Hold on to your hats folks, because in this episode we dive deep into the mysterious world of Isaiah chapters 25-29, and yes, it's just as chaotic as it sounds. Husband and Wife venture into the puzzling city that will never be rebuilt and explore the equally baffling Leviathan. For those who've ever wondered about the presence of zombies in the Bible, you're in for a treat.
Then, we grapple with the perplexing tale of Ariel - not the mermaid, but Jerusalem's alter ego. Prepare to marvel at how God's sarcastic usage of this name critiques the city. And because the Bible wasn't confusing enough, we decided to throw in our personal experiences with the divine. For those looking to add some extraterrestrial depth to their Biblical knowledge, you've come to the right place.
We also delve into a fiery Jewish legend and hint at future episodes on Patreon and Isaiah, chapter 30. And don't worry, if the Bible ever starts making sense, we promise to throw in more convoluted chapters and legends to keep you on your toes. If you're looking for an intellectual adventure or just a good laugh at the contradictions and complexities of the Bible, then join us for this spiritual rollercoaster ride. It's like a treasure hunt, but instead of gold, we're unearthing baffling Biblical myths and legends. Spoiler alert: It's a wild ride.
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00:00 - Wife (Host)
Husband wife. Do you know what we're doing today, right now?
00:04 - Husband (Host)
Well, technically it's still Saturday, so I guess that means we're doing. Saturday that's right, and so what will we be queuing and aint today?
00:16 - Wife (Host)
Well, today we're going over Isaiah, chapters 25 through 29, which, I gotta tell you, really fucked up my math for a minute.
00:24 - Husband (Host)
It did, it did. Yeah, you, you don't like non multiples of five.
00:28 - Wife (Host)
Well, we did five, it was just not like under normal circumstances. This would be chapters 26 through 30. Right but last week we only did four right so we're off and my math is off, we are and it is yeah.
00:44 - Husband (Host)
So you got any anything to cover before we get into this, or should we just jump in? Just jump in. Alright, let's do this.
00:49 - Wife (Host)
Okie dokie, all right. So we are doing Q&A Saturday and we are covering Isaiah, chapters 25 through 29, correct, okay? So let us not forget that 25, 26 and 27 we're still part of that Isaiah apocalypse right so bad things are coming down the pipe. Yep right, so chapter 25 was about praise for the Lord's favor. Okay, okay and they were praising what God has done and it was all kinds of God is great kind of thing.
01:37
Yeah okay, and. But in verse 2 it said the city will never be rebuilt and there was all kinds of questions about what are they? Which city the city? Yeah, the city right right and a cursory Blants of the passage would encourage readers to understand. Obviously this must be referring to Babylon, because they were yeah, right, right but some scholars suppose that Samaria was intended. Okay but here we go. Guess what, not everybody agrees. Oh, others contend that the word is used collectively and that various cities are intended, like I see the city, like all the ones that God's knocking down.
02:18
Okay, oh, but guess what?
02:20 - Husband (Host)
that might not be it either that might not be it either.
02:22 - Wife (Host)
Some Jewish scholars generally understand it to be wrong. Oh we'll never be rebuilt, while still other leaders in the Jewish community Understand it, to refer to many cities which they say will be destroyed in the coming times, of Gog and Magog. Okay so that's a whole thing got it.
02:43 - Husband (Host)
There's a lot of cities that might never be rebuilt right yeah who knows.
02:48 - Wife (Host)
Rome.
02:49 - Husband (Host)
Definitely still exists. I know that I know that, for sure it does.
02:52 - Wife (Host)
Yeah so.
02:53 - Wife (Host)
So that happened in chapter 25, like what was that about?
02:58 - Wife (Host)
Oh, right, okay.
02:59 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, so chapter 26 was about a song of trust in the Lord's protection. Okay, okay nothing particularly Good or bad in that for me to cover like there's no Special notes other than that, don't forget it's still part of the Isaiah apocalypse.
03:19 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
03:20 - Wife (Host)
Um, generally that chapter was about the city of God and versus the city of man. Okay talking about Relying on the systems that man has built up, versus the systems that God wants you to rely on.
03:35 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
03:36 - Wife (Host)
God's people anticipate Vindication and there was a community lament.
03:42 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
03:43 - Wife (Host)
And then at the end of that chapter, god's people anticipate vindication, and that gets continued on into the next chapter.
03:51 - Wife (Host)
Okay, okay, yep.
03:52 - Wife (Host)
So Isaiah 27. So this is the last of the Isaiah apocalypse. Yeah, okay, right so this one was interesting because they talked about Leviathan right, right.
04:05 - Husband (Host)
We skipped right over like they didn't cover whether it was zombies or not in 26.
04:09 - Wife (Host)
No, we didn't. That wasn't something that came up.
04:11 - Husband (Host)
I don't know if they were really zombies.
04:13 - Wife (Host)
Well then, I will do a special little extra thing about zombies, but that wasn't part of my legit Studies okay, okay so I apologize, I skipped right over that. I was trying to be serious and. And I wasn't my normal fun loving self.
04:32 - Wife (Host)
All right.
04:33 - Wife (Host)
I'll go back though at some point and we'll talk about zombies in the Bible.
04:37 - Husband (Host)
Okay, okay, yep.
04:39 - Wife (Host)
I really think we ought to reserve zombies in the Bible to after Jesus comes and dies, though, okay but.
04:45 - Husband (Host)
but there's other zombies, I know, but we could do a whole zombies in the oh, I see, I see and like lump them all in. Okay, you know why do we only have to do one special? We could do zombies all the time.
04:57 - Wife (Host)
Why don't we discuss this some other time?
04:59 - Husband (Host)
When I'm not on the spot Geez.
05:03 - Wife (Host)
That sounds great, dear. I'll study all the zombies and we will talk about them.
05:07 - Husband (Host)
Great yeah, let's turn this into a biblical zombie podcast.
05:10 - Wife (Host)
Okay we can do that.
05:11 - Husband (Host)
Why doesn't that exist? It should exist.
05:13 - Wife (Host)
It should exist, honestly, yeah Right, just in time for not Halloween.
05:18 - Husband (Host)
Well, I mean, timing's not my best thing, no it really isn't.
05:21 - Wife (Host)
But let's talk about Leviathan though.
05:23 - Husband (Host)
Leviathan yes.
05:24 - Wife (Host)
Okay, so the language used here draws on mythology and ancient myths of nations near Israel.
05:31 - Wife (Host)
Okay, okay, yep.
05:35 - Wife (Host)
The term Leviathan, as used here, is normally linked with Eugiridic Lotan.
05:39 - Husband (Host)
Okay, you remember us talking about Lotan before in one of our specials Kind of yes Sort of.
05:46 - Wife (Host)
He was the chaos monster destroyed by Baal and the Canaanite creation myth. Oh, okay, it may be applied figuratively to monstrous enemies of Israel and therefore also of God.
05:58 - Husband (Host)
I see Okay.
05:59 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
06:01 - Wife (Host)
Leviathan is also referred to in Job and in Psalms. Do you remember that?
06:04 - Wife (Host)
Vaguely.
06:05 - Wife (Host)
These passages reinforce the idea of Leviathan as a mighty, serpent-like creature connected with the sea, who resists God and will be crushed by the Lord.
06:17 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, in about two sentences or so.
06:19 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
06:20 - Husband (Host)
I'm very disappointed with that.
06:22 - Wife (Host)
I was as well, but it's something that's referred to big time when it comes to the end times and that whole Gog and Magog thing. Sure, sure Okay.
06:34 - Husband (Host)
Well, I found out since, because I was curious about Leviathan a little bit. Apparently there's this whole Leviathan cult-type thing. It's almost connected with Devil Worshiping maybe or something. I'm not really sure how that all works in. I'm sure by Devil Worshiping I'm not really meaning like they literally worship the Devil or Leviathan. It's probably similar thinking to spiritualism or something like that, but there's like a symbol and everything. It's really cool. Oh, wow, I would love to know that it's like an upside-down cross with like an infinity symbol on the bottom.
07:06 - Wife (Host)
Interesting. Yeah, it's really neat, I had not heard of that.
07:10 - Husband (Host)
It's something I definitely want to look into more at some point, sure.
07:13 - Wife (Host)
Along with our zombies? Well, yeah.
07:16 - Husband (Host)
Zombies and Leviathans and yeah all that. Lions and tigers and bears and my that's good shit yeah.
07:21 - Wife (Host)
Okay, so in the kingdom of the Lord, israel receives mercy.
07:29 - Wife (Host)
Just going on through that chapter, okay.
07:32 - Wife (Host)
God shows his mercy to Israel and that even though he struck Israel when Israel went astray, he didn't kill them all. He did not strike Israel as severely as he did the other nations.
07:43 - Wife (Host)
Right.
07:44 - Wife (Host)
It's like the abusive husband who says why are you crying? I didn't hit you as hard as I could. You should have seen the wife I had before you.
07:53 - Husband (Host)
Not me husband.
07:54 - Wife (Host)
Oh, no, no, no.
07:55 - Husband (Host)
I was just clarifying.
07:56 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, I'm just saying like that's what it reads, as like this whole abusive, like I'll give you something to cry about.
08:04 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, yeah.
08:04 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
08:07 - Wife (Host)
So God shows his mercy to Israel, and that he destroyed their idolatrous alters and images and forced them to worship only him.
08:15 - Husband (Host)
But how many times have we heard that fucking story? Over and over and, over and over again. He's always destroying all the idols and all the gods and all the whatever, and they just keep coming back over and over and over again.
08:28 - Wife (Host)
Spoiler alert They'd never get destroyed.
08:31 - Husband (Host)
Right, yeah, it's dumb.
08:34 - Wife (Host)
It is, and it's tiresome, moral Right.
08:37 - Husband (Host)
It's just. It's like. It's just like pumping his chest out, and when I'm going to do this thing and then not actually do it, yeah, it's true.
08:44 - Wife (Host)
So God makes the nation submit to him, because that's what a merciful, loving God does, right. And then in the kingdom of the Lord, the city of man lies desolate, and in the kingdom of the Lord, he has worshiped in Jerusalem.
09:00 - Husband (Host)
Okay.
09:01 - Wife (Host)
That happened in chapter 27.
09:02 - Husband (Host)
By all the people he didn't kill, right yeah.
09:06 - Wife (Host)
So that was the end of the apocalypse stuff, okay.
09:09 - Husband (Host)
Yes.
09:10 - Wife (Host)
So chapter 28 and 28 through 35 are a collection of quote unquote poems on Israel and Judah.
09:17 - Husband (Host)
Right, okay, but mostly what I've got out of it so far is drunkenness.
09:20 - Wife (Host)
Well, yeah, obviously, and blindness, Right and illiteracy.
09:24 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, and he's going to wipe away intelligence and wisdom.
09:27 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, yeah. So these are mostly directed to the southern kingdom of Judah, since it is most often effective to address a sin present in a third party and then apply it directly to the person, isaiah will first speak of the sin of Israel and then switch the focus to Judah.
09:46 - Wife (Host)
Okay, okay.
09:48 - Wife (Host)
So I don't know if that's something that we missed.
09:51 - Husband (Host)
I certainly did not catch that he was talking. I thought he was talking about enemies, but I guess, given the timeframe of this, they were two different kingdoms, so I guess those people could be considered enemies at that point in time. So that might that I just didn't catch that exactly what was going on.
10:10 - Wife (Host)
Same same. So in this particular chapter, chapter 28, we talked about the condemnation and captivity of Ephraim. You remember all that? That's where he was talking about the sinful state of the drunkards of Ephraim.
10:24 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay.
10:25 - Wife (Host)
And a flood of judgment upon the drunkards of Ephraim.
10:28 - Wife (Host)
Right.
10:29 - Wife (Host)
Okay now. In verse one it said Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim. Yeah Crown refers to Samaria, which was the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel, where the priests and prophets are included among the drunkards.
10:45 - Wife (Host)
Okay, okay.
10:47 - Wife (Host)
So then it goes on to talk about the beauty of the Lord replacing the fated beauty of Ephraim and the corruption of drunkenness, and Judah and God's message to those who are ripe for judgment, and the simple message gets mocked.
11:04 - Wife (Host)
Okay, because we love them muck and muckers. Right, right yeah.
11:09 - Wife (Host)
And Isaiah warns of the consequences of rejecting the simple message of the Lord. Okay, so then he gives the warning to Jerusalem.
11:16 - Husband (Host)
The message that he's giving, for the Lord, to Jerusalem. He's like stop mocking me Did it ever occur to Isaiah or anybody that maybe he just wasn't the best messenger.
11:28 - Wife (Host)
Could that? I mean, that's what I would have thought, but who am I?
11:32 - Husband (Host)
If he can't seem to get the point across, maybe it's a hymn issue.
11:35 - Wife (Host)
Right, you know he's like stop mocking me, I'm trying to tell you what the God? Said Right, yeah, but the Lord doesn't like it when you make fun of me. So he gives a message, a warning to Jerusalem.
11:49 - Wife (Host)
Okay, yeah.
11:50 - Wife (Host)
And he talks about the cornerstone of which is Zion.
11:54 - Wife (Host)
Right.
11:54 - Wife (Host)
Okay, the false confidence of sinful leaders, the security of the Messiah and the precarious place of sinners. And he gives advice to those ripe for judgment.
12:07 - Wife (Host)
Right.
12:08 - Wife (Host)
And we end that chapter with a parable of the farmer.
12:11 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
12:12 - Wife (Host)
The timing of the farmer versus the timing of God.
12:15 - Wife (Host)
Right, okay, do you remember that boring silliness? I do, I do.
12:18 - Wife (Host)
All right, so then we move on to chapter 29, which is what we just finished reading. Yeah, okay, and we talk about a problem solved and a problem started, kind of like Eminem or not Eminem, vanilla ice Sorry, different white wrapper.
12:35 - Husband (Host)
You're going to have to clarify here what you're talking about. If you've got a problem, yo he solved it. Oh okay, Sorry, Sorry.
12:43 - Wife (Host)
We talked about Ariel and her enemies.
12:46 - Husband (Host)
Did it check out, my God, while Isaiah revolts it?
12:49 - Wife (Host)
Yes, exactly, you got it Sorry.
12:51 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, it was rattling around in my brain. I had to get it out.
12:55 - Wife (Host)
I apologize that I even said Eminem. I'm just like, sometimes, when you get all of you like, things start to blend together.
13:02 - Husband (Host)
Is that what happens?
13:03 - Wife (Host)
That's exactly what happens.
13:05 - Husband (Host)
Okay.
13:06 - Wife (Host)
I am two years older than you.
13:07 - Husband (Host)
You are, so I guess it's coming any day now. Yeah, I got to get there. I got to get there.
13:13 - Wife (Host)
So I don't know if you recall. You know, just 10 minutes ago, when we read this that verse, one said whoa to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt. Add year to year, let feasts come around. So Ariel is Jerusalem and means literally lion of God.
13:32 - Husband (Host)
Oh, okay.
13:33 - Wife (Host)
Some scholars suggest that the term Ariel is derived from the root ARI, meaning to burn, such that Isaiah expects that Jerusalem will become like the altar which we read about later in that same section, which IE would be a scene of Holocaust.
13:54 - Wife (Host)
Oh, wow, yeah, Wow, so he's talking about burning the shit down. Okay.
13:58 - Wife (Host)
Okay, yeah, given the context of the verses, calling Jerusalem Lion of God is probably sarcastic the repetition of the name. It's used four times in two verses.
14:11 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
14:12 - Wife (Host)
And the context of God's judgment against Jerusalem suggests the idea that Jerusalem may have thought of herself as the Lion of God, but God certainly did not share that lofty opinion of the city.
14:24 - Husband (Host)
as we read Got it, so it was almost like a mocking of them referring to themselves that way sort of yeah.
14:30 - Wife (Host)
Exactly. He's like yeah, go on, ariel. Speaking of Ariel, I'm going to burn your shit down.
14:35 - Husband (Host)
Right, right, but it was very confusing to just throw out that new name for Jerusalem out of nowhere.
14:41 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, it was new to us, but it would not have been new to the people at the time.
14:45 - Husband (Host)
Sure, no, I get it, but in reading the Bible you know like it comes across as very abrupt and like what are we talking about? What are you?
14:53 - Wife (Host)
talking about. Yeah, but that's why we do these, so that we can try to like what the fuck did.
14:58 - Husband (Host)
I just read but this is also part of the reason why I have such immense trouble believing that any of this is not even OK. So, logically, I just don't believe there's God Period, the end. That doesn't require the.
15:13
Bible, nothing, anything like that, but like beyond that, if you are going to tell me that I'm supposed to find God in the Bible or whatever, reading through this thing, it's not put down in a way that makes a lot of sense, like you would think a God could make their one book that they have to spread their message a lot more clear and a lot more concise.
15:41 - Wife (Host)
What I've come to the conclusion of is that the Bible is more like for the Uber fans. Like you already believe in God and then you read this for like the background shit if you're interested in stuff that you already like.
15:58 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, yeah.
15:59 - Wife (Host)
It's not for noobs that come in and want to like figure out so what's God? No, that's not how you do it. Like it's like if you were reading about a band and you read all of their lyrics and you read all of their stuff, but you had never heard their music before.
16:18 - Wife (Host)
Right, you see what I'm saying yeah.
16:20 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, like you're supposed to have already gone to the concert or at least heard a few songs on the radio.
16:26 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
16:26 - Wife (Host)
And then you're like, wow, I really like this music. I wonder what the song means.
16:30 - Husband (Host)
So it's really it's our fault, because we've never heard God on the radio.
16:33 - Wife (Host)
Yes, that is correct.
16:35 - Wife (Host)
Although.
16:36 - Wife (Host)
I would go further and say that it's God's fault because he never released a single.
16:41 - Husband (Host)
That's, yes, true, it definitely wasn't a hit single. No, not in the US anyway. They were made to charts here anyway. Yeah, not in this household.
16:51 - Wife (Host)
So, yeah, I mean, if he like turned on that light switch that we talked about and made us interested in seeing what is God all about, I might be interested in believing in God.
17:03 - Wife (Host)
Right.
17:03 - Wife (Host)
Then we would experience God and then want to learn more and then read the Bible. But that's not how the Bible is presented to us. The Bible is presented as you should read this and find God. No, actually, that's backwards, guys.
17:18 - Wife (Host)
Right.
17:18 - Wife (Host)
You're supposed to like find God and then read the Bible.
17:23 - Husband (Host)
That's my interpretation. That's the way you see it's post. Okay, all right, yeah, whatever, regardless, I don't believe in God.
17:32 - Wife (Host)
I've never felt God.
17:34 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
17:34 - Wife (Host)
I. I don't know what the fuck is going on, and the Bible is not helping me, it's just making matters worse. Right, so yeah for me it wouldn't have mattered, because there was never gonna be hearing the single and being interested in learning more about the band right and I'm just.
17:52 - Husband (Host)
I just want to reiterate the words in the Bible. Don't lend credibility to it.
17:56 - Wife (Host)
No, they really don't that's all so, at any rate, god didn't share that lofty opinion of the city.
18:03 - Wife (Host)
Okay, yeah.
18:04 - Wife (Host)
It may be that the people of Jerusalem had taken to calling themselves by the name Ariel to both express and strengthen their confidence. Okay kind of like how we call, like New York, the big Apple, or right, yeah in centuries to come. They would be like there's not an Apple, though. Right they don't even grow apples there or like our hometown is.
18:26 - Husband (Host)
You know it's Dayton and they call it the gem city. Oh yeah, so you know, like we give them names that are, you know, better, loftier than what they actually are.
18:36 - Wife (Host)
So yeah, the shining city on the hill.
18:39 - Husband (Host)
What's that? That one is sounds familiar, like I should know it.
18:43 - Wife (Host)
DC kind of thing. Oh, like, like we should all. It's supposed to be representative of the great city of freedom of the US, like the thing that we're supposed to aspire to got it to For other countries to want to be like us got it.
19:01 - Wife (Host)
That whole shining city on the hill, okay, got it.
19:05 - Wife (Host)
We should want to be better and other people want to be us got it. All right, so that was Ariel and what she meant. She's a city.
19:16 - Husband (Host)
Okay, not a mermaid.
19:17 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, neither little nor big sure, okay, there's no Ursula.
19:21 - Husband (Host)
That's, that's sad.
19:24 - Wife (Host)
Did you know that the character of Ursula and in Disney's little mermaid was actually based upon a drag queen?
19:32 - Husband (Host)
I did because you've told me that. Hmm, yeah.
19:35 - Wife (Host)
I just thought that was so cool and it I'm going way off topic here, but I have discovered so many Disney characters are queer coded because of the artists involved in creating the Disney. Yeah movies right.
19:52 - Husband (Host)
It's just so sad that it has to be queer coded and can't just be like blatant and out there, Because it's becoming more that way, like they are doing better about actually bringing some of this stuff into the mainstream a little bit, and but yeah no, I agree with you, though, especially, you know, in our childhood, a lot of that stuff was very not they had to hide it, they had to hide it 100%.
20:17 - Wife (Host)
So yeah, like lots of hidden signals and messages and right images I just I would. I would like to see a world where everything's just like normalized and it doesn't fucking matter right Right but again, that's way off topic and beyond the scope of this mean measly little podcast.
20:37 - Wife (Host)
Right.
20:38 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, all right. What do you have anything else for us to cover here?
20:42 - Wife (Host)
Well, did you want to talk a little bit about the blindness that came on? I mean, I I didn't really have a lot of notes to take about it because it was all very straightforward. I'ma make it blind and I'm able to read.
20:55 - Husband (Host)
Okay, I mean what it will kind of like what's the highlights of the notes that you do? You have highlights of them.
21:01 - Wife (Host)
Okay, so in let me back away from that. Yeah, from from for a minute.
21:07 - Wife (Host)
Okay okay.
21:08 - Wife (Host)
So verse six said you will be visited by the Lord of hosts, and In some translations the word visited is actually rendered as punished. Oh yeah, okay you will be punished not visited got it you will get spanked, not invited to tea and crumpets.
21:26 - Husband (Host)
Ah, sad. That's a completely different context right, that's not even the same fucking word, no okay.
21:33 - Wife (Host)
Yep so, then, when we talk about blindness and hypocrisy in Israel? Yeah the spiritual blindness is gonna be the spiritual stupor and all of that that was talked about. There are people who actually compare that to the sleep that Adam was put into when he was placed in a coma for God to draw out his rib.
22:02
In creating Eve In the second creation story. I just thought that was interesting, that some of the words translate similarly, so that that could have been the kind of sleep that the stupor that God was referring to, and there's supposed to be a supernatural act of changing hearts and imparting new wisdom, and I'm like okay. I could see.
22:34 - Husband (Host)
So that almost makes sense if you're talking about like a bit from Adam and or when he was taking Adam's rib, right, If that's the kind of stupor you're talking about, like he took the rib and made a woman, right. But we're talking about God in Israel putting them into the stupor and then making them more fearful of God and more reverent, right. So it's just more of a spiritual implantation than creating a new physical being.
23:06 - Wife (Host)
But instead of a new physical being, a new spiritual being.
23:10 - Husband (Host)
Right, right, I mean that would be an interesting way to take that as a metaphor. Yeah, so I thought that was interesting.
23:18 - Wife (Host)
You know I always love the literary parts.
23:21 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, for sure.
23:22 - Wife (Host)
And we're talking about the wording of stuff.
23:24 - Wife (Host)
Right.
23:24 - Wife (Host)
So verse 22 in that last chapter I found very interesting. It says therefore thus says the Lord who redeemed Abraham concerning the house of Jacob, jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face turn pale.
23:42 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
23:43 - Wife (Host)
The phrasing is particularly suspicious because there is no incident in the biblical history of Abraham to which the expression quote redeemed is especially appropriate.
23:57 - Wife (Host)
Okay.
23:58 - Wife (Host)
There is, however, a late Jewish legend about his being delivered from a fiery death prepared for him by his heathen relations, and that apparently something we'll read about in the book of Jubilees.
24:10 - Wife (Host)
Oh.
24:11 - Wife (Host)
In other words, maybe a later interpolation, meaning something that was added on after this book was written, which was already later than some of the other stuff.
24:22 - Wife (Host)
Got it, got it.
24:24 - Wife (Host)
So again with the extras and the more. Yeah, yeah.
24:29 - Husband (Host)
We'll never, we're never going to finish this. No, it's just always going to keep going on, and, on, and on.
24:34 - Wife (Host)
Yeah, and you still want to talk about fucking zombies and yeah, well, yeah, that's funny. I'm just saying like there's this stuff and I'm like, oh, that's cool.
24:43 - Husband (Host)
Yeah, no, I got you.
24:44 - Wife (Host)
Yeah.
24:45 - Husband (Host)
So is that all we?
24:46 - Wife (Host)
Now, that's all I have. Yes, that is my notes.
24:50 - Husband (Host)
Well, that was our Q&A for this Saturday, mm-hmm. So we're going to wrap this up here and we will be back tomorrow with or later today, depending on when I get this actually released with our Well, you'll be doing your weekly no.
25:07 - Wife (Host)
Prior to that, we'll be doing a Patreon.
25:10 - Husband (Host)
Right, yes, and then I'll be doing my weekly wrap up that I put together, and then we'll be back on Monday with Isaiah, chapter 30. All right, we'll see you, guys then.
25:20 - Wife (Host)
Yep.