it fits in. Until then where is the light? Listen to this. Matthew 5:14, Here me, hear Jesus, "Ye are, what, the light of the world." That's right. Until then, it's us. Are we more faithful than Israel? I pray God, so. Jesus said in Luke 12:35, "Keep your lamps burning." Keep your lamps burning. In Ephesians 5:8, Paul said, "For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord? Walk as children of light."
Paul said to the Philippians in Chapter 2 and verse 15, that we be blameless and harmless children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world." Where's the light? Ye are the light. And I'll tell you something. The only way the light will ever shine is when it is infused with the power of the Holy Spirit. That's our commission today. I pray God we're more faithful than Israel was. Let's pray.
Father we can't tell you how exciting and wonderful it is to study Your truth. You've given us such a love for Your word and even though many of the things we know well thrill us when we go over them again. Help us never to treat Your Scripture commonplace as commonplace. Help us never to underestimate its impact and its power. Give us an appetite for it that cannot be satiated, a thirst that cannot be quenched, a love that is ever expanding, increasing. Thank you Father for your plan for Israel because it proves You're a covenant keeping promise keeping faithful God and that's the kind of God we want, one we can trust. Thank you that some day Israel will be that light again to Your glory by Your Spirit. And may we in this day who have commissioned to be the light realize the same truth, not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit. And may we light our world to Your glory and to the saving of many. In Jesus' name. Amen.


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Bruno Sammartino is very special to me in so many ways, but here's one that I'd say is rather unique. The very first time I ever attended a wrestling card at Madison Square Garden was on January 18, 1971, the day Bruno's seven-and-a-half-year WWWF title reign was ended by Ivan Koloff. I wasn't there as merely a fan, though. This date marked my debut as a pro wrestling journalist, reporting for the inaugural issue of my own newsletter, Wrestling Results (what an imaginative title!).
This 14-year-old, seated four rows from the top of MSG, watched the matches, jotting notes on a manila envelope that also served as the carrier for the night's program. Later, I would translate my scribble into a match report that would appear in Wrestling Results' February 1971 issue (cover price: 25 cents).
Here it is, just as it appeared more than 42 years ago:
Ivan Koloff defeated Bruno Sammartino. This was the main event in which Ivan Koloff (6', 298 pounds) from Russia challenged Bruno Sammartino (6', 265 pounds) from Italy. Bruno started quickly with a couple of fancy take-downs. When it came to a battle of strength, the two titans proved to be equal. Sammartino had the edge in the match and the fans loved it. Suddenly Koloff went on the offensive and got Bruno down to the mat. He then climbed to the top rope and dove down on Bruno and easily pinned him. Bruno Sammartinio held the championship ever since May 17, 1963 when he defeated Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds. He lost the belt in 14:55 before 21,106 stunned fans.
Stu Saks
Wrestling Results (1971-1974)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (1987-)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
An Ending And A Beginning
3 comments:
- Tony Laplume said...
So glad Bruno finally came to peace with WWE.
- February 12, 2013 at 3:15 PM
- Sean Jaramillo said...
Love being able to call back history. It feels so awesome. And kudos to Bruno for his induction! One question though: In the snippet you attached from 1971, it said Sammartino held the title since 1973. Was that a typo copying it down or from its original publishing? Not trying to critique in this situation; I'm just genuinely curious as a former newspaper editor.
- February 15, 2013 at 5:08 AM
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated said...
It was a new typo. I didn't make mistakes back in 1971!
Thanks. It's corrected.
Stu Saks
- February 15, 2013 at 8:34 AM
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Law School Admissions / Re: do majors with "honors" matter?« on: July 03, 2012, 01:16:57 PM »
Is anything worth a decline in GPA?
This is based on general knowledge of how things work when you're sifting through a large number of applicants and also some hearsay from folks who have spoken to admissions folks.
Law schools, especially the good ones, get thousands of applicants. Their first pass will ALWAYS be based on numbers, alone. Good numbers can make you an auto-admit at some schools. They can also make you an auto-reject at any school. The only question is where those thresholds are. Also, at the very best schools, they probably don't auto-admit based solely on numbers, but you can bet they auto-reject.
Whether you attended an honors program or whatnot is something that won't really be discovered until/unless you made that first cut. Also, probably not a factor unless it comes down to you and a couple other nearly-identical students who are all on the bubble. If you can avoid being on the bubble by having a gpa that's .05 higher, I'd say avoid being on the bubble.
Also, there is no required program of study for pre-law. You can major in electrical engineering or communications. I doubt anybody in their right mind thinks that a 4.0 in one is analogous to a 4.0 in the other. You can get your grades all at the honors college or you can get half your credit hours from the local junior college where anything less than an A means you didn't turn in all your work.
In the end, that first cut is made on GPA and LSAT, alone. Anybody who tells you otherwise is delusional. For the majority of applicants, the ONLY cut is made is GPA and LSAT alone.
It's a game. Play it strategically.
Thanks for the insightful post.
So after you make it through the initial grind, what sort of qualities are most sought after?
I know they like everything - internships, ECs, leadership, etc etc. But relatively speaking, what is MOST valued?
oh, and PS, is there a way to get rid of this image verification process when you most something? It seems stupid: I'm not a computer!!!


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Wright scored eight of the final 10 points of the game for the Patriots. George Mason (2-1) shot 76.5 percent (13 for 17) in the second half, offsetting its 19 turnovers in the game.
Mercer (2-1) led for most of the first half and by as much as 39-33 midway through the second. Wright's two free throws with 1:42 remaining put the Patriots ahead for good.
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At the beginning of the year, Fortune Magazine named Muhammad Yunus as one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, alongside Apple's Steve Jobs and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Perhaps not by coincidence, it was Bangladeshi Nazia Zebin who won the project grant in our Social Business Youngsters competition on Facebook. A 24-years-old student, Nazia is committed to promoting access to culture for everyone in Bangladesh, including rural residents. In May, she traveled to Paris for the Global Communities Meeting, where she met experts from the social business community who had come to work together and imagine the solutions and initiatives of the future.
Our midyear highlight is always June 28: Social Business Day, celebrating the people who practice social business around the world. Here in Paris, danone.communities held a conference to give them a voice and to continue our mission of raising awareness of social business.
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|2012-04-07, 00:35
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Well the idea between white Laura and black Laura is that White Laura can only manifest when the Odin's eye is shut down. If it's only supressed or weakened, only bits of White Laura's personality leak into Black Laura's personality. So you get a moefied death machine with that.
If the Odin's eye is shut off... you get a pure moe death machine.
Unlike Black Laura, White Laura has great comaptibility with the IS because she isn't really one to think. So she overcomes the complications with sheer instinct. So her IS synchro is actually higher than Black Laura's... but she doesn't have Black Laura's experience or trained skills.
Or insane bullet time perception and reaction time.
|2012-04-07, 00:52
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I am no one
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@ Eras
Yes, make her one. Have both contemplating about it would be exceedingly funny and a good shiptease start.
@ Demi
All I have in my mind is a deconstruction, which you probably like but the over the top project will be a warhammer-esque story instead of Guren Lagann lite.
Think about it: Addiction metaphor, split personality, psychological problem, the values of artificial life etc. You can out-angst Evangelion if you wish.
|2012-04-07, 00:59
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@ Demi
Nah, that's just male audience's ego speaking, Shinji had it REALLY bad from actual perspective, I have watched it, with a psychology professor no less. His response summed up with "This is so screwed up, I can make a whole class worth of thesis out of it"
@ Eras
Of course. But assuming you use universal theory of dual attraction (which also apply to twincest, Yaoi, and Yuri), chances that at least half the girl fell for her or at least confused by the odd attraction.
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Yeah, but being dense as they are, they're trying to justify it with "Well, nobody can understand you better than yourself" or "Projection of oneself" etc... which is not helping other than made them less disgusted by it.
Going out for a Date, see you guys later.
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I'm TRYING my hardest to keep up with what's going on here...
Life keeps hitting me one over the head. I've started work on Dancing in the Rain, managing to get about 1k's worth of words in. Nothing much. Next, I've discovered the addiction/rape of my bank account in regards to anime figure collecting...
After surviving and living off what I believed to be the bare minimum that keeps me happy, all the newfound expenses of life are finally taking it's toll... Dating is expensive, so are hobbies, also there's gaming, and lastly, there's also the costs of time...
Oh man, the time... The most valuable thing on Earth, and I'm spending it at the very moment I'm getting it...
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Just to make sure to find balance, Rain-tan. Spending something will worth the result
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I want to write my own fic, probably write the leftover ideas by Nii-nii. My first choice would be To-Love-RU stratos, but the storyline didn't appeal me. Should I write an oneshot first?
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The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation are now "monitoring" the disturbing and bizarre case of Chavis Carter, reports the Huffington Post and The Guardian. Police in Jonesboro, Arkansas claim the 21-year-old Mississippi man shot himself in the head ... while he was handcuffed in the back of a police car.
The investigation comes amid lingering questions over who pulled the trigger. Police said he committed suicide with a gun officers failed to find when they searched him. His family members said they believe he was killed by police who are attempting to cover it up.
Carter suffered a single, fatal gunshot wound to the head. He was detained on Saturday night following a traffic stop in Jonesboro, about 2 1/2 hours north of Little Rock, after officers said they found marijuana and empty baggies. Officers searched him twice, handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a police car, police said. Not long after, police said, he was found slumped over, with his head in his lap and a gunshot wound to the head.
The alleged suicide would have been very difficult. "Questions have also been raised as to how the left-handed Carter was able to deliver a fatal shot to his right temple while in restraints, as it has been claimed," adds The Guardian.
The FBI confirmed to the Guardian that local police had shared "investigative information" relating to the incident and that federal agents would "monitor and assess the situation". Jonesboro police chief Michael Yates has reportedly said that the incident "defies logic at first" but that footage from a dashboard video camera and witness statements do seem to back up the officers' account.
Carter's bizarre death has caused the many within Jonesboro's Black community to criticize Police Chief Michael Yates, described as "already unpopular with African-Americans" by The Grio.
Black leaders in Jonesboro also attest to Yates ignoring calls to increase diversity within the police force. ... The Jonesboro police department has confirmed to theGrio that of the 149 officers on the force, only three are African-American. Jonesboro has about 68,000 residents. Census data shows ... as of 2010, the city's Black population was 18.4 percent of the total. ... There are no Latino members of the force.
Just a left handed Black man who fatally shot himself in the right temple while handcuffed, according to the virtually all-white police force. Nothing to see here, keep moving!
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Why Does the World Exist?
An Existential Detective Story
Jim Holt
Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95
"How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second old, but that half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. Who created it? Nobody created it. It has always been here."
For all its breeziness, that still seems to me a pretty good cosmology, one that expresses the essential intractability of everything. And yet, if Jim Holt's deft and consuming "Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story" has anything to tell us, it's that such a comment is less about literary riffing than deep philosophy.
Holt describes a French TV show in which a priest, a physicist and a Buddhist monk discuss a "metaphysical question, one that was originally posed three centuries ago by Leibniz: … Why is there something rather than nothing?" The priest invokes God, the physicist quantum mechanics, but it is the monk who frames the conversation most vividly. "As a Buddhist, he says, he believes that the universe had no beginning. … Nothingness … could never give way to being, he says, because it is defined in opposition to that which exists. A billion causes could not make a universe come into existence out of what does not exist. That is why, the monk says, the Buddhist doctrine of a beginning-less universe makes the most metaphysical sense."
That question — "Why is there something rather than nothing?" — occupies the center of Holt's book, which is by turns a philosophical and scientific inquiry, written through a broadly personal lens. Beginning with his discovery of this "ultimate why question" as a teenager reading Heidegger, Holt frames his investigation as a series of conversations with luminaries from the academic and cultural worlds.
In these pages, we meet Sir Roger Penrose, who in 1970 with Stephen Hawking showed that the Big Bang "must have been a singularity" — a self-contained event with no deterministic cause. We hear from Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg and novelist John Updike, University of Pittsburgh philosopher Adolf Grünbaum and theologian Richard Swinburne. The subjects share a curiosity, a quality of engagement, in the face of everything they cannot know.
What Holt is asking, after all, is unanswerable, which means that any response, even the most nuanced, must be conditional in the most fundamental sense. "Would the search prove futile?" the author wonders after visiting Weinberg in Austin, where he teaches at the University of Texas. "Perhaps. But that made it all the more noble, in a Sisyphean way."
Such a reference, of course, can't help but suggest Albert Camus who 70 years ago dared us to "imagine Sisyphus happy" as a way of coming to terms with a universe that was inherently absurd.
For Holt, though, absurdity is not enough, since any universe, even one with no beginning, has an internal logic of its own. He makes the point succinctly from the outset: "The idea," he writes, "that the world somehow holds the key to its own existence — and hence that it exists, necessarily, not as an accident — jibes with the thinking of some metaphysically inclined physicists, such as … Penrose, and the late John Archibald Wheeler (who coined the term black hole)."
And yet, because this key necessarily eludes us, Holt also takes a perverse pleasure in doubling back, raising questions and then poking holes in them at once.
Grünbaum, for instance, whose philosophy is rooted in a deep-seated distrust of religion, argues that most cosmology is theological in nature because "it presupposes that there must be some explanation for the existence of the world." This is a problem, he continues, not least because it remains largely unexamined by philosophers and scientists alike.
"Even today," Holt explains, "when we ask why there is something rather than nothing at all, we are, wittingly or not, heirs to a way of thinking that is a vestige of early Judeo-Christianity." That's a key point, and one we remember later in the book when thinkers such as Penrose or Swinburne or the Oxford University-educated philosopher John Leslie discuss the creation of the universe in ethical terms.
What are these terms? In many ways, they go back to Leibniz, who posited that we live in "the best of all possible worlds." As Holt points out, Voltaire satirized Leibniz in "Candide," and his critique — how can this be a good world when it is ravaged by tragedy and evil? — remains relevant. And yet, throughout "Why Does the World Exist?" the idea of a universe built on good or perfection is still in play.
We're talking about God here, although as you'd expect that takes as many forms as there are sources in the book. For Penrose, it's a matter of Platonic ideals, which he believes are the building blocks of the universe. For Swinburne, it's a matter of conceptualizing a God who not only makes us suffer but also "has an obligation to suffer with us." But even Swinburne "concedes that he can find no explanation for God himself, whose existence, compared to the stark simplicity of Nothingness, strikes Swinburne as 'vastly improbable.'" So where does this leave us?, Holt wonders. Is cosmology just a parlor game, in which our only choice is to take a leap of faith?
The most compelling answer comes from Weinberg, whom Holt visits, fittingly, at the halfway point of the book. Weinberg disdains the theological option: "With or without religion," he avers, "you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Yet he also questions the ability of theoretical physics to explain not just the mechanism of the universe but also its animating impulse.
The trouble with cosmological conjectures, he tells Holt, "is that we have no way, at present, of deciding whether they're true or not. It's not just that we don't have the observational data — we don't even have the theory."
Equally problematic, even a so-called "final theory" ("one that would tie up all the forces of nature…into a single neat mathematical package") may never answer the question of why. This may well continue to be the case even with the announcement last week that the Higgs boson, otherwise known as the "God particle," almost certainly exists. "The more the universe seems comprehensible," Weinberg has written, "the more it also seems pointless." This is the paradox, not only for Weinberg but for Holt too.


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Shiffler Cemetery and Its Founding Family
By Pamela Pattison Lash
(I delivered a presentation of the Shiffler Cemetery and the Shiffler family at a cemetery walk-through in August 2006. Here are the rough notes that I prepared for this event, which was sponsored by the Williams County Historical Society and the Williams County Genealogical Society.)
Shiffler Cemetery in Jefferson Twp, Wms Co, OH began as a burial ground in 1849. The story goes as follows: during the evening of 11 Apr 1849, J and M Moss of PA, who were migrating west, halted their team and covered wagon at the Benjamin Shiffler home and requested shelter for themselves and their month-old baby son, Alpheus. The child died that night, and Mr. Shiffler offered a sandy knoll across the road, which he owned, for the burial, the first in what became the Shiffler Cemetery.
Many of the Shiffler family members are buried here and any presentation of the cemetery should also include information about its founding family.
Benjamin Shiffler, the son of Christian and Catherine Gilbert Schiffler, was born in 1808 near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA. Father Christian, b 1779, in Berks Co, PA moved his family from there and set up residence in Dauphin Co where he and his wife died in 1843 and 1855, respectively. In 1831 son Benjamin Shiffler married Christianna Fackler, born 1806 in PA, daughter of Abraham and Barbara Hough Fackler. Abraham Fackler was a War of 1812 veteran and his father Johann Wendle Fackler fought in the Revolutionary War.
Shortly after the birth of their first son, the Benjamin Shifflers migrated to Richland Co, Ohio in the spring of 1832. The family was enumerated in the 1840 Blooming Grove, Richland Co, OH federal census. By 1844 Benjamin Shiffler had built the first red brick house in Williams Co, OH on his land 1 1/2 miles north of LaFayette (now Pulaski) on present US 127. Benjamin was both a farmer and a blacksmith. BTW the original spelling of Shiffler was Schieffler.
Benjamin and Christiana were the parents of the following seven children as listed with their spouses: John George and wife Elizabeth Hisey, Joseph and wife Charlotte Altaffer, Catharine and husband William Wineland, Eli and wives Mary Wineland and Eliza Wineland, Christian and wife Mary Jane Downs, Aaron and wife Hannah Wise, and Elizabeth and husband Albert D. Fraser. Christiana and Benjamin Shiffler had 46 grandchildren. Four of their sons, John George, Eli, Christian, and Aaron, were CW veterans.
John George Shiffler enlisted at the age of 31Y in Franklin Twp, Fulton Co, OH on 16 Sept 1864 as a corporal in Co F 182nd OVI 3rd Brigade 2nd Division 23rd AC. In May and June 1865 he was detailed to load timber to be used for forts and bridges and to take 1100 Rebels from Nashville, TN to Louisville, KY; he was honorably discharged at Nashville on 7 July 1865. John G. was a member of Post 149 GAR, drew a pension, was a farmer, and lived in Pulaski, OH.
Eli Shiffler served in the CW as part of the 182nd OVI for 10 months until the close of the war.
Military service record for Christian Shiffler, a carpenter, stated that he enlisted at age 20 in Co H 38th OVI 2nd Brigade 3rd Division 14th AC; 1862 was on special duty as nurse at Somerset, KY for one week; honorably discharged 14 Dec 1863 at Chattanooga, TN; reenlisted in the old command the same day; 7 Aug 1864 he received a gunshot wound in the left shoulder and arm in Atlanta, GA at the Battle of Jonesboro; hospitalized; honorably discharged at Camp Dennison, 21 June 1865. His wound disabled his right hand, wrist, and forearm but did not prevent him from farming duties. His brother-in-law Charles Downs starved to death in Andersonville Prison.
Aaron Shiffler served in the 182nd OVI and was also wounded at Jonesboro, GA. By 1915 he lived in Jackson, MI but when he died in 1926 he was buried in Shiffler Cemetery. He was the last of the original family to die.
The Shiffler daughters, Catharine Wineland and Betsey Fraser are also buried in this cemetery. Joseph Shiffler, the second son, moved his family to Amboy Twp, Hillsdale Co, MI sometime after the 1860 federal census and did not participate in any CW service that is currently known. He was visiting his Shiffler relatives on 16 Nov 1888 when he died of a burst blood vessel to the throat but he was buried in East Amboy Cem, Hillsdale Co, MI. This breaks the tradition of a Shiffler being buried in this cemetery.
Mother Christiana Shiffler died in 1875 and father Benjamin Shiffler died in 1891. Christiana did not rate an obituary in any of the county newspapers, but Benjamin did receive five lines and a word: "Benjamin Shiffler a formerly active and well-known citizen of Jefferson Twp died Sunday afternoon at the residence of his son-in-law William Wineland, 3 miles north of Bryan. He was about 84Y."


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President Barack Obama's once sky-high approval ratings have been on a steady slide, but how do they stack up to say, Nixon, or Carter?
TalkingPointsMemo.com has compiled an interactive graphic from Gallup Poll data that shows you — month by month — just how the current president's ratings compare to past chief executives. The graph, which initially looks little like a Jackson Pollock painting, can be broken out by president.
Despite much being made of Obama's ratings slide, according to TPM:
…an analysis of Gallup's presidential polling data, the general trend of Obama's approval ratings closely resemble those of other modern Presidents over their first two years in office. (read more)
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Decent pair of mocassins, although I have to say I was disappointed at the unappealing packaging. The sole is not Vibram as I remember reading somewhere. Made out of good quality leather - what you'd expect for something at that price. Might want to order a size down if you're going to wear them without socks because the laces are mostly for decoration. Waxing it periodically helps maintain the look too.


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Sport ClubsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/campusrec/clubs/
Sport Clubs:
What are Sport Clubs?
A sport club is a recognized student organization that exists to promote and develop interest in a particular sport or physical activity. A club may be instructional, recreational or competitive or may involve any combination. Sport clubs are strictly voluntary. Involvement in a sport club enhances a student's collegiate experience and contributes to the student's overall education. Sport clubs are officially sponsored by the Office of Campus Recreation and the Student Activities Office and are supported through Student Activity Fees.
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- Click on the appropriate sport club and contact the club representative for details on the membership requirements for that particular club.
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Lake Washington Blues
Log Boom Park on the northern tip of Lake Washington in Kenmore, Washington
Air Harbor #1
Seaplanes parked at Kenmore Air Harbor, on the northern tip of Lake Washington, in the city of Kenmore
Pink Puget Sound Sunset
Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains from Picnic Point Park in Edmonds, Washington
The Sound
Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains from Edmonds, Washington
North Lake Washington #1
A view from the northern tip of Lake Washington, at Log Boom Park, in the the City of Kenmore.
A scene from Denali National Park. The elusive Denali mountain didn't show itself, but there was plenty of other juiciness to capture. I was enthralled by the colors this foothill had to offer in the morning light. Because of the unusual Alaskan climate, the fall season had already begun by mid-August, so there were some nice colors to be found all around.
Everett Dock
I fell in love with this dock on the waterfront in Everett, Washington. In the background on the right, are ships at Naval Station Everett.
Puget Sound Sunset
From Picnic Point Park, Edmonds, Washington.
Snow Moon
The full Snow Moon peeking out over Seattle, February 22, 2016.
At Rest
Along the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon
The Dock
Lake Washington from Kirkland, WA.
Fourth of July 2017
A firework composite from the 2017 Fourth of July festivities over Lake Washington in Kenmore, WA.
Sound Travels
A Washington State ferry travels Puget Sound from Kingston to Edmonds backed by the Olympic Mountains.
At the Park
Fall 2016 along the Sammamish River at Bothell Landing, in Bothell, Washington.
The Crane
In Hoonah Harbor, Alaska
Kenai Mountains
Some of the Kenai Mountains near Seward, Alaska. Rainy weather kept some peaks out of view but certainly added to the drama.
Oregon Coast
From Otter Rock, near Newport, OR.
Sun Sets Over The Olympics
A welcome break from a long rainy season leads to a beautiful sunset over Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains in March 2016.
Evening Train
The Amtrak Cascades, which traverses the Pacific Northwest between Eugene, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia, passes through Edmonds, Washington.
Media Room
A relaxing spot at Richmond Beach Saltwater Park in Shoreline, Washington.
Beach Back Flip
I was at the beach to shoot a coastline Amtrak train traveling to the right of me. At one point, after chatting with me and a video blogger standing a few feet away, a guy climbed this wonderful tree trump and began doing back flips. This is what I got.
Deception Creek
Deception Creek is in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Central Cascades, Washington.
Ferry departure from Edmonds, Washington, heading for Kingston.
Friday Harbor
Friday Harbor, on San Juan Island in the state of Washington. San Juan Island is a member of the group known as the San Juan Islands located on the Salish Sea. Friday Harbor remains the only incorporated city within the San Juan Islands.
Edmonds Pier
Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains from Edmonds, Washington.
Mukilteo Landing
The Mukilteo, Washington lighthouse shines down on the Washington State Ferry as it prepares for sailing.
Spring Travel
A Washington State Ferry travels over puget sound from Mukilteo, Washington on a colorful spring evening.
Lake Washington Sunset
A splash of color during an otherwise drab, overcast week in Western Washington. This is the northern tip of Lake Washington at Kenmore, WA,
Moon over Seattle
Moonrise over the city as seen from Alki Beach.
Fishing Puget Sound
Salmon fishing at Picnic Point Park in Edmonds, Washington
Bald Eagle over Lake Washington
From the noon hour over Lake Washington in Kenmore. If you look closely, you can see a tasty to-go lunch tucked away under its feet.
Moon Over Marina
A full moon over Lake Washington at Harbor Village Marina in Kenmore, Washington.
On a late February evening after a preponderance of dark cloudy evenings, the sun and blue sky emerge.
Seattle Space Needle
At 605 feet high, the Space Needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
Times Square Building
Seattle's Times Square Building, double photobombed by a single Monorail.
Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park in August, 1015.
Samish Bay, Washington
On a cloudy, showery day the sun peeks through just in the nick of time at Larrabee State Park near Bellingham, Washington.
Picnic Point
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Andre Agassi Foundation for Education.
The theme is "Vegas, My Love" so I did some pieces
of classic Vegas signs that have been torn down.
I also did a piece of the Luxor.
This light was the first thing I saw of Vegas from
waaay far away and I always thought it was cool.
I don't know if you can bid on them if you aren't
actually there but you can visit the site.
If you really like any of the pieces, there
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Those people who live in or around Vegas, come
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Users with the Google Toolbar installed in their Web browser will now be able to leave comments on any Web site they like thanks the new SideWiki feature.
Many Web pages already allow comments, and of course sites like Twitter, Digg, Reddit and even Google's own Reader application also allow you to say something pithy about a link or news item.
But the SideWiki will allow Google to collect everything in one place, and with links to a Google profile, hold people accountable for what they say.
The feature will also rank comments based on user input as well as algorithms to estimate something's worth -- such as scanning a message for all capital letters and demoting it.
And if you don't want people commenting on your website? Well, tough luck. Start working on that thick skin and cutting comebacks.
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https://www.beckinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/beck-cbt-logo-white.png 0 0 Andrew Bartosh https://www.beckinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/beck-cbt-logo-white.png Andrew Bartosh2007-10-03 21:02:312007-10-03 21:02:31Adolescent Depression & Suicide Prevention: National Review of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Adolescent Depression & Suicide Prevention: National Review of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A national review of treatments for depressed adolescents (ages 13-17), with special focus on preventing teen suicide, finds Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to be highly effective. Age-appropriate adaptations of CBT yielded these key results: "CBT achieved a higher remission rate among youth (60%) than either systemic behavior family therapy (37.9%) or nondirective support therapy (39.4%)." Additionally, CBT yielded no adverse effects.
(The reporting agency is a program of the US Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration.)