Ezekiel Chapter 26: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:00:53] Well, on Friday we read Ezekiel chapter 25. Sure as fuck did. And in that chapter it was all about Samuel L. Jackson. It was not. Well, I mean, you know, it was my favorite part because I like Pulp Fiction and that was a great scene.

[00:01:09] And I was waiting for that quote the whole fucking Bible. Yeah. And it was amazing that it was there. But essentially though it was God telling everybody that he's going to wreak havoc on Amon, Moab, Edom and Felistia. Yeah.

[00:01:28] So that was it's the same shit he's going to do to the Israelites except for now he's doing it to them. And no remnants for you. I just call me shocked here but you know whatever that's God's God's going to kill people go figure.

[00:01:41] You murdery son of a bitch. Right. Right. So that was Ezekiel chapter 25. Yes. Which means that today we're getting into. Ezekiel chapter 26. All right, let's do this. Okey dokey.

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[00:03:43] And before we start just want to tell you a little bit about this chapter because we're talking about a different city than what we've normally talked about. Okay. Yeah. So we're going to be talking about Tyrus or Tier Tire T-Y-R-E. Sure. Okay.

[00:04:01] And he starts, Ezekiel starts a new prophecy in this chapter that goes on through the 20th chapter. Got it. Wait no ending in the 20th verse of Chapter 28. Got it. Okay. So a couple chapters here 26, 27, 28. Sure.

[00:04:22] Okay and this is going to be a declaration of the judgments of God against Tire. I'm guessing it's Tire not Tier since it's Tyrus. See I would have said Tier. I would have said Tier except that when we're talking about Tyrus. Right. So I don't know.

[00:04:37] God forbid we ever look up any pronunciations. I mean that is above my pay grade. Right, right. So Tier we're going to call it Tier. Okay. It's just more fun. Sounds good. So we're going to talk about the very famous Venetian commercial city and major seaport which

[00:04:56] was taken by Nebuchadnezzar after a very arduous siege of 13 years. And it's located on the Mediterranean coast of Venetia just north of Palestine. Okay. And it was a leading commercial center of the ancient world. Got it. And it was a city made up of two separate parts.

[00:05:19] The one part was built on the mainland coast and the other half of the city was an island a very short distance away. Got it. And just for the record I did look it up real quick while you were going over that information. It is Tire.

[00:05:33] See that makes sense since Tyrus. So I apologize but yeah. That sucks. Yeah. So that city that has a dumb pronunciation is what we are going to be talking about today. Got it.

[00:05:47] Just kind of wanted to put it in location geographically so we kind of have an idea where we're talking about. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. So let's get started. In the 11th month of the 12th year on the first day of the month guess what happened?

[00:06:05] Dezekiel heard from God. He called him long distance. He said hey what's up? Yeah the word of the Lord came to me. Okay. So but let's take a second. I know we just started. Yeah. And talk about that date. Okay. Right? Sure. All right.

[00:06:21] So in the 11th month of the 12th year on the first day of the month blah, blah, blah. This date corresponds to the year 586 or 585 BCE. Okay. And this was the year in which Jerusalem was taken.

[00:06:35] The 11th year of the captivity of Jecuniah and the 11th of the reign of Zedekiah. Got it. Okay. So that's where we're at. Sure. Okay. So this is what the Lord said. Okay. Son of man. Yeah, mere human.

[00:06:51] You fucking worm because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, the gate to the nations is broken and its doors have swung open to me. Now that she lies in ruins I will prosper. So basically Tyre is laughing that Jerusalem fell. Yeah, got it. Okay.

[00:07:08] That's not a good thing to do because God will, you know, God's a deck. Destroy whoever lapsed Jerusalem. They're all gonna laugh at me. The only person allowed to destroy Jerusalem is God. It's God. Yeah. Yeah. And boy how he does. Right. Yeah.

[00:07:23] And so since they are big commercial city they're like sweet, more spoils for them. So they're like really excited that Jerusalem has fallen. Yeah, got it. Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says.

[00:07:34] I'm against you Tyre and I will bring many nations against you like the sea casting up its fucking waves. Okay. Yeah. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers. I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bear rock. Boom. How about that?

[00:07:55] Pretty bad. Yeah, he's gonna knock them the fuck down. Okay. Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets for I have spoken declares the sovereign Lord. Got it. And then he says some more.

[00:08:08] She will become plunder for the nations and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they'll know that I'm the Lord. That's the violence, the killing. Yes. That's how we always know that God is the Lord. Oh.

[00:08:23] Look at all these dead people God must have come through. You know how that God is. Right? Yeah. Fucking y'all way. For this is what the sovereign Lord says. Is it? Mm-hmm. Okay. From the north I'm gonna bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon king

[00:08:41] of kings with horses and chariots with horsemen and a great army. Damn he called him king of kings. Yeah. That doesn't seem like God would say that, right? Well because that's how Jesus is referred to. Right. In the New Testament.

[00:08:57] It seems way too, he's given him too much. Right. That's too much of a namesake to give to somebody other than somebody that's in God's corner. You know that guy I hate? The total king of kings. Like what? He will ravage your settlements on the mainland as Nebuchadnezzar

[00:09:19] peach with the sword. You know the sword of the Lord? Yeah. Definitely not space lasers. No, no that's more Marjorie Taylor Greene thinking. Yeah. He will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.

[00:09:40] He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. So I have to wonder if historically if this ever actually happened. It actually did. It did, it did. Okay.

[00:09:54] So then the next thing that I have to wonder is was this written before or after and I have to believe from my own experience with the Bible thus far that it was probably written after. The way it's described it was like 100% after.

[00:10:08] Right because it sounds like a checklist of what they were fucking doing to destroy tear, or tire. Yeah. So. It's totally a checklist. Yeah. His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust.

[00:10:20] Your walls will tremble at the noise of the war horses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets.

[00:10:36] He will kill your people with the sword because murder is fun. Yeah. And your strong pillars will fall to the ground, you know, as they do. All these pillars always fall in everywhere.

[00:10:47] You know, I have, what does it take for them to chop down a pillar with swords? I wonder why would they worry about that? What does that matter? Well, I guess they have like the battering range. Yeah, I'm going to say they have more than just swords. Yeah.

[00:10:59] And who fucking knows they might even have some giants. They will plunder your wealth, see. Yeah. And loot your merchandise. Okay. And break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the fucking sea.

[00:11:18] I will put an end to your noisy songs and the music of your harps will be heard no more. Boing, boing, boing. God is so loving and wonderful. He's such a great guy, isn't he? He's sweetie.

[00:11:31] Like, I swear I've just never heard a more loving piece of fucking shit. Yeah, it's so true. I will make you a bare fucking rock and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt for I the Lord has spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

[00:11:48] This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tiar, Tire. Tire. Tiar, Tire. Yep. Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall when the wound did groan and the slaughter takes place in you? I don't know, Willie. Then? Why does he always ask questions like that?

[00:12:06] It's so weird, right? Is the sky not blue? I don't fucking care. I don't know. You tell us. Your God, you tell us. How about you let us know? Does a bear not shit in the woods?

[00:12:18] Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments clothed with terror. They will sit on the ground trembling every moment appalled at you.

[00:12:34] So this is, he's saying that all the other people around Tiar are going to hear what happened and their princes are going to be freaked the fuck out. Got it. Got it, yeah.

[00:12:46] And so they're mourning the fall of Tiar at the same time that they're like, oh fuck. Yeah, yeah. Like that I'm sad for them because everybody loved Tiar. Sure. But at the same time, I'm also scared for me. Sad, scared, sad, scared. Right, right.

[00:13:02] So they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you how you are destroyed city of renowned people by men of the sea. Okay, okay. Chicken of the sea? Yeah. You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens.

[00:13:18] You put your terror on all who lived there. Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall. The islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse. Okay, okay. This is what sovereign Lord says. And again, why does he have to keep announcing that he's saying more?

[00:13:35] Like, isn't it just like implied that if he keeps talking that he's still talking? Because you know why? Why? Because he's Foghorn Leghorn. Okay. He's the OG of I'll said, I'll said, I'll said.

[00:13:48] When I make you a desolate city like cities no longer inhabited, which is, you know what desolate means. And when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you, then I will

[00:14:03] bring you down with those who go down to the pit to the people of long ago. Okay. So he's talking about burying them like being like the pit is where when you bury your dead. Right, right.

[00:14:16] Okay, I will make you dwell in the earth below as an ancient ruins with those who go down to the pit and you will not return or take your place in the land of the living.

[00:14:27] So there's a little bit of extra here when he's like nobody usually returns from the land of the living. He's referring to their quote unquote souls. Oh, saying you're not going to have an afterlife. You're done. Got it. Like you do not get to level up.

[00:14:45] Like you're not just dead. You're like super dead. You're like all dead. Got it. Not just quasi dead or dead adjacent. Yeah, you're like totes dead. Sure. You're like sans alive even. Right. Exactly. You have been unalived to the max. Right. Yeah. Okay.

[00:15:08] So that's what he's talking about. You're like not going to have an afterlife. Right. I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found. Declare the sovereign Lord the end. Okay. Okay.

[00:15:23] I do have some notes about this chapter. Yeah. That I wanted to go ahead and do now because they're not Q&A worthy to wait till Saturday. Okay. But they are just kind of a little bit of FYI. Yeah, just FYI. Like interesting turns of phrase and stuff.

[00:15:39] Yeah. Okay. So let me go down. Okay. So what else did I have here? Wife is scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Well because I take notes for my own knowledge, but then I try to put in bold and italics anything

[00:15:55] that I actually want to say on the air, which is where we are. Yeah. Okay. So in verse 17 when it says they'll take up a lament concerning you. Yeah. And you know that was when the princes are going to hear that you have fallen and

[00:16:10] they'll be sad and scared and sad and scared. Right. Okay. The word that they use is lament by in other translations, they use a word cannot or cannot, which is a Hebrew dirge sad poem or elegy. Okay. And I just thought that

[00:16:29] was kind of worth mentioning. It's basically essentially sort of the same thing, isn't it? It's all the same. Yeah. I mean, I just, you know, basically I'm saying it because if you're reading a different translation, it might have different words. It'll have

[00:16:44] different words and not only that, but it might be something that we come across in a different chapter who fucking knows. Right. So I just wanted to put it out there that, hey, this

[00:16:54] is a thing. And there's there may be people out there listening that are following along with a different version of the Bible. Exactly. And they see different words when we're reading this. So then, you know, like, they might not know what a dirge is. Like, you didn't

[00:17:06] always know what a dirge was. I didn't. You didn't. Okay. Yeah, I believe you. I just don't remember when I didn't know that because I'm the one that told you what a dirge is. Okay.

[00:17:18] Okay. Okay. Yeah. So that's a thing. Also then further on in verse 21, I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more in other translations. It started out.

[00:17:31] I will make you a terror. Okay. And then that got changed to to sudden death. Will I bring thee? Okay. And then I will make thee a destruction. Oh, okay. And then we get a real dummy down.

[00:17:45] I will bring you to a horrible end. Got it. Got it. And then and then if you wanted to put it like an urban dictionary, it'd be like, you fucked you done. Yes, definitely.

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[00:19:33] Assess pool of shittiness. A morass of doodoo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I think that's all we got today. So that was Ezekiel chapter 26. Sure as fuck was which means that we'll be back tomorrow with easy Kyle chapter 27. Oh, one last thing. Oh, you guys might

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