Ezekiel Chapter 37: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:00:42] worrisome handshake on. Wife! Do you remember what happened yesterday and where the hell we ought to get? Well, yesterday we read Ezekiel Chapter 36. Sure, it's what did? And in that chapter God cited that he was really upset about how everyone was mocking him and

[00:01:07] that he just kind of looked like a pitiful piece of shit God. And so he was like, I'm going to now save my people but not because I like them but because I want other people to think well of me

[00:01:20] and I can't stand how people see me. It's about vanity. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty much the he talked about them too. He did. That was that, that was in there. Yeah. So, you know,

[00:01:34] whatever, he was talking to the, that was the Edomites and then they didn't like them and he didn't like the mocking them and then he brought the people back and whatever. Yep. It's all a

[00:01:42] bunch of bullshit. You got it. Yeah, so that was Ezekiel Chapter 36. Yes it was. Which means that today we're getting in too. Ezekiel Chapter 37. All right, let's do this. Okay, don't keep. All right, we are hopping into easy Kyle Chapter 37. Or Ezekiel.

[00:02:06] Ezekiel, you asshole. And I just have to save before we jump into this. I have gotten away from reading out the title of the chapter. Yeah, it's been a while since we did that. Yeah,

[00:02:22] because it wasn't included in the original text. Right. But I really like this one and want to seal it. I think I think we have like creative license and we're allowed to cover these titles

[00:02:35] when and if we choose. So, therefore, I grant you permission to cover the title. You know, either permission, but I'm saying I'm just saying as far as you know, I'm glad you're a little bit

[00:02:44] of this. There's a vote in here. I'm going to all vote at the club. I'm glad you're on board. Yeah. Okay, this one is the Valley of Dry Bones. Mm-hmm. Tell me that's not an epic title for a

[00:02:56] book. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Valley of Dry Bones. They did good with the title. Let's see how they did with the text. Yeah. I don't know. All right, the hand of the Lord was on me. Okay. And he brought

[00:03:07] me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley. The hand of the Lord was on him and he brought him out by the spirit of the Lord. Mm-hmm. Okay. The hand in the spirit

[00:03:16] got together. That's a lot of the Lord being on you and doing things with you. Yeah, he turned them all around. Yep. And they went to the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. Dry Bones, maybe even.

[00:03:27] Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. He led me back and forth among them. And I saw great many bones on the floor of the valley. Bones that were very dry. There we go. There it is. Yep. Now we have a tiny

[00:03:39] bones. Yeah. He asked me son of man. Yeah, mere human. Yeah. Fucking warm. Mm-hmm. Can these bones live? No. They cannot. I said, sovereign Lord, you alone know. I'm pretty sure I know

[00:03:52] the answer to this one. I mean, that was like the smartest way to say fuck knows. Right. Yeah. Then he said to me, prophecy to these bones and say to them, dry bones. Here's the word of the Lord.

[00:04:08] Does he really say this? Yes. Oh my God. This is what the song of Lord says to these bones. This is such bullshit. I will make breath enter you and you will come to life. Why do you have to have a

[00:04:21] dude tell them that they're not alive yet. Jesus Christ. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you and you will come to life.

[00:04:35] We're literally talking about like the zombie apocalypse here. Like this is the goddess got his bringing back to life dead people. Yeah. It okay. Okay. As you do. Okay. As you do. Okay.

[00:04:47] Then you will know that I'm the Lord. I mean, if you do that just okay. I'm just going to clarify right now. If if somebody told me, I'm speaking for the Lord and the Lord's telling me, I'm going to

[00:04:59] bring back these dry bones and they're going to come back to life with tendons and flesh and the whole thing. Yeah. And then it happens. I'm totally on board with the whole god thing. I will just

[00:05:09] I'm going to stipulate that right now. I don't know that I'm on God. I'm bored with a god thing. But I am on board with something magical just happened and I would really like to know what the

[00:05:19] fuck it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I profited as I was commanded. I was a kill. Okay. And to the two of the dry bones. Two of the dry bones that are not yet. Division. This is an

[00:05:32] division, remember? Are we sure that it didn't stipulate that? Yeah. I thought it did. The hand of the Lord and brought me in. Set me in the middle of a valley. Oh no, you're right. Yeah. Right. No.

[00:05:41] I mean, it sounds like it could maybe be a vision. But it doesn't actually say that it's a vision because it's a lot like the time that he was transported over to Judah. Remember how he got

[00:05:51] transported to Judah? Yeah. And that was a vision. That was a vision. So like this could be interpreted as a vision and I'm sure if somebody were to say no, well, this was a vision. Okay. But he still

[00:06:02] but God's saying that he can bring dead people back to life. Okay. Like a whole fucking valley of dry bones. I don't know what valley is this. That is all I mean. You have to think it's maybe

[00:06:13] a hand or something like that. Right. Yeah. So I, Zekil, prophecy that I was commanded. And as I was prophecy, England, there was a noise, a rattling sound. Oh my. And the bones came together,

[00:06:26] bone to bone. I looked and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them. But there was no breath in them. I'm having images of the movie The Army of Darkness. As we're reading this

[00:06:40] because it just reminds me of the skeleton army that comes against whatever the, you know, people that were fighting against the evil forces or whatever. So. You see what I was picturing was that old timey black and white Halloween cartoon with the dancing skeletons. You know what I'm

[00:06:57] talking about? Yeah. Then he said to me, prophecy to the breath, prophecy son of man, prophecy to the, okay. Okay. Okay. I'm just, I'm gonna let this one ride and let this go.

[00:07:09] Prophecy goes son of man. Yeah. You're human. Yeah. You're fucking worm. Sorry. And say I'm a little, I'm a little bent here as far as what's going on. Like this is, this is pretty fucking nuts.

[00:07:18] It really is. And say to it, this is what the sovereign Lord says, come breath from the four winds and breathe into these slain that they might live. Okay. We literally have zombies happening.

[00:07:34] I mean, yeah, what is this? I'm not sure what to even think of it. I cannot on this planet if there are bones that come back to life. No, absolutely not. Okay. This is a zikyo, right? The dude that saw

[00:07:48] the fucking angels with, what was on eyeballs? With eyeballs and wheels in the sky. And he, he laid them as goddamn side for a year. And now he's seen fucking bones come back to life.

[00:08:02] Did you know I think this guy is on lots of drugs or really fucking psychotic? Did you know the book of a zikyo was so problematic and so many different ways that it almost was not included?

[00:08:13] I can see why? Yeah, I think they should have gave it a pass. Yeah. Pass, skip. There's so much in here. You can just be like, that's no, this is to these, this sounds like a really just out of,

[00:08:26] it's out of place. It sounds like some sort of fantasy novel sometimes. One of these things is not like the other. No. And I mean, that could apply to a lot of things in this book, but a zikyo

[00:08:36] is right at the top of that list. Yeah, right? So I zikyo, prophecy does he command it me and breath and turned them. They came to life and stood up on their feet a vast army. Okay.

[00:08:51] Oh, I do not like this. Please. Oh, then he said to me, son of man. Yeah, mere human. You fucking warm. These bones are the people of Israel. Oh, I can't, there's zombies.

[00:09:09] What is happening right now? I mean, this is, this is dumb. This is dumb. Why does the Bible have zombies inside of it? I don't know. I'm, I tell our listeners how scared of zombies. Oh,

[00:09:23] yeah, wife is as terrified of zombies. Like my irrational fear. Yeah. My, my sister has an irrational fear of aliens and my irrational fear is zombies and sometimes when there's fog, unlike that zombie fog, there's zombies out there. Mine is, is wasps and hornets. And bees. Yeah.

[00:09:43] Yeah. Oh, there's a bee story. So I was, I had my window down the other day, I was driving and had my hand hanging out the window. You know, as you do, you know, and in a bug hits my hand,

[00:09:57] smacks it. And then that bug bounces into my cheek and stings me in the cheek as I'm driving. And then and then it like is dying, curled up on my shirt as I'm driving. So I just, I was part

[00:10:15] of my drive to work as a country road. So I was on a country road. I just stopped the car and the little road. I just, I had to figure out, I grabbed something like a piece paper and

[00:10:27] then threw this thing out at the window. You littered a bug in my paper? I have no qualms about this. No, it's not even happy. It's had to be done. You can get to be out. Right. Yeah. That was my first,

[00:10:38] that was my only priority. But I got stung in the cheek as I was driving. That's what my hand out the window. That was, I never happened. I haven't been stung in like over 20 years.

[00:10:48] Yeah. And then I just driving to work with my hand out the window. That's how it happened. And that's why you keep your hands in the right at all times. Don't keep your hand out the window

[00:10:58] could grief. But I'd much rather get stung than see an army of zombies slash skeletons come to life in front of me. Yeah, this is not okay. You say, this is like literally not okay. Yeah.

[00:11:09] Son of man. You're mere human. You have fucking warm. These bones are the people of Israel. They say, our bones are dried up and our hope is gone. We are cut off. But yeah, you are because you're

[00:11:22] fucking dead. Right. Yeah. Therefore, prophecy and say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says. My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them. What? I cannot, I will bring

[00:11:41] you back to the land of Israel. What is going to, are they going to, I feel like this has got to be a just, it's alluding to the fact that I think that people that are in their graves and the people

[00:11:55] that have the dried bones or the people that have been exile, not necessarily. Like it has to be if we're, if we're to believe that this is part of the Bible and saying something about what is going on,

[00:12:05] it has to be that people that are exiled and he's referring to them as having been, they were the equivalent of dried up bones. They might as well have been dead to have been scattered so far.

[00:12:15] I guess, and this is God like reinstalling His word, His vision, His is whatever into them. And that's when they're going to be able to come back, right? I really don't know, but I'm not happy

[00:12:27] about it. No, I much prefer as we're reading it to view this from the literal standpoint of which it's being read. And that's to say that there's a zombie apocalypse just happening here in a valley, somewhere with as he's killing God, because that's just crazy. That's, that's nuts.

[00:12:43] This is disturbing me on all kinds of levels and I'm sorry for my reaction, but I'm not down with zombies, guys. I cannot. Then you, my people will know that I'm the Lord when I open your

[00:12:58] graves and bring you up from them. That's how I know. I mean, that are a witch. This is better, as far as knowing that someone's the Lord, this is a better trick. As I have said, then

[00:13:13] another thing she's done. True. So I, God, according to his E.K. Oh yeah, we'll put my spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I'm the Lord.

[00:13:28] And I've spoken and I've done it. Declares the Lord. He's spoken and he's done it. Yeah. It brought people back from the dead. Okay, please let that section be over. We're entering a new

[00:13:40] section of this chapter. Okay. He's let there be no zombies now. Okay. All right. Yeah. The word of the Lord came to me. Okay. Son of man. You're human and skeletons. Okay. You're looking worms. Take a stick of wood and right on it, belonging to Judah and

[00:14:02] the Israelites associated with him. Okay. I'm going to write that shit on the trailer. Trail marker. Did you fill up on the path? Is that the real? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Or in the movie, what's it called?

[00:14:17] Ben Ops and broomsticks. It happens during World War II when they were shipping the children out of London to avoid the bombings. Right. And so there's Nazis looking for the town of Pepper and

[00:14:36] Jai. Okay. And so the approach, the intersection and this guy is painting over the signs and they're asking them which way to pepper and Jai? And he's like, oh, I don't know!

[00:14:50] And I love it. Okay. Sorry that had no relevance other than you said sign marker on the three at. Yep. Okay. So you're going to write some words on this stick. Yeah. Then take another stick of wood

[00:15:03] and write on it, belonging to Joseph. That is to E from and all the Israelites associated with him. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Now take those two sticks ready. I'm going to take in those two sticks. Yeah.

[00:15:15] Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. I don't know how this is going to bring back all the fibres. Is that what this is? Put them together. Yeah.

[00:15:27] Okay. Okay. When your people ask you, won't you tell us what you mean by this? You're sticks. What are you doing with those sticks there? Is he Kiel? Right. Hey, is he Kiel? How about those sticks? Yeah. Hey, is he Kiel? Nice sticks. When your people ask you,

[00:15:43] won't you tell us what you mean by this? Say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says, I'm going to take the stick of Joseph which is an e from hand and of the Israelites

[00:15:54] tribes associated with them and join it to do the stick. I'm going to go. I touched those sticks. You know what I mean? I'm going to stick this. Six kind of stick together. Mm-hmm. I will meet them

[00:16:05] into a single stick of wood and they will become one in my hand. Okay. Hold before your before their eyes, the sticks you have written on and say to them, this is what the sovereign Lord says,

[00:16:19] I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. Okay. I will make them one nation in the land

[00:16:32] on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. Okay. They will no longer defile themselves with their

[00:16:45] idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, but I will save them from all their sinful backslating and I'll cleanse them. They will be my people and I will be either God.

[00:17:00] La la la la la la la la la la. I we do it that section about the zombies, the skeletons, whatever. Moving on. No I know I know but I mean seen as we did move on so quickly from that

[00:17:12] and there's like no follow up with it. It has to be some sort of just like a metaphor as to what it was a vision occurring, right? And that's the bringing back of Israel to the, you know,

[00:17:24] land of the building honey, right? Yeah. So it has and feet. I'm assuming that that like I loved it. Like I think that's a great chapter as far as like making fun of the Bible because it's just

[00:17:37] like why the fuck. There's some things in the Bible. I think it is probably a metaphor for I don't, I don't like that it didn't specifically spell out that it was a vision. Right,

[00:17:48] I don't either but like I said to them to this valley and it's like looking at these bones standing out. Sure, sure. But I mean if you take the earlier one where they brought it into Judah and that

[00:17:57] was a vision, the wording is very similar and given how many missed translations there have been and different things like that, I think we could easily say that's probably the same. You could interpret it the same way. All right, that's all I'm saying. And I'm not, you know,

[00:18:12] I'm not fair to the Bible where I open. So I mean I just, I'm trying to be a little bit fair here. That's it. My serving David, you know, the dead guy. Yeah. While we're talking about zombies,

[00:18:24] my serving David will be king over them and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrease. Okay. They will live in the land I gave to my

[00:18:37] serving Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children, children will live there forever and David, my servant will be there Prince forever. See, so this is more of that Zionism, this is more of that, they are owed this land forever. Right,

[00:19:02] and when you get into Christianity, this is where they're like, well, this is fulfilling the prophecy of what is to come. Right. And since it hasn't, these things haven't happened. Right. Not in any real meaningful sense. Right. So these are seen I think today as future

[00:19:18] prophecies of the second coming. Yes. With regard to Christianity or in Jewish tradition, it would be the first coming. Yes. So I don't like this aspect of the Bible because it has so many bad connotations with regard to politics and everything today. And obviously the

[00:19:36] Palestinian is really war that's went on right now. So I mean there's just a lot of bad ship with because I mean surrounding this. They're like, move. This is our land, die. I dare

[00:19:46] this is our land, just die. No, and the very ultra right wing in Israel is very much for that type of ideology. So it's kind of scary. Yeah. Like I don't think God meant for the next

[00:20:01] 2,500 years just keep killing everybody all the time. Yeah. I mean, well, the God of this Bible did clearly. Well, it strikes me that we are a modern nation, right? Well, we would consider today modern civilizations, right? And yet we are still having religious wars. Yeah. We're still

[00:20:22] having in in Western cultures. Yeah. We are still participating in what could be deemed as a religious war. Yeah. It's so ridiculous. It really is. It makes you just want to cry. I mean,

[00:20:34] it just we should be past this. I feel like this is not a thing. You guys with science, technology. Now of course we're going to say there's other reasons but when you get to the heart of

[00:20:43] it, it is still somewhat based in religion. It's all religion, politics and geography and greed for oil and resources. Right. Yep. All right. So they and their children, and their children's children will live there forever. And David, my servant will be there,

[00:21:02] Prince forever. We, I will make a covenant of peace with them. Okay. It will be an everlasting covenant. That's what forever means. Also infinity. Right. And on and on. And I do find it interesting that like we distinguish between the saving of his Israeli people and Christianity,

[00:21:27] even in Christian circles. Right. Yeah. They don't see this as like the Christians are not the Jewish people. Right. The Jewish people are the ones that are going to be saved by God in their land. Yeah. Not the Christians. Right. The Christians see that as a sign,

[00:21:43] the their thing is going to happen. Right. It's so weird and convoluted to me. It really is. I don't really understand why any of this works in any meaningful sense. They're like,

[00:21:54] how can we help you guys hurry up and do your thing? Because as soon as your thing is done, then our thing happens. Right. Right. It's like Christianity automatically admits. Yes.

[00:22:04] There is this other religion that we acknowledge exists and was part of our religion and is part of our religion and they have to fulfill their part for us to receive our part. Yeah. And yet we still

[00:22:16] don't quite like them that much, but they are important. So they're over there and whatever. And we did kind of kill their Jewish guy, Jesus. Well the Romans did. I mean, yeah, okay.

[00:22:31] It's all weird though. I mean, I guess that was kind of creepy. You know, it's, yeah. I don't understand any of it. I don't, I don't think the whole idea of the second coming had

[00:22:41] quite solidified as something that was dependent on Israel returning to their homeland at that point. Right. That's more of a modern idea. It's just so weird. I don't understand. Like how can you be one

[00:22:54] religion and say our religion depends upon your religion? Right. Which is different from ours. I would be interested in finding out when that ideological change happened in Christianity, though. Like when did that start becoming a thing that we, I say, we, when, when did that

[00:23:16] start becoming a thing that Christians take as part of their completion of their prophecy? You know, I wondered that when did that become a thing to where we believe that this has to

[00:23:28] happen in order for the other thing to happen? And you know, the whole revelations thing and all that. So another thing I don't understand, yeah. Another thing I don't understand is how the Jewish people are God's chosen people. Right. But yet Christians are just like,

[00:23:48] we're going to have and you're going to hell and it's like except for the Jews, right? I don't think, you know, I think honestly we're not supposed to dig into this too much. Right.

[00:23:57] It's supposed to be Christians are the correct, like if you talk to a Christian, they're the correct religion. It's just these other things over there have to happen and you know blah blah blah whatever. And they're God's chosen people in that's their land. Right. But moving along.

[00:24:10] I don't know what that means. Like, but how does that work though? Like, do they get wrapped? I always wondered, I always wondered. Like, are they part of that? Like, I think there are some answers for this. I've heard people give answers to it.

[00:24:24] Like, they're maybe going to because it says they're going to live there forever. I think that this is like the new on earth, Garden of Eden while the Christians get to go to heaven or something

[00:24:33] like that. Oh, so the Jews can get to go to heaven? I don't think so. I don't think so. Oh, yeah. I don't want to be God's chosen people then. I'm going to, I mean, like if you got a

[00:24:44] choice, why would you choose to live on earth rather than go to heaven? Well, you would have to admit that you believe that that is real. And the generally in the Jewish circles, there's not

[00:24:57] there is an idea of something like heaven, I guess, but not quite as solidified as what the Christians have. So therefore a paradise on earth might be more appealing. Okay. That's the world to come.

[00:25:08] Right. Is that what they call it? Yeah. Okay. All right. The whole thing is really weird. No, yeah. I agree. It's like magic in the sky or magic on earth. I mean, to be fair, I'm talking a little bit

[00:25:19] of my ass here because I don't really know exactly all the ideological, ideological, you know, words behind all this. Yeah. But I have a basic sense of what it is and one of the tales sort of

[00:25:33] and that may be ignorant. I'm probably being ignorant here, but that's the best I can come up with for myself. So I highly suggest if you're interested in this to research it more yourself. Because

[00:25:43] it is relevant to stuff going on right now. Yeah. And therefore that's I think we'll probably end up digging into this a little bit as some point probably fairly soon because it is important

[00:25:53] and it's important to what's went on around us. And it would explain why Christians are so excited for what's happening over there in Palestine. Yeah definitely. All right. Let's finish this up. Yeah. Okay. Everlasting covenant, I will establish them and increase their numbers.

[00:26:12] And I will put my sanctuary among them for ever. We increase them like sheep or sand. This is what we specify. Okay. Certainly not stars. Right. Well, yeah. Yeah. Mind-willing place will be with them. I will be their god and they will be my people.

[00:26:29] So are they going to rebuild the temple? Yeah. And then he's going to dwell with them again. Yeah. He's so excited. Okay. Then the nations will know that either Lord make Israel holy. Okay. When my sanctuary is among them forever. Not really sure what happened to wife here.

[00:26:46] She went sing song here because it's so happy. No, okay. It's like La La Flowers and La Lipa. God, it's going to be with them forever. Yeah. And it'll be so pretty with the care bear.

[00:26:59] I should they shouldn't worry. I mean if God really wants to appear, he can just bring you back from the drive-on's in the valley. So. And that was the end. That was the end. Okay. So zombies

[00:27:08] and they're going to get all the wonderful shit. Zombies and care bears. Yeah. So zombie care bears. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, that was as he healed chapter 37. Sure. It's fuck was. Which was really kind of crazy.

[00:27:24] Very weird and spooky. I didn't like it. No, but I mean, I'm glad we like I can literally say there's either zombies and or skeletons in the Bible now. We just keep adding to the list of

[00:27:36] ridiculous things that pop ups. Yeah. But no one more. Here's one more. But no unicorns for God's sake. I think unicorns might be in there somewhere, maybe. I'm not sure. There's just

[00:27:46] list that makes the rounds on like the atheist meme circles, whatever and it has a list of all the things like pick which one is not in the Bible and the one that's not like unicorns is I think on

[00:27:56] there as one of the things that isn't the Bible so interesting. All right. So I don't know. There's a lot of weird stuff still coming like even in the new testament. Like with revelation

[00:28:06] and everything like that. So yeah, we get to see more of those eyeballs. Yeah. Yeah. That too. No more faced angel dudes. Right. All right. So again, that was a Zecchio chapter 37. Yes. And we will be back tomorrow with. Zecchio chapter 38. All right. We'll see you then. Bye.