Ezekiel Chapter 1: Bible Study BY Atheists

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[00:01:16] Welcome to Sacrilegious Discourse.

[00:01:17] I'm husband.

[00:01:18] And I'm wife.

[00:01:19] Together we're reading the Bible for the very first time.

[00:01:22] We grew up without religion and wanted to know what all the fuss was about.

[00:01:26] Well, what have we learned so far?

[00:01:27] That God is a dick and apparently some people believe in talking donkeys.

[00:01:32] We're not trying to pass ourselves off as experts.

[00:01:34] Nope, we're just reading the Bible for the first time and giving our first take reaction.

[00:01:38] If you'd like to join us in this venture, you might consider starting that episode one.

[00:01:42] Otherwise jump in wherever you like.

[00:01:44] Alright, let's go read the Bible.

[00:01:46] Yeah, let's get to it.

[00:01:50] Husband!

[00:01:51] Wife!

[00:01:52] Guess what we're doing today?

[00:01:53] Well, we're starting a new book of the Bible.

[00:01:56] We are!

[00:01:57] Which is... what is it?

[00:01:58] It's um... what I like to call easy Kyle.

[00:02:02] No, no, no, no, no.

[00:02:04] Ezekiel.

[00:02:05] Yes, that is correct.

[00:02:07] Easy Kay?

[00:02:08] No, no.

[00:02:09] No.

[00:02:09] Okay.

[00:02:10] So yeah, we're starting a new book of the Bible which is Ezekiel.

[00:02:15] Indeed.

[00:02:16] I could have threw you off with that, yeah?

[00:02:18] Yeah, yeah.

[00:02:19] And so are you...

[00:02:21] Do you have anything to say before we get into this or we should just hop in?

[00:02:25] Just want to let you know ahead of time up front.

[00:02:28] Yeah.

[00:02:28] I think this book is going to be fucking wild.

[00:02:31] Wild, huh?

[00:02:32] Wild.

[00:02:32] I think that's the first time I've heard you use that descriptor for a book of the Bible.

[00:02:36] I'm not saying good or bad, just wild.

[00:02:39] Okay, all right.

[00:02:40] Well, I'm kind of excited now.

[00:02:42] As well you should be.

[00:02:43] All right, you ready to do this?

[00:02:45] I am, yes.

[00:02:46] Let's get into it.

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[00:04:32] All right, so we are hopping into Easy Kyle.

[00:04:35] Oh.

[00:04:36] Okay, Ezekiel chapter one.

[00:04:39] See, the second that you tell me that something annoys you, I feel obligated to go with it.

[00:04:44] I know you do.

[00:04:45] I know you do.

[00:04:46] I don't even have to tell you.

[00:04:47] You just have to like glean it for yourself.

[00:04:49] For those keeping track at home, that was husband rolling his eyes at me, the sound

[00:04:54] thereof.

[00:04:55] Also, the second I tell you not to do something is the second that you double

[00:04:58] down and do it harder and more.

[00:05:00] Yes, yes.

[00:05:00] And it's almost like you forget.

[00:05:03] It's like you don't even know me.

[00:05:04] Well, sometimes I feel like I could have like a rational conversation with you about it.

[00:05:08] Like an adult one?

[00:05:09] Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:10] But then that doesn't ever work out.

[00:05:12] Ever, ever.

[00:05:13] No, no.

[00:05:15] All right, so Ezekiel chapter one is about a prophet and his divine vision.

[00:05:23] Let me guess.

[00:05:24] His name's Ezekiel.

[00:05:25] Yeah, and he has a divine vision.

[00:05:27] Okay.

[00:05:28] Okay.

[00:05:28] And in the one that we're reading, the version that we're reading, it's

[00:05:34] subtitled Ezekiel's vision of God.

[00:05:37] But in other versions, it's subtitled Ezekiel's inaugural vision.

[00:05:43] Okay.

[00:05:44] And so there's like an argument about which fits better, I guess, even though the first

[00:05:51] refers to vision's plural.

[00:05:54] Okay.

[00:05:54] So that would, you know, what you think that.

[00:05:58] Strike that it's not just the first one.

[00:06:00] It's not just the one.

[00:06:00] It's a collection of.

[00:06:01] Yeah, yeah.

[00:06:03] So before I get into reading this, I just wanted to tell us a little bit about who this

[00:06:07] guy is and what this book's about.

[00:06:09] Sure.

[00:06:09] Okay.

[00:06:10] Yeah.

[00:06:10] So the first three verses form a superscription of the book and they contain the identity

[00:06:16] of the prophet as well as the time and place that the prophecy was received and

[00:06:22] delivered.

[00:06:23] Okay.

[00:06:24] Now, having read some of the notes, I would be less inclined to call this a prophecy and

[00:06:29] more a vision.

[00:06:30] But I'm just going to put that out there.

[00:06:33] You do with that as you will.

[00:06:34] And maybe we'll come back to that at the end and you tell me what you think.

[00:06:38] Okay.

[00:06:38] All right.

[00:06:39] Yeah.

[00:06:40] There are two distinct introductions.

[00:06:43] Verse one is in first person and it's where he introduces himself.

[00:06:48] Hey yo, my name's Ezekiel.

[00:06:50] What up?

[00:06:51] Got it.

[00:06:51] Yeah.

[00:06:51] And then verses two and three are the only two verses in this entire book written

[00:06:56] in third person.

[00:06:58] It's like somebody interrupted and was like, oh, hey, here's the year and whatever.

[00:07:02] Got it.

[00:07:03] Okay.

[00:07:03] Someone felt that was really important later on probably.

[00:07:06] Yeah.

[00:07:07] I think because there was some confusion in verse one, the way he says it.

[00:07:13] Okay.

[00:07:15] So let's just start the book now and then I'll pause as we go through.

[00:07:20] Sound okay?

[00:07:20] Yeah.

[00:07:21] All right.

[00:07:21] So Ezekiel chapter one in my 30th year in the fourth month on the fifth day, while

[00:07:29] I was among the exiles by the K bar river, the heavens were opened and I saw

[00:07:35] visions of God.

[00:07:36] Okay.

[00:07:37] Now he says in this verse in my 30th year, but most translations say in the

[00:07:43] 30th year of what?

[00:07:47] Right.

[00:07:47] That's the question.

[00:07:48] Nobody knows.

[00:07:49] Like, are you saying the 30th year of your life, which this translation assumes?

[00:07:53] Sure.

[00:07:54] So they changed it to my 30th year or are you saying the 30th year of somebody's

[00:08:00] rain or the exile or like what?

[00:08:03] Okay.

[00:08:03] So that's why we're going to continue on and somebody clarifies.

[00:08:08] Okay.

[00:08:08] Yeah.

[00:08:09] So now we're starting verse two and then from there.

[00:08:11] Sure.

[00:08:13] On the fifth day of the month, it was the fifth year of the exile of King

[00:08:17] Joaquin.

[00:08:18] The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, the priest, the son of boozy by the K bar

[00:08:24] river in the land of the Babylonians.

[00:08:27] There the hand of the Lord was upon him.

[00:08:29] So this sounds like he is one of the ones that got exiled earlier on and is

[00:08:35] out there in Babylon, right?

[00:08:37] Is that maybe correct?

[00:08:38] That is actually 100% correct.

[00:08:41] Okay.

[00:08:41] And so now I'm going to read you a few notes about this with

[00:08:45] regard to placing it in time.

[00:08:46] Got it.

[00:08:47] Okay.

[00:08:47] Yeah.

[00:08:48] So it's been suggested from what, from verse one where Ezekiel says in the 30th

[00:08:54] year and we don't know if it's the 30th or my 30th.

[00:08:57] Yeah.

[00:08:57] Um, it's been suggested that the date that he's citing corresponds to July 24th,

[00:09:04] 568 BCE, but that doesn't really fit.

[00:09:08] Yeah.

[00:09:09] Okay.

[00:09:10] So, um, going forward, um, we have some notes that indicate Ezekiel was probably

[00:09:17] born sometime between 622 to 627.

[00:09:24] Okay.

[00:09:24] And thus likely grew up during the reform years of King Josiah and King Josiah

[00:09:30] rained from 640 to 609.

[00:09:34] Okay.

[00:09:34] So, and then he was born right in the middle of that.

[00:09:37] Got it.

[00:09:37] Yeah.

[00:09:38] So Ezekiel had already been in Babylon five years and was now 30 years old, the

[00:09:44] age at which he normally would have begun his priestly services in the

[00:09:47] temple in Jerusalem, but he's not in Jerusalem.

[00:09:50] So he's in exile.

[00:09:52] He's in exile.

[00:09:53] Okay.

[00:09:53] Okay.

[00:09:54] And so then I've got a little timeline here.

[00:09:57] Okay.

[00:09:57] Sure.

[00:09:57] Just to put everything into context.

[00:09:59] Yeah.

[00:10:00] Okay.

[00:10:00] So in 640 Josiah takes the throne.

[00:10:04] He's King.

[00:10:05] Okay.

[00:10:05] Okay.

[00:10:06] Sometime between 627 and 622 Ezekiel is born.

[00:10:11] Okay.

[00:10:11] Okay.

[00:10:12] And then in 609 Josiah's son, Jehoahaz is briefly named King, but he's replaced

[00:10:20] by Joachim at the order of Niko of Egypt.

[00:10:23] Sure.

[00:10:24] Yeah.

[00:10:24] Okay.

[00:10:25] Then in 605 Jerusalem was attacked and captives were taken to Babylon.

[00:10:30] Ezekiel's not in that group.

[00:10:32] Got it.

[00:10:32] Okay.

[00:10:33] In 598 Jechiniah becomes King.

[00:10:37] Okay.

[00:10:37] In 597 Zedekiah becomes King and he was the final one.

[00:10:42] Okay.

[00:10:43] Okay.

[00:10:44] Jerusalem was attacked, treasure taken from the temple and more captives

[00:10:48] taken to Babylon including Ezekiel and his wife.

[00:10:52] Okay.

[00:10:53] Got it.

[00:10:53] Well, wasn't you, you skipped one I thought.

[00:10:55] I thought Joachim was right before Zedekiah.

[00:11:00] Joachim and Jechiniah are the same person.

[00:11:04] Okay.

[00:11:05] All right.

[00:11:05] So yeah, I didn't realize that until I was doing these notes that one is the

[00:11:11] biblical name and one is the common name.

[00:11:14] Okay.

[00:11:15] But they're the same guy.

[00:11:16] So you're not wrong.

[00:11:17] Because you said something about Joachim or Joachim, which one is it?

[00:11:21] The Joachim or Joachim?

[00:11:23] M.

[00:11:24] M.

[00:11:24] Okay.

[00:11:25] So you said something about him when you were talking about Ezekiel just a

[00:11:28] minute ago.

[00:11:28] So that's, and then we skipped it as to like that was one of the people that they

[00:11:31] had exiled.

[00:11:32] So I was just curious.

[00:11:34] Yeah.

[00:11:35] Yeah.

[00:11:35] Um, Jechiniah is Joachim.

[00:11:38] Okay.

[00:11:39] Okay.

[00:11:39] And so he became king in 598, but that was real short.

[00:11:44] Right.

[00:11:44] Okay.

[00:11:45] And then so in 597 Zedekiah became king.

[00:11:48] But it sounded like Ezekiel got exiled with Joachim or Jechiniah.

[00:11:54] No, I'm not there yet.

[00:11:56] Okay.

[00:11:56] No.

[00:11:57] All right.

[00:11:57] Um, when Zedekiah became king, Jerusalem was attacked.

[00:12:01] Treasure was taken from the temple and more captives.

[00:12:05] This is the second wave.

[00:12:06] Okay.

[00:12:06] Um, we're taking a Babylon and that wave included Ezekiel and his wife.

[00:12:12] Got it.

[00:12:12] Okay.

[00:12:12] Okay.

[00:12:13] And then in 593 is when Ezekiel has his vision.

[00:12:18] Okay.

[00:12:18] Okay.

[00:12:19] And then in 587 Jerusalem falls and almost everyone remaining in the

[00:12:24] kingdom was exiled.

[00:12:26] Zedekiah, the last king of Judah is blinded and imprisoned.

[00:12:29] Sure.

[00:12:30] Okay.

[00:12:30] Mm hmm.

[00:12:31] So we have a better sense of where it is and what's going on.

[00:12:34] Right.

[00:12:35] So, um, the verse and verses two and three, like I said, they're not

[00:12:41] Ezekiels, they're an added interruption and we don't know who did that.

[00:12:45] Sure.

[00:12:46] Okay.

[00:12:46] Okay.

[00:12:47] All right.

[00:12:48] So let me go back now and we're going to just continue on.

[00:12:51] Okay.

[00:12:52] So we've read the first three verses and already had tons of notes,

[00:12:56] but I felt like it was important to understand how this all fit together.

[00:13:00] Set the stage.

[00:13:01] Yeah.

[00:13:01] Yeah.

[00:13:02] Okay.

[00:13:02] So now we're getting into his vision ready.

[00:13:04] I'm ready.

[00:13:06] I looked and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north and immense

[00:13:11] cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light.

[00:13:15] The center of the fire looked like glowing metal and in the fire

[00:13:20] was what looked like four living creatures.

[00:13:23] Whoa.

[00:13:23] In appearance, their form was human, but each of them had four faces and

[00:13:28] four wings.

[00:13:29] What?

[00:13:30] This guy needs to lay off the drugs.

[00:13:31] Right?

[00:13:32] Yeah.

[00:13:32] Their legs were straight.

[00:13:34] Their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished

[00:13:38] bronze.

[00:13:39] Hmm.

[00:13:40] Under their wings on their four sides, they had human hands.

[00:13:44] All four of them had faces and wings and the wings of one touched

[00:13:48] the wings of another.

[00:13:50] Okay.

[00:13:51] Each one went straight ahead.

[00:13:52] They did not turn as they moved.

[00:13:55] Their faces look like this.

[00:13:57] Each of the four had the face of a human being and on the right

[00:14:01] side, each had the face of a lion and on the left side, the

[00:14:05] face of an ox and each also had the face of an eagle.

[00:14:09] This is kind of crazy.

[00:14:11] Right?

[00:14:11] What the fuck is happening?

[00:14:13] I don't know, but four, four people faced pee things flying at

[00:14:17] you.

[00:14:17] Four people each had four faces.

[00:14:19] Okay.

[00:14:20] Okay.

[00:14:20] And different animals and man, this guy's on some good shit.

[00:14:24] Right?

[00:14:25] Yeah.

[00:14:25] Such were their faces.

[00:14:26] They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing

[00:14:30] touching that of the creature on either side and each had two

[00:14:34] other wings covering its body.

[00:14:38] Okay.

[00:14:38] Okay.

[00:14:39] Yeah.

[00:14:40] Each one went straight ahead.

[00:14:42] Wherever the spirit would go, they would go without turning

[00:14:45] as they went.

[00:14:46] So they're like all together one unit.

[00:14:48] Yeah.

[00:14:49] Okay.

[00:14:49] Okay.

[00:14:50] The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals

[00:14:54] of fire or like torches.

[00:14:56] Fire moved back and forth among the creatures.

[00:14:59] It was bright and lightning flashed out of it.

[00:15:02] Wow.

[00:15:02] The creature sounds like a storm.

[00:15:04] It sounds like maybe in drugs.

[00:15:07] Sounds like a storm in drugs.

[00:15:08] A storm of drugs.

[00:15:11] It's raining drugs over here.

[00:15:13] Yeah.

[00:15:14] The creature sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

[00:15:18] But you mean it's because they were lightning?

[00:15:20] Probably.

[00:15:22] I'm just, I mean, I was reading the notes and I was like,

[00:15:25] what is happening?

[00:15:26] Right.

[00:15:27] As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the

[00:15:31] ground beside each creature with its four faces.

[00:15:36] This was the appearance and structure of the wheels.

[00:15:38] Okay.

[00:15:39] We're going to describe the wheels.

[00:15:41] Yes.

[00:15:41] Are you ready for this?

[00:15:42] I guess.

[00:15:43] They sparkled like topaz.

[00:15:45] Wow.

[00:15:46] And all four looked alike.

[00:15:47] Damn.

[00:15:48] Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

[00:15:52] Because they, everything touches in his visions, apparently.

[00:15:55] The wings and the wheels.

[00:15:56] They have wheels within wheels.

[00:15:58] And wings within wings.

[00:16:00] As they moved, they were.

[00:16:01] Faces within faces.

[00:16:03] Right.

[00:16:03] Exactly.

[00:16:04] It's all just combined.

[00:16:06] It's so meta.

[00:16:06] Yeah.

[00:16:07] As they moved, they would go in any one of the four

[00:16:09] directions the creatures faced.

[00:16:12] The wheels did not change directions as the creatures went.

[00:16:16] The rims were high and awesome.

[00:16:19] They had been the lift kits.

[00:16:22] And all four rims were full of eyes all around.

[00:16:27] What is wrong with this guy?

[00:16:29] What the fuck is going on?

[00:16:32] I'm a little bit confused.

[00:16:33] No, I'm not just a little bit confused.

[00:16:35] I'm like, what is happening here?

[00:16:37] This is the Bible.

[00:16:42] I'm sorry.

[00:16:42] I don't mean to be rude, but what the everlasting fuck?

[00:16:46] No, this is crazy.

[00:16:48] When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved.

[00:16:52] And when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

[00:16:57] Wherever the spirit would go, they would go.

[00:17:00] And the wheels would rise along with them because the spirit of the living

[00:17:05] creatures was in the wheels.

[00:17:08] We're okay.

[00:17:08] We're.

[00:17:09] Oh, Jesus Christ.

[00:17:10] We're talking about a living creature.

[00:17:13] There's been no mention of God yet.

[00:17:15] Like what kind of vision is this?

[00:17:18] We're getting there.

[00:17:19] Oh my God.

[00:17:20] When the creatures moved, they also moved.

[00:17:22] When the creatures stood still, they also stood still.

[00:17:26] And when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them.

[00:17:31] So all the things moved together.

[00:17:33] Okay.

[00:17:33] Because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

[00:17:38] It was in the wheels.

[00:17:41] Do you hear me?

[00:17:42] What is this in the Bible?

[00:17:44] Just listen.

[00:17:44] What the fuck is this?

[00:17:46] Listen with an open heart.

[00:17:50] You have to open your heart.

[00:17:52] Okay.

[00:17:53] Okay.

[00:17:54] Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked

[00:17:58] like something like a vault.

[00:18:00] A vault, huh?

[00:18:01] Sparkling like crystal and awesome.

[00:18:05] Because the topaz wheels with eyeballs wasn't awesome enough.

[00:18:10] Now we've got a vault that was sparkling.

[00:18:13] Okay.

[00:18:14] Under the vault, their wings were stretched out one toward the other.

[00:18:18] And each had two wings covering its body.

[00:18:21] You know, you said that already.

[00:18:23] Yeah.

[00:18:23] Okay.

[00:18:23] When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings like

[00:18:28] the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the almighty.

[00:18:32] Oh.

[00:18:33] Like the tumult of an army.

[00:18:36] Okay.

[00:18:36] But don't you wonder how he heard the sound of the wings when they

[00:18:38] were touching each other the whole time?

[00:18:40] I don't know how it works.

[00:18:41] How do they wing?

[00:18:42] How do they do the wings shit while touching each other?

[00:18:46] So I don't know.

[00:18:47] It's magic.

[00:18:49] But it sounded like the Lord, huh?

[00:18:51] It's in the Bible.

[00:18:52] The wings sounded like the word?

[00:18:53] The Lord?

[00:18:55] The word of the Lord.

[00:18:56] The word of the Lord, yeah.

[00:18:58] When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

[00:19:00] When there came a voice from the vault over their heads as they

[00:19:04] stood with lowered wings.

[00:19:06] Oh, here we go.

[00:19:07] Ready?

[00:19:07] I'm ready.

[00:19:08] The voice, right?

[00:19:09] This has got to be God.

[00:19:11] I'm so excited.

[00:19:13] This is one hell of a vision.

[00:19:14] I told you that this book was going to be crazy.

[00:19:18] Something's crazy.

[00:19:20] That's for sure.

[00:19:21] Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a

[00:19:24] throne of lapis lazuli.

[00:19:27] Oh man.

[00:19:28] And high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

[00:19:32] Okay, okay.

[00:19:33] I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up.

[00:19:36] He looked like glowing metal.

[00:19:39] Wow.

[00:19:40] Not in the image of man, but glowing metal.

[00:19:42] As if full of fire and fire, fire and metal.

[00:19:47] Okay.

[00:19:47] From there down, he looked like fire and brilliant light

[00:19:52] surrounded him like the appearance of a rainbow in the

[00:19:56] clouds on a rainy day.

[00:19:58] Maybe this guy looked at the sun too long.

[00:20:00] I don't know what's going on here, but this is craziness.

[00:20:02] So was the radiance around him.

[00:20:05] Hmm.

[00:20:05] Okay.

[00:20:06] This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of

[00:20:09] the Lord.

[00:20:10] So it's not the Lord.

[00:20:11] It's a likeness of the Lord.

[00:20:13] You know, we can't see the Lord with our bare human

[00:20:15] little stupid puny eyeballs.

[00:20:17] There's a likeness of the Lord in the sky.

[00:20:20] In a vault.

[00:20:21] In a vault above crazy ass angels that with four, four

[00:20:25] heads.

[00:20:26] And, and wheels that have topaz eyeballs and eyeballs in

[00:20:30] them or something.

[00:20:32] Okay.

[00:20:32] When I saw it, I fell face down.

[00:20:35] I suppose I might if I saw that.

[00:20:37] And I heard the voice of one speaking.

[00:20:40] Okay.

[00:20:41] The end.

[00:20:42] Oh, just just.

[00:20:42] Chapter one.

[00:20:44] Yes.

[00:20:44] This is our introduction to Ezekiel.

[00:20:46] That's why I was like, this book is going to be wild.

[00:20:51] Okay.

[00:20:52] Now I have some notes.

[00:20:53] Okay.

[00:20:53] And I got to read you these notes.

[00:20:56] All right.

[00:20:56] Yeah.

[00:20:57] So this description where he says the appearance of the

[00:21:01] wheels and how they looked alike and the wheel was

[00:21:05] intersecting the wheel.

[00:21:06] Yes.

[00:21:07] This becomes the inspiration for the construction of

[00:21:10] the Ezekiel airship.

[00:21:13] And what the fuck?

[00:21:14] Okay.

[00:21:14] Yes.

[00:21:15] What is happening?

[00:21:15] Yes.

[00:21:16] We have to talk about this.

[00:21:18] This is a rabbit hole.

[00:21:20] And sorry, guys.

[00:21:22] I was like, we got to get to this airship.

[00:21:26] Okay.

[00:21:26] Okay.

[00:21:27] The Ezekiel airship was an early experimental aircraft

[00:21:32] conceived, designed and built by the Baptist minister,

[00:21:36] Burrell Cannon.

[00:21:37] Of course, his name was Burrell.

[00:21:40] An experienced sawmill operator born in 1848 in

[00:21:45] Coffeyville, Mississippi.

[00:21:47] Okay.

[00:21:48] All right.

[00:21:48] Inspired by and named after the book of Ezekiel,

[00:21:52] the crafts design featured four wheel within a wheel

[00:21:56] paddle wheels powered by a four cylinder gasoline engine.

[00:22:01] There are unverified claims that it was flown in 1902

[00:22:05] in Pittsburgh, Texas, a year before the right flyer

[00:22:09] flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

[00:22:13] And that's a little personal because you know, the

[00:22:14] Wright brothers came from Ohio.

[00:22:17] Yeah.

[00:22:18] So right.

[00:22:18] In fact, our hometown Dayton.

[00:22:20] So yeah.

[00:22:22] In the presence of only a handful of witnesses, the

[00:22:26] aircraft is alleged to have flown approximately 160 feet

[00:22:31] at a height of between 10 and 12 feet.

[00:22:34] There is of course no physical evidence that such a

[00:22:37] flight ever took place.

[00:22:39] And most historians have generally discounted any

[00:22:43] claims that the airship ever flew.

[00:22:45] Okay.

[00:22:46] The original aircraft was destroyed in a storm

[00:22:49] near Texarkana in route to St. Louis for the 1904

[00:22:53] World's Fair.

[00:22:55] Got it.

[00:22:55] Okay.

[00:22:56] Okay.

[00:22:57] Canon had accepted a challenge extended by the

[00:23:00] organizers of the World's Fair promising $100,000 back

[00:23:05] then.

[00:23:06] Damn.

[00:23:06] That would be equivalent to over $35 million today.

[00:23:10] Yeah.

[00:23:11] So they were offering that to anyone who could make a

[00:23:14] sustained controlled flight in St. Louis at that World

[00:23:17] Fair.

[00:23:18] And so it, you know, got destroyed on the way.

[00:23:21] Yeah.

[00:23:22] And then in 1922, Canon's original plans were

[00:23:25] destroyed in a fire.

[00:23:27] Oh man.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:29] This all sounds very convenient.

[00:23:30] Well, it's been reconstructed and is now in a

[00:23:33] museum in North Carolina.

[00:23:35] So you can go see it.

[00:23:37] Yeah.

[00:23:37] Burel Canon has been described as a Renaissance

[00:23:41] man in an industrial, industrial age.

[00:23:45] Canon had a strong command of engineering principles

[00:23:49] and he held patents for six different inventions,

[00:23:52] including designs ranging from marine propellers to

[00:23:56] windmills to cameras.

[00:23:58] This guy was a tinkerer.

[00:24:00] He was a flimflam man in my opinion.

[00:24:03] He apparently spoke eight different languages and did

[00:24:06] his preaching on the side before moving into

[00:24:09] tinkering and inventing.

[00:24:10] Okay.

[00:24:11] Okay.

[00:24:11] Yeah.

[00:24:12] So that we've got that.

[00:24:14] That's he built that based on, you know, the

[00:24:17] description in the Bible.

[00:24:19] Right.

[00:24:19] And that it's a known thing.

[00:24:21] It's just a thing that we talk about.

[00:24:23] It's the Ezekiel airship.

[00:24:25] You know, I didn't know anything about it until

[00:24:27] now.

[00:24:28] The Ezekiel airship.

[00:24:29] But that's not all.

[00:24:30] That was more very modern compared to that's not

[00:24:33] anything to do with the Bible.

[00:24:34] No, it just was a fun rabbit hole.

[00:24:36] Okay.

[00:24:36] All right.

[00:24:37] I got another one ready.

[00:24:38] Okay.

[00:24:39] Let's talk about the spaceships of Ezekiel.

[00:24:43] Okay.

[00:24:44] Okay.

[00:24:44] So there's a book called the spaceships of Ezekiel

[00:24:47] and it's a book by German engineer Joseph F.

[00:24:50] Blumrich and it was published in 1974.

[00:24:54] It's about a spaceship that was supposedly

[00:24:56] observed by the prophet Ezekiel as described

[00:24:59] in the book of Ezekiel in the Tanakh.

[00:25:01] That's funny.

[00:25:02] I just was listening to a podcast where they

[00:25:06] were talking about Tucker Carlson.

[00:25:09] Actually, it was a thinking atheist.

[00:25:10] So I was listening to that podcast and they

[00:25:13] were talking about how Tucker Carlson mentioned

[00:25:18] that Ezekiel saw a spaceship because they

[00:25:21] were talking about UFOs and God.

[00:25:22] I mean, anyway, apparently there's some thoughts

[00:25:25] that Ezekiel saw a UFO.

[00:25:27] Well, this guy Blumrich, he asserts that the

[00:25:30] account of Ezekiel in the Bible was not a

[00:25:32] description of a meeting with God in a

[00:25:34] prophetic vision, but one of several encounters

[00:25:38] with ancient astronauts in a shuttlecraft

[00:25:41] from another planet.

[00:25:43] Blumrich wrote it while working in NASA's

[00:25:45] program development office.

[00:25:48] Okay.

[00:25:49] He worked for fucking NASA.

[00:25:51] Yeah.

[00:25:51] The book is rated 3.43 on Goodreads, but I

[00:25:56] couldn't get it from my library.

[00:25:58] I'd have to order a physical copy because

[00:26:01] it's that.

[00:26:02] So maybe what happened to Ezekiel is

[00:26:04] actually just like a close encounter.

[00:26:06] Is that a possibility?

[00:26:08] Okay.

[00:26:09] Drugs and a close encounter?

[00:26:11] Sure.

[00:26:11] That's what I'm thinking anyway.

[00:26:12] Now question, we haven't heard the God like

[00:26:16] image, whatever.

[00:26:17] We haven't heard him speak yet.

[00:26:18] That's in coming chapters.

[00:26:20] Right.

[00:26:20] I'm excited about that.

[00:26:21] But was this a vision or a prophecy?

[00:26:24] I mean, it seems like a vision.

[00:26:25] That's what I thought.

[00:26:26] Like this, this seems too crazy for a

[00:26:29] dream.

[00:26:30] Like why would you tell anybody this

[00:26:31] dream?

[00:26:31] Right.

[00:26:32] This is that just sounds nuts.

[00:26:33] You would have to have seen this in

[00:26:34] order to like, you would have to if

[00:26:38] you, I don't know, you would have to

[00:26:39] have seen this.

[00:26:40] It would be like just two fucking nuts.

[00:26:42] If I came home and I told you, honey,

[00:26:45] I saw this thing.

[00:26:46] Listen, listen, listen.

[00:26:48] And then I told you about it.

[00:26:50] You would look at me like I was cuckoo

[00:26:52] for Cocoa Puffs and you would call

[00:26:54] the men in white coats to come get

[00:26:56] me because you would be like, you

[00:26:58] dumb flipped your lid and gone too

[00:27:00] far.

[00:27:00] And I would, I would know.

[00:27:02] I wouldn't call the people to come

[00:27:03] get you, but I would definitely

[00:27:04] question you would be concerned

[00:27:06] what the hell is going on.

[00:27:08] You would be like your mental health

[00:27:09] has never been great.

[00:27:11] Have you finally lost your goddamn

[00:27:13] mind?

[00:27:16] And if we saw this together,

[00:27:18] we would both be like, what the

[00:27:21] fuck did we just see?

[00:27:23] And I don't think we would try to

[00:27:24] tell people because then we'd be

[00:27:26] crazy.

[00:27:27] We'd be labeled as flim flams

[00:27:28] ourselves.

[00:27:29] Yeah.

[00:27:30] Well, I mean, I'd want to find out

[00:27:32] what I saw.

[00:27:33] If I saw something, I'd be like,

[00:27:35] I saw something.

[00:27:36] But then I'd be like, what the

[00:27:37] fuck was it?

[00:27:37] Because that can't be correct.

[00:27:39] Remember when we saw zombies

[00:27:40] falling from the sky?

[00:27:42] Well, we saw lights.

[00:27:44] Yeah, we didn't see.

[00:27:45] We didn't see zombies.

[00:27:46] OK, but they were zombies.

[00:27:47] They turned out to be zombies,

[00:27:49] which is a whole other story.

[00:27:50] But like, yeah, that we saw

[00:27:51] lights that were like circling

[00:27:53] and then lining up.

[00:27:54] And it turned out that it was

[00:27:56] a place that was like

[00:27:59] six or seven miles from us that

[00:28:00] was having skydiving.

[00:28:03] It was like land.

[00:28:04] It was land of illusion, right?

[00:28:06] Yeah.

[00:28:06] And they were, um,

[00:28:08] yeah, they were doing a Halloween

[00:28:10] skydiving thing with

[00:28:12] skydiving zombies with torches.

[00:28:14] Yeah.

[00:28:14] So that's what we saw.

[00:28:15] But they had neglected to tell

[00:28:17] anybody so everybody was like

[00:28:19] calling the police like, what the

[00:28:20] fuck is this?

[00:28:21] Yeah.

[00:28:22] What is happening?

[00:28:23] Right.

[00:28:23] Oh, you know, just zombies

[00:28:25] falling out of the sky.

[00:28:26] No bigs.

[00:28:26] Yeah.

[00:28:27] Like if I would have seen one

[00:28:29] of those, I'd have lost my shit.

[00:28:30] But I'm more inclined to think

[00:28:31] that there is a

[00:28:33] exclamation explanation for it

[00:28:34] than not.

[00:28:35] So, you know, me and your

[00:28:36] brother, we were like, well,

[00:28:38] it's the end of the world, I

[00:28:39] guess.

[00:28:42] And you were running inside to

[00:28:43] go call the meteorology

[00:28:46] people to be like, OK, so a

[00:28:48] thing is happening.

[00:28:49] Right.

[00:28:49] What is this?

[00:28:50] Yeah.

[00:28:50] Yeah.

[00:28:51] Yeah.

[00:28:51] So anyway, we got way off

[00:28:53] on topic on this one.

[00:28:55] I mean, maybe not though.

[00:28:56] Maybe Ezekiel was seeing

[00:28:58] some, you know, skydiving

[00:29:00] zombies.

[00:29:01] More than like, yeah.

[00:29:03] It's just as likely.

[00:29:04] Sure.

[00:29:04] It's just as likely as what

[00:29:06] he's claiming.

[00:29:07] Or some really rare, you know,

[00:29:08] phenomenon like weather

[00:29:09] phenomenon.

[00:29:10] That's true.

[00:29:11] You know, that would that would

[00:29:12] be more likely in my mind.

[00:29:13] That's what I think.

[00:29:14] That's because he kept referring

[00:29:15] to lightning and, you know,

[00:29:17] I'm like, OK, so you saw

[00:29:19] something really weird.

[00:29:20] And it means your eyes flash,

[00:29:21] which can happen.

[00:29:23] Like, like when you see a

[00:29:24] really bright lightning

[00:29:26] and you can see like several

[00:29:28] different lightnings fork into

[00:29:30] each other.

[00:29:31] Yeah.

[00:29:31] Yeah.

[00:29:32] Your eyes, it'll be like you

[00:29:33] just look at the sun and your

[00:29:35] eyes will like.

[00:29:36] Yeah. You can't see correctly.

[00:29:37] White and stuff like that that

[00:29:39] are going to be there.

[00:29:40] And you can't see correctly

[00:29:41] after that.

[00:29:41] Like that's happened to me

[00:29:42] before.

[00:29:43] So yeah.

[00:29:44] Who knows what I'm thinking

[00:29:45] really weird weather phenomenon.

[00:29:47] That's that's what I'm thinking

[00:29:48] happened here.

[00:29:48] And if if anything happened at

[00:29:50] all, like if we're assuming

[00:29:52] that this actually happened

[00:29:53] and this just isn't all lie.

[00:29:54] Right.

[00:29:55] It was something weird weather

[00:29:57] phenomenon.

[00:29:57] Yeah.

[00:29:57] That's that's all.

[00:29:59] I wonder if there's a way

[00:30:01] to like trace storms like.

[00:30:03] No, not from like 2000

[00:30:06] years ago.

[00:30:06] I know.

[00:30:07] I'm just like, man, if we could

[00:30:09] like trace weather like that

[00:30:11] though to find out what kind of

[00:30:12] shit was happening.

[00:30:13] Like I know you could track

[00:30:14] like meteor

[00:30:19] showers and stuff like that.

[00:30:21] Yeah.

[00:30:22] And you know, great.

[00:30:24] Right.

[00:30:24] But not just lightning storms.

[00:30:26] No, not just lightning.

[00:30:26] I know I'm just I'm thinking

[00:30:28] out loud.

[00:30:28] OK.

[00:30:29] All right.

[00:30:29] I was just like that would be

[00:30:31] cool to be like no this thing

[00:30:33] happened there and that's what

[00:30:35] he saw.

[00:30:35] No, but we can say what's more

[00:30:37] likely.

[00:30:37] Was it a weather phenomenon

[00:30:39] or was it fucking what he

[00:30:40] described here?

[00:30:41] A God, God, more likely is that

[00:30:43] it was a weather phenomenon.

[00:30:45] Because because that's just

[00:30:46] that that that was just

[00:30:47] described to us here in the

[00:30:48] Bible.

[00:30:49] That's weird.

[00:30:49] Fucking nutty.

[00:30:50] It's weird like what an odd

[00:30:53] configuration of items

[00:30:55] to smash together.

[00:30:56] Yeah.

[00:30:56] Yeah.

[00:30:57] He's a weirdo.

[00:30:58] I mean he's probably been

[00:31:00] inundated if he's going to

[00:31:01] be a product he was going

[00:31:01] to be a prophet.

[00:31:02] He's probably been inundated.

[00:31:03] No, he was going to be a

[00:31:04] minister.

[00:31:05] He got tapped to be a prophet.

[00:31:06] Regardless, he's spent his

[00:31:08] whole life being in the

[00:31:09] religious world of that time.

[00:31:12] So he's been inundated with

[00:31:13] imagery and beliefs

[00:31:15] and things like that.

[00:31:16] And then he sees something

[00:31:17] weird and he's going to

[00:31:18] attribute weird things to it.

[00:31:20] That's that's what I think

[00:31:22] probably if this happened is

[00:31:24] what happened.

[00:31:25] So anyway, I agree with you

[00:31:27] obviously.

[00:31:28] Do you have any more little

[00:31:29] you know tidbits to share

[00:31:30] with us before we get out

[00:31:31] of here?

[00:31:32] I kind of want to read that

[00:31:33] book. But that's about it.

[00:31:35] We're not going to read that

[00:31:36] book on air.

[00:31:36] No, no, no, no.

[00:31:39] No, so I did

[00:31:40] I did add it to my

[00:31:42] Goodreads.

[00:31:43] I want to read this book list.

[00:31:44] There you go. There you go.

[00:31:46] All right. So that was a

[00:31:47] Zekeel chapter one.

[00:31:48] Sure as fuck was.

[00:31:49] Which means we will be back

[00:31:51] tomorrow with

[00:31:52] Easy K chapter two.

[00:31:53] Zekeel chapter two.

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