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You may recall that the Hebrews were said to be building the storage cities of Pithom and Rameses.  You can read this in … Exo 1:11  So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses. Problem.  We have studied that the Hebrews left Egypt in 1446 B.C. and Rameses the Great (a.k.a. as Rameses II), the supposed pharaoh of the Exodus as per the late date (the wrong date) did not come to power until 1279 B.C. reigned until 1213 B.C.  So there are no cities named Rameses in the Nile Delta in 1446 B.C.  The city, later called Rameses, is called Avaris in the 15th century B.C., the time of the Exodus.  You can visit this site today.  It is called Tel el-daba.  So, what's going on?  Also, in this lesson, we deal with the city of Dan in the days of Abraham.  The events in chapter 15 are close to 2091 B.C. when Abraham and Sarah entered Canaan.  The city of Dan was named by the tribe of Dan – Dan is the son of Jacob the grandson of Abraham – when they moved north and captured the city of Laish (pronounced Lay Esh).  This is clear when we read … Jdg 18:29  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish. So, Abraham comes to a city called Dan, as we read in the Bible, and the city of Dan is not even there yet!  This is nuts!  What is going on?  Is the Bible wrong? Was it written later in 3rd or 2nd century B.C.?  We need to find out and again show the truthfulness of the Bible.  In lesson 30 in Genesis 15 we then come across this verse … Gen 14:17  Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.   Who is this guy?  There are some who say it's Jesus!  That's crazy.  Some rabbis say it is Shem or the son of Shem the son of Noah.  Consider a few references from ancient Jewish (non-biblical) literature … Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, a priest most high." (Pirke De Rabbi Eliezari) "And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Rashi, Commentaries, Genesis 14:18) "And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Talmud, Tr. Nedarim32) That Melchizedek is Shem or his son is a major error since Melchizedek is the king of Salem.  Salem is probably Jerusalem.  At this time when Abraham and Melchizedek meet, Salem is a Jebusite city.  The Jebusites are a clan of the pagan Canaanites.  The rabbis show they dismiss real history and make up their own opinions which are in total conflict with historical truth. So, who is this guy?  Not Jesus.  Not Shem.  Not the son of Shem.  How do we understand this enigmatic Bible character?  Come and join us in lesson 30.  Come and do what your Lord commanded you to do if you are a TRUE Christian, a real disciple of Rabbi Yeshua. Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0  

In this episode, Devin and Colton discuss C.S. Lewis's book The Horse and His Boy, the fifth book in the Narnian Chronicles. They explore the themes of hope, discipline, and growth in the story. They also discuss the mercurial themes and the appearances of Aslan, the lion. The hosts delve into the urgency and swiftness of the characters' journey and the role of the Pevensies in relation to the story's main characters, Shasta and Avaris. They also explore the parallels between Aslan and the Roman god Mercury, as well as the concept of God's providence and guiding hand in our lives. ***GlossaHouse resources are available at our website! - https://glossahouse.com/ ✏️ ***Sign up for classes with GlossaHouse U - https://glossahouse.com/pages/classes

The Horse and His Boy is book #3 in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia timeline. Readers meet Bree, a powerful and confident war horse, whose homeland is Narnia, hence the reason he can speak to Shasta, a poor fisherman's boy, on the brink of being sold into slavery. Bree convinces him to escape. When Bree finds out Shasta can't ride he asks him if he can fall. “I suppose anyone can fall,” said Shasta. “I mean can you fall and get up again without crying and mount again and fall again and yet not be afraid of falling?” What a vivid picture of perseverance! Shasta and Bree's path crosses with a princess fleeing from an arranged marriage, Avaris. They start journeying to Narnia together but are separated when Shasta is suddenly mistaken for a prince and whisked away. Meanwhile, Avaris overhears an evil prince plotting to capture Queen Lucy in Narnia and destroy another land along the way. When Avaris and Shasta reunite they ride for all they're worth to alert King Lune of the trouble. Bree says he can run no more and even gives the reason why. “But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you anymore you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.” Aslan tells Shasta, “I was the lion…I was the lion who forced you to join Arvais. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last miles so they should read King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat wakeful at midnight to receive you.” Guidance, courage, justice, and forgiveness are some of the impactful themes wonderfully woven through this gripping tale. Won't you join Kate and Sheils as they saddle up for Narnia? Happy Reading dear friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/recapbookchat/message

In New Kingdom Egypt (c.1500 - 1150 BCE), the pharaohs and their agents had many dealings with people of the Mediterranean. These include the ancient Cretans (the "Keftiu" or Minoans) and the Mycenaeans (the "Danae" or "Danaeans"). And from the time of Amunhotep III (c. 1400--1362 BCE), we have tentative evidence for Egyptian embassies visiting these islands. From Memphis to Mycenae, Karnak to Crete, we go in search of international relations. Compilation of previously released material. Logo image: Bull-leaper "taureadors" from an Egyptian palace, fresco fragments excavated at Tell el-Dab'a (ancient Avaris) in the Nile Delta. Image adapted from M. Bietak et al., Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab'a (Avaris) and Knossos (2007). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nous sommes entre les XVIIIe et le XVIe siècles avant notre ère, en Egypte. C'est à cette époque qu'arrivent, dans l'est du Delta du Nil, les Hyksôs littéralement, en grec ancien, « chefs des pays étrangers ». Plus tard, au milieu du premier siècle, l'historiographe romain Flavius Josèphe, citant Manéthon, l'auteur d'une « Histoire de l'Egypte », rapporte : « Je citerai ses propres paroles, comme si je le produisais lui-même comme témoin : « Sous son règne, (il parle du roi égyptien Toutimaios), je ne sais comment, la colère divine souffla contre nous, et à l'improviste, de l'Orient, un peuple de race inconnue eut l'audace d'envahir notre pays, et sans difficulté ni combat s'en empara de vive force ; ils se saisirent des chefs, incendièrent sauvagement les villes, rasèrent les temples des dieux et traitèrent les indigènes avec la dernière cruauté, égorgeant les uns, emmenant comme esclaves les enfants et les femmes des autres (...) On nommait l'ensemble de cette nation Hyksos, c'est-à-dire «rois pasteurs». Car « hyk » dans la langue sacrée signifie roi, et « sôs » veut dire pasteur au singulier et au pluriel dans la langue vulgaire ; la réunion de ces mots forme Hyksôs. D'aucuns disent qu'ils étaient Arabes. Dans une autre copie, il est dit que l'expression « hyk » ne signifie pas rois, mais indique, au contraire, des bergers captifs. Car «hyc», en égyptien, et « hak », avec une aspirée, auraient proprement le sens tout opposé de captifs. (…) Ces rois (…), ceux des peuples appelés pasteurs, et leurs descendants, furent maîtres de l'Égypte, d'après Manéthôs, durant cinq cent onze ans. Puis les rois de la Thébaïde et du reste de l'Égypte se soulevèrent contre les Pasteurs. Entre eux éclata une guerre importante et très longue(…) Les Pasteurs vaincus furent, dit-il, chassés de tout le reste de l'Égypte et enfermés dans un lieu contenant dans son périmètre dix mille aroures (une aroure représentant environ 28 ares) : ce lieu se nommait Avaris (...) Partons sur les traces des mystérieux Hyksôs … Invité : Sébastien Polet de l'asbl Roma Sujets traités : Hyksôs, Egypte, Flavius Josèphe, Toutimaios, peuple, temples, esclaves, nation, roi, pasteurs Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 15h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Plants by nature are designed to interact with light. Satellites can measure the light reflected by plants to detect grapevine diseases before they are visible to the human eye. Katie Gold, Assistant Professor of Grape Pathology, Susan Eckert Lynch Faculty Fellow, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section of Cornell AgriTech is trailblazing remote disease detection with imaging spectroscopy also known as hyperspectral imaging. Imaging spectroscopy was developed by NASA to tell us what Mars was made out of. By turning satellites back on Earth, Katie and a team of scientists are learning how to use the light reflected back to manage grapevine viral and foliar diseases. Listen in to the end to get Katie's number one piece of advice on the importance of data management. Resources: Alyssa K. 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Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript Craig Macmillan  0:00  With us today is Katie Gold, Assistant Professor of Grape Pathology at Cornell AgraTech campus of the Cornell University. Thanks for being on the show.   Katie Gold  0:08  Well, thanks for having me.   Craig Macmillan  0:09  Today, we're going to talk about some really cool technology. I've been interested in it for a long time, and I can't wait to get an update on what all is happening. There's some really exciting work being done on using remote sensing for the detection of plant diseases. Can you tell us a little bit about what that research is about what's going on in that field?   Katie Gold  0:25  Sure, what isn't going on in this field, it's a really exciting time to be here. So I guess to put into context, we're really at this precipice of an unprecedented era of agricultural monitoring. And this comes from the intersection of you know, hardware becoming accessible, the data analytics becoming accessible, but also investment, you know, a lot of talk of ag tech being the next big thing. And with that comes this interest in using these cool and novel data streams for disease detection. So my group specializes in plant disease sensing, it's our bread and butter to what we entirely focus on. And we specialize in a technology called imaging spectroscopy for disease detection. So this is also known as hyperspectral imaging. Imaging spectroscopy is the technical term. And this is a type of remote sensing that it differs from, you know, radio wave remote sensing, and it focuses on light in the visible to shortwave infrared range.   Craig Macmillan  1:13  Talk a little bit more about that. So when we talk about hyperspectral, we're looking outside of the range of radiation, essentially, that's not just light.   Katie Gold  1:24  So yes, and no. So hyperspectral is a word that describes how the light is being measured, kind of colloquially, we assigned to it more meaning that it actually has. That's why I often like to differentiate between it for explanation sake, what hyperspectral imaging is, when we talk about using it in the full vSphere range, these are all types of light, you know, it's all aspects of the electromagnetic radiation scale. But this spectrum of light that ranges from the visible to the shortwave infrared, this spans a range of about 2100 wavelengths. So to put that into context, we see visible light only. And this spans a range of wavelengths, that's about 300 nanometers, and went from about 450 to 750. So if you think about all the richness of radiation, the subtlety in differences in color that you see in everyday light, all of that comes from those subtle interactions of, you know, specific wavelengths of light hitting that stuff and bouncing back into our eye. So now imagine having seven times more wavelengths than that, you know, we have 2100, different wavelengths that we measure. And those wavelengths that are beyond the range that we can see the reason why we don't see them as they're less abundant, they're less emitted by our sun, but they're still present, and they still interact with the world. In particular, they interact very strongly with chemistry, such as environmental chemistry. So imaging spectroscopy was developed by NASA to tell us what Mars was made out of, then one day, they're like, let's turn this baby around and pointed at the Earth. And we discovered that it's quite applicable for vegetative spectroscopy. So telling us what vegetation is made of what the composition of the Earth is. And because plant disease impacts chemistry, so dramatically, plant physiology, chemistry, morphology, such a dramatic chaotic impact. It's a really excellent technology to use for early detection. So those subtle little changes that occur within a plant before it becomes diseased to the human eye, but it's undergoing that process of disease.   Craig Macmillan  3:12  Can you expand on that point? Exactly how does this work in terms of the changes in the plant that are being picked up by viewing certain wavelengths? What's the connection there?   Katie Gold  3:23  Consider the leaf, right. So plants are an amazing thing to remotely sense because they're designed by nature to interact with light. Now that's in contrast to skin right that's designed to keep light out plants are designed to have light go in and out, etcetera. So light will enter our atmosphere from the sun, and it will do one of three things when it encounters a plant, it'll be reflected back, it will be absorbed for photosynthesis, or it will be transmitted through the plant. And the wealth of that light is actually reflected back. And that reflected light can be detected by something as distantly placed as a satellite in orbit. And how that light is reflecting off a plant is determined by the health status of a plant. So a healthy leaf, right? It's going to be photosynthesizing. This means that it's going to be absorbing red and blue light for photosynthesis, it's going to have a lot of chlorophyll, it's going to be nice, bright and green, it's going to reflect back a lot of green light. And then it's going to reflect back near infrared light, because that is the sort of light that corresponds really well to the cellular structure of a leaf, right, so a nice healthy leaf is going to bounce back near infrared light. Now an unhealthy plant, it's not going to be photosynthesizing properly. So it's going to be absorbing less red and blue light. Therefore, it will be reflecting more of that red light back, it's not going to have a lot of chlorophyll. So it's going to reflect back less green light, and it's not as healthy. It's not as robust, so it will reflect back less near infrared light. So by looking at those subtle differences, and this is where we get back to that idea of hyperspectral. Right. hyperspectral is a word about how a sensor is measuring light. And hyperspectral means that a sensor is measuring light at such narrow intervals, that it's a near continuous data product. And this is in contrast to a multispectral sensor something Like NDVI that measures light in big chunks. The power is when you have continuous data, right? You could do more complex analyses you just have more to work with. And when you have discrete data, this is what makes hyperspectral sensors more powerful. It's how they're measuring the light, and often, that they're measuring more light that our eyes can see. But that's not necessarily a given hyperspectral sensors do not need to measure beyond the visible range, they can solely be focused on the visual visible range. Because once again, hyperspectral is a word about how the light is being measured. But we oftentimes kind of colloquially, so assign more value to it. But let's take that in combination, right. So you have a hyperspectral sensor that's measuring light and very, very narrow intervals near continuous data product, you're measuring seven times more wavelengths than the eye can see, combined together. That's how this works, right? So those subtle differences and those wavebands how they're reflecting both direct interactions with plant chemistry, you know, some certain wavelengths of light will hit nitrogen bonds go wackadoo and bounce back, all crazy. Otherwise, we're making indirect inferences, right, you know, plant disease as a chaotic impact of plant health that impacts lots of areas of the spectrum. So we're not directly measuring the chemical impact, right? We're not saying okay, well, nitrogen is down two sugars are up three starch XYZ, we're measuring that indirect impact.   Craig Macmillan  6:19  That's pretty amazing. And so...   Katie Gold  6:21  I think it's cool, right? Yeah.   Craig Macmillan  6:24  The idea here is that there are changes in the leaf that can be picked up and these other wave lengths that we wouldn't see until it's too late.   Katie Gold  6:34  Exactly.   Craig Macmillan  6:35  Okay. So it's a warning sign. That gives us a chance to change management.   Katie Gold  6:40  Ideally, so. Right, so it depends on with the scale at which you're operating. So now here comes another level, right. So if you're considering just that one individual plant, it's different from when you're considering the whole scale of a vineyard, right, you want your sensing to be right size to the intervention that you're going to take. So my group works with two types of diseases primarily, we work with grape vine viral diseases, as well as grape vine foliar diseases, for example, a grape vine downy mildew, which is an Erysiphe caused by a Erysiphe pathogen, and grapevine powdery mildew, which is caused by a fungal pathogen. Now the sort of intervention that you would take for those two diseases is very different, right? With a viral disease, the only treatment that you have is removal, there's no cure for being infected with the virus. Now, with a fungal pathogen or an Erysiphe pathogen like grape downy mildew. If you detect that early, there are fungicides you can use with kickback action. Or otherwise, you might change the sort of what sort of choice you might make a fungicide right. If you know there's an actual risk in this location, you might put your most heavy hitting fungicides there than in areas where there is no disease detected, or the risk is incredibly low, you might feel more comfortable relying on a biological, thereby reducing the impact. So given the sort of intervention, you would take, we want to right size, our sensing approach for it. So with grapevine viral diseases, when the intervention is so has such a vast financial impact, right removal, we want to be incredibly sure of our data. So we focused on high spectral resolution data products for that ones, where we have lots of wavelengths being measured with the most precise accuracy so that we can have high confidence in that result, right? We want to give that to someone and say, Hey, we are very confident this is undergoing asymptomatic infection. Now, on the other hand, with these foliar diseases, they change at such a rapid timescale that you're more benefited by having an early warning that may be less accurate, right? So you're saying, hey, this area of your vineyard is undergoing rapid change it might be due to disease might be because your kid drove a golf cart through the vineyard, however, we're warning you regardless, to send someone out there and take a look and make a decision as to what you might do. Ideally, we would have a high spectral resolution regardless, right? Because more spectrum or better, but the realities of the physics and the actual logistics of doing the sensing is that we don't get to do that we have to do a trade off with spectral spatial and temporal resolution. So if we want rapid return, high degrees of monitoring, and we want that high spatial resolution suitable for a vineyard, we lose our spectral resolution, so we lose our confidence in that result. But our hope is that by saying, Hey, this is a high area of change, and giving you that information very quickly, you can still make an intervention that will be yield successful response, right? You'll go out there and you're like, Oh, yep, that's downy mildew. Otherwise, like, I'm going to take my kid keys like he's out here, my vineyard again. Right? So it's, it's kind of work balancing, right. So we have the logistics of the real world to contend with in terms of using sensing to make to inform management intervention.   Craig Macmillan  9:36  This technology can be used or applied at a variety of distances if I understand everything from proximal like driving through a vineyard to satellite.   Katie Gold  9:48  Oh, yeah. And we've worked with everything.   Craig Macmillan  9:50  Yeah, yeah. And everything in between. I mean, could you fly over is a lot of companies that do NDVIs with flyover.   Katie Gold  9:55  You can use robots like we do.   We can use robots, there's all kinds of things we can do. Or what is a what is NDVI for the audience, even though that's not what we're talking about. You and I keep using it.   So NDVI stands for Normalized Difference vegetative index. It's a normalized difference between near infrared light reflecting and red light. And it is probably the most accurate measurement we have of how green something is. And it's quite a powerful tool. As you you know, we've been using NDVI for well over 50 years to measure how green the earth is from space. That's powerful. But the power of NDVI is also its downside. And that because it is so effective at telling you how green something is, it cannot tell you why something is green. Or it cannot tell you why something is not green, it's going to pick up on a whole range of subtle things that impact plant health.   Craig Macmillan  10:40  And whereas the kind of work that you're doing differs from that in that it's looking at different frequencies, and a higher resolution of frequencies.   Katie Gold  10:51  Exactly. So for the most part, we do use NDVI. But we use it more as a stepping stone, a filtering step rather than the kind of end all be all. Additionally to we use an index that's a cousin to NDVI called EDI, that is adjusted for blue light reflectance, which is very helpful in the vineyard because it helps you deal with the shadow effects. Given the trellising system Iin the vineyard. But yes, exactly. We, for the most part are looking at more narrow intervals of light than NDVI and ranges beyond what NDVI is measuring.   Craig Macmillan  11:22  What's the resolution from space?   Katie Gold  11:24  That's a great question.   Craig Macmillan  11:25  What's the pixel size?   Katie Gold  11:27  One of the commercial satellite products we work with has half a meter resolution from space.   Craig Macmillan  11:32  Wow.   Katie Gold  11:33  Yeah, 50 centimeters, which is amazing. Yeah, that was exactly my reaction. When I heard about it, it was like I didn't get my hands on this. But as I mentioned before, right, you know, if that resolution, we trade off the spectral resolution. So actually, that imagery only has four bands, that effectively is quite similar to an NDVI sensor, that we do have a little more flexibility, we can calculate different indices with it. So we use that data product, 50 centimeters, we use three meter data products from commercial sources. And then we're also looking towards the future, a lot of my lab is funded by NASA, in support of a future satellite that's going to be launched at the end of the decade, called surface biology and geology. And this is going to put a full range Hyperspectral Imager into space that will yield global coverage for the first time. So this satellite will have 30 meter resolution. And it will have that amazing spectral resolution about 10 day return. And that 30 meter spatial size. So again, kind of mixing and matching, you don't get to optimize all three resolutions at once. Unfortunately, maybe sometime in my career, I'll get to the point where I get to optimize exactly what I want, but I'm not there yet.   Craig Macmillan  12:41  And I hadn't thought about that. So there's also a there's a time lag between when the data comes in and when it can be used.   Katie Gold  12:48  Yes.   Craig Macmillan  12:48  What are those lags like?   Katie Gold  12:50  It depends. So with some of the NASA data that we work with, it can be quite lagged, because it's not designed for rapid response. It's designed for research grade, right? So it's assuming that you have time, and it's going through a processing stage, it's going through corrections, etc. And this process is not designed to be rapid, because it's not for rapid response. Otherwise, sometimes when we're working with commercial imagery that can be available. If we task it, it can be available to us within 24 hours. So that's if I say, Hey, make me an acquisition. And they do and then within 24 hours, I get my imagery in hand. Otherwise to there's a there's delays up to seven days. But for the most part, you can access commercial satellite imagery of a scene of your choosing, generally within 24 hours of about three meter resolution to half a meter resolution. That is if you're willing to pay not available from the space agencies.   Craig Macmillan  13:42  I want to go back to that space agency thing first or in a second. What talk to me about satellite, we've got all kinds of satellites flying around out there.   Oh, we do.   All kinds of who's doing what and where and how and what are they? And how long are they up there. And...   Katie Gold  13:58  Well, I'll talk a little bit about the satellites that my program is most obsessed with. We'll call it that. I'll first start with the commercial satellite imagery that we use. This comes from Planet Labs. They're a commercial provider, they're quite committed to supporting research usages, but we've been using their data for three years now. Both they're tasked imagery, which is half a meter resolution, as well as their planet scope data, which is three meter resolution. And we've been looking at this for grapevine downy mildew. Planet Labs, their whole thing is that they have constellation architecture of cube sets. So one of the reasons why satellites are the big thing right now they are what everyone's talking about, is because we're at this point of accessibility to satellite data that's facilitated by these advances in hardware design. So one the design of satellites you know, we now have little satellites called CubeSats that are the size of footballs maybe a little bit bigger.   Craig Macmillan  14:48  Oh, really?   Katie Gold  14:48  Yeah, yeah, they're cool. They're cute. You can actually like kids science fair projects can design a CubeSat now, fancy kid school projects, at least not not where I was. As well as constellation architecture. So this is instead of having one big satellite, the size of a bus, you have something like 10, CubeSat, that are all talking to each other and working together to generate your imagery. So that's how you're able to have far more rapid returns, instead of one thing circling around the planet, you have 10 of them circling a little bit off. So you're able to get imagery far more frequently at higher spatial resolution. And this is now you know, trickled down to agriculture. Of course, you know, what did the Department of Defense have X years ago, they've, I'm excited to see what will finally be declassified eventually, right. But this is why satellite imagery is such a heyday. But anyway, that's, that's the whole Planet Labs stick, they use CubeSats and constellation design. And that's how they're able to offer such high spatial resolution imagery.   Craig Macmillan  15:44  Just real quick, I want to try understand this, you have x units, and they're spaced apart from each other in their orbit.   Katie Gold  15:52  That's my understanding. So remember, I'm the plant pathologist here I just usethis stuff. So that's my understanding is that the physicists, you know, and NASA speak, they classify us into three categories. They've got applications, like myself, I use data for something, you have algorithms, which is like I study how to make satellite, talk to the world, right, like, make useful data out of satellite. And then there's hardware people, right, they design the satellite, that's their whole life. And I'm on the other side of the pipeline. So this is my understanding of how this works. But yes, they have slightly different orbits, but they talk to each other very, very like intimately so that the data products are unified.   Craig Macmillan  16:33  Got it. But there's also other satellites that you're getting information from data from.   Katie Gold  16:37  Yes, yeah. So now kind of going on to the other side of things. So Planet Labs has lesser spectral resolution, they have four to eight, maybe 10 bands is the most that you can get from them. We're looking towards NASA surface biology and geology data. And we use NASA's Avaris instrument suite, the family suite, that includes next generation, as well as brand new Avaris three, and this stands for the Airborne, Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. Now, this is an aircraft mounted device, but this is the sort of sensor that we'll be going into space. Additionally, we're just starting to play around with data from the new NASA satellite called Emit. Emit is an imaging spectrometer that was initially designed to study dust emission. So like, tell us what the dust is made out of where it's coming from. But they've opened up the mask to allow its collection over other areas. And Emit has outstanding spectral resolution, and about 60 meter spatial resolution. It's based on the International Space.   Craig Macmillan  17:32  Station. It's located on the International Space Station?   Katie Gold  17:36  Yes, yeah. And that actually impacts how its imagery is collected. So if you take a look at a map of Emit collections, there are these stripes across the world. And that's because it's on the ISS. So it only collects imagery wherever the ISS goes. And that's a little bit different from this idea of constellation architecture, have these free living satellites floating through orbit and talking to each other.   Craig Macmillan  17:56  Are there other things like Landsat 7, Landsat 8?   Katie Gold  18:02  Oh, we're on Landsat 9 , baby!   Craig Macmillan  18:04  Oh, we're on Landsat 9 now. Cool.   Katie Gold  18:05  Yeah. Yeah, Landsat 9 was successfully launched. I'm really excited about its data.   Craig Macmillan  18:10  And it's coming in?   Katie Gold  18:11  Just to my understanding, yes, so we don't use Landsat and Sentinel data as much otherwise, our focus is on that spectral resolution, but Landsat 9 and its its partner from the European Space Agency's Sentinel 2, they're truly the workhorses of the agricultural monitoring industry. Without those two satellites, we would be in a very different place in this world.   Craig Macmillan  18:32  Right, exactly. Now, you said that your work is funded partially or all by NASA?   Katie Gold  18:37  Yes, partially.   Craig Macmillan  18:38  So partially, so what is the relationship there?   Katie Gold  18:40  So before I started with Cornell, I was hired by Cornell while I was still a graduate student, and as part of their support for my early career development, they sponsored a short postdoc for me a fellowship, they called it I got to stay with a faculty fellow feel better about myself at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where my graduate co advisor Phil Townsend had a relationship with so I spent nine months fully immersed in JPL. People think of JPL is like, you know, the rocket launchers, which they are, but they also study, you know, like some of those phase out and go out into the world. But some of the things they launched turn around and study the Earth, and they had the carbon and ecosystem cycling group there. So I was able to work with them, as well as the imaging spectroscopy group for nine months. And it completely changed my entire life just opened up the world to me about what was possible with NASA data, what was coming for potential use of NASA data. And it really changed the trajectory of my career. So I made connections, made friends got my first graduate student from JPL, that have truly defined my career path. So I work very closely with NASA, originating from that relationship, as well as I'm the pest and disease risk mitigation lead for the newly established domestic agriculture consortium called NASA Acres. So this is NASA's most recent investment in supporting domestic agriculture. Through this consortium we're funded to continue some of our research myself and my good colleague, Yu Jiang who's an engineer who builds me my robots. It's confounding our work continuously, as well as giving us the opportunity to try to expand our approach to other domains through interactions, one on one, collaborations with other researchers and importantly work with stakeholders. And this consortium, the Acres consortium is led by my colleague, Dr. Alyssa Woodcraft, based at the University of Maryland.   Craig Macmillan  20:20  Going back to some of the things that you mentioned earlier, and I think I just didn't ask the question at the time, how often does the satellite travel over any particular point on Earth?   Katie Gold  20:32  So it depends on the type of satellite design. Is it the big one satellite sort of design? Or is it constellation? Or the ISS, right? Like they think the ISS orbits every 90 minutes, something like that? So it really depends, but their satellites crossing us overhead every moment. I think at night, if you ever look up into the night sky, and you see a consistent light, just traveling across the world, not blinking. That's a satellite going overhead.   Craig Macmillan  20:59  Wow, that's amazing. Actually, are there applications for this technology on other crops?   Katie Gold  21:04  Oh, certainly. So yeah. Oh, absolutely. So the use of this technology for understanding vegetative chemistry was really trailblaze by the terrestrial ecologist, in particular, the forest ecologist because it's a, you know, it's how you study things at scale, unlike the vineyards would have nice paths between them for researchers like myself, and you know, us all to walk between forests are incredibly difficult to navigate, especially the ones in more remote locations. So for the past two decades, it really spear spearheaded and trailblaze this use, and then I work with vineyards for the most part, I'm a grape pathologist, I was hired to support the grape industry, they saw the research I was doing, they said, great, keep doing it in garpes. So I'm a reformed potato and vegetable pathologist, I like to say, but there's no reason at all why the work I'm doing isn't applicable to other crops. I just happened to be doing it in grape, and I happen to really adore working with the wine and grape industry.   Craig Macmillan  21:54  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That, it totally makes sense. How is this translating are going to translate for growers into grower practices?   Katie Gold  22:02  That's a great question. So the idea is that by trailblazing these functionalities, eventually, we'll be able to partner with commercial industry to bring this to growers, right. We want these this utility to be adopted for management intervention. But there's only so much one academic lab alone can do and the my role in the world is to trailblaze the use cases and then to partner with private industry to bring it to the people at scale. But the hope is that, you know, I want every venue manager to be looking at aerial images of their vineyards. Every day, right? I have a vision of interactive dashboards, maps of informed risk. One day, I want to have live risk maps informed by remote sensing. And I want every vineyard manager to be as familiar with their aerial view of their vines as they are with that side view of their vines. Right. And I think we're getting there sooner than you realize we're really at the precipice of this unprecedented era of monitoring or monitoring ability, right? And I'm really excited about what it will hold for management.   Craig Macmillan  23:02  And so you must have cooperators I'm guessing.   Katie Gold  23:05  Oh, I do. Yes. I've wonderful cooperators.   Craig Macmillan  23:08  At this stage. It sounds like we're still kind of in a beta stage.   Katie Gold  23:13  Oh, yes, very much in the beta stage.   Craig Macmillan  23:15  So I'm guessing that you're looking at imagery and spotting areas that would suggest that there's some kind of a pathology problem, and then you're going on ground truthing it?   Katie Gold  23:27  So yes, and no, it's more of a testbed sort of case study. We have nine acres of pathology vineyards here at Cornell, Agrotech, and Geneva, New York. And then we do partner with cooperators. We have wonderful cooperators based out in California, as well as here in New York. But those are for more on testbed sort of thing. So we're not just monitoring vineyards, and like watching them and say, Ooh, the spot appears here. We're doing more of a case studies where we intentionally go out and ground truth, then build those links between the imagery because we're not quite there yet, in terms of having this whole thing automated, we're still building those algorithms building that functionality. Now we've established proof of concept. You know, we know this works. So we're working on the proof of practicality, right? Building robust pipelines, ones that are that are resilient to varying environmental geographic conditions, right, different crop varieties resilient to confounding abiotic stress, that one drives us nuts. So that's the stage that we're at, but our collaborators and our industry stakeholders who partner with us. Without them the sort of work I do just simply would not be possible. And I'm extremely grateful for their part.   Craig Macmillan  24:29  So what, what is next, what's next in the world of Katie Gold and in the world of hyperspectral plant pathology?   Katie Gold  24:34  What's next for me is in a week, I'm boarding an airplane to go to Europe for a jaunt. I'm giving two international keynotes at plant pathology conferences about methods but what I really see as next for me is I really want to see the tools that technologies the approach that my group is using, percolate through the domain of plant pathology. We're such a small discipline, there's only about 2000 of us Around the world, in plant pathology, and you know, there's not even 10, great pathologist in this country, I can name every single one of them if you wanted me to. And I think I've got their number and my phone, really, I strongly believe we're at the precipice of such an exciting era in plant pathology, due to the availability of these imagery, these data streams, just simply an unprecedented era. And it will be a paradigm shift in how we ask and answer questions about Plant Pathology, because for the first time, we have accessible, accurate imagery that we can use to study plant disease at the scale at which it occurs in the field in real time. So I want to see these ideas percolate through the skill sets adopted, taken up and embraced and it we're seeing that start, you know, we're seeing that start, there's really excitement in plant pathology, about the use of remote sensing about GIS and that skill set in its value to our discipline. But I'd really like to see that expand. I think I am the first ever plant pathologist to receive funding from NASA Earth Science Division. When I started at JPL, they would introduce me as a disease ecologist, because no one had ever heard of plant pathology. And my wonderful colleague at JPL, Brian Pavlik, who's a JPL technologist, when we started working together, he had never once been into a vineyard. He didn't know about Plant Pathology, he was the one that called me a disease ecologist. And recently, I heard him explain the disease triangle to someone, which is, of course, the fundamental theory of plant pathology. And I was just so proud. But it also really represented this real excitement for me this embrace this acknowledgement of the challenges we face in plant pathology in these domains that otherwise have not heard of us, right and beyond the USDA, funding from NASA, just awareness from these other organizations, excitement from engineers, AI experts about solving plant disease problems. It's truly invigorating and exciting to me. That's where I see you going next. And I'm really excited about the future.   Craig Macmillan  26:51  There was one thing that you could say to grape growers on this topic, what would it be?   Katie Gold  26:58  Oh, that's such a great question. There's so much that I want to say.   Craig Macmillan  27:01  One thing, Katie.   Katie Gold  27:04  I would say your data is valuable and to be aware of how you keep track of your data, that the keeping track of your data, keeping your data organized, keeping, just having reproducible organized workflows will enable you to make the most out of these forthcoming technologies. It will enable you to calibrate it will enable you to train these technologies to work better for you, but your data is valuable, don't give it away to just anyone and to be aware of it.   Craig Macmillan  27:33  I agree wholeheartedly. And I think that applies everything from how much time it takes to leaf an acre of ground. And how much wood you are removing when you prune to when and how much water you're applying. Data is gold.   Katie Gold  27:49   Data is gold.   Craig Macmillan  27:50  It takes time and energy.   Katie Gold  27:52  Institutional knowledge. For example, my field research manager Dave Combs has been doing this job for over 25 years, I inherited him from my predecessor, and he trained our robot how to see disease in its imagery. And the goal of our robots is not to replace the expertise like Dave, but to preserve them right to preserve that 25 years of knowledge into a format that will live beyond any of us. So I see keeping track of your data keeping track of that knowledge you have, you know, you know, in your vineyard where a disease is going to show up first, you know your problem areas, keeping track of that in an organized manner, annotating your datasets. I'm starting to adopt GIS in a way just simply like, here are my field boundaries, even simply just taking notes on your in your data sets that are timed and dated. I think it's incredibly important.   Craig Macmillan  28:38  Where can people find out more about you and your work?   Katie Gold  28:41  Well, so you can visit my Web website or I've got a public Twitter page where you can see me retweet cool things that I think are cool. I tweet a lot about NASA I tweet a lot about Greek disease. If you want to see pictures of dying grapes come to my Twitter page, as well as Cornell regularly publishes things about me.   Craig Macmillan  28:57  Fantastic.   Katie Gold  28:58  So be sure to Google Katie Gold Cornell.   Cornell that's the key. Yeah, Katie go to Cornell or you might get an unwelcome surprise.   Craig Macmillan  29:04  And we have lots of links and stuff on the show page. So listeners you can go there. I want to thank our guest today.   Unknown Speaker  29:13  Thank you so much for having me, Craig. This has been wonderful.   Craig Macmillan  29:16  Had Katie Gould, Assistant Professor of rape pathology at Cornell agritech campus of Cornell University.    Nearly Perfect Transcription by https://otter.ai

Pits with dismembered hands at the Hyksos site of Tell el Dab'a/Avaris have us asking, what is it with ancient Egypt and dismemberment? Sure the king wants to permanently defeat his enemies – really, who doesn't want that - but isn't all this hand chopping business just, well, performance art? It's our most hands on episode yet!

What caused Israel to become slaves of Egypt? How did Pharaoh try to "control" the births of the Israelites? Is there any evidence that this happened? What is Avaris?

30:02 – What did Moses forget that caused him to have to take the long way around to the Promised Land? Did the Exodus take place in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom, 2nd Intermediate Period, or New Kingdom? Which Land o’ Goshen city did the Israelites depart from, Rameses or Avaris? What “revelation” did Mark Twain have […]

This is a talk I gave in 2021 regarding some of my PhD research (still ongoing). This is also available on YouTube with nice pictures etc.www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's Bonus Episode, Bianca chats with Alisha Sevigny, author of The Oracle of Avaris, about the difference between MG and Upper MG; the importance of reading in the genre you want to write in; guarding against talking down to kids or teaching a lesson; taboo subjects for MG and how to approach writing difficult topics. After which, Bianca chats with TJ Alexander, author of Chef's Kiss, about their publishing journey, trying to find comps when you're breaking new ground; the psychology behind certain tropes; the importance of figuring out which POV will best serve the story; maintaining tension in romcoms; outlining or not outlining a romance novel; and emotional edging.Finally, Laynie Rose Rizer from East City Bookshop answers your burning comps questions!Find us on our socials:Twitter: @TSNOTYAW @BiancaM_author @carlywatters @ceciliaclyraInstagram: @biancamarais_author @carlywatters @cece_lyra_agent @ the_shit_about_writingFacebook: @tsnotyawWebsite: www.biancamarais.comAlisha can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @alishasevigny and at www.alishasevigny.comTJ Alexander can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @tjalexandernyc and at www.tjalexander.comLaynie can be found on Instagram at @thelaynierose and East City Bookshop can be found at @eastcitybookshop

Contrary to what we've been taught, there is hard evidence of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. Dr. Doug Petrovich joins us as we kick off a four-week series based on his new book Origins of the Hebrews: New Evidence of Israelites in Egypt from Joseph to the Exodus. This week, Doug shares an inscription that names Joseph's son, Manasseh, and his grandson, Shechem, and explains why the statue of an “Asiatic” man found at the ancient city of Avaris may be a likeness of Jacob. Subscribe and share our new YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/TheBiblesGreatestMysteries!

This is lesson 15 in the Bible study series, "The Gospel According to Moses - Exodus." You need to access the link below for this lesson since it is a video - I want you to SEE the archaeology and geography that shows that the exodus was a real historical event happening in the 15th century B.C. In this video we will study the archaeological discoveries that even give us the likely location of the palace of the Pharaoh where the events took place we are so familiar with. Link to video lesson 15 - https://youtu.be/F_6Z9gObhsc In the video lesson I refer back to lesson 5 parts 1 & 2 of this Bible study series.  I highly recommend you listen to these podcasts before continuing on in this series. Links to Lesson 5 parts 1 and 2 of the series, "The Gospel According to Moses - Exodus," on the dating of the Exodus and more -       Part 1 - click here for part 1      Part 2 - click here for part 2 Many links are provided for further study - check them out below.  These are the links to excellent and credible resources for you for further study into the archaeology that proves the Exodus, proves the Bible, and shows us the veracity of the very words of God, the Bible.   In the video lesson I referred to articles and websites and other amazing scholarly videos that add to and enhance what I taught in this video.  Here's the links ... Link to Dr. Bryant Wood's (highly credible and renowned Bible archaeologist of the Associates for Biblical Research) article on the royal precinct of Avaris at Tel el Dab'a - https://biblearchaeology.org/research/chronological-categories/sojourn-of-israel-in-egypt/2249-the-royal-precinct-at-rameses Link to Dr. Manfred Bietak's (considered one the five best archaeologists of the 20th century by Biblical Archaeology Review) report on the excavations at Tel el Dab'a - https://www.academia.edu/10074198/_Report_on_the_Excavations_of_a_Hyksos_Palace_at_Tell_el_Dabca_Avaris_23rd_of_August_15th_of_November_2011_Egypt_and_the_Levant_22_23_2012_13_18_52   Links to four videos from the Associates for Biblical Research discussing the REAL evidence and not the PATTERNS of evidence that show the high probability that Exodus was a real event in the 15th century B.C.  These are part of the video series from the Associates for Biblical Research called ,"Digging for Truth."  They are free and the scholars are all experts and scholars in archaeology and all are evangelical Bible believing Christians.  The four videos feature Dr. Scott Stripling presenting the real evidence of the date of the Exodus and the archaeology of the events and places.  Here's the links ...      Video 1 - click here for video 1 on the date of Exodus       Video 2 - click here for video 2 on the date of Exodus      Video 3 - click here for video 3 on the archaeology of the Exodus      Video 4 - click here for video 4 on the archaeology of the Exodus Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - click here for the teacher's background

You may recall that the Hebrews were said to be building the storage cities of Pithom and Rameses.  You can read this in …Exo 1:11  So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.Problem.  We have studied that the Hebrews left Egypt in 1446 B.C. and Rameses the Great (a.k.a. as Rameses II), the supposed pharaoh of the Exodus as per the late date (the wrong date) did not come to power until 1279 B.C. reigned until 1213 B.C.  So there are no cities named Rameses in the Nile Delta in 1446 B.C.  The city, later called Rameses, is called Avaris in the 15th century B.C., the time of the Exodus.  You can visit this site today.  It is called Tel el-daba.  So, what’s going on? Also, in this lesson, we deal with the city of Dan in the days of Abraham.  The events in chapter 15 are close to 2091 B.C. when Abraham and Sarah entered Canaan.  The city of Dan was named by the tribe of Dan – Dan is the son of Jacob the grandson of Abraham – when they moved north and captured the city of Laish (pronounced Lay Esh).  This is clear when we read …Jdg 18:29  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.So, Abraham comes to a city called Dan, as we read in the Bible, and the city of Dan is not even there yet!  This is nuts!  What is going on?  Is the Bible wrong? Was it written later in 3rd or 2nd century B.C.?  We need to find out and again show the truthfulness of the Bible. In lesson 30 in Genesis 15 we then come across this verse …Gen 14:17  Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. Who is this guy?  There are some who say it’s Jesus!  That’s crazy.  Some rabbis say it is Shem or the son of Shem the son of Noah.  Consider a few references from ancient Jewish (non-biblical) literature …Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, a priest most high." (Pirke De Rabbi Eliezari)"And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Rashi, Commentaries, Genesis 14:18)"And Melchizedek is Shem, the son of Noah." (Talmud, Tr. Nedarim32)That Melchizedek is Shem or his son is a major error since Melchizedek is the king of Salem.  Salem is probably Jerusalem.  At this time when Abraham and Melchizedek meet, Salem is a Jebusite city.  The Jebusites are a clan of the pagan Canaanites.  The rabbis show they dismiss real history and make up their own opinions which are in total conflict with historical truth.So, who is this guy?  Not Jesus.  Not Shem.  Not the son of Shem.  How do we understand this enigmatic Bible character? Come and join us in lesson 30.  Come and do what your Lord commanded you to do if you are a TRUE Christian, a real disciple of Rabbi Yeshua.Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - click here for the teacher's background

New Chronology is an alternative chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to History in 1995. It contradicts mainstream Egyptology by proposing a major revision of the established Egyptian chronology, in particular by re-dating Egyptian kings of the Nineteenth through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, bringing forward conventional dating by up to 350 years. David Rohl's published works A Test of Time (1995), Legend (1998), The Lost Testament (2002), and The Lords of Avaris (2007) set forth Rohl's theories for re-dating the major civilizations of the ancient world. A Test of Time proposes a down-dating (bringing closer to the present), by several centuries, of the New Kingdom of Egypt, thus needing a major revision of the conventional chronology of ancient Egypt. Rohl asserts that this would let scholars identify some of the major events in the Hebrew Bible with events in the archaeological record and identify some of the well-known biblical characters with historical figures who appear in contemporary ancient texts. Lowering the Egyptian dates also dramatically affects the dating of dependent chronologies, such as that currently used for the Greek Heroic Age of the Late Bronze Age, removing the Greek Dark Ages, and lowering the dates of the Trojan War to within two generations of a ninth-century-BC Homer and his most famous composition: the Iliad. The New Chronology, one of several proposed radical revisions of the conventional chronology, has not been accepted in academic Egyptology, where the conventional chronology or small variations of it remains standard. Support Dr. Rohl and his work at these links below! Blog : http://davidrohl.blogspot.com/2012/01/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/184188839207/ Academia: https://ucl.academia.edu/DavidRohl EXODUS – MYTH OR HISTORY? HARDCOVER BOOK https://store.patternsofevidence.com/collections/all/products/exodus-myth-or-history-hardcover-book Lecture DVD's: https://store.patternsofevidence.com/collections/all/products/the-david-rohl-lectures-2-dvd-set Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ADavid+Rohl&s=relevancerank&text=David+Rohl&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antiquity-middlages/support

IntroductionWe have a longer text to go through today, so I’m just going to read it and then we’ll dive in.The HourglassI have an hourglass here that is going to represent our life. When a man or woman is born, that moment when that baby slips out of the shoot and takes it’s first breath represents the turning of the glass and the sand begins to fall. With every minute of your life, a grain falls through that tiny crack. You can see the pile accumulating at the bottom of the jar. But here’s the thing about life. Nobody knows how much sand is in the glass. You don’t know how much is left. It could be 30 seconds, 30 minutes, 30 years, or more. But the rate at which that remaining sand empties is fixed. Minute by minute, hour by hour, that sand empties. The pile grows at a fixed rate.And then one day, time runs out. All of those things we worked so hard for, the years and years of education, the work projects that you were so proud of, the years of paying down that mortgage, the years of investing, the gadgets and trinkets aquired, the trading up of furniture, cars, houses, it’s all reduced to a pile of sand at the bottom of an hour glass.And interestingly, most of what we spent time doing in life does very little to prepare us for what we will experience in that moment. There is coming a day when we will realize that the end is drawing near and for most this will summon up feelings of tremendous fear. Here’s the question we are dealing with this morning: How will you deal with that fear? How will you deal with the knowledge that the end is coming soon? When you hear the death chains rattling, how will you find peace and security when all the things that normally stabilize you are cut away?Today in our text we find Jacob in his final days. And he speaks with lucidity. His life has taught him lessons that he’s ready to impart. Jacob is prepared to die in peace.JacobNow to really appreciate his peaceful deathbed condition we have to remember how little peace Jacob experienced in his life. Seeing Jacob trusting God with total security upon his deathbed is certainly not what we would have expected.Just spend a couple minutes with me in your mind thinking about the life of Jacob. Jacob is one of those guys, that if you met him when he was 20 years old, I don’t think you would have liked him. He wore his insecurity on his sleeve. You can’t understand Jacob until you realize that his entire life was a quest for security and peace. Jacob was absolutely ruled by the fear of being unaccepted. He was so needy. He just longed for acceptance and approval, and this longing for acceptance created great unrest and shaped every aspect of his life.Some people, when they feel rejected or insecure, they recoil in hurt and shrink back. Others do the opposite. Other people fight. Jacob was a fighter. He responded to insecurity by quarreling with everyone he met. He was always in conflict with people. Always. Think about Jacob’s life. Jacob came out of the womb fighting. He came out clutching his twin brother’s heel. And that would become a metaphor for his entire life, clutching at the heel but never quite obtaining. He wrestles away his brother’s birthright for a pot of soup. Then when his father dies, he cons away his brother’s blessing. He had to fight with Esau to get his father’s love and he never got it. He’s got this wily scheme where he struggles to get the wife he wanted. He’s got this gimmicky strategy where he deceives with goats and herds and struggles and wrestles to get the career he wanted.And by the time you get to the Joseph narrative you see all this unresolved insecurity expressing itself in relationships inside the home. The love-starved wives are in conflict with him and each other. The love-starved brothers fight and wrestle with one another, a mirror image of their love-starved father who wrestles with himself and God. Jacob scratched, bit, and clawed to find security, grasping at the heel. And he suffered.By the time we get to the end of Jacob’s life, which is the passage we read today, we see that all that suffering softened him. We see a portrait of a softer Jacob whose body is old and crippled and brittle but his heart is supple and fleshy; we see sheets of scales flaking off and falling to the ground. He has finally stopped trying to manipulate and blame others and instead he simply trusts the Lord and in so doing experiences incredible peace.So today we are going to learn from Jacob three lessons of a man whose life had been changed by the peace of God. We will learn from Jacob how to finish life with security.How do we die of cancer without fear? It’s not easy. If ever there is a time when the security anchors of your life are cut away, it’s when you hear the death chains rattling. What can you cling to in moments like these?As humans, when we sense instability, we reach for what we know. It’s no time to experiment with new centers of security. Dangerous times, unfamiliar times. These are not times for risk. It’s time to go with what you know works. In moments like these we return to time-tested strongholds.Jacob’s hourglass was nearly empty. He’s got just a pinch of sand left in the top of the glass. What time-tested stronghold does he shelter beneath? What security blankets does Jacob reach for?This first point is an observation of what he does not reach for. He does not reach for Egypt. And just that is absolutely shocking, because so much good had come from Egypt. Egypt had been very kind to Jacob. Egypt had literally saved his life. The food, the land, and the bounty in times of famine. Keep in mind the geography of the narrative. Jacob is coming down from the hill country of Judea in Israel. Here’s a picture of what the area around Shechem looks like today.I mean this is rocky, thorny, hard land. Not a lot of water. You have to scratch out a living up here. As a shepherd you have to live a nomadic life moving from hill to hill. You have to move your flocks around according to the season. In the best of years it’s arid. And when the drought hits, you can imagine whatever little vegetation exists here is just baked and scorched into carbon gravel. So they are starving to death in this hot desert. And you remember the narrative. Joseph’s brother’s go to get Jacob, and bring him where? To Egypt! Here come the carts so full, you could imagine the grain spilling over the side rails and the axles bending. Joseph’s family comes down they are given the best of the land. The well-watered plains of goshen. So here’s a picture of modern day goshen. Would you rather live in Shechem or Goshen?The Nile Delta is flat and you have rich, thick grass in loamy soil totally free of rocks. I mean, in a time when most of Jacob’s buddies back in Canaan are starving to death, his tribe is living off the fat of the land.I mean what’s working here. What’s the time-tested stronghold here? Is Canaan working or is Egypt working? “Everyone in Egypt is being so kind to me. We were welcomed in a royal parade. I mean, I know the whole promises of God thing, but man this is nice.”Do events like these not condition a man to think, “When in crisis, flee to Egypt for safety?” Of course! There would have been a huge temptations here for Jacob in these moments of crisis to reach for Egypt.But here’s our point: Jacob finished the race of life, Distrusting Egypt’s Generosity. Here’s where we see this in the text. Jacob sees his son Joseph and you have this strange custom where he takes Joseph’s hand and places it on his thigh and he makes his son Joseph swear, “Don’t bury me here in Egypt.” He’s so deadly serious. You could imagine Joseph saying, “Dad, is Egypt so bad? I mean look at all Egypt has done for you? Is it so bad? Why do you feel the need to be carried clear back to that desert?”Here’s the thing that Jacob got right. Yes, it was Egypt’s grain that saved his family’s life. Yes, it was Egypt’s soil that grew the crops they needed to live. Yes, it was the water that came out of Egypt’s Nile that quenched their thirsty mouths. But it was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that made Egypt and conscripted its resources to save his chosen people. You see, he recognized that the blessings of this world are owned by God. When we are given gifts from the world, we are not to thank the world, we are to thank God. The checks of blessing we receive are signed by men, but the banker is God.And the application for us is a good one. Your paycheck has your company’s name on it, but the giver is God. The inheritance comes from your parents or grandparents, but the giver is God. You get a tax return from the IRS, but the giver is God. It’s a fundamental way in which you view blessing. This becomes even more obvious as we drill into the details of what Jacob says next. Not only does he say, “Bury me in Egypt,” he goes further. Then Israel said to Joseph,I’m not sure how this would have been heard by Joseph but it sure feels strange to my ear. Joseph is the sovereign of Egypt. Joseph without question lives in a palace of kings. One of the suggested locations where Joseph lived is in the goverenor’s palace discovered in the city of Avaris. Here’s a rendering of that palace based on the archaeological evidence. If it’s not this, is certainly something like this.I mean, Joseph is living in straight up luxury. Joseph is living in opulence like you couldn’t believe. “Why is dad bringing up this tiny little plot of land?” This has got to feel to Joseph like dad is giving him a coin collection he won in an arm wrestling match. Yippidy do.But what’s going on here? Yes, Jacob is distrusting the generosity of Egypt. That’s the negative. But here’s the positive.Why would Jacob think that Joseph would be even remotely interested in his piggy bank, in this little piece of rocky land a hundred miles away? Does Jacob really expect Joseph to trade Egypt for a rocky hillside that daddy captured with a handmade bow and arrow?Here’s the answer. Yes, he does. Why? Not because there is value in this one little plot of earth. Because the maker of the actual earth has promised to bless his people here. This is the seed of blessing promised to generations previous. If you remember clear back in Genesis 35, God appeared to Jacob in a dream and said to him:So now Jacob, these many years later, believes this promise. Jacob is re-ratifying a promise made to his father and grandfather about this land. Now we get way more insight into the psychological framework of Jacob and how he thought about this promise if we read Hebrews chapter 11. It’s such a perfect complimentary text to where we are today. Jacob believes that one day, the land given to him will be the soil upon which a tremendous kingdom is built. He believes this in a way that alters his perspective of reality and every aspect of his decision making. Look at how this faith in the promises of God is articulated in Hebrews chapter 11. Now it starts out with Abraham.So here these patriarchs are, living in tents, they are in a ghetto. They are homeless in a foreign land. But they believe God. They believe that this land is given to them. The text goes on to say:Do you see what’s happening here? Jacob is looking at the hill he captured with the bow and he says, “This is the foundation of a great city.” You can imagine Joseph and Jacob sitting there. The great building projects of Egypt spread out before them. The great pyramids, the testament to the power of Egypt rising out of the desert sand and Jacob whispers in Joseph’s ear, “You see these pyramids? They ain’t nothing compared to what God is going to do. Do you remember that rocky slope I told you about, the one I captured with my bow? One day, that’s going to make Egypt look like a lego city. I’m trusting in the promise that God gave to me. Give me all of Egypt or this rocky slope. I’ll take the slope.”And perhaps he looks at Joseph with hope. “Joseph, maybe that’s where you build your palace. Joseph, perhaps God is raising you up to move my people back and establish the kingdom promised.” Now that wasn’t God’s plan but you can hear in Jacob’s voice the hope. “Joseph, I’m going to die, but the promise of God will live on through you.”He wants Joseph to carry his body back so he can see the land for himself. He wants to make an impression on his son. We are exiles and foreigners. This is not our home. We belong elsewhere. Jacob said we are strangers and exiles here in Egypt. Bury me in Cannan. This is not about geography. This is about theology. The Hebrews passage goes on to say:Jacob wasn’t ashamed of his puny little coin collection because he knew the value. This was amazon.com at 25cents a share. The promise of God was behind it. It would develop into a great nation not because the land itself was anything. The land was nothing. It was because the God of the land. Jacob died with a gleam in his eye. He believed the promise.The blessing to his sons had this promise in mind. This same promise Joseph would pass on to his children.And his children to their children. And 400 years later a man named Moses would make the same decision based on the same promise.Hebrews goes on to say:You don’t give up Egypt for nothing. You cannot yearn for another land while holding onto Egypt. You give up Egypt for something greater! Choosing God means abandoning Egypt. That’s what Moses did. He chose a life in the desert with grumblers because that was a greater reward than Egypt. He was looking forward. He was looking to the reward.Abraham trusted the promises of God, Isaac did it and now Jacob did. And now the question turns to us. Jacob was an outsider. He was an exile in Egypt who knew that as good as it was, Egypt was not the home God promised to him. The gods of Egypt were not his gods.We too are exiles in a land that is not our home. For us it’s not Egypt with the leeks and garlic and Nile Delta, it’s Idaho with potatoes and Panda Express and the Sawtooths. Some of you have fled here as exiles from a foreign land. I know from experience, Idaho has been nice to me. I had a wonderful childhood in Eagle working on farms. I get to hike the Sawtooths every summer. I love breathing clean air. I get to replinished my soul in Cascade and McCall. I love watersports and snow sking. We start to love Idaho, don’t we?And it’s easy to make Idaho our home to grow our roots deep into Idaho. The longer you live, the more you adopt the values of the place. It just kind of soaks into you. But Idaho is not our home. Why? Here’s the simplest reason. When we die, we no longer live in Idaho. You don’t call a motel your home because you are only there for a moment. Home is the place you live forever. Heaven is our home.Jacob dies with security because he is anchored to the promises of God, truths which are not cut away in death. He’s able to trust in the promises of God. This promise of God that one day a nation will rise up in this land is binding him to this moment. He can die in peace knowing that God will carry out his promise to generations yet unborn. Why does he want to be buried in Canaan? It’s his statement of faith that I want my bones to be in the physical location where God has promised to one day establish his people for an eternal kingdom.The other thing we see Jacob doing as he prepares to die is bless his children. We see it here as he blesses Joseph’s two sons and then all of chapter 49 is Jacob blessing his other sons as he prepares to die. In these chapters, don’t forget Jacob is very old. His body is riddled with pain. We see him groaning just to sit up. We see him leaning heavy on his staff. His body is broken. We see in the text here that he is blind. The man is about to die. He’s not buying green bananas if you know what I mean. He knows he’s only got a pinch of sand in that hourglass.But in those last weeks of his life, his perspective is marvelous. For Jacob, as he faces into the reality of his uncooperative body, the frailty he is forced to confront is not something to be fought off. It is something to be understood. It is a reminder for him that it is time to prepare to die. And what comes to mind at that point? I must bless my children.Now, I’m not sure many in Jacob’s shoes would have said that. I think many who had lived Jacob’s life would have said, “I’m about to die. It’s time to curse my children.” Think about what Jacob had been put through as a father. Let’s just rewind the tape a bit. Let’s rewind for just a moment to that great reveal where Joseph declares who he is. Remember back with me. They are in the palace. The golden cup had just been discovered in Benjamin’s sack. And for that reason, Benjamin has a noose around his neck, so to speak. Joseph is pretending to be all stern and he’s ready to administer the royal sentence but he can’t bear it any more. He breaks down, takes off his head dress and speaks in perfect Hebrew, “Guys, it’s me! It’s your brother Joseph!”Here’s an honest question: is this a good day for the brothers? You can imagine the choking stares, the blinking disbelief, the silence. You can imagine the horrifying realization that this thing you thought you had completely covered up, is now staring you in the face. It’s so unexpected. You had zero time to prepare. You haven’t even had one second to prepare an I’m sorry speech. You are just caught naked.This represents a day of reckoning. They have to swallow hard. The tables are totally turned and they have to realize they are at Joseph’s mercy. That’s bad enough. But think about what’s coming next. Think about part two. I think part two is much worse. After they hash this out at some level, they are now commissioned to go back and tell their father that Joseph is still alive. Now that news has some implications if you know what I mean.You couldn’t say, “Dad, guess what, Joseph’s still alive. I thought he was eaten by a wild animal, but we found him and he must have escaped. He’s alive!” That story doesn’t work because Joseph knows the truth. So it’s got to be more like this, “Hey Dad, Remember when you were mourning and we had that whole funeral for Joseph? Well, I kind of knew he was still alive. In fact, we all knew. We just let you cry your guts out for weeks on end. I mean, I know it sounds awful, but we were going to slit his throat with a knife and kill him but we decided instead to sell him for cash. Well, we got that money from selling Joseph to the Ishmaelite traders. And truth be told, every year when we had that little memorial service, and you cried your guts out. But, we all smiled behind your back because we knew he was still alive. And you know how you haven’t seen your son for a couple decades and how you can never get that time back and how you’ve had no relationship with him. Well, that’s kind of our fault. And we knew it and did nothing about it.”Like, whose gets the short straw to communicate that one?And the text says Joseph sent them off with the instructions, “Don’t quarrel along the way.” Now why do you suppose he said this? We don’t have to even wonder. There’s not even a hint of a question. To tell Dad that Joseph is still alive means also telling him that there has been a family wide conspiracy against him for the past 20 years. He’s been the target of a giant cover-up where he’s the fool. He’s the last to know. Of course they are going to quarrel. Of course they are going to blame one another. “I told you it was a bad idea. I told you not sell him.”And can you imagine how badly Jacob was hurt by that deception? How much anger must he have felt? He must have had to fight not to hold in bitterness and resentment. There is some serious soul work that needs to be done on Jacob’s part! But now here he is at the end of his life, ready to bless his children. He doesn’t breath a word of it. Not one word of it comes up. It’s actually quite impressive. The reason is, once again, he’s looking to the promises of God.Here’s what the old Jacob has learned. He’s now completely convinced that no matter what something looks like on the surface, God will turn it into good. Earlier in his life he was completely convinced that the worst thing that could have happened to him, did happen to him. His son Joseph was taken from him. But now he sees how this terrible evil was redeemed for his great good. And the lesson. Whatever you see in front of you today is no indication of what is coming tomorrow. He knows that God will make a great nation out of these failures.There there’s this strange scene where the hand of blessing goes onto the younger instead of the older. Certainly not according to custom! But this just once again reaffirms that you can’t trust how things appear.Sometimes it looks like something it is so bad, it could never be redeemed for good. But other times it looks so good, so certain, it looks like it could never fail you and then at the very last moment the hands of blessing are crossed and the weak are made strong and the strong serve the weak.Jacob totally distrusts what his physical eyes see and he totally trusts what he has been told to believe by his faithful God. In his final moments, he has the least amount of physical sight but the greatest spiritual sight. He sees more clearly in those final moments than he has ever seen. And he wants to pass that clarity onto his children. “It’s not what it appears to be children. Egypt will go down. Things are not what they appear to be. We don’t trust what we can see. We trust what we know, what we have been told.” He is trusting in the great God of all glory. And you hear that trust coming out in the way he blesses his sons.So practically for us what does this mean? It means using your death as the platform upon which you preach a sermon of everlasting life. You have a unique message to speak before you die. As a pastor, I’ve been at the bedside of many people before they’ve died. And I remember just weeping at the beauty of what some of these saints said as they faced death. If those same words were said in a church foyer, that’s one thing. If they’re said sitting at death’s door, it’s quite another.Man, let me just get real for a moment. It may be that if I outlive you, I’ll be doing your funeral. And if not me, then one of the other pastors or elders or some minister of the gospel. Make our job easy!Do you have a will? I hope so, it’s an important thing to have. And if you have one, it likely contains information regarding the functional financial elements of your estate. Good. But that stuff doesn’t really matter. I hope your will also contains letters, notes, what you want to tell people. Do you have letters you want opened? Don’t you want to be like Jacob here and encourage your children and grandchildren to stay faithful to Jesus Christ? Don’t you want to extol how faithful he has been to you and how wonderful it is to be his child? Don’t you want to publicly marvel at the blessings of the covenant keeping God?I love how Jacob blesses his children, “The God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day.” What can you communicate to the next generation about the faithfulness of God? You can write this letter at any time. We do not when exactly we will die, but we do know that we will die, so either way we can prepare.Can you paint a portrait of the faithfulness of God such that others can look to the God you trusted in and be strengthened? You see all through the Bible we read of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob gets the title “Patriarch” and because of that we tend to view him as this great man. But he was not great. God did something great to Jacob. So when we say, “God of Jacob” we mean God of the insecure. God of those who are craving for men’s approval. God of those who time and time and time again repeat their failures. God of people who need to be rescued from finding their hope in this world.We will come to the end of our life. The sands of time will run out. In those dying moments God may give you some unique opportunity to pass on your experience of how God has been faithful to you to the next generation so that when people say, “God of Jason” they think, “Man, if God can redeem that train wreck, he can redeem anything.” Let’s trust in that God. Let’s run to that God.

The HourglassI have an hourglass here that is going to represent our life. When a man or woman is born, that moment when that baby slips out of the shoot and takes it’s first breath represents the turning of the glass and the sand begins to fall. With every minute of your life, a grain falls through that tiny crack. You can see the pile accumulating at the bottom of the jar. But here’s the thing about life. Nobody knows how much sand is in the glass? you don’t know how much is left. It could be 30 seconds, 30 minutes or 30 years or more. But the rate at which that remaining sand empties is fixed. Minute by minute, hour by hour, that sand empties. The pile grows at a fixed rate.And then one day, time runs out. All of those things we worked so hard for, the years and years of education, the work projects that you were so proud of, the years of paying down that mortgage, the years of investing, the gadgets and trinkets aquired, the trading up of furniture, cars, houses, it’s all reduced to a pile of sand at the bottom of an hour glass.And interestingly, most of what we spent time doing in life does very little to prepare us for what we will experience in that moment. There is coming a day when we will realize that the end is drawing near and for most this will summon up feelings of tremendous fear. Here’s the question we are dealing with this morning:How will you deal with that fear? How will you deal with the knowledge that the end is coming soon?When you hear the death chains rattling, how will you find peace and security when all the things that normally stabilize you are cut away?Today in our text we find Jacob in his final days. And he speaks with lucidity. His life has taught him lessons that he’s ready to impart. Jacob is prepared to die in peace.JacobNow to really appreciate his peaceful deathbed condition we have to remember how little peace Jacob experienced in his life. Seeing Jacob trusting God with total security upon his deathbed is CERTAINLY not what we would have expected.Just spend a couple minutes with me in your mind thinking about the life of Jacob. Jacob is one of those guys, that if you met him when he was 20 years old, I don’t think you would have liked him. He wore his insecurity on his sleeve. You can’t understand Jacob until you realize that his entire was a quest for security and peace.Jacob was absolutely ruled by the fear of being unaccepted.He was so needy.He just longed for acceptance and approval.And this longing for acceptance created great unrest and shaped every aspect of his life.Some people, when they feel rejected or insecure, they recoil in hurt and shrink back. Other do the opposite. Other people fight. Jacob was a fighter. He responded to insecurity by quarreling with everyone he met.Recounting of Jacob’s LifeHe was always in conflict with people. Always. Think about Jacob’s life. Jacob came out of the womb fighting. He came out clutching his twin brother’s heel. And that would become a metaphor for his entire life, clutching at the heel but never quite obtaining.He wrestles away his brother’s birthright for a pot of soup. Then when his father dies cons away his brother’s blessing.He had to fight with Esau to get his father’s love and he never got it.He’s got this wily scheme where he struggles to get the wife he wantedHe’s got this gimmicky strategy where he deceives with goats and herds and struggles and wrestles to get the career he wanted.And by the time you get to the Joseph narrative you see all this unresolved insecurity expressing itself in relationships inside the home. The love-starved wives are in conflict with him and each other. The love-starved brothers fight and wrestle with one another, a mirror image of their love-starved father who wrestles with himself and God.Jacob scratched, bit and clawed to find security, grasping at the heel. And he suffered.Conclusion of Jacob’s LifeBy the time we get to the end of Jacob’s life, which is the passage we read today, we see that all that suffering softened him. We get a portrait of a softer Jacob whose body is old and crippled and brittle but his heart is supple and fleshy; we see sheets of scales flaking off and falling to the ground.He has finally stopped trying to manipulate and blame others and instead he simply trusts the Lord and in so doing experiences INCREDIBLE peace.So today we are going to learn from Jacob three lessons of a man whose life had been changed by the peace of God. We will learn from Jacob how to finish life with security.How do we die of cancer without fear? It’s not easy. If ever there is a time when the security anchors of your life are cut away, it’s when you hear the death chains rattling.What can you cling to in moments like these?As humans, when we sense instability, we reach for what we know. It’s no time to experiment with new centers of security. Dangerous times, unfamiliar times. These are not times for risk. It’s time to go with what you know works. In moments like these we return time-tested strongholds.So Jacob’s hourglass was nearly empty.He’s got just a pinch of sand left in the top of the glass. What time-tested stronghold does he shelter beneath? What security blankets does Jacob reach for?This first point is an observation of what he DOES NOT reach for. He does not reach for Egypt. And just that is absolutely shocking. Because so much good had come from Egypt. Egypt had been very kind to Jacob. Egypt had literally saved his life. The food, the land, the bounty in times of famine.Keep in mind the geography of the narrative. Jacob is coming down from the hill country of Judea in Israel.Here’s a picture of what the area around Shechem looks like today.I mean this is rocky, thorny, hard land. Not a lot of water. You have to scratch out a living up here. As a shepherd you have to live a nomadic life moving from hill to hill. You have to move your flocks around according to the season. In the best of years it’s arid.And when the drought hits, you can imagine whatever little vegetation exists here is just baked and scorched into carbon gravel. So they are starving to death in this hot desert. And you remember the narrative.Joseph’s brother’s go to get Jacob, and bring him where? To Egypt! Here come the carts so full, you could imagine the grain spilling over the side rails and the axles bending. Joseph’s family comes down they are given the best of the land. The well-watered plains of goshen. So here’s a picture of modern day goshen. Would you rather live in shechem or goshen?The Nile delta is flat and you have rich, thick grass in loamy soil totally free of rocks. I mean, in a time when most of Jacob’s buddies back in Canaan are starving to death, his tribe is living off the fat of the land.I mean what’s working here. What’s the time-tested stronghold here? Is Canaan working or is Egypt working? Everyone in Egypt is being so kind to me. We were welcomed in a royal parade. I mean, I know the whole promises of God thing, but man this is nice.Do events like these not condition a man to think, “When in crisis, flee to Egypt for safety?” Of course. There would have been a huge temptations here for Jacob in these moments of crisis to reach for Egypt.But here’s our point. Jacob finished the race of life, Distrusting Egypt’s Generosity. Here’s where we see this in the text.Jacob sees his son Joseph and you have this strange custom where he takes Joseph’s hand and places it on his thigh and he makes his son Joseph swear, “Don’t bury me here in Egypt.”He’s so deadly serious. You could imagine Joseph saying, “Dad, is Egypt so bad? I mean look at all Egypt has done for you? Is it so bad? Why do you feel the need to be carried clear back to that desert?”Here’s the thing that Jacob got right. Yes, it was Egypt’s grain that saved his families life. Yes it was Egypt’s soil that grew the crops they needed to live. Yes it was the water that came out of Egypt’s Nile that quenched their thirsty mouths.But it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that made Egypt and conscripted it’s resource to save his chosen people. You see he recognized that the blessings of this world are owned by God. When we are given gifts from the world, we are not to thank the world, we are to thank God. The checks of blessing we receive are signed by men, but the banker is God.And the application for us is a good one.Your paycheck has your company name on it, but the giver is God.The inheritance comes from your parents or grandparents, but the giver is God.You get a tax return from the IRS but the giver is God.It’s a fundamental way in which you view blessing. This becomes even more obvious as we drill into the details of what Jacob says next.Not only does he say, “Bury me in Egypt” He goes further.Then Israel said to Joseph,I’m not sure how this would have been heard by Joseph but it sure feels strange to my ear. Joseph is the sovereign of Egypt. Joseph WITHOUT question lives in a palace of kings. One of the suggested locations places Joseph in the goverenor’s palace discovered in the city of Avaris. Here’s a rendering of that palace based on the archaeological evidence. If it’s not this, is certainly something like this.I mean Joseph is living in straight up luxury. Joseph is living in opulence like you couldn’t believe. Why is dad bringing up this tiny little plot of land?This has got to feel to Joseph like dad is giving me his coin collection he won in an arm wrestling match. Yippidy do.But what’s going on here? Yes Jacob is distrusting the generosity of Egypt. That’s the negative. But here’s the positive.Why would dad think that Joseph would be even remotely interested in his piggy bank, in this little piece of rocky land a hundred miles away? Does Jacob really expect Joseph to trade Egypt for a rocky hillside that daddy captured with hand made bow and arrow?Here’s the answer. Yes, he does. Why? Not because there is value in this one little plot of earth. Because the maker of the ACTUAL earth has promised to bless his people here. This is the seed of blessing promised to generations previous. If you remember clear back in Genesis 35 God appeared to Jacob in a dream and said to him.So now Jacob, these many years later, believes this promise. God has re-ratifying a promise made to his father and grandfather about this land. Now we get way more insight into the psychological framework of Jacob and how he thought about this promise if we read Hebrews chapter 11. It’s such a perfect complimentary text to where we are today. Jacob believes that one day, the land given to him will be the soil upon which a tremendous kingdom is built. He believes this in a way that alters his perspective of reality and every aspect of his decision making. Look at how this faith in the promises of God is articulated in Hebrews chapter 11. Now it starts out with Abraham.So here these patriarchs are, living in tents, they are in a ghetto. They are homeless in a foreign land. But they believe God. They believe that this land is given to them. The text goes on to say.Do you see what’s happening here? Jacob is looking at the hill he captured with the bow and he says, this is the foundation of a great city. You can imagine Joseph and Jacob sitting there. The great building projects of Egypt spread out before them. The great pyramids, the testament to the power of Egypt rising out of the desert sand and Jacob whispers in Joseph’s ear. You see these pyramids? They ain’t nothing compared to what God is going to do. Do you remember that rocky slope I told you about, the one I captured with my bow? One day, that’s going to make Egypt look like a lego city. I’m trusting in the promise that God gave to me.Give me all of Egypt or this rocky slope. I’ll take the slope.And perhaps he looks at Joseph with hope. Joseph, maybe that’s where you build your palace. Joseph, perhaps God is raising you up to move my people back and establish the kingdom promised.Now that wasn’t God’s plan but you can hear in Jacob’s voice the hope. Joseph, I’m going to die, but the promise of God will live on through you.He wants Joseph to carry his body back so he can see the land for himself. He wants to make an impression on his son. We are exiles and foreigners. This is not our home. We belong elsewhere. Jacob said we are strangers and exiles here in Egypt. Bury me in Cannan. This is not about geography. This is about theology. The Hebrews passage goes on to say,Jacob wasn’t ashamed of his puny little coin collection because he knew the value. This was amazon.com at 25cents a share. The promise of God was behind it. It would develop into a great nation not because the land itself was anything. The land was nothing. It was because the God of the land.Jacob died with a gleam in his eye. He believed the promise.The blessing to his sons had this promise in mind. This same promise Joseph would pass on to his children.And his children to their children. And 400 years later a man named Moses would make the same decision based on the same promise.Hebrews goes on to sayYou don’t give up Egypt for nothing. You cannot yearn for another land while holding onto Egypt. You give up Egypt for something greater! Choosing God means abandoning Egypt. That’s what Moses did. I choose a life in the desert with grumblers because that has greater reward than Egypt. He was looking forward. He was looking to the reward.Abraham trusted the promises of God, Isaac did it and now Jacob did.And now the question turns to us. Jacob was an Outsider. He was an exile in Egypt who knew that as good as it was, Egypt was not the home God promised to him. The gods of Egypt were not his gods.We too are exiles in a land that is not our home. For us it’s not Egypt with the Leeks and Garlic and Nile Delta, it’s Idaho with Potatoes and Panda Express and Sawtooths. Some of you have fled here as exiles from a foreign land.Idaho has been nice to me.I have a wonderful childhood in Eagle working on farms.I get to hike the Sawtooths every summer.I love breathing clean air.I get to replinished my soul in Cascade and McCall.I love watersports and snow sking.We start to love Egypt, don’t we?And it’s easy to make Idaho our home to grow our roots deep into Idaho. The longer you live, the more you adopt the values of the place. It just kind of soaks into you. But Idaho is not our home. Why? Here’s the simplest reason. When we die, we no longer live in Idaho. You don’t call a motel your home because you are only there for a moment. Home is the place you live forever. Heaven is our home.Jacob dies with security because he is anchored to the promises of God, truths which are not cut away in death. He’s able to trust in the promises of God.This promise of God that one day a nation will rise up in this land is binding him to this moment. I can die in peace knowing that God will carry out his promise to generations yet unborn.Why does he want to be buried in Canaan? It’s his statement of faith that I want my bones to be in the physical location where God has promised to one day establish his people for an ETERNAL kingdom.The other thing we see Jacob doing as he prepares to die is bless his children. We see it here as he blesses Joseph’s two sons and then all of chapter 49 is Jacob blessing his other sons as he prepares to die. In these chapters, don’t forget Jacob is very old. His body is riddled with pain. We see him groaning just to sit up. We see him leaning heavy on his staff. His body is broken. We see in the text here that he is blind. The man is about to die.He’s not buying green bananas if you know what I mean. He knows he’s only got a pinch of sand in that hourglass.But in those last weeks of his life, his perspective is marvelous. For Jacob, as he faces into the reality of his uncooperative body, the frailty he is forced to confront is not something to be fought off. It is something to be understood. It is a reminder for him that it is time to prepare to die. And what comes to mind at that point? I must bless my children.Now, I’m not sure many in Jacob’s shoes would have said that. I think many who had lived Jacob’s life would have said, “I’m about to die. It’s time to curse my children.”Think about what Jacob had been put through as a father. Let’s just rewind the tape a bit. Let’s rewind for just a moment to that great reveal where Joseph declares who he is.Remember back with me. They are in the palace. The golden cup had just been discovered in Benjamin’s sack. **And for that reason, Benjamin has a noose around his neck, so to speak. Joseph is pretending to be all stern and he’s ready to administer the royal sentence but he can’t bear it any more. He breaks down, takes off his head dress and speaks in perfect Hebrew, “Guys, it’s me!** It’s your brother Joseph!”Honest Question: Is this a good day for the brothers?You can imagine the choking stares.You can imagine the blinking disbelief.You can imagine the silence.You can imagine the horrifying realization that this thing you thought you had completely covered up, is now staring you in the face.It’s so unexpected.You had ZERO time to prepare. You’ve hadn’t even one second to prepare an I’m sorry speech.You are just caught naked.This represents a day of reckoning. They have to swallow hard. The tables are totally turned and they have to realize they are at Joseph’s mercy. That’s bad enough.But think about what’s coming next. Think about part two. I think part two is much worse. After they hash this out at some level, they are now commissioned to go back and tell their father that Joseph is still alive. Now that news has some implications if you know what I mean.You couldn’t say, “Dad, guess what, Joseph’s still alive. I thought he was eaten by a wild animal, but we found him and he must have escaped. He’s alive!” That story doesn’t work because Joseph knows the truth.So it’s got to be more like this: Hey dad, Remember when you were mourning and we had that whole funeral for Joseph? Well, I kind of knew he was still alive. In fact, we all knew. We just let you cry your guts out for weeks on end.I mean, I know it sounds awful, but we were going to slit his throat with a knife and kill him but we decided instead to sell him for cash. Well, we got that money from selling Joseph to the Ishmaelite traders.And truth be told, every year when we had that little memorial service, and you cried your guts out. But, we all smiled behind your back because we knew he was still alive.And you know how you haven’t seen your son for a couple decades and how you can never get that time back and how you’ve had no relationship with him. Well, that’s kind of our fault. And we knew it and did nothing about him.Like, whose gets the short straw to communicate that one?And….the text says Joseph sent them off with the instructions, "Don’t quarrel along the way." Now why do you suppose he said this? We don’t have to even wonder. There’s not even a hint of a question. To tell dad that Joseph is still alive means also telling dad that there has been a family wide conspiracy against him for the past 20 years. He’s been the target of a giant cover-up where he’s the fool. He’s the last to know.Of course they are going to quarrel. Of course they are going to blame one another. I told you it was a bad idea. I told you not sell him.And can you imagine how badly Jacob was hurt by that deception. How much anger must he have felt? He must have had to fight not to hold in bitterness and resentment. There is some serious soul work that needs to be done on Jacob’s part!But now here he is at the end of his life, ready to bless his children. He doesn’t breath a word of it. Not one word of it comes up. It’s actually quite impressive. The reason is, once again, he’s looking to the promises of God.Here’s what the old Jacob has learned. He’s now completely convinced that no matter what something looks like on the surface, God will turn it into good. Earlier in his life he was completely convinced that the worst thing that could have happened to him, did happen to him. His son Joseph was taken from him. But now he sees how this terrible evil was redeemed for his great good.And the lesson. Whatever you see in front of you today is no indication of what is coming tomorrow. He knows that God will make a great nation out of these failures.And you have this strange scene where the hand of blessing goes onto the younger instead of the older. Certainly not according to custom! But this just once again reaffirms that you can’t trust how things appear.Sometimes it looks like something it is so bad, it could never be redeemed for good. But other times it looks so good, so certain, it looks like it could never fail you and then at the very last moment the hands of blessing are crossed and the weak are made strong and the strong serve the weak.Jacob totally distrusts what his physical eyes see and he totally trusts what he has been told to believe by his faithful God. In his final moments, he has the least amount of physical sight but the greatest spiritual sight. He sees more clearly in those final moments than he has ever seen.And he wants to pass that clarity onto his children. It’s not what it appears to be children. Egypt will go down. Things are not what they appear to be. We don’t trust what we can see. We trust what we know, what we have been told.He is trusting in the great God of all glory. And you hear that trust coming out in the way he blesses his sons.So practically for us what does this mean. It means using your death as the platform upon which you preach a sermon of everlasting life. You have a unique message to speak before you die. As a pastor, I’ve been at the bedside of many people before they’ve died. And I remember just weeping at the beauty of what some of these saints said as they faced into death. If those same words were said in a church foyer, that’s one thing. If said sitting at death’s door, it’s quite another.Man, let me just get real for a moment. It may be that if I outlive you, I’ll be doing your funeral. And if not me, then one of the other pastors or elders or some minister of the gospel. Make our job easy!Do you have a will? I hope so. That is the responsible thing to do. And if you have one, it likely contains information regarding the functional financial elements of your estate. Good. But that stuff doesn’t really matter. I hope your will also contains letters, notes, what you want to tell people? Do you have letters you want opened?Don’t you want to be like Jacob here and encourage your children and grandchildren to stay faithful to Jesus Christ. Don’t you want to extol how faithful he has been to you and how wonderful it is to be his child? Don’t you want to publicly marvel at the blessings of the covenant keeping God.I love how Jacob blesses his children, “The God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day” What can you communicate to the next generation about the faithfulness of God.You can write this letter at any time. We do not when exactly we will die, but we do know that we will die… because we know that we can prepare for when.Can you paint a portrait of the faithfulness of God such that others can look to the God you trusted in and be strengthened? You see all through the Bible we read of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.Jacob gets the title patriarch and because of that we tend to view him as this great man. But he was not great. God did something GREAT to Jacob. So when we say, God of Jacob we mean God of the insecure. God of those who are craving for men’s approval. God of those who time and time and time again repeat their failures. God of people who need to be rescued from finding their hope in this world.We will come to the end of our life. The sands of time will run out.In those dying moments God may give you some unique opportunity to pass on your experience of how God has been faithful to you to the next generation so that when people say, “God of Jason” they think, man, if God can redeem that train wreck, he can redeem anything. Let’s trust in that God. Let run to that God.

En el tercer episodio de Mega Mixtape, continuando con el recorrido por el soundtrack de Mega Man X, escucharemos los diferentes temas del favorito de los fans: Zero. En la sección de remixes escucharemos música electrónica, rock y metal, muy en sintonía con el soundtrack original del juego. Habrá nuevas adiciones al repertorio de artistas del podcast (como Avaris, Level99 y MET), así como más música de ThePlasmas y Gregorio Franco. TRACKLIST Versiones Originales 1. Zero [Mega Man X] 2. Demo [Mega Man X] Arreglos Oficiales 1. Opening 2 - Zero Theme [Mega Man Xtreme] 2. Opening 1 - Story Demo [Mega Man Xtreme] 3. Zero [Mega Man X6] 4. Theme of Zero (from Rockman X) [Mega Man Zero] 5. Theme of Zero (from Rockman X) [Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero] 6. Zero Theme [Maverick Hunter X] 7. Zero's Sacrifice [Maverick Hunter X] Remixes 1. Spark Plugs / Avaris, Level 99 [Mega Man X: Maverick Rising] https://maverick.ocremix.org/ 3. A Red Legend Arises / ThePlasmas [MegaMan Zero] https://theplasmasvgm.bandcamp.com/album/megaman-zero 4. Enter Zero / Gregorio Franco [20XX Volume I] https://gregoriofranco.bandcamp.com/album/20xx-volume-i-a-tribute-to-the-music-of-mega-man-x-full-length-edition 5. Not Strong Enough / Gregorio Franco [20XX Volume I] https://gregoriofranco.bandcamp.com/album/20xx-volume-i-a-tribute-to-the-music-of-mega-man-x-full-length-edition 6. Zero / MET [Mega Man X Guitar Playthrough] https://krzysztofslowikowski.bandcamp.com/album/mega-man-x-gp 7. Variable X / MET [Mega Man X Guitar Playthrough] https://krzysztofslowikowski.bandcamp.com/album/mega-man-x-gp 8. Die Hard / ThePlasmas ft. Matias Francino [21XX] https://theplasmasvgm.bandcamp.com/album/21xx 9. Farewell / ThePlasmas [21XX] https://theplasmasvgm.bandcamp.com/album/21xx

Lo que sabemos sobre Moisés procede tan sólo de testimonios literarios. En el libro del Éxodo de la Biblia, redactado definitivamente en el siglo V a.C., se narran los episodios más conocidos de su vida, empezando por su salvación milagrosa cuando era un bebé y sus padres, para burlar la orden del faraón de exterminar a todos los varones judíos, lo lanzaron al Nilo en un cesto que recogería la hija del faraón. Otras fuentes ofrecen un relato distinto. Por ejemplo, el sacerdote egipcio Manetón (siglo III a.C.) cuenta que en tiempos de Amenofis Egipto sufrió una plaga y que un grupo de personas contagiadas decidieron marchar a Palestina. En el camino se refugiaron en Avaris, antigua capital de los hicsos, y allí eligieron como líder a Osarsef, un sacerdote egipcio de Heliópolis. Osarsef dictó una ley absolutamente opuesta a la de los egipcios, y tras aliarse con los hicsos conquistó el país del Nilo y adoptó el nombre de Moisés (el cual, en efecto, procede del egipcio mose, "he nacido", del mismo modo que en el caso del faraón Tutmosis: "[el dios] Toth ha nacido"). Tanto la biblia como los cronistas posteriores mencionan siempre a propósito de Moisés su papel de líder religioso, las relaciones con la población asiática y la enfermedad (plaga). Algunos estudiosos han encontrado estos tres elementos en una fase concreta de la historia del antiguo Egipto: la dinastía XVIII (1552-1305 a.C.). En este lapso de tiempo Egipto sufrió tres experiencias que le afectaron profundamente: la dominación de los hicsos, la revolución religiosa llevada a cabo por el faraón Akenatón –quien suprimió los cultos tradicionales e impuso el culto a Atón, el disco solar– y una plaga de peste que asoló Oriente Medio. En la década de 1930, Sigmund Freud señaló la semejanza entre el culto de Atón y el de Yahvé, y consideró que Moisés era en realidad un egipcio que transmitió a los judíos el monoteísmo de Akenatón. Autores posteriores han desarrollado explicaciones más elaboradas. Jan Assmann considera que los sucesos traumáticos que vivieron los egipcios en la dinastía XVIII originaron un relato mítico en el que aparecían invasores asiáticos, un líder religioso y una plaga. Como el recuerdo de Akenatón, el faraón hereje, quedó borrado, su puesto lo ocupó un nuevo protagonista, Moisés. La tradición oral egipcia sería luego adoptada por los cronistas judíos que redactaron la Biblia.

Welcome to Radio64, Video Game Music Remix Radio! Hosted by duskvstweak Find many of these songs at ocremix.org/ Find past episodes at youtube.com/duskvstweak Listen live Monday, 6:00pm @ www.wraq.org/index.html 0:03 Super Mario Bros. "The Ballad of Bowser's Balls" Chimpazilla 5:47 Sonic the Hedgehog "Ocean View" DCT, guitarman 11:52 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Generations" DrumUltimA, Jillian Aversa, XPRTNovice, zircon 16:25 DOOM "Hangarmageddon" Evil Horde 21:41 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time "Temporal Despair" TGH 26:24 Super Metroid "Depths of Maridia" CrimzonWolf777 35:07 Mega Man X "SparkPlugs" Avaris, Level 99 40:15 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Clouds Away" Bekah Jones, DiGi Valentine, Palpable 46:38 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior "Sagat's Moonbike" Mazedude 52:53 Final Fantasy VII "In the Beginning" YoshiBlade

04/01/2019 God Is In Control- Exodus 14-The Miracle of Israels Exodus, Pharaohs Destruction And The Power of Gods Word & The Inevitable Financial Meltdown From Mans Abandonment of Gods Word & Economic System. Build Your Private Gold Standard While You Still Can!!!   When it was time for God to begin the process and story of the Israelites, he used the cruelty and self-proclaimed deification of Pharaoh combined with a simple man names Moses who was miraculously saved from the icy heartless destructive crutches of Pharaoh who began a campaign of ruthless genocide, demanding the midwives to kill all new-born males by casting them into the river nile which was, ironically, the supplier of life for the Egyptians. Moses is rescued and “ironically” directed by Pharaohs own daughter to act as a wet nurse and raise moses-her own son up as an infant. What an absolute blessing and impossibility orchestrated by God.  God preserved Moses for a very special day and a very special act that was to lead to the freeing of the Israelites. After 400 years in captivity, the Israelites were terrified of the Egyptians and fled aggressively, however, they were directed by God to camp in a special spot where God new they would be easily discovered by Pharaohs army. Once Pharaohs army came after them, God told Moses to push them toward the Red Sea where God used natural processes to open a literal valley across the sea for the Israelites to pass. Once the army began pursuing them, God confused them and they began swerving and riding their chariots randomly around, not knowing where to go or what to do. Soon thereafter, the Israelites eventually reached dry land and every person in Pharaohs army was destroyed.   God intentionally hardened pharaohs heart to extricate them and then, once he realized his lack of slaves left him powerless in every way, he went to recover them. This was after Moses had clearly shown pharaoh who God was. Pharaohs arrogance and hardness of heart lead to his own destruction, ultimately weakening his entire empire. Various calendars debate the exact dates of these events but the Hebrew Calendar and evidence of a complete & immediate abandonment of the palace district  coincides well with the stories of exodus, the plagues and death of the pharaoh Amenhotep II. It is believed that Amenhotep !! was immediately replaced with another pharaoh with the same name “AMenhotep IIA”   to hide or deny the events that too place during the exodus.    According to: Bryant G. Wood, ABR Director of Research, principal archaeologist and director of ABR’s excavation at Khirbet el-Maqatir. He has a MS in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a MA in Biblical History from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology from the University of Toronto. “The boastful and arrogant attitude of Amenhotep IIA matches that of the Pharaoh of the Exodus described in the Bible. When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king, his response was, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go” (Ex 5:2). His cruelty can be seen in his withholding the straw the Israelites needed for making mud bricks (Ex 5:6–9). In addition, he was stubborn and went back on his word on numerous occasions. Even after the death of the first-born, when he finally let the Israelites go, he reneged and pursued them. In spite of his human strength and abilities, Amenhotep IIA and his army were no match for the God of Israel. The residency was suddenly abandoned during the reign of Amenhotep II, with no known reason: The palace district was probably abandoned after the reign of Amenophis II [=Amenhotep II]…The reason for the abandonment of this district, and, presumably, the entire city adjoining the district on the south is an unsolved puzzle at this time. Its solution would be of the greatest importance to historians. The suggestion that the peaceful foreign policy of the late reign of Amenophis II and Tuthmose IV made this militarily important settlement unnecessary is not convincing. A plague, such as the one documented for Avaris in the late Middle Kingdom, and associated with Avaris in later tradition, appears to be the most likely solution of this problem, although it cannot be proven at this time (Bietak and Forstner-Müller 2005: 93, 95; translation by ABR Board member Walter Pasedag). Although Egyptian history does not provide an answer for this abandonment, Exodus 7–14 certainly does. As a result of the 10 plagues and the death of Pharaoh in the Sea of Reeds Perunefer became an unsuitable, or undesirable, place to live. With the Israelites and their God gone, it appears that the Egyptians quickly put a new Pharaoh on the throne, gave him the same name as the previous Pharaoh, and tried to put things back to normal, including making sure that none of these events were recorded in the history books.”   04/01/2019 True Wealth Radio Precious Metals and Financial Opinion: This 04/01/2019 True Wealth Radio show covered the biblical exodus account in relatively extensive detail. In addition, it also briefly touched on the importance of protecting your wealth in hard assets to protect against a total and complete financial meltdown which is inevitable unless drastic changes are made immediately. The real problem is that the current generation has no clue that the unsound monetary policy by all world governments, cresting fiat currency like wild-fire t will combined with an unsustainable fiat based fractional reserve banking system that has facilitated the creation and accumulation of insurmountable quantities of debt. The only real solutions to avoiding an inevitable financial meltdown are to eliminate the following: *Federal reserve bank-Must be replaced with a return to the gold backed money demanded in the US Constitution and Coinage Act of 1792. HOWEVER, WE SHOULD ALL IMMEDIATELY TAKE THIS STEP INDIVIDUALLY NOW. *Eliminate Debts-Nationally this may require a default on debts and non-life threatening social entitlements. Most likely this will continue to be felt with hyper-inflation rather than default. The 2 are identical while one is virtually transparent. The government should operate just as a family in a personal financial crisis. *Eliminate Derivatives Altogether-These currently exceed $1Quadrillion. Guaranteed economic explosion.  Eliminate Long-term Politicians-Term Limits. Career Politicians behave for re-election alone. New transparent Tax System based on consumption alone. Could easily lead to a 100% tax increase leading to lower tax rates. *Eliminate money creation by politicians and/or private corporations. As per the Article 1. Section 8 of the constitutional directives, only congress should be able allowed to create money-backed only by gold & silver, and equalled only by what is taxed revenue. Eliminate Bretton-Woods Act and all fiat currencies worldwide. Other countries could and would use our money again. Money must be trusted and fungible. Gold & Silver or hard-fungible-assets only. Precious metals are uniform, globally recognized. compact, transportable and (in general) immediately liquid anywhere at anytime in the world. Precious metals have served as money from the beginning of written human history. Written by Kevin Wolter, President of COINSPlus, Spokane, WA, 509-444-0044.

Another fascinating show from Brandon Huebner. The 'war' part refers to the first several pharaohs of the New Kingdom, kings who retook Egypt from the Hyksos. Specifically, Brandon examines the pharaoh Kamose' retaking of the city of Avaris, partially accomplished by amphibious assault from the Nile. He also relates the exploits of Thutmose III, but the 'peace' part refers to Queen Hatshepsut, a woman pharaoh who ruled concurrently with Thutmose III. Hatshepsut focused on reestablishing foreign trade, and one of Egypt's most well-known temple reliefs details a marvelous look at a voyage to Punt that was organized by Egypt's greatest female pharaoh. This episode also includes a look at Min of the Desert, a full-scale reconstruction based on the Hatshepsut 'Punt' ship depictions, along with boat models from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

https://archive.org/download/PressStart20160829/PressStart_2016-08-29.mp3 POOOOODCAAAAAAAASSSST The playlist is marked as follows: Title by Artist – Album (Game) Enough Time to Dance (OC ReMix) by Magellanic (Castlevania) The Nemesis Schema (OC ReMix) by Avaris, Level 99, prophetik (NiGHTS into dreams…) Leafcutter (OC ReMix) by Radiowar (Super Mario RPG) Late Night Sneakin' (OC ReMix) by HappyBivouac (Jet Grind Radio) Iron … Continue reading Press Start to Continue DLC, 8/29/16 Support Press Start to Continue DLC by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/PressStart Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/PressStart/ca4129ed-a366-420e-a2a5-7222aacf3f66

Here it is! Our first episode of the podcast for Ready Players (https://readyplayers.wordpress.com/). For this inaugural episode Tristan, Josh and Bodie talk about The Division, Borderlands culture and speculate about the Playstation Neo. In this episode's news we take a look at the news from Nintendo's business investor meeting, the countdown to Persona 5 news, Minecraft goes VR and Baby Metal's appearance in Super Mario Maker. Intro/Outro: 'Golden Flowers' by Level 99, OA and Overclocked University. OverClocked ReMix (http://ocremix.org) - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03267 Break Music: 'Ska Buffet (All You Can Eat: Clean Version)' by AMT, Avaris, Cyril the Wolf, Level 99, LuIzA, PrototypeRaptor, Swann, The OverClocked Plaid Muffins and Xenon Odyssey. OverClocked ReMix (http://ocremix.org) - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02254

For our tenth episode we cover the twelfth main entry in the Final Fantasy series. Though initially releasing to some of the best reviews of any Final Fantasy title, time has solidified XII's status as the black sheep of the series. Does its groundbreaking visuals, real-time battle system, and risky shake up of the Final Fantasy formula earn it a place as one of the best games period? Outro music: Final Fantasy XII 'The Winds of Inishmore' by Avaris (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01719) You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriodOr download the podcast from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thebestgamesperiod

The 'war' part refers to the first several pharaohs of the New Kingdom, kings who retook Egypt from the Hyksos. Specifically, we'll look at the pharaoh Kamose' retaking of the city of Avaris, partially accomplished by amphibious assault from the Nile. We'll also see the exploits of Thutmose III, but the 'peace' part refers to Queen Hatshepsut, a woman pharaoh who ruled concurrently with Thutmose III. Hatshepsut focused on reestablishing foreign trade, and one of Egypt's most well-known temple reliefs gives us a marvelous look at a voyage to Punt that was organized by Egypt's greatest female pharaoh. Other items from today's episode include a look at Min of the Desert, a full-scale reconstruction based on the Hatshepsut 'Punt' ship depictions, along with boat models from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Show Notes Support the Podcast

To start well the week, the wonderful "Quickening", adapted by AVARIS and LEVEL 99 from the song "Faraway Promise" from Xenogears. It's the first song of "Humans + Gears", a Xenogears' themed CD made by OCRemix. For those who don't know this game, is another *great* RPG for PS1, featuring the giant robots called Gears. This game sits as the second best RPG I've played, and very well recommended (I've heard that it's off for download on PSN for PS3 right now) It has no official sequels or prequels, even though Xenosaga was developed by the same team, and has lots of similarities, but is not officially a prequel. Original Artist: Yasunori Mitsuda Source: Xenogears "Faraway Promise" Performed by: Avaris and Level 99 Homepage: http://goo.gl/MY19P