 Yes, recording started. So once again, good morning everyone. Welcome to the new week. So I hope you all had a great weekend. Good. Oh, yes, today we will study on two books on the book of lamentation, which is part of Jeremiah. And along with it, we will also study the book of Isaac Hill. So before we could go ahead, can we start the session with the word of prayer? Okay. Yeah, dear God, we thank you. We praise you. We love you. We honor you. We lift you up Lord. Father, we surrender each one of us in your hand, including me or father, we pray that you'll open our eyes, our heart to your word. We pray that you'll open our minds to understand the word that you have written or the letter that you have written. Help us understand the book of lamentation and the Ezekiel, Father, the message that you are delivering to Israel, Lord, the same message that you are speaking to us as an individual or father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you Holy Spirit of God for giving us the understanding of your word. I pray that you will impart the heart to understand and apply it in our life, Lord. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' most precious name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So even before I could start the today's session, I will just go ahead and upload the presentation. Give me a second, please. While I share the PTT. Okay. Yes, I'm just sharing it. So we all know the author of the book, Lamentation. Who's the author of this book? Jeremiah. Yes, thank you. Yes. So Jeremiah was the author of this book, and it has five poetic laments over the destruction of Jerusalem in the form of suffering. And we see God's goodness and Jeremiah's sorrow upon capture of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple. It's just the continuation of the book of Jeremiah. Well, we see the type and shadow of this book where Lamentation is Jesus weeping over the prophet, just like how Jeremiah weaved over his delight. Same way we see Jesus weeping as a weeping prophet. Well, the book of Lamentation in Hebrew, it means how is a collection of the poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem. So in the Hebrew Bible, it appears in the ketim means the writings as one of the five megalot means one of the five scrolls along with the song of songs, the book of the Ruth, Ecclesiastus, and the book of Esther. And this will be the first fifth scroll, although there is no set order. So in the Christian Old Testament, it follows with the book of Jeremiah as a prophet, Jeremiah is the author of this book. However, in the modern scholarship, while the destruction of Jerusalem is by Babylon forms the background to this poem. And the very purpose we see here is as a result of Judas continued and unrepentant over the idolatry. And God allowed the Babylonians to besage, plunder, burn and destroy the city of Jerusalem because the Solomon's temple, which had stood for approximately 400 years, is now burned to the crowns by the Babylonians. Why? Because of the sin nature of the Israelites. So the prophet Jeremiah was an eyewitness of these events. And we see that he weeps over Jerusalem. He weeps over the destruction of the city and the people. So with that weeping, with that lament, he wrote the book of Lamentation, which occurred to Judah and Jerusalem. So this book is not a very easy or a pleasant one to read as it is very sad poems. Well, Jeremiah wrote these lamentations after soldiers from Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. And Jerusalem has been a very beautiful city because the temple, which is the house of God, was in Jerusalem. And you know, Solomon and all his wisdom and all his richness, he constructed the temple and also the city was nurtured and built that way. It was very beautiful, very nice. But then what happened? Sin took over. People, when they settled in in the place, they started sinning, going against God. But the soldiers, so they had, so the Babylonians, God had to allow the Babylonians to come and destroy Judah and Jerusalem. Now the soldiers destroyed the buildings and they killed many people. So when there's death all over, can you imagine the lament and all over the city crying, crying, crying everywhere, everywhere you see this death and those crying. I don't know about people before who lived, but in our time, even we have experienced such a lament all over the city in this pandemic, isn't it? We would have, whenever we switch on the TV news, we see people lamenting over their loved ones everywhere. And in the second way, we saw the own loved ones, the family members crying out when they missed the loved ones, to many to happen in their own family, to many very close to one loved ones, they're lost. And we experienced that lament. So imagine how this whole city was crying. Many were killed. They let the young men away to Babylon as a captive. And the soldiers even forced the young women to have sex with them. You see the torture, the torment which the Israelites had to go through because they sinned against God. They sinned against God. They worshiped other God. They allowed the idols of the other God, the Babylonian God or the other gods in the place where they lived to be kept inside the temple and they worshiped. And some of them were kept outside the temple in the outer courtyard. Imagine that. How God would have been. We will see that. We will study both deep about that in the next book, in the book of Ezekiel. So here we see Jeremiah saw all these terrible things happening to the people of Israel and he weeps and he weeps. And he knew all these things will happen because they happened because the people of Jerusalem didn't obey God and his law. So people pray to the evil gods. And in fact, God sent the servants to warn the people, but then they never heeded to his voice and then they had to face a consequence of their own act. And Jeremiah was very sad when he wrote lamentation, but he still had that hope because his sad words he wrote about God's love. Jeremiah knew that God cares. God loves. He cannot destroy his people completely. So Jeremiah wanted the people aware and captive to trust God again. And Jeremiah knew that God would not always punish his people, but he will show mercy and grace upon them. So Jeremiah also prayed that the people would return to Jerusalem from the captive. So we see Christ's shadow on this is Jerusalem was a symbol of God's people with had been destroyed God's judgment on his people in penitent. And we see the display of God's love like God, though God does not tolerate the sin. And he made that known to the world when the Babylonians were captured and deported as this deported. But then what happened yet God did not leave his people without hope. So Jeremiah prophesies about God's grace and his love. And he promised that the exile would last about 70 years so that that would be a message of hope for the people who are in the exile. And he kept promise for the sake of the greater promise that the Israelite had that the Savior would come from them. So when that Savior came, he also lamented over Jerusalem. We see Jesus when he came, we read that in the book of Luke chapter 19 that Jesus wept over the city and its sin and destruction about 600 years later. Also the state of Jerusalem was like that. And though they rejected God's Savior yet again, he still went to the cross to pay the price they said and later call them to repentance through his abortion. See the heart of God. That's how God is. He does not leave us. He does not forsake us. He always keeps his promise. So even in this terrible judgment we move on to the next slide. Here we see in the Lamentation chapter one different ways. It talks about there's no rest, no pasture, no strength, no comfort, no satisfaction, no liberty and no joy. So what is our present condition before God today? Can we relate to any of these incident in our life? Are we in any of this circumstance or situation given in our life? Even in this season, God is a God of hope. There's a message that we can apply it to ourselves today. No matter what our situation, our circumstances are, but God is a God of hope. We can take this and apply it in our life that God will never give up on us because he says, his promises are forever. He's a promise keeping God. God said, I will never leave, you know, forsake you. So all what we have to do is repent, turn back to him no matter how far we have gone from him. But we have this hope that we can return to him and find his compassionate and forgiving love because a God is a loving God. And because of his great love and compassionate, he sent his only begotten Son to die for us on the cross so that we can eternally with him. So God is God's faithfulness and his plan of deliverance and his plan of salvation for us is active. All we have to do is repent and turn back to God, search God, seek him with all your heart, mind and soul. And you will find him because that's what the word of God says, seek and you will find, knock and it will be open. Yes, we need to ask and keep continuing to ask till you receive it. And with this, the book of Lamentation ends with the hope that God is a God of hope. God is a God of love and mercy and grace. And we have all of him the minute we repent and turn to him, we can have, we can experience that in our life. So with that, we will move on to the book of Ezekiel. Before we could move on to the book of Ezekiel, any questions, anything that you would like to add on to the book of Lamentation? Class, you'd like to add on anything? Okay. Yes, John. Yeah, I was thinking in the midst of all the worry versus that we see, we also see that 322, which is so comforting, the Lord's loving kindness indeed never sees for his compassion, never fail. Amen. You're new every morning. It is your faithfulness. Amen. Amen. True. True. Great is God's faithfulness, His mercies are new every morning. Amen. So with this message of hope, thank you, John, for sharing that. Yes. So with this message of hope, we can move to the next book, next book of the prophet Ezekiel. Well, the author itself is Ezekiel and it was written, it was written between 592 to 5, between 573 or 570 BC, because the dates are approximate. We all know, we don't actually go on the date, but then approximate date for our understanding they have recorded. Well, this book has 48 chapters. And to start with Ezekiel means God's strength or strengthened by God. So there's a little bit of personal information in the first chapter that he was the son of Buzzi. He had a wife who died as a sign to Judah when King Nebuchadnezzar began his final sage on Jerusalem. We read about that in chapter 24 that he ministers during the darkest days of Judah's history. So during the first Babylonian attack on the city, they spade the city, but they took the first wave of Israelite as prisoners and hold them as an exile in their city, in their nation. Well, the Ezekiel was among them. So the book begins five years after that he was in the exile. And there is a strong evidence that Ezekiel was the author because we see that he is recorded in chapter 1 and chapter 24. Well, Ezekiel actually lived in his own private dwelling plate as he was in exile in Tel Abib by the river Kbar, about 50 miles south of Babylon, where just like Jeremiah, Ezekiel was a priest and a prophet. So we see more of the prophet's call or prophet's office in his life just like Jeremiah. So he was carried to Babylon before the final assault on Jerusalem. Somebody has come, I'll just admit them. Okay, back to the presentation. Yeah. And we see that Ezekiel also used prophecies, but Ezekiel used something very different like parables, signs, symbols to dramatize God's message to his exiled people. You see the set of Israelites in the Babylon as an exile and here people are lamenting, saying that our life is and what happened to all the promises that God made and we are here in the exile, how long it would be. Yes, Jeremiah did say 70 years, but then it is very difficult for people to take it and they start weeping. Those who love God started weeping and here there's a message of Ezekiel, God raised a prophet among those exiles to give them a comfort in that season, to give them a message that God is working in their life, to deliver the message that I am a God who have never forgotten you. I am in midst of you, though you may be in the exile because of your sin and you, you're facing the consequence of your own act, but then I'm your God, the true God who lives among you, here he raises another servant to prophesy, prophesy God's message to them. So as he experienced, there's several of visions during this 20-year period, a period with span of final destruction of Jerusalem. So here we see, as we study this book of the major prophets, we see each book talk about a person, about the blessed Trinity, which has been emphasized in these three great prophets. One is Jeremiah. So in the book of Jeremiah, when we study that book, we see Jeremiah is a prophet who's emphasizing on the Father, where we see he portrays Father's love and he weeps over Israel and he's also known as weeping prophet. So we see more of Father's love over Israel. And the second is Isaiah, the prophet of the Son. Why? Because Isaiah prophesied about the coming Messiah very clearly. When we read Isaiah 9-6, Isaiah 9-6 where it says, for unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. So we see how Isaiah prophesied, prophesied on the Son, on Jesus, the coming Messiah very clearly. And also we see the book of Ezekiel, which we are studying today, is a prophet who emphasizes on the Holy Spirit, the Moe of God, the Moe of the Holy Spirit. And we see that in getting a lot of visions when the Spirit of the Lord moves, and he talks about God's glory, the presence of God, the Shekinah, which was present in the tabernacle. And how the Spirit moved left the tabernacle when people sinned, when people started worshiping the idolatry. So we see that Ezekiel was moved by the Spirit of God, and he sees a series of visions about God's presence towards the people of Israel who lived in Babylon. And we also, this book, okay, I'll just present the presentation. Yes. So this book has the visions which are constructed around three themes. What are the three themes? One, judgment on Israel from chapter 1 to 24, and judgment on the nation from chapter 25 to 32. Then we see the future blessings for Israel, including the building of a new city from chapter 33 to 48. So this may be broken down further as follows. Okay, the prophet and the coming fate of Jerusalem from chapter 1 to 7, and a vision of Jerusalem from chapter 8 to 11. And we see the elders and prophets in chapter 12 to 15. And we see the list of it allegories and parables. And yeah, it goes on till chapter 40 to 48, the vision of the renewed city, the oracles against God, nation in chapter 25 to 32. And we see Jerusalem's fall oracles of salvation chapter 33 to 39. And we see the vision of the renewed city temple and the land from 40 to 48. With this, we will move on to our Bible chapter 1. So y'all can turn your Bible to chapter 1. So in chapter 1, we see that the fifth year of Joachim's captivity by the river Kedar. And then suddenly Ezekiel gets a vision and he sees a storm cloud approaching him. And he sees a storm cloud approaching him. And then inside the cloud are four strange creatures. He's seeing all this in a vision, and that they have four wings outstretched and touching each other. And these creatures each had four faces. And then he saw four wheels. Each creature had four wheels down. And then he saw the wings of the creature by supporting this dazzling platform. And on that platform is a throne. And then there's a man, a human-like figure, sitting on the throne, glowing and shrouded in fire. And then all of a sudden Ezekiel gets the realization of what he's seeing. It is the glory and the appearance. You know, it is the appearance and the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And it is God who's riding his royal throne chariot. Now, the word glory in Hebrew means kavod. It means heavy or significant, kavod. Okay, it is pronounced as kavod, means heavy and significant. The biblical authors use this word to describe the physical appearance and the manifestation of God's significance. So when he shows up in person, these images and the vision, they are very similar to what happened when God appeared on Mount Sinai when we read the book of Exodus. And it's also very similar to the depiction of God's presence over the ark of the covenant. So were you able to recollect where also we saw these four creatures when we were studying these books? Where did we see? We also studied on these four creatures when we were studying the book of numbers. Do you remember? When we studied the book of numbers, I did show you this picture, the picture of the tabernacle and how God planned and how the people of Israel, the 12 tribes, were aligned around the tabernacle, all the 12 tribes. So we see here the tribe of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim and Dan were aligned this way. And they had the banners of Lion, Man, Bull and Eagle. And these were the exact four creatures which Ezekiel saw in his dream. And also we can relate this to the revelation in the presence of God in the throne, that they were four creatures, the face of the four creatures, same like this. And later we also see that, you know, they carried this banner everywhere they went. And yeah, it was like this, face of a man, face of a bull, face of an eagle and face of a lion. This is what we studied when we studied the book of numbers. And now Ezekiel gets a similar vision. We will go back to Ezekiel, now to the presentation. Yeah. So, and that's actually the vision which he was getting, the presence of God, okay, which was God's presence over the Ark of the Covenant. And that's actually the most shocking thing about Ezekiel's vision is what is God's glory doing in Babylon? Because he saw the presence of God leave the Tabernacle in that vision, which has wheels, okay, all the four creatures had a wheel and they left the temple and they moved toward the exile of the Babylon, the presence of God. Now, we have a question. What is God's glory doing in Babylon? It's supposed to be about the Ark of the Covenant in the temple in Jerusalem. So the first section of the book opens to explore that question as Ezekiel begins to accuse Israel for their rebellion nature. So God first speaks to Ezekiel from the throne of chariot and he commissions him as a prophet. And then in chapter two, we see that God addresses Ezekiel as the son of man and he says, the children of Israel, I've transgressed, I've sinned against me and Ezekiel, I want you to prophesy, regardless of whether they hear you or not, I command you, do not be afraid, okay, go and prophesy to this people. And he also gives him a scroll filled with words of lamentation. And further in the next chapter, we see that Ezekiel is commanded to eat that scroll. And when he ate that scroll, it tasted as sweet as honey. Ezekiel was a watchman. We see that here in the chapter three, we see that Ezekiel as a watchman and he does not want the wicked and the wicked die because of their sin nature. And Ezekiel is answerable for it. And now we see Ezekiel tell them the wicked do not listen to him. So now before he did not tell, so he was accountable for their sin. But now when Ezekiel is telling them, and though the Israelites are not listening, now Ezekiel is not answerable because he is telling them what he needs to say. He did his call, what God has appointed him to. So likewise, Ezekiel is answerable if a righteous man commits iniquity and does not want. So he also performs signs. So how Ezekiel is declaring the message to the people of Israel. He also performs signs and acts. And these were the small form of street theater like he enacted them and he started showing them because people need to understand. People need to understand the consequence. People need to get the message what they are. And also it was one of the way which can be communicated to those people. See, the times and seasons are changing and people's understanding also is different from time to time. There were sometimes back people used to announce certain things through a person. There's a group of houses or a community of people used to live in sometimes maybe a few years back. We saw there was a messenger will be sent and he'll make some sound. We call it dangura. They make some sound and he announces. So in those days, so there are different season how they announce it. So in our days, we see any announcement need to be reached. We see through the television, through the news, through it's been circled through the social media. So everyone having a smartphone in their hand gets the news. So that is one way to deliver the news. So in those days, they used to perform acts. So Ezekiel was enacting what God was giving him the message. So Ezekiel would go out on public and start behaving in his weird ways through which he can deliver the message to the people of Israel. Yes, the previous prophet Jeremiah, he wept and cried to deliver the message to the people of Israel. And you know what happened that no one heard him through. Though they were going through the consequence of this, but still people, you know, their heart was so hardened, they could not hear him. The same with Ezekiel. So Ezekiel is trying to do differently. He's trying to enact it. He is going out in public and he's trying to say in different parable ways in the way people can understand. And though God prepares Ezekiel that no matter what you say, people, our heart has been hardened. They may refuse to hear you, but then, but then Ezekiel, I want you to speak what I'm telling you, be my mouthpiece, because I have appointed you as a prophet over my people. Today, God may ask us also. God may raise us as a prophet and God is saying no matter what, no matter what our people, our own people, our family, our church, our people in our nation may not give here to you, but then I have called you, I have appointed you as a leader, as a servant, as a prophet over the city, over the nation, over your family, but you speak to them. You be my mouthpiece. They hear or do not hear. You be my mouthpiece. God who spoke this to Ezekiel, the same God is speaking to you and me today. God wants us to speak. God wants us to be his mouthpiece. And we see Ezekiel represents Jerusalem and he takes up a clay or a tile or a brick, something like that made out of clay, which is easily breakable. And then he takes an iron pan and, you know, he breaks it into pieces. And he says, and he says, Israel, you will be like this. This will be your state if you don't listen to God. Your condition is like the clay. Your condition is like the tile when the enemy hits over you. You will break it in pieces. And Ezekiel also is commanded by God to lie on his left side for 390 days because the house of Israel had 390 years of iniquity. And then later on his right side for 40 days, because Judah had 40 years of iniquity. And during this time we see that Ezekiel must eat the worst kind of food and that is that needs to be cooked using the cow dung, the dry cow dung as the fuel. Some of you all know in the remote areas in the villages because the fuel may be very expensive. The gas may be very expensive. So they use the cow dung. They dry it as a pancake type. They dry it in the sun and they use that to burn, to cook food. You know, we have seen in the remote part of India, we have still in the rural areas in the villages in India, we see people still use this for their fuel. So we see God commanding Ezekiel to cook food like that and eat. So this denotes the scarcity of provision, fuel and the necessity during the sage of Jerusalem. And then we see God commanded, there are certain signs that he does, okay, Ezekiel. So Ezekiel shaves his hair, shaves his hair and he must burn the third, burn the third and the other third with cut with his knife and scattered the other third with the wind and indicate the judgment to be executed on the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And further the judgment are then counted more openly including the famine and famine. And he also played, Ezekiel had to play the role of a scapegoat on the day of atonement, tying himself both the hands and legs and he acted as a scapegoat. This is how Israel who will be. And he also sets his face toward the mountain and prophesies against Israel saying its high place will be made desolate and they shall be known that I am the Lord, a remnant shall be saved however. And then he goes on prophesies into different ways and we delivers the message but then the Israelites do not give heed to him. There's the false prophets among them who draws the people saying don't believe him, God is not like that. He keeps encouraging people, this false prophet will keep encouraging people not to listen to Ezekiel. And after about a year he has another vision and he has series of vision we see. We may not be able to go through all the vision in this class but then I would encourage all to please go through this book and after about a year he has another vision and this one is about the temple and he goes on a virtual tour of the temple and he sees what's happening there in his absence and it is not good where in the outer courtyard in front of the temple he sees this large idol statue and then he sees the elders of Israel who are called to be the leaders worshiping other gods both outside and inside the temple and he sees the women of Israel they are worshiping a Babylonian god named Thamos and in the vision ends with God's glorious throne chariot moving away from the temple. It leaves and goes towards the east headed towards the Babylon. Now Ezekiel is trying to intercede for his people but God will not be treated. So in chapter 11 we see that why and how God's glory appeared to Ezekiel there in Babylon because Israel's idolatry and their covenant violation has become so offensive that God has left this temple. They have driven him her way and it concise it to destruction and God as an abundant his people and we see that at the end of his vision we see that God promises that he will return he will return as a remnant of Israel to the land and he will transform them by removing the heart of stone and giving them a soft heart a heart of flesh so that they can love and truly follow their God after all. Yes this is a small hope that we can get from this message and it's quickly submerged under the reality of the destruction. We see that we see that it helps us to understand how the rest of the book has been designed. In chapter 12 to 24 we see that God focuses on God's judgment coming to Israel and there is a diverse collection of poems and essays and then we see Ezekiel shows its fondness on parables and allegories so he depicts Israel was burnt useless stick as a rebellious wife or as a dangerous ragging lion that gets captured and as two promiscuous sisters and these are all the depictions of Israel's senseless rebellion and the idolatry acts that result in their destruction. So in this section we see that Ezekiel also acts like a lawyer and he begins arguing the case and the first of all Jerusalem's destruction is truly deserved after centuries of covenant violation and yeah the time is going a minute while I share the and we see the later part of the book we also see that the mountains of Judah occupied I mean a lot of depictions have been shown by Ezekiel's and also Ezekiel gets another vision in chapter 37 that Ezekiel is set in the midst of a valley full of dry bones and we see Ezekiel is told to prophesy to the dry bones saying here the word of the Lord as Ezekiel prophesies the bones are joined together and covered with flesh and the same way Israel shall be brought up from its grave and Ezekiel is commanded to write Judah on one stake and Ephraim on the other which will become joined into one stake in his hand and at the restoration they shall be no more idolatry so David shall reign and God shall be in this sanctuary so there's a kind of message of hope here and the Lord will intervene and execute the furious judgment against the Gog and the Magog he talks about the Lord will be known in the eyes of many nation and in chapter 40 we see that Ezekiel has another vision in the 14th year after the destruction of Jerusalem. Ezekiel has a vision that a man appearance of brass with a line of flakes in his hand and measuring read a temple is described the exact dimension of the east north south gates are given and there is further description of the eight tablets of the preparation of the sacrifice tables sorry the chambers and the porch and all measurements are given precisely from the cubits and the chamber and the ornaments of the palm tree and cherubims are described and we see the glory of the Lord fills the temple and the measurements of the altar are given in the cubits and we see the presence of God back in that place so the east gates just kept to be permanently shut for the Lord has entered through it into the temple so the prince shall enter and leave the porch of that gate so strangers uncircumcised and heart of flesh are not to be admitted to the sanctuary so the Levites will minister in the sanctuary regulations for Levites and they must be clothed and linen so there's a lot of you know guidelines given to the Levites and the Levites who worked at the high place would be punished by becoming a more temple servants only the priest at the temple in Jerusalem would fully carry priestly duties and not anyone else and talks about same thing repeat of whatever was instructed before the Moses has been here and later in 47 chapter 47 we see the vision of the holy water issuing out of the temple starting as a shallow stream and then getting deeper and fuller until it is over a man's head and we see the river travels east until it reaches a sea which will team with fish so only the marshy ground will be salty fruitful banks will grow on the bank of the river so there's a description of the division of the land shared between the Jews and the porcelains and then in chapter 48 we see that a description of the several portions of the land belonging to each tribe together with the portion allotted to the sanctuary to the city and the prince we see that and what is a Christ connection what do we see the Christ foreshadow in this book we see that Ezekiel as we know Ezekiel means God's strength or strengthened by God so this shows how God was connected with Ezekiel in a very dark and troubling time of Judah as they were in the captive and struggling to keep their faith in the promised Messiah with the messages from God given to Ezekiel he was trying to deliver and show that God is with them and God's mighty power for his people will deliver them God also shows his grace in the picture of the Messiah as the true shepherd he put raise the true shepherd the good shepherd who will save and care for his sheep we see that in Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 23 that I will place over them one shepherd my servant David will be will he will tend to them and he will keep them he will be their good shepherd so this is the message the hope that the book of Ezekiel brings that God will be the good shepherd over them and it also portrays the Messiah in this book that God will be the good shepherd but that we end this book of Ezekiel and here I've listed few of the visions that Ezekiel received though we did not go through them I would recommend you to please go through this visions and each vision as a message to convey to the people where in exile sorry that was nothing yeah so I leave this class I'm in open where you can share of your understanding of what you learned from the book of Ezekiel that you would like to share the vision that Ezekiel see in the beginning of the book is also I think similar to what Apostles John sees in the book of Revelation and the vision also depicts how the glory of God is and even in Revelation we see the glory of Jesus and also helps us to understand how great our God is and the importance of being in awe of in reverence when we come before him yes thank you thank you John yes a time and again God shows us how majestic is his presence how awe it is yes his presence is great and we also see God's love I leave it to the class to say that what did we learn we see yes we see the heart of God time and again no matter how much Israelite sin that he is there yes class please go ahead to share what you understand from this book can I share yes yes please go ahead yeah I was thinking of Ezekiel chapter 38 I think in which the dry bones vision as mentioned and 37 okay so that vision always this you know if we look at our lights also maybe there are things that we have you know there are dreams you know that we have just that has just dried up or has dead it has so it's no more we think it's all over but you know God God is a God who can turn away all those and he can change those situations he can bring alive our dreams what he has for us yeah so yeah I just wanted to share that yes yes thank you yes yeah similar situations when we are just like the Israel we may have sin gone astray very far we may think that we cannot come back but then throughout the book from whatever we have read from these major prophets from Jeremiah Isaiah or Ezekiel we see the same message has been repeatedly said like Israel I know that you have sinned you have gone very far from me yes though you feel that your sins may not have is not worth to be forgiven but then I am a God of mercy and love time and again God is portraying himself as he is a God of love God of mercy God of grace he's saying all you have to do is come out yourself to the Lord repent and come it come back and I am the Lord who will embrace you with the love just as if you have not sinned there is a call time and again time and again God has never given up on his people and he can never give up on his people he's the God of redemption he had a big plan in his mind and he continued to send his prophets time and again to convey that message of hope I have a plan to redeem you I have a plan Jeremiah 29 11 very beautiful verse and everyone knows that I have a plan there is a call to redeem you to give you to make you prosperous very beautiful message and very beautiful book and yes we can prepare ourselves to read another major prophet book tomorrow we will study on the book of Daniel so with this can I request one of us to please pray and close the session with a word of prayer please Rosalind would you like to pray okay anyone in the class brother Shubash you would like to pray yes faster heavenly father one second Lord we come to your presence yes Lord we thank you so much for us speaking to us Lord from this morning Lord we thank you so much for your past Lord thank you that you have given a wonderful mentors and teachers Lord who always guide us and Lord speaks to us through your word continuously I pray that you bless them bless the family I pray especially for all of us Lord who are learning together bless the Lord each one of us that Lord we will learn properly Lord and we will implement it in a life and a minister Lord thank you pray to Jesus my my pray amen amen amen thank you thank you for joining in today's class and yeah Zellie there is a question from you okay okay that's okay Rosalind no worries Zellie I hope you're there online and something to share regarding the assignment I am having some issues with a laptop okay no problem I will extend your time it is I've extended I've given the deadline till November so before that you can present it and very soon you will be also given with your final assignment and maybe a week or two I will give you the final assignment and you all can you know together prepare and submit it is that okay Zellie okay you want to write and submit it okay please go ahead you can do that okay yes you can do that God bless ma'am I just got a question yes the assignment submission date has it been extended for everyone what was the cut of date that given on the system for me it is actually sad today like mine what was that time it is sorry October 30th I guess oh oh sorry it okay I will extend it to November November 28th okay I will do that today itself I will extend for everyone okay for everyone I will extend the date so is it both for minister's foundation as well as the old testament survey I'm just thinking okay okay sure first I'm just thinking how it works okay is it difficult for everyone to submit it on time or you'll have some challenges yeah like for me of course because this yeah I feel a lot of a little bit preparation is required uh yeah to consolidate those okay okay okay okay I'm sure without those also maybe because they also work and try to study um okay okay so what we can do keeping in mind for everyone is um okay we will extend the time yes ma'am assignment will attachment on google classroom or anywhere uh you have to attach it on the google class classroom only then I can grade it for you okay okay yes and as this class has been recorded these assignments are same for both okay for the e-learning and for the um online class students okay but for the online class students you all have to upload your assignment on google classroom and for the e-learning you all can give it on the platform okay well and for e-learning it's different and you'll know the questions that we keep asking you all on the platform you all can answer it directly on the platform itself but for online students you'll have to prepare and submit on google classroom for the grading purpose I hope that was clear for both Divya did I uh clear it for the online students and for the e-learning you'll answer it directly on the platform where it is given for you okay thank you so much god bless god bless I will extend the time till October 30th for both for the midterm submission and for the final submission is that okay October 30th of October okay October or November on November sorry November 30th thank you thank you okay I will just I yeah November 30th I won't both okay midterm and the final final assignment is not yet given I will be giving it to you all and maybe a week or two okay but then the midterm you'll have to prepare and start uploading it in the meanwhile I will also give you all with the final assignment thank you thank you that's a great okay for the two courses this November that's yesterday is the deadline right for both courses yes yes yes November 30th is the deadline for both so will you be uh uh changing that in the in the google I will do it I will do it today itself I will do it I will extend the time period to November 30th oh thank you so much okay thank you god bless you see you all tomorrow for the next session thank you god bless thank you thank you thank you