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We come in our study of the Bible to 1 John chapter 5 tonight. We actually are entering the last chapter of 1 John. It was many, many years ago when I first went through 1 John. In fact, so many years ago that I wanted to do it again before I wrote the commentaries on 1 and 2 and 3 John. It's been a wonderful, enriching study for me and we will go on to the brief epistle of 2 John and then 3 John. And after that I will begin to write the commentary on these three epistles as well.
I was having a little prayer time with some of the staff before the service tonight. We always pray about all the things that are going to be going on and for some reason I was feeling very tired and so I just said, "Lord, keep me awake, especially during the sermon." But, we will endeavor to do that tonight. Sometimes it sort of catches up with you and yet we are excited about what God is going to say to us in the second chapter of Zechariah. Take your Bible, if you will, and let's look at it.
Zechariah Chapter 2. This has been kind of an exciting adventure for me to spend some time in the book of Zechariah, a book which I have studied off and on in bits and pieces, but never really looked at verse by verse carefully all the way through and it's just been very enriching and very rewarding for me. We come to the second Chapter of Zechariah tonight and the subject on hand is the future glory of the city of Jerusalem. I suppose one of the greatest experiences of anybody's lifetime should he or she be so fortunate to have this experience, is to be able to visit the city of Jerusalem. I've been there a couple of times and every time I go I am sort of swept away in my thinking. I stand there and its as if before my eyes the whole of world history goes by me from Genesis to Revelations. I used to think when I visited the city of Rome that I couldn't comprehend all of the history that was there. So much has happened in that marvelous city that it's just mind boggling to try to sort it all out and get it all into concentrated sequential thought. Well if that was the problem in Rome I'll never forget having left Rome the first time I arrived in Jerusalem and all of the history of that magnificent place began to flood in on my mind. And what was most exciting about Jerusalem was not so much what had been done but what would be done. What was coming for that city. Most of them don't know that, but God has a marvelous exciting unbelievable plan for the city of Jerusalem. It is the special city. In Psalm 132:13, it says, "For the Lord has chosen Zion," and very often Jerusalem is called Zion because Zion is a prominent mountain on the south edge of the city. "The Lord hath chosen Zion," and then the verse says, "He hath desired it for His dwelling place." God has chosen that city. That's His special city where He did dwell and where He yet will dwell.
The exiles in Babylon when they had been carried away from their beloved city wrote some songs about it and they in looking back at what they had must have sung with melancholy. The Bible says in Psalm 137, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?" And then the mournful reflection, "If I forget thee O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my highest joy."
Since the Psalmist says, "They hung their harps on the willow, maybe they didn't even sing it, maybe they only chanted it, but for them they would rather loose a right hand, or loose a capacity to speak than forget the loveliness and the significance of Jerusalem. David said, "Beautiful in situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great king. God in her palaces has made Himself known as a stronghold," Psalm 48:2-3. The Psalmist prays to God on behalf of the city in Psalm 102:13-14 it says, "Thou shall arrive and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her, yea the set time has come, for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favor the dust thereof." The Jews throughout have loved the city. In fact many Jewish in America who die have placed in their casket a little receptacle filled with Jerusalem dirt because of the treasure that city is to them.
David cried out in Psalm 122, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall proper who love thee because of the house of the Lord I will seek thy good." And of course David is saying it's because God's habitation is there that I care about that place. Back in the first chapter in Nehemiah we can reflect upon the love of one man for the city. In Nehemiah 1:2, it says, "I asked him concerning the Jews who had escaped who were left of the captivity concerning Jerusalem. And they said unto me the remnant who are left in the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach." Nehemiah is asking about the remnant that's gone back. He's still in Babylon. "The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, its gates are burned with fire. And it came to pass when I heard these words," says Nehemiah, "That I sat down and wept and mourned for days and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven." A broken heart because of the city that was so beloved.
In the second chapter of Nehemiah and the first verse, "It came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it unto the king," he was the wine taster for the king, "Now I had not been sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said to me, 'Why is your face sad seeing that you are not sick. There's nothing else but sorrows of heart. Then I was very much afraid. And said to the king, 'let the king live forever.'" You always say that to the king. Having gotten done with the amenities, he then went on to the point, "Why should not my countenance be sad when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers lies waste and its gates are consumed with fire." He's typical of many who have loved the city of Jerusalem.
Fourteen miles west of the Dead Sea, almost straight up in fact, thirty-three miles east of the Mediterranean, located on a rocky plateau about two thousand five hundred feet above sea level and three thousand eight hundred feet above the Dead Sea sits the city of Jerusalem. It is a naturally fortified city because it is on a plateau. It can be entered only from the north. It had an incredible water supply bubbling up from the Gehan Spring. The mean temperature of the city throughout the year is 63 degrees. It is perfectly situated away from any major roads or any major rivers or any major sea so it was never really in the way of all the armies and troops that traveled around, so it had some sort of seclusion. But for not these reasons, but for some reason beyond that in the mind of God He chose this wonderful place to be His holy habitation and the city of Jerusalem dominates the Old Testament and it dominates the New Testament.
Let me give you a little fast history, hang on. It first appears in Scripture as the city of Salem, ruled by a man by the name of Melchizedek. In Genesis 14 he is called the king of Salem. Most people assume the name Jerusalem or Salem comes from the Hebrew shalom, which means peace. Twenty centuries before Christ it existed as the city of Salem. The next time we see Jerusalem in history it appears as a Canaanite stronghold with an allegiance to Egypt. Soon after that we see it in reference to Joshua. This is 600 years after the Genesis record or 1400 years before Christ. Joshua in Chapter 10 sets his sights on this city as he conquers Canaan. And in Chapter 15 Joshua says that this territory, including this city, has been given to Judah when the land was divided among the tribes. But even though it was 1400 years before Christ that the city was said to belong to Judah, it wasn't until 1003 B.C. that David stormed Jerusalem, which was then a fortress of the people called the Jebusites and according to II Samuel 5, David took the city, which was later to bear the name the city of David. The city never really became much under David. It wasn't until David's brilliant son, Solomon, that Jerusalem reached its golden age.
And under Solomon the wall was extended, an incredible palace was built, an amazing and marvelous wonder of the world the temple was accomplished, and Jerusalem became something astonishing, something astounding. But after Solomon the ages that flowed on brought no comparable glory to Jerusalem and by 586 B.C. or about 400 years after Solomon, the city was a rubble, destroyed by Nebuchnezzar. Nehemiah went back and rebuilt it but it remained rather insignificant from then on. Finally in 70 A.D. after the birth of Jesus Christ some 70 years the city was wiped out again and destroyed by the Roman army, as we saw last week. Jerusalem arose rather meekly from the ashes a little after 70 A.D., but by 132 A.D. whatever was left was crushed by the Emperor Hadrine from Rome. And until modern times even in our modern era Jerusalem has been kicked back and forth between the Turks and the Christian nations, the Moslems and the Christians kicking it back and forth.
And finally in our generation the marvelous rebirth of the state of Israel has occurred, a miracle of sociology, a miracle of the perpetuity of a race of human beings. I dare say nobody has ever met a Jebusite, a Hivite, a Amorite, a Moabite or a Edomite, or any other ite around the Bible, but we sure have Israelites because God has preserved them in their own land. They've come back, but the hold it very tenuously don't they, surrounded by enemies. In fact surrounded on every side of them that is land they are locked in with literally bloodthirsty enemies and their hold is tenuous and they are always on the edge of war. Incredible as it is from Melchizedek in the fourteenth chapter of Genesis to 1977, the story of Jerusalem weaves its way through history. Cities come and go but not that city, it just continues. The city of Melchizedek, the city of David, the city of Christ, the city of Paul, the city of Salidine, the city of General Allenby, the city of Ben Guion, the city of Moshedian, it is ever the perpetual city and someday it'll be the city of the seat of David, the Lord Jesus Christ yet again.
This final chapter hasn't been written. It's final hero hasn't arrived yet, but He will. For about 2,000 years now the Jews have been going to the Wailing Wall at one point or another to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, to plead with God to send a deliverer and break Gentile power, and I imagine if you were to go up to the wall, and you wouldn't dare do this, and pull out of the cracks the little notes that the Orthodox stick in the cracks and read them, they would say O God for the peace of Jerusalem. And God will answer. Jerusalem has not only been the center of redemptive history it will be the center of redemptive consummation in the great future that God has planned. It is, incidentally, sill to be the habitation of God. It is the only intended capitol for the kingdom and as Melchizedek was its first king so one after the order of Melchizedek will be its last king, but until then the Bible says Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles.
In Daniel 9:26, listen to what Daniel said, "In that city," said Daniel, "even unto the end there will be war." Even until the end, they will never know peace until the Prince of Peace arrives. Oh there will be a false peace, won't there, set up by the anti-Christ, but not the real thing. In fact, the greatest war that the land will ever know hasn't happened yet, has it? What war is it, Armageddon, the plane of Megiddo? I couldn't help but think as I stood on the Mount of Ezralon and the stables and also on the other side on the stables of Solomon and looked over the plain of Megiddo, which Napoleon said is the greatest battlefield he's ever seen in the world, I couldn't help but think of what was yet to come when the book of Revelation says the blood will be as deep as the bridles of the horses for 200 miles, a blood bath that's inconceivable. And at the end of that great battle of Armageddon comes the Lord Jesus Christ. Apparently from what the Bible tells us the people who are fighting in the battle of Armageddon will all of a sudden will see Christ coming out of the sky and they'll turn to fight against Him and He'll destroy them and set up His glorious kingdom. When the delivered comes Jerusalem will be exalted. And you can't help when you're there but realize that, and I kept thinking to myself, "If they only knew what was going to happen here."
Isaiah's call will be fulfilled, Isaiah 66:10. You know what he said? Listen. "Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, be glad with her all ye that love her. Rejoice with her for joy all ye that mourn her, for thus said the Lord, 'Behold I will extend peace to her like a river.'" The day is coming. Look with me at a couple of texts in Isaiah: chapter 1:26, And I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counselors as at the beginning and afterward thou shalt be called the city of Righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with justice and her converts with righteousness." There's coming a different day, a saving day. Look at 62 of Isaiah, and this is one of the great pictures of the future of the city of Jerusalem called Zion again here because it's of the significance of Mount Zion. 62:2, "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, and thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." Here is Jerusalem will be a sparkling jewel studded crown, tremendous thought. And verse 4 is so beautiful, "Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be called desolate."
Now go down to verse 11, "Behold the Lord has proclaimed until the end of the earth, say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold thy salvation commeth, behold his reward is with him, his work before him and they shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called sought out, a city not forsaken." Will God forsake Jerusalem? No. It's a city not forsaken.
Someday when Jerusalem is righteous, when Jerusalem is cleansed, when Jerusalem is washed of its shame and its pollution it will become what God originally intended it to be. It will become a holy city. In Isaiah 4:3, "It shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy." Isaiah looks at the future and he says someday everybody there who is left will be holy, and that's the way it is at the beginning of Messiah's kingdom. Everybody there will be holy because all the ungodly and the unholy will have been judged. When the Lord, and here is the key in verse four, "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of justice and the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon her assemblies the cloud and the smoke by day and the shinning of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defense and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a culvert from storm and from rain.
God says there will come a day when everything's going to be different and I'll be there and my Shekinah will be there as it was in the wilderness and the light will be there and the fire will be there by night and I will be a refuge but it'll only happen, verse 4 says, after the Lord has washed the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem. There's got to be a cleansing first, there's got to be a dramatic change in the nation Israel.
And Jeremiah 30:9 says, "They shall serve the Lord their God and David their king whom I will raise up unto them." And of course that's a reference to the Messiah Christ. And he said this in Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel said, this is really a beautiful statement, he said, "I will set up one shepherd over them. He shall feed them and be their shepherd." There's coming a day then when there will be a washing and there will be a purifying and there will be a cleansing and they will be given a new king and a new shepherd none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Ezekiel 37:21, "Say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God, behold I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they are gone, and gather them on every side and bring them into their own land, and I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all, neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions. I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sinned and cleans them. So shall they be my people and I will be their God and David my servant shall be king over them and they shall all have one shepherd and they shall walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes to do them and they will dwell in the land I have given unto Jacob." And then the next verse 26, "I will make a covenant of peace with them and it will be an everlasting covenant and I will place them and multiply them and set My sanctuary in the midst of them forever, My tabernacle shall also be with them, ye I will be their God, they shall be My people, and the nations shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel and my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore." Great promises! God has great plans for that place, restoration, salvation, cleansing, a delivering of their king and their Messiah.
Isaiah 32:17 says, "And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever, and my people will dwell in a peaceable habitation," listen to this, "in sure dwellings and quiet resting places." Peace for Jerusalem. That must seem incredible to anybody whose ever been there. It's coming. We are in Zechariah believe it or not.
And Zechariah 9:10 says, "And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battle bow shall be cut off," in other words no more weapons of war, no more articles of war," He shall speak peace to the nations and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth."
I'm telling you people that's the marvelous message to Israel. That ought to gladden the heart of every hoping Jew. God isn't finished. The glory of Israel is yet to come. There's will be a day when Jerusalem is glorious beyond anything we have ever dreamed, and that kind of message of hope would be thrilling to every Jew and to every Christian who holds in his heart a special place for that city because it's the city where our dear Lord was crucified and rose again. And this is precisely the message the Zechariah delivers to his saddened and humiliated people.
In Zechariah Chapter 2 the vision is to tell them this wonderful news about Jerusalem. They're in a situation of terrible degradation, humiliation, and sadness. The wall of their city is smashed. Their once glorious place is in rubble. All that they had known of the golden age of Solomon is gone. They are helpless, they are impotent, they are huddled a small and insignificant minority wondering how they will defend themselves. They had been threatened by their enemies and cease to rebuilt their city. They are cowering in fear that it's all over. And Zechariah comes with this third vision and gives them the message that God yet has a marvelous future for Jerusalem. And what He's really saying to them is go ahead and built it and commit yourself to building it because you're not dealing with a passing fancy, you're dealing with an eternal city. I mean he's saying you're going to win in the end so you might as well give it everything you've got right now. Your work isn't going to perish. You're a part of an eternal plan.
You remember that the first vision of the rider on the red horse predicted hope for downtrodden Israel. The second vision presented of the horns and the smiths presented the fact that the nations that had triumphed over Israel would be crushed. And now the third vision says your hope will be realized when the nations are crushed and Jerusalem is glorified. Now I want to look at six parts to this vision and I think you'll see how it unfolds.
First of all the design proposed, the design proposed. Now watch verse 1. "I lifted up mine eyes again," remember what we said last time about that? After each vision on this one night and he got eight of them, he would drop his head in meditation and prayer and then he would lift his eyes again perhaps at the prodding of interpreter angel who helps him to understand each vision and he would see another one. "So I lifted up mine eyes again and looked and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand." Now he looks up in his vision and it's as if God has given him another sense. He can see what is un-seeable. He can see what is imperceptible. He is given eyes of a supernatural character to see imagery that God wants him to see. And he sees a man and the man has in his hand a measuring line. If you want the simplest definition of that a tape measure, a builder's line. Back in Chapter 1 verse 16, we saw this. He says, "A line will be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. In other words when the city is going to be rebuilt somebody's going to measure the dimensions of the new city and here is that vision right here, and he sees a guy with a tape measure, and he's a surveyor, and he's laying out the city.
Now we could talk a little about who he is, who is that man? Who was the rider on the red horse? the angel of the Lord or Christ? Who is the final one of the hammerers who crushed the final kingdom? Christ. Very possible that the man with the tape measure is Christ. I can't be dogmatic about that and so I don't want you to think that that's an absolute conclusion, but I kind of lean that way on the basis of Ezekiel 40. Don't turn to it. I'll read it to you. Ezekiel 40:2, Ezekiel had a vision not unlike this one. "In the visions God brought me to the land of Israel, set me on a high mountain in which there was a structure like a city on the south. And he brought me there and behold there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze with a line of flax in his hand and a measuring reed and he stood in the gate."
Now a similar scene is Ezekiel's experience and he sees this man and there's little question there that it is Christ, that it is the Messiah, that it is the Son of God, and so it is very possible that here in Zechariah's vision it could be the same, although we wouldn't want to say absolutely. But I would say this: it is definitely true that the one who will rebuilt the city and the kingdom will definitely be Christ, won't it. He's the one. So, perhaps it's Christ.
Well Zechariah doesn't waste any time in asking what the surveyor is doing so in verse 2 it says, "Then said I, where goest Thou?" He talks to the surveyor and he said to him, "To measure Jerusalem to see what is the breadth of it and what is its length." Now he's going to measure the city. Now the question immediately arises here to any interpreter what city is he measuring? Is he measuring the actual city of that time? Well that would be a little difficult because there was no city. It was a rubble. There was no wall and it wasn't until about 80 years later in 444 B.C. that Nehemiah actually got the walls built and this is somewhere around 519 or 20 B.C. so it wouldn't be much to measure and also because all of the other visions have definitely a prophetic element it seems best to see it in the future. And my conclusion, and we'll see how this is supported as we go, you can trust me for it now, is that he is laying out the dimensions of the future Jerusalem, the ultimate Jerusalem, the Jerusalem of the kingdom. And that in some way accounts for the bewilderment of Zechariah in this situation. It is apparent that Zechariah can't figure out what he's doing and it could be due to the fact that if he were measuring out whatever were the dimensions it would have been very obvious to Zechariah, but apparently he is measuring something that is so vast and so large that it is beyond anything Zechariah can currently relate to. And so he's bewildered.
And so we see the design proposed as the man with the tape measure lays out the future city. That leads us to the second element in the vision what I call the destined plan. The design that's being proposed is then clarified in the destined plan is made known in verses 3 and 4. In the midst of Zechariah's bewilderment, watch what happens, "And behold the angel who talked with me," and that's the interpreter angel who appears all the time in the early part of Zechariah, "Went forth," and what happened here is no doubt Zechariah can't figure out what's going on and so the interpreter angel moves into the scene perhaps ostensibly to check with the man on what he's doing. And as the interpreter angel goes about to find the answer it says at the end of verse 3,"Another angel went out to meet him." And so over here you have the man in the scene, and over here you have Zechariah, and in the middle you have these two angels who all of a sudden begin to converse.
So another angel went out to meet him and said to him, that is the other angel said to interpreter angel, that is the best way to see this. The other angel stops interpreter angel as he proceeds to get information from the man he sees in his vision and he says to him, "Run and speak to this young man." In other words he says interpreter angel you go back and tell Zechariah this message. Go back and tell the young man this message and this is the message:"Jerusalem shall be inhabited like towns without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle in it." Stop right there. You go tell him that the reason he can't figure it out is because it will be so vast that it will be as if there is a city without walls.
Now when you think about a walled city, I don't know what you think about, but if you were to visit Jerusalem you would realize that from one wall of Jerusalem to the other wall is about a ten-minute walk right across the middle. I mean when they walled off a city it wasn't much. And apparently he is bewildered because of the vastness of it and so the angel sent from God to give interpreter angel a message says tell him it going to be so huge it'll be like town without a wall it'll be so large. Imagine what a comfort this was when Zechariah preached this to a bunch of people huddled in the Hennin valley wondering if they'd ever even get a wall. The prophet says, "I have a message from God and the message from God is that someday Jerusalem will be so big it'll be like a city without a wall. It'll be inhabited. Look what it says, "For the multitude of men and cattle in it." And you know what they were beginning to do, Haggai had got them started building what, the temple, and Zechariah was encouraging them build that temple, build that temple. And I know there were some pragmatic Jews who were running around saying look you guys, you must me nuts. What good does it do to build a temple if you don't have any walls to protect it? We got to build the walls first. We should be building the wall not the temple. We won't have any temple.
In fact back in Haggai 1:2, it says, "The people say the time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built." In other words the popular opinion was this is ridiculous to build a temple without a wall. And so Zechariah says you keep on building the temple. It's more important that you get God in perspective and make sure He's defending you than that you have a wall and no temple. Take care of the spiritual priority is what he's saying. And so it's a tremendous encouragement for them to hear the message from the angel is that Jerusalem will have so many people it'll overflow its boundaries and it'll be like a city without a wall. Jerusalem will rise to final glory. It will not be ultimately destroyed. Don't worry about building your temple. God will be your wall.
Look at verse 5. "For I, saith the Lord, will be unto it a wall." I will be the wall. Trust me. Someday Jerusalem will be a city that is inhabited like an open rural country without walls. The root verb in the Hebrew peras means to exceed limits, to overflow its bounds, to spread or expand and the millennial Jerusalem, the Jerusalem of the king, the Jerusalem yet when Jesus returns will be so big and so populated with people and animals that it will go way past its walls, it will spread all over the place and God will be its wall.
Satan can read the Bible, right? Now the anti-Christ when he gets here he'll know that, so you know what he does? The first thing he does in the tribulation, according to Revelation 6, apparently is make a treaty with Israel of peace and Ezekiel 38 says that during the tribulation Israel is dwelling in un-walled villages. You know why? It seems to me apparent that they think that this anti-Christ must be our deliverer. He must be our prince of peace. See him in Revelation 6 riding a white horse conquering? No doubt they think he's the deliverer and they believe his false peace and they let down their security and they haven't committed themselves to God yet, there hasn't been any purging or any salvation or any cleansing and they're having a great time in their un-walled villages and read Ezekiel 38 it's just at that point that the army of the north comes down and begins to wipe them out. It's that false security. That is not the fulfillment of this prophecy, not at all.
Now some people say well this prophecy was fulfilled in the time of Nehemiah's building the wall. That's can't be true either. Joyce Baldwin, who is a lady professor in England, has written a commentary on Zechariah. She does not hold our particular view of Zechariah, but rather a more liberal view, but she even says this could never be fulfilled in the time of Nehemiah because she says that the population was so far from filling the city in the time of Nehemiah that they had to cast lots and if you drew the lots you lost and you had to come and live in the city to try to fill it up. So it couldn't have been fulfilled then, impossible. In fact if you were to check out Nehemiah 11:1-2, you would find that supported there. They had to compel people to live there. It never did overflow its bounds then, but someday it will. This is clearly millennial. And I don't think that it's fair in dealing with prophecy to try to find any old thing in any old time in history that seems to fit the situation. The prophet was either speaking about something that was happening then or soon after or something that was yet to be fulfilled ultimately in the glory of the coming of Messiah, not American in 1977 or Jerusalem in 1948 or something. I think we have to be careful about that.
We are perhaps seeing the beginnings of some things that will be fulfilled in the tribulation and in the kingdom. Let's be careful that we allow kingdom prophecy to be reserved for the kingdom and not find soon fulfillments of things that are not yet really fulfilled.
So it seems that this has to be a millennial fulfillment. Jerusalem in the millennium will overflow. It will be crowded. Now that is supported by many Scriptures and I want you to just listen as I read some to you. In Isaiah 49:19, Isaiah says this: "For thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall even now," listen and this is in the kingdom, "be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants." In other words it's going to be too small for everybody that's there. "And the children whom you shall have shall say in your ears, 'the place is too narrow for me. Give me a place where I can dwell.'" I got to get out of town Pop, it's too crowded. And the city will begin to spill over in the kingdom. And you remember in the kingdom people will proliferate in having children, so it'll get too crowded there. And believe me if I was alive in the world and Jesus was reigning in Jerusalem I'd want to live around there wouldn't you? And He will be the king of the whole world.
In 44:26 of Isaiah, it says this: "Who confirmeth the word of his servant, performeth the counsel of his messengers; who says to Jerusalem, 'Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, you shall be built.'" In other words again the promise and the kingdom, the city will be inhabited, the city will be built. Jeremiah says the same thing, Chapter 30, verse 18 and 19, "Thus says the Lord; 'Behold I'll bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, I'll have mercy on his dwelling place, the city shall be built on its own heap, the palace shall remain after its own manner, and out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry and I will multiply them and they shall not be few. I will glorify them and they shall not be small,'" in other words great population growth. Jeremiah 31:24, "There shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities together farmers and they who go forth with flocks." Isn't that interesting. What's interesting about it is that Zechariah said the multitude of people and cattle. And Isaiah says it will be filled with people and it'll be filled with animals. Now normally the animals would graze outside, but the city will spread all over the place and the animals and the people will all live together. Now we don't have a problem with that. We know like that, that that works that way. We've been in cities in America where you just kind of go from the city into the farm country and there is no break, but those people wouldn't have understood that in that day because they knew nothing but walled cities. And the 38th verse of Jeremiah 31, "Behold the days come, says the Lord, the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the fate of the corner, and the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath." In other words it's just enlarging the cities to all these points.
In the 33rd Chapter of Jeremiah again the same thing in verse 10 he goes on to talk about beasts will be there and men will be there and the streets will be filled and there will be everything going on, "The voice of joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, the voice of the bride, the voice of people who say, 'Praise the Lord of Hosts,' for the Lord is good, His mercy endures forever," and so you have all this going on. He talks about it in verse 12 and in verse 13.
Hosea 1:10, "The number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can't be measured or numbered," tremendous revival resulting in a tremendous growth among the populace of Israel. In our own book we're studying, Zechariah 8:4, say similarly, "Thus says the Lord of Hosts, there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets." It'll be a place of safety, safe for kids, safe for old people. It won't be like Los Angeles today or New York or Chicago. So the design is proposed and the destined plan is clarified.
That brings us to the third point in Zechariah's vision, the divine protector. This may be the best part of all. Verse 5, "For I, saith the Lord, will be unto it a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of it." I love this because this ties in historically. Notice this: a wall of fire and the glory in the midst. What does that remind you of? It reminds me of Exodus 13, and the glory of God dwelling among the people of Israel. Doesn't it you? During the day the cloud appeared and the glory of God dwelt and came down and entered the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle and dwelt in the midst of the land of Israel and then when they were to move it went up into the sky. And at night it was a pillar of fire. This is the same God, the same Shekinah, the same glorious God who says, "I will be your wall, I will be in you dwelling in My presence, don't worry about any protection, don't worry about a physical wall, I'll be your wall." Isn't that great? It's going to be a wonderful world for Israel, for all those who inhabit that wonderful city.
God has been a flaming wall. I couldn't help but mention to you II Kings 6:15, remember this one? This is great! We went over this when we studied angels. "When the servant of the man of God was risen early, Elisha's servant, and he'd gone forth, the host compassed the city with horses and chariots. "And his servant said to him, 'Alas, my master, what will we do?'" He says, the army is on us. "And he said, 'Don't be afraid for they who are with us are more than they who are with them.' The servant looks around and he says you got to be kidding. You and me guy, that's it. What do you mean they who are with us? "Oh Elisha prayed and said, 'Lord open his eyes.' And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha." God had His angelic wall of fire protecting His prophet and his servant. God can make a wall of protection around and in and that's exactly what He'll do in the future for Israel.
In the 60th of Isaiah verse 18, beautiful, talking about the kingdom it says, "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shall call thy walls Salvation and thy gates Praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." God will be there, His glory. "Thy people shall all be in righteousness, they will inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified." The day is coming, believe it or not, when the city of Jerusalem will never need any defense because it will be what Ezekiel calls it in 48:35, It will be Jehovah-Shammah, the name of the city will be Jehovah-Shammah. That means the Lord is there. And as the shepherd in the field would light a fire to keep the marauding wolf from coming to get his sheep so the Lord will be the fire to protect His nation Israel. The Shekinah will return, Ichabod will be reversed, the glory that departed will come back in the great final kingdom when the Messiah comes.
Afterwards, says Ezekiel in Chapter 43, "He brought me to the gate, to the gate that looks toward the east and behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east and His voice was like the noise of many waters and the earth shined with His glory. And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, that according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell on my face and the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard Him speaking to me out of the house and the man stood by me and said,"Son of man the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever, and my holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places." God returns to Israel, a wonderful, wonderful truth. So we see the glorious plan and then we see the wonderful delivering protecting God.
Let's look at the fourth point, verse 6, quickly. This glorious reality that God will dwell there means number four, the delivered people, the delivered people. Verse 6, "Ho, ho," that means look, look, listen, listen, catch this, catch this. "Come forth, flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord." Now wait a minute. He wants to get their attention so He says, "Flee from the land of the north." What was the land of the north? Babylon. This is directed at the captives, who are still in Babylon. And God is saying look there's a great day coming for Jerusalem. You'd better get out of the world's system, you'd better get away from Babylon before you're totally engulfed in the system itself and you'd better get back to the land. You say, "Well now wait a minute, MacArthur, Babylon is to the east." Yes, but from Jerusalem everything is north because it's the only way out of the city and all the conquerors come from the north. Nebuchadnezzar came from the north. Even in 70 A.D. Titus Vespasian came from the north. Everybody who ever entered the city as an enemy came from the north because it's the only access, and so the north was the enemy. Babylon and he's saying look the future of Jerusalem is secure, come back now. And in verse 7, "Deliver yourself O Zion who dwells with the daughter of Babylon." Get out of there. Return. He says in the middle of 6, "I spread you abroad as the four winds of heaven." And according to II Kings 17:6, the Jews in the exile were scattered over an area from the Gozan River, which was two hundred miles west of Nineveh, clear to Media, which was three hundred miles east. Some of them were in Moab, some of them were in Ammon, some of them were in Egypt, and some of them were in Needum. They were all over the place, and he's saying all of you come back. There's a glorious future here. There's a wonderful future here. Come back and re-identify with the city of God. Come back from those nations that will lead you into idolatry.
I can't resist a footnote here, I taste an element of the future in this too, because there's going to come a day in the tribulation when God's going to give the same message. He's going to say to people come out from Babylon, because if you read Revelation 17, and Revelation 18, you will read that the final world system is called what, Babylon. The final world system is Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots. And as the world consummates it's final amalgamation, its final world system, God's going to call Israel out of Babylon in the future. Don't be a part of the world system, he's saying to these people. This city has an eternal future and some day He's going to call His people from out of Babylon yet to come in the time of the tribulation. Jerusalem will be restored. Come back, identify with the city of God.
And, of course, the reason to flee Babylon now and in the future is the fifth point, and that is the destroyed powers because God is going to destroy them. Verse 8, "Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, after the glory he hath sent me unto the nations which spoiled you. For he that touches you touches the apple of his eye. For behold I will shake my hand on them, they shall be a spoil to their servants, and you shall that the Lord of hosts hath sent me." Now I want you to watch this. Now watch. Very difficult, but interesting verse. Look what it says in verse 8. This is terrific! "For thus says the Lord of hosts. After the glory hath he sent me." Now the Lord of hosts says after the glory hath He sent me. Who in the world send the Lord of hosts? That's what I said. The answer is in verse 9. "For behold I will shake my hand on them and they should be a spoil to their servants and you shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me." Who sends the Lord of hosts? The Lord of hosts sends the Lord of hosts. Say now wait a minute, Jehovah sends Jehovah? If you reject the New Testament you've got a problem with that. Right? If you accept the New Testament you don't have a problem with that. The Lord of hosts, the Father sends the Lord of hosts the Son. Isn't that great?
And he is the one who comes to deliver His people. He is the one who comes to conquer the nations and he is after glory, he is after glory. Listen everything is done for glory for God. The nations are judged that God may be glorified. Summing it up he says the second person of the Trinity, the Savior, the Messiah, is sent by the first person of the Trinity, the Father in order that He may judge the nations to bring glory to God because God too long has been looked down on because His people have been downtrodden. And God says in the end when I exalt My people then the world will know that I am God.
Frankly we know that the humiliation of Israel by the nations must be avenged by the one who is dishonored in their dejected condition. Let's face it, it's bad press for God now to claim to be the God of Israel and has been through history, but the day is coming when God will seek the glory and He's going to seek it by the sending of His Son, the Messiah and "I will shake My hand on them and they will be a spoiled to their servants." It's going to reverse everything. The losers are going to be the winners.
And He says the reason I'm going to judge the nations is because of what they've done with my people, for he that touches you touches what, the apple of His eye. Now we can get very pious, say the apple of his eye, and we think about a little kid a little boy, oh he's the apple of my, let me tell you what it means. According to the Hebrew words the apple of your eye is the pupil or the eyeball. That's all it means. What He's saying is because you stuck your finger in My eye. Did you know that the single most protected part of your body that is exposed is your eye? It is the tenderest; it is the most sensitive. God protects it with bones, protects it with the eyelid and eyebrows and eyelashes and tear ducts. He protects it. And nothing is more irritating than getting somebody's finger in your eye. Very irritating. And God is not talking about what we think He's talking about. What He's saying is I will judge the nations because they have put their finger in My eye, they have poked Me at My tenderest point. He loves His people and He identifies with His people and when you poke Israel you stick your finger in God's eye.
Hurting Israel is something you don't want to do see. And I've told you before Matthew 25 where Christ comes and judges the nations He judges them on the way they treated whom, Israel. Matthew 25, that's the whole chapter. If you've done it unto the least of these my brethren you've, what, done it to Me. So what do we see? The design proposed, a new city with great dimensions, the destined plan. It's going to overflow. The divine protector: God will be the wall and He will be in the middle of it. The delivered people: Israel will be delivered from all their enemies to rejoice in joy and the destroyed powers: God will come and judgment against the nations that have rejected Him and His people. And the only possible response to that I call the delightful prospect. Verse 10, What else? Sing and what, rejoice. What else for this few huddled in the valley of Hennin hoping something will work for them for a change. "Sing and rejoice, O Daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, says the Lord. And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day and shall be My people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and shall choose Jerusalem again. Be silent all flesh before the Lord, for he is raised up out of His holy habitation."
You notice four things there? Four things to delight in: Number one: God's presence, verse 10, "Sing and rejoice O Daughter of Zion, for lo, what, I come and I'll dwell in the midst of thee." You want to know one characteristic of that day in Jerusalem? God will be there in personal actual physical visible form in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Great promise! God will be there. Rejoice over God's presence.
Secondly, rejoice over God's people. Look at verse 11, I love this. "And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day and shall be My people." That's just Israel? Oh no. "Many nations and I will dwell in the midst of thee and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to thee." There's going to be worldwide salvation. Read Revelation Chapter 7, so many Gentiles saved you can't even number them, from every people, tongue and nation. Worldwide salvation!
And finally, finally, finally Israel will be the channel of salvation to the world that God chose them to be in the first place. So they delight in God's presence, God's people, thirdly God's portion verse 12. "And the Lord shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land and shall choose Jerusalem again. That's the only place in the Bible where it's called the Holy Land. That's the only time that phrase is ever used, and I'll hasten to add it's never been the Holy Land, it isn't the Holy Land, but it will be. It will be, that's the millennial title for Israel. And He shall choose Jerusalem and the best way to translate again would be before all is done or at the end.
God's presence, God's people, going to be enlarged, God's portion, the land, and lastly God's power. "Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord for He's raised up out of His holy habitation." Hey all you critics, you'd better be quiet. God is starting to stir. He's raised up. Remember what Psalm 121 said? He who keeps Israel will not, what, slumber or sleep. God's judgment begins to awaken. The silence of God is broken in the 6th Chapter of Revelation when He begins to crack the seals, take over the earth. You saw in the film clip tonight some indications by Francis Shaeffer that history is going somewhere. It is isn't it? You know what I get excited about? I'm going to be there when all this happens because I'm one of those that can call myself the people of God by faith in Christ. I hope you are. God has marvelous things that are available to all who come to know Him through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you our Father for giving us the time to share tonight. Indeed we sing and rejoice because You are the God of history step by step laying it out making it happen and letting us be a part. Thank you. And if there are some dear ones tonight, in our presence, who have never committed themselves to You, who are lost to the purpose of existence and the destiny of redemptive history, who will spend a Christ less and Godless eternity without You, without hope, may that end tonight as they come to know You through faith in Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray, amen.


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The Caravan Park[1] was visited by Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger in their search for Lord Voldemort's 7 Horcruxes.[2]
Prior to 1997
The camp-site was burnt out sometime before late 1997.
Harry, Ron and Hermione passed through the park during their mission to find Voldemort's Horcruxes.[3] They were ambushed by a gang of Snatchers, but were able to fend off their attackers and escaped.[4]
Behind the scenes
- The park is never mentioned in any of the Harry Potter books.
- It is possible that this caravan park was burnt by the Death Eaters, as part of their campaign of attacks and intimidation against Muggles.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
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Iowa officials say at least two Iowa football games this fall are being considered for primetime on ABC.
The two mentioned include Iowa's Sept. 19 game against Arizona and then Sept. 26 game at Penn State, Iowa officials have said. The official primetime schedule has not been released.
Iowa (9-4 last fall) likely will have day games at home against Michigan (Oct. 10) and at Wisconsin (Oct. 17). Both games are homecoming matchups, and the schools avoid primetime for homecoming week, the officials said.
Of Iowa's 13 games last year, only one — the regular-season finale at Minnesota— was played in primetime. Iowa played seven games on the Big Ten Network, four games on the ESPN family of networks and twice on ABC. This fall, Iowa hosts seven games and travels for five. Iowa has played in primetime four times since 2006 – twice on the Big Ten Network and twice on ABC. Two of those games were at Kinnick Stadium.
As for Iowa's schedule, it rivals many of the toughest in the nation. Iowa's opponents finished 87-67 last year. Iowa faces seven bowl teams, including three on the road that played in January 1 or BCS bowls. Iowa plays only three teams with losing records last year — Iowa State, Michigan and Indiana — all of whom have beaten Iowa at least once since 2006.
Iowa opens against Northern Iowa (12-3 last year), which lost in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals last December. It's possible Iowa may win the game but not by a comfortable score to secure a high poll position.
Iowa then travels to Iowa State (2-10), a place Iowa had not won since 2003. Iowa has lost four of its last five at Iowa State.
"We pick up UNI, which obviously is a good football team," Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz said. "We just have to look back to 2005 (a 45-21 Iowa win). They were a tough, competitive team and had great success and continue to have great success. Iowa State is always a tough game for both teams."
Iowa then host Arizona(8-5), which beat a 10-3 Brigham Young team in the Las Vegas Bowl. Iowa's final non-conference game — which comes one week after the Big Ten opener — is against Arkansas State (6-6), which upset Texas A&M last year.
Iowa hosts Northwestern (9-4, Alamo Bowl), Minnesota (7-6, Insight Bowl), Michigan (3-9) and Indiana (3-9) in Big Ten play. Iowa's road Big Ten schedule is treacherous, where teams went 37-15 last year. Iowa plays at Penn State (11-2, Rose Bowl), Ohio State (10-3, Fiesta Bowl), Michigan State (9-4, Capital One Bowl) and Wisconsin (7-6, Champs Bowl). Iowa has lost the last five at Ohio State, last four at Michigan State and its last game at Penn State and Wisconsin, respectively.
Ferentz said he hasn't thought much about the schedule.
"The Big Ten is always going to be a challenge," he said. "Right now, I'm not too worried about it. We'll move into that once we get through spring ball."
The Alamo Bowl announced today it will play in primetime on Saturday, Jan. 2 on ESPN. The San Antonio-based bowl now makes four Big Ten bowls on either Jan. 1 or Jan. 2.
"This year's calendar has provided us an excellent prime time Saturday time slot that will allow the Valero Alamo Bowl to reach a wide audience," said Derrick Fox, Valero Alamo Bowl President/CEO. "The January 2 date should also work well for people traveling to the game as they can celebrate Christmas at home and then spend a long weekend ringing in the New Year in San Antonio."
Iowa middle linebacker Pat Angerer was named to the 2009 Lott Trophy Watch List. The Lott Award is given to the nation's best defensive player.


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Kris Kringle visits the Loyola community for a sing-along
November 19, 2010
It'll be a holly, jolly Christmas at Loyola when Santa and his entourage make their annual stop for singing and good cheer!
The Loyola University New Orleans Alumni Association invites the university community and friends to the Singing with Santa party, Sunday, Dec. 5 from 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. in the St. Charles Room, located in the Danna Student Center. Complimentary photos with Santa in his sleigh will be provided by New Orleans Event Photography courtesy of the Loyola Alumni Association.
Santa is making a special trip from the North Pole to visit local children and join in singing Christmas songs led by Bart the Elf with accompaniment provided by Elf/musician Cristina Perez '10. In addition to the sing-along, there will be a cookie decorating station for kids and a book reading of "Gumbo Yah-Yah the Blue Alligator and the Big Storm" by author and alumnus Chris Eck '88.
After visiting with Santa, help the community usher in the season with "Christmas at Loyola: A Musical Celebration," at 3 p.m., in Holy Name of Jesus Church. Each year, Christmas at Loyola showcases ensembles from the College of Music and Fine Arts, including the Loyola Chamber Orchestra, the University Chorus and the Loyola Chorale, and the Loyola Brass Ensemble in a program full of holiday grandeur. There will also be an audience sing-along of traditional Christmas carols.
You can register for the event at alumni.loyno.edu/sing10 or for more information contact Loyola's Office of Alumni Affairs at 800-798-ALUM.
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Sony waiting for right time to re-introduce The Last Guardian, Yoshida confirms
The Last Guardian has been mentioned by Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida. He couldn't say what format it's in development for, but said that the company is waiting for the right time to talk about it again.
Speaking with GI.biz in the Sony Studios Japan office. The site asked Yoshida where the game was. he replied, "Yeah, in this building," but when asked what format is was coming to he added, "Ahh… That, I cannot talk about."
Elaborating, he continued, "So, we're waiting for the right time to re-introduce The Last Guardian in an appropriate way. I can't… Well, the game is in development, and it's well staffed, and Ueda-san is here, working – even though he's not a Sony employee, he's dedicated to the product. But we're not ready to update yet."
It's been a long time coming. Are you still bothered? Let us know below.
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Life found deep below Antarctic ice
U.S. team drills through half-mile-thick sheet of ice to turn up cells
Cells containing DNA have emerged as the first evidence of life in a subglacial lake in West Antarctica. On January 28, a U.S. research team retrieved water from Lake Whillans, which sits 800 meters below the ice surface. The water hosted a surprising bounty of living cells.
The scientists collected three 10-liter water samples from the lake. Preliminary tests conducted in mobile labs show that the cells are actively using oxygen. It may take months for biologists to identify the microbes present.
The microbes have been sealed off below the ice for at least 100,000 years.
A challenge was ruling out contamination as a source of the cells, says microbiologist Brent Christner of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, reached by satellite phone at a tent encampment at the drill site. Even glacial ice harbors low concentrations of microbes, "or their corpses," so the researchers were concerned that cells in the lake samples could actually have come from the ice, Christner says.
He argues that the cells come from the lake. First, cell concentrations in water retrieved from the lake were on the order of 10,000 per milliliter, which is about 100 times higher than the cell count in meltwater from the drill hole. Second, that meltwater is roughly comparable chemically to distilled water. In contrast, mineral levels in the water from which Christner's team isolated its cells are 100 times higher — equivalent to what's present in the lake's water.
"This is a big deal — and exciting," says glaciologist Martin Siegert of the University of Bristol in England. The U.S. team's drilling endeavor marks "the first clean access to a subglacial lake system." Acquiring clean samples is imperative, he adds, to inspire confidence that any microbial finds truly come from the buried lakes.
Lake Whillans sits in a shallow cavity at the downstream end of a slow-moving sheet of ice. The deep liquid streams that feed this and more than 340 other subglacial lakes across Antarctica also lubricate the ice above. Geothermal energy, along with friction and a heavy blanket of ice, keeps the water liquid in this frigid land.
Excitement at the prospect of exploring the lakes erupted in 1996, recalls Siegert. That's when an international research team he was part of realized the massive extent of Lake Vostok (SN: 6/29/96, p. 407), a subglacial lake discovered decades earlier. At once, Siegert says, microbiologists began proposing that this buried lake — and possibly others — might host ecosystems that had been cut off from the surface for a very long time.
Precisely how long remains unknown, says Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a team leader on the Antarctic drill program. At Lake Whillans, "a good guess for a minimum is about 100,000 years." That's the last time the ice sheet may have shrunk back enough to expose the roughly 10-square-mile lake, he explains.
The new drilling project uncovered a second surprise: The lake is surprisingly shallow. Two years ago, a team conducted seismic experiments by detonating explosives; researchers used the resulting sound waves to map what lies beneath the ice. These seismic data indicated Lake Whillans was about 30 feet deep, Tulaczyk says. But instruments his team sent down the borehole now peg the lake's depth "at only about 5 to 6 feet."
The most likely explanation, Tulaczyk says, rests on a third surprise that emerged from the drilled borehole: The lake sediment contains a substantial amount of water. That unexpected mixing, he says, confused the earlier seismic readings.
Last year, a Russian team pierced Lake Vostok but has to date found no evidence of life. Last month, technical difficulties convinced Siegert and his colleagues on a British team to suspend their efforts for the year to reach the subglacial Lake Ellsworth (SN: 1/26/13, p. 9).
By January 31, the new 30-centimeter borehole down to Lake Whillans was beginning to freeze shut. So Tulaczyk's group began lowering instruments down the hole one last time. This package will freeze in place until the researchers can return.
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J. Raloff. Antarctic test of novel ice drill poised to begin. Science News Online, December 15, 2012. [Go to]
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What's round and cheesy and never misses a party? A certain friend may come to mind, but let's talk about pizza. It's quick. It's tasty. It's been one of your greatest pleasures since you were three.
Use the information below, and your relationship will be a long and satisfying one.
What's in yours?
Pass on the white pizza
White all-cheese pizza slices aren't healthier; you're giving up the tomato sauce, which packs the antioxidant lycopene which may lower risk of certain types of cancers, and often adding more cheese, which packs on more calories. The garlic oil, which many pizza chains brush on, ups the calories. A typical 8-inch white slice at a chain like Sbarros packs 570 calories, 23 grams of fat and 15 PointsPlus values.
Practice piling on
Go for colorful toppings of fresh vegetables such as green, red or yellow peppers, broccoli, tomato slices — even if you're already putting pepperoni or sausage on the pie. "They'll improve the nutritional profile of the pizza and add volume to fill you up," says Andrea Giancoli, RD, a dietician in Los Angeles. But remember, some pizza restaurants sauté their vegetable toppings in oil. Make sure to ask and add any extra PointsPlus values for the oil, if necessary.
Toss the crust
The crust-leavers of the world have the right idea. "Most regular pizza crusts are made of enriched white flour," says Bethany Thayer, RD, a dietician in Detroit and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. That's just basic white bread. If your local pizzeria offers a whole-grain crust, it's a better choice.


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Explosion proof control panel for a steam turbine located in a hazardous environment (outdoors), Zone 2
Exp solution
An Exp solution was chosen due to the required instruments such as a Woodward turbine control. Due to the size of the system, the Exp solution was preferred. In this case, the Exp solution had more advantages than an Exd solution.
The control panel meets the requirement for a zone 2 environment and is ATEX certified Zone 2 (Exp IIA, T3).
The control panel consists of a sheet steel cabinet with a fluorescent lighting fixture mounted on the roof. The panel is equipped with various instruments, such as vibration and temperature monitoring equipment, the turbine speed control system, turbine overspeed protection system, digital indicators, pilot lights, switches and pushbuttons.
The installation will be supplied to the 'CAPSA, Refinery expansion project' in Buenos Aires (Argentina). A revamp of an existing refinery, which deals with Gasoil Hydrodesulfurizing. Existing piping was subject to revision, including line size and routing changes, to accommodate the expansion program.


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On the heels of last week's weak jobs report, the government released data Friday showing that workers have a reason for cheer.
The number of jobs openings in November reached 4 million, up more than 5% from a year earlier, hitting the highest level since March 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition, the number of layoffs and discharges fell to 1.46 million in November, a record low (the data go back to late 2000).
And importantly: the number of quits rose to 2.43 million in November, the most since September 2008, signaling that workers are seeing better career prospects and willing to leave their jobs.
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- Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, a cornerstone band for the New York Latin jazz community, are profiled briefly in the New York Daily News.
- RIP Pete Cosey, guitarist with Miles Davis during his "electric" years, among tons of other work.
- Incredibly funny stories from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, a trad-jazz outfit. They're the folks on Riverwalk Jazz. Jim Cullum himself has a blog too.
- Capitalbop, the D.C. DIY presenter/blog/show calendar/hub/main gig of a NPR Music contributor is profiled at the Washington Post.
- Interview with Mazz Swift for About.com. She's a versatile violinist based in the New York area with a new string trio record.
- "On the construction of Wynton Marsalis' Cultural Authority." It's about the rhetoric Wynton uses.
- Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist and composer, was named a Living Legacy Awardee by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. This is not long after receiving an honorary doctorate from Columbia University.
- Suspicious activity at a jazz club in Turkey.
- A 1975 assessment of Charlie Parker. The first word is not reprintable.
- RIP Don Wilson, Philadelphia cop — and jazz musician.
- Jazz writer says the Internet is changing the way his brain processes live music. TL;DR.
- On the golf supply store which hosts jazz shows.
- Apparently, brass are Republicans and woodwinds are Democrats, says one political columnist. (I would think many jazz trumpeters would object to that.)
- Destination: Out features a Jazz Composers Orchestra record helmed by trombonist Roswell Rudd.
- The Jazz Session spoke with guitarist Miles Okazaki and vocalist Nicky Schrire.
- The Checkout sat down with Henry Cole and had organist Jared Gold in the studio.
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- Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke in the studio.
- Henry Cole and the Afrobeat Collective: Live in concert.
- Gilad Hekselman Quartet: Live in concert.
- JazzSet features Russell Malone.
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz features Barbara Carroll.
- Masabumi Kikuchi's new album is reviewed on Fresh Air.
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I was just trying to remember when the Jets last had a great pass rush without blitzing too much. Has it been that long ?
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