Micah Chapter 2: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:01:34] Do you know where we are?

[00:01:36] We just got done starting Micah chapter 1. So we did that yesterday.

[00:01:42] Well no, we actually finished Micah chapter 1.

[00:01:44] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:01:44] We started the book of Micah.

[00:01:45] We started the book of Micah.

[00:01:46] Right, right.

[00:01:47] I'm just trying to be precise.

[00:01:49] Yes.

[00:01:50] And also I'm very excited because my voice is a little bit better tonight.

[00:01:53] It is.

[00:01:54] You seem to be doing a lot better tonight.

[00:01:56] Yeah, so that's good.

[00:01:57] Yeah.

[00:01:59] So in Micah chapter 1...

[00:02:01] Oh yeah, what happened in that chapter?

[00:02:03] Yeah.

[00:02:04] Well, Micah heard from God.

[00:02:06] God talked to him apparently.

[00:02:09] Sure he did.

[00:02:09] That's the thing.

[00:02:11] And you know, there was a lot of cities that were going to feel the wrath of God, I think.

[00:02:15] Like a lot of them.

[00:02:16] And a wrath, wrath here and a wrath, wrath there.

[00:02:18] Here a wrath, there a wrath.

[00:02:20] Everywhere a wrath, wrath.

[00:02:21] Yeah.

[00:02:21] And then Micah ran around naked.

[00:02:24] I mean, he do like to swing that ding dong though.

[00:02:26] Yeah.

[00:02:26] I did look it up.

[00:02:27] It was symbolically Micah and or maybe the Israelites.

[00:02:33] All of them naked.

[00:02:34] All of them naked.

[00:02:35] Yeah.

[00:02:35] That was a sausage party.

[00:02:38] Yeah.

[00:02:38] It was a...

[00:02:40] Maybe a nude beach, you know?

[00:02:44] Yeah.

[00:02:44] I don't know.

[00:02:45] Why did he make some happy?

[00:02:46] We might go into that a little bit more in the Q&A, but there was...

[00:02:49] So the nakedness was, you know, there was more to it than what we were able to glean

[00:02:55] while we were reading it.

[00:02:56] So, but yeah, it was Micah and possibly the Israelites, depending on who you talked to.

[00:03:03] I have to be so honest with you right now.

[00:03:05] Yeah.

[00:03:05] While I was reading chapter one, my throat was so itchy.

[00:03:10] Yeah.

[00:03:10] And the material was so weird or whatever.

[00:03:15] I was not following any of it.

[00:03:17] I have no idea what happened in chapter one.

[00:03:18] I mean, that's why I just told you.

[00:03:20] I know.

[00:03:21] You know, they...

[00:03:22] God talked to Micah and, you know...

[00:03:23] It's just sometimes your summaries, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.

[00:03:26] But this time I was like listening with bated breath and I was like, they were naked?

[00:03:31] They were naked, yeah.

[00:03:32] I don't remember.

[00:03:33] Okay.

[00:03:33] At least Micah.

[00:03:34] Well, anyway, symbolism.

[00:03:36] But yeah, nakedness also.

[00:03:38] I like to be naked in my room by myself.

[00:03:41] Yeah, right.

[00:03:41] I like to be naked with the lights out and the curtains closed and...

[00:03:47] Just be naked there?

[00:03:48] Under the blanket.

[00:03:49] Yeah.

[00:03:50] Hiding and crying in shame.

[00:03:53] Isn't that how naked works?

[00:03:56] I think that's, yeah, that's how most people do it.

[00:03:57] Okay.

[00:03:58] All right.

[00:04:00] All right.

[00:04:01] All right.

[00:04:02] Uh, so we just got done with Micah chapter one.

[00:04:05] Sure as fuck did.

[00:04:05] Which means that today we're going to be getting into...

[00:04:08] Micah chapter two.

[00:04:10] All right.

[00:04:10] Let's do this.

[00:04:11] Okay.

[00:04:17] Okay.

[00:04:18] I have to tell you something.

[00:04:19] Do ya?

[00:04:20] Yeah.

[00:04:20] So, um, at the end there, I normally go, okie dokie.

[00:04:25] You do.

[00:04:26] But for whatever reason, um, I was like, okay.

[00:04:29] Yay!

[00:04:30] Yeah, it threw me the fuck off.

[00:04:31] I know.

[00:04:32] You looked at me like, who the fuck are you?

[00:04:34] And I, the answer to that question is that I do not know.

[00:04:38] Sometimes wife just does not know where she is.

[00:04:41] I don't, I don't know how to do the thing.

[00:04:44] Like...

[00:04:44] Not, not like in a bad way.

[00:04:45] Just like, uh...

[00:04:46] I'm like, what do I do here?

[00:04:47] I've never done it before.

[00:04:49] Right.

[00:04:49] It's the first time ever.

[00:04:51] Even though this is like probably our 1200th episode or something.

[00:04:54] Right?

[00:04:54] Yeah.

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:55] So, I just want it to be acknowledged that I am aware that I fucked that up.

[00:05:00] And this is, this is how grown ass adults move along.

[00:05:05] They acknowledge their errors and they learn from it and they grow and they try to okie

[00:05:11] dokie better next time.

[00:05:12] That's right.

[00:05:13] Okay?

[00:05:14] Yep.

[00:05:14] And I pity the fool when I am older, old, old, and I have dementia at you.

[00:05:21] Well, hopefully that never happens.

[00:05:23] I hope that my dementia sets in before yours.

[00:05:26] Cause I know that you come from a family of dementia heads.

[00:05:29] I do.

[00:05:30] And it's not gonna be good.

[00:05:33] I'm more so than you worry about, I think, that.

[00:05:35] Yes.

[00:05:36] So I...

[00:05:37] And I'm two years older than you.

[00:05:39] So, like, it, it's not in my favor.

[00:05:42] You know what I mean?

[00:05:43] Like, I feel like I'm gonna get it before you.

[00:05:46] I hope.

[00:05:48] But...

[00:05:48] I don't think anybody should hope for getting anything before anybody.

[00:05:51] I don't want either of us to have dementia, but the odds are that we're both gonna have

[00:05:56] dementia.

[00:05:57] Why?

[00:05:57] Why do you think you're gonna have it?

[00:05:59] Because I already probably have it.

[00:06:01] No.

[00:06:02] Well, I mean, I can't think of words and I forget how to okie dokie.

[00:06:06] And instead I go, okay!

[00:06:09] I'm not, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna put that as a, uh, no.

[00:06:13] No.

[00:06:14] Alright.

[00:06:14] Yeah.

[00:06:15] Well...

[00:06:15] I'm not, I'm not allowing that.

[00:06:17] That's not a thing that's happening.

[00:06:18] Well, if either of us has to have it, I hope it's me and not you.

[00:06:22] And if both of us has to have it, I hope I get it first.

[00:06:27] Okay.

[00:06:28] Okay?

[00:06:29] Yeah.

[00:06:29] The Lord has spoken.

[00:06:31] Is that what happened just then?

[00:06:32] Whoa!

[00:06:33] To those who plan iniquity.

[00:06:35] To those who plot evil on their beds.

[00:06:38] It's fine to plant it on the floor.

[00:06:40] Just don't plant it on your bed.

[00:06:42] Yeah.

[00:06:42] Did you plant it on the couch?

[00:06:44] Did you plant it on the love sea?

[00:06:46] Did you plant it on the bed?

[00:06:47] Did you plant it on the floor?

[00:06:49] Did you plant evil on your bed?

[00:06:52] Right.

[00:06:53] Yeah.

[00:06:53] Don't do it.

[00:06:54] Weren't we just talking about how God was not equitable in his distribution of punishment

[00:06:59] by allowing for the poor who were shit on by the rich to get punished along with the rich

[00:07:06] when he destroyed things?

[00:07:08] Remember how he's gonna destroy all those towns?

[00:07:10] Remember how I forgot to pay attention?

[00:07:12] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:07:13] Yeah.

[00:07:13] But we were literally talking about the inequity of that action based on how God was, you

[00:07:19] know, speaking through Micah in this last chapter.

[00:07:22] Because Micah was like, these rich people suck because of the way they've been treating

[00:07:26] the poor.

[00:07:27] So God's gonna destroy these towns.

[00:07:29] Including the poor.

[00:07:30] And I'm like, whoa, what?

[00:07:32] Yeah, yeah.

[00:07:32] Like, that's not...

[00:07:34] But now we're talking about he's shaming the people that treat people with inequity.

[00:07:39] Yeah.

[00:07:39] And I'm like...

[00:07:40] So you...

[00:07:41] So yeah, right.

[00:07:42] You're talking about yourself here.

[00:07:44] Everybody sucks.

[00:07:45] Yeah.

[00:07:45] He...

[00:07:46] They just can't get this right.

[00:07:47] No.

[00:07:48] At morning's light, they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

[00:07:53] The plot.

[00:07:54] The evil plot.

[00:07:55] Yeah, against...

[00:07:56] Yeah.

[00:07:57] The people that they're not being equitable to.

[00:07:58] They covet fields and seize them and houses and take them.

[00:08:03] They defraud people of their homes.

[00:08:05] They rob them of their inheritance.

[00:08:08] Therefore, the Lord says...

[00:08:10] You ready?

[00:08:10] Okay, I'm ready.

[00:08:11] Yeah.

[00:08:11] I am planning disaster against this people from which you cannot save yourselves.

[00:08:16] These people.

[00:08:17] Yeah.

[00:08:18] Which he says.

[00:08:19] He says...

[00:08:19] This...

[00:08:20] I am planning disaster against this people.

[00:08:23] Right.

[00:08:24] This community.

[00:08:25] This...

[00:08:25] No, no, no.

[00:08:26] Yeah, I get it.

[00:08:26] Yeah.

[00:08:27] But...

[00:08:28] Like, he doesn't...

[00:08:29] Okay.

[00:08:30] Which includes the people that are already victims.

[00:08:33] Right.

[00:08:34] Well, and that's what I'm getting at here.

[00:08:35] Like, he's...

[00:08:36] Right.

[00:08:36] He's saying...

[00:08:37] You could interpret this maybe to mean...

[00:08:40] Like, this specifically right here.

[00:08:42] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:42] To mean maybe just the rich people and the people that were treating the others with inequity.

[00:08:46] Right?

[00:08:46] I feel like that's how most people probably would.

[00:08:49] Probably.

[00:08:50] Right?

[00:08:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:51] But the last chapter...

[00:08:53] Did not differentiate.

[00:08:54] There was a differentiation between how he felt about the people that were poor versus

[00:08:57] the people that were treating the more badly.

[00:08:59] But the punishment went across the whole board.

[00:09:01] The punishment was a destruction of the towns.

[00:09:03] Yeah.

[00:09:03] Right?

[00:09:03] Which doesn't leave a whole lot of room, in my opinion...

[00:09:06] Right.

[00:09:07] ...for an equitable distribution of punishment.

[00:09:10] Yeah.

[00:09:10] So, it's always interesting to me how the God in this Bible and the prophets that are

[00:09:17] talking about this God talk about this disparity between the rich and the poor sometimes in some

[00:09:23] of these books that we've read and how the rich are obviously bad in their distribution of land and wealth and how they treat the poor.

[00:09:33] So, there's inequity.

[00:09:34] Right?

[00:09:35] As we're saying here.

[00:09:36] I'm just using the words in the Bible.

[00:09:37] Which they like this word, this book.

[00:09:40] So...

[00:09:41] But his punishment isn't metered out with equity either.

[00:09:46] No.

[00:09:46] So, there is no...

[00:09:48] Like, there's no distinction between the wrong and what the resolution to that wrong is.

[00:09:56] He doesn't really come up with a good plan, to be honest.

[00:09:59] No.

[00:10:00] Like, he's like, something bad happened and I don't know what the fuck to do to fix it, but

[00:10:06] my idea is everything is a nail because I have a hammer.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:12] So, boom!

[00:10:13] Right.

[00:10:14] No, and that's my problem here.

[00:10:18] Yeah.

[00:10:19] You can't complain about something that you're going to do yourself.

[00:10:21] Yeah.

[00:10:22] Right?

[00:10:22] And that's how most of his...

[00:10:24] This God of the Bible.

[00:10:26] Right.

[00:10:26] Most of his solutions end up being, just fucking wipe them out.

[00:10:30] Yeah.

[00:10:30] I'm just going to kill them all.

[00:10:31] Just whatever.

[00:10:32] I'm going to start over.

[00:10:33] Look.

[00:10:34] It's the eternal white out.

[00:10:36] Right.

[00:10:37] But he starts by saying, these specific people are shitty to these other specific people.

[00:10:43] Right?

[00:10:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:10:44] My solution is I'm going to kill y'all.

[00:10:46] All of you.

[00:10:47] Collectively.

[00:10:47] Right.

[00:10:48] Yeah.

[00:10:48] Because why not?

[00:10:49] Right?

[00:10:49] I'm God.

[00:10:50] They were already victims anyway.

[00:10:51] What the fuck do they matter?

[00:10:53] I don't really give a shit.

[00:10:53] I've said in the past, I don't particularly like some of you.

[00:10:56] Most of you.

[00:10:57] Yeah.

[00:10:57] Yeah.

[00:10:57] Yeah.

[00:10:58] So, you know, whatever.

[00:10:59] What does kid y'all start over?

[00:11:00] Honestly, you know, if they were being victims, they probably had it coming anyway.

[00:11:05] They just weren't praying hard enough or whatever, however that goes.

[00:11:09] Yeah.

[00:11:09] I mean, that's probably what's wrong.

[00:11:10] I mean, when you get born on the wrong continent or to the wrong family, it's your own fault.

[00:11:17] Yeah.

[00:11:17] You know, that happens to you.

[00:11:19] Indeed.

[00:11:19] Indeed.

[00:11:19] And you brought it as a baby upon yourself.

[00:11:21] Right.

[00:11:22] Okay.

[00:11:22] So, therefore, the Lord says, I'm planning a disaster against this people from which you

[00:11:27] cannot save yourselves.

[00:11:28] You will no longer walk proudly for it will be a time of calamity.

[00:11:33] Yeah.

[00:11:34] Calamity Sam.

[00:11:35] In that day.

[00:11:37] In that day.

[00:11:38] Okay.

[00:11:38] Yeah.

[00:11:39] People will ridicule you.

[00:11:41] They will taunt you with this mournful song.

[00:11:45] We are utterly ruined.

[00:11:47] My people's possession is divided up.

[00:11:52] It's a song.

[00:11:53] He takes it from me.

[00:11:55] He assigns our fields to traitors.

[00:11:58] Is it actually a song?

[00:12:00] He said, I will taunt you with this mournful song.

[00:12:04] And then I sang the words that are there.

[00:12:06] No, I was.

[00:12:07] Sorry.

[00:12:08] Somehow I missed that bit.

[00:12:10] Got it.

[00:12:11] And.

[00:12:11] But that was a great.

[00:12:12] You thought I was just singing for no reason?

[00:12:14] That was a great rendition there.

[00:12:16] I had it.

[00:12:17] And I had like platinum gold right there.

[00:12:19] That was good stuff.

[00:12:20] Look.

[00:12:22] You ain't gotta make fun.

[00:12:23] I was just having a good time with it.

[00:12:26] No, I was having a good time.

[00:12:27] I imagine that's how.

[00:12:28] You're having a good time.

[00:12:29] Fuck off.

[00:12:30] I imagine that's how God sounds.

[00:12:33] That's fair.

[00:12:33] Right?

[00:12:34] I like that.

[00:12:34] Okay.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:35] I can get down with that.

[00:12:36] Yeah.

[00:12:37] Yeah.

[00:12:37] Therefore.

[00:12:38] Therefore.

[00:12:39] You will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.

[00:12:43] Boom.

[00:12:43] Ha ha.

[00:12:44] Oh, okay.

[00:12:45] Do not prophecy.

[00:12:46] The prophets say.

[00:12:48] Do not prophecy about these things.

[00:12:50] This grace will not overtake us.

[00:12:52] Hold on a second here.

[00:12:54] We're literally reading a prophet talking to God.

[00:12:58] Mm hmm.

[00:12:59] And God is telling this prophet.

[00:13:01] Mm hmm.

[00:13:02] Not to prophecy.

[00:13:02] Yeah.

[00:13:04] No, no, no, no, no.

[00:13:05] Okay.

[00:13:06] God is saying.

[00:13:07] Okay.

[00:13:08] Yeah.

[00:13:08] Hold on.

[00:13:09] I need this breakdown here.

[00:13:11] Micah is saying that God is saying that the other prophets are saying, oh, don't prophecy

[00:13:19] against us, Micah and God.

[00:13:21] Oh.

[00:13:22] Yeah.

[00:13:22] Okay.

[00:13:23] So God is like, they're being such whiny piss ants.

[00:13:27] Okay.

[00:13:27] Okay.

[00:13:28] And Micah's like, God says that they are being such whiny piss ants.

[00:13:33] Got it.

[00:13:34] Okay.

[00:13:35] Sorry.

[00:13:35] That was a lot of like, he said, he said, he said.

[00:13:38] Right.

[00:13:39] Yeah.

[00:13:39] Yeah.

[00:13:39] But it also, that, that's, it makes more sense now that you said it and you kind of explained

[00:13:45] it better than, than I heard it.

[00:13:47] Right.

[00:13:47] So.

[00:13:47] Well, my throat is less itchy tonight so I can pay better attention.

[00:13:51] Yeah.

[00:13:51] No, that's good.

[00:13:52] That's good.

[00:13:52] Yeah.

[00:13:53] That's good.

[00:13:53] I just, I find like, there's a lot of bickering between obviously some of the prophets that

[00:14:00] made it into the Bible.

[00:14:01] Right.

[00:14:02] And they're going to get the final word because we can't go back and interview people 2000

[00:14:06] years ago.

[00:14:06] Right.

[00:14:07] I wonder if there was like a lot of like talk back then about, Hey, stop, you know, stop

[00:14:13] prophesying against me.

[00:14:15] Stop being a, stop being an asshole.

[00:14:17] You know, like don't, maybe that was just like a thing between, you know, prophets groups

[00:14:21] of prophets.

[00:14:22] I'm going to, I'm going to profit against you.

[00:14:24] Hmm.

[00:14:25] You better not.

[00:14:26] I'm going to tell the governor person.

[00:14:29] Oh, you better not tell him cause I'm going to tell God or whatever.

[00:14:33] I'm going to profit.

[00:14:34] You know what?

[00:14:35] I saw that you ate the wrong food yesterday.

[00:14:39] How do you like them apples?

[00:14:40] Boom.

[00:14:41] Right.

[00:14:41] Prophecy.

[00:14:42] Yeah.

[00:14:42] Yeah.

[00:14:44] I like to imagine that this is happening as a puppet show because that's the

[00:14:52] only way it can make sense for the mic.

[00:14:54] It'd be like, or any profit to be like, and then I go and then God goes and then this is

[00:15:00] God talking as me to me.

[00:15:02] And then this is me talking to God.

[00:15:04] And then now, okay, now hold on everybody pause.

[00:15:07] This is me talking outside of this.

[00:15:11] Okay.

[00:15:12] Right.

[00:15:12] Yeah.

[00:15:12] Like we need props.

[00:15:15] Oh yeah.

[00:15:16] No, I, I, that would definitely make this better.

[00:15:18] Right.

[00:15:18] I would, if somebody was like just showing me what's happening, like it would make this,

[00:15:25] like I would love to like work with an animator or like a, so like I could be like, okay,

[00:15:30] we need to figure out what's happening here and you need to show it.

[00:15:34] And then we're going to talk as we're going to read this and I'm going to be like, Oh,

[00:15:37] that.

[00:15:37] Okay.

[00:15:38] So we're casting Micah right now.

[00:15:40] Is Micah a cabbage patch doll or a transformer or like, uh, one of the GI Joe guys?

[00:15:48] No, he's gotta be a Thundercat.

[00:15:49] Is he a Thundercat?

[00:15:50] That's, that's what I'm picking.

[00:15:51] Why?

[00:15:52] That's so tough.

[00:15:53] I don't think Micah deserves to be a Thundercat.

[00:15:56] Thundercats are awesome.

[00:15:58] Oh yeah.

[00:15:59] Thundercats are way too awesome.

[00:16:00] Micah ain't no Thundercat.

[00:16:02] You're right.

[00:16:02] Okay.

[00:16:03] You sully the mouth of Thundercat.

[00:16:05] All right.

[00:16:05] I said mouth, but I meant house.

[00:16:07] Yeah.

[00:16:08] Right.

[00:16:08] You sully the house of Thundercat.

[00:16:10] Yeah.

[00:16:11] All right.

[00:16:12] So maybe, maybe he's a Ken.

[00:16:14] Maybe he's more like a, he's a Ken doll.

[00:16:16] Okay.

[00:16:16] He's not even Ken.

[00:16:17] He's, he's one of the off brand Kens.

[00:16:20] There you go.

[00:16:20] Okay.

[00:16:21] Do not prophecy.

[00:16:22] He said off brand Ken quoting the other prophets.

[00:16:25] Do not prophecy these things about us.

[00:16:27] Oh, disgrace will not overtake us.

[00:16:30] Okay.

[00:16:30] Okay.

[00:16:31] Now I think he is, he's either being himself or he's talking as God now.

[00:16:37] Okay.

[00:16:37] Not sure which you descendants of Jacob.

[00:16:40] Should it be said, does the Lord become impatient?

[00:16:44] Does he do such things?

[00:16:46] Do my words do away?

[00:16:49] Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright lately?

[00:16:55] My people have risen up like an army.

[00:16:58] You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning

[00:17:05] from battle.

[00:17:06] You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes.

[00:17:10] You take away my blessing from their children forever.

[00:17:14] Get up, go away for this is not your resting place because it is defiled.

[00:17:19] It is ruined beyond all remedy.

[00:17:21] If a liar and deceiver comes and says, I'll prophecy for you plenty of wine and beer, that

[00:17:28] would be just the profit for this people.

[00:17:30] That sounded so snarky.

[00:17:32] No, but I kind of like it.

[00:17:33] Like we had discussed early on that, that this is kind of a, he's prophesying against the

[00:17:39] rich and the powerful.

[00:17:40] Right.

[00:17:41] And I like the message.

[00:17:43] And if you take it in the sense that this is a political message and not a message from

[00:17:48] God.

[00:17:48] Which the way I read it, the way I am taking the Bible generally speaking as we're kind

[00:17:54] of going through it, because it reads this way, is that they kind of use God as a political

[00:18:01] puppet.

[00:18:01] Right.

[00:18:02] And if you're looking at it from that stance, he's invoking God to say, you rich people

[00:18:07] suck.

[00:18:08] You're treating these poor people like crap.

[00:18:10] You're doing these things.

[00:18:11] You're ruining their lives.

[00:18:12] You're doing all these things wrong.

[00:18:14] I kind of like that message.

[00:18:16] And, and he's like, and God doesn't like it.

[00:18:19] And he's going to get you.

[00:18:20] But that's almost at some level is almost beside the point.

[00:18:23] Right.

[00:18:23] Right.

[00:18:23] Like this is Micah saying, you asshole rich people need to stop treating the people who

[00:18:30] are lesser than you with regard to, you know, means.

[00:18:34] You need to stop treating them shitty.

[00:18:36] It's almost like he's Aerosmith singing that badass song, eat the rich.

[00:18:41] Yeah.

[00:18:42] Yeah.

[00:18:42] Such a good song.

[00:18:43] I mean, you go in Robin hood, right?

[00:18:45] Like steal from the rich, whatever.

[00:18:47] He, this, this, I kind of like this.

[00:18:49] We're not quite to the steal from the rich take, you know, give it to the poor thing.

[00:18:53] But the message is very, we, the people, you know, people, you know, we need to stand

[00:18:58] up and fight this injustice, right?

[00:19:02] The, we are only as great as our weakest link.

[00:19:06] Right.

[00:19:06] United.

[00:19:06] We stand together.

[00:19:08] No, wait, what is it?

[00:19:10] United.

[00:19:10] We stand together.

[00:19:11] We fall.

[00:19:12] No together.

[00:19:13] We fall.

[00:19:14] Yeah.

[00:19:14] Okay.

[00:19:15] Yeah.

[00:19:15] It's very, um, democratizing as far as the way this is, but just there's God over

[00:19:20] there too.

[00:19:21] Well, yeah.

[00:19:21] So I like, I like this message.

[00:19:23] Me too.

[00:19:24] It's a good, it's a good.

[00:19:26] Generally speaking.

[00:19:27] Sure.

[00:19:27] Leave out God.

[00:19:28] I, I love anybody who stands up for the oppressed.

[00:19:31] Yes.

[00:19:32] I mean, that's always a good message.

[00:19:33] That's probably why this is a, you know, people invoke this as we were, you mentioned

[00:19:38] it earlier.

[00:19:39] People invoke this at an oft quoted book from which, um, oppressed people at, um, rallies,

[00:19:46] rallies and protests.

[00:19:48] Yeah.

[00:19:48] Wave their signs.

[00:19:49] Yeah.

[00:19:49] Yeah.

[00:19:50] All right.

[00:19:51] If a liar and deceiver comes and says, I will prophecy for you plenty of wine and

[00:19:55] beer, that would be just the profit for this people.

[00:19:58] I will surely gather all of you, Jacob.

[00:20:01] I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.

[00:20:04] Wait, what?

[00:20:05] Okay.

[00:20:05] Now he's back to, I'm going to fuck all your shit up, but don't worry.

[00:20:08] There'll be a remnant.

[00:20:10] Right.

[00:20:10] I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture, like a

[00:20:15] lollipop on a stick.

[00:20:17] The place will throng with people.

[00:20:19] Okay.

[00:20:21] The people that he decides that are going to make it through this.

[00:20:23] The remnant.

[00:20:24] The remnant.

[00:20:24] Okay.

[00:20:25] The good grapes, not the squish raisins.

[00:20:28] Sure.

[00:20:28] Which I guess you can make a case for.

[00:20:30] He's, he's not punishing the wrong people if you.

[00:20:33] For the meek shall inherit the earth.

[00:20:35] Wait, no, that's Jesus in the new Testament.

[00:20:37] Right.

[00:20:37] Hold on.

[00:20:38] Nevermind.

[00:20:38] But still you could take this remnant portion here to maybe say he's punishing just the

[00:20:44] right people.

[00:20:44] Sure.

[00:20:45] Right.

[00:20:45] Let's hope.

[00:20:46] The one, capital O, one who breaks open the way will go up before them.

[00:20:51] They will break through the gate and go out.

[00:20:54] Their king, capital K, will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.

[00:21:00] The end.

[00:21:01] Jesus.

[00:21:01] Is that Jesus?

[00:21:04] Oh, Jesus.

[00:21:05] No, I just had to say it that way.

[00:21:07] Because it does definitely ring of Jesus.

[00:21:11] Right.

[00:21:11] It does definitely ring of somebody came back and read this and put a Jesus in there.

[00:21:15] No.

[00:21:16] Yeah.

[00:21:16] That's what I'm saying.

[00:21:17] That's what, that's exactly what I'm saying.

[00:21:18] Yeah.

[00:21:19] So yeah, obviously we read this from a Christian Bible.

[00:21:22] It is the Old Testament, right?

[00:21:24] But the way, the, where this is in the Bible, in the, in the Christian Bible.

[00:21:30] And again, I don't know that it matches up exactly in the, in fact, I think in the,

[00:21:35] the Jewish texts it's earlier we had discussed at some point.

[00:21:39] I honestly don't remember.

[00:21:41] But regardless, it's not going to be in exactly the same place.

[00:21:44] Right.

[00:21:44] Right.

[00:21:44] It's interesting.

[00:21:45] The placement.

[00:21:46] It's interesting.

[00:21:46] The wording.

[00:21:47] It's interesting what they chose to leave in this book and emphasize with the king.

[00:21:54] And the, you know, like this definitely does feel like it was, if not changed, maybe manipulated a little.

[00:22:00] Yeah.

[00:22:01] You know?

[00:22:01] So, but I'm going to go back to, I like the message.

[00:22:04] Sure.

[00:22:05] And I think that this Micah character, as far as the Old Testament is concerned, so far is, he's all right.

[00:22:13] Somebody read the Pentateuch.

[00:22:14] He's all right in that he's standing up for the poor and the oppressed.

[00:22:18] Right.

[00:22:18] It's giving Leviticus.

[00:22:21] It's what?

[00:22:22] I was being a young person who is speaking of the energy that it is giving off.

[00:22:29] Oh, I see.

[00:22:30] And I was saying, you know, it's giving.

[00:22:31] Got it.

[00:22:32] Oh yeah, yeah.

[00:22:33] The old wreck when they were standing up for poor people and, you know, things like that.

[00:22:36] Yeah.

[00:22:37] Got it.

[00:22:38] Yeah.

[00:22:38] No, that makes sense.

[00:22:39] Sorry.

[00:22:39] I was slow.

[00:22:40] You were being an old guy.

[00:22:43] I was.

[00:22:43] Yeah.

[00:22:44] And I was being a young.

[00:22:45] I was totally a Bible boomer.

[00:22:47] And then I had to explain it to you, which then made me be old.

[00:22:52] Yeah.

[00:22:52] And now I kind of want to die a little bit on the inside.

[00:22:57] Um, well, I'm sorry.

[00:23:02] But that was, I, I enjoyed that chapter.

[00:23:04] I did too.

[00:23:05] Overall.

[00:23:06] Insofar as.

[00:23:06] Insofar as.

[00:23:07] Sure.

[00:23:07] Yeah.

[00:23:08] It's still not as good as the book of Jonah.

[00:23:11] No.

[00:23:11] I'm sorry, but the book of Jonah, that book, that book slaps.

[00:23:16] I guess I was just thinking most of the way through of how it resonated with ideas that

[00:23:20] I have about how rich people kind of treat people today.

[00:23:23] Yeah.

[00:23:23] So I appreciate that message.

[00:23:26] Obviously the God shit that can take it or leave it for as far as I'm concerned.

[00:23:31] Yeah.

[00:23:31] But the message I liked.

[00:23:33] So that's a decent chapter.

[00:23:35] I think.

[00:23:36] Yeah.

[00:23:36] As they, as they go.

[00:23:38] As they go.

[00:23:38] Yeah.

[00:23:39] Sure.

[00:23:39] I mean, no rape.

[00:23:40] Hells.

[00:23:41] Right.

[00:23:41] That's a win.

[00:23:42] I mean, small victories, baby.

[00:23:44] Yeah.

[00:23:45] Yeah.

[00:23:46] No, no mass murder.

[00:23:47] No.

[00:23:48] Exactly.

[00:23:48] I mean, we only discussed it.

[00:23:50] We discussed it.

[00:23:51] We discussed the smiting.

[00:23:52] Right.

[00:23:53] Yeah.

[00:23:53] Yeah.

[00:23:53] So that's a win too.

[00:23:54] Sure.

[00:23:55] Yeah.

[00:23:55] Overall, it's a, you know, like a, I say I never get more than like a six or a seven.

[00:24:01] So we'll go with like, that was like a four.

[00:24:03] It's not a one.

[00:24:05] It's not a zero.

[00:24:06] It's not a negative.

[00:24:07] I honestly, I would have said it was a good five.

[00:24:10] I was saying on a scale of one to six or seven.

[00:24:13] Oh, I thought you said I would never on the, on any book in the Bible, I would never go higher than a six or seven.

[00:24:18] Oh, okay.

[00:24:20] So that's, that's what I was saying.

[00:24:21] Okay.

[00:24:22] I didn't follow you that time.

[00:24:24] Where I would never take any book in the Bible that I've read thus far.

[00:24:26] Yeah.

[00:24:27] It was definitely a solid four.

[00:24:28] Yeah.

[00:24:28] Okay.

[00:24:29] Yeah.

[00:24:29] Totally.

[00:24:30] So that would mean that Jonah was the seven.

[00:24:34] It was, it was right up there.

[00:24:35] Yeah.

[00:24:36] It was a good book.

[00:24:37] Yeah.

[00:24:37] There were some chapters in Jonah.

[00:24:38] The wrap up was better.

[00:24:40] Yes.

[00:24:41] Than the chapters.

[00:24:42] Because it lent a lot more knowledge to that book that we had just read.

[00:24:46] Yeah.

[00:24:47] So that, that definitely helped.

[00:24:48] It brought it home.

[00:24:49] Yeah.

[00:24:50] It brought it from a six to a seven.

[00:24:51] You know what?

[00:24:52] I agree with that assessment.

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:55] So anyway, we're not in Jonah.

[00:24:57] No, I'm sorry.

[00:24:58] In fact, what we just read was.

[00:25:00] Micah chapter two.

[00:25:01] Sorry, Micah.

[00:25:02] I didn't mean to diss you there, bro.

[00:25:04] Right.

[00:25:04] Yeah.

[00:25:04] I was so good.

[00:25:06] Jonah was so good.

[00:25:07] It usurped Micah.

[00:25:08] I know.

[00:25:09] That's probably Micah's problem here.

[00:25:10] It was, he followed up Jonah.

[00:25:13] I mean, I hate.

[00:25:14] You don't want to follow up the, the, the main, the main.

[00:25:18] The belly of the whale.

[00:25:18] No.

[00:25:19] You don't want to follow up the main ticket.

[00:25:20] No.

[00:25:21] You want to, you want to precede the main ticket.

[00:25:23] You want to open for the band.

[00:25:25] Yeah.

[00:25:25] You don't want to then close after the band.

[00:25:28] Right.

[00:25:29] No.

[00:25:29] It's just like a fizzle.

[00:25:30] Yeah.

[00:25:30] Nobody wants to be the closer.

[00:25:32] No one wants to fizzle out.

[00:25:33] No.

[00:25:33] Right.

[00:25:33] No.

[00:25:34] So anyway, that was Micah chapter two.

[00:25:36] Sure as fuck was.

[00:25:37] Which means that tomorrow we'll be back with.

[00:25:40] I don't even know what is happening.

[00:25:42] Wait.

[00:25:43] Micah chapter three.

[00:25:44] Well, hold on.

[00:25:46] Okay.

[00:25:46] I'm holding.

[00:25:46] It's the weekend.

[00:25:47] Are we, I don't know.

[00:25:48] We have to come out on a Sunday.

[00:25:50] Oh, is it?

[00:25:50] Okay.

[00:25:50] Because we're kind of off.

[00:25:52] Oh, see, like I couldn't remember what today was.

[00:25:54] And then I couldn't remember after that, when this would be coming out.

[00:25:59] We fell so far behind that I'm just trying to like start over.

[00:26:03] Yeah.

[00:26:03] We're just kind of like resetting here.

[00:26:05] Then yes, we will be back tomorrow with Micah chapter three and just pretend I never

[00:26:10] said anything else.

[00:26:11] Yeah.

[00:26:12] All right.

[00:26:12] We'll see you guys.

[00:26:13] Bye.