Jeremiah Chapter 26: Atheist Bible Study

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[00:01:16] Welcome to sacrilegious discourse. I'm husband and I'm wife. Together we're reading the Bible for

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[00:01:46] Yeah, let's get to it.

[00:01:47] Husband.

[00:01:51] Wife.

[00:01:52] Do you remember what happened on Friday

[00:01:54] and where the hell we are today?

[00:01:55] I believe we just got done reading Jeremiah chapter 25.

[00:01:59] We did.

[00:02:00] Which means that today we're getting into Isaiah chapter 26.

[00:02:03] Not Isaiah. Shit, hold on. Let's let's

[00:02:07] Yeah, so we're doing Jeremiah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I don't know how I got back to Isaiah again again. That was crap

[00:02:15] But I even said it wrong so like now I have to go back in Jeremiah chapter 25. Uh-huh. Yeah

[00:02:21] They they were passing around a cup of poison wrath juice or something like that.

[00:02:26] Wrath juice. Yeah.

[00:02:28] Oh my God, wrath juice.

[00:02:29] And like he was saying that, you know,

[00:02:32] everybody's gonna die except for these group of people

[00:02:35] that listen to them and go get captured

[00:02:37] and enslaved for like 70 years.

[00:02:39] And then they might be okay

[00:02:40] and they can come back and live eventually.

[00:02:42] And then they'll all be wonderful and good.

[00:02:44] Yes. Is that about right? That sounds about right. Because they wouldn't have drank the

[00:02:48] wrath juice. I'm still stuck on wrath juice. What kind of animal is the wrath? I don't know.

[00:02:57] You must squeeze the wrath and get the juice of the wrath and jink the wrath.

[00:03:05] Why does it gotta be an animal?

[00:03:05] It could be a fruit.

[00:03:06] It is a fruit, you're right.

[00:03:07] That makes better sense.

[00:03:08] Right, yeah.

[00:03:09] Wrath fruit, you know?

[00:03:11] What if you steeped it and made it into tea,

[00:03:14] wrath tea?

[00:03:15] There you go, you can have some wrath tea, yeah.

[00:03:17] That's how I probably would prefer it

[00:03:19] with a bit of honey.

[00:03:20] Right, yeah.

[00:03:21] And maybe.

[00:03:22] I like creamer in my tea actually.

[00:03:24] That's gross. So like, no, you know, that's good stuff. I do not want cream in my wrather in my tea, actually. That's gross.

[00:03:25] So, like, no, you know, that's good stuff.

[00:03:26] I do not want cream in my raftee.

[00:03:28] Oh, man, it's really good.

[00:03:29] No.

[00:03:30] Anyway, that was Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Chapter 25.

[00:03:33] It sure is black wise.

[00:03:34] Which means that today we're getting in to...

[00:03:36] Not Isaiah, Jeremiah, Chapter 26.

[00:03:39] All right, let's do this.

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[00:04:29] All right, hop in into Jeremiah chapter 26. Okay.

[00:04:30] Not Isaiah.

[00:04:31] Not Isaiah, yeah.

[00:04:32] Not Isaiah.

[00:04:33] Definitely not Isaiah.

[00:04:33] In the beginning.

[00:04:35] Wait, wait, wait, we've gone through so much.

[00:04:38] We're not starting over again.

[00:04:39] Fuck this shit.

[00:04:40] Of the reign of Joaquim, the son of Josiah.

[00:04:44] Okay, okay.

[00:04:44] Not the very beginning.

[00:04:45] I was gonna say that, that was disturbing

[00:04:47] for just a second.

[00:04:47] Yeah, I know, that's why I stopped where I did.

[00:04:49] Yeah, okay.

[00:04:50] Yeah, yeah.

[00:04:51] King of Judah, you know, Joziah,

[00:04:53] Joziah, the son of Joziah, king of Judah,

[00:04:56] this word that I'm about to say,

[00:04:59] came from the Lord, saying.

[00:05:00] Just this word.

[00:05:01] Ready?

[00:05:02] Yeah.

[00:05:03] Thus says the Lord, okay? Okay,. This sounds like more than one word. It's like

[00:05:08] the word is the message. Oh, yeah. It's not the bird. The bird is not the word. Got it. Okay. Stand

[00:05:14] in the court of the Lord's house and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in the

[00:05:21] Lord's house all the words that I command you to speak to them, do not diminish a word.

[00:05:26] Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way

[00:05:31] that I may relent concerning the calamity

[00:05:34] which I purpose to bring on them

[00:05:36] because of the evil of their doings is.

[00:05:39] So he's basically saying,

[00:05:41] and the time frames are still screwed up, right?

[00:05:44] Because there's a point where we had already reached that he was like,

[00:05:47] no, there is no repenting. There is no going back. Y'all are fucked.

[00:05:50] Yes. I'm glad that you said that because two things that I probably should have prefaced

[00:05:56] this chapter with, but I instead just jumped right in.

[00:05:59] Sure.

[00:05:59] I'm all discombobulated.

[00:06:01] Right. It was probably because I said Isaiah in the intro.

[00:06:03] You fucked me all up.

[00:06:04] Yeah, I fucked you all up.

[00:06:05] So first of all, in the Septuagint,

[00:06:08] you know, the Greek copy of this,

[00:06:12] this chapter is numbered as Jeremiah 33, not 26.

[00:06:17] Really?

[00:06:17] Yeah, so it's out of order even.

[00:06:20] But even at 33 though, it was still the-

[00:06:22] Even at 33, that's even worse.

[00:06:23] Right.

[00:06:24] Yeah, because the events of this chapter take place at the beginning of the reign of Joaquin, even but even at 33 That's even worse right yeah because

[00:06:30] The events of this chapter take place at the beginning of the reign of Joaquin the son of Josiah king of Judah

[00:06:37] Where's the events of the previous chapter take place in the fourth year of Joaquin the son of Josiah?

[00:06:41] Joaquin reigned from 609 to 598 BCE

[00:06:44] This prophecy apparently came before that invasion when many of the leaders

[00:06:47] of Judah felt that they could still avoid the Babylonian conquest.

[00:06:50] Why does the Bible feel the need to put these things in such an order that they're, I mean,

[00:06:54] just, they're so confusing as to not even hardly make sense because you keep bouncing

[00:07:00] back and forth between ideas that don't relate in any type of timeline or sequence.

[00:07:06] This is the order they were stapled together.

[00:07:08] No, I get it.

[00:07:09] Keep saying that.

[00:07:10] I get it, I get it.

[00:07:11] It's like, have you ever been carrying a bunch of papers

[00:07:14] and then you accidentally drop them

[00:07:16] and you pick them up real quick and shuffle them

[00:07:18] and then you're not paying attention

[00:07:19] and you forget that they got out of order

[00:07:23] and then you staple them

[00:07:23] and then you read through them later and you're like, oh, shit, but it's too late.

[00:07:27] You got to get to the meeting or whatever.

[00:07:30] And then you pass them out to everybody at the meeting

[00:07:33] and you're like, by the way, I'm really sorry,

[00:07:36] but pages six and seven are backwards from each other.

[00:07:39] Just know when you get there.

[00:07:41] And so you like verbally convey,

[00:07:43] yeah, sorry, I got this out of order,

[00:07:45] but y'all are smart, you can figure this out,

[00:07:47] and I'm telling you, so you know.

[00:07:49] Right, but you would think that after thousands of years

[00:07:51] we could be like, okay, look guys,

[00:07:52] I know it's in this order, but like it's wrong.

[00:07:55] We could put it in actual order.

[00:07:56] We could fix this, you know?

[00:07:57] Yeah, but that would be like,

[00:08:00] that would be like making an amendment

[00:08:02] to the Constitution.

[00:08:04] You don't just do it, right?

[00:08:05] But they used to do it all the time, way back when, right?

[00:08:08] You know, but now, now we don't do it currently at all.

[00:08:11] Things got stuck.

[00:08:12] And then if you change it now, it's like,

[00:08:15] what the fuck, we don't change things.

[00:08:18] I guess.

[00:08:19] They're stuck forever this way.

[00:08:19] I guess.

[00:08:20] We'll never change the Constitution of the United States

[00:08:23] ever again, and we'll never change the order of the Bible ever again again and will never change the order of the Bible

[00:08:26] ever again.

[00:08:27] Some things are just glued the way they are

[00:08:29] because tradition or what the fuck ever.

[00:08:32] If you say so.

[00:08:33] I'm not saying I like it that way.

[00:08:36] I'm just reporting the news to you, sir,

[00:08:38] that that's the way it be.

[00:08:39] I got it.

[00:08:40] So Jeremiah's message here in this chapter

[00:08:44] seems to be the same one he already preached

[00:08:46] in Jeremiah chapter seven.

[00:08:47] Okay, so we're reading the same message, but here the emphasis is on the hostile response

[00:08:54] to his sermon at the temple.

[00:08:57] So before it was more about like his perspective of what was happening and like he's telling

[00:09:04] us stuff or whatever.

[00:09:05] Yeah.

[00:09:06] And here we're going to be seeing how they responded to that.

[00:09:09] But we already talked about how much he doesn't, they don't like him.

[00:09:12] Yeah, they don't.

[00:09:14] They really don't.

[00:09:15] But there's going to be more reaction.

[00:09:17] So just hang tight, okay?

[00:09:20] So I'm going to get going. Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way that I may relent concerning the calamity

[00:09:31] which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.

[00:09:35] Okay, and then he tells Jeremiah, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord,

[00:09:40] if you will not listen to me to walk in my law, which I have set before you, to

[00:09:45] heed the words of my servants, the prophets, plural, the prophets is whom I sent to you,

[00:09:53] both rising up early and sending them, but you have not hated that you have not heeded

[00:09:59] right now.

[00:10:00] That's in parentheses Christ.

[00:10:01] Then I will make this house like Shiloh and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. So what the fuck like Shiloh, and we'll make this city a curse

[00:10:05] to all the nations of the earth.

[00:10:07] So what the fuck is Shiloh, right?

[00:10:09] Sure.

[00:10:09] Okay, so Shiloh, the city of Shiloh was

[00:10:13] the place conquered and destroyed by the Philistines.

[00:10:16] Okay.

[00:10:17] And we actually read about that in First Samuel

[00:10:20] and also in Psalm 78.

[00:10:22] I mean, the names sounded familiar,

[00:10:23] but I didn't specifically remember the context.

[00:10:25] I did not remember the name or the context.

[00:10:28] Got it.

[00:10:29] I'm like, I've never heard of it.

[00:10:30] And that often happens to me.

[00:10:32] Well, I mean, there's, we've covered a lot.

[00:10:34] There's too many geographies here.

[00:10:36] There are.

[00:10:37] The Philistines killed the priests

[00:10:40] and captured the Ark of the Covenant

[00:10:42] and Israel felt as if God's glory had departed.

[00:10:44] Oh, okay. That's what happened in Shiloh.

[00:10:46] All right, I gotcha. Yep.

[00:10:47] And Shiloh was destroyed about 1050 BC by the Philistine incursion into the land, blah, blah,

[00:10:53] blah, and there is actually archaeological evidence to support this, apparently.

[00:10:58] Sure.

[00:10:58] Okay. Shiloh was not far from Jerusalem and the people could actually see the evidence of its

[00:11:06] was not far from Jerusalem and the people could actually see the evidence of its destruction from where they were. So that's, they were using something that they could actually,

[00:11:11] it was relevant. Yeah. It was exactly in their line of sight essentially. Yeah. It was, it

[00:11:15] was in their everyday zeitgeist. Yeah, right. So, um, yeah. So he's going to make this shit

[00:11:22] like Shiloh. Okay. Yeah. So the priests and the prophets and all the people

[00:11:26] heard Jeremiah speaking these words

[00:11:28] in the house of the Lord.

[00:11:29] Now it happened when Jeremiah had made an end

[00:11:33] of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak

[00:11:36] to all the people that the priests and the prophets

[00:11:40] and all the people seized him.

[00:11:42] Oh.

[00:11:42] Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[00:11:43] Wait, are these the, in the speech,

[00:11:46] he was saying that God sent prophets plural.

[00:11:49] Are those same prophets, the ones seizing Jeremiah?

[00:11:53] No, not the prophets, the priests and, well, okay, yeah,

[00:11:58] some of the false prophets, not the good ones.

[00:12:01] Okay. All right.

[00:12:02] There's some false prophets and priests

[00:12:04] and then just regular people in the crowd, they're like, good ones. Okay. All right. There's some false prophets and priests and then just regular people in the crowd

[00:12:06] They're like get them. Okay. Okay. We don't like you and so they were like seizing him and they said you will surely die

[00:12:14] Okay, that's what they're telling them. Yeah

[00:12:16] Why have you prophesied in the name of the lord saying this house shall be like shiloh and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant

[00:12:25] And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah

[00:12:27] in the house of the Lord.

[00:12:29] Now, hold on a second.

[00:12:31] Jeremiah actually prophesies towards them,

[00:12:34] telling them that they surely will die

[00:12:36] if they keep going against God's word, right?

[00:12:40] He's essentially threatening them as well.

[00:12:43] From their standpoint,

[00:12:44] they see God's message as something else, right?

[00:12:46] And they're saying he will surely die. Yeah, so I don't see how this everybody's gonna die right right right

[00:12:51] It's just different perspectives is all that's happening here, and they adamantly don't like his message. Yeah, so yeah

[00:12:57] I don't I don't understand the like it's the same thing right just

[00:13:02] You're supposed to be on team Jeremiah

[00:13:06] and be like, oh, that poor guy.

[00:13:08] No, I know what team I'm supposed to be on,

[00:13:10] but I don't understand how these people are supposed to know

[00:13:13] which team they're supposed to be on,

[00:13:14] other than Jeremiah is telling them it's my side.

[00:13:17] But there's other people saying, no, that's incorrect.

[00:13:19] It's my side.

[00:13:20] Right.

[00:13:21] So you can't, there's no way for a general population to say which one is correct.

[00:13:27] But I would wager that if the one's telling them they're going to live and the other one's

[00:13:30] telling them they're going to die, they're going to opt for the one that says they're

[00:13:32] going to live. And then everything's going to be rosy and wonderful. That sounds a lot

[00:13:37] better to me. But we've talked about this before though and it's a lot like the Republicans denying climate change. And

[00:13:49] in this particular case, you're not on the side of choosing what's nicer,

[00:13:54] rosier, easier, and better. You're on the side of no, actually, calamity is coming.

[00:14:01] So you can see how- I can see how that would happen, yes.

[00:14:05] And I can see how it plays out.

[00:14:07] But again, if you are on,

[00:14:09] and just to take the example of today,

[00:14:11] if you are on the side where you are being propagandized to,

[00:14:15] to believe that climate change isn't a real thing,

[00:14:17] that and world calamity because of it is not coming,

[00:14:21] that's a lot more peaceful idea than it is coming.

[00:14:24] Sure. And it's a lot nicer peaceful idea than it is coming. Sure.

[00:14:25] And it's a lot nicer to think that our actions are not causing these things.

[00:14:28] Obviously, I'm not saying that those are correct, but again, when you have two sides

[00:14:33] of any story, how is the one side that's getting their information from one of those

[00:14:38] sides supposed to know that that information is incorrect and ours is correct?

[00:14:43] So you're having sympathy for the people of the city

[00:14:46] and you're having sympathy for the Republicans

[00:14:50] that were just brought up that way.

[00:14:52] I do have sympathy.

[00:14:54] A lot of them don't choose to dig in any deeper

[00:14:57] than just what they hear.

[00:14:58] Right.

[00:14:59] I don't have sympathy once someone decides

[00:15:01] to do the research for themselves

[00:15:03] and then decide they're still correct. Right. I don't have sympathy for the people who

[00:15:08] are spreading the news saying that these things are not correct because they're

[00:15:11] obviously lying. Right. I do the people that don't know better. Right. You know,

[00:15:16] they often don't dig any deeper into it to find out that they are incorrect. Right.

[00:15:22] And yes, I do have sympathy for those. Okay, then I was just trying to spell that out,

[00:15:28] have that spelled out.

[00:15:28] Sure.

[00:15:29] Okay.

[00:15:30] Sure.

[00:15:31] So when the princes,

[00:15:32] princes.

[00:15:33] Princes.

[00:15:34] Of Judah, not princesses, princes.

[00:15:36] Got it.

[00:15:37] Okay.

[00:15:38] Of Judah.

[00:15:38] The ones with the ding dongs.

[00:15:39] The ones with the ding dongs.

[00:15:40] Yeah, when they heard these things,

[00:15:42] they came up from the king's house to the house of the

[00:15:45] Lord and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house. And the priests and the prophets,

[00:15:52] which I'm assuming they mean false prophets, spoke to the princes and all the people saying,

[00:15:58] so they're setting up court here. Okay. Yeah. Saying, this man deserves to die, for he has prophesied against the city

[00:16:06] as you have heard with your ears,

[00:16:09] not with your buttholes, with your ears.

[00:16:11] This is what you heard with your nose.

[00:16:13] Yeah.

[00:16:14] No, not your nose.

[00:16:16] No, your ears, yeah.

[00:16:17] Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes

[00:16:20] and all the people saying, look, that's not what he said.

[00:16:24] I just put that in there because it's fun to say that.

[00:16:27] The Lord sent me to prophecy against this house

[00:16:31] and against this city with all the words that you have heard.

[00:16:35] Now therefore amend your ways and your doings

[00:16:39] and obey the voice of the Lord your God.

[00:16:41] Then the Lord will relent concerning the doom that he is pronounced against you.

[00:16:46] So they're still talking about putting him to death. Yes.

[00:16:49] They're holding court and asking like, hey, we should kill this dude. And he's like, no, you're still all wrong.

[00:16:54] Yeah, and you could still save yourselves. He's still

[00:16:57] Yes, pronouncing the same things. Yes, even at sword point, which is supposed to make us feel like man this guy really fucking believes right he's brave

[00:17:06] Is brave he's but he was whiny about it earlier, too

[00:17:09] Yeah, and he was complaining how he was you know always being threatened. He wanted God to get after him

[00:17:14] Yeah, get on so yeah, yeah

[00:17:16] He's a wishy-washy character that I am not I still don't like him

[00:17:21] I feel like they put this in here to make him feel to sound a little stronger

[00:17:25] Stronger than he has come across. Yes. I agree with you. Yeah as for me says Jeremiah

[00:17:31] Yeah, here I am in your hand do with me as seems good and proper to you

[00:17:36] But know for certain that if you put me to death

[00:17:39] You will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves on this city and on its inhabitants

[00:17:44] For truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing Surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and on its inhabitants,

[00:17:45] for truly the Lord has sent me to you

[00:17:47] to speak all these words in your hearing.

[00:17:49] Okay.

[00:17:50] So he's like, do what you feel is right,

[00:17:51] but that doesn't change the facts.

[00:17:53] And my life is in your hands.

[00:17:55] Yeah, this is not the same Jeremiah.

[00:17:57] No.

[00:17:58] That we've been reading about.

[00:17:59] No.

[00:18:00] He was a whiny little fuck.

[00:18:01] This is definitely a...

[00:18:02] This is an add-on, I feel like.

[00:18:03] It feels that way.

[00:18:04] They added, they put a sticky note, but they put it on the wrong page.

[00:18:07] Right.

[00:18:08] That's what happened.

[00:18:09] So the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, oh, that was

[00:18:14] so moving.

[00:18:15] Did you know that?

[00:18:16] Was that what they said?

[00:18:17] No, because listen.

[00:18:18] Okay.

[00:18:19] Listen, I didn't realize that that was such a moving speech.

[00:18:21] Listen to what they're about to say, right?

[00:18:23] I'm listening.

[00:18:24] Ah, this man does not deserve to die

[00:18:26] for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

[00:18:28] Wait, what?

[00:18:29] He said that all throughout his speech.

[00:18:32] But not a sword point.

[00:18:34] Oh, okay, this is bullshit.

[00:18:36] This is utter crap.

[00:18:38] What's the matter?

[00:18:39] You don't like it?

[00:18:40] No, this is not how this conversation went.

[00:18:43] I can tell that this is not how these things happen. No, this is not correct. conversation went. I can tell this is not how these things happen.

[00:18:45] No, this is not correct.

[00:18:47] This is a lifetime movie.

[00:18:49] Yeah.

[00:18:50] Where you're speaking before a crowd and suddenly the crowd is swayed by your magical words.

[00:18:54] Right, right.

[00:18:55] Because the pen is mightier than the sword and shit like that.

[00:18:58] Well, again, they're making him seem so much braver than he has come across up till now.

[00:19:02] Right.

[00:19:03] None of this meshes up with me. No, me neither. Then certain of the elders in the land, of the land, not

[00:19:11] in the land of the land, rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people saying,

[00:19:15] you know, Micah of Morsheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, King of Judah, and spoke

[00:19:22] to all the people of Judah saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and

[00:19:29] the mountain of the temple like the bare hills of the forest.

[00:19:32] And did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death?

[00:19:37] Did he not fear the Lord and seek the Lord's favor?

[00:19:40] And the Lord was lented concerning the doom which he had pronounced against them.

[00:19:44] But we are doing great evil against ourselves.

[00:19:46] Now, let's just stop it right there because...

[00:19:48] I was going to stop it right there anyway.

[00:19:50] Okay, but there is something that says that if you do false prophecy,

[00:19:54] you should be put to death. And that's one of God's laws.

[00:19:57] Yeah.

[00:19:57] Right?

[00:19:58] Yeah.

[00:19:58] So again, there were probably people in that time that were quote-unquote giving false prophecies

[00:20:04] that did get put to death. And how are you supposed,

[00:20:07] I still don't understand how you're supposed to determine which one is

[00:20:11] correct, which one is not,

[00:20:12] because prophecies are something that happened in the future. Right. So the way

[00:20:16] that you're supposed to know the difference is that any of them that

[00:20:21] follow the Torah, the law, that's the true ones.

[00:20:25] So you're supposed to deem the truth

[00:20:28] by their actions that they follow in life.

[00:20:30] Like if they follow the letter of the law in the Torah,

[00:20:34] that person is obviously speaking truth

[00:20:36] because they are a godly person.

[00:20:38] They are walking with God, yes.

[00:20:39] Okay.

[00:20:40] Yes.

[00:20:41] To an extent, I can sort of understand that message,

[00:20:46] but there's a lot of people that would,

[00:20:49] I still don't see how you can judge it

[00:20:51] because even if someone's not,

[00:20:53] they can claim that they are.

[00:20:55] So like there's not, you don't have somebody spying

[00:20:57] on these people full time to understand

[00:20:59] that this person is following in the way,

[00:21:01] this person is not, et cetera.

[00:21:03] So there is still no real legitimate

[00:21:05] way to understand who is true and who is not. And that's even after we account for the

[00:21:10] fact that God isn't real and we're just basing this off of some bullshit to begin with.

[00:21:14] Well, another way though is that God has definitely spoken out against false idols, right?

[00:21:20] Yeah. And against pagan actions and Christmas trees, right?

[00:21:23] But you're talking to a bunch of people who don't have the ability to read and they're basing their opinions on what somebody else that can read is telling them.

[00:21:31] So to say that, yes, God has said that, that's great.

[00:21:35] But where has God said that to them other than through these prophets other than through these people who are talking to them about this shit?

[00:21:42] How do they know these things? Right, like if they're going to church every Sunday

[00:21:47] and their priest is like,

[00:21:48] no, don't believe those prophets,

[00:21:49] that's a bunch of bullshit, it doesn't say that in there.

[00:21:52] Right.

[00:21:52] Like, yeah, that's true.

[00:21:53] There's still no way for them to know.

[00:21:56] Right.

[00:21:56] Especially in a very illiterate world,

[00:21:58] which is what, you know, VCE would be very not literate.

[00:22:03] You know, there's a lot of people that are not gonna be able

[00:22:05] to read that's a very high status place to be in life,

[00:22:10] is someone who can read and understand.

[00:22:12] So I call bullshit.

[00:22:14] I also am calling bullshit.

[00:22:16] Was that the, was that the end?

[00:22:17] No, that was not the end.

[00:22:18] Oh, okay, okay.

[00:22:19] I'm telling you a thing,

[00:22:20] but I was waiting for you to calm down.

[00:22:22] Sorry, I apologize for being so adamant about that.

[00:22:25] Yeah, you were kind of worked up. I was a little bit. So the prophecy of Micah is one that we're

[00:22:29] going to read about. Okay. There's a whole book called Micah. Okay. Yeah. And that's coming up.

[00:22:35] Got it. But so they cross-referenced another. They cross-referenced. Wow. We just talked about

[00:22:40] that. You literally just mentioned that. Yeah. Yeah. So this whole conversation and Micah's deal that they're talking about, we're going to

[00:22:50] read about that.

[00:22:51] Interesting, right?

[00:22:52] All right, I appreciate that.

[00:22:54] Yeah, me too.

[00:22:55] Let's see.

[00:22:56] Prophecy to the city.

[00:22:57] Okay, blah, blah, blah.

[00:22:59] And I'm trying to find my place.

[00:23:02] Sorry.

[00:23:03] Oh, here we go.

[00:23:04] So we're doing great evil against ourselves.

[00:23:06] Yeah. Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Yeraiah, the son of Shamiah,

[00:23:13] of Kershoth, Jiram, who prophesied against this city and against this land according

[00:23:20] to all the words of Jeremiah. So there's another prophet we're going to talk about.

[00:23:23] Okay. Okay. Yeah. And when Joachim the king and all his mighty men and all the words of Jeremiah. So there's another prophet we're gonna talk about. Okay. Okay.

[00:23:25] And when Joachim the king and all his mighty men

[00:23:29] and all the princes heard his words,

[00:23:32] the king sought to put him to death.

[00:23:34] But when Uriah heard it, he was afraid and fled

[00:23:37] and went to Egypt.

[00:23:38] So this other prophet, he was like,

[00:23:40] oh, they are coming to get me.

[00:23:41] I'm leaving. Bye.

[00:23:43] Mm.

[00:23:44] Okay.

[00:23:44] So this other prophet that they're using as an example,

[00:23:46] that guy was, he was also saying some similar shit

[00:23:50] and we chased him out of town.

[00:23:53] He went to Egypt.

[00:23:54] But Joaquin, the king sent men to Egypt

[00:24:00] and El Nathan, the son of Acbor,

[00:24:05] and other men who went with him to Egypt,

[00:24:07] they brought Uriah from Egypt

[00:24:09] and brought him to Joachim the king

[00:24:12] who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body

[00:24:15] into the graves of the common people.

[00:24:17] So he got killed.

[00:24:18] And also I read in notes that it was part of the treaty

[00:24:24] that they had with Egypt, that there were extradition laws.

[00:24:27] Oh, okay.

[00:24:28] So that's how they were able to bring him back out of Egypt.

[00:24:31] Gotcha.

[00:24:32] And so they brought him home and were like,

[00:24:34] you're not gonna talk this shit.

[00:24:36] Right.

[00:24:37] And they killed him.

[00:24:38] Wow.

[00:24:39] So these messages were not very popular.

[00:24:41] They were not.

[00:24:42] And Jeremiah knows this and so he's saying it anyway. And so

[00:24:45] again, we're supposed to find him very brave. I think to some extent that could maybe be said to

[00:24:50] be true. But he also in other chapters, they kind of referred to him as being sequestered away from

[00:24:57] other people and sending messages via messengers and talking to the Lord as though he's scared. So

[00:25:04] it doesn't mesh up exactly the way this chapter portrays it.

[00:25:08] I think that's another thing though,

[00:25:09] is that he started out delivering messages

[00:25:14] and not like you said, sequestered from the people,

[00:25:19] but now the Lord is like, okay, now's the next step.

[00:25:22] You need to actually go talk to the people.

[00:25:24] Except that this was prior to, like this is, we're going backward in time.

[00:25:29] No, it's true. So the timelines don't mash up, mash up with what?

[00:25:32] I don't know what order all of it happened. Sure.

[00:25:35] So I'm trying to place this in the order that all of this happened.

[00:25:39] Sure. He might have been whiny and been saying,

[00:25:42] but I don't want to go talk to the people. Right. And then, you know, then he does go and he's like, okay, I'm going to talk to the

[00:25:49] people.

[00:25:49] Sure.

[00:25:50] He's like, fuck me.

[00:25:51] My life is in your hands and whatever.

[00:25:53] I guess.

[00:25:53] Yeah.

[00:25:54] So I don't know.

[00:25:55] Okay.

[00:25:55] Anyway, this, your, your eye, whatever guy, that was like a hundred years ago

[00:26:00] before this, but they still remember that shit.

[00:26:03] Got it.

[00:26:03] Okay.

[00:26:03] Yeah.

[00:26:04] So nevertheless, the hand of a hecom, I they still remember that shit. Got it. Okay. Yeah. So nevertheless,

[00:26:06] the hand of a he come, I can't say these names. I apologize. I'm really fucking them up. The

[00:26:12] son of chiffon was with Jeremiah. So this a he come guy. Yeah, he's like one of his

[00:26:20] advocates. Okay. So he had some persuasion. He had some influence. That's the word I was

[00:26:29] looking for. Thank you. And he was with Jeremiah so that they should not give him into the hand

[00:26:35] of the people to put him to death. Got it. The end. Okay. So they're gonna make it another day.

[00:26:42] Got it. Okay. Well, I, yeah, I guess they're still gonna die,

[00:26:46] but now Jeremiah sounds a lot more powerful

[00:26:49] and wonderful and brave.

[00:26:50] Brave than he ever did.

[00:26:51] So that's great.

[00:26:53] I like how these people, the characters in this book,

[00:26:56] they change depending on what we need them to be.

[00:26:59] It's true.

[00:27:00] Sometimes they're frady cats and we're like,

[00:27:02] yeah, I don't fucking blame them.

[00:27:03] And then other times they're brave and we're supposed to be like

[00:27:06] That's so brave. I'm just gonna forget about all that other shit from before right so until we need them to be like us again

[00:27:13] And then we're like right right blame him that is scary true

[00:27:17] Yep. Well, that was Jeremiah chapter 26 sure as fuck was which means that tomorrow will be back with Jeremiah chapter Which means that tomorrow we'll be back with... Jeremiah Chapter 27.

[00:27:26] Alright, we'll see you then.

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