An edited transcript of message # S04-29.
We have previously looked at one or two aspects of the Levitical function of the Aaronic priesthood, but I want to begin to look at the expression of the priesthood in the future. There is clearly an Ezekiel temple. In Ezekiel 40 and from there on, it talks about the configuration of such a temple, its lineaments and its proportions. It is given in such remarkable detail that it is hard to imagine it being just an allegory. Surely it must be something actual and that will exist in the redeemed Israel. Some believers have a difficulty with that because it talks about the restoration of sacrifices performed by priests. I have heard estimable men of God, who hold so jealously the sacrifice of Jesus as the Lamb of God, say, "No there cannot be another temple; there cannot be a resumption of sacrifice." But does it mean that such a sacrificial ministry invalidates the once-and-for-all sacrifice of Christ? Or does it memorialize it?
If this is true, there needs to be a priesthood to perform sacrifice. I am therefore directing your attention to Ezekiel 44 and to the last chapters of the great prophet. Ezekiel is a prophet both of judgment and restoration, like Jeremiah and Isaiah. They were prophets that did not withhold themselves from bringing the oracles of God. They spoke of a future judgment of such severity that included expulsion and exile from the Land, and they were the same prophets to whom the privilege was given of speaking of restoration and return. If you withhold yourself from the one, you will be denied the privilege of the other. If you do not want to speak of hard things, you will not be able to speak of glorious things, and so we have here a wonderful example of their obedience. We see how in remarkable detail God did not withhold from Ezekiel the word of restoration by which the book of Ezekiel is concluded.
The index of Israel's condition is always to be located in the condition that prevails in the temple and with the priesthood. God has not forgotten that in the age of Israel's apostasy a great abomination had taken place in the holy place. The priesthood had been turned into a profession by men who had no Aaronic qualification at all. Priest were politically appointed as a reward for those who 'played the game' and trafficked in the holy things. And God has not forgotten. There will be a penalty, an enduring penalty for those who have allowed that desecration. To allow the house of God to be defiled and profaned is to slur God and to cheat the nation of a standard by which its own testimony is to go forth to the nations.
It is interesting that Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the court of the Gentiles. He said: "My house should be a house of prayer for all nations." Instead of going to any other aspect of the temple where he might have displayed the same kind of protest, He went to the court of the Gentiles. It was in this very place that the faith of God, the purposes of God and the very nature of God itself were being profaned by turning the holy thing into a business: "You have made My house a house of merchandise, and therefore you have robbed the nations of the very thing that would have established their sanctity. You have denied them access to Me that was supposed to have had its origin with you and which would have been an example and model to the nations lest they themselves would fall into the things that are profane. For the priest shall teach the people (or nations) the difference between the sacred and the profane." But if priests themselves become profane, become money-lenders and money-changers and turn sacrifice into a form of profit, then what can be hoped for?
This is what the Lord is lamenting and condemning. "You have not kept charge of My holy things; but ye have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for yourselves." In other words, they serve your own purposes. We can see something like this today where contemporary worship, more often than not, is serving the purposes of men or church meetings and establishing an 'atmosphere' conducive to our spiritual enjoyment. But let us not call that worship. Any act which is not exclusively for God, but serves the purposes of men by whatever name it is called is ipso facto no longer worship. Worship is exclusively a priestly service unto God, for His benefit, His blessing, His delight and His honoring, or it is not worship at all. But in our time, has not praise and worship become a kind of 'business' all of its own displaying its 'worship leaders and teams'? Does it not seem that Churches are more noted for their worship, when it is nothing much more than enjoyable and uplifting music? But when it has the purposes of man in mind, His temple is being desecrated. Are we not guilty now of the same sins as Israel was then?
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among the children of Israel" (Ezek. 44:9).
Circumcision of the flesh is the critical sine qua non, the absolute vital necessity for any approach to God. You cannot come before Him in your flesh. We are reminded that the Aaronic priest was not allowed to ascend to the altar in order to make sacrifice with anything other than a ramp, lest in lifting his leg to the next step, something of his flesh would be seen in the parting of his garments. A ramp was prescribed that he could go up in a gradual ascent, that no flesh would be revealed.
Do we have this kind of sensitivity? And would it not affect everything we are in God? God abhors flesh, especially in the holy place. And ironically, nowhere is flesh more conspicuous than in the holy place! We might get away with it in casual fellowship, but to seek to serve God in the flesh or to use the flesh, our own carnal minds, heart or will in what we think is serving the purposes of God is, in my opinion, desecration.
The same core of people, who stood at Moses' side, subsequently themselves erred and turned from that place of consecration to allow the temple, the thing that they should have guarded, to become a court in which the uncircumcised trafficked for themselves. God has retained a memory of that and is now pronouncing a judgment that these Levites will never again be allowed to minister unto Him. This violation is so profound that it seems they are millennially and eternally cut off from ultimate priestly service, but will have a more limited jurisdiction. Because the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable, He cannot remove altogether the Levitical calling.
God will limit this priesthood in such a way as to always remind them of their historic error, and to remind us to walk before God rightly and in a priestly demeanor. We cannot allow any flesh in the holy place, or any misuse of the holy place for our ends however much we invoke the name of the Lord. In fact, to use the phrase 'in the name of the Lord,' when our own religious purposes are being served is itself desecration. Is it not itself the very height of profanation? Better that we not use that phrase than we should use it so as to justify some activity of ours in the flesh and for ourselves. By invoking His name, are we not deepening the profanity and deepening the desecration?
These are things given for our instruction upon whom the ends of the age have come. It is wonderful to look back to the past and the origin of priesthood and to gain some sense of what that meant. How else shall we walk out our own Melchizedek calling unless we understand the constituent elements that distinguish priesthood? We read that after all of the preparations for the priesthood: the washings, the sprinkling of blood, the putting on of the vestments and the carefully prescribed use of the anointing oil, and before they could begin their service, they waited seven days at the door of the tent of meeting. Seven is the number of completion.
If there is anything that yet remains after all of the requirements that would have reduced any human impulse to get into the act and to use God's holy calling as a place for self-aggrandizement, it had to be submitted to seven days of waiting. If there is any itch to be seen in service or to be acknowledged and recognized, all of which would contradict what priestliness means, it would die during those seven days. Further, it was to be performed in front of the door to the tent of meeting where all Israel would be instructed by the example of the priesthood before them, which is exactly the purpose of priesthood.
Out of the twelve tribes, God took one, and gave them the sole function of priesthood. They were not to engage in merchandising or farming. Their sustenance came from those who brought their offerings. They had no inheritance in the Land. God said: "I am your inheritance." They were to be a separated presence in the midst of the twelve tribes in order to affect the conduct, the attitude to, and the respect for the God of Israel. His sanctity was to be maintained and preserved by one entire tribe (the tribe of Levi). In the same way Israel itself as the 'nation of priests and light unto the world' was to serve that same purpose for the nations. Israel as the center, by its example, was to model for the nations what ought to be its attitude and conduct towards God as it is exhibited by this priestly nation in its midst.
When the twelve tribes set up their tents in the wilderness, the tabernacle of God was set in the midst, with the priesthood and the eleven tribes surrounding it as an example to the whole nation. But the nation itself is yet intended by God to be an example to the nations. Something organic is lacking in the divine provision of God for the nations that could only be provided by a people called Israel in their calling as a 'nation of priests and a light unto the world.' In the absence of that priestly service, the world languishes in darkness. The nations are currently suffering their present condition because a priestly nation is not in its midst serving its function. Perhaps there is an unconscious resentment for that failure, and may well be an underlying cause of latent anti-Semitism in the nations. Perhaps they intuit without any biblical knowledge that the Jews have failed to be to them what God had intended.
If that is a root cause of hatred of the Jew, out of resentment for failed priestly ministry, what then is the answer? Surely it is for the Jew to come into his destiny and calling, and to be to the nations what God intended that he should. Instead of resentment and hatred called anti-Semitism you will have Gentiles washing their feet, bearing their burdens, hewing their wood, drawing their water and being to them a supportive people appreciating and glorying in the grace of God that has come through a people restored to their calling of which they will be the beneficiaries. The nations will be changed by this ministration, by a priestly people teaching them the difference between the sacred and the profane.
What does it take to maintain this difference in ourselves as priests? How do we keep alive the sense of the holy? How do we recognize what is profane, and how do we discern that which contests against the holy and seeks to threaten it, if not eliminate it? Can we discern something destructive, even though it might parade as being outwardly virtuous and as being morally right? It is one thing to recognize apparent evil, but real discernment makes a divide between what is merely good to that which is holy and perfect. Anyone can understand blatant evil, but a priest is so acutely honed to appreciate and to maintain the holiness of God that he flinches and instantly recoils at anything that purports to be virtue, purports to be clever, purports to be right and to be desired as good, because he knows that that is the deepest threat to that which is holy. Therefore, he will find himself in painful circumstances, sitting in charismatic congregations where everyone is having a ball, where everybody is singing and laughing at the top of their voices, and he is strangely churned up on the inside. He senses something grievously wrong; that the worship is hollow; that it is not being directed to God but rather it is serving human and religious purposes.
Priests unto the Lord are not stamped out on an assembly line into some kind of religious calling; they don't wear titles or dress in an appropriate attire. Priesthood is something to be nurtured, even jealously guarded, because evidently the Levites, who were called to this and who served a specified purpose, lost it so grievously. They allowed, or participated with, the uncircumcised and allowed them even to come into the holy place to perform their trafficking in the very place that God had reserved for Himself as sanctuary, the place of His dwelling and the place of His presence.
That is how far priests can fall. If they do not maintain the sense of the holy and are not able to discern the things that are profane, then they will fall and fall grievously. If the sense of the holy is lost, there is no hope for humanity. If this is not maintained, where else can we expect the sanctity of God to be acknowledged, revered and maintained? As the priest, so also the people. God is ploughing deeply regarding this theme in order to insert something into our inner man, lest we fall back again into the lassitude that governs the many. We must maintain our distinction as Melchizedek priesthood. If we do not maintain it, what can the Church be to Israel? How shall it move Israel to envy, to jealousy, if it itself has become profane?
The Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity (Ezek. 44:10).
Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them (Ezek. 44:11).
There is a place for them, but it is in the outer court. It has its focus in the maintenance of the buildings, in the cutting up of the sacrifice. They can hew and hack, but they cannot come up to God. They serve in the externals, but God will not allow them to minister unto Him. They have forfeited that by their sacrilege. God does not completely abandon them, but gives them a necessary function, thought the highest function will be denied them.
"Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumbling-block of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up My hand against them," saith the Lord Jehovah, "and they shall bear their iniquity" (Ezek. 44:12).
The wages of sin is death. God may forgive, but there is a consequence that remains. God is jealous for Himself, not because He is egocentric, but because He knows that if He is desecrated, men will lose, or will never have, the sense of Himself. It is the sense of God that is the foundation of the Church, brought by true apostles and prophets. They don't bring that sense by a technical posturing or because they know the 'principles' by which the Church is established or its problems are resolved. The foundation they lay is God Himself. They came, trailing clouds of glory with them. They bring the sense of God, because they come to the Church out from the holy place, from a place of communion in the knowledge of God. Even when they are not explicitly speaking of those things, they are still communicating the underlay, the tremor of God, the sense of Himself.
That is why Paul's sharing of the gospel left men eternally without excuse. When he was on Mars Hill, confronting the intellectuals and philosophers, we read that some 'clave to him and believed while others said they would hear him again in this matter.' One such occasion with Paul was so much the testimony of God that not one of them who heard him will be able to stand without excuse in the Day of Judgment. They all saw Paul and what he really represented, but all quite differently. Some just saw a Hebrew man in ordinary garb, who seemed so ordinary and undistinguished from a Greek philosophical perspective. But what he said was given of God. Some cleaved to Paul and were saved. They cleaved to him because the man was the message; he was the thing in himself. This is the apostolic, prophetic and priestly distinctive. An apostle is not a title one wears, but something wrought by God in the one who is called, whose profoundest function is to communicate the sense of God as God. That is the essence of the priestly call.
A true priest labors to fight against profanity in the House of God, not primarily in the world. He discerns the genius of God as God, the sense of Himself, and is so imbued by that so as to effect everything that issues from him whether he is speaking explicitly about God or not; he is yet communicating the sense of God. That is why people were afraid of Paul. Though he says that his presence was nothing impressive, he yet brought the sense of God.
They shall not come near unto Me, to execute the office of priest unto Me, nor to come near to any of My holy things, unto the things that are most holy (Ezek. 44:13).
The architecture of the temple was modeled after the dimensions given to Moses on Sinai for the tabernacle that was carried in the wilderness for forty years. The various parts of it like the poles, the coverings and the furniture were borne only by Levites. David forgot that when he thought of moving the ark of God on an ox-cart. A man, not qualified, touched it and perished, as it had to be borne, not on an ox-cart, but on the shoulders of priests. It was their function to bear the holy things.
There was an outer court where the brazen altar and the water of washing were. It was here that the sacrifices were killed, cut up and washed, and then burnt as a sweet smelling savor unto God. There was much activity in the outer court, many priests, much scurrying, much physical activity. The Levites were allowed to continue to perform in that place. Then there was the inner court. Not so many priests were to be found there, only a few replacing the showbread or keeping the menorah lit and handling the incense of anointing. Then there was the most holy place. There was yet another veil, and only one priest was allowed there, the high priest. Even then he was only allowed in once a year to atone for his own sin and that of the nation on the Day of Atonement, bringing the blood of a lamb without blemish to be sprinkled on the Mercy Seat.
His garment was fringed with bells that jingled and a rope tied around his waist. If those bells stopped jingling, and he died in the most holy place because of some infraction or presumption on his part that he thought to get away with, or was unconscious of, or taking a liberty and not maintaining the sanctity required of the high priest, then he would be struck down dead. The sacrifice could not therefore be performed and Israel would remain in its sin. The whole nation held its breath that the bells would not stop jingling. The high priest was in preparation for this function all the year long. It was so sacred because the whole destiny of the nation hinged on this one function of coming into the holiest place.
The inner court that preceded it was illuminated by the seven-branch menorah, but the holiest place had no illumination that was external. It was not open to the sky as the outer court. It had no burning menorah as in the inner court. Its illumination was God himself, the Shekinah glory, the presence of God in the holiest place of all. God declared that He would meet with the priest above the mercy seat and between the cherubim.
They shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed (Ezek. 44:13).
This should make us to want to fear and revere God. How would you like to suffer this fate because of an indiscretion on your part, or a lack of high seriousness in regard to your call? Or you have allowed yourself to traffic in lesser things that would permanently keep you from the holiest place of all and you are condemned to a kind of lesser activity, though kept from the ultimate? And that would be your shame forever. These are serious cautions that we need to consider.
Their being confined to a lesser activity will always be for them a continual remembrance that they violated against the holiness of God. Though He has forgiven us our sin, there is a judgment that we have to bear, namely, we will be kept from ministering unto Him. We can minister unto men, we can cut up the sacrifice, can burn the wood, we can prepare the incense, we can light the candles we can tidy up, but we cannot come into the holiest place of all to minister unto Him. And yet, it is in that place that the sense of God is communicated. "There I will meet with you," He says, "and something of My very self will come into you as you approach Me." This is ultimate privilege, and from here we are going to go on to talk about how we have access today to the holiest place of all. Can we come into that presence and find a sense of God and from that place go out into the places of calling, whether it is Singapore, Argentina or New York, and bring something of the sense of God that is to be found there and there alone?.
"Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister unto Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer unto Me the fat and the blood," saith the Lord Jehovah, "They shall enter into My sanctuary, and they shall come near to My table, to minister unto Me, and they shall keep My charge" (Ezek. 44:14-16).
Who are these sons of Zadok? Zadok means righteous, hence priests of righteousness. They may well be a remnant, a minority from among the priests who did not violate the sanctity of God and who kept His charge. Their eternal reward, as the others had an eternal shame, is summed up in the statement, 'they shall come up to Me' and 'they shall minister unto Me.' The others could minister to men in the outer court, but the sons of Zadok, who kept their integrity, who were not 'one of the boys' or who would not 'go along with the crowd,' retained their priestly integrity.
To keep their priestly integrity when Israel went astray is the distinction that God is rewarding. It is one thing to keep it when conditions are conducive to priestliness, but to keep it when conditions are hostile and adverse is all the more a priestly keeping. Even now, the character and conditions of our age are adverse to Zadokite priestliness. To maintain this kind of integrity before God in an exclusive separation in the honoring of Him, when everybody is into the current fashion, obtains ultimate reward. And how many fashions are continually being presented: 'the body of Christ,' 'the five-fold ministry,' 'power evangelism,' 'church growth,' or the movements that franchise apostles and give them districts and titles where you are welcome to 'join the club' and share in the reward of it! But to keep yourself and your integrity from all that is reserved for true priests.
The requirement of keeping our integrity demands the prayer, the fellowship and the correction of those with whom we are joined in like calling. In my opinion, we cannot keep a Zadokite integrity except in close fellowship or community. We all have blind spots; we can all drift, and we need someone who knows us well and sees in love something at its inception. Are we in an atmosphere where a brother or sister can call our attention to it? If not, it will not be long before that thing will harden beyond the point of remedy. We need to speak the truth often one to another in love. We have things that we cannot perceive about ourselves, which can only be seen by another, but they have to be in a frequency of relationship by which the subtlety of change can be noted at its inception.
When I come to this subject, I often think of my return to my Pentecostal assembly in New Jersey. While having been away for a few years, I was invited to speak on a Sunday morning. I learned the Saturday before that the three most prominent and spiritual women in the congregation had all freaked out and had forsaken their husbands. They had become whores and engaged in the most astonishing immoral conduct. And so the next morning the Lord put a message on my heart about detecting sin while it is yet today, because tomorrow is already too late.
I often say to congregations: "Can you tell your pastor, while there is yet time, that his voice is changing? That his manner and style of speech has gone from a conversational reality to a kind of affected, ministerial style?" When that hardens, it is already too late to bring him back to the place of reality. He himself is unaware that he has moved from the one to the other, unless someone will draw his attention to a subtlety that they hear even in the resonance in his voice. A lot depends on your acute discernment, not a spirit of suspicion, but a spirit of discernment, which will only be factored in love. God will never allow you either to discern or to express your discernment if it comes out of a critical spirit that wants to be exalted at the expense of another.
My indictment that Sunday morning was against the whole fellowship: "You are merely shallow Sunday saints. You are not in that frequency of relationship, nor have you the courage for truth and love by which correction might have come early enough to have saved those women from walking in that way and ending up in the calamity that has come. It is our personal responsibility to maintain Zadokite integrity, but we cannot do it alone.
Those who are most susceptible to falling into error and losing their calling, going from being a true prophet to a false, are those who need this kind of correction more than others. But if they are surrounded by a paid staff, who more often than not are afraid to suggest that there is a need for correction, then those men will drift into a place of increasingly becoming affected and false. Their staff will withhold the correction because they do not want to bite the hand that feeds them. We have to seek a fellowship of kindred souls, kindred spirits, who are jealous for this thing. Where two or three are gathered in His name; it doesn't take many, but it does take two or three of a very particular kind: real saints, who would not withhold speaking the truth in love.
Likely such a small knit of life will be at first faltering and inconsistent, even somewhat fearful because they have not been this way heretofore. They had only been in the world, and in the world they are self-conscious and privatistic. They have not known how to express their hearts openly. You will teach them by your example. They will look at you suspiciously and you will bring a new crisis to their life concerning what faith means. Your priestliness and your prayer will bring them progressively into a place where they will be that for you and you will be that for them. This will be a real birthing. Everything in the world, the flesh and the devil will conspire against it. There will be a real contest and struggle and you will be on your face before God in the holy place in tears and praying for their souls.
I tell you, dear saints, that movement was holy, holy, holy, because they received correction, because they continued in a spirit of humility, because they knew their frailty as men. The remarkable thing is that it was a Japanese movement, of the one race and culture in the world that is best known for 'saving face.' Their whole culture is groomed into not allowing the truth of your life to be shown to others, or even to acknowledge it yourself. But this movement was exactly the opposite. Everything was true, everything was expressed, and everything was known.
We are to be vigilant like that and willing for humiliation. Even if the correction is not correct, even if the person lacks that acuity of really and finally identifying the point, we are still to receive it and try to understand the intent of their heart and be grateful that someone loves me enough to seek to administer correction, even though it may a bit blunt or not expressed as artfully as we would like. What if the correction is clumsy? What if it is crude? Are we connoisseurs that demand the correction come to us on such terms as we can receive? If so, we are already in trouble. Receive it in whatever form it comes and be grateful for it.
"They shall come near to me to minister unto me; and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood," saith the Lord Jehovah (Ezek. 44:15).
The two most vital aspects of the sacrifice are not the hide or even the meat, but the fat and the blood. This is what constitutes the sweet smelling sacrifice or offering. The fat is the symbol of rest and the best of a condition that issues out of rest; the hide is burnt with the dung. What we would consider of value, the Lord allows to be burnt, and what we would have discarded as waste, the Lord cherishes as the most valuable, the fat and the blood.
"They shall enter into My sanctuary, and they shall come near to My table, to minister unto Me, and they shall keep My charge. And it shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causeth sweat" (Ezek. 44:16-18).
Linen is the garment of righteousness. Nothing was to be worn that could cause sweat. Sweat or exertion would indicate the effort of man.
"And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads" (Ezek. 44:19-20).
No external appearance of a supposed priestliness or propheticness where you look like the wilderness prophet and fulfill the romantic imagination of others or yourself. There is nothing about you, regarding hair, long or short, that either shows celibacy or external separation. Keep it ordinary. Keep it neat. Do not wear anything outwardly that gives any indication of a supposed spirituality; for that is false; that is unclean.
"And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean" (Ezek. 44:23).
They shall teach the difference between the holy and the profane, between the sacred and the common. They shall do so not only by what they say, but by what they are.
"And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments: and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all Mine assemblies; and they shall hallow My Sabbaths" (Ezek. 44:24).
The priesthood was originally not only the office of intercession and sacrifice but of the teaching of the Law; that when the priesthood failed, the rabbis took over and established the whole legal system which is the basis of present-day Judaism. In my opinion, this is contrary to the spirit of the Law which says that only a priest could rightly administer.
"And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," saith the Lord GOD. "And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession." (Ezek. 44:27-28).
They are freed from ambition, from acquisition of goods and properties. They shall eat of the offerings alone. It bears a remarkable correspondence to the prescriptions given at the first. What was prescribed and instigated at the first shall be carried into the millennial and eternal future.
All we have said is preparation for the ultimate calling, namely, 'ministering unto Him' in the holiest place of all. This is the nub of the matter, and a distant cry from the external priesthood that hacks up the sacrifice, takes care of the buildings and church programs and anything else that address the needs of the people. Have you ever wondered how much our present-day Christianity is people-oriented? Is not its focus on the needs of the people? How many of the most successful churches of today have begun by canvassing neighborhoods, door-to-door, to find out 'what their needs are,' or 'what can we do for you' or 'Do you need a bowling alley? Well, we will have one in the basement of the church. Do you need counseling for this or for that? Your children?' The needs of the people have become the whole foundation of the Church, and these churches have become enormously successful, but that is all outer court activity. How can they communicate from that place the thing that is essential to the true life of the congregation?
Our concern should be for the holiest place of all. How can we come into that place and abide there? We as priests need to offer mankind something beyond what they need as they perceive it, but according to the need as God perceives it, which is, at heart, the communication of God as He is in Himself. We can only get the sense of that in this holiest place; but how shall we have access? Formerly it was only open to the high priest once in a year.
The book of Hebrews gives us answer. We are now going to consider this, and I suspect our faith is going to be tested. It is one thing to read what we now have before us to consider, but the real issue is whether we have the faith to believe it for ourselves. God has opened a new and living way by His blood; the veil is rent, and we are bidden to come and to enter because He has made a way once-and-for-all. We can come into the holiest place, and there He will meet with us. We can live out from that place because a High Priest has gone in before us to make a new and living way by which we can also enter and abide. Have we a faith to believe for that? That is to say, to actually enter in. A whole generation perished in the wilderness who could not enter for their unbelief. Yet God bids us enter, that is to say, appropriate and come into this place. The veil that kept out the people was rent from the top to the bottom. Are we accessing?
This sequence holds a remarkable mouthful. Here is intimated that this hope, especially in an age of tumult and upset, oppression and persecution, is that anchor set within the holy place. It is in the sanctuary of God; it will never be touched; it will never be affected by any outward tumult or disturbance. It is the basis for our peace, our security, our instruction and our confidence. It is a hope set as an anchor steadfast within the veil or behind the veil.
In our observation, it would seem that many believers have fallen short of this reality; we have appropriated the blood for sin but we have not appropriated the fullness of what was wrought by the death of Jesus. When He gave up His spirit and said, "It is finished," in that moment, the veil was rent in the temple. It was a six or nine inch thick covering that kept out the curious and the unqualified from the place of Gods holy presence. I am suggesting that there is something that has to do with His death that opened up a new way of access into God, into His very presence, which is also the requirement of priesthood.
Jesus abides as a priest forever because He is without ancestry, beginning or ending of days. We who are identified with, and who are in Christ, are invited to share in His Melchizedek priesthood to the degree that we are sons. He is more than the provision of a sacrifice of blood for sin; but by His sacrifice the veil is rent, and there is an opening now by which we ourselves can enter the holy place as priests in Him. In fact, if we do not enter that place, what are we communicating when we go before men?
Chapter seven describes this Melchizedek priesthood. Melech is king and Zedec from Zadok is righteousness. King of righteousness and king of peace. Verse 3 reads that he was without father, without mother, without genealogy, with neither beginning of days nor end of life; but resembling or in the form of a son of God, He remains a priest forever.
Paul never sent letters in advance to say that he thought he was going to be passing through Athens, and could they arrange a Saturday night meeting with the philosophers. Or could they arrange for him to speak especially with those who were influential with the Greek civilization, because this was the first time that anything like this will ever come to them. None of that! Paul was brought to Mars Hill, not by himself, but by circumstances; he was fleeing persecution. This brought him to Athens; and while he was taking a walk, he saw that the city was wholly given to idolatry. It says his spirit was grieved and so he 'reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met him.' Someone heard this 'babbler' speaking about resurrection and so they brought him up to Mars Hill.
A door of utterance had been opened by the prayers of the saints for Paul. Caught up by circumstances in an unanticipated place, he found himself right in the middle of the glory that was the Greek civilization. Athens was the seat of philosophy, ethics, mathematics, physics and all of the great pursuits of civilization. Humanism itself had its birth in Athens, and it was to this class of men that Paul was now going to face. What would he say?
"Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I thank you for the privilege that has come to me today. I do not want to offend against your traditions." No, he did not say this at all, but rather, "On my way here, and passing your monuments to your gods, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious, and your monument to the unknown God is really an excuse. The truth of the matter is that you do not really want to know God. You prefer to have him as unknown. Therefore you can continue in your vain and immoral pursuits. It is convenient for you not to know God in case He might interfere and infringe upon your enjoyment. But this unknown God to whom you worship in ignorance, I declare unto you." (Paraphrased).
This is Paul in a divine boldness, because once he declares it, they are finished; they can never again claim ignorance. To hear from an apostle about the God who is God is to leave you without excuse before that God at the Day of Judgment.
Then he went on to speak: "God has overlooked your times of ignorance, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent. He is not impressed by temples made by the hands of men, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, and He is also the creator of the heaven and the earth, including Greece and Athens. You need to acknowledge the God who has created this piece of turf upon which you are standing and which you think is yours as a playground for your sports and intellectual activities. God has allowed you your vain presumptions, but now He calls all men to repentance, for He has appointed a day in which He will judge all men and indeed the whole world, by the man whom He has raised from the dead, even Jesus Christ." (Paraphrased).
Paul knew that these men knew nothing about the resurrection. They had never heard the name of Jesus. Surely it was an outlandish message? Paul's message was not even appealing to the intellect of men, so that they could, as philosophers, identify and begin to consider. In fact, Paul was violating everything that intellectual men hold dear. His word was a colossal offence to rationality itself. Couldn't Paul have thought of something better to say?
But Paul opened his mouth. It is just like Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon of the Mount. He gathered His disciples and opened His mouth and taught them. The same God that gave Jesus the words of the great oracle of the Sermon on the Mount gave Paul his message on Mars Hill. His audience had the power to put Paul to death; they could have been so antagonized by this threat and insult coming from a Hebrew that he could have died on the spot. In fact, one of those who 'clave to him and believed' did die on the spot on the Mount of Martyrs that is today in Paris (Mont Martre), where the French now have art exhibits. The disciple of Paul, who came to him on Mars Hill and was saved, subsequently was sent by the same God into a pagan Europe to die on another hill, proclaiming the same kind of message to the pagans there; and that is where he died.
Paul's message that day was altogether priestly, defying analysis. By critique and examination you would think it was the worst thing to be spoken. Some biblical scholars even say that Paul missed the mark in Athens because no great church was raised up by Paul as in Philippi and in other places. Therefore he really missed his opportunity by suggesting that 'God had made of one blood all races of men and established the bounds of habitation that they might seek after God if haply they might feel after him and find him.' Shouldn't Paul have given them some gospel formula on how to be saved?!
Why did Paul speak about the earth and the bounds of habitations of men for the purpose of the seeking after God? Was it not because that was the message God gave him out of the holy place. It is not necessary to know in advance what is appropriate. Paul never came back to Athens as far as we know. It was a one-time visit and a one-time speaking for which men in the hearing of it would be eternally responsible. Where did Paul get that word? Where did he get any of the words that he spoke or that he wrote in his epistles? Only in the holy place, the holiest place of all to which he had access.
He is the author, by all reckoning, of the book of Hebrews. Some Bible scholars say that it does not seem to be Paul's authorship because Paul does not usually write like that. In his other epistles he does not use this style of language. But what these learned men do not always recognize is that Paul could speak in any manner of ways, and what was appropriate in the book of Romans might not have been called for in the letter to the Hebrews. The same inspiration that came for the book of Romans likewise came for the book of Hebrews; it was the same source, the place where God is enthroned, where God meets with the soul and gives instruction for the sons of men.
To receive instruction from this place is not necessarily what we would think is the appropriate thing to say. And if you want to maintain your reputation, then yes, you also have the option of functioning out of your humanity and cleverness. But, when life and death or the issue of judgment and eternity are at stake, we cannot rely on our own cleverness or any past preaching experience. Past words that God Himself has given you are no justification for us to pick up a message that was blessed and given, and to think that it is appropriate in another place. Every moment is a new moment, a once-and-for-all, and only priestly ministration will suffice. Where do we obtain it? We are not sons of Aaron, but Gentiles. We come with a history of ethnic and racial backgrounds. We are loaded with baggage that colors everything we think and say and do. Yet, we need to come to the place that Paul found, where you count everything you are as dung, and that your ancestry, upbringing and genealogy have no significance; we need to come to a place where there is no beginning nor ending of days, and that we are in an unbroken continuum with that which had its origin in the earliest expressions of God and His view of the world. That is true priestliness!
Is our distinction that of a son resembling the Son of God? Are we in His grace and priestly ministration? The veil has been rent; we are bidden to enter into the holiest place of all and there to find whatever is needful out from Gods own presence. How would you like to enter, not just once in a while, but to abide there continually? Though you are in some physical locality, is that where your essential being is? Or is it continually in the holiest place of all? Only out from that place will the Lord express, in His own wisdom and will, what is appropriate at any place or time. That is the heart of the matter and the heart of priestliness.
This kind of priesthood is not ministerial professionalism, where you work a 9.00 to 5.00 job. Not to enter the holy place is an affront to the great privilege that the Lord has bestowed before us in rending the veil that has kept us out previously. He has made for us by His blood and by His death a new and living way, and He is bidding us to come. Not only come, but to abide, to live and move and have our existence.
Hebrews 7:15 speaks about the power of an indestructible life and a priest resembling Melchizedek; one who has become a priest not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent but through the power of an indestructible life, for it is attested of him: "You are a priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedek." There is a forever-ness, there is an eternality, there is an unbrokenness, because it is the power of the indestructible life; it is the power of the God who is infinite and Himself, endless. It is out of that life that this priesthood is performed.
We can be priests forever, not just at the high moments, but in ordinary conversation or when speaking the truth in love to someone in the fellowship. Surely this must be exhausting you might say, but not if you are serving and functioning out of the indestructible Life. In fact, if you are not carried by the indestructible Life, you are not in the priesthood. It is intrinsic; it is one and the same.
Have you the faith to enter? Faith is an act. What a pity to be an outer court minister, to attend to the needs of men, hack things, cleaning up and taking care of the furniture. But to minister unto God is the truest ministry unto men. You will have something to bring in the form of the very essence of God, the very nature of Himself, that which is perfect.
For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself. For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appointeth a Son, perfected for evermore (Hebrews 7:26-28).
Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all (Hebrews 8:1-2, 4).
There is a separation from earthliness and the power of the earth.
Chapter nine continues in the description of that greater priestliness effected by Jesus, not "through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption" (v. 12).
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; and having a great priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for He is faithful (Hebrews 10:19-23).
Let us hold fast; the anchor is set within the veil, in the holiest place. Let us approach with a true heart, with full confidence, full assurance. He has opened for us, through the veil of His own flesh, a new and living way. We have confidence to enter; and if we have confidence to enter, we have confidence to remain. It is not a flitting thing, on today and off tomorrow. The same confidence by which we enter is the faith and confidence by which we abide. We abide priests forever in the power of the indestructible life. It is a whole new dimension. It exceeds the Aaronic priesthood, which was limited by men's ageing and dying. The Melchizedek abides forever beyond father and mother, beyond ancestry. It is abiding with the Son as a son. It is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. We need to hold fast that confession of our hope. Amen.


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COVID-19 Edition
The Blazer
New measures pertaining to COVID safety introduced for on-campus learning
Ryder Lariviere
Only a month into in-person learning, COVID training may feel like a distant memory, but it was responsible for preparing our community to be safe during in person learning.
Before students and faculty were allowed back on campus, a mandatory schoolwide training took place during the first and second week of October. All faculty and students attended the training to learn the proper safety procedures for an in-person day with the option of virtual training via Zoom.
Justin Culley, Branson's safety director, said that the training and maintaining of the COVID protocols were "really meant to tell the community it's not hard, it's simple, but we all have to do it."
The school intentionally staggered the time during which students and faculty were trained in order to keep people from gathering, but kept the trainings very similar to each other.
"For students, we divided by grade level and had half up here [Upper Campus] and half down by the Commons," he said. "While for teachers, departments signed up over the span of a week and a half during the morning or afternoon. The structure of it was different, but what we covered wasn't. We wanted everyone to get the same information."
Training covered the proper screening procedures, reminders about staying home, the "four cardinal rules" (wear a mask, constantly sanitize, socially distance, stay home if sick) and hands-on experience in a COVID-ready classroom.
Meanwhile, Emily Easom, Branson's COVID coordinator, hoped the impact of the training would continue to allow Branson to provide in-person learning.
"Having the training allowed us to feel knowledgeable and prepared as well as safe going forward into the foreseeable future," she said. "We will be able to continue to provide in-person learning and ensure that we are taking the appropriate measures to keep that in-person learning."
Alexander LaMonica, a freshman at Branson, completed the training and said, "It helped build a clear vision of what school would be like on a day-to-day basis. It explained things such as the owl camera, sanitization procedures, and how the cohort system would work."
Shujun Xiang, a Mandarin teacher new to Branson, received the training as well and appreciates the impact and importance of it.
"We know for sure the steps and procedures. We definitely know what to expect and how to address something if it occurs. So far, everything is in good order," she said.
When asked what other message she would want to share with the community, Xiang said, "Stay positive, stay happy, and help the community as much as possible."
Culley echoes a similar sentiment, "We all have to be in this together, and if we're not all in this together, then Branson is not likely to remain open."
Ryder Lariviere,
In the midst of an unusual school year, Branson students continue to create new clubs
Branson consolidates history and English electives to fit the new schedule
Branson reopens its campus, allowing students to learn in-person with classmates
Teachers and students return to in-person learning among changed conditions
Branson implements new lunch procedures
Coronavirus alters the high school experience for freshmen
Transportation plans modified in wake of virus
Prop 18: 17-year-old voting rights on the ballot this election cycle
Branson unveils its new school/athletics logo and rebranding initiative
Introduction to new Branson teachers
The Student News Site of Branson School

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This is an Ofsted rated 'Good' Primary School who can offer an excellent induction programme to ensure your teaching career gets off to the start it deserves. Based across 2 sites, the school can offer flexibility in year group to ensure that you can work to your strengths within either KS1 or KS2, with a large support network behind you.
Primary Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) will be responsible for implementing a full educational plan for their class, with in class TA support, and access to an out of class mentor to provide guidance and support where necessary.
Located in Southwark, this large Primary School can offer the successful Primary Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) an inner London salary, fantastic location which is very accessible via public transport and has a team of highly experienced and supportive staff.
If you will be completing your PGCE or BA/BEd course this year and are seeking a role within a challenging but rewarding and supportive environment, then please send through an updated CV and Personal Statement. We would love to hear from you.


The cryptocurrency SolarCoin was created in 2014 with the aim of supporting solar power generation at a global scale.
Saudi operator of power generation and water desalination plants, ACWA Power has announced it will adopt SolarCoin, the global reward system for solar power generation.
ACWA said the blockchain-based system will provide solar power producers with digital tokens for every MWh of generated electricity and a supplementary means of payment for goods and services in place of conventional currency.
"Being early utility-scale adopters of SolarCoin, ACWA Power is proud to leverage our rapidly growing solar energy generation capacity to accelerate the utilization of SolarCoins to in time further reduce the cost of solar energy through the supplementary value being created," said ACWA Power's president Paddy Padmanathan.
The global cryptocurrency, SolarCoin allows solar electricity producers to accrue currency for the solar energy they generate. One SolarCoin represents 1 MWh of PV electricity. The platform is growing in popularity in many developed solar markets across Europe, North and South America, Australia, Japan and India.
Some smarthome solutions providers, such as Smappee are also partnering with SolarCoin to allow homeowners peer-to-peer trading of their solar energy, essentially sharing PV electricity with homes that do not have solar systems installed.


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Kevin Mayer of France reacts after the Men's Decathlon 1500m and winning silver overall on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ashton Eaton of the United States competes in the Men's Decathlon 1500m on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Kevin Mayer of France competes in the Men's Decathlon Javelin Throw on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Damian Warner of Canada, Ashton Eaton of the United States, Kevin Mayer of France and Arthur Abele of Germany compete in the Men's Decathlon 110m Hurdles on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Damian Warner of Canada competes in the Men's Decathlon Javelin Throw on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ashton Eaton of the United States competes in the Men's Decathlon Javelin Throw on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ashton Eaton of the United States celebrates winning gold overall after the Men's Decathlon 1500m on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Damian Warner of Canada competes in the Men's Decathlon Pole Vault on Day 13 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium on August 18, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Christopher Taylor Edwards is a design and digital strategist with a nearly 20 year career leading campaigns for nonprofit and corporate clients. He is currently a design fellow with the Knight Cities Program, Parsons and IDEO. Raised in Chicagoland and now based in Brooklyn, Christopher is now completing an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons, The New School for Design, where he is also a teaching assistant for a class on global issues in design and art. From his background in ethnographic urbanism and experience design, Christopher's design practice engages the psychology of time and space, the pedagogy of empathy, and human development. His thesis research is focused on the careers of deaf and hard of hearing and how might the design of social support networks and the workplace environment support them. As a late deafened adult and gay man, Christopher is also an advocate for accessibility and social inclusion.. He serves on the associates board for Equal Justice USA, a leader in the fight for humane justice reform.


Tsunamis, Pandemics and Bots, Oh My!
This week found me being fully initiated into the world of Science Fiction and Apocalyptic media. First off, I watched the cheesy and plot hole-ridden TV special, End Day. It was an easy to digest series that followed repetitions of the same day culminating in a different disaster hitting the earth but I fixated on all the particulars that weren't up to par in my mind. Specifically, I was hung up on how not every situation was the literal end of the world. The large tsunami wave hitting the east coast and even the meteors striking earth were terrifying concepts but only struck certain parts of the earth, leaving chaos in their wake but plenty of people to recover, rebuild and adapt. I expected the series to show complete apocalyptic wreckage but some of the situations seemed more like large scale "natural" disasters that could be survived by much of the human race. On that note of surviving, I also fixated on the scientist character that somehow managed to escape death and terror in nearly every situation by getting stuck in a cab or missing his flight. If only traffic was that beneficial in real life. During the show, I found myself wondering how I would fare in the different situations and planning out how I'd spend my last day on earth. I'd honestly be tempted to run but after thinking about it realistically, I would probably not take the warning of a tsunami or meteors too seriously. When I see disasters on the news, I tend to think 'it's not that bad' or 'it'll pass'. Perhaps I will pay more care when I see warnings in the future but I worry that I would panic over nothing and that may cost me in the end.
On to my experiences with apocalyptic and science/futuristic fiction. I am admittedly not well versed in either world aside from a few favorites that I've enjoyed so the Routledge article was pretty much all new information to me. I knew that industrialization had contributed to the birth of these genres but I understood a lot more. I find it really interesting how progress breeds fear and often pessimism in literature and society in general, purely because it means the destruction of a previous way of life. It made sense, especially when thinking about today's world and the narratives that fill our minds. Black Mirror, for example, really harps on the idea of technology and progress consuming our lives in an overwhelmingly negative way. While reality may be very close to that, it also exaggerates the fear and destruction that may come. Black Mirror is hyperbolic but formulaic science fiction in my eyes, mixed with some apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic themes.
I also got my first taste of a science fiction infused post-apocalyptic book. These genres often go hand and hand but both were really present in the excerpt of Sea of Rust that I read. I have an affinity for robots and the concepts of Artificial Intelligence so I was drawn to this book immediately. It takes place in a time after humans have been eliminated by a robot uprising and the world consists of individual bots struggling to survive against a hive mind super-AI that consumes the memories of bots who give themselves up to it. Because the main character is a robot, they are meant to have limited emotions and they continually insist upon their lack of care and feeling. However, it's hard not to see the morals, mercy and regret that they exhibit as emotions and pure humanity despite their programming and metallic shell. Despite this confusion I have to reconcile while reading the narrative from the main character's view, I am definitely interested in continuing. The world building in the first few chapters I read is heavy but I think it's necessary and illustrates an interesting world of humanlike robots versus oppressor robots. I have a good feeling that now that the necessary info is out of the way, the rest of the book will be intense and full of robot shenanigans, which I look forward to.


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1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Grease the cups of a muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray or butter or fill with paper liners.
2. In a medium bowl, stir the cornmeal with the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
3. In another medium bowl, whisk the eggs and buttermilk, then whisk in the butter and honey. Using a rubber spatula or large spoon, stir in the flour mixture until the batter is evenly combined and no dry streaks are visible. Add the raspberries and gently mix until everything is barely blended—to keep the muffins light it's important to not overmix the batter.
4. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling them equally. Bake until a bamboo skewer or toothpick inserted into the middles of the muffins comes out clean and the tops are golden brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then use a small paring knife to pop them out of the cups.
These were quite good! The raspberries can be a little mushy so I took the recommendation of one reviewer and tossed them in flour before baking which helped a bit. After they sat for a few hours, they solidified and weren't as mushy. The cornmeal flavor is quite good!
I made it with blackberries, which I rolled in flour before folding in to the batter. Fantastic.
these were really awful. I wanted to like them but they just were not good. I fed them to my dog. I would never make these again.
These muffins were a mess. The fresh raspberries made them mushy and a weird purplish color stained the muffin around the berries. We threw most of them to the raccoons.
These muffins were very surprising! They are lighter and larger than I thought they would be. I used blueberries rather than raspberries but now I want to try raspberry. I also used stone ground cornmeal. The timing and ingredients are accurate and great.
Good, but not special enough to save the recipe in my folders. Raspberry is MUCH tastier (and more special) than blueberry. I would make it again until I find something really great.
Made these for a ladies brunch for 140 ppl. They were terrific! I loved the subtle sweetness and the tart raspberry paired with it. I also made some with blueberries and they too came out great. I like the raspberry pairing better flavor wise but remember when you used the raspberries, the muffin around the berry will be a little discolored to a purple/grey. Wish raspberries didn't do that, but they do and it doesn't distract front the outstanding taste! Loved them!
These muffins were great and had just the perfect touch of sweetness. They can be used as a side to a main course or with a cup of coffee for breakfast. I followed the recipe exactly and found that if you use silicone muffin pans 20 minutes of cook time is a tad too long (not burnt but a little too brown). Next time I'll try 15 minutes.


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Sohan Qadri
Agamas III
Amala VII
Arti IV
Amisha VI
Nadi IV
Puja III
Sohan Qadri and The Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Born in Chachoki, Punjab, India, in 1932, Sohan Qadri was a poet, painter and Tantric yogi. He is perhaps best known for his luminous, dye-infused works on heavy paper, which explore the notion of emptiness or voids. Relying on a language of orifices and elongated paths or lines, Qadri abandoned representation in search of transcendence. He was particularly inspired by Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism, which emphasizes the notion of sunyata or emptiness. Qadri's minimalist compositions on paper are symbolic of this empty space or void from which seeds-the punctures-arise. The seeds are primordial symbols representing the self in the universe, the notion of creation, and a sexual union.
To begin his process, Qadri would bathe thick intaglio paper in acid-free water. Once it was swollen with liquid, he would rhythmically score the surface with various gouging and cutting tools, carving in stages while applying inks and dyes. Imbued with vibrant hues, the serrated surfaces possess a strong sense of energy and rhythm. In the artist's hands, the very nature of paper was transformed from a flat, two-dimensional surface into a three-dimensional medium.
Qadri's work has been exhibited at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery spaces several times during the last decade. Established in New York City in 2000, the gallery is devoted to examining the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures. With spaces in New York City (Chelsea and Madison Avenue), Singapore and Hong Kong, they focus on mounting exhibitions and hosting not-for-profit events that encourage spiritual, social and aesthetic dialogues.
Sundaram Tagore Gallery website
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If you are Trekking with a reputable company, they should be happy for you to provide them with details of the Emergency Assistance Company, if you are unable to call yourself. We therefore strongly recommend that you inform your guide prior to departure.
JS Travel Insurance can provide cover for Trekking without a Guide. If you're trekking unguided between 3,000 metres to 9,000 metres, we will need to provide you with a specialist Policy. Please let us know your Trekking plans so we provide a policy which is suitable for you.
You are required to follow the safety guidelines for the level of Trekking you're doing and use the appropriate safety equipment. Please note that a General Exclusion of cover exists under your policy with us for claims arising directly or indirectly from your "wilful act of self exposure to peril (except where it is to save human life)". If you require a policy that covers you for Trekking without a Guide, please call us on 0800 047 5065.
How high can I trek with this Travel Insurance policy in Morocco?
Some of these Treks can be covered under our Trekking up to 4,000 metres.
What happens if I need Mountain Rescue and Air Ambulance?
If need be you can be rescued due to serious injury, altitude sickness or illness. If possible it is best that you telephone the Emergency Assistance Number on your Travel Insurance Certificate. In case that you are unable to contact them, you should take copies of your Travel Insurance Certificate, so that you can give one to the company that is organising the Trek and they will be able to contact the Emergency Assistance Company on your behalf.
When getting a quote, must I include the entire time I am away from home or can I just select the dates that I will be Trekking?
For a lower premium Policy, you must select the date you leave your home and the date you return to your home. However, we do have other Specialist Providers who can cover just the days you're trekking. Please let us know all dates of travel so we can provide a suibable and valid Policy to meet your needs.
It is covered whilst in transit and whilst being stored, but not while it is being used. We have different Policies which will cover different amounts for Personal Baggage - please let us know how much your equipment is worth, we will then select the appropriate level of cover for you.
If I am injured or taken ill and I need Repatriation, am I covered by the Travel Insurance Policy?
Yes, all of our policies cover Repatriation back to your Home Country, if the medical treatment locally is not sufficient. This will need to be authorised by the Medical Assistance Sevice listed in your Policy documents.
What happens if I book my Travel Insurance and then there is a Natural Disaster in Morocco and I cannot travel?
The Policy will cover Cancellation if you are unable to travel due to a Natural Catastrophe, if this happens and it prevents you from flying to Morocco.
Natural Catastrophe covers fire, flood, earthquake, explosion, tsunami, volcanic eruption, landslide, avalanche, hurricane, cyclone or storm which is unforeseen and unknown at the time You purchased this insurance or booked Your Trip, whichever is the later.
What happens if I book my Travel Insurance and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise not to travel to Morocco?
You should always check with the FCO before booking any trip and confirm that travel to the area you plan to travel to is not restricted. If there is a restriction, then we cannot provide a Travel Insurance Policy. If you take out a Policy before the FCO advises it's not safe to travel, you will be covered for Cancellation.
It is recommended that the first day that you are at a high altitude, you should not try to walk or over exert yourself. Drinking plenty of water will also help your body adjust to the altitude.
We would advise that you do not drink the local water. This may cause you to become ill and be unable to complete the Trek. You should take water purifiers with you.
Make sure when you get to your destination, register your Travel Insurance Policy with the Trekking Company that you have booked with and point out the 24 hour Emergency Medical Number.
In the case of your needing Mountain Rescue by Helicopter, the Mountain Rescue Services in Morocco will need your Travel Insurance details. Travel Insurance companies have their own preferred Operators, so ensure that you call or you have someone call on your behalf the 24 hours Emergency Assistance Company - they will also authorise the claim.
Trekking between 2,000 and 6,000 metres is strenuous and the lack of oxygen after 2,500 metres makes Trekking difficult. You should always keep to your fitness levels and not try to go beyond them if you are not comfortable or confidant at this altitude.
You can buy products from this website that will help you acclimatize before you even leave the United Kingdom www.altitudecentre.com. This will not completely simulate Trekking in Morocco at altitude but it may help.
You should not take too much with you. The biggest mistake here is taking too much, not using half of it and being burdened with the weight of it.
Trekking Pants, Thermal Tops (long sleeve) and Thermals Bottoms, Windproof Jacket, Lightweight Rain Jacket and T shirts.
Please check the weather before packing, if you plan on Trekking in August the temperature can rise up to 42 C, we would recommend packing lightweight and light coloured items.
Wide-brimmed hat or hat with neck cape - protects head, face, and neck, 100 UV protection Sunglasses, Water Purification Tablets, Sunscreen, Chapstick, Quick Dry Towel, Bungy Cord, Karabiners, Head Torch, Washing Powder, Water Bottles, First Aid Kit.
If you are not organizing through a United Kingdom Operator then make sure you are Trekking with an authorised Trekking Agency with full licenses and registration from the Authorities. An agency has to have registration with Moroccos Ministry of Tourism to operate.
When trekking in Morocco vaccines are not essential however we recommend you seek medical advice from your doctor, at least 4 weeks before you go and check you are up to date with the normal Vaccines.
If you are planning to travel more rural parts of Morocco then it is recommended to cover yourself against diseases such as Hepatitis B and Rabies.
A return ticket and a passport with a minimum of 3 months validity beyond the duration of your stay are required by all travellers to Morocco.
British, European Union (EU), Australian, Canadian, USA and Japanese nationals for stays of up to three months. If you require staying longer then 3 months you must visit the local police station to apply, this must be done within 15 days of arrival.
You will not be required to show any Trekking Permits for Morocco.
www.trekkinginmorocco.com/en/home - Tour operators offering lots of different routes for Trekking in Morocco, including family treks, atlas mountains and more.
www.tourdust.com/products/africa/morocco?activity=walking-trekking&itineraries=all#category-itineraries - Lots of useful information regarding different tours and easy booking faciltities.
www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/destinations/africa/morocco.aspx - lots of useful information regarding vaccinations and travelling to Morocco.
www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/expedition-hiking-morocco-photos - blog on somone's personal experience and what to expect when Trekking in Morocco.
www.moroccanembassylondon.org.uk/en/viisa.html - Information regarding Visas and requiremnts before entering the country.


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'Pedophiles a persecuted minority'? NJ predator's theory rejected, appeal granted
Sergio Bichao
Gary Wolchesky was convicted of enticing young boys to send him sexually explicit messages. (NJ Department of Corrections)
A convicted sex offender who argued that pedophiles are victims of discrimination and that laws against sexual contact with children violate his rights has been granted a narrow appeal.
The legal victory this month was not based on what the court called the defendant's "unusual" strategy of promoting pedophilia but on the constitutional right to a speedy trial.
The now-31-year-old Gary Wolchesky was first arrested in 2009 but it took seven years before his trial started.
In a 44-page decision released Jan. 28, a three-judge appellate panel said that part of this delay was the fault of Wolchesky, who insisted on representing himself. But part of the delay also was the result of the investigation and new charges that were later added on.
Wolchesky was accused of — and readily admitted — using his Xbox to communicate with boys ranging in ages of 10 to 15, getting them to send him sexually explicit videos and sending them sexually explicit videos of himself.
Wolchesky argued that "pedophiles are a persecuted minority and that the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice wrongfully makes this conduct a crime," the appellate decision summarized.
He also argued that what he did was not against the law because the boys consented to his requests.
Although many cases involving child predators result in plea deals, which spare the victims from having to testify, Wolchesky insisted on a trial, having four of the boy victims take the stand. Wolchesky also testified.
But the jury rejected his theories and convicted him in 2016 of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and related child pornography charges. He was sentenced in 2017 to 46 years in prison.
As the appellate decision noted in its opening line, the case "involves the sexual predation of children while in the sanctuary of their own bedrooms, highlighting the dangers children face today when they use the internet and internet-connected gaming devices."
Monmouth County authorities used the case every step of the way to draw attention to these dangers.
Monmouth first became aware of Wolchesky after he posted YouTube videos advocating for pedophilia. The videos still appear on YouTube.
It was the mother of one of the victims who got the ball rolling on the case after she looked at her 12-year-old son's computer and noticed that he was chatting with someone named TEENTECH, whose profile said he was "20 years old and I like little boys."
The mother sent TEENTECH, who turned out to be Wolchesky, a message telling him to stop communicating with her son. He replied: "I don't care what your mom says."
The mother notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who then notified Monmouth County prosecutors. A month later, after he continued to communicate with her son, she called Monmouth authorities and granted them permission to analyze her son's phone.
Wolchesky was already known to Monmouth detectives. Six months earlier they had interviewed him after he posted videos on YouTube promoting the concept of pedophilia. During an interview with detectives, he admitted that he found 10-year-old boys "just so hot" and he discussed using his Xbox to communicate with children using the screenname TEENTECH. He was not charged with a crime at that time.
Authorities said they found evidence linking Wolchesky to five victims plus thousands of files of child sexual exploitation. Eventually, he was only convicted on charges related to four victims because the fifth child declined to testify at trial.
A trial was initially set for 2014 but was delayed when several of the victims revealed for the first time that Wolchesky had also gotten them to sexually penetrate themselves on video. Wolchesky exercised his right to have the new charges brought before a grand jury, which handed up a superseding indictment on 27 charges.
The appellate decision acknowledges that the case had a "long and tortuous procedural history" that spanned the involvement of four judges.
The appellate decision said that seven years was a "substantial period of time, one that requires scrutiny." The decision orders a lower court to examine in order determine whether any delays in the trial attributed to prosecutors were legitimate.
The appellate decision dismissed Wolchesky's other points of appeal concerning the fairness of the trial and the sentencing, arguing that any errors in evidence, comments by prosecutors or jury instruction were "minimal" considering that he "chose to place his sexual predisposition with respect to young boys before the jury as the foundation of his defense strategy."
"The child victims in this case presented compelling evidence of the harm defendant inflicted by befriending them, confusing them and ultimately inducing them to engage in perverse sexual acts," the decision says.
Sergio Bichao is deputy digital editor at New Jersey 101.5. Send him news tips: Call 609-359-5348 or email sergio.bichao@townsquaremedia.com.
Filed Under: child predators, Crime, Middletown, Monmouth County


A line of horizontal cloud sits low to the west, over a blue strip of pale sky sandwiched above a wine dark sea. A waning orange sun is sinking and 2-yachts bob just offshore, their masts bouncing to and fro.
We are here for 3-days on this tiny island, another of Australia's 19-World Heritage listings, having left the truck at Bundaberg Aerodrome and flown for 45min to this most southerly tip of The Great Barrier Reef.
Distant surf roars away to the east - the far side of the island - the early evening air here awash with the clatter of white-capped noddies tussling for evening roosts on wispy branches of bulloak and within jungle clumps of octopus bush, pandanus and pisonia. Waves burst like champagne bubbles at our wet sandaled feet, on banks of pure coral sand as white as snow, the smell of rain sweet on black clouds overhead.
Later we circumnavigate this tiny but lush tropical island on foot and in the dark, hoping to glimpse the last of this seasons turtle hatchlings and their newborn dash for the water... on an island once denuded of all topsoil, including almost every stick of vegetation in the destructive quest for fertilizer left by generations of seabirds, that like the turtles, return to breed here year after year.
Our days are spent snorkeling with turtles, sharks, eagle rays... and a myriad of fish. Out by Lighthouse Bommie the water is clear, 15m deep and warm at 23degC. We can't believe our luck and are treated to quite a show: giant dancing manta rays, the gentle giants with black, bat-like wings 3m across, and weighing in at 1-tonne each. They wheel and turn, roll, rise and fall - magic worthy of the Bolshoi Ballet.


If you are an Internet business owner, using IBO Toolbox will be highly beneficial since it is deeply dedicated to helping you scale up your online business. And it is FREE!
Instead of lumping this tool under our collection of "free tools available on the Internet", we are separately presenting IBO ToolBox here for reasons that will become obvious as you read through this special highlight.
The owner of this platform is Paul Williams and the website is www.ibotoolbox.com. IBO Toolbox is a social networking platform where Independent Business Owners (IBO) share information and work together to scale up their businesses.
Traditionally, branding a business costs thousands of dollars. IBO ToolBox allows you the rare opportunity for branding your business without any kind of cost incurred on you. It's completely free.
IBO ToolBox provides you a toolbox of marketing including social media marketing, press releases, SEO and many other essential tools that help you get ranked in Google and drive traffic to your website.
The advantage of being part of the community using the IBO ToolBox is that you can effectively promote and/or exchange business opportunities with other like-minded IBOs. You can also help and at the same time get help from other members. There are many other advantages and I will describe them below.
If you have already acquired the vital knowledge of Internet Marketing such as SEO and could effectively use keyword research tools, it is even easier for your blog posts or websites to get first page ranking on Google by using IBO ToolBox platform, because the platform itself is an authority site and its high-quality contents rank very high with Google.
you will have equal access to all the IBO Toolbox like all the other members, there is no limitation or restriction.
It is the mecca of Internet business owners and marketers, who flock together and help each other with one common goal in mind – to make money online.
You can generate a very high traffic to your blog or website – the dream of all IBOs – by utilizing the platform without having to pay a dime. That means if you are an online business owner using IBO ToolBox you do not need to use any other time consuming and costly paid traffic programs like Adwords or Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and the like.
You are not required to pay or buy anything on IBO Toolbox. It is a totally FREE program. But if you want you can buy ad space for $19.95 per month. This is an option.
Once you have set up your website and need to expand or get more referrals for your business, IBOT platform is one of the best places to give your site a wider exposure and to make your business grow.
Once you join the IBO ToolBox, I would recommend you to first familiarize yourself with the platform by going through the IBOT training by Kris Karafotas, which also included Webinars. You can directly communicate with Kris on the platform as well. There are written and video tutorials given by other IBOT members, including how to do various tasks and create press releases etc. If you have any problem you can get assistant from IBOT HelpDesk.
When you join the platform you are assumed to know the basics of Internet/affiliate marketing and website design. So, apart from these basic questions, you can contact IBOT HelpDesk for help if you have any difficulty using IBOToolBox. It will take you some time to figure out how to make good use of the resources on this platform. So, be patient and be prepared to learn and grow your business.
You can open a new IBOTube Account from which to upload your YouTube Videos.
You can monitor the number of visitors per day you get to your site via your IBOSocial Profile. You can effectively grow your Network Followers through your activities like the Press Releases and or Videos you uploaded. Live Chat with members who are online is another means of growing your follower base.
Unlike Wealthy Affiliate that strictly forbids spamming on its platform, the IBOT has no such restriction. So, be careful with marketing pyramid schemes and MLM-type schemes on the platform. Just shy away from them or tell them you are not interested in MLM programs.
If you are a starter and wondering where to find a legitimate and honest online marketing training, I would strongly recommend you to join Wealthy Affiliate University for free. This is where I learned about affiliate marketing and all the nitty-gritty of designing website. I soon upgraded to a premium membership after I was convinced that this was the right place for me to begin. Before joining Wealthy Affiliate University, I have zero knowledge of web technology and affiliate marketing. I have now built this website on my own and become a member of IBO ToolBox. This fact alone serves as a good testament that Wealthy Affiliate is the best training platform for beginners.
First learning the basics of Internet marketing at Wealthy Affiliate University and then promoting your business by using the IBO TooBox platform as a complement is the best way to go.
If you have already established you website and have a good foundation then IBOTOOLBOX is the one that I recommend for getting more exposure and increasing your traffic flow.
I am relatively still new to IBOT so I will appreciate any comments from those who are already having first-hand experiences with the platform. If you have any question please leave it below and I will try my best to answer you. In due course, as I get deeply involved with IBOT, I will share more of the experiences I gained through using this great platform.
Thanks Kipps, it is interesting to actually read about IBO Toolbox. I have heard so many people saying I should join but I have never been bothered.
I really just prefer to spend my time writing content on my own websites, I just don't have the time for socializing on another network.
I just wonder about the spamming there, and this is what turned me off. It appears all the MLM people are involved with IBO, like you say in your post.
If this is such a business social network is it not just a bunch of people all trying to push their own sales pitches on others?
Sorry for being the devils advocate here, just sharing my thoughts on why I have never joined IBO. I can't see that anything they can offer me will help me move forward with my online business. If I already know SEO and how to run my online business surely I would just focus on my own website?
How much traffic do you get from IBO?
Thanks for the great questions. To be honest I am relatively a new member to IBOT right now, as I have mentioned in my article. Like you, I also came across IBOT quite sometime ago as recommended by one trusted friend. But I found the navigation system very complicated and again, like you, I haven't enough time for socializing while I focused on my web building. Now another trusted friend invited me again. This time around, I am starting to launch my site so I need traffic and quality traffic is what I need. This is what I find out – a quality traffic! Not just a bunch of people sociallizing or pitching each other, but real people interested in real internet marketing are flocking there. There is a big difference. Even then, I have to admit, I am still new here, but I am genuinely excited! Since it is free, you have nothing to loose and the resources I am reading everyday are really great. I will report further as I get inolved deeper with IBOToolBox. Regarding spammers and MLM schemes, I am already too familiar with them, so I only need to ignore or say NO! The pros far outnumbered the cons.
I am a member of Wealthy Affiliate since a few years back and now consider is one of the online entrepreneurs after the training and formula taught by WA platform.
This is my first time I hear about IBO Toolbox and it seems the great opportunities to expand my current business and also is time for me to expose to something new that works out for my site.
It seems that they have great support and I would give it a try since the account is free. Why not.
Thanks for letting me know, Kipps.
I am glad you are joining it. Though I am still new to this platform, recommendations from two trusted friends from Wealthy Affiliate are enough for me to jump on the band wagon. We have a lot of trustful friends at WA, and that is already a big advantage. There are a lot of BS written on many other forums but we can trust freinds at WA. According to these friends IBOT is one such honest platfrom we can rely on as we do with WA.
I hope to give more indepth report about IBOT as I gain more experiences here – as my passion is to help others achieve their goals. I also hope to hear from you too.
Thanks for the great review of IBO Toolbox! I had not heard of it before reading your review, but it sounds like a great marketing tool to promote your business.
I was wondering, does it make more sense after you've established your business? It sounds like joining Wealthy Affiliate first to gain a better understanding of starting an online business would be best, and then joining IBO Toolbox later. I appreciate the thorough review!
Yes, you have it right. I mentioned it that way too. The reason being that IBO ToolBox does not have training for online marketing. So one first need to get started with Wealthy Affiliate, finish the Certificate Course, choose a niche, get your site up and running THEN ONLY you are ready to join IBO ToolBox. The cart should follow the cow! Not the other way around.
Thanks that you like the "review". I, intentionally, didn't use this word "review" because it is a "SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT" of this great tool, that I wish all friends to join.
Please check it out. I am still learning to use these tools as I am also a newbie in this respect. I am sharing this information with confidence anyway, because two of my most trusted friends recommended this to me. Glad that you like my sharing. Hope this helps you too. Do share your experience once you are inside.


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BAQ 2004
Volume 2, Issue 07 (Spring 2005)
The Better Air Quality (BAQ) conference held in Agra, India in December 2004 addressed the wide-ranging issue of improving air quality across Asia. Global Emissions Management reviews some of the key presentations and commitments to come out of the event.
http://www.jm-gem.com/2005/03/baq-2004/
AVECC 2004
Volume 2, Issue 06 (Summer 2004)
With Asia's vehicle market increasing rapidly, more than 180 delegates met in April to discuss technologies and initiatives needed to reduce pollution levels across the region.
http://www.jm-gem.com/2004/07/avecc-2004/
Milan Conference Shapes Euro 5
With the European Commission (EC) tasked with preparing draft Directives for Euro 5 vehicle emissions legislation, the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC) took the unprecedented step of organising an international conference, bringing together key stakeholders to review the latest scientific understanding that will underpin this next phase of legislation. Professor John Murlis, of University...
http://www.jm-gem.com/2004/03/milan-conference-shapes-euro-5/
Technology Drives European Review of Ultra Low Sulphur Fuels
The quality of fuel is a major issue for both the motor industry and automotive catalyst industry. Rob Searles, Executive Director of the Association for Emissions Control by Catalyst (AECC) in Brussels, explains how AECC and its members have responded to the consultation process launched last year by the European Commission to help set...
http://www.jm-gem.com/2001/08/technology-drives-european-review-of-ultra-low-sulphur-fuels/
Exchange of Ideas at AVECC 2001
In January, government officials, environmental scientists and industry representatives from nine countries were joined by their counterparts from Europe and the United States to discuss ways the latest technologies and policy thinking could 'leapfrog' old procedures.
http://www.jm-gem.com/2001/08/exchange-of-ideas-at-avecc-2001/
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