Ezekiel Wrap Up: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:00:48] Wife! Do you know what we're doing now? Well we are doing kind of a back-to-back episode now so uh this is gonna be out on Saturday as well as our other one that was out today so

[00:00:59] if you accidentally skipped that one we did our Q&A over a ZQ chapter 46 through 48 and that's really seen the same time day slash thing as this which is our wrap-up. Yeah it's our it's our wrap-in up the ZQ. We're finishing the book of a ZQ. It's amazing.

[00:01:17] You guys you did it. You read the whole ZQ if you followed along with us. Yeah we're really excited then you should be too because this is just incredible. We're we're getting through this thing. We are kind of viable. We're managing to have fun.

[00:01:31] Like this has been kind of fun you know I mean blue-bowl I want to say the ZQ tour a bit fuck that shit. Yeah. That was some bullshit. I'm not about due to Ron and me and

[00:01:41] uh Leviticus all over again. Right? Right but I mean overall ZQ was kind of a you know interesting character. I'll tell you so. The brain yeah yeah yeah. Some some crazy shit happen you know

[00:01:56] uh huh. But anyway I am assuming we're gonna go over a bit of what are ZQ's all about here. That's what a wrap-up is. That's what yeah it sure is. Right well let's let's go do this. Okay don't keep.

[00:02:14] Right so we are wrapping up the book of a ZQ which I'm very glad to be doing. I am as well. The book of a ZQ is the third of the latter profits in the Tannock.

[00:02:26] The latter greater profits or something or other. No um the um Jewish version has everybody in a different order than the Christian Old Testament version. Oh. Like we are actually if we're

[00:02:43] going by the Jewish version we are in the Tannock. Okay which is you know the other stuff that's not the Torah. Like they have uh the Torah is the law then they have um the writings which is

[00:02:55] I think it's the Katuva or something like that I can't remember. Sure. The writings were like Psalms and um the ramendations is or something like that yeah I was the ratings is you know

[00:03:10] um and then the profits there's the latter profits or the Tannock. Got it okay and that means as opposed to the main profits which you know would be like Moses. Right right you know all them guys.

[00:03:26] All of them guys being Abraham and Moses and that's all I can come up with. I mean I guess somebody else but I say uh a profit or by his eyes he a latter profit or he wouldn't

[00:03:38] why would you know not a lot those guys would have been regular profits. Zekil is a latter profit because he comes later. Right but Isaiah came later too. He was in the King's stuff.

[00:03:50] One knee I mean the King's is in the comments just before the Babylonian exile. Right so he would have been before the exile. All right I didn't know I don't know how this all works. I don't know look

[00:04:02] I don't know either. I'm just telling you some stuff. Got it. Okay yeah so anyway in the Jewish Tannock he's the third of the latter profits. Okay he's one of the major profits in the Christian

[00:04:17] Bible. Got it. The second to last as a matter of fact because the next one will read will be Daniel. Got it. And I don't know shit about shit about Daniel except for that I think there's lions or

[00:04:30] okay Daniel in the lions I don't know why did why do I have that in my head. I can be totally wrong there might be clowns instead of I could be yeah okay so Zekil records six visions I wasn't counting

[00:04:44] so I'm just gonna take the word for it. Right yes sounds close I guess yeah of the profit is Zekil who was exiled in Babylon during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BCE. Okay all right just just to clarify

[00:05:00] something real quick though. I say it is a latter profit. That's oh no you said he was a real person. I thought he said his skills. Yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean this is Zekil and I Zey are both latter

[00:05:11] profits. Right I know okay I got it now. That's what I just want to make sure we understood so that's got it. Sorry sorry no that's fine so the visions and the book both. Yeah are structured around

[00:05:23] three major themes okay so first is the judgment on Israel which consists of Judah and Jerusalem. Okay and that would be chapters one through 24. Sure. Okay next would be judgment on for

[00:05:39] nations and for the chapters 25 through 32. Yeah that was fun. That was not fun. The third theme is hope salvation and future blessings for Israel and that is chapters 33 through 48. Mm-hmm and I'm

[00:05:53] like if you say so. Right. Okay yeah. The book of Zekil describes itself as the words of Zekil Ben Boosey meaning son of Boosey. Okay. A priest living in exile in the city of Babylon

[00:06:08] between 593 to 571 BCE. Okay. I already said but there you go. Yeah okay. Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book but acknowledge there were clearly significant additions by a school of later followers of the original profit. Got it. Particularly those last chapters

[00:06:29] about the gates. Yeah yeah yeah. According to Jewish tradition the all caps men of the great assembly. Okay. I don't get into that because I'm not sure what that was. Sure. Probably should have looked

[00:06:43] it up. I think I meant too and then I forgot because that's how my brain works. Right. I do have ADHD. So according to Jewish tradition the men of the great assembly wrote the book of Zekil based on the

[00:06:56] profits words. Okay. Okay. Who knows if Zekil or these dudes wrote it? Right. The book probably reflects much of the historical Zekil like the dude but it is simultaneously unlikely to preserve

[00:07:11] the very words of the profit. Got it. So it talks about him but it is not really likely to have been like a record of what he actually said. Okay. All right. Which I mean I don't know to be happier

[00:07:24] sat for him because what if he was like but I did dream about those wheels with eyes. Well just I did a quick search for what we're looking at the men of the great assembly. Right. Apparently it

[00:07:36] was a council of about 120 pages that were active after the Babylonian exile and they're credited with a lot of contributions to Judaism. Judaism and it basically revolves around them you know editing shit in the Bible. Who deciding which books would go in and which books wouldn't kind of

[00:07:56] think? Right. Right. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean apparently this group of 120 pages determined what God said. That's what it looks like to me anyway. That's interesting. It is interesting isn't I?

[00:08:09] The men that we have. I have all these conversations online with people about you know it being the Word of God or not being the Word of God and there's a guy that I was talking to recently

[00:08:19] that was like well if you're taking the Bible literally I'm like well I'm taking it literally because you said that this is the Word of God. So if it's the Word of God then we're literally listening to God right?

[00:08:31] But if we're listening to God then 120 pages didn't fucking edit it after the Babylonian exile. Right. You know like that that's bullshit. It has both ways. Unless those guys were each led by God.

[00:08:43] Whatever that's a bunch of fucking shit. It's like okay okay. Right. Yeah. So we just can't talk about it What we're discovering is we go through this is that all of these books that we're reading have been

[00:08:54] severely edited at some point by somebody and added to and taken away from and if there ever was a Word of God which is questionable in and out. That's best. It's questionable. I mean just absolutely ridiculous you know

[00:09:11] which I think I lean towards more of the absolutely ridiculous thing but if we're to believe that this is the Word of God then these people cannot be editing the Word of fucking God. Right. That's not how

[00:09:22] that works. No God is God right? God is supposed to be this all knowing me that tells you what to fucking write if you're writing his word so don't edit it. Yeah. That's all. That's all. I mean sorry

[00:09:37] I had to walk for just a minute. Yeah. So Ezekiel was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem circa 623 BCE during the reign of the reforming King Josiah. Okay. Remember Josiah was a good one.

[00:09:52] Sure. I mean it's so far. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. During Kannin. Right. Prior to this time Judah had been a vessel of the Assyrian Empire. Remember all that? Yeah. But the rapid decline of Assyria after circa 630 BCE led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform

[00:10:14] stressing loyalty to Yahweh the national God of Israel. Got it. So that's why Josiah was like we got to get back to Yahweh man. Sure. To kind of reestablish a national religion to like bring the people back together after having been serving on your Assyria. Even politically that

[00:10:33] makes some sense. You know, you're bringing your people together and I'm sure against odds that are coming your way. Cause like the falling of Assyria or Assyria is is probably writing on the wall

[00:10:44] as to what's coming for you. Yes. So he was like we have got to band together. Religion is the way and maybe we can just see through what comes next. Yeah. I mean makes perfect sets. Right.

[00:10:57] Josiah was killed however in 609 BCE. So Judah became a vessel of the new regional power the new Babylonian Empire. One pump that happened in 597 BCE following a rebellion against Babylon as Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

[00:11:20] So he was in that first group that was taken. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Ezekiel appears to have spent the rest of his life in Mesopotamia. Never got to come home. Although there is no like

[00:11:32] legitimate thing that says that he didn't. Sure. But it's just not likely that it is. But I mean all of his visions were visions of his homeland. Right. It wasn't like they never

[00:11:44] they talk about him being transported by God back to Israel. But they never talk about him actually going back to Israel. Yeah. He lay it got real silent after like the end of his book. Right.

[00:11:57] We never hear what happened to him. So it's believed that he probably lived and died in Babylon. Sure. Which that tracks. Yeah. You know. Yeah. A second deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 BCE when another unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction

[00:12:16] of the city and its temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priestesses. Got it. Okay. So that was pretty much the beginning

[00:12:29] of the end right there. Sure. Ezekiel was around 25 when he went into exile. And there would be another reason that he might have stayed. He's so young. You know? When he got there, he he'd been

[00:12:40] there like he went there at a fairly young adult age and then lived there for several decades establishing a new life and leadership. You know? Right. He might have just wanted to stick around.

[00:12:53] Yeah. That's fine. So he was around 30 when he received his prophetic calling. Sure. And around 52 at the time of the last vision circa 571 BCE. Okay. Right. The Septuagint, which is the Greek version of the Bible. Yeah. That version of Ezekiel differs slightly from the Hebrew version,

[00:13:15] the Mesoretic version. It's about eight verses shorter out of 1,272 verses and possibly represents an earlier transmission of the book that we have today. Okay. There are also other remnants of translations into various other languages and just pieces that do differ from this as well,

[00:13:41] that were also likely from earlier transmissions. Okay. So yeah. Just FYI, we do not have the beginning of the book. So what we have today is likely not how the book actually went.

[00:13:57] Got it. In the differences. Right. And that kind of goes to what you were saying with, you know, dude sitting around a table just filling in the blanks and deciding what God said. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:14:08] So that further backs up that. Yeah. For sure. Previous prophets had used Israel to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes. Right. Like the others were, you know, gone. Right. Yeah. When Ezekiel speaks

[00:14:22] of Israel, he is also addressing the deported remnant of Judah. Okay. He's referring to like everybody there and gone. Got it. Which is interesting because he's the only one to have done that. That's

[00:14:37] far. Yeah. I don't know about the other dude. Sure. Sure. Okay. Yeah. So we're going to talk a little bit about what I wrote here is Eze versus dudes. What that means is Ezekiel versus Deuteronomy or the

[00:14:51] Deuteronomical writers. Right. Yeah. So Ezekiel is notable for suggesting individual responsibility to God as opposed to, you know, the Deuteronomist or Deuteronomistic writers. Okay. So Ezekiel's like each man is going to be hell responsible only for his own sins and we're like, whoa, that's kind of

[00:15:12] new to that. Yes, that was the way we we coming on that at the time. That was very different. Yeah. And and that is one of the controversial things about the book of Ezekiel. Yeah. Because it

[00:15:26] almost didn't get included because of the difference. Yeah. And this was one of the major points of contention. Right. Well, he strikes me just on that that thought process right there that the whole last eight chapters, right? Where it was very much, you know, very levittical

[00:15:44] and in reading that they might have added that to Harkin back to yeah. Those were okay. We know we changed things up over here but we're going to bring you right back into the O.T. over here.

[00:15:54] Yeah. And that would make perfect sense. Yeah. Since it was obvious that those were added later. So Deuteronomistic writers of course held at the sins of the nation would be held against all without regard for an individual's personal guilt. And I think we discussed way back,

[00:16:13] way back at the beginning of due toeronomy, why it was important for a culture to have combined guilt as opposed to individual guilt. Right. And it was to hold each other accountable.

[00:16:28] Because the opinion of your neighbor did matter, you would be that much more inclined to not be a fuck up asshole. Sure. You know, shame was a thing. Right. So, you know, as we progressing

[00:16:41] at bigger and bigger and bigger and more populations, individual guilt is going to matter more than group guilt. Yeah. So it no longer was as important. And and Zikael I think understood that

[00:16:58] and that's why he changed that. Sure. Sure. But you know, I get that but you know at the same time we did talk about this during the OT in different times when they were talking about generational

[00:17:08] guilt. And that was some bullshit. Like group group think, okay, well, that's one thing. Like to hold a society accountable for actions and have them police themselves essentially. That's one thing. But two for God to say, okay, but I'm going to punish you for 10 generations or whatever.

[00:17:27] That was some crap. Okay. I'm going to wear two different hats now. Okay. So I'm going to wear my wife hat, which is, you know, just a person in today's time. Mary de Husband and say I completely

[00:17:41] 100% agree with you. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Then I'm going to wear my Sociology Scholar hat, which I'm not a scholar. So I'm talking out of my ass. But I have a little bit of understanding of

[00:17:56] sociology and how groups think and work. Okay. So thinking of this from a scholarly point of view, it did make sense again for them to have this, you're born into having this price on your head

[00:18:16] already. Yeah. Again, it was to keep the tribe joined. It was to keep them in line. And they would kick the can down the road, but with the understanding that it likely would never have to get paid.

[00:18:32] And that's, I'm not saying I agree with it. wife totally is like that's some bullshit. Sure. Okay. But if I'm pulling myself outside of it and I'm just looking at it objectively from a looking back

[00:18:45] in history and how various cultures. Societals standpoint. Yes. It does make a certain kind of sense and did survey purpose. However, as they became more and more civilized, is that the right one?

[00:19:02] Sure. Progressed. Right. And grew and their tribe was no longer a tribe. It was more like an entire fucking nation. It made a lot less sense. And I will say as far as Christianity goes,

[00:19:17] it makes no goddamn sense today. Right. To be born with a fucking price tag on your head for the sin that nothing about that has nothing to fucking do with you and to have an entire

[00:19:31] fucking nation or your entire family owes a price for something that you didn't do. Right. Like, that makes no fucking sense in today's time because we are not 80-bitty fucking tribes. Sure. You know? It's just whatever. So there's that. Okay. So Ezekiel wrote with a distinct ambivalence towards

[00:19:52] kingship whereas the Deuteronomists reserved their scorn for individual kings rather than for the office itself. So that was another difference between Ezekiel and the Deuteronomistic writers. Got it. Okay. Yeah. And then Ezekiel praised the Zadakites over the Leviets, of course, because he

[00:20:10] was one of them. Who he largely blames for the destruction in exile. So he was not happy with them and also he was one of the other groups. Yeah. He had reasons. Very convenient. Yes. Okay.

[00:20:24] Ezekiel blames the Babylonian exile not on the people's failure to keep the law, but on their worship of gods other than Yahweh. Right. So which is why he blames quote, why he blames the

[00:20:37] Leviets I guess because they allowed for worship of other gods or whatever. Right. Even in the temple apparently according to the text that we're reading. Yes. So yes. According to Ezekiel,

[00:20:47] according to the deuts of the table that made these choices of what goes in the book. Sure. Yeah. So that is my recap. I have a pop quiz. Okay. And I have the answers ahead of time

[00:21:04] so that we can do this in real time instead of having to go back and be like, how did you do? Well, I think we're going to try something slightly different this time. And then going forward

[00:21:14] from here too where we're going to let you guys kind of play along with me. So I'm going to make sure to repeat the question twice and it's multiple choice. So I'll make sure to give the

[00:21:26] choices twice. Yeah. And then you're going to slow down your fumbling response as you think through trying to get it correct. Yes. So to give our listeners a chance to shout it out. If you shout

[00:21:40] loud enough I might hear your answer. Okay. Just to shout it out wherever you are and let me know what the answer is that way I get it correct. Yeah. Play along with us. It's where say good. Okay. So number one

[00:21:52] and there's ten questions. Okay. Okay. Okay. Ten questions. Number one, what did the Lord tell Ezekiel? He has made him for the House of Israel. Would that be a curse, a king, a watchman, none of the

[00:22:08] above, I'll read it again. Okay. What did the Lord tell Ezekiel? He has made him for the House of Israel, a curse, a king, a watchman or none of the above. I'm going to go with, uh, make sure you slow down.

[00:22:26] Let's see. I need some help here. Need some help guys. All right. I think I'm going to go with watchman. That would be correct. All right. And I got that one correct as well. Awesome. Yeah.

[00:22:38] So this was in Ezekiel chapter three, verse 17. So enough, man, I have made you a watchman for the House of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. Right.

[00:22:52] And Ezekiel was Israel's spiritual watchman is what we're trying to say here. Sure. Okay. Watchman were stationed on city walls to alert people of approaching dangers so that they could run and seek protection. So similarly, Ezekiel sounded warnings of impending judgment. Okay.

[00:23:12] Both to the unsafe. He's a spiritual watchman. Yes. Yes. That and that's what I said. He was Israel's spiritual watch. Right. Right. Both to the unsaved to turn from evil and to the righteous

[00:23:23] to remain faithful. Got it. Okay. So very good on you. Okay. Number two, and thank you for telling Husband the right answer. Yeah. He would not have known that was it's all you got you helped me.

[00:23:36] Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Number two, one of the four faces of the living creatures that Ezekiel saw was a bird. What kind of bird was it? Okay. Here's your choices. Right. And Ezekiel and owl,

[00:23:51] a hawk or a dove. I'll read it again. Yeah. I think I might know this one. You might. But let's write it again. Right. One of the four faces of the living creatures that Ezekiel saw was a bird.

[00:24:06] What kind of bird was it? And Ego and owl, a hawk or a dove. All right. Boom boom boom boom boom. All right. I think it was an Ego. Yes. That is correct. Okay. And I also got it correct. Got it.

[00:24:25] Ezekiel's vision of the four living creatures in Ezekiel chapter one are identified as chairbim. Each of Ezekiel's chairbim have four faces that have a man, a lion and a ox and an Ego. An Ego. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And this comes from Ezekiel chapter one verse 10. Okay.

[00:24:43] As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human base. The four had the base of a lion on the right side. The four had the base of an ox on the left side. And the four had the base of

[00:24:54] an Ego. And that would have been on the other side that we didn't say. Yeah. The imagery of those angels was pretty fucking disturbing. Disturbing. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I don't know. I don't know about them guys. Right. Yeah. So number three. Okay. Ezekiel saw living creatures underneath

[00:25:14] the God of Israel. Okay. What did Ezekiel know them to be? Here's your choices. Sure. Sarah Fem. Caribbean. Profits or none of the above. Can't let's read that again. Sure. Yeah. Ezekiel saw living creatures underneath the God of Israel. What did Ezekiel know them to be? Sarah Fem.

[00:25:38] Charibbean. Profit or none of the above. Okay. I've got this narrow down to two possible choices. But I'm not 100% certain here. So I definitely need your shoutouts here. Okay. I think I know I'm going to get this from wrong. It's, it's, I think is Charibbean. That's

[00:25:55] correct. Is it? It is. What was your other choice? I was going to say Sarah Fem because I thought it was something different than what I thought for some reason. I don't know. Yeah. You did see

[00:26:04] some Sarah Fem later. Yeah. That's why I think that's why I was confused. Yeah. But no, these were the Charibbean. You got it right as, as did I. All right. Okay. So we are kicking ass and not taking names.

[00:26:15] Right. Yeah. Okay. So in his second vision, Ezekiel identifies the creatures he saw earlier in his first vision as Charibbean through direct narration. So he doesn't tell us the first time that

[00:26:26] that's what they are when he has his next vision. That's when he's like, and I knew them to be Charibbean. Yeah. And I try to do a search like how do you fucking know though? Right. And the text

[00:26:38] doesn't specify how we gain this knowledge. Sure. And therefore nobody can answer that Goddamn question other than I guess God told him where he didn't write that part down. Yeah. Like, okay. So anyway, this comes from Ezekiel chapter 10 verse 20. These were the living creatures that I saw

[00:26:58] underneath the God of Israel by the Chabar Canal. And that's where he's referring to. Oh my God, these were the same ones I saw that other time with the wheels and shit member member. Right. And

[00:27:09] I knew that they were Charibbean. Okay. Is that, is that what you knew? Yeah. Anyways, okay. So number four in Ezekiel chapter seven, how did the Lord describe himself? Okay. Ready? I'm ready.

[00:27:22] One who heals, one who defends, one who strikes, one who provides. Let's read that again. Sure. In Ezekiel chapter seven, how did the Lord describe himself? One who heals, one who defends, one who strikes or one who provides. I'm struggling with this one. I got it wrong. Yeah.

[00:27:46] Yeah. All right. I hope the power of the listeners comes to help this time. So I'm going to go with um, provide. That's the one I picked. Damn it. If you think about it,

[00:28:04] three of the four are he's so sweet. He's nice and it's not any of those. Oh well that, I mean that's that's what I should have picked. But I feel like they want to describe him as something better.

[00:28:16] That's new testament. Okay. No, in the whole testament, he's one who strikes. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. I got it wrong, too. Yeah. The Lord refers to himself as one who strikes to deliver a

[00:28:26] message of judgment and impending punishment to the Israelites for their wrong doings. And as a reminder of his power and authority to bring about both blessings and curses. Okay. This comes from

[00:28:40] Ezekiel chapter seven verse nine. And my eye will not spare nor will I have pity because I'm a son of a bitch. I will punish you according to your ways while your abominations are in your midst.

[00:28:53] Then you will know that I am the Lord who strikes. Yeah. And unlike what a fantastic whole. That's awesome. I almost never get strikes. How's been gets strikes? I do. I do. I do.

[00:29:07] I get some spares. Yeah. I do get some spares. Okay. He's like, I get a strike. I'm just excited if my bullying score beats 100. Right. And that is so fucking low, considering that like you're

[00:29:17] aiming for like 200. Right. Yeah. You usually get up closer to 200. Yeah. I'm like, I beat 100. You're like, good job, Dave. Yeah. But I'm from with it. So and that's the point. Yeah. Just don't play

[00:29:31] with husband because he does the pose and he like, I do the pose. Oh my God. You know where you lift the foot and stuff like you know how to fucking ball. You are like, all for real. I can't spin the ball.

[00:29:45] That's how it's how it can. I've never been, I'm just ball at straight down the thing. You know? But the real ballers, they spin the ball. So I'm not real. I say as long as you get the score,

[00:29:59] that's all that fucking matters. Yeah. I'm pretty good at what I do. But I just I haven't got the whole you know thing down. I have to say playing games with husband is kill because he wins everything.

[00:30:10] Except do you remember when kid was little and we would play candy land? Yeah. Who would 100% fucking lose? And then as kid got older, we played part cheesy and that had a little bit more

[00:30:21] strategy so you enjoyed it more but you still always lost. Yeah. Because you just cannot handle games of luck. I can't. You meet games of skill and strategy which mean kid always lose. So it's

[00:30:34] no fun for us. Yeah. So if you ever see us out somewhere, just if you bring a board like a risk board, I will be down for that because I never get to play here. And I want to play with me.

[00:30:44] I will get the beers. I'll be your beer bitch because I'm not about it. All right. Number five. Yeah. Who was the father of a Zekiel the priest? Oh god. You'll remember this when you hear them.

[00:30:56] Okay. I'm giving you the names, right? Yeah. Was it boozy, Zechariah, Ealyab or Justodic? Oh Jesus. Who was the father of a Zekiel the priest? Boozy, Zechariah, Ealyab or Justodic? I don't know the answer to this one but I'm gonna have, I'm gonna guess and I really like

[00:31:22] this name. Boozy? Yes. You remember like I actually, I was leaning towards that one but I don't know why. I actually tried to like say it a couple times when I was reading through the recap

[00:31:35] because I knew it was on the pop quiz so I tried to be like really speak clearly. Instead of a couple times, so you have no fucking excuse honestly. I mean other than I wasn't listening.

[00:31:50] Yes, right. Yeah. Yeah. It was boozy beyond being the priest from Jerusalem and father of the prophet Zekiel. Nothing else is known about the guy. Got it. And this comes from a Zekiel chapter one

[00:32:03] verse three. The word of the Lord came to a Zekiel the priest, the son of boozy, in the land of the chaudians by the K-bar canal and the hand of the Lord was upon him there. Got it. Okay.

[00:32:15] That's it. That's all we know. All right. All right. Number six in the book of Zekiel, where was the spirit of the living creatures? Was it in the wheels, the wings, the rings,

[00:32:28] or the firmament? No, let me read that again. Okay. In the book of Zekiel, where was the spirit of the living creatures? Was it in the wheels, the wings, the rings, or the firmament?

[00:32:44] Now I'm not 100% certain about this. But I'm going to take a stab at it and everybody else please you know take your stab too because I don't really know but I'm going to say I think it was

[00:32:57] the firmament. Oh, I'm wrong. You got it wrong. I got it right. How's it? What was it? What your second guess? The wings. God damn no way off apparently. It's the wheels. The fucking wheels

[00:33:11] is where the spirit is. Do they go round, round, round, round. The imagery in a Zekiel's vision of the living creatures and the wheels with the same spirit points to the idea of divinely guided

[00:33:25] motion. Is that that's what it points to you? Absolutely. The creatures and the wheels are a unified entity inseparable in their movement suggesting that the spirit infuses them with both the will and the ability to move imperfect coordination wherever God directs them. Okay? Yeah. And that comes

[00:33:47] from Zekiel chapter one. Verse 22, no sorry, verse 21. Got it. I don't know why I said 20 times. I just thought that was just really crazy fucking imagery. That's all I thought. So when those went these went and when those stood, these stood. And when those rose from the earth,

[00:34:06] the wheels rose along with them for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. See. Okay. No's grows. Yeah. All right. Number seven. Yeah. When Zekiel ate the scroll, what did the scroll taste like? What did it taste like? Here are your choices. So recall this.

[00:34:24] Here are your choices. Okay. Sour is lemon. Sweet as honey, bitter as bile or hot and spicy. When Zekiel ate the scroll, what did the scroll taste like? Sour's lemon, sweet as honey,

[00:34:41] bitter as bile or hot and spicy? I think I kind of know this one. Maybe. But I'm not 100% certain here. So hopefully, hopefully you guys at home or in your car, wherever you are,

[00:34:56] get this from right. But I'm going to go with honey. Yes. Okay. That is correct. And I got that one right as well. I thought that might be it. And you know, you're taking the word of God. So he's going to

[00:35:06] want to just taste like honey, right? Yeah. Definitely not bile. Mm-hmm. Yeah. In the book of Zekiel, the act of eating the scroll symbolizes the prophet's complete internalization of God's message by consuming the scroll. Zekiel absorbs God's words and becomes a vessel for that.

[00:35:24] Or go right. I'm going to go with the goal. Okay. This comes from Zekiel chapter three, verse three. And he said to me, son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you

[00:35:36] and fill your stomach with it. Then I ate it and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. Yeah. And then I'm honey-lipped, bixons. Okay. Number eight, the Lord asked Zekiel to eat the food as a

[00:35:50] barley cake on what was he to bake it as fuel? Ooh, I can't know this one. Mm-hmm. He to yourself, I'm going to read the choice. Wait, wait. I have a question though. Is this what he originally

[00:36:00] wanted to bake it on or after he compromised what he wanted to bake it? Um, I hear what you're asking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On what he was supposed to original. Okay. All right. Yeah. You know the

[00:36:09] answer. I did, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So was it a tray? Was it human-dong? Was it chariots or was it a camel's back? And I'll read these again. Sure. Sure. The Lord asked Zekiel to eat

[00:36:22] the food as a barley cake. I don't think he asked. I think he ordered. Right. Okay. Let me got this and usually ask. Right. On what was he to bake it as fuel? Was it a tray? Human-dong

[00:36:33] chariots or a camel's back? Okay. Well, you all know I know the answer and I think most for listeners if they are kept up with us through this book probably know the answer as well.

[00:36:43] It's human-dong. It's human fucking-dong. Yeah. Now did he end up doing it? No, but that's why it says the Lord asked him. He was supposed to bake it on there. Right. But it strikes me that

[00:36:56] in a, it bothered me back even with Moses when when some of these prophets are like, nah, nah. Right. They argue with God. I'm like, but there were times when do people who argued with God were we're supposed to? Yeah. They got smitten. Yeah. And not

[00:37:09] in a word. We're not working so well for that. So I don't understand this power that they think they have to negotiate with God. Right. Like who's the fuck said? Right. Yeah. Okay. I just

[00:37:21] reminded myself of a thing that blew my goddamn mind. Okay. When I said, they got smoted or smitten. Yeah. Okay. So smitten comes from the same root word, smite. Yeah.

[00:37:36] And I'm just like that seems a little fucking violent to say I was kind of lusty or, you know, in love with this person. Sure. I would like when I say I am smitten like I'm smitten with you.

[00:37:48] I don't like feel like I'm smited with you. Right. Like smite is like I killed that fucker hard. Right. God smoked them. Like I don't feel like smitten comes across as violently

[00:38:04] as the word that it is the past tense. Yeah. No, you're not the past tense. But you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that bothered me when I made that discovery that that's one of

[00:38:17] the forms of the words, smite. Right. Right. Okay. That bothered me. Sorry. Okay. So the act itself represents the hardship and deprivation that is realized with face during the Babylonian seas of Jerusalem. That could self being cooking it on fucking human don't got it. Eating

[00:38:37] men, I'm sorry, eating meager rations cooked with unclean fuel emphasizes the desperate conditions they'll injure. Further, in Jewish tradition, human waste is considered ritually unclean right by using it for cooking, as he killed embodies the spiritual uncleanness of the Israelites

[00:38:57] due to their disobedience to God's law. And this comes from as he killed chapter four, verse 12. And you shall eat it as a barley cake, bacon it in their sight on human don't do do absolutely not.

[00:39:13] Right. Yeah, that was that was interesting. All right. Verse nine. I said verse nine, but I meant question. No, sorry, sorry, sorry. Um, according to a Zekeel chapter one, where was a Zekeel when God called him to be a prophet giving him visions of four winged creatures?

[00:39:34] Was he in a Syria Babylon Egypt or Jerusalem? How read that again? Sure. According to a Zekeel chapter one, where was a Zekeel when God called him to be a prophet giving him visions

[00:39:52] of four winged creatures? Was he in a Syria Babylon Egypt or Jerusalem? I think this is pretty easy because we just covered this in the last chapter that he was, er, then the last episode. But

[00:40:06] he wasn't even in Babylon until it was 25 and then he didn't start preaching until it was like 30. So I had to be Babylon. It was Babylon very good. Yes, some readers believe the visions were real experiences in which Zekeel directly encountered God and celestial beings. Others view the

[00:40:26] visions as symbolic representations of spiritual truths using imagery to convey God's message to the Israelites. Okay. Both interpretations have merit and can coexist in that the vivid imagery likely served in allegorical purpose while also being a very real experience for Zekeel

[00:40:46] because he was highest-bought. Right. Something. Yeah. Do was cray. Yes. So this comes from, um, Oh, she and I didn't write it down as first one of what chapter, um, oh chapter one was in the

[00:41:00] question. That's like, um, first one chapter one. Oh yeah, it's the very first book. It's the very first verse of the entire book. Okay. In my 30th year, in the fourth month on the fifth day,

[00:41:12] while I was among the exiles by the K-bar river, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. Okay. All right. So that's where that came from. Yeah, that the Ezekiel started a strong

[00:41:26] bang. It came strong out the gate and then it ended with a fucking whimper. It did. How disappointing. I believe it on the Sage's. Yeah. There's 120 stages. Fucking Sage is more very majestic. I mean, at my own work. Number 10. Last one, ready? Yeah. Okay.

[00:41:45] Throughout the book of Ezekiel, God addressed him by a title when he gave him a vision or mission. What phrase did God use to address Ezekiel when he told Ezekiel to profit? Everybody, everybody think real hard on this one. I'm sure you probably don't know it. So

[00:42:02] make sure you pay attention to the question. We gave this a lot of extra attention as we bread through it. So keep, keep, keep, keep slow. Okay. I'm going to give you choices and then we did again.

[00:42:15] To, to, to, to, to answer. Okay. So was it child of God the chosen one? Son of man or none of the above. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's right. It again. Okay. Throughout the book of Ezekiel, God addressed

[00:42:30] him by a title when he gave him a vision or mission. What phrase did God use to address Ezekiel when he told Ezekiel to prophecy? Was it child of God the chosen one? Son of man or none of the above.

[00:42:47] Okay. I'm not going to pause too long on this one. Mm-hmm. Son of man. It was Son of Man. Yeah. You're human. You're fucking worm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That, that is exactly what it was.

[00:42:58] God would use this phrase throughout Ezekiel's life when he gave him visions and words to prophecy to the Jewish people. Son of man emphasizes Ezekiel's limited human nature compared to God's divinity by using this common term, God makes his messages more relatable to the Israelite.

[00:43:18] Well, shit. He's fucking calling them out for being lesser. He's like, yeah, pieces of shit. Because God is a jealous piece of shit who is constantly like not happy with his creation.

[00:43:30] And thinks horribly of them, I can't believe that people may to be this way that I made or this way. And it wasn't just that the reason the whole reason we do the

[00:43:40] Yamir human, you fucking worm, is because he's called them names like worms and stuff like that in the past. And it's all in the same vein. You're just a fucking human, fucking, you don't deserve shit.

[00:43:53] You're a piece of shit. You know how I made you. You were made. You suck. Like what? Yeah. That's rude. Yeah. That's whole. Right. So Ezekiel serves as a representative of humanity receiving messages meant for all people. So Ezekiel's supposed to be our every man in these

[00:44:14] stories and I'm like, but you're not though. Yeah. Again, just not. I call off a limited power here of God because what? Why do we need this guy? This guy? Why does he have to be the one that tells us?

[00:44:25] Why can't you just tell everybody at once? Yeah. I'm not talking about fucking easy. So if God tuned into my brain radio, you know, and told me, hey, I'm God. And at the same time,

[00:44:37] I saw you be like, oh, you know, and you had something happens. I mean, that would be pretty close to enough. You know, I'd be like, what the fuck was that shit? Yeah. You know, but no, but no,

[00:44:47] he has to talk through some crazy asshole. Right. So this came from verse one, I'm sorry, chapter two, verse one of Ezekiel. He said to me, son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.

[00:44:59] And that's all. That is it. That is it. That is it. Yeah, miss two. I did. So I missed one. 80%. Yeah. We did good. We did good. Yeah. Hopefully you guys did just as good. I bet all of you made

[00:45:12] at least an 80%. You think? Like husband. Yeah. If you didn't know Shane, I said definitely definitely failed some of these quizzes in the past. We have both failed the majority of them. Right.

[00:45:21] Oh yeah. But I feel pretty good about that one. Yeah. That's pretty good. That was good. All right. Well, that is a wrap. That's a wrap on Zeke. Yeah. Easy Kyle is done. Well, almost almost. Yeah.

[00:45:34] Yeah. One more episode. We do. Cutting him in. So we're these are this one and the Q&A for the last three chapters of Zeke, he came out today which is Saturday. And then we'll be back on Sunday

[00:45:47] with. We are doing your always wrong or contradictions as I like to call it. And then we will also have. Yeah. The sequerologist, blue club. Yes. That's the one. And then I'll get the weekly

[00:46:02] um the replay wrap up thing done after that. And then it will be on Monday. We'll be back we'll end to Daniel. Well yeah, we're going to start a new book. Yeah. Daniel. Daniel. It'll be the 27th

[00:46:15] book of the Bible everybody. Who's big D? I don't know. I don't know. What do you will find out? All right. We'll see you then. Bye!