Jeremiah Chapter 24: Atheist Bible Study

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[00:01:50] Husband wife.

[00:01:52] Do you remember what happened yesterday and where the hell we are today?

[00:01:55] Well, God made a little bit of a change of tactic and admits that, you know, maybe

[00:02:01] it's just the leaders that suck.

[00:02:03] And he was like, y'all leaders, you prophets, you priest, you

[00:02:07] fucks your your your, you're gonna go down.

[00:02:11] And these guys, the regular people, if they follow my my

[00:02:16] command and go get captured, because I'm still shitty, you

[00:02:19] know, I mean, I'm an asshole.

[00:02:21] If they if they do that, though, then they got a chance, they

[00:02:23] might their their descendants might make it through somehow someday.

[00:02:27] I'll bring them back.

[00:02:28] Yeah. So, I mean, all in all, I was happy as I can be in the Bible with regard to the fact that God was choosing to punish the priests and the prophets and the leaders, you know, like that. That's a good, it's a good tactic. Mm hmm.

[00:02:45] Wasn't perfect, but it was better.

[00:02:47] Right.

[00:02:47] It was better.

[00:02:48] Right.

[00:02:49] So I'm going to give it that.

[00:02:50] That's all I'm giving it.

[00:02:51] OK.

[00:02:51] And that was Jeremiah chapter 23.

[00:02:53] It sure as fuck was.

[00:02:54] Which means that today we're getting into.

[00:02:57] Jeremiah chapter 24.

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[00:04:38] All right, we are getting into Jeremiah chapter 24. Okay. And I want to

[00:04:43] preface this by saying, I don't give a

[00:04:45] fig. You don't give a fig, huh? Okay, just hang tight and you'll see. Okay. And you won't

[00:04:50] give a fig either. I'll fig in there. I was trying, you know, I sometimes you throw something

[00:04:59] out and it just doesn't doesn't land, you know, and we never edit those out either.

[00:05:03] No, no, hell, we don't even edit that one.

[00:05:05] So we're jumps off of fucking counters.

[00:05:07] So was there a mistake?

[00:05:10] Matt, I mean, there are some things I edit out.

[00:05:13] Like, yeah, costs for sure.

[00:05:15] So I mean, I do go back and edit,

[00:05:17] but like part of what we do is just being real, right?

[00:05:21] And sometimes shit falls in the kitchen.

[00:05:23] Why are you recording?

[00:05:24] And you know what? Whatever. And sometimes go along.

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[00:07:18] Sorry, I'm going to stop there.

[00:07:19] We're going to go ahead and get into this chapter.

[00:07:21] I'm going to say, big off, husband.

[00:07:23] Yeah. All right, ready?

[00:07:26] Yes. The Lord showed me and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the

[00:07:32] Lord. Okay. After Nebuchadnezzar King of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and the

[00:07:50] smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon.

[00:07:55] Okay, so this is after they carried them off.

[00:07:58] Okay.

[00:07:59] And then God's like, look, there's two baskets of figs now.

[00:08:01] Two baskets of figs.

[00:08:02] Look at those figs sitting there.

[00:08:04] Got it. Yeah. One basket had very of figs. Look at those figs sitting there. Got it. Yeah.

[00:08:05] One basket had very good figs.

[00:08:07] Okay.

[00:08:08] Like the figs that are first ripe.

[00:08:11] Did you know that figs are made of wasps?

[00:08:14] I really?

[00:08:16] There's a particular type of fig, yes.

[00:08:19] That made of wasps.

[00:08:21] Like the body of a wasp.

[00:08:22] Like the pollen grows around it and that's how it becomes a wasp.

[00:08:27] No shit. Yeah. Wait, the pollen? Okay. Yeah. I'm intrigued by this. I don't, I don't know that I

[00:08:33] 100% believe this, but like, I'm curious about it. I promise it's true. I promise it's true. I did

[00:08:40] research it. At first I thought it was all figs, but obviously there are

[00:08:45] figs that grow in some places where wasps are not in existence. So it's not all figs.

[00:08:52] It's just the majority of regular figs and apparently some dates also. It's just...

[00:09:01] Wasp are very important to them, huh? Yeah. well, it's not that like it's a fruit that has a wasp in it.

[00:09:08] It's that a wasp dies on a particular type of flowering plant.

[00:09:13] Yeah.

[00:09:13] And then the...

[00:09:15] And then figs happen.

[00:09:16] And then figs happen.

[00:09:17] Interesting.

[00:09:18] So I often wondered what the purpose of a wasp was.

[00:09:21] They're just mean little stingy bastards,

[00:09:25] you know, like what the fuck is your purpose, you know?

[00:09:27] That's why figs.

[00:09:29] That's why fig newtons are so crunchy.

[00:09:31] Just kidding, just kidding.

[00:09:34] Pignewtons, they're soft.

[00:09:35] They have little crunchy bits in them.

[00:09:36] The cookies are obviously soft, yes,

[00:09:39] but the fig newton innards have little crunchy bits.

[00:09:43] I always thought of them as a soft treat, so. I always thought of them as a soft treat.

[00:09:46] I never thought of them as a crunchy treat.

[00:09:48] No, they're not crunchy, but they have crunchy bits in them.

[00:09:51] Okay, all right.

[00:09:52] And that's like the wasp bits.

[00:09:53] I don't know if that's the type of figs that are used,

[00:09:58] but yeah, it is true.

[00:09:59] You can check me on it and you will find that I am not pulling this out of my ass.

[00:10:04] Okay, all right. Yeah, sometimes you eat a wasp and you will find that I am not pulling this out of my ass. Okay.

[00:10:05] All right.

[00:10:06] Yeah.

[00:10:07] Sometimes you eat a wasp and you didn't know it.

[00:10:09] Interesting.

[00:10:10] Yeah.

[00:10:11] Okay.

[00:10:12] And the other basket, so one was, you know, delicious.

[00:10:14] Yeah.

[00:10:15] And the other basket had very bad figs, bad fig, which could not be eaten.

[00:10:20] They were so bad.

[00:10:21] Okay.

[00:10:22] I wouldn't eat any type of bad, no matter. We've got like degrees of bad

[00:10:28] and I'm not eating one that's even slightly turning. But we got good and we got bad figs.

[00:10:34] Yep. Edible, non-edible. No gray area figs, but good and bad. Yes. Yes. Evil and perfect.

[00:10:47] evil and perfect. Yes. Then the Lord said to me, because I guess I'm Jeremiah. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, big, bitch, the good figs, very

[00:10:53] good and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten there so bad. Okay, like you just described.

[00:10:59] Like you just, yeah. Yeah. Again, the word of the Lord came to me saying, the says the Lord, the

[00:11:06] God of Israel, like these pigs. So will I acknowledge those who are carried away from

[00:11:11] Judah, who might have sent out of this place for their own good into the land of the Chaldeans.

[00:11:18] So I sent away the good ones. You sent away the good ones? You would have thought that

[00:11:22] I sent away the bad ones. Well Jeremiah still there

[00:11:26] Well, he's there to help

[00:11:28] I thought he said that he had sent away like walking and and the son and stuff like that which those don't count

[00:11:35] Those don't count. Okay. All right. I'm just telling you all right

[00:11:39] Yeah, I will set my eyes on them for good and I will bring them back to this land.

[00:11:45] Okay.

[00:11:46] Those are the good figs.

[00:11:47] Yeah.

[00:11:47] I will build them and not pull them down and I will plant them and not pluck them

[00:11:52] up. Then I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord.

[00:11:58] Well, that's good.

[00:11:59] Yeah.

[00:12:00] It's often their hearts and the heart and their hearts.

[00:12:02] Could you, could you instead of just giving them a heart to know you, could you like also

[00:12:07] put it in their mind and maybe in their ear?

[00:12:10] Could you maybe walk the earth and say some words?

[00:12:14] Yeah.

[00:12:15] And not just do magic tricks that may or may not be God, we don't know.

[00:12:19] Right, right.

[00:12:21] Sometimes birds fall out of the sky and it's weird. It's the fact that even throughout the Bible that God does these things so not evident, right?

[00:12:33] Right.

[00:12:34] Is why the saying God works in mysterious ways is such a common phrase because there

[00:12:40] literally is no accounting for how God actually works because it doesn't happen.

[00:12:45] And we attribute God to things that shouldn't have him attributed to them.

[00:12:51] Either something weird or something unexplainable or something that probably never happened

[00:12:57] in the first fucking place. Link, okay, so you know in super humid areas that little teeny tiny pearls of frog eggs,

[00:13:10] they will get picked up by the humidity

[00:13:13] and sucked up via the water cycle into the clouds

[00:13:17] and they'll grow a little bit up there in the clouds,

[00:13:21] the ones that survive, and then it rains frogs, right?

[00:13:23] And then we're all like, Oh shit, it's raining frogs.

[00:13:27] It's the curse upon the land.

[00:13:29] Right.

[00:13:29] You know, God hates us because he's making frogs rain down and how

[00:13:33] else could it be?

[00:13:34] And it's like, yeah, science, weird, weird science.

[00:13:38] Yeah.

[00:13:38] Yeah.

[00:13:39] Weird science that is like not the norm, right?

[00:13:42] But science nonetheless.

[00:13:44] Yeah. You know, sorry. It is like not the norm, but science nonetheless.

[00:13:45] Yeah.

[00:13:46] Sorry.

[00:13:47] Sometimes critters have weird organs, you know, sometimes that happens.

[00:13:51] And also God working in mysterious ways doesn't usually involve medical scientists fixing a

[00:13:56] problem.

[00:13:57] Right.

[00:13:58] I noticed that too.

[00:13:59] But they attributed to those things, which I'm like, no, that was also science there.

[00:14:04] Yes. So yes.

[00:14:05] Yeah.

[00:14:06] And they shall be my people, those good figs, and I will be their God for they

[00:14:10] shall return to me with their whole heart.

[00:14:13] And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

[00:14:19] Surely thus says the Lord.

[00:14:21] So will I give up Zedekiah, the king of Judah, his princes, the residue

[00:14:26] of Jerusalem who remain in this land and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will deliver

[00:14:34] them to trouble right here in River City, into all the kingdoms of the earth for their

[00:14:40] harm to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse in all places where I shall

[00:14:47] drive them. I'm going to make them go out into the world and fuck shit up.

[00:14:52] Got it. Okay.

[00:14:54] And I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence probably rain in frogs too while

[00:14:59] I'm at it. Why not? Why not?

[00:15:01] Among them till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers, the end.

[00:15:07] Okay.

[00:15:08] Okay.

[00:15:09] So he's gonna be nice to people he likes

[00:15:10] and not nice to the people he doesn't like.

[00:15:12] And that's why I don't give a fig.

[00:15:14] Right, yeah.

[00:15:15] Now you understand why I said that.

[00:15:17] I do, I do.

[00:15:18] Cause literally the name of this chapter was

[00:15:21] the lesson from the good and bad figs.

[00:15:23] Is that a lesson? Did you learn

[00:15:26] something from the things? No, no, I didn't really feel exactly like a lesson.

[00:15:31] It's just like they make similes that are like so simple.

[00:15:35] Their lessons revolve heavily around worshiping God and fearing God and praising God and knowing God and not worshiping other gods.

[00:15:45] These are the things that the lessons revolve around.

[00:15:49] And I'm like, I can't even get to that point to where I feel like I should be taking this

[00:15:56] lesson because I can't get to the point where I can even remotely believe that you are real because this is the things that you are doing as a

[00:16:07] God in this book are so far removed from normal behavior for a human, let alone a God who knows

[00:16:18] everything. As far as common human decency.

[00:16:25] You know, I'm sorry, I'm throwing human into the mix,

[00:16:28] but I mean, yeah, human decency, common human decency.

[00:16:31] Right.

[00:16:32] And I just can't accept him as something

[00:16:35] that we should fear, worship, or respect,

[00:16:39] even if he was real.

[00:16:40] Right.

[00:16:41] So I was thinking about how I just now called the lesson quote unquote so simple and simplistic.

[00:16:51] And then I was thinking about how but there are people today that are like you can't do analogies with them because they just don't get it and they argue in circles and they can't get over my head. Yes.

[00:17:05] Okay, Drax.

[00:17:07] Yes.

[00:17:08] Just like that.

[00:17:08] How they are kind of simple.

[00:17:10] And so I was thinking about that.

[00:17:11] And then I was thinking how I sound so like arrogant.

[00:17:16] Like I think I'm so fucking smart, but I just think it should be noted here.

[00:17:22] And now I do not think that just because a majority of people

[00:17:27] are simple that I'm smart.

[00:17:29] Like I know I'm not smart.

[00:17:32] If I was in conversation with scientists,

[00:17:35] like Neil deGrasse Tyson, for example.

[00:17:37] Oh, it'd be very tempting.

[00:17:38] I could not hold my own in that conversation.

[00:17:41] So just because I call somebody simple, like, I don't want

[00:17:45] anybody walking around thinking that I am arrogant, that I think I am intellectual. I

[00:17:51] know where I stand. But having said that, these lessons are so fucking simple. Right.

[00:17:59] You know, like, can there be a place where these are simple and I'm not an arrogant prick who thinks highly of myself?

[00:18:06] Like, can the two mutually exist?

[00:18:10] Right.

[00:18:10] I don't know.

[00:18:11] Yeah, I don't know either.

[00:18:12] All right, I think we've rambled on enough about this short-ass chapter here.

[00:18:16] Sure.

[00:18:17] That was Jeremiah Chapter 24.

[00:18:20] Sure as fuck was.

[00:18:21] Which means that we'll be back tomorrow for...

[00:18:24] Jeremiah Chapter 25. All right, we'll be back tomorrow for Jeremiah chapter 25.

[00:18:26] Alright we'll see you guys then. Bye!

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