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text: Opening Day: News News Posted 07-31-2014 Now, Not Later for Archery Shop Visits Orvie Cantrell, Jr., owner and operator of Big O's Archery Shop in Sherman, Texas, works on a bow to get a hunter ready for the fall season. (Lynn Burkhead photo) By: Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com For some hunters, it might seem like this fall's bowhunting campaigns are still a ways off. But the reality is that the first bowhunting seasons for whitetails are barely a month away in some states, and a few seasons for Western big game are even closer than that. Add in the fact that a couple of powerful July cold fronts – it was 44 degrees this week in Ann Arbor, Mich. – have turned down the thermostat in much of the nation. All of this means that it is little surprise to learn that the bowhunters are getting a bit antsy, not to mention busy rolling into their local archery pro shops. "Things have really started picking up the last few days," said Orvie Cantrell, Jr., owner and operator of Big O's Archery Shop in Sherman, Texas. "Usually, when we get past the Fourth of July, things start picking up anyway. But having a 60-degree day like we did here in North Texas last week sure didn't hurt anything." Why should a bowhunter think of heading into his local pro shop? Cantrell indicates that there are several reasons. "Unless you got a new bow earlier this year, it pays to take a look at your strings and cables," said Cantrell. "And if you need those replaced, now is the time to get that done." Why? Cantrell explains: "You need to get it done now since it generally takes a couple of hundred shots for the string to stretch out, for peep rotation to settle in, and for any hiccup on a bow to show itself." Cantrell said that most archers typically shoot " ... only 20 or 30 shots after work a couple of times a week as summer begins to wind down." At that pace, the bow shop proprietor said that some problems might not surface until right about the time hunting season opens. By then, it could be very difficult to get a problem fixed since archery shops will be swamped with last minute business. "In addition to checking the strings and cables, now is the time to check the tuning of a bow, to see if the rest needs any adjustment, to see if the bow's timing is good, etc.," said Cantrell. "It's also the time to get new arrows cut or to have older ones refletched and to see if there is any problem with broadhead flight out of a particular setup." But issues with the bow itself are only one thing that a local pro shop can help with. Cantrell says that most shops, his included, can help a bowhunter spot and fix flaws in an archer's shooting form. "Most guys have some shooting form flaws," he said. "It can be from bad habits picked up to never having learned how to shoot properly to just forgetting a few things after the spring and summer layoff." Cantrell and his son, Orvie Cantrell III, pointed to a recent experience where a customer had bought a new bow last year, shot it perfectly then, and then all of a sudden couldn't hit anything with it as he started shooting this year. "He came by our shop and there was nothing wrong with his bow," said Cantrell, Jr. "So we took a look at his shooting form and quickly noticed that he had a couple of things wrong with his head position and hand position. "We got him to adjust that and he started hitting dead on again and we never even touched his bow." Which goes to prove Cantrell's point. "Shooting form is a lot like a golf swing; the smallest things can make a big difference in the final outcome," he said. "And generally, it takes someone else to help us discover those small flaws in our form." Such performance can mean everything in the world to the biggest weapon that an archer carries into the field – his or her confidence in their own shooting ability. "There is a tremendous psychological aspect to shooting a bow well," said Cantrell III. "By coming in now, we can help a bowhunter get his equipment issues ironed out and his shooting form ironed out in a non-rushed environment. "You don't want to try and get those things fixed with the clock ticking; it doesn't help you shoot better when the pressure is mounting and the season is looming." Should a shooter's form be off, many shops offer private shooting lessons in their indoor range. Usually, a brief shooting session or two is all that is necessary to get a bowhunter's form back into order. Another reason that it is important to visit your local pro shop now instead of later is that hunters need to get their bows ready. Why? Because they also need to get their bodies ready too. "People forget that conditioning – drawing a bow back smoothly, holding it steady through the shot cycle, etc. – comes into play," said Cantrell, Jr. "Now is the time to start using those muscles you haven't used in months, developing strength in them, and building that muscle memory that you need when it comes time to draw on a buck this fall." Need a final reason to visit a pro shop soon? Do it now to beat the rush says Cantrell Jr. "Right now, the time frame to get something fixed and taken care of in our shop is from a few minutes to a couple of days," he said. "But as we get closer and closer to the season, business will continue to pick up and wait times will increase." In other words, don't show up two or three days before the 2014-15 bowhunting season begins and expect a miracle to happen in your local shop. So what's the moral of this tale? Simply this: Even if the thermometer threatens to reach triple digits during the dog days of late July, forget the heat, start thinking about the upcoming fall hunting seasons and get to your local archery pro shop ASAP. Doing that now can help to ensure that drawing back and successfully arrowing a record book buck or bull a few weeks from now is nothing more than a piece-of-cake formality. Share This Story Next From News Planting for the Future on The Revolution with Jim & Trav Related Opening Day : Posted 07-29-2014 2014-2015 Seasons: White-Tailed Deer View Hunting : Posted 10-06-2011 Bow to Bowhunters View Comments Categories News Stories Recipes Tips Gear Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Deer Season Outdoors 365 with Lynn Burkhead Everything Deer with Jeremy Flinn Short Stories by Larry Potterfield Opening Days Live Hunts Hunting Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started

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Stonewall today launches two new tools for lesbian, gay and bisexual jobseekers completing the charity's suite of resources for gay people moving through education and their careers. Proud Employers, a job site with posts exclusively from LGB-friendly employers joins the Starting Out Careers Guide which is now in its seventh edition and available online and in print.
Proud Employers has vacancies from the 600 major employers who are members of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme and is supported by founding partners including Barclays, BP and Credit Suisse.
Starting Out is targeted at lesbian, gay and bisexual students, graduates, jobseekers and career switchers in Britain. All employers profiled in the guide are Diversity Champions and have committed to supporting their gay staff and creating inclusive workplaces.
Laura Doughty, Stonewall Deputy Chief Executive, said, 'Attracting, developing and retaining the most talented staff is key for all of the employers Stonewall works with. By advertising vacancies on our dedicated site or showcasing why they are an employer of choice in the careers guide, these employers directly reach out to lesbian, gay and bisexual talent, who look for employers who recognise that people perform better when they can be themselves.'
Thousands of copies of Starting Out, supported by Credit Suisse, are being distributed to students' unions, university career services, employment agencies and university lesbian and gay societies and sixth forms across Britain. The websites are integrated, with vacancies available on the Proud Employers site also appearing on the relevant employers' profile on the Starting Out site. And for the first time the guide is divided by sector, so that jobseekers can locate employers more easily.
Starting Out and Proud Employers are a part of Stonewall's suite of resources for LGB people whether in education or employment. Other tools include Gay By Degree which profiles the support each university offers for gay students.
Starting Out is available online at www.startingoutguide.org.uk and free copies are also available by contacting Stonewall's freephone infoline: 08000 50 20 20. Proud Employers is online at www.proudemployers.org.uk


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Grace and peace to you in Jesus' name! I hope this letter finds you well and enjoying the longer and lovely days of summer.
Here the Salvadoran rainy season is in full swing. I missed the first showers this year while traveling on mission interpretation assignment throughout the United States, but have gotten to experience several awe-inspiring thunderstorms, and even an earthquake, since I have been back in San Salvador. It is amazing to me how after three years in El Salvador I have come to equate these wild and unsettling natural phenomena with a sense of being en casa, at home.
I have been incredibly blessed in my travels this year to enjoy the warm hospitality of strangers-become-friends, and to be welcomed with such enthusiasm in Presbyterian congregations around the U.S.
In sharing the stories of our partners in El Salvador, I am reminded of how unlikely it seems that we could receive a message of inspiration and hope in the example of communities in a country with a recent history so wrought with conflict, violence and political and social crisis. But our crucified and risen Lord certainly has a way of lifting up the least of these.
The harsh, daily reality for many Salvadoran families is one of hunger and malnourishment. Many families are not able to consistently provide enough healthy and nutritious food for their children to grow and thrive in all the ways God intends.
Having suffered a nearly 15-year civil war, devastating earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, international relief aid has been poured into El Salvador for decades. And while relief aid has contributed to the saving of many lives, it has also contributed to a culture of handouts and short-term projects that have not allowed or encouraged communities to truly develop sustainably and on their own terms.
Our work with the Joining Hands network, however, strives to do just that. By emphasizing accompaniment, empowerment and sustainable development, we are seeing communities be transformed from the inside out.
So, when leaders from a local community approached our network soliciting a donation of animals for a hen and chicken project, rather than simply offering to buy the animals for them, we invited them to visit and learn from the experience of some of our Joining Hands partners in another community.
In the village of El Tigre, Ahuachapán, they met with women who have organized themselves into cooperatives to work together to create a sustainable, healthy and local food system. One group raises laying hens and incubates eggs, another makes organic chicken feed, and another manages an organic greenhouse garden that benefits not only the 150 associates of the cooperatives but also their communities at large.
Joining Hands offers them support with additional training and by facilitating connections with other communities to share this model of cooperation and community development with others.
After this eye-opening experience of listening to and learning from peers — strangers who have now become sisters in this struggle against hunger — women from the first community formed groups and began to make a plan to incubate eggs in order to raise enough chickens and hens to carry out a similar initiative to benefit their community.
Joining Hands has come alongside them to support with training, to help secure a small, homemade, 60-egg incubator, and to accompany them as they grow this program and invite more local women to join in.
Not only are these women addressing the issues of hunger and malnourishment, but their efforts are strengthening the social fabric of their community as well. The local pastor has shared with us that as a result of family feuds and neighborhood grudges, previously there were women in the community who barely exchanged words and would not look each other in the eye.
Now those same women are working side-by-side to transform their community, and through it all they themselves are being transformed. What a testament to God's reconciling love and power to make all things new!
I continue to marvel at and give thanks for the many ways that God is moving in our midst in El Salvador. Thanks to your generous and continued support, the Joining Hands ministry is able to spread the message of God's unfailing justice, grace and love, and God's desire for fullness of life for all of God's people.
I am grateful for your prayers that help sustain me in my work, and invite your ongoing partnership in God's mission with the people of El Salvador. ¡Muchas gracias!
As the Joining Hands Network facilitator in El Salvador, Kristi Van Nostran is helping to build bridges of solidarity between churches in the United States and a network of churches, grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in El Salvador.


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Selena Gomez: Panera Bread Pick Up
Selena Gomez keeps her cool in a fedora while picking up a cool drink on Saturday afternoon (February 2) in Los Angeles.
The 20-year-old also grabbed a bit to eat at fave Panera Bread before heading out.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Selena Gomez
Selena will be heading to New York Fashion Week later this month, WWD reports.
She'll be sitting "front and center for the first teen-curated fashion show for the Adidas NEO label." Selena is the current face for the brand.
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Light: Its Secrets Revealed
Did you know that when you look at a star, your eyes are capturing light that traveled all the way from the star to your eye? Learn more about how light carries information from distant objects.
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This Moveable Museum article, available as a nine-page printable PDF file, offers a kid-friendly look at how information about distant objects comes to us in the form of light. It discusses the following three concepts in depth, and provides a reading list for further research:
- most light is invisible to our eyes
- light is a streaming "code" that tells about the chemical composition of its source
- light from a glowing object can reveal its temperature
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Supplement a study of astronomy with an activity drawn from this article.
- Ask the class what they know about light. What information does it give scientists?
- Send students to this online article, or print copies of the essay for them to read.
- Have them briefly explain each of the three concepts in their own words.


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Mike Shalin's Working Press: Finally, Red Sox get their sluggerBy MIKE SHALIN
February 19. 2018 10:32PM
ON THE DAY baseball announced its moves to quicken the pace of play, starting with the coming exhibition games, the Red Sox were reportedly close to finally adding that big bat.
Late Monday afternoon, after a day of speculation that all seemed to be pointing at J.D. Martinez coming to Boston, Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports tweeted the Red Sox were close to finally nailing down the deal with the righty slugger, who would be the club's new DH.
The deal was for a reported five years and $110 million, with an opt-out after two years.
A right-handed slugger at Fenway Park. Right in the middle of a lineup that won 93 games again last year, even with David Ortiz gone.
The new Big Papi. Well, at least in terms of being the club's DH.
Remember, at one point Martinez said he had had it with the Red Sox over their lollygagging. But that's the way these things go sometimes — and the Sox appeared to be on the verge of answering the Giancarlo Stanton-to-the-Yankees hoopla.
Red Sox-Yankees. Now it's REALLY back on.
Column pal Jonny Miller just sent me the new Baseball Prospectus, which arrived at my door just about the time of Heyman's tweet. It projected Martinez, who hit 45 homers last year, would bat .281 with 28 homers, 80 RBIs and an .889 OPS this season — for the Diamondbacks.
Clearly, the Red Sox, with Martinez at Fenway, would be expecting more.
MLB announced its pace-of-play changes Monday. The moves did NOT include a pitch clock.
What WAS in the announcement was a limit of six visits to the mound, for anything, by anybody that didn't involve a pitching change. Exceptions will be made by the home plate umpire if he deems the catcher has been crossed up by the pitcher, something that could seriously injure either the catcher or umpire.
If a player needs to clean his cleats on a rainy day, he can do it and it doesn't count toward the six.
The penalty for a seventh mound visit? There doesn't seem to be one, except for small fines.
Time between half innings will be shortened and players — both the pitcher and batter — have to be ready to go. There will be an attempt to shorten the time eaten up on reviews — and a monitored phone line to the dugout, an attempt to curtail sign stealing (NOT known as the Red Sox Rule).
"I am pleased that we were able to reach an understanding with the Players Association to take concrete steps to address pace of play with the cooperation of players," commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "My strong preference is to continue to have ongoing dialogue with players on this topic to find mutually acceptable solutions."
There is a strong undercurrent here of the game counting on its players to police themselves in an attempt to get games under three hours on average.
Said players association chief Tony Clark: "Players were involved in the pace of game discussion from Day 1, and are committed to playing a crisp and exciting brand of baseball for the fans, but they remain concerned about rule changes that could alter the outcome of games and the fabric of the game itself — now or in the future."
New format worked
The cheesiness of the announcement of the players and Fergie's butchering of the national anthem aside (she apologized Monday), the NBA All-Star Game was actually worth watching Sunday night.
For one thing, they cut 40 points per team off the final score, thus ending all fears of one team actually scoring 200 in one of these games. And they tried to win at the end of the game.
In short, they put on a show. And the only thing that could make it better would be having the "draft" of the players actually take place on the court before the game. Sure, they'd lose their chance to have a little practice time together, but this could really be fun. Imagine LeBron James and Steph Curry actually out on the floor, "choosing up sides" like we used to do when we were kids.
While the All-Star Game changes have already been made, commissioner Adam Silver said over the weekend his league is considering going to a 1-through-16 playoff format.
In other words, the divisions and conferences could turn out to be meaningless — and the Celtics could meet the Trail Blazers in the first round.
"When we get to the playoffs should we be taking either the best 16 teams, or even if we go eight from the West, eight from the East, seeding 1-16 going into the playoffs?" Silver said. "That is something that has gotten serious attention, not just recently but over the last few years at the league office."
Regardless of what they do, all-time great Jerry West — for our young readers, that's his silhouette that is the NBA logo — thinks his sport is on the verge of something special.
"Years ago when I came to the city of Los Angeles, we were nobody. Last page of two newspapers. Had no writers, no coverage at all.
"And to see the way this game has changed and grown, and to see the strides that have been made for people who truly were able to contribute a different way is truly remarkable.
"I want to say this. I don't like to say things that are controversial at all. But this game is going to overtake all the other sports."
Not surprised
Devin McCourty said the Super Bowl benching of Malcolm Butler wasn't a shock to the rest of the Patriots.
"We all knew he wasn't starting all week," McCourty told NJ.com. "That wasn't a secret to the guys on the team."
He added: "I get why people are fishing. The guy played 98 percent of the plays. ... It's just not true. As far as I know — and I was there all week — not one time did anything come up."
Pats' Nate Solder, tweeting about things off the football field: "I feel strongly about the state of our country, but I don't know what to say or do. Am I alone?"
Celtics impress
Despite their recent struggles, the Celtics, who resume play Friday night, are not being counted out by others around the league.
Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald spoke to Warriors' All-Stars and the theme was clear.
"They're a very good team," said Draymond Green. "They're young. This is their first year together. Obviously Kyrie (Irving) is one of the few guys, if not the only guy, with championship experience, so it takes a little experience to kind of figure things out."
Said Klay Thompson: "Obviously they have a great coach in Brad Stevens and an amazing scorer-slash-leader in Kyrie, and I'm very impressed with their young guys. (Jayson) Tatum and (Jaylen) Brown are making a huge impact, and to do that in their first and second years is incredible. And my guy (fellow former Washington State player Aron) Baynes has also carved himself a nice little niche out there, and they've got another All-Star in Al Horford."
Bruins rebound
As you probably know, even the good teams in sports can have their heads handed to them on any given night.
The REAL good teams bounce back. It's starting to look like the Bruins are a real good team.
It took savior-like goaltending by Tuukka Rask in overtime to bail his team out Monday, but the Bruins bounced back from that Saturday Night Typhoid Fever in Vancouver with a win in Calgary.
The victory lifted the Bruins to 15-3-3 after losses and 8-2-2 after losses by more than one goal. Impressive stuff.
By the way, Rask gave up four goals on eight shots Saturday night, which is pretty bad. But the next day, Dallas' Ben Bishop was chased after also allowed four goals — but did it on just FIVE shots.
Finally, kudos to security at the United Center in Chicago. With four idiots hitting Washington's Devante Smith-Pelly with a racial slur, the four were tossed from the building. Smith-Pelly, who is black, was hit with "Basketball, basketball, basketball" taunts after entering the penalty box after a fight.
Said Caps coach Barry Trotz: "There's absolutely no place in a game of hockey, or a country, for racism. I think it's disgusting. There's no place for it. The athletes in this country don't deserve that. It just shows ignorance."
Yes, folks, we still have that in our country.
Mike Shalin covers Boston pro sports for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Boracay is not the only island in the Philippines with white sandy beaches. In fact, I saw lots of these islands a couple of times while on the plane. I've been to Boracay and Panglao Island in Bohol. Lately, I discovered this little piece of heaven in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental.
From Hinigaran, we rode a private van to Sipalay City which took us around 2 hours travel time. We stayed at Robinson Cruse Beach Resort which was way better than Canonoy Beach Resort! For only Php 1,500 per airconditioned room, we were able to sleep comfortably in 2 double-sized beds. Even without TV and the lack of cellphone signal, everything was worth the price.
We were told that the waters in that area of Sipalay City were declared to be a protected marine sanctuary. Thus, colorful fishes, starfishes, and jellyfish swam with us in the water. It reminded me of my first visit of Boracay in the early 90s. Resorts in the area also provide diving gear so enthusiasts can see its unspoiled coral reefs. Easy Diving Beach Resort operates a Dive Center that offers diving trips guided by PADI instructors or local dive masters.
There are only a handful of resorts in the area. Most of the houses that line up the beachfront are owned by locals who offer rooms at a lower price than the resorts. There are also the sari-sari stores and canteens where we were able to buy more affordable food.
Sipalay City's white sandy beaches have a lot of promise. The place still needs a lot more improvement when it comes to facilities. Nevertheless, it provided us with our much needed vacation away from our cellular phones and our laptops. I like it better that way, if you ask me.
Robinson Cruse is located at Punta Ballo, Barangay 4, Sipalay City. Sipalay is around 3 hours drive from Bacolod City. One can ride a bus or a public airconditioned van to go there from the capital.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — There's always grousing about the many people who don't bother to vote. But look at it the other way: An estimated 133 million Americans will cast ballots in Tuesday's election. Some will persevere despite long lines, pressing personal burdens or the devastation left by Superstorm Sandy. Why do they do it?
It's not because any one voter has much chance of deciding the super-tight contest between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney.
A one-vote win is rare even in local or state races, which attract smaller turnout. The largest numbers of voters — about 6 in 10 eligible adults — come out for presidential years. Yet the presidency's never turned on just one vote, not even in the 2000 recount that flummoxed Florida.
It's so improbable that some economists and psychologists debate whether voting is a rational act.
"There is no question that from a simplistic rational view it doesn't make sense to vote," said Kevin Lanning, a political psychologist at Florida Atlantic University. "Even in Florida I'm more likely to be killed in an auto accident going to the polls than I am to cast the deciding vote in the presidential election."
Still, Lanning is a voter.
"I think of it as an awesome responsibility," he said.
Andrew Gelman, a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University, was co-author of a study before the 2008 presidential election that found that, on average, a voter had a 1 in 60 million chance of deciding that race.
The Electoral College means the odds vary by state. This year's chances range from roughly 1 in a million (for a voter in the battleground state of Ohio) to essentially zero (in states such as vastly Republican Wyoming or deeply Democratic Vermont).
Gelman's numbers might seem to validate the inertia of the 4 in 10 eligible adults who don't bother to vote even in presidential years.
Yet, Gelman is a voter.
"Part of our role as citizens is to vote," he said.
And he says presidential voting can be a rational investment of time. That's partly because the outcome affects so many people. It's like entering a lottery that you almost certainly won't win, but if you do win, all 315 million Americans share your jackpot — the president you believe will do more for the country.
And then there's the obvious: A democracy relies on its voters, working as a group, to make a decision.
If the numbers drop too low, the legitimacy of the system is at risk. Consider midterm congressional elections, when turnout runs only about 40 percent, or local elections that sometimes dip shockingly low.
How seriously Americans take their presidential votes was illustrated this year by the effort and time that many devoted to obtaining the photo identification required under new laws in some states.
"Every four years we are divided, Republicans and Democrats, by real differences — in what we feel government should be doing and so forth — but we are united in this responsibility to keep America going and the privilege to participate in it," said Lanning, the psychology professor.
For many, it's a family tradition.
Kelvin Lovely's grandmother always encouraged him to vote, and he took it to heart. The 42-year-old Pensacola, Fla., resident cast his first ballot at 18 and became a regular. "I always want to vote, and I think my vote will have an impact," Lovely said.
Veronica Padilla of Las Vegas is already stressing the importance to her 13-year-old son, five years before he can vote.
"I tell him not to just vote for the most popular," she said. "You have to stand for what you believe."
Tim Farmer, a University of Denver law student, attended a Romney rally one day and an Obama event the next because he feels a responsibility to make the right choice.
"Enough wrong votes," Farmer said, "and you get the wrong guy elected."
Adam Brandstetter knows he won't affect the election's outcome. His vote is going to long-shot Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. "It won't ever matter," said Brandstetter.
But he enjoys the sense of community on voting days in Crystal Lake, Ill., a far suburb of Chicago. Brandstetter will leave the home office where he works as an investment manager and head for the polling place at the Lutheran church, staffed by some of his older neighbors.
"I'll take a walk over," he said, "have lunch, see all my senior friends: 'Haven't seen you in a while. What have you been up to?'"
It feels good to vote, Brandstetter said, and to make time to appreciate that "we're in America. We have the freedom to express our views."
Associated Press writers Melissa Nelson-Gabriel in Pensacola, Fla., Philip Elliott in Denver and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.
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We knew Bill Clinton could play the saxophone pretty well. But singing?
A video mash-up that's gone viral features footage of the former commander in chief cleverly edited together so he appears to be crooning Robin Thicke's popular summer anthem "Blurred Lines."
The clip is courtesy of Baracksdubs, the folks who brought you those hilariously edited videos of President Barack Obama warbling tunes like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Daft Punk's "Get Lucky."
By the way, president No. 44 makes a brilliant cameo in 42's big rendition around the 0:25-second mark (the bit's swiped from POTUS' acclaimed version of Al Green's "Let Stay Together" at a campaign fundraiser in New York last year).
WATCH: Bill Clinton's "Dancing" confession
For a prez who's sometimes knocked for being longwinded, Clinton is pretty darn crisp here with his take on Thicke's ubiquitous hit, though without Robin's signature falsetto.
The only other thing missing is some backup from Pharrell Williams and, well, maybe the dancing girls that grace Thicke's original music video.
So far Barackdubs' latest offering has racked up almost 263,000 views as of press time.
But it's not the first occasion that "Blurred Lines," which has racked up 105 million views on YouTube, has gotten the mash-up treatment.
Other notable mash-ups include "Blurring Pains," mixing the song with the "Growing Pains" theme; "Blurred Lines as Cosby Show Theme," in which the tune plays over the classic comedy's opening credits; and most notably Jimmy Kimmel's parody last month.
You can check out some of the vids below.
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Email archiving continues to be in the news—particularly with Microsoft's announcement last week that Exchange Server 2010 will include built-in email archiving functionality. The Exchange development team added this feature to Exchange Server because most companies believe that email archiving is important although few companies have an effective solution in place. Exchange 2010 will give companies the ability to apply legal holds and other retention policies through the familiar Outlook interface.
So, if you need an email archiving solution, and you're planning to deploy Exchange Server 2010—when it becomes available for production in late 2009—then you should be all set. Well, you might also need to wait for Microsoft Office 2010, or at least Outlook 2010, to get all those features. Fortunately, there are many archiving options available now, and ones that won't require federal lending assistance to implement.
For instance, Red Gate Software has decided to enter the market with Exchange Server Archiver. Red Gate has a well-established reputation for its Microsoft SQL Server utilities (see the recent SQL Server Magazine reviews of SQL Data Generator and SQL Compare 6.20). With that background, moving to a support product for Exchange Server doesn't seem like such a stretch, considering that Exchange is basically a large database.
Talking about why the company chose this time to move into the archiving field, Michael Francis, brand manager for Red Gate's Exchange division, said, "We looked and saw that a lot of people were doing it very complicatedly—if that's a word—and we just thought we could do it better." Ease of use and implementation were key goals in the development of Exchange Server Archiver, but Red Gate also focused its efforts on data management rather than compliance.
Maintaining too much data on your Exchange servers can be a drain on performance. Exchange Server Archiver helps alleviate this problem by removing email messages and attachments to secondary storage. You can also eliminate PSTs and those calls from angry, frustrated users who are constantly bumping up against their email quotas.
According to Elizabeth Ayer, product manager for Red Gate, coming late to the market could be a plus. In reviewing the potential competitors, she said some of the problems they saw came "from old, rickety architectures that they've got, things which aren't really leveraging more modern Microsoft technologies." And in contrast, for Exchange Server Archiver, "We integrate directly with Active Directory. We're using Windows native technologies. We're using their indexing service. So we don't have to redo all that and have lots of moving parts that can break."
You'll find much more information about Exchange Server Archiver on Red Gate's website, including case studies and a video gallery demonstrating many features of the product. And there's a contest page where you can try to spot which mailbox has been archived. Exchange Server Archiver is compatible with Exchange 2007/2003. You can download the beta version now; Red Gate intends to have the final version available around the time of Microsoft TechEd North America 2009 in May.
Sherpa Software isn't new to email archiving, but the company has recently released Archive Attender 3.5, which includes new management features and other improvements. The development of Archive Attender has been largely shaped by customer requests, according to Kevin Ogrodnik, president of Sherpa Software. Another key differentiator Ogrodnik stressed, much like the folks from Red Gate, is ease of use.
Among these ease-of-use features is the fact that you don't have to install anything on your Exchange server—although you can. You also don't need a SQL Server database or proprietary hardware, with additional related licensing. Archiving policies can be applied to specific mailboxes, Exchange servers, or Active Directory groups, giving a great deal of flexibility in how you set things up.
A couple of the new features in Archive Attender 3.5 seem particularly impressive. First, there's the stub management feature. Like most email archives, Archive Attender lets you leave stubs of archived messages in the Inbox; the new feature lets you auto-age out stubs after a set period of time, freeing both additional space and overhead on the Exchange server.
The other great feature is the ability to split the archive into multiple files if desired or necessary to meet the needs of available storage. These smaller segments can be easier for administrators to manage, and you'll still have the ability to easily search across the entire archive to retrieve items.
Sherpa Software's website has all the details about Archive Attender 3.5, which is available for Exchange 2007/2003/2000/5.5. Sherpa also offers a suite of other products to help you manage your email infrastructure both on Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.
Microsoft added email archiving to Exchange 2010 on the belief that most companies aren't doing what they should be for preserving email, and most third-party vendors I've spoken with agree. As Ayers from Red Gate said, data management is "one of those things that \[companies are\] getting behind on and sort of slowly catching up. Even though they've had a lot of options for archiving over the years, I think the uptake hasn't been as complete as it will be in the next few years."
It remains to be seen, of course, what Microsoft's entry into this market segment means for the third-party archiving vendors—something, perhaps, to be determined by how well Exchange 2010's archiving works. Certainly, "ease of use" applies to a solution built in to Exchange Server. However, considering the economy, how many organizations are going to consider an early migration to Exchange 2010? Selecting an existing solution, particularly for small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs), is probably a better option to meet immediate compliance and data management goals.
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For more information about email archiving:
- Establishing an Email Retention Policy: The IT Perspective
- Better Email Archiving Through Easier Content Tagging
- Do Email Archiving Worries Keep You Up at Night?
- Exchange Server Archiving Software
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I want you to turn in your Bible to Revelation chapter 13, Revelation chapter 13. Tonight we're going to take a look at a very imposing and a very remarkable text of Scripture, the second half of this chapter which presents to us a portrait of the final false prophet...the final false prophet.
Let me read you, starting at verse 11, "I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose fatal wound was healed. And he performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men, and he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given to him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. And there was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast might even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he causes all, the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free man and the slaves to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or to sell except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom, let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for the number is that of a man and his number is six hundred and sixty-six."
The work of God to redeem men and to establish the kingdom of Christ has not been easy. In fact, it's always been a battle. And the reason for the battle is because Satan and his hosts of demons have fought God all along the way. The most dominant aspect of Satan's war, the major weapon in Satan's arsenal against God and God's purpose can be summed up in one word, that word is deception. He is a liar and the father of lies, he is a deceiver. He is disguised as an angel of light and his messengers are also disguised as angels of light, though they are the demons of darkness. Satan is always trying to confuse people by covering up the truth of the saving gospel, the truth of the Word of God with lies that are masquerading as if they were the truth. Satan has from the very beginning of God's enterprise attempted to barrage the world with demon doctrines coming from seducing spirits through false teachers and false prophets.
If then the major enterprise of Satan in endeavoring to fight against God is deception, then the major agents of Satan are deceivers, be they demons or be they men. And as the world moves closer to the return of Christ and closer to the consummation of God's plan, and closer to the coming of the kingdom that has been promised, you can be sure that Satan will escalate the efforts of false prophets. The closer we get to the end, the more false prophets will proliferate.
In Matthew chapter 24, some very familiar words from the Lord Himself. "For many will come in My name saying, `I am the Christ,' and will mislead many." Verse 11, "And many false prophets will arise and will mislead many." Again predicting the same kind of proliferation at the end time in Mark 13:22, the Scripture says that Jesus spoke and said, "False Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders in order, if possible, to lead the elect astray."
And so the promise of Scripture is that there will be a myriad of false prophets, ever more and more of them as we get closer to the end. Matthew 24:24 says precisely the very same thing.
Now at the very climax of all this escalating proliferation of false prophets, fed, I think, by the proliferation of demons that are released from the pit and from the Euphrates River which we read about earlier, there will be more demons than ever running all over the earth, all the ones who were in the heavens will be cast to earth, all the ones in the pit who are not eternally bound will be released, those bound at the Euphrates will run rampant over the earth. And with more demons will come more deceiving spirits with more deceiving spirits will come more hypocritical deceiving false prophets and liars. And it will all finally consummate in the ultimate final false prophet. We have just read the description of this man. He will be Satan's last and most awesomely powerful deceiving hypocritical liar.
He is called a beast, a beast that comes out of the earth. Now the first ten verses of this chapter described another beast. If you'll go back to verse 1 you see there a beast coming up out of the sea. And we have learned already that that describes one who is commonly known as the Antichrist, though there are many antichrists, there is one who is the consummate final and ultimate Antichrist. There were antichrists even in the New Testament time for the New Testament says there are already many antichrists. But there will be one consummate final world ruler, one great political power, one imperial world dictator, indwelt by a demon spirit who comes up out of the abyss. And we saw him described in the first half of this very same chapter. He is also rather carefully described in the second chapter of Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians. If you read 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 you will read about him, he is called the lawless one. He will be powerful. He will come in the activity of Satan with all power and signs and false wonders and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish. And with him will come a deluding influence, a damning influence.
This first beast out of the sea, this Antichrist is also called by Daniel the little horn, the king of fierce countenance, or fierce face. He is called the willful king. He is called by Paul the son of perdition and the man of sin. He is a blasphemer who makes war with the saints. He embodies all the evil powers of all world empires. He exercises the power of Satan, the power of demons and all the power of men. He will be the greatest world ruler ever, dominating all the earth. But he is not alone. In fact, he has a partner in this massive satanic system of final ultimate deception, and his partner is the final false prophet. The Antichrist is primarily a political and military leader, the false prophet is a religious leader. And here we have political power, military power, joined with religious power. Political power, military power dominating the external world; spiritual power dominating the internal world.
So the Antichrist not only has the devil and his hellish demons, he not only has the accumulated power of all demonic and human sovereignties, he not only has control of the governments of all the globe, but he also has a potent companion who promotes his power and aids him greatly by swaying the hearts of people into satanic religion. His aid will be religious, it will be spiritual. He will cause the world to worship the Antichrist as if he were God. So his power will not just be the power that is political or military or economic, he will have great religious power because the false prophet will convince the world that this Antichrist is God and is the only hope of the salvation of the crushing crumbling world that is going to bits during this time of Tribulation. They will buy the lie of the false prophet, they will bow down and worship the Antichrist as if he were God, and they will be destroyed and damned with him.
The work of the false prophet is critical to the effort of Satan because the power of religion over men's minds is so great. I think any of us who knows anything about man and how he operates from a historic viewpoint understands that man does not live without some transcendent belief system. It is built into the very fabric of man's life to believe in some transcendent power, something beyond himself, some faith exists in all men, faith in the supernatural, faith in the mystical, faith in the psychic, faith in something that is divine or something that is invisible.
There is then in the heart of man that longing, that desire to touch something transcendent, something beyond himself, something greater than his trouble and his circumstances, someone that can deliver him from what is going on all around him. And in the time of the Great Tribulation, you're going to know that people are going to be looking for a deliverer. They're going to be desperately looking for some transcendent power in which they can believe. And the Antichrist by Satan's design will be that power and the false prophet will convince the world that indeed he is. The false prophet will come along as the greatest preacher, I think, the greatest false preacher the world has ever heard. You've heard great preachers, you've heard gifted orators, the world has known many of them through its history. But none like this one. He is so powerful that his preaching sways the entire world.
True or false, human nature must have a religion. Man is an incurable worshiper. He needs somebody beyond himself to believe in, even if he can't identify who it is, even if it is somewhat nebulous and he gives it a somewhat nebulous name. But in this case, there will be nothing nebulous about his worship, it will be attached to a human being who is indwelt by a formidable demon right out of the pit itself. The Antichrist, who then opposes God, who himself declares that he is above everything and everyone who is called God and demands that the whole world worship him will find that that indeed will be accomplished through the agency of this false prophet.
So the false prophet then leads the world into the final form of world religion which is the worship of the Antichrist at the very end. John Phillips writing on the book of Revelation says, "The dynamic appeal of the false prophet will lie in his skill in combining political expediency with religious passion. His arguments will be subtle, convincing and appealing. His oratory will be hypnotic, for he will be able to move the masses to tears or whip them into a frenzy. He will control the communication media of the world and will skillfully organize mass publicity to promote his ends. He will manage and massage his message with guile beyond words. He will mold world thought and shape human opinion like so much pottery for clay," end quote. That's a good description of what this individual most likely will do. He will be the greatest, the most persuasive, the most powerful, the most moving, the most convincing communicator ever. You can believe that. Satan would not finish out his last effort with anything less than his greatest effort.
And he becomes the final figure in the false trinity...Satan, the counterfeit of God the father; Antichrist, the counterfeit of God the Son; and the false prophet, the counterfeit of God the Holy Spirit.
Now this second beast here is called the false prophet. Not in this chapter, but in three other places in Revelation. Revelation chapter 16 and verse 13 he is called the false prophet, Revelation 19 and verse 20 and Revelation 20 verse 10. In all three of those Scriptures he is identified as the false prophet. His purpose is to direct the attention of the world toward the Antichrist and cause the whole world to worship him. He does that amazingly by the power of Satan and is successful. He will be a religious preacher convincing the world to worship the Antichrist.
Now just by way of a little bit of background, such a partnership between sheer political power and religion is not new. In the days of Pharaoh, for example, we would think of Pharaoh as the great world power, but we remember when Moses and Aaron stood beside Pharaoh, the head of Egypt, he called in two magical priests by the name of Jannes and Jambres. Religionists of his empire, he asked them to oppose the God of the Israelites. He was a pagan king with great political and military might who had brought alongside himself those kinds of people who by their signs and wonders, their mystical powers could sway the hearts of men and women.
When Balak, powerful formidable king of Moab, sought to destroy Israel, what did he do? He went out to find a prophet, a religious man. He hired the services of the corruptible prophet Balaam to curse Israel. Military power wasn't enough, political power wasn't enough, he wanted religious power. In the days of Dan, when that marauding tribe conquered Laish, you remember they stoke a priest and an ephod in order to worship some deity. It wasn't enough that they were powerful, that they were awesome in power, could conquer their foes, they wanted some transcendent deity to assist them. You remember Absalom, when Absalom began his revolution to destroy his father David, he did so by using the assistance of Ahithophel. When Jeroboam revolted against Judah, he felt compelled to build gods of gold at Bethel and Dan and elicit the service of deities in his revolt. And then there was Ahab and Jezebel who were able to accomplish their idolatrous debauchery of Israel by using as their cohorts the foul priests of Baal.
Coming down into a more modern time, Hitler had both personal demon contacting mediums for himself. And with the help of those demonic sources developed a new kind of Christianity to manipulate the hearts of the people in his own nation.
So it has always been. Even Rome, though it had world power by its might wanted to make sure that people worshiped Caesar as if he was God because there is in the heart of every person a need to worship at the shrine of some transcendent power. The communist empire of eastern Europe tried to defy that. With their atheism they conquered by force. But they had to control the people on the outside because there was no religious faith on the inside. And so it became absolutely a police state. And as soon as their external power was broken, the whole thing disintegrated. And what was once the Soviet Union fractured into the pieces that were in existence before it ever began because there was no unified belief system to hold them together. In fact, they reverted back in many cases to the belief system that was theirs before it ever started.
Politics and religion may start out as distinct forces, but ultimately in consummate power they must unite. And Revelation 17 makes it clear that a worldwide form of universal religion is going to take shape in the end time. If you look over at Revelation 17, I don't want to read it to you but just look at it and starting in verse 1 you can flow right down through verse 9 and you will see described there a worldwide system of religion very clearly defined. Then down at the end, I want to draw you to verses 15 to 17. Now the worldwide system of religion...and I won't read all of this...is described here in verse 5 as Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth. This is the designation of world religion, the final consummate form of world religion. It's described in verse 3 as a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns and clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls and having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality. Verse 6 says this false form of world religion is drunk with the blood of the saints. Why? Because false religion has always been the murderer of true religion and it will certainly be true in the end time when they massacre the true believers and those who are the witnesses who adhere to Jesus Christ. There you have a picture of that system, that woman sitting on a beast, that is a picture of the final form of world religion in the time of the Tribulation.
The woman, now follow this, the woman sits on the beast, the woman is the harlot and there is a sense in which you have the beast who is the political, military power, and riding the beast is this religious system. Now what leads us to believe is that these two things will coexist. There will be the developing, amassing power of Antichrist on the military, economic and...the military side of it, the political side of it, but riding right along will be this false religious system. So what you have is the Antichrist gaining his power through the military, the political realm, and the beast...and rather the false prophet gathering his power through the false religious system. So they will coexist for a while. This is a very important point to understand this chapter. They will coexist.
But go to the end of chapter 17 for a moment and I want to show you what will happen. The end of chapter 17 and verse 15, you see the waters where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues, the ten horns which you saw in the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked and eat her flesh and burn her up with fire.
Wait a minute, what happens here? The beast on whose back the false religious system is riding all of a sudden rises up and destroys that false religious system. That's the picture. And verse 17, "For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose." In other words, the things which were two, that is the Antichrist and his military political kingdom and the false prophet and his religious kingdom which is a worldwide religious system over which the false prophet has power, God wants them to be one, not two. And so the Antichrist rises up and destroys that false religious system. And they now have a common purpose. They give over their kingdom to the beast. So in the end the only world religion left is the worship of Antichrist. That's not going to be how it starts. World religion will develop around some other mystical supernaturally concocted demonic system that will pull the whole world together and they will worship in a way that is not yet the worship of the Antichrist until some point when the Antichrist rises up, destroys that system and makes the whole world worship him.
When is that? I believe that is precisely what Daniel calls and what Jesus referred to as the abomination of desolations. It happens three and a half years into the Great Tribulation. There comes a point when the false world religion is destroyed in favor of worshiping Antichrist, and Antichrist alone. He will be at that point having risen to power by the middle of the week, he will be in a prominent predominant place. And what is the abomination of desolation? It is when the Antichrist sets himself up as God. That is precisely what he does. At that point, at the very midpoint, all other religion is destroyed. The man of lawlessness, Paul says in 2 Thessalonians 2 comes, he's revealed, he's the son of destruction, verse 4, he opposes, exalts himself above every so-called God or object of worship. He takes his seat in the temple of God, he displays himself as being God. That is the abomination of desolations, three and a half years into the Tribulation, Daniel says it's going to happen. Jesus reiterates the same thing in Matthew chapter 24. And when that happens, that signals the last three and a half years which is called Great Tribulation, the fiercest of the wrath of God begins to be poured out, culminating in the day of the Lord. So politics and religion start out separate, and then they ultimately unite.
To borrow the words of Jesus, "The kingdom divided against itself cannot stand," and the final kingdom of Satan will not be divided against itself, it will unite in a final form both politics and religion in Satan's last effort to establish his kingdom on earth and prevent the Lord Jesus Christ from setting up His own. Now from that midpoint, the whole world then is directed to worship the Antichrist. He is the only god, there is no other religion. Whatever other religion has been tolerated in this form of world religion, whatever other components of worship have been allowed are not longer allowed. The whole world must worship the Antichrist. And anybody who doesn't will be killed. At least the threat of death is against them.
Now back to the book of Revelation for a moment. The worship of the Antichrist with the aid of the false prophet then becomes the central focus of the world. And if you look at chapter 14 and verse 9, you read, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, he receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand." Verse 11 again talks about those who worship the beast and his image receive the mark of his name. Chapter 15 verse 2, it talks about those who would come off victorious from the beast and from his image and the number of his name and you can see what happened is the whole world looks at nothing but the beast and his image...the beast and his image. That is the image of the idol that replicates the Antichrist. That idol will be established right in Jerusalem as we said, and that will be the focal point of worship and he will be the only one worshiped.
Chapter 16 we see it again in verse 2 where you have those who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. You see it again in chapter 19 verse 20, chapter 20, there's only one individual worship from here on out, from the midpoint on everything focuses on Antichrist.
Now it's difficult to speculate with any kind of success about who the false prophet will be. Some have suggested the false prophet might be a pope. That certainly is possible, if he can have that kind of religious power, if he can by the operation of demons through his own human ingenuity and cleverness and communicating skills, sway the entire world, if a pope can be the one who orchestrates a world religion, it could be a pope. On the other hand, it could be somebody else. We can't be absolutely certain. It is interesting to note in Revelation 17 that a city of seven hills is identified as being at the heart of the false religious system. Throughout history Rome has been known as such a city. We'll say more about that when we get to chapter 17, there are some characteristics there that lend to the credence of such a viewpoint.
But this false religion will grow in the first three and a half years, and then it will be dismissed in favor of the singular worship of the Antichrist. And, of course, by the middle point there have been many judgements and many frightening things have happened and many people have died and once the midpoint event happens, then things begin to escalate and the world in a panic will be looking for somebody to deliver them. When the false prophet starts pointing at the Antichrist, starts doing signs and wonders that are humanly inexplicable, he will gain the affirmation and the faith of the world on behalf of the Antichrist. The Antichrist, of course, will have a false resurrection, the world will think he's come back from the dead. There will be an image created, as we note in the text, that will be able to speak and there will be all kinds of things happening in the sky and fire coming down and all of this is to draw the world to worship the Antichrist.
This is so blasphemous because what they ought to be doing is getting ready to worship the Christ, right? Thus the partnership begins.
Now let's look into this amazing text. That's just, by the way, a few thoughts of introduction. Verse 11 of chapter 13, and we'll look at his person...his person. Very simply, he is described as a beast coming up out of the earth. The beast has to do with a wild animal, therion, he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.
Now some people have suggested that this describes a system. Some have suggested it describes a government. Some have suggested it describes an ideology. But none of those really fits into the context very well. It is better to understand it as a person. Clearly the first beast was a person, and this is allon therion, allon meaning another of the same kind. If Antichrist is a person, and this is another beast like him, then this is a person also. Furthermore, false prophet is a personal designation. And as I said, it's used three times in the book of Revelation to describe this individual.
Furthermore, in Revelation 19:20, both the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire, and God doesn't cast systems, governments and ideologies into hell, he casts individuals there. And so clearly this is a person. As I have been saying, a very clever, powerful, persuasive captivating charming genius who is demon inspired, demon empowered, the combination of the powers of hell and the powers of his own human talent cause him to be convincing.
It tells us...this is an interesting statement...that he comes up out of the earth. You remember the first beast came out of the sea and that represents darkness, blackness, the mysterious, the unknown, the pit, the abyss. And I see that as indication that this individual called the Antichrist became indwelt by some powerful demon that comes up out of the pit.
But here you have somewhat similar origin from below the earth. It doesn't say that he comes from on the earth, it says he comes up out of the earth. And again this might well be a reference to that flaming inferno that is at the heart of the earth, he comes up from below, that's the point, anabaino, he comes up from below, from beneath. Again I think it indicates that the false prophet will be controlled and indwelt and empowered and impelled by some formidable demonic spirit.
And yet, the earth is not as mysterious, it's not as foreboding, it's not as unknown as the sea. It's not the dark and the black place that the sea is. And so the difference here may be simply the Scripture's way of explaining that there is a somewhat significant difference in these two. The Antichrist is mysterious and dark and black and frightening and foreboding. But this man is a subtler, gentler, more domesticated individual. He is not so overpowering, he's not so frightening, he's not a terrorizing power like Antichrist. But rather he is winsome, and he is persuasive. He is the epitome of the wolf in sheep's clothing described by Jesus in Matthew 7. Some have suggested the earth means that he is a Jew, but Jews aren't identified with the earth so much, they're identified with the land, that's a different word, ge, so there's no reason to assume that he will be a Jew at this particular point because he comes up out of the earth. Could be a Jew, but that's not conclusive, he could be a Gentile.
But the description of him gives us a somewhat subtle, gentle deceptiveness because notice the first beast was just plain scary. Ten horns, seven heads, ten crowns, blasphemous names, he's like a leopard and a bear and a lion. And he's got the power of the dragon. And he's got this mortal wound in one of his heads. I mean, this is a frightening looking thing.
But notice down in verse 11 the difference. The false prophet had two horns like a lamb. Have you ever seen a little lamb as it begins to sprout horns, two little bumps? Harmless. And that's his subtlety. Certainly he is in some ways weaker than the Antichrist but still powerfully deceptive. He doesn't come like the Antichrist. The Antichrist comes fiercely like a leopard and a bear and a lion ripping and tearing rapaciously, speedily moving across the world. But here is this subtle, gentle lamb. There's a sense in which he could also be called Antichrist because he is Antichrist and he is a pseudochrist masquerading as if he were the true lamb. But the point of the description is to show us the subtlety of his approach. He doesn't come in imperial power, he doesn't come raping and killing and devastating, he comes as a deceiver. He comes as a false lamb. He comes appearing to be gentle. He comes wanting to comfort and with a certain kind of tenderness, but he's lending his aid to the Antichrist. Here Satan, in a sense, counterfeits Jesus Christ, this is his masterpiece of religious deception, the counterfeit of the true Lamb. But when he opens his mouth he gives himself away. Verse 11 says, "He spoke as a dragon." That's a strange voice for a lamb. He is Satan's mouthpiece, that's why he speaks like a dragon. When he opens his mouth, whose words come out? Satan's.
I believe when he speaks hell will speak through his mouth, just as they used to say when Adolph Hitler spoke it wasn't his own voice. I think he will be completely controlled by hellish powers and when he speaks it will be the voice of the dragon. But he will not necessarily speak monstrous things against God, as the Antichrist will, according to Daniel 11. He will not, as verse 5 says, speak arrogant words and blasphemies. He will speak rather winsomely about the Antichrist. Satan's Antichrist will blaspheme God, but Satan's false prophet will lure people to worship Antichrist.
I want you to remember something. False prophets are not like Antichrist. They don't come blaspheming God. They come deceptively. They come looking like lambs but when they speak
it's the voice of the dragon. Satan's false prophets are the voices of hell, even now, even today. They may appear meek and mild and lamblike. They may appear to be gentle preachers who come to solve the problems of men and women and bring them truth, but when they open their mouth the dragon talks. The dragon is none other than Satan, as we learned back in chapter 12.
So in the midst of the Tribulation with all of its terrors and all of its fears, and all of its death, and all of its destruction, the false prophet will come along as a little lamb offering deceptive comfort to the burdened and the disturbed, those who have been maimed and wounded and injured in all of the fiery judgments that are hurdling in every area, he will offer them hope, hope to a pained world if they will just worship the Antichrist. He will be powerfully persuasive but his voice is the voice of hell. And hell can speak blasphemy or it can speak subtle deception. And so, his person is introduced to us.
The second point that you see in this text is his power...his power. And I'll just introduce this to you. Verse 12, "He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence."
Some people have suggested that this means he replaces the first beast so that he alone rules in the Great Tribulation. That's impossible since both of them are cast into the lake of the fire at the end of the Great Tribulation. And since the very task of this individual is to point to the Antichrist and to establish the worship of the world in his behalf. And you will then notice this, I can't imagine why...I read that view and couldn't imagine why anybody would hold it because he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. That is in the very presence of Antichrist. He is there. He is alongside of him. And he has worldwide influence, worldwide reputation as a miracle worker and a great preacher, maybe the greatest who ever lived apart from those who were the true preachers of God's truth. He exercises the same kind of demon power, the same kind of authority the Antichrist does because he is empowered by the same source. While the Antichrist is Satan's false Christ, the false prophet is Satan's false Holy Spirit. He is able, as I said, to put together a world religion, uniting all of Satan's diverse systems into one. The house divided becomes united. It is his tremendous ability that pulls it off.
Can you imagine creating one world religion that everybody agrees on? Buddhists, Muslims, and everybody else, Protestants, Catholics, every other world religion, they all come together under this amazing man. And then he turns it all into a cult of the first beast. And verse 12 then says, "He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast."
By the way, you see that little phrase in the middle of the verse, "he makes...could be translated...he causes." It is used eight times of him. He causes this to happen. Eight times it says he causes this to happen, he causes this to happen. He has tremendous world influence.
Now beside his great personal influence and persuasive speaking, and astounding leadership ability, his effort is aided by one massive apparent miracle. Please notice the end of verse 12. "He gets the whole world to worship the first beast whose fatal wound was healed." Back in verse 3 you remember that it tells us that one of his heads was slain and his fatal wound was healed and the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast. There's also an indication of this same amazing thing over in chapter 17 where he is called the beast that was and is not and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. He was, he is not, he's coming back. This could refer to a restored and revived Roman Empire and could speak of that government or that entity. But it's probably better to assume that what this is talking about is a carefully crafted deception of a resurrection. Personally I question that it could be a real resurrection because Satan doesn't have the power to give life. The Bible says he has the power of death but not the power of life. I believe what you have here is a carefully crafted resurrection, a fake resurrection, pulled off with tremendous human ingenuity and satanic skill.
Not only...listen carefully...not only to imitate the Lord's resurrection, but to imitate the resurrection back in chapter 11. You remember back in 11 that the two witnesses were killed and then after three and a half days, verse 11 of chapter 11 says they rose from the dead, the breath of life from God came into them, they stood on their feet and they came to life. And I believe in order to gain the kind of credibility that the Antichrist wants in the world, he's going to have to fabricate a resurrection to imitate the two witnesses, to imitate our Lord Himself. How that's going to happen, I don't know but it doesn't seem to be too formidable a task. And we discussed it in some detail in our study of the first ten verses.
Then notice verse 13 quickly. In addition to having the full authority of the Antichrist functioning alongside the Antichrist, using the fabricated resurrection to draw attention to him as supernatural, he performs great signs, verse 13, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. He performs great signs. Quite an interesting phrase. I looked that little Greek phrase up, semeion megala, that same phrase is used of Christ. Again he is counterfeiting Christ. He performs great signs. When used of Christ it's used to describe our Lord's miracles. You can find that in John 2:11, John 2:23, John 6:2, etc. It also mimics not only the Lord but again it mimics the two witnesses. Back in chapter 11 we remember from verses 3 and following that the two witnesses had amazing ability to do things. Fire also came out of their mouths and devoured their enemies. They had the power to shut up the sky that it might not rain during the days of their prophesying. They could have power over the waters to turn them into blood. They could smite the earth with every plague as often as they desired. So Satan has got to counterfeit those true witnesses, as well as counterfeit Jesus Christ, because he's got to make the whole world believe that this Antichrist is more powerful than any of God's witnesses, any of the true witnesses and more powerful even than Jesus Christ.
So the Antichrist then has this immense power and so does his partner, the false prophet, to sway the whole world. Again I'm reminded of 2 Thessalonians. It says his power and signs and wonders come with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish because they didn't love...receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. Anyone rejecting the gospel, anyone who won't receive the truth is going to be deceived and they're going to believe that indeed the Antichrist is God, indeed he did rise from the dead, indeed these are powerful signs of supernatural strength and authority and we can put our trust in the Antichrist and he's going to deliver us from whatever is going on, whatever terrible things are happening. You remember now, at this time they'll all be blaspheming the God of heaven, blaspheming the God of heaven, cursing the God of heaven and putting their trust in the Antichrist.
Now you say, "Well what are these signs that he can do? What are these amazing convincing signs?" Well Satan can do some pretty amazing stuff. He can do some supernatural works. Go back and read Exodus chapter 7, remind yourself of Jannes and Jambres, they're identified in 2 Timothy 3:8, and remind yourself of what the magicians in Pharaoh's court did. They copycated the miracles that God was doing. I'll give you one illustration. Exodus chapter 7, the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in verse 8, "When Pharaoh speaks to you saying, `Work a miracle,' you shall say to Aaron, `Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh that it may become a serpent.'" Just throw your stick down and it will become a serpent. "Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a serpent. Pharaoh called for the wise men and the sorcerers and they also the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts. For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents." One difference, Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. But the point is, Satan can fabricate supernatural signs.
Specifically one of them that he does, this false prophet, is identified here. He makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth. Apparently the Greek text would indicate continually. This is something that goes on all the time. And he does it in the presence of men. Why? Because he wants to convince them of his power. Is he trying to imitate the day of Pentecost? I don't think so. Is he trying to imitate the power of Elijah? Perhaps. Second Kings 1:10 to 12 talks about Elijah's power with fire, but more than likely he's trying to imitate the two witnesses our of whose mouths fire came and devoured those who attempted to take their lives.
You say, "Where does he get the power to do this?" Well a rather modest skill in the use of pyrotechnics could do that. What they do in movies and the firework displays that they put on, when they blow up all kinds of things all over the screens and all over the things you see on television, the ability to do that kind of thing would be probably enough in that day with all the rest of the stuff that's going on in the world to convince people. It may be that they have some capability from a supernatural source to put on those kinds of signs, but it doesn't have to be that way. There could be all kinds of ways in which it is done. And by the way, God has often used fire out of heaven. He used it to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the plain in Genesis 19. He sent it out of heaven in Leviticus 10 to burn up Nadab and Abihu. He sent fire from heaven on Mount Carmel to respond to Elijah's prayer. God has demonstrated His supernatural power by fire, and so here is Satan's counterfeit, trying to do the very same thing. And whether there is actually some miraculous component or whether it's pure pyrotechnics, whatever the case might be with regard to that, it's going to convince a lot of folks, in fact the whole world. With all of the capability that the world has now to dance around in space in all the little metal cans we send out there, it wouldn't be very difficult to fabricate these kinds of things.
And with that in mind, you might consider...I just draw your attention to one Scripture that comes to mind, in Malachi 4:5, "I'm going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord and he will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse." The prophet said that before the great consummation and the coming of the kingdom of Christ, Elijah would come back. The Jews have always known that Elijah was one in whose life there was the evidence of supernatural fire and it could be that this is a counterfeit Elijah, this is Satan's counterfeit prophet, counterfeit...counterfeiting the forerunner of the true Messiah because he himself is the forerunner, as it were, or the prophet speaking of the false messiah.
And so it is that he comes with tremendous power. Then the last verse dealing with his power is verse 14. "He deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given to him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth." He leads them astray.
Consider the vulnerability of people. Disaster after disaster after disaster, holocaust after holocaust after holocaust, death all over everyplace, great cataclysmic events destroy a fourth of the earth, a little while later they destroy a third of the earth, demons running all over the globe maiming people with their sting so that they cry for mercy but cannot die, and then another wave of demons that slaughter people, wars all over the place, people killing each other, the sky falling, the level of desperation is beyond imagination, and they are ready to believe in anything except the true God because they've rejected the gospel and they're cursing the God who is doing this to them and they're looking for a deliverer. Along comes the false prophet, pulls off the shenanigans that convince the whole world their only hope is in this great Antichrist. They will already know what a formidable guy he is because he will have attained world control. And the false prophet will not just be some guy who walked in out of the desert or got off the latest bus, he will be the most formidable religious ruler and leader on the face of the earth and its greatest communicator. Between the two of them and whatever else they can pull off either supernaturally or by human genius, they will cause everybody in the whole world to be deceived.
In fact, they will erect an idol, verse 14 says, to the image of the beast. And they'll erect it in Jerusalem in defiance of the true God.
Well, you see his person and his power. More to come in our next study.
Father, as we think about this we might be asking ourselves...what does this mean? What does this say to me? How does it apply? And, Lord, so many things flood my mind. First of all, we feel so blessed to know how history is going to end, so blessed to know that even though there will come the Antichrist and the false prophet and the whole world will blaspheme Your name, even though Satan will amass the greatest power demonic and human, You will triumph. And how we rejoice that we are on the winning side, not by anything that we have done but by Your grace. How we rejoice that the best effort, the supreme effort of Satan and the unholy trinity of the Antichrist and the false prophet cannot withstand Your power, cannot thwart Your purpose, cannot stop the coming of Christ, cannot deny the kingdom for which we wait. What confidence it gives us, what hope, what undiminished anticipation.
And yet on the other hand, the practicality of this text is that there is a world that will die and perish in the lake of fire along with the false prophet and the Antichrist because they have not embraced the Savior. And as Paul said, "Knowing the terror of the Lord to come, we persuade men." How it should motivate us to give the gospel. We think of those wonderful testimonies we heard tonight, we think of Donna who was near death in a suicide attempt and saved at the very last moment from the horrors of hell and brought into the kingdom of light and the hope of heaven. So many, Lord, who will know Your terror. Help us to be faithful to persuade men to come to Christ.
And, Father, here we see Satan so aggressive in his enterprise and a false prophet who is able to sway the whole world and who has alongside of him many other false prophets, we're amazed at the great and successful effort they make in behalf of the enemy. We have to as our own selves if we are so devoted to You. We would ask that You would make many faithful true prophets, true preachers who will lead many to righteousness. We thank You that You are the sovereign God, that You control history in every part. We give You glory in Christ's name. Amen.


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For the fourth time in his decade-long career, Lebron James was named the NBA's most valuable player. James received 1,207 points and all but one of the first place votes in the selection. He led his team to a franchise record 64 wins — 27 of the victories came consecutively. James averaged 26.8 points, 8 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 1.7 steals in the season. He joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Bill Russell (five), Michael Jordan (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four) as the fifth player to hoist up the hardware four times. Congrats King James!
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A Guardian Changing a Child's Name
If the judge approves your request, you will get a court order called a "decree" changing the child's name. The court process can take up to 3 months, though in busier courts it may take longer.
To file, follow these steps:
Fill out these forms:
- Petition for Change of Name (Form NC-100), including the Attachment to Petition for Change of Name
(Form NC-110) and Supplemental Attachment to Petition for Change of Name (Declaration of Guardian) (Form NC-110G). You need 1 attachment and 1 supplemental attachment for each child whose name you want to change.
- Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (Form NC-120).
- Civil Case Cover Sheet (Form CM-010).
Some courts also require you to fill out local forms to ask for a name change. Ask your local court clerk if there are local forms you have to fill out. You may be able to find local court forms on your superior court's website.
Important: If you are changing a child's name and the child is in the State Witness Program or in the address confidentiality program and you are changing his or her name to avoid domestic violence or stalking or the child is a victim of sexual assault and you are asking for the name change on his or her behalf, make sure you explain in the Attachment to Petition for Change of Name
If your court's family law facilitator or self-help center helps people with name change cases, ask them to review your paperwork. They can make sure you filled it out properly before you move ahead with your case.
The court will keep the original. One copy will be for you. One copy will go to each of the child's parents. You will need the fourth copy to publish it in the newspaper.
File all your forms with the copies in the court in the county where the child lives. The clerk will stamp your forms with "Filed," keep the original and return the copies to you. The Order to Show Cause will have information on your court date, time, and department number.
You will have to pay a filing fee. Find out how much the filing fee is for a first petition (sometimes called a "first appearance" or "first papers"). If you cannot afford the fee, you can ask for a fee waiver.
Serve both of the child's parents with a copy of the paperwork at least 30 days before the court date. You need someone 18 or older, NOT you, to give each parent a copy of the filed Petition for Change of Name
The server has to fill out a Proof of Service of Order to Show Cause (Change of Name) (Form NC-121) for each parent and give them to you. You have to file these proofs of service before your court hearing, or take them to your court hearing (ask your court clerk about any special rules in your county).
- If the parents live in California, you must have someone serve them in person.
- If 1 or both parents live outside California, you can serve the out-of-state parent by certified mail, return receipt requested. But, remember, you can NOT mail the papers yourself.
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In most cases you must publish the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (Form NC-120) in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for 4 weeks in a row. Your court most likely has a list of newspapers that are approved for publishing legal notices.
Important: If you are changing a child's name and the child is in the State Witness Program or in the address confidentiality program and you are changing his or her name to avoid domestic violence or stalking or the child is a victim of sexual assault and you are asking for the name change on his or her behalf, you may not need to publish the Order to Show Cause. You can find out more on item 7 on page 2 of Form NC-100 and on the Information Sheet for Name Change Proceedings Under Address Confidentiality Program (Safe at Home) (Form NC-400-INFO). If you are not sure what to do, talk to a lawyer or your court's self-help center.The cost for publication can vary greatly between newspapers and your court fee waiver will not waive your publication fees. So it is very important that you check the price of publishing BEFORE you put the name of the newspaper in the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name . This is because once the judge signs the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name you must publish in the newspaper listed on the form. You cannot change the form after it is signed by the judge.
Go to court on your hearing date and take the proof of publication from the newspaper along with the Decree Changing Name (Change of Name of Minor by Guardian) (Form NC-130G) for the judge to sign. Make sure you also take both proofs of service showing the parents each got a copy of the papers.
If the judge approves your request for a change of name, the judge will sign the Decree Changing Name (Change of Name of Minor by Guardian) (Form NC-130G). Once you get your signed decree, get a certified copy from the court clerk. You will need this to change the child's birth certificate, social security card, and other papers like a passport.
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