Ezekiel Chapter 17: Bible Study by Atheists

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

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[00:01:50] Husband!

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[00:01:52] Do you remember what happened yesterday and where the hell we are today?

[00:01:56] Well, yesterday we read Ezekiel chapter 16.

[00:02:00] Sure as fuck did.

[00:02:01] And in that chapter, I believe God was going off about how Israel is a prostitute, no whore.

[00:02:10] And there is cheating on them and like damn them and they suck.

[00:02:15] But really it turns out that she's not the prostitute.

[00:02:18] She's paying prostitutes for sex.

[00:02:21] Right, right, yeah.

[00:02:22] Which actually makes her a customer.

[00:02:24] Yeah.

[00:02:25] Which would be fine if she was a man but she's a woman.

[00:02:27] So that makes her a fucking lusty whore.

[00:02:29] Obviously in the Bible it is correct to be misogynistic.

[00:02:33] So if you're gonna believe the Bible, you have to believe in misogyny apparently.

[00:02:38] Yes.

[00:02:39] At least that's the way it seems thus far.

[00:02:40] Yes, correct.

[00:02:42] Whatever.

[00:02:43] There might have been some redemption maybe at the end or something for possibly for them.

[00:02:47] There's almost always redemption.

[00:02:48] Yeah, I think that you can almost say that without having to...

[00:02:51] You can just guess that and that's gonna be correct.

[00:02:53] Most of the time.

[00:02:55] Generally.

[00:02:55] Most of the time he's like, I fucking hate you.

[00:02:57] You guys suck.

[00:02:59] And then at the very last two verses he's like, but I'll save a couple of you.

[00:03:02] Bye.

[00:03:03] Yeah, yeah.

[00:03:05] So that was Ezekiel chapter 16 and before we get into the new episode today I do have

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[00:05:51] We are jumping into Easy Kyle chapter 17.

[00:05:55] The Zeke old chapter 17.

[00:05:57] No it's easy K.

[00:05:58] Also did you know that the number 17 is my favorite number?

[00:06:02] I did know that.

[00:06:03] Yeah.

[00:06:04] Why?

[00:06:05] Because you're married to me.

[00:06:06] And we've been married for about that length of time.

[00:06:08] Yes.

[00:06:09] In fact it's debatable whether it's 17 or 18 years.

[00:06:12] Right.

[00:06:13] Yeah.

[00:06:14] So it's one of those two.

[00:06:15] We on purpose don't know kind of just for the record.

[00:06:19] He's questioning that out there because you know generally people know when they got married

[00:06:23] but no we got married twice two years in a row.

[00:06:26] No no no that sounds gross.

[00:06:28] Here what really?

[00:06:29] What does it sound gross?

[00:06:30] Because it sounds like those people that like get married and then get divorced but

[00:06:33] then they realize that they love each other so then they go get married.

[00:06:37] Oh no nothing like that.

[00:06:38] No we got married a year before our ceremony so that he could add me and the kids

[00:06:45] to his insurance.

[00:06:47] Yeah.

[00:06:48] So a year after the legal thing we actually held the ceremony with the dress and the.

[00:06:54] Same weekend and all that.

[00:06:55] Yeah.

[00:06:56] Yeah.

[00:06:57] Memorial Day weekend.

[00:06:58] Right.

[00:06:59] So literally we just had our anniversary.

[00:07:00] And we can never remember which exact day it is so we're just like it's Memorial Day

[00:07:01] weekend whatever.

[00:07:02] And it's 17 or 18 years.

[00:07:04] And that works for us and we like it.

[00:07:05] It's fun actually.

[00:07:06] Because we get a whole fucking weekend.

[00:07:08] And a story to tell about it.

[00:07:10] And we get to discuss every single year how many years we've been married and

[00:07:13] it's one of the two.

[00:07:14] And we never know.

[00:07:15] We never know.

[00:07:16] And people are like the fuck and we're like it's fun.

[00:07:18] And if we like one of the numbers better we're just like well yeah let's go with that one

[00:07:20] this year.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:22] So yeah sounds good.

[00:07:23] It's fun.

[00:07:24] That's love when you don't give a fuck.

[00:07:25] That's right.

[00:07:26] Yeah I love you babe.

[00:07:27] Love you.

[00:07:28] Okay.

[00:07:29] All right sorry easy Kyle 17 ready.

[00:07:30] Yeah.

[00:07:31] So okay we're gonna get into some parables here.

[00:07:33] Are we?

[00:07:34] That sounds not cool.

[00:07:36] FYI this is gonna be a riddle and it's also called a Michelle which is a proverb

[00:07:44] and a parable both.

[00:07:46] What?

[00:07:47] Okay.

[00:07:48] And it's considered an enigma, a dark obscure.

[00:07:51] Is it wrapped in a conundrum?

[00:07:53] No.

[00:07:54] No.

[00:07:55] But it is a dark obscure utterance.

[00:07:57] Okay.

[00:07:58] Yeah.

[00:07:59] So and it's about eagles.

[00:08:00] Ready?

[00:08:01] Yeah.

[00:08:02] We're gonna read about fly like the eagle.

[00:08:05] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:06] Yeah.

[00:08:07] The word of the Lord came to me.

[00:08:09] Again.

[00:08:10] Son of man.

[00:08:11] Yeah.

[00:08:12] No you're a human.

[00:08:13] Yeah worm.

[00:08:14] Yeah.

[00:08:15] Son of a bitch.

[00:08:16] Set forth an allegory and tell it to the Israelites as a parable.

[00:08:20] Which one do you want?

[00:08:22] Kidding kidding kidding.

[00:08:24] Say to them this is what the sovereign Lord says, a great eagle with powerful wings, long

[00:08:31] feathers and full plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon.

[00:08:37] Lebanon.

[00:08:38] Lebanon.

[00:08:39] Sure.

[00:08:40] And the fold of the top of a cedar he broke off its top most chute and carried it away to

[00:08:45] a land of merchants where he planted it in a city of traders.

[00:08:50] Okay.

[00:08:51] He took one of the seedlings of the land and put it in fertile soil that eagle did.

[00:08:56] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:57] He planted it like a willow by abundant water and it sprouted and became a low spreading

[00:09:02] vine.

[00:09:03] Its branches turned toward him but its roots remained under it so it became a vine and

[00:09:09] produced branches and put out leafy boughs.

[00:09:12] Yeah.

[00:09:13] Okay I'm gonna stop myself really quick and let you know that.

[00:09:18] The symbolism for Israel and how they came to their land and then put roots down and

[00:09:25] grew the vines.

[00:09:26] I'm not there yet but yes.

[00:09:28] Okay.

[00:09:29] I just wanted to let you know that the great eagle refers to Nebuchadnezzar, the king

[00:09:33] of Babylon.

[00:09:34] Oh.

[00:09:35] Okay.

[00:09:37] I was thinking more like God because it's planting the seeds and the whole bit.

[00:09:42] Um, not in this one.

[00:09:44] Sorry.

[00:09:45] Oh okay.

[00:09:46] Alright.

[00:09:47] Fair enough.

[00:09:48] According to notes.

[00:09:49] And I guess whatever.

[00:09:50] The king of Babylon is the eagle.

[00:09:51] I guess the eagle can be Nebuchadnezzar if they want it to be.

[00:09:52] He's fly high like an eagle.

[00:09:54] Who am I to judge who the eagle is?

[00:09:56] But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and full plumage.

[00:10:00] The vine now sent out its roots toward him from the plot where it was planted

[00:10:05] and stretched out its branches to him for water.

[00:10:09] It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear

[00:10:14] fruit and become a splendid vine.

[00:10:18] Okay.

[00:10:19] So God continues, say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says.

[00:10:23] Will it thrive?

[00:10:25] Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers?

[00:10:30] Why would we uproot it and make it wither?

[00:10:32] How's that going to happen?

[00:10:33] Will its new growth will wither?

[00:10:35] It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.

[00:10:40] It has been planted, but will it thrive?

[00:10:43] Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it?

[00:10:46] Wither away in the plot where it grew?

[00:10:49] Oh, so this is more about bad planting practices apparently?

[00:10:52] Yes.

[00:10:53] Okay.

[00:10:54] And the comparison to the Israelites I guess.

[00:10:56] Yes.

[00:10:57] Okay.

[00:10:58] Then the word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel.

[00:11:01] Yeah.

[00:11:02] Okay.

[00:11:03] So, I'm going to tell you this rebellious people.

[00:11:06] Do you not know what these things mean?

[00:11:08] So now he's going to explain it.

[00:11:10] I mean, I just told you a parable.

[00:11:12] Now I'm going to break it down.

[00:11:13] You could choose to just say it.

[00:11:15] You know, like you could just say it straight up.

[00:11:17] Okay.

[00:11:18] And you could say it not through Ezekiel or Jeremiah or whoever.

[00:11:22] On God.

[00:11:23] Yeah.

[00:11:24] And you be you telling me a thing.

[00:11:26] Prum, prum, prum stories and parables.

[00:11:28] Prum, prum, prum putting on a show.

[00:11:30] Here I go.

[00:11:31] Everybody watch my movie.

[00:11:33] Prum, prum, prum.

[00:11:34] Yeah.

[00:11:35] Could you just like not put on a show?

[00:11:36] Shut up!

[00:11:37] And fear me bitch.

[00:11:41] No.

[00:11:42] Yes.

[00:11:43] No.

[00:11:44] Blood.

[00:11:45] I mean is that about sum it up?

[00:11:47] I think so.

[00:11:48] I think I just summed up the whole goddamn old testament.

[00:11:53] Right.

[00:11:54] Yeah.

[00:11:55] Okay.

[00:11:56] Do you not know what these things mean?

[00:11:57] Say to them, the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and carried off her king

[00:12:02] and her nobles bringing them back with him to Babylon.

[00:12:06] Right.

[00:12:07] So that eagle picked up the seedlings, right?

[00:12:10] And he brought them.

[00:12:11] Sure.

[00:12:12] And he planted them but not like real good.

[00:12:14] Yeah.

[00:12:15] Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him putting him under

[00:12:19] oath.

[00:12:20] He also carried away the leading men of the land.

[00:12:23] You know that was the first wave of exiles.

[00:12:26] Right.

[00:12:27] That the kingdom would be brought low, unable to rise again, surviving only by keeping his

[00:12:34] treaty.

[00:12:35] But the king rebelled against him, the king of the Israelites.

[00:12:41] The Israelites.

[00:12:42] Yeah.

[00:12:43] The Zedekiah.

[00:12:44] Right.

[00:12:45] Yeah.

[00:12:46] Not.

[00:12:47] Well I'm just saying like it's suffering a little bit of pronoun abuse.

[00:12:49] Yeah.

[00:12:50] Where it's going he, he, he, he and it's like witchy.

[00:12:52] Well I don't think the witch king is necessarily important to the symbolism that they're

[00:12:57] trying to convey here.

[00:12:59] It's just that Israel got uprooted and then got uprooted again.

[00:13:03] Okay but when they're saying the king plucked some people but the king rebelled, those are

[00:13:08] two different kings.

[00:13:09] Yeah.

[00:13:10] No you're absolutely right.

[00:13:11] So that's what I'm saying.

[00:13:12] Right.

[00:13:13] I read in my notes just oh by the by you might want to clarify this.

[00:13:18] Sure.

[00:13:19] So I'm clarifying it.

[00:13:20] Okay.

[00:13:21] Right.

[00:13:22] Yeah.

[00:13:23] So the first king was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.

[00:13:25] Oh okay.

[00:13:26] Yes.

[00:13:27] The king rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and now the king rebelled against him by sending

[00:13:31] his envoys.

[00:13:33] That's king, it wasn't kings at a kaias, kings at a kaias was the king of or was the leader

[00:13:40] of the Israelites so it's whoever that is in charge of.

[00:13:44] Okay but the king rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to get horses

[00:13:49] and a large army.

[00:13:51] Will he succeed?

[00:13:52] No.

[00:13:53] Will he who does such things escape?

[00:13:57] Will he break the treaty and yet escape?

[00:13:59] No.

[00:14:00] As surely as I live declares the sovereign lord he shall die in Babylon.

[00:14:04] Do you know why I know this stuff?

[00:14:06] Why?

[00:14:07] Because they've already fucking covered it multiple times over.

[00:14:10] Right, yeah.

[00:14:11] He shall die in Babylon in the land of the king who put him on the throne, who

[00:14:16] he despised and whose treaty he broke.

[00:14:19] Yeah.

[00:14:20] The hero with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him and more when

[00:14:26] ramps are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.

[00:14:31] Now I feel like if he would have made it further, like if he would have made it beyond

[00:14:34] like he didn't he never made it to Egypt he made it just outside of Egypt.

[00:14:39] That was when he was running away.

[00:14:40] Right yeah but I feel like if he could have got to Egypt they would have been

[00:14:43] helped, they would have helped him.

[00:14:45] I don't know, I have a feeling Egypt knew what was happening and was like kind of watching

[00:14:51] from the sidelines going oh I don't know.

[00:14:53] They weren't going to go out of their way but if he made it there they're not going

[00:14:56] to let Babylon into their place so they're like fuck off.

[00:15:00] Right that is true but I don't think that they would have like fully stood up to

[00:15:06] Babylon.

[00:15:07] No.

[00:15:08] So I don't either.

[00:15:09] I don't know if that would have been.

[00:15:10] They were too evenly matched from what I've gathered anyway.

[00:15:13] Right.

[00:15:14] Pretty evenly matched.

[00:15:15] Right.

[00:15:16] So.

[00:15:17] He despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

[00:15:21] I mean you can break a promise without despising the promise.

[00:15:24] Yeah.

[00:15:25] You know?

[00:15:26] Right.

[00:15:27] I mean I don't think that just because you break a promise means that you despised

[00:15:32] the promise that you made.

[00:15:33] Not necessarily.

[00:15:34] Yeah.

[00:15:35] Like if I promised my kid I'm taking them to King's Island and then it rains

[00:15:41] and I'm like well we're not going.

[00:15:43] I'm sorry.

[00:15:44] Right.

[00:15:45] I don't despise the promise.

[00:15:46] For those of you who don't live in southern Ohio King's Island is a amusement park.

[00:15:51] Sure.

[00:15:52] Roller coasters and such.

[00:15:54] Yes theme park.

[00:15:56] Sorry.

[00:15:57] I knew what I meant.

[00:15:58] Yeah no I know.

[00:15:59] I just was clarifying.

[00:16:00] Right I'm just saying like just because you break a promise or a covenant or whatever

[00:16:03] that doesn't automatically mean that you despise it.

[00:16:06] So I just feel like that was like poor phrasing and like making something out of it that it

[00:16:14] wasn't.

[00:16:15] Right.

[00:16:16] He didn't break the fucking covenant because he despised it.

[00:16:19] That's not what happened.

[00:16:21] Right.

[00:16:22] Anyway because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things he shall not

[00:16:28] fucking escape.

[00:16:30] Boom.

[00:16:31] Okay.

[00:16:32] Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says.

[00:16:34] And surely as I live I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.

[00:16:40] And he sure did.

[00:16:41] It's just he's implying malice where I don't think a lot of malice exists.

[00:16:46] Right.

[00:16:47] I think it's like I don't give a fuckness.

[00:16:50] Right.

[00:16:51] Or I'm just trying to live-ness.

[00:16:53] Yeah and I also feel like this is just like the Bible to do in its own horn like hey

[00:16:59] this thing that happened we knew it was going to happen.

[00:17:02] Oh guess what we also knew it was going to happen over here and over there and this other

[00:17:06] time and this other time and hey we called it again over here too.

[00:17:10] And then we signed it to so many different dudes.

[00:17:13] And triplicate.

[00:17:14] Yeah.

[00:17:15] And then-

[00:17:16] So that way we could claim like look at all these dudes who called it ahead of time.

[00:17:19] We prophesied so fucking hard guys.

[00:17:21] Like look at how hard we prophesied.

[00:17:23] We prophesied hard.

[00:17:24] It was amazing how much we prophesied this shit.

[00:17:27] Right.

[00:17:28] Like look at all the prophecies.

[00:17:29] We were hard soothed sayers.

[00:17:31] Yeah we were.

[00:17:32] I the Lord will spread my net for him and he will be caught in my snare.

[00:17:41] I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there because he was unfaithful to

[00:17:47] me all his choice troops will fall by the sword and the survivors will be scattered,

[00:17:54] smothered, covered to the winds.

[00:17:55] Yeah okay.

[00:17:57] Like scrambled eggs at Waffle House.

[00:17:59] Right.

[00:18:00] That's not correct.

[00:18:01] No it's hash browns.

[00:18:04] Yeah.

[00:18:05] Apologies.

[00:18:06] Right.

[00:18:07] See I always get my scrambled eggs and my hash browns together because I like them all

[00:18:11] mixed.

[00:18:12] Okay.

[00:18:13] Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken.

[00:18:18] Okay?

[00:18:19] Not because he's announced that he's speaking a million fucking times.

[00:18:22] Or did something with which they can be like damn did you see what the Lord just

[00:18:27] did?

[00:18:28] Holy moly what?

[00:18:29] We can't even do that because he speaks through his fucking prophets.

[00:18:33] Right.

[00:18:34] It's like it's never the Lord speaking.

[00:18:35] Right.

[00:18:36] But we're supposed to know because he prophesies real hard that the Lord spoke.

[00:18:42] Ezekiel says it a lot so we believe him.

[00:18:45] Right.

[00:18:46] Yeah.

[00:18:47] Because when you repeat yourself that makes you trustworthy.

[00:18:48] But I'm like as far as I know Ezekiel never even saw this shit happen.

[00:18:52] He just would have heard about it from afar so.

[00:18:54] Right.

[00:18:55] Like it was never like how would you know that it was correct even?

[00:18:58] Right.

[00:18:59] Like I know they did bring the king to Babylon so he would have seen that happen I guess maybe

[00:19:03] or at least been near it.

[00:19:05] He might have seen it but Zedekiah didn't.

[00:19:07] Oh sick bird.

[00:19:10] This is what the sovereign Lord says, I myself will take a shoot from the very top of a cedar

[00:19:17] and plant it.

[00:19:19] I will break off a tender sprig from its top most shoots and plant it on a high and

[00:19:24] lofty mountain.

[00:19:26] On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it.

[00:19:30] I'll plant it.

[00:19:31] You're going to plant it in one of the high spaces?

[00:19:34] Why?

[00:19:35] Because high spaces are fine when it's Yahweh or El or whatever the fuck we're calling

[00:19:41] him them today.

[00:19:42] I just feel like we spent a lot of time railing against high places that's all.

[00:19:45] Yeah but.

[00:19:46] I feel like this is not correct.

[00:19:48] So basically what he's saying is oh no the high places are fine but only when

[00:19:53] you fear the Lord which is me.

[00:19:55] This Lord.

[00:19:56] I, I me, I, Alpha Omega guy, Sky Daddy.

[00:20:03] On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it.

[00:20:06] It will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar.

[00:20:11] Birds of every kind will nest in it.

[00:20:13] They will find shelter in the shade of its branches.

[00:20:16] God plants the best vines.

[00:20:19] They're so grounded and rooted that it's unbelievable how well he plants those

[00:20:25] vines.

[00:20:26] Nice tree.

[00:20:28] All the trees of the forest will know that I, the Lord bring down the tall tree and make

[00:20:33] the low tree grow tall.

[00:20:36] I do good treeing.

[00:20:39] I'm the best tree.

[00:20:40] Look at that tree being a good tree.

[00:20:41] I'm going to kill it.

[00:20:42] Yeah.

[00:20:43] And then I'm going to let that other tree grow because I like killing things.

[00:20:46] I like killing things.

[00:20:47] I'm the Lord with my tinker toys.

[00:20:50] Yeah.

[00:20:51] You know?

[00:20:52] I like the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.

[00:20:54] I, the Lord have spoken and I will do it.

[00:20:57] The end.

[00:20:58] He sounds like Trump.

[00:21:00] I'm awesome.

[00:21:01] I have all the big trees.

[00:21:03] Believe me.

[00:21:04] I'm going to do it.

[00:21:05] It's going to be done.

[00:21:06] And it's going to be the biggest tree you ever saw.

[00:21:09] You thought you saw a high mountain?

[00:21:11] I had millions of people on the promenade.

[00:21:15] I knew all these things happened a million times over and I knew them before they

[00:21:19] knew them.

[00:21:20] I knew them so much.

[00:21:21] No one has been prosecuted worse than me in all of history.

[00:21:26] Yeah.

[00:21:27] I'm the best and the worst.

[00:21:28] I'm the most and the least.

[00:21:30] It's just, it's so like, it, like we've hurt, whatever.

[00:21:36] Finish a thought for the fucking day.

[00:21:37] I can't.

[00:21:38] I can't.

[00:21:39] I can't.

[00:21:40] There's too many thoughts rolling around on my fucking head.

[00:21:41] God's a dick.

[00:21:42] God is not real and he is, they're saying that God knew all these things so many

[00:21:48] times that you can't possibly fucking believe it at this point.

[00:21:51] Right.

[00:21:52] Like, nothing you could in the first place.

[00:21:54] You say, um, Doth protest too much, right?

[00:21:57] Yes.

[00:21:58] Like I mean.

[00:21:59] Me thinks.

[00:22:00] Yeah.

[00:22:01] Yeah.

[00:22:02] It's just, there's too many, it's, it's mentionitis and you, you, they're

[00:22:07] mentioning these things so often that it's like, yeah, we get it.

[00:22:10] You're fucking new, I guess, but I don't really believe you because you're

[00:22:14] just making such a fucking big deal about it.

[00:22:17] I have to say something.

[00:22:18] What?

[00:22:19] You use the word mentionitis and that's like a word that I made up for when

[00:22:24] somebody keeps referring to something over and over and over again.

[00:22:27] You made that up like no one else ever made the word mentionitis up?

[00:22:30] No, that's amoeism.

[00:22:31] I didn't, I didn't realize that.

[00:22:33] Yeah.

[00:22:34] And so just now when you said it, like it made my heart skip a beat.

[00:22:39] I love you because you've adopted my language to the point that you

[00:22:43] didn't even know that it came from me.

[00:22:47] I say mentionitis.

[00:22:48] Yeah.

[00:22:49] It's like when you got a crush on somebody and you keep mentioning

[00:22:52] their name fucking over and over and over and over and over again.

[00:22:54] Right.

[00:22:55] Yeah.

[00:22:56] That.

[00:22:57] Okay.

[00:22:58] Yeah, it's mentionitis.

[00:22:59] I feel like, okay.

[00:23:00] No, it's me.

[00:23:01] Okay.

[00:23:02] It's you.

[00:23:03] All right.

[00:23:04] Okay.

[00:23:05] If, if you think that you've heard it elsewhere, I would

[00:23:07] like to know that source.

[00:23:08] Well, I don't have a source.

[00:23:09] I can't prove it.

[00:23:10] So I'm going to let you have this one.

[00:23:12] Okay.

[00:23:13] So I mean there you go.

[00:23:14] You get, you get mentionitis.

[00:23:15] I get mentionitis.

[00:23:16] I have mentionitis.

[00:23:19] Right.

[00:23:20] I mean it's better than other things you can get.

[00:23:21] So, you know.

[00:23:22] It's better than talking about fucking trees that you planted

[00:23:25] and, and uprooted.

[00:23:26] Yeah, for sure.

[00:23:27] For sure.

[00:23:28] All right.

[00:23:29] Well, that was Ezekiel chapter 17.

[00:23:30] Oh wait.

[00:23:31] I forgot to tell you something really important.

[00:23:33] Yeah.

[00:23:34] I think it's verse nine.

[00:23:35] Let me double check my notes.

[00:23:37] Okay.

[00:23:38] Because it's actually kind of cool.

[00:23:39] Got it.

[00:23:40] Yeah.

[00:23:41] The entire Hebrew alphabet appears in verse nine.

[00:23:44] Oh.

[00:23:45] Isn't that cool?

[00:23:46] Wow.

[00:23:47] Yeah.

[00:23:48] Is there, is there any particular reason they did that or just?

[00:23:51] I don't know.

[00:23:52] It's just a thing.

[00:23:53] They really liked the alphabet again and they're like here let's throw it in here.

[00:23:56] It's like somebody was like, oh my God, this sentence says that the quick brown fox jumped

[00:24:02] over the lazy dog.

[00:24:03] Right.

[00:24:04] You know, that's a sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet.

[00:24:09] I didn't know that.

[00:24:10] Oh yeah.

[00:24:11] That's like a sentence that you employ if you're trying to see if a typewriter works real quick.

[00:24:17] Oh, okay.

[00:24:18] The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

[00:24:20] Okay.

[00:24:21] Because it utilizes every single letter in the English alphabet.

[00:24:25] That's awesome.

[00:24:26] Yeah.

[00:24:27] So it's like they came across that in the Bible and they were like, every letter,

[00:24:31] oh my God.

[00:24:32] Right.

[00:24:33] Verse nine.

[00:24:34] Yep.

[00:24:35] There it is.

[00:24:36] All right.

[00:24:37] That was Ezekiel chapter 17.

[00:24:38] Sure as fuck was.

[00:24:39] Which means that we will be back tomorrow with Ezekiel chapter 18.

[00:24:45] That is correct.

[00:24:46] Awesome.

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