Isaiah Chapter 24: Bible Study for Atheists

00:00 - Wife (Host)
Husband wife. Do you remember where the hell we are and what the fuck we're doing? 

00:04 - Husband (Host)
Well, we just read Isaiah, chapter 23, and in that episode there was a destruction of tear, which was the city. Yeah, that was a prostitute. The city was the prostitute. What a whore and then we forgot about it, which we actually did Because, remember, we forgot about tear. 

00:22 - Wife (Host)
Oh yeah, we did. Yeah, we forgot about tear. 

00:25 - Husband (Host)
So we were like it's how do you forget about a city in 70 years and we forgot about it in 70 seconds. 

00:31 - Wife (Host)
It's true. 

00:31 - Husband (Host)
So I mean we did I guess we just proved that one wrong. Right, yeah, cuz we were very distracted, as we do right right so, and then it came back after the 70 years, and then God took money from them, even though they were still bad. 

00:47 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, God was like thank you for your Payment, you whore. 

00:52 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, weird, weird shit. Very weird so anyway, that was Isaiah chapter 23, which means that today we're gonna be getting into Isaiah, chapter 24. All right, let's go do this Okie-dokie. 

01:14 - Wife (Host)
All right, we are hopping into Isaiah, chapter 24, and I'm so excited about the first sentence. Are you ready? 

01:23 - Husband (Host)
I'm ready. 

01:23 - Wife (Host)
Okay, this is literally how it starts off. Okay, see. 

01:27 - Husband (Host)
You love that word, that's. That's one of your favorite. 

01:29 - Wife (Host)
See, the Lord is gonna lay, waste the earth and devastated, oh, he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants. What? 

01:43 - Husband (Host)
Hold on, he's gonna lay weight. Okay, are we? Are we scattering inhabitants or laying waste the earth? 

01:51 - Wife (Host)
Like, which is it? 

01:52 - Husband (Host)
first we're gonna lay waste and then, whoever's left, we're gonna scatter them but the funny thing to me is that they're gonna scatter the inhabitants, but the inhabitants, the only ones they really care about when they're talking about anything in the Bible, is the Israelites, the Egyptians, the Ethiopians and the Assyrians right. So like there's this small area that they're like, this is the inhabitants of the earth right. 

02:16 - Wife (Host)
Not anybody else, just them and see the Lord is gonna fuck their shit up right, right. 

02:24 - Husband (Host)
Oh, you know what we forgot to do, what we forgot to say Happy Thanksgiving, everybody Happy. 

02:28 - Wife (Host)
Thanksgiving. Happy turkey day or happy, you know happy American day that we stole land from the native people. 

02:34 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, that one too before we colonized it. I hope everybody endures your relatives praying before meals today very well. Oh my Luckily we don't have to at my mom's house anyway, we don't have to really deal with that. Right, there might be like somebody doing a silent prayer if they want to, but that's about the only. That's about the extent of it. 

02:57 - Wife (Host)
Sure yeah. Yeah, so that's lucky and nice and good. 

03:00 - Husband (Host)
It's lucky for us. Yeah, there yeah won't yeah. 

03:05 - Wife (Host)
I've decided that I am no longer bowing my head and pretending to pray. 

03:11 - Husband (Host)
I don't mind doing that, because I look at it as just taking a moment to myself. 

03:15 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, I just don't like that. It's forced upon me I. 

03:19 - Husband (Host)
Choose not to let it be forced upon me. I just choose to take that moment, to Not make eye contact people while they're making a prayer that I don't agree. 

03:28 - Wife (Host)
Well, here's how I know. It's forced upon me because if I don't do it then I will be frowned at. Therefore, it's not my option, is it? 

03:37 - Husband (Host)
I guess, I guess. 

03:39 - Wife (Host)
You're pretending that it's your option. So is to avoid conflict. 

03:43 - Husband (Host)
You sure, sure, no, I mean, you're absolutely right, kind of like over it and don't give a fuck right so I'm not gonna pretend to pray anymore. You do, you do that Okay. Okay, and I'm just gonna just kind of like head up and you know whatever. Yeah, I'm not gonna like sigh or anything, I'm just gonna be really funny is if you just like started eating right in the middle Of the prayer. 

04:06 - Wife (Host)
That would be badass. 

04:09 - Husband (Host)
That would be funny because, like I've done that at but I think I feel like that would be a little bit disrespectful actually that would be disrespectful, because just because I believe in like science and facts, and stuff doesn't give you the right to be an asshole, right I mean your own will gives you the right to be an asshole, but like she doesn't mean you should still right you know, right, like I'm not seeing that you shouldn't do that at, whatever your situation might be, but for me it would be intentionally being mean right and I feel like it's. 

04:45 - Wife (Host)
It's just enough that I'm just gonna not bow my head sure, sure cuz I don't want to no. 

04:51 - Husband (Host)
I got you. 

04:52 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, I just don't feel like it. 

04:54 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, hey, so God was laying waste to the earth. 

04:56 - Wife (Host)
Oh and scattering me yeah see, see, it'll be the same for priests as for people. Oh for the master as for his servant. By what you mean slave. Yes for the mistress as For her servant. By what you mean slave right for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. 

05:21 - Husband (Host)
So what I'm gathering here is God's had it and you're all fucked. Yeah like no, no takebacks. No, you know, redoes nothing, you are all screwed. 

05:32 - Wife (Host)
See he's bringing down the hammer. 

05:35 - Husband (Host)
But he's saying he's gonna lay waste, but like there's still gonna be people scattered, so that means that there's still gonna be people alive and not only that, but he is not. 

05:44 - Wife (Host)
He is fucking not gonna lay waste the earth, he's not do you remember and when? 

05:50 - Husband (Host)
when Noah, when the rainbow came out, after the whole Noah and rain, and yeah, debacle right promises. Yeah, that was he made the rainbow so that he would remember that he didn't want to destroy all of humanity again. 

06:03 - Wife (Host)
He would never flood them again. 

06:05 - Husband (Host)
Oh well, semantics right. 

06:07 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, yeah all right. But anyway, the earth will be completely laid waste, completely, yeah, totally plundered, totally who's gonna plunder it? 

06:17 - Husband (Host)
if it's, who the fuck's plundering it all? 

06:20 - Wife (Host)
the other gods. All right, the lord has spoken this word. See, it doesn't say that anymore right said it the one time but it's just so funny. You like the word see because you start the sentence with it and it's like see, this is how I feel about it right right. The earth dries up and withers the world languages and withers the heaven language with the earth. 

06:47 - Husband (Host)
The hang, heaven's gonna languish with the earth, huh. So he's even gonna punish it. Is he gonna sound like he's gonna punish heaven some? He's done with everybody all these people that made it to heaven. They're like fuck, we didn't. We're still not. We got a Fucking hell man. He's still angry at us. 

07:01 - Wife (Host)
Fuck the angels, fuck the nephilim, fuck the giants, fuck the lizards, fuck the snakes. The earth is defiled by its people. I mean that I do agree. 

07:13 - Husband (Host)
Sure, we're still doing that to this day. 

07:15 - Wife (Host)
Mm-hmm. They have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. 

07:22 - Husband (Host)
That's always a good reason reason for mass murder, don't you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, not really. No, don't do that mass murder is awesome. Yeah, let's, let's skip that. 

07:33 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, no, I was just kidding. Mass murder is totally not awesome. Yeah therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must bear bear their guilt. 

07:45 - Husband (Host)
Okay, you, you're getting ready to kill most of them right. So what, they're gonna be bearing their fucking um sorrows and their, their loved ones Missing, and I mean like there's a lot of things going to be happening, but like guilt, like that's the furthest thing from my mind when everybody's dying around me. 

08:04 - Wife (Host)
Well, I was gonna say you cannot force a person to feel guilty. Right like they either get what they did and have remorse for their action and wish they didn't do it and hope they'll do better next time, or they don't. 

08:17 - Husband (Host)
I guess I should. I should qualify what I just said about um the guilt thing, so like if you were responsible for somebody that died, you would feel guilty, right, and I guess that if you have remorse sure, sure, but I so I guess that maybe In biblical times, or in canon here as we're reading this, maybe these people, because they didn't fear God enough, or whatever, they had to feel guilt, because they feel like their actions caused the destruction of the world, the, the, the, the, the, the death of their friends and family. 

08:52 - Wife (Host)
So that's where their guilt is coming from, maybe do you think that they're gonna feel that guilt, though I don't well we're again. 

08:59 - Husband (Host)
We're talking about in canon here, right, where God Hypothetically is treated as real, okay, and and if not this God, at least other gods are treated as real too, right, so like gods were a thing. Back then I think we could More or less agree to that. I'm not saying there weren't any atheists, I'm sure there were. Okay, like you just can't escape that people are just gonna be like you know, this is fucking dumb guys you know there have been a couple right. 

09:22 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, I mean. 

09:22 - Husband (Host)
I they probably didn't, you know announce it because they'd probably die, right. But Right, there had to be somebody out there going. This is stupid. 

09:31 - Wife (Host)
I like to think that. 

09:32 - Husband (Host)
I like to think that too. 

09:34 - Wife (Host)
So anyway, therefore, earth's inhabitants are burned up and very few are left. 

09:40 - Husband (Host)
Okay, yeah. 

09:41 - Wife (Host)
I like how we go from like past tense to future tense, to like current day. Yeah pick a lane guys. The new wine dries up and the vine withers. All the merry makers grown. Okay, the joyful timbrels are stilled. The noise of the revelers has stopped. The joyful harp is silent. It sounds like the night after one of Gatsby's parties. Mmm Okay you know what I mean? 

10:10 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, for the morning after right, I mean, I think that's the morning after any party. 

10:14 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, but Gatsby was known for throwing some doozy Sure. 

10:17 - Husband (Host)
Sure. 

10:18 - Wife (Host)
No longer do they drink wine with a song. The beer is bitter to its drinkers bitter. 

10:26 - Husband (Host)
Okay, why Okay? 

10:28 - Wife (Host)
Everything tastes gross. 

10:29 - Husband (Host)
It's so sad, mad, like every time they they talk about God destroying things right and and blowing things up and whatever the fuck he's doing, everything turns bad, right, the vines with their, the beers bitter, the, the batter's, worse, you know, like whatever. Better better, but blah, blah, blah blah. 

10:48 - Wife (Host)
Betty Baker bought some butter, but she said this butter no wait, how's that? Betty Baker bought some butter but she said this butter's bitter. If I put it in the batter it will make the batter bitter. So she bought some better butter, butter that was not so bitter. Then she put it in the batter. That she made the batter better. 

11:06 - Husband (Host)
Awesome. Yeah, I did not expect to cover that today. 

11:09 - Wife (Host)
Did you know? 

11:09 - Husband (Host)
that I. I could not have rattled that off now. I do know of that. 

11:14 - Wife (Host)
Yes, I think I think you know of it because of me, I think I told you it. 

11:17 - Husband (Host)
That could be, I don't know. 

11:20 - Wife (Host)
I. I think that I brought that into your life and I think that you are impressed by me. 

11:27 - Husband (Host)
Okay. 

11:28 - Wife (Host)
Be, impressed. 

11:29 - Husband (Host)
I didn't say I mean be impressed, I don't, you don't. I can be impressed with you without that being the thing that impresses me. 

11:35 - Wife (Host)
I really wanted you to be impressed. The ruin, the city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred. 

11:45 - Husband (Host)
Wait, now we're on a house and city level, as opposed to the entire fucking world. 

11:49 - Wife (Host)
Right, which is it? I think by world they mean. I know that part of the planet Right. 

11:54 - Husband (Host)
It's, but this is where it's being left open to so much interpretation, right, like you could interpret this any way you want to and put any time frame you want to on it. There is no real prophecy here. 

12:06 - Wife (Host)
Right In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom. All joyful sounds are banished from the earth. The city is left in ruins. 

12:17 - Husband (Host)
Hold on, hold on. I'm just imagining everybody walking down the streets crying for wine. Oh, I need the wine. Where's my wine? 

12:28 - Wife (Host)
All the people are going. 

12:33 - Husband (Host)
Oh, I wonder if they were wailing for wine. 

12:35 - Wife (Host)
They were wailing yesterday, so today they're wailing for wine, for wine, yeah. Yeah, you wine wailer and and also then they're going. I'm depressed, right. 

12:47 - Husband (Host)
Right yeah. 

12:48 - Wife (Host)
The city is left in ruins. It's gate is battered to pieces. 

12:54 - Husband (Host)
Oh, not the gate. 

12:56 - Wife (Host)
It's shattered, battered, scattered. What? 

13:01 - Husband (Host)
You're being silly, it cannot help it. 

13:04 - Wife (Host)
Well, to be fair, we are recording this at one o'clock in the morning, that is true, that is true, and, and, and, and. 

13:09 - Husband (Host)
Well, I guess it is technically already Thanksgiving. 

13:11 - Wife (Host)
Happy Thanksgiving, darling, yeah, you too. 

13:13 - Husband (Host)
I love you, love you. 

13:16 - Wife (Host)
Ah, you were too slow on that? 

13:17 - Husband (Host)
No, I was. 

13:19 - Wife (Host)
So Will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, remember how we beat the yeah or as when gleaning's are left after the grape harvest. 

13:34 - Husband (Host)
Okay sure. 

13:36 - Wife (Host)
They raise their voices, they shout for joy, whoo-hoo From the West. They acclaim the Lord's Majesty. Oh, oh, you get me Now they're happy. They're happy, happy people. They got their wine. 

13:49 - Husband (Host)
That's good. 

13:49 - Wife (Host)
They're not wailing. I'm happy. 

13:51 - Husband (Host)
I guess I'm happy for them. 

13:52 - Wife (Host)
Therefore, in the East, give glory to the Lord. Exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we hear singing Glory to the righteous one. Oh wait, I need to sing that Glory to the righteous one, but I said I'll waste away. I'll waste away. Woe to me the treacherous betray with treacherous, treacherous betray, yes. 

14:23 - Husband (Host)
I didn't know it was an actual song. 

14:25 - Wife (Host)
It's a song. 

14:25 - Husband (Host)
Okay, all right. 

14:26 - Wife (Host)
I thought that you know. The other one was like Merry happiness and so yeah, I would be like I. 

14:34 - Husband (Host)
Got you, got you, I could be. The only reason I had to ask was because sometimes you just get carried away with. 

14:39 - Wife (Host)
I do I do, but this time I didn't literally. I'm gonna quote what it says, but I said I waste away, I waste away. Woe to me. The treacherous betray with treachery, the treacherous betray. Okay, right, yes so my rap was fine. 

14:54 - Husband (Host)
It was fine. Yeah, I'm not arguing that, I just making sure sure, yeah, I spit a good rhyme just then you. 

15:00 - Wife (Host)
that was awesome, yeah, hmm terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth. 

15:06 - Husband (Host)
You got them. Biblical beats. 

15:08 - Wife (Host)
I really don't know. 

15:10 - Husband (Host)
I'm not even. 

15:12 - Wife (Host)
So anyway, pit and snare. That's what parts of a drama, aren't they? 

15:18 - Husband (Host)
I know a snare is like a snare, sure, or it could be a trap also. Pits and chairs, snares it sounds more like traps to me. Actually, I this is like you make a pit to trap an animal, you make a snare to trap an animal and terror, of course yeah. 

15:31 - Wife (Host)
Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth. No drums for you, friend. No no whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit. Hmm whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened. Foundations of the earth shake. Okay everything's good, everything's bad, everything's good, everything's bad right, yeah, right, mm-hmm I. Whip my head back and forth. That's what we're doing, right word feels like it. 

16:02 - Husband (Host)
I don't know what we're doing from one extreme to the other. We went from destroying the world to destroying a gate, so I'm not really sure where we're at. And then they were falling in pits and getting out and then getting into a snare, so and then they were yelling and happiness over wine before that. So I don't, I don't really know what's going on here. Right but it sounds like it could be mostly bad, with Possible world destruction and with a side of wine. 

16:27 - Wife (Host)
Okay, I mean, if the world is Going to hell in a handbasket around me and there's no way to escape it, I probably will try to go out with a glass of wine in my head and, honestly, even if the beer is bitter, I'm still gonna drink it probably like well, here come that comet, look up. The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is violently shaken. 

16:54 - Husband (Host)
Earthquakes or something to that effect. 

16:57 - Wife (Host)
Okay, so first it's gonna break, then it's gonna split a sunder like yeah, cut in half right and then it's gonna violently shake Like both halves got it Okay the earth reels like a drunkard. Oh, it sways like a hut in the wind. Hmm all my huts, always swaying the wind. How about your? I don't have a lot of huts, so so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls never to rise again. Oh damn false the earth never did split asunder yeah, no, this is, this is weird in that day. 

17:34
In that day, the Lord will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below. They will be herded together like prisoners bound in the dungeon. They will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days. 

17:50 - Husband (Host)
Who are the powers in heaven above? That he would be punishing with the human kings and shit probably angels and whatever you think yeah, all right. Maybe that's by guess all right, I just just wondered the moon will be dismayed. I hate when the moon is sad so the the moon face had a dismayed face. 

18:13 - Wife (Host)
The Sun Ashamed. The Sun is always ashamed of me. I gotta tell you right, for the Lord Almighty Will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before its elders, with great glory. The end. 

18:28 - Husband (Host)
Oh, with yo, okay that was. That was like a brain fart of shittiness everything. The whole thing wasn't even. 

18:42 - Wife (Host)
It wasn't cohesive no like there was no Message there other than it's bad and then sometimes good, but then Shatter the people first before you just go ahead and jump straight to the planet shattering. Yeah, I don't know right, like if you're just gonna shatter everything, just go straight for the big thing. Right right like, the people will die. You don't have to kill them and then kill the planet. 

19:07 - Husband (Host)
I I yeah, I feel like that was apocalyptic spaghetti I. Apocalyptic spaghetti is the name of my next band. Well, like they kept just tossing out different things that might happen, right, and they're just hoping that one of them sounds sort of correct at some point so they can be like, yeah, that that's what happened. See, that happened, and we prophesized it. 

19:32 - Wife (Host)
The cereal boxes will have no prizes, the fridges will all lose their magnets. 

19:38 - Husband (Host)
Because it could have been anything from the entire world fucking dying just about to a gate getting broken. You know, like that's what I'm saying, like you could have taken that any number of ways to mean any number of things and and said it and say it's a prophecy, and somebody's gonna be like, yeah, it did, say that, didn't it, it did. Yeah, it sure, it sure did, guys. But you do see the fallacy here, right, like there's a problem. 

20:04 - Wife (Host)
No, no problems, no fallacy. I have a problem with it no, no, no, it's all perfect and divine. 

20:13 - Husband (Host)
Not even a little bit, it's beautiful. So anyway right that was Isaiah, chapter 24. 

20:19 - Wife (Host)
It sure as fuck was. 

20:21 - Husband (Host)
And that means that we'll be back tomorrow. 

20:24 - Wife (Host)
Hopefully. 

20:26 - Husband (Host)
More than likely. Almost certainly, but not certainly. 

20:32 - Wife (Host)
It really depends on how much turkey we consume. 

20:35 - Husband (Host)
And how many trip to fans affect us, how much the trip to fans affect us for the evening tomorrow. 

20:40 - Wife (Host)
Right, yeah, yeah. 

20:41 - Husband (Host)
I don't know. We're gonna reserve the right right now to possibly to possibly not record an episode tomorrow for Friday. 

20:51 - Wife (Host)
That's why I was like whoa, whoa, slow your roll there. No guarantees, friend. 

20:55 - Husband (Host)
But but we're gonna do our damnedest. 

20:57 - Wife (Host)
We are because we care, we want to. We just might not be inclined. 

21:02 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, yeah, we'll see how things go. 

21:06 - Wife (Host)
Right yeah. 

21:08 - Husband (Host)
So that'll be so. Tomorrow we're, if we if feel so inclined, right. We'll be reading what. 

21:14 - Wife (Host)
Isaiah, chapter 25. 

21:16 - Husband (Host)
All right, so we'll maybe see you tomorrow. 

21:19 - Wife (Host)
Okay, bye.