Ezekiel Chapter 31: Bible Study by Atheists

[00:00:00] Welcome to Sacrilegious Discourse. For this is what the sovereign Lord says, Why do you need prophets to tell people who you are and what you want? If you can justify everything that the God of the Bible has done

[00:00:12] then you can justify any of your behavior. A lot of this mentality is trickling into what is now mainstream right wing Christianity. I am capable of empathy greater than this God of the Bible. This is a Bible that they tell kids. This is a Bible

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[00:00:50] Can't I got it out that time? I tried to call your name and it's kind of like good which I mean that kind of tracks because my voice has been kind of walky lately. My throat is still

[00:01:04] recent sicknesses. Yeah, yeah. And for those of you who didn't join our special episode that we put out yesterday, Wife is back and sorry for the absence. Yeah, I had a running fever of between 99 and 102 point something degrees for about four days and my throat was so painful

[00:01:24] that I was crying and it was bad. It was terrible. It was all the bad. I had to go to emergency room. Yeah. It was painful and horrible and I'm back. And so yay. And so that is why my voice went, whoo.

[00:01:40] So anyway, do you know what we're doing today? Well, so it was last week at this point but the last time we were doing a episode about the Bible, it was um, oh shit. What book are we in?

[00:01:54] We're in the sea heel. Yeah. Sorry. I knew what chapter right. We were in a z- we were reading a z- heel chapter 30. Yes, that is correct. And in that chapter, God. You tell me what happened because I really don't remember.

[00:02:08] Well, it was, so it was like the second part of a two part thing where God was chastizing Egypt for not doing things correctly. I guess. So anyway, that was in and then the prophecy it was going to be wrong.

[00:02:20] Because God was like this is going to happen for like 40 years. You're going to be dispersed for like 40 years. And y'all are going to be torn apart and scattered and all a wonderful shit, right? But the thing is that in history during the time that

[00:02:34] Nebuchadnezzar was fighting them, they never fully conquered them. Right. And so therefore the prophecy in the Bible is wrong. It's wrong. So it's the Bible. It's wrong. So it's that's what happened. God was wrong by the time.

[00:02:48] That's what that's what that's what what um or that or z- heel was mistaken and was a false prophet. I mean, yeah, either way if we're going to attend the goddess real he was mistaken knowing that God isn't real.

[00:03:02] That means that z- heel is a false prophet and liar. One way or the other. Something in the Bible is not right. Yep. That's all I'm saying. That happened. So that was a z- heel chapter 30. Yes, it was. Which means that today we're

[00:03:14] getting into easy Kyle a z- heel chapter 31. All right. Let's do this. Okay, okay. All right. We are jumping into easy Kyle chapter 31. All right. And it starts out like this because you said it was a part two last week

[00:03:36] or last part. So this is a part three. Okay, well I didn't know that yet. We're still we're still holaring at Egypt got it. Okay. Okay. Okay. And the 11th year in the third month on the first day the word of the Lord came to me. Okay.

[00:03:52] Okay. I got to take you. Yeah. Can't do it. Me is sick. Yeah. Not me wife. Right. I got to date for you. Okay. This corresponds to around June 19th to the 21st in 587 BCE. Okay. A month before Jerusalem was taken by the child ends.

[00:04:10] Got it. All right. Yep. So this is what God says. Okay, ready? I'm ready. Son of man. Yeah. Me or human. You fucking worm. Say to Pharaoh King of Egypt and to his hordes who can be compared with you in majesty because you know, you're you're awesome.

[00:04:28] Right. Right. Love you. We jumped yourself. So fucking cool. Yeah. Yeah. Consider a Syria once a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches over shadowing the forest. It towered on high. It's top above the thick foliage. The waters nourished it. Deep springs

[00:04:48] made it grow tall. Their streams float all around its base and since their channels to all the trees of the field. So it towered higher than all the trees of the field. We're talking about a Syria right now, right? Yes. Okay. Just make it just.

[00:05:02] I was just one of the verify. Yeah. He I actually have kind of a note about that. It's not a big deal but this is less a geographical note because he's like saying consider a

[00:05:11] Syria that was in Lebanon, right? Yeah. It was a tree in Lebanon. Sure. The reference to Lebanon is actually a metaphor, not a locational statement. Okay. Because a Syria was a superpower which fell into the hands of the Babylonians and their influence in the

[00:05:28] region, of course, now had waned. Yeah. And he's talking about this tree. This beautiful tall tree that eventually fell. Which is a Syria. And so he's saying you're going to follow this. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So that's what he's saying. You're like you're so

[00:05:43] awesome. You're also a beautiful tree just like a Syria and guess what happened to them. So that's what this is. Okay. Yeah. All right. So he's talking about this great tree that towered high. It's bow's increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of

[00:05:58] abundant waters. All the birds of the sky nested in its bow's. All the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches. That is a lot of placenta under one fucking tree. Yeah. That seems like that might be a little gross after a while. Yeah.

[00:06:14] That after birth and everything else would be just sitting around. I'm going to say that that didn't happen because that's kind of grody. All the great nations lived in it shade. Oh, the metaphorical tree. All the great nations, huh? Yeah. Because

[00:06:30] wait. But this was a Syria. So I mean, like he's using Syria as a metaphor as to what's going to happen to Egypt. So all the great nations live in the shade. He's saying even, you know, Jerusalem and Israel, all that lived in the shade of

[00:06:42] Syria because they were what the greatest and understand. Like he's talking about how great a nation, how large and the power of the whole. And then they controlled the area. I. Okay. And so trade kind of happened because of them.

[00:06:58] Got it. And then even they fell. Yeah. And you better watch out now. You jump. Yeah. Yeah. Because right now, Egypt is the great power. I just like them giving this extra emphasis to how powerful a Syria was kind of

[00:07:12] diminishes the importance of Jerusalem and Israel. And in some regards. Yes, I know because a Syria was a huge nation, huge whereas, you know, Jerusalem was the city, the capital city of Judah. Right. And Judah was a very small area comparatively speaking.

[00:07:34] You're absolutely right. So we're talking about an empire versus a small little kingdom. Right. I guess I'm more speaking to the idea that God's influence did not make Jerusalem as powerful as some

[00:07:48] of these other people, right? Like it's not a matter of whether or not they were or weren't, right? Sure. It's a matter of this God apparently doesn't have the power to make his own people. The most common. Yeah. And that's where I'm like. And that when they moved.

[00:08:02] When they moved into the area, it was supposed to be their promised land and they were supposed to wipe out all the people who lived there which some of Syrians did. Right. And so it's like,

[00:08:12] wow, you guys are like totally small compared to this huge empire and you did not stand up well against her. Right. That's what you're saying. No, I see what you're saying. I'm looking

[00:08:28] at it more from the just the matter of fact. This is the way things were. The lyric will part of it too though. The metaphorical part of it. Yeah. How it actually was. Right. Right. No, I got it.

[00:08:40] I guess it was just the matter that they this is God speaking about, you know, this other nation is great. That that part to me is interesting. And so far as they're not God's people. So

[00:08:51] then in that alone, admitted in the greatness of this other nation or any other nation, it's a little bit odd. It is interesting that he can recognize greatness in anybody but himself.

[00:09:02] Yeah, no, I'm for two seconds. Right now and only only as it's in place. Only because it's convenient to do so because because he's like they're so great and they died. Wow. Okay,

[00:09:15] thanks for that. All the great nations lived in it shade. It was majestic and beauty with its spreading bow, sports roots went down to abundant waters. The seaters in the garden of God could

[00:09:27] not rival it. Nor could the junitors equal its bow's nor could the plain trees compare with its branches. No tree in the garden of God could match its beauty. Wow. The garden of God is another term

[00:09:41] for garden of Eden. Sure. If I I. But that's that's again. Yeah. I'm like what the fuck is this? This is this is God admitting somebody is greater. I understand that it's a metaphor to say that

[00:09:55] this great thing is going to fall. But that is very complementary to it. Even in a metaphor. Yeah, but to admit that as you didn't have the best, you weren't the best. You what I don't

[00:10:07] it's interesting to me. It is. It is. I made it beautiful. Oh, I made okay. Okay. I take it. I take it all back. Fuck you. He's nothing that they're God. I made it.

[00:10:22] I made everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I made it everything but he gave his garden or his people the most beautiful or powerful thing. Clearly, you know, clearly because Assyria got it. Yeah.

[00:10:34] So how that work out? Fuck you Jerusalem. Right. You know. I made it beautiful with abundant branches. The envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God. I'm still kind of blown away

[00:10:46] at the work of your life. This was my favorite tree and I didn't give it to you. Right. Wow. Yeah. Therefore, this, I'm sorry. I read that wrong. Did you? Okay. Yeah. Therefore, this is what

[00:10:58] the Southern Lord says because the great Cedar towered over the thick foliage and because it was proud of its height, I gave it into the hands of the rulers of the nations for him to deal with

[00:11:11] according to its wickedness. I casted aside and the most ruthless of four nations cut it down and left it. It's bow, fell on the mountains and in the valleys. It's branches lay broken in all the

[00:11:24] ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it. All the birds settled on the fallen tree and all the wild animals lived among its branches. Therefore, no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high,

[00:11:45] lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well watered are ever to reach such a height. They are all destined for death for the earth below among mortals who go down to the realm

[00:12:02] of the dead. Okay. Yeah. Good. This is what Southern Lord says. Okay. On the field, I thought we was already saying stuff. He says I said I said I said said said, right. Yeah. Remember we talked about this? He's the OG,

[00:12:19] Falkhorn, like one. Yes he is. Yes. So on the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead. I covered the deep springs with morning for it. I held back at streams and it's abundant waters

[00:12:33] were restrained because of it. I clothed Lebanon with gloom and all the trees of the field weathered away. Okay. I made the nation's tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down

[00:12:46] to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choices and best of Lebanon at the well watered trees were consoled in the earth below.

[00:13:00] This is getting into some like talking about 80s or whatever. Yeah. It's it's a little interesting for sure. They too like the great cedar had gone down to the realm of the dead to those killed

[00:13:12] by the sword along with the arms men who lived in it shade among the nations, which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you and splendor and majesty yet you too will be brought down

[00:13:27] with the trees of Eden to the earth below. So he's referencing here Egypt right at the end and he's saying any saying even Egypt is more beautiful and wonderful than the trees and Eden

[00:13:40] and it's more powerful and more great. I made it so awesome. Yeah. I didn't give it to you. If we let him take credit he's going to take credit for the future. I made this awesome thing that

[00:13:49] I didn't give it to you. But there's like multiple lands that are that are more beautiful and wonderful and great than then his lands that he cared about apparently. That's interesting. It is

[00:14:00] it is really different than what I expected to hear. Right. I don't really expect the Bible or or anybody in the religious realm or anything like that to admit that maybe God didn't make the most beautiful things for his people. Generally when I hear people talk about God,

[00:14:16] the people of that worship God get all the wonderful things. They get all the glories and all the prettys and all the the bestest. The strongest, the fastest. Right. The ones that can fly across the sky

[00:14:28] and see it thousand eyes. Yeah. Oh we got some dicks up in here. Oh no, not dicks. Yes ready? Yeah, you too will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below. You will lie

[00:14:42] among the unsurcom sized. Oh okay. With those killed by the sword. So like was hell originally for people who didn't get circumcised? Probably. I guess. I don't know. I think oh shit your parents

[00:14:55] didn't circumcise you either man. Ah sucks, doesn't it? Right. We're down here in hell now. No. I just think these people were way too concerned with winners. Oh they absolutely were. And and bad. I mean, right? We're just all around. Right. The parts say they yeah, they thought

[00:15:09] way too much about that shit. With regard to their God and whatever that fucking thing represented. I mean, clearly they thought about it regularly enough to include God in the talks about

[00:15:21] Dicks and vaginas. Right. You know what I mean? It wasn't that they brought God to the Dicks and vaginas. They brought the Dicks and vaginas that already were in conversation to God. Like that's weird. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Last sentence here, Uncircum sized. You know we're

[00:15:37] gonna die with the Uncircum sized Dicks. Yeah. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes declares the sovereign Lord the end. This is Pharaoh and all of his hordes? Yeah. So he's saying this is what's

[00:15:50] going to I'm talking about. Okay. The Uncircum sized peeps I know I was talking about a Syria the whole time. But that that right there, that was a that that's Egypt. Yeah. I'm gonna get them.

[00:15:59] Specifically. I'm circumcised folks right there. Yeah. And the big dick on Circum sized spots. That's right. That's right. Yeah. I forgot they said that too. Yeah. That's good shit. You know those Egyptians with big Dicks? I mean according to the Bible. According to the

[00:16:13] yeah. I mean, I'm not trying to say it's a context or anything. I'm not just the Bible saying that shit. I don't know. I don't know what kind of Dicks Egyptians have. I assume that they're just normal

[00:16:24] like everybody else's dick. To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not entirely certain that I've ever met an Egyptian. I don't know that I I probably have passed one or been near one,

[00:16:33] but I don't know that I actually know that I've interacted with somebody who grew up in Egypt. I worked at a place that was like kind of inner city and so I saw a lot of people of different

[00:16:45] ethnicities and I could not tell you what all the ethnicities were. There were a lot of brown and black people and so maybe some of them were I know one couple and their little boy was from

[00:17:00] Puckeston and there was another guy who I know he was a Muslim but I don't know what country he was from. Got it. Got it. And you know, it was just one of those things where I met people from all over

[00:17:14] and didn't really do you think it would be inappropriate if you know I just carried around a ruler in case I met an Egyptian just to make sure that the biblical claims are true.

[00:17:23] I mean this was thousands of years ago there's a dick's minus shrunk of sense then. Well I mean got probably cursed them or something yeah. So I don't know. So something happened probably. Who could know? We're not in the new testament yet.

[00:17:35] I think. You know everything could change what gets the name. Uncircummerized now in hell. Egyptians. That's what's happening. I just want to apologize upfront right now. I guess it's not upfront because we already

[00:17:47] did it. Yeah. I just want to apologize to anybody who is of Egyptian ethnicity or fact yeah, culture and we love you. Yeah. I do want you to understand that I am not making fun of you

[00:18:00] or your culture or your history. I am making fun of the Bible and it's really weird phrasing and it's depiction of your ancestors. Yeah to be fair it could have been any culture that he

[00:18:13] would have said that about. We would have said the same fucking shit. Yeah. Yeah. I did. Nothing to do with Egyptians or anything. No. I just feel like it should be stated out loud that I apologize if our besting and banter hurt you that was not our intention.

[00:18:27] We are trying to make fun of the Bible. No we tend to just go off and whatever's on our goddamn mind. So. So to speak. All right well that's all I have for today. All right.

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