Ezekiel Chapters 41 - 45 Q&A: Bible Study by Atheists

Ezekiel Chapters 41 - 45 Q&A Weekly

Q and a Saturday is on Sunday, but we apologize for being late

Wife: Husband,

Husband: wife.

Wife: Do you know what we're doing today?

Husband: Well, technically, it's Sunday, but we are actually doing our

Wife: Q and a Saturday.

Husband: That's right.

Wife: But it's on Sunday

Husband: also.

Husband: Right. So, what are we queuing and a ing today?

Wife: We had several minor questions from chapters 41 through 45 of Ezekiel.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: So I just kind of went through and nabbed what I could find.

Husband: All right, so, as you guys can tell, we're running a little late this week with all of our podcasty crap. And, so we're not going to be doing a book club this week, and we do apologize. there's a lot of things that contributed to it, but essentially, we're falling behind and we didn't have time to do it, so we apologize. Moving forward, we're going to try to do better, as always, and just keep doing what we do. but right now, let's go ahead and hop into our q and a. Okie dokie.

Q and A covering Ezekiel, chapters 41 through 45

Wife: All right. We are hopping into our Q and a covering Ezekiel, chapters 41 through 45.

Husband: All right.

Wife: And my first little point is less a, ah, q or an a and more. Just something that I read that I thought was a really interesting observation.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: you know how in chapter 41, he starts describing the, size and width and height of the rooms of the temple? Yeah. All the walls. Right. The massiveness of the walls is remarkable in that both inside and outside walls are thicker than the width of the rooms themselves.

Husband: No shit.

Wife: Yeah.

Husband: So, that's interesting. So, apparently, the thought was to contain a God, right? To contain this God. To keep him happy and separated from the normal people. You gotta create these really fucking thick walls.

Wife: Yeah. Well, and also it was pointed out that the walls themselves. Cause, I mean, they went into great length. Talking about the inner walls, the outer walls, you know, all the walls. Right. they were not for. They were not built to withstand any kind of physical attack. They were all to keep, everything inside inside.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Like, to separate them from the dirties outside.

Husband: Right.

Wife: Like, everything inside here stays here. It's all very clean and holy and everything is shiny and good.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Okay.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And so, yeah, just like you said, it was to keep that God there. It was also to keep the people who were holy, keep them boxed up.

Husband: Sure. But it was specifically said at some point that God was killing people or, you know, whatever. Part of. Part of his problem was that he was too close. Like, he wanted to be separate from them. Right. He was mad at his neighbors. Cause he could hear them and he could see them. And it's like, okay, so we have to find a way to box you up, man.

Wife: Right. Yeah. That's interesting.

Husband: Right?

Wife: That would actually make a really good story.

Husband: Yeah.

Other translations use rods instead of cubits as the measurement

Wife: So, moving on to chapter 42, verses 16 through 19. I'm going to read real quick.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: He measured the east side with the measuring rod, it was 500 cubits. He measured the north side, it was 500 cubits by the measuring rod. He measured the south side, it was 500 cubits by the measuring rod. Then he turned to the west side and measured. It was 500 cubits by the measuring rodental. So other translations use rods instead of cubits as the measurement.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: And even though I got this information originally from christian apologists.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: the more I looked into it, the more that actually, I think the way the Hebrew was originally written, from all of the research I could find, I think rods was supposed to be the intended measurement instead of qubits.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: And I'm going to get into that a little bit because the unit of measure, it's not that we had a question about it, but we did question the size. And I'm going to get into all that here shortly.

Husband: Well, I would imagine if you are actually building something in ancient times, right?

Husband: A qubit is a handy off, you know, just like I. It's in your. You have it with you at all times, right? You have your fucking arm.

Wife: It's your hand in your hand.

Husband: So that's an easy way to measure stuff on the fly.

Husband: But it's not a standardized measurement.

Wife: Sure.

Husband: So like a rod. A measuring rod would be a much more standardized way to measure things. And that would make a lot more sense if you're actually building a project.

Wife: Exactly. And that was one of the reasons pointed out.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: So, I hate to be with apologists on anything, but they might have the right of it on this one.

Husband: Well, and I would imagine so, like, you know, we talked about this when we were talking about Noah's ark and other times too. But my understanding of where the term cubit came from came from the story of Noah's ark. Right.

Wife: Okay.

Husband: So it's possible in my mind that maybe translations later on, or translations in general maybe understood. Hey, people understand what a qubit is more readily than they do what a measuring rod is. But if you're not in architecture, in ancient, ancient times, who the fuck knows what a measuring rod is, right?

Wife: This stick, we're just always going to call it a fucking cube.

Husband: Right? So by throwing some qubits in there. It makes it more relatable, maybe to the common person.

Wife: Exactly.

Husband: Not today, necessarily. But even today, we know qubit, a lot of us, from biblical accounts of the Bible builder, the ark building. Right. So it makes it more relatable to the average person, possibly, instead of talking about architectural tools that they used in the times.

Wife: Exactly. Yeah. Who could know, right?

Husband: I'm just.

Wife: It does. It does track.

Husband: That's just something I was thinking off the top of my head. So.

Wife: So, since they use rods instead of qubits, this would be an extremely large area.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Much larger than the present Temple Mount. Okay.

Husband: All right.

Wife: Adherence to the use of rods. Understand this to reflect the. The transformed geography of Jerusalem and the land of Israel in the millennium. I'm sorry, millennial age.

Husband: I am going to say this real quick, too, because it sounds to me like maybe part of the apologist reasoning for saying that it was rods instead of cubits is to make this more grandiose than it actually was. And the other side.

Wife: And more impossible.

Husband: And more impossible. Right. So the other side of this is that, it quite possibly could have been him saying qubits, because Ezekiel is a prophet, not a fucking architect.

Wife: Right, exactly.

Husband: So, I mean, that's the other side of this, too. I didn't want to not say that. I just. I can understand how maybe measuring rods were more accurate in the real.

Wife: Either way, honestly. it is interesting that if they use the rods. Let me get into this.

Husband: Yeah, sure.

Wife: It's so much bigger. Yeah, so much bigger. It's fucking ridiculous.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: So it does render it next to impossible logistically.

Husband: Right.

Wife: By human terms.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: Okay.

Husband: Okay.

The wall would form a square of about 3,062,500 square yards

Wife: The wall would form a square of about 3,062,500 square yards.

Husband: Oh, Jesus.

Wife: A space almost 1 sq. Mi, which is about 2.56 km².

Husband: Yeah, fuck that project.

Wife: And would encompass 633 acres.

Husband: Holy shit.

Wife: Right. So I'm like, maybe not.

Husband: Yeah, no, I'm thinking not.

Wife: Yeah. So the entire area was obviously way too large for Mount Moriah.

Husband: We're assuming that they were meaning rods.

Wife: Yeah. And that's what I'm talking about here that I just described using rods. Obviously way too large for Mount Moriah, where Solomon's and Zerubbabel's temples stood. Okay.

Husband: So that just my opinion here also, that kind of takes away from the idea that it would be, rods as opposed to cuids, because that's too much.

Wife: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. An area of this magnitude would be too large and not fit the topography. So the scheme would require a great change in the topography of the land, which apologists believe will occur as indicated in the book of Zechariah, which we have not read yet. But apparently Zechariah talks about the changing, topography of the land.

Husband: Okay, so whatever.

Wife: Yeah, I don't know.

Husband: Wait, is that a book that exists that we got to read that book in the Old Testament?

Wife: Yeah.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Yeah, we're gonna read that. I think the next one we have to read is Daniel, if I'm not mistaken. But Zechariah is one of the ones coming up. And, he's a prophet, but I don't know anything about him or what he prophesizes. This is the most I've ever heard about him right now.

Husband: Got it.

Wife: Okay. Zechariah and other prophets indicate that the whole palestinian topography will undergo geographical modifications at the beginning of the millennium. Okay, which millennium?

Husband: Right. Yeah. Ah, there's been a couple that have passed the Bible.

Wife: so since this is, I would say, 2024, we're like, well into this millennium right now.

Husband: Right.

Wife: Nobody alive today is going to see it.

Husband: But that's interesting, though. If they, they said that in the Old Testament, around the new millennium, this was supposed to happen. Right. So they would be referring to Jesus time. Right. The zero year, which would have made sense as to why there was this big hubbub about coming up with a, fucking prophet who is the son of God and all this other crap. So it makes sense that they were trying to figure out who's the son of God, who, what's the prophet's name?

Wife: They were trying to fill, fulfill the prophets of the, the prophecies of the Old Testament.

Husband: Right, right.

Wife: In the time of Jesus.

Husband: Yeah. So, but the, the application of it is a little lacking because if we're assuming that that's when this was happening, m the temple didn't happen. Right, right. And moreover, the whole way that the New Testament is written negates a lot of the need for this temple at all beyond Jesus. So it kind of debunks the whole thing.

Wife: Yeah, it really just does.

Husband: But, anyway, whatever.

Wife: Yeah. Interesting. so I just, I had to bring that up because it's not just a matter of the measurement being off.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: The measurement being off actually changes our understanding of the project.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: And, you know, what to expect as to whether or not that has been fulfilled or will be fulfilled.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: So, okay. If they used rods, I'm gonna say absolutely fucking not.

Husband: Yeah. No.

Wife: Ever.

Husband: No.

The term glory of God is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence

Wife: So moving on to chapter 43.

Husband: Yep.

Wife: Okay. Verse two says, and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory. So I've heard, the term glory. Glory to God and glory of God a lot. Like, when I would, like, go with various people to churches and, you know, you always hear, like, Karen's older, middle aged woman, you know, saying, glory to be and glory to God.

Husband: Right.

Wife: Like, clutching their pearls.

Husband: Definitely a thing.

Wife: Yeah. And so I was like, hang on, I'm curious about this term. Like, what can I find about it? So the term glory of God is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the abrahamic religions. So it's like him physically. That's what the glory is. Okay. It is the visible manifestation of his attributes and his character, the radiant outshining of his presence, if you will.

Husband: Sure.

Wife: it's the visible, tangible God.

Husband: Right?

Wife: The shekinah is what it's called in Hebrew, which I believe we've covered that term before.

Husband: Yeah, I definitely am familiar with that terminal. I'm familiar that it exists. I guess I wouldn't have known what it was if you would have just said it outright, but, yeah.

Wife: often the actual tangible glory of God is described as a cloud. Like, think back to Exodus.

Husband: Yeah, no, definitely.

Wife: That was. The glory of God was a cloud. And Moses is told that no human being can see the glory of Yahweh and survive. But here we are now. And the prophet Ezekiel writes of viewing God in a vision.

Husband: To be fair, it's in a vision.

Wife: It is in a vision. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Husband: But even Moses saw God's backside.

Wife: He did.

Husband: So.

Wife: He saw God's backside and Ezekiel saw his nuts. So there you go.

Husband: Right?

Wife: Yeah.

The golden man is mentioned throughout Ezekiel chapter 43

moving on to verse six. While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.

Husband: The man being the golden man, who was probably being an angel of the Lord. The angel of the Lord, maybe.

Wife: I wanted to talk about that a little bit. This is not the first place he's mentioned. I just, like, as I was going through stuff, I was like, oh, yeah, I had a question about that dude.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: So that's where I nabbed it from. But he's been mentioned throughout Ezekiel.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Okay. So I just want to put it out there that this chapter 43 is not the first place.

Husband: Got it. So maybe it's just, ah, Ezekiel's drug dealer.

Wife: Could be. Could be. Here's the thing, though. Our translation uses the word gold.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: Okay. But no other translation uses that, really. we've got bronze, we've got brass, we've got radiant, we've got. Made of white metal and shiny.

Husband: They're very different accounts.

Wife: Yes. Okay, so, Cause I was trying to just do like your basic Google search. Who the fuck is the gold man in Ezekiel? Right, right. And I couldn't get it to come up and so the more I was trying to play around with it, the more I kept seeing this bronze, bronze, bronze. And I was like, what the fuck is that? And then I realized, oh shit, it's the same dude.

Husband: Right.

Wife: So, most translations use bronze, but there was one I saw use brass.

Husband: Interesting.

Wife: And then, radiant and shiny and white metal or the other like one, the sphere. Right, yeah. so this dude, this radiant dude has been Ezekiel's tour guide through the temple. And this is indicated by his radiant appearance, which we read as gold. So whatever.

Husband: I am the ghost of God's asshole ishness.

Wife: Right. Exactly. Now some, there is a question, there's like a lot of arguments amongst biblical scholars, bible biblical scholars, yes. As to who the fuck this dude is. Okay, okay. some regard him as the angel of the Lord. Like I said, right. at the very least he is very likely an angelic being given that people are not gold or brass or bronze or made of metal. now others suggest he is a temporary manifestation of goddess, which we've learned the word theophany before. And so that's what that would be like basically God on earth. Like Jesus is a theophany. Okay. And even others say that this is a prophetic glimpse of Jesus.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Yeah. I'm like, jesus got better things to do than fucking measure a building.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: you know, he was about peace, not like architecture. Although, although he was a fucking builder, wasn't he?

Husband: Maybe I'm wrong, but the interesting thing to me there, there's ah, other prophecies that we've already read that describe the coming person who people attribute to Jesus.

Husband: As an ugly son of a bitch. Right?

Wife: Oh really?

Husband: Yeah. You don't remember that? I think it was like in Jeremiah or Isaiah, I can't remember which one it was, but I remember that they were saying that he was gonna have like he was gonna be your everyman and that you wouldn't notice him even and he would be the person that comes to power.

Wife: Oh, is that why christians are so excited about Trump? Because he ugly?

Husband: Today might not be the correct day to reference that, but I'm just saying.

Wife: I'm sorry he was shot, but he's still an asshole.

Husband: I mean, he is. Yeah.

Wife: Like, listen, I'm going to get off topic here, but listen, when I was in fifth and 6th grade, I had a teacher named Misses M. Squattieri.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: she was a fucking bitch.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: I was always in trouble in her class. now, halfway, I had her for both fifth grade, and then she personally requested me for 6th grade. Okay.

Husband: Okay.

Wife: Now, halfway through 6th grade, she, they brought in a long term sub because she got cancer.

Husband: Got it.

Wife: And had to be, you know, doing hospital. And everybody in class was like, so sad and blah, blah. And I remember I'm in 6th grade looking around going, what the fuck? Like, I'm sorry she's sick, but we don't love her. Like, yesterday we hated her.

Husband: Right?

Wife: Can't we still hate her but be sad that she has cancer? Are you not allowed to hate somebody?

Husband: Right.

Wife: So I just, I had like, a really, hard time with, with that concept, and it hasn't gotten better. Like, I I'm still not happy with Trump.

I am sorry that he got shot. I think that if somebody was gonna shoot him, why'd they have to

I am sorry that he got shot. That sucks. I wish that he would have been more sympathetic when Nancy Pelosi's husband got banged over the side of the head with a fucking baseball bat or whatever.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: you know, because violence isn't cool, dude.

Husband: Right.

Wife: So I'm feeling a little bit salty having to, like, be the bigger person.

Husband: We all know that we're gonna have to endure, from now until election time, how the, you know, deep state and the Democrats and the libs are trying to get him murdered and.

Wife: Yeah.

Husband: And all this other crap, which. So that's, that's aggravating.

Wife: It is aggravating. And I'm just, I'm so sick of him and his bullshit. And look, this is gonna sound shitty, but I'm just gonna put it out there. I think that if somebody was gonna shoot him, why'd they have to not miss? That's all. I'm just saying, look, I'm not saying I wanted him to be shy. I'm not saying that I want him to die. I'm just saying, like, if somebody was gonna do that, they could have just, you know, not just got his ear. Anyways.

The radiant man disappears mysteriously from view in Ezekiel's vision

All right, so, Okay, so trump is Jesus. Got it.

Husband: Mm

Wife: And so this, this mention that we had, this is the last mention of the radiant man. Nothing more is said about him.

Husband: Got it.

Wife: He disappears mysteriously from view. Okay. Like a side character. Nobody cares.

Husband: Yeah. Well, I mean, right, right.

Wife: He just walked out.

Husband: I mean, it's not even a dude. It's a guy in Ezekiel's fucking vision.

Wife: Right. But I want to know, did he take his rod with him or is that fucker still lying around in this imaginary building?

Husband: Who knows? Who knows?

Wife: I do want to say one more thing that I did not write down, but do you remember when, Ezekiel was like. And then I heard his voice and it was like the sound of many waters. Yeah, he said a rushing waterfall, but most other translations say many waters. That's where Cs Lewis. Not cs Lewis. Madeline lingle got the title of her book, many waters.

Husband: Got it.

Wife: which is part of the, swiftly tilting planet. Swiftly tilting planet and whatever.

Husband: Wrinkle in time.

Wife: Wrinkle in time. That whole series. Yeah. So that's where that title comes from. So I just thought that was interesting.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: All right, so Goldman Trump got it.

Salt was used to preserve food and purify it, right

So moving on to, the next verse, or not the next verse, but the next one. I'm gonna cover verse 24. You are to offer them before the lord and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the lord.

Husband: Yeah. And I was commenting at the time that it was odd that they were using salt, I thought, but yeah.

Wife: yes and no. Like, we did a whole extra episode about salt one time. Remember, like, salting your babies?

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And we were like, what? You gotta salt your baby before you eat it. Right?

Husband: Yeah. So I guess salt was pretty prevalent.

Wife: Yeah. in addition to seasoning, salt is also a well known agent in the preservation of food and a means of purification because it can't be broken down further. So it is already in its finest form.

Husband: I guess my part that I was railing against is that because it wasn't mentioned in the earlier sacrifices that I could recall. And maybe I'm wrong.

Wife: No, I didn't seem to recall it either. And I could be wrong, too.

Husband: These are not things that we're preparing for food other than for the priests. And at that, it's technically for God. So if it wasn't mentioned initially as part of the process, it just feels like we've moved on beyond believing in God, where it's just a sacrifice for God to. Now this is food prep for the fucking priest. That was my only comment on it, really?

Wife: No, and I get that. I don't know. I don't know how to feel about it because salt had been around for a while at that point and they.

Husband: Were probably doing it initially, but I.

Wife: Don'T recall them talking about it, like in Leviticus.

Husband: Yeah. It didn't feel like it was part of the process where it was kind of meant m to talk about putting.

Wife: Blood on certain sides in certain corners of the tent. Like, that was a big deal.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: But I don't recall them using salt.

Husband: I remember olive oil. Like, there was all the oil that was used and stuff like that, but I do not remember salt.

Wife: Yep.

Husband: So.

Wife: So now, the prophet Elisha, I don't know if you recall him.

Husband: I do.

Wife: But he employed salt to heal a spring and remove impurities found in the water in second kings. Okay. I don't even remember that happening.

Husband: I don't either.

Wife: So, apparently we forgot to pay attention. One chapter.

Husband: Well, there's a lot in this fucking Bible.

Wife: So there's a lot. Like, I would fail a test if this was an actual history book.

Husband: Right.

Wife: There's just too much info. It's too dense and not put together well enough for me to give a shit.

Husband: Right.

Wife: So there's that. So, Ezekiel's reference to the practice of rubbing a newborn baby with salt was likely to prevent infection. And we talked about that whole thing and how it's very bad. Don't do it because, a baby can ingest too, much salt and die from that. And that was a thing for a while, especially with families, that were, like, old world. And, it just.

Husband: Even in recent history.

Wife: Yeah, in recent history, like, today. Yes. Advanced, medicine is like having to talk to these families, these old world families, and be like, your culture's awesome. Like, no disrespect, but let's not kill the baby.

Husband: Right?

Wife: Like, I just want your baby to live is all. So let's not salt it.

Husband: Right?

Wife: Yeah. salt in the ancient world was very expensive because, you know, it was difficult to get their hands on.

Husband: So. Which goes to the fact that it was part of rituals because it would be kind of a class type thing where, like, look what we can do. We have salt.

Wife: That and the people, you know, would come together to, you know, pool their resources to be able to give this to their God.

Husband: Right?

Wife: So people used it very sparingly and with care. And that would indicate to me that maybe it wasn't just a seasoning for sure, for the meat.

Husband: That's fair.

Wife: That, like, it was actually used in these rituals.

Husband: Right.

Wife: So, I don't know. when being used at an altar, salt depicted both purity and preservation, because, like I said, it's already in its finest form.

Husband: Right?

Wife: So, that being white. White always means purity and goodness. And that's why you dress your little girl child in a white dress for a communion or a baptism or a.

Husband: Sure, but maybe we do that because we associate purity with salt, which is white. Yeah, you never know where that started, but that could be it.

Wife: That probably is it.

So moving on to chapter 44. So I'm assuming we're gonna talk about Zadoks

So moving on to chapter 44. And this is like the final chapter. Sure. because I was like, we got enough here. I didn't even touch 45, so that funny if you m know, you know. Okay, so verse 15 says, but the levitical priests who are descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me are to come near to minister before me. They are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the sovereign lord.

Husband: So I'm assuming we're gonna talk about the Zadoks.

Wife: We're gonna talk about Zadoks or whatever.

Husband: The hell they are.

Wife: Yeah. I didn't go, like, real into it, just a brief little who, why?

Husband: What?

Wife: So Zadok was faithful to David during the insurrection of Absalom, right? Way back in second Samuel. Like, I had no recollection until, like, this one. I remember now that you tell me. Yeah. I'm like, oh, yeah. Ah, I remember that now.

Husband: Right.

Wife: And, he anointed Solomon as king after the abortive attempt of Adonia to seize the throne that was in first kings. All right, okay.

Husband: So he's pretty important.

Wife: Pretty important, dude.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: I don't remember his name, like, at all. I remember the events, but not his name. And the reason that I don't remember his name is because it sounds so, like, comic booky or it sounds like something that would be in toy story. Like Buzz lightyear fights Zadok.

Husband: Right?

Wife: You know, or like the x Men, and they fight Zadok. I don't know, it just got that cartoony name. So, anyway, the family of Zadok claimed to be of, the line of Eleazar the third son of Aaron. And that's in one chronicle.

Husband: And you had mentioned that, I think, in one of the previous episodes we were talking about too. So I did, yeah.

Wife: I was like, if I recall correctly, in my notes, blah, blah, blah.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: So, yeah, the third son of Aaron, whereas the other priests claim to be descendants of Ithamar, Aaron's youngest son, and the rest of the Levites performed a subordinate role, if you recall. yeah, they were like, y'all can sweep the fucking floors, right? So the sons of Zadok were of the tribe of Levi. The Levites and were of the family of Aaron. The priests and Zadok received the right to the priesthood in the days of Solomon, and that was in one kings.

Husband: Do you feel like some of these rights to family histories were, given out with regard, like.

Husband: I kind of feel like it's like, okay, we're gonna make you extra important. We're gonna say you're part of the line of Aaron, son.

Wife: Like, they granted them as titles instead of lineages.

Husband: Right? Now, I don't know that that's the case. Maybe they were really able to be traced back to the line.

Wife: Who could know? Because a lot of times. A lot of times they would, like, welcome somebody into their tribe or clan or whatever.

Husband: Right.

Wife: And be like, you know, you are now the son. You know, it reminds me of, we just watched a really cool episode of Deep Space Nine.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And Worf was he, you know, he's the son of Moog.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: Right.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And he, was welcomed into another family like this. I forget what that guy's name is. Okay, but you're looking at me crazy.

Husband: No, I'm trying to remember what you're.

Wife: Talking about, like, at the end. Okay. Like, remember Worf was like, God damn it. Now I have to, like, go up against this captain that's my friend. And I did not want to.

Husband: Oh, he was captaining, or, he was first a first officer on a ship where his friend was captaining the ship and he wasn't doing a great job or whatever.

Wife: The captain wasn't doing a great job. So Worf was like, God damn it, I'm gonna have to, you know, attack him to, you know, bring the crew together.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And so he does, and he gets stabbed, but he lets himself get stabbed because that puts the captain in. Back in power and he looks great. And then, you know, the crew comes together and it's just a wonderful, very cool thing. And then later on, the captain guy is like, how did you know I wouldn't kill you? And worf is like, dude, I didn't. And then the captain is like, whoa, you're so fucking awesome. And then he's like, guess what? you know, you. You're son of Mog. And that has not always been like, cool, right? So I'm gonna let the family of Moog fall under my tree, and you can put this little badge on your fucking sash that you wear all the time.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: So, like, he's not of that family, but he is now.

Husband: Yeah.

Wife: And that it gets written down that way.

Husband: Right.

Wife: And why? Why would it. Sorry, that was a long recitation. But it actually is relevant when you welcome somebody into your family that's not DNA related.

Prophecies are all about politics, right. It's all about land grabs and, uh, power

Husband: And we can't. We have no way of knowing that that's the case with regard to this stuff. But it feels like it because we're so far past the whole Moses thing and Aaron thing that it would be very muddled at this point to find out who is actually related to whom. And, you know, just because they wrote.

Wife: It down doesn't make it legit.

Husband: Right. I think we should all just start saying, I'm the son of,

Wife: I'm the son of Mogue. I mean, if I have to claim something, I am totally going with fucking Klingons.

Husband: Right, right.

Wife: I mean, would. You would probably want to be like a Vulcan.

Husband: Would I?

Wife: Yeah. Because maybe because you're stick in the mud.

Husband: Wow.

Wife: Like in our discord, you're always, like, the first to poop out.

Husband: Oh, Lordy.

Wife: Everybody knows it's true. They're like, there goes husband pooping on the party.

Husband: Yeah. Yeah.

Wife: Something about having to work in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so you're a vulcan, I'm a Klingon, and we make a great couple.

Husband: That's right.

Wife: And anyway, they were not like the other levites. Not like the other girls.

Husband: Right.

Wife: I'm not like the other girls. I'm not like the other girls. They were not like the other levites in general, being noted for their faithfulness because apparently they held true to the old ways. And I'm like, but did they, though?

Husband: I'm still reading faithfulness as gave more donations to whoever made them more important.

Wife: Right, right. Because listen to this. Guess what group. Ezekiel, belongs to.

Husband: The Zadokites.

Wife: Yes. He belongs to the group of Zadokite priests. Go figure. Yeah, that's literally my last sentence.

Husband: Yeah. And I'm like, so no wonder he's promoting them.

Wife: Yeah. He's like, we get everything. I mean, they get everything good.

Husband: It's more politics. It's more bullshit. It's the same thing we've been dealing with for, you know, since we've been in the profit section. Prophecies are all about politics. That's all this is.

Wife: It's all about land grabs and, power.

Husband: Exactly.

Wife: And who gets to fuck the most women, right.

Husband: Basically. That's pretty much it.

Wife: I mean, prove me wrong. Right, right.

We're not doing a book club this week, correct?

Husband: All right. Well, that was our q and a for today.

Wife: It sure as fuck was.

Husband: which means that I will be getting our weekly wrap up together here because we're not doing a book club this week, correct?

Wife: Correct.

Husband: and then we'll be back on.

Wife: Monday with, Ezekiel, chapter 46.

Husband: All right, we'll see you then.

Wife: Bye.