1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,919 Speaker 1: The Thinking Atheist. It's not a person, it's a symbol, 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:13,080 an idea. 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: The population of atheists this country is going through the. 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: Room, rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred. If I 5 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:25,640 tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, not 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,640 because I put my hand on a book and made 7 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:31,920 a wish and working together for a more rational world. 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,799 Speaker 2: Take the risk of thinking. Feel so much more happiness, truth, beausire, 9 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:37,799 and wisdom will come to you that way. 10 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: Assume nothing, question everything, and start thinking. This is the 11 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:50,600 Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. 12 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:04,079 Speaker 2: The response to my recent quiz show was so good 13 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,280 and so many people ask for more. I am happy 14 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:15,760 to present for you today round two of Atheist Bible Trivia, because, 15 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:18,920 of course, if you want Bible literacy, if you want 16 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,959 to know what the scriptures actually say, you probably want 17 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,959 to ask somebody who left the faith of Christianity because 18 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,519 they read the Bible and they know what's in it. Now. 19 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,959 I'm not approaching these questions as actual history, like this 20 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,280 stuff happened. We're talking about stories as stories, the ones 21 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,280 that were written by anonymous men who likely thought that 22 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:47,480 the earth was flats that didn't know what the stars were. 23 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,319 They believed in unicorns, and they thought that God created 24 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:59,040 women to make sandwitches and ovulate. Okay, so let us 25 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:05,840 once again enter God's book of horror and occasional benevolence. 26 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:14,280 Let's find out how much we really know Question one. 27 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:18,159 We talked about this story in the previous broadcast, But 28 00:02:18,319 --> 00:02:22,400 let's go back to the famous tale of Moses rescuing 29 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,599 the Israelites from Pharaoh in Egypt. His mission was to 30 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,560 convince Pharaoh to let my people go, and of course 31 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:38,800 God simultaneously made it impossible for Pharaoh to agree. So 32 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:41,800 the mission was convince Pharaoh. I'm going to make it 33 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:48,360 impossible to convince Pharaoh. Then, after Pharaoh's unchanging mind would 34 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:55,280 not change, here come the plagues. Now, the plague described 35 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:59,960 in Exodus chapter seven was a river turning to blood. 36 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,599 What was the name of the river? Was it the Jordan, 37 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:16,680 the Tigris, the Nile, or the Euphrates? The Jordan River, 38 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:23,199 the Tigris, the Nile, or the Euphrates, And the correct answer, 39 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:30,080 of course, is the Nile River. The Nihil is mentioned 40 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,000 throughout the Old Testament. It plays a pretty big part 41 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,319 in the Bible, including in the Pentateuch, the Hebrew Bible, 42 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,360 the first five books of the Old Testament. It's part 43 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,159 of the Joseph story, and the Nile is included in 44 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,800 various prophecies. Question number two. Still in the Old Testament, 45 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,919 the Book of Deuteronomy talks about a scenario where two 46 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:00,840 husbands get into a fistfight. Chapter twenty five, Verse one says, 47 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,560 when people have a dispute, they are to take it 48 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:08,400 to court and the judges will decide the case. But 49 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:13,560 we all know how guys can get when the testosterone 50 00:04:13,719 --> 00:04:19,079 saturates their brains. After all, they are still male primates. 51 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:24,680 So verse eleven talks about two guys duking it out, 52 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,319 the fists are flying. It's on and there is a 53 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:34,480 command regarding this scenario, but it is not targeted at 54 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:41,040 either of the violent men. The command targets the wife. Quote. 55 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:44,360 If two men are fighting and the wife of one 56 00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:48,040 of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, 57 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:53,199 and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 58 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:59,720 the men are commanded to do what scream out in 59 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:07,920 great pain forgive the woman, demand a blood sacrifice, or 60 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:13,800 cut off the wife's hand. So scream out in pain 61 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:23,480 forgive the woman demand a blood sacrifice or amputate her hand. Well, 62 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:28,439 anybody familiar with God's tendencies in the Old Testament knows 63 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:34,240 that he hates passing up a good amputation. So somebody 64 00:05:34,319 --> 00:05:39,800 takes a sword and hacks off the woman's hand. Deuteronomy 65 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:45,360 twenty five eleven goes on to say, show her no pity. 66 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:52,120 Women in the Bible fall into the category of pity free, 67 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,399 and as such low They have been warned that female 68 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:04,199 fingers should never tamp the tests. This one gets a 69 00:06:04,199 --> 00:06:06,360 little complicated, but I think you'll be able to take 70 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:09,079 the journey with me. And yes, there is a trivia 71 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,560 question in here. It's a great story for the kiddies. 72 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:19,079 It's the story of Dinah, which few Christians know about. 73 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,600 A whole lot of believers have never heard of a 74 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,519 Dinah in scripture. All they have to do is open 75 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:31,399 the thirty fourth chapter of Genesis to hear this inspiring story. 76 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,839 One day, Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went 77 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,600 to visit some of the Canaanite women. So she traveled 78 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:45,240 to a Canaanite village, and the chief of that region 79 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:49,519 was a guy named Shechem. Shechhem was the son of 80 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:55,040 the even more powerful Haymore. Okay, so Shechem the Sun 81 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:00,839 saw Dinah and said, man, she's hot. And he decided 82 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:06,040 he was going to force himself on her sexually, and 83 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:12,279 so he raped Dinah. But after this horrifying act of 84 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:17,680 violation and trauma, Shechem thought to himself, you know, she's 85 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:23,160 so pretty, and she's so sweet and such a good candidate. 86 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:27,399 I think I would like to be her husband. How 87 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:31,120 do I win her affection, or more importantly, how do 88 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,959 I get her father's permission to marry her, since essentially 89 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:38,120 she doesn't have a say in the matter. In fact, 90 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,959 it's interesting that in the thirty fourth chapter of Genesism, 91 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,759 back in the entire Bible, Dinah, who's the subject of 92 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:52,319 the story, doesn't say a single word. Okay, everybody does 93 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,839 all the talking. All the guys are talking. Dinah, the 94 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:02,120 raped woman, doesn't utter a syllable. But Shechem went to 95 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,600 his father, Haymore, and he said, look, I want you 96 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:08,600 to go and talk to Jacob and get his permission 97 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,360 to marry his daughter off to me. But Jacob had 98 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:18,160 heard that his daughter had been raped, and he was 99 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:24,160 understandably put out. Jacob's sons were out working in the field, 100 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,920 so he couldn't just rally them all and go and 101 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:31,360 you know, protest or declare war or whatever. So he 102 00:08:31,399 --> 00:08:33,960 waited for his sons to come back. And then there's 103 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,600 Shechem's dad who approaches Haymore talked to Jacob and said, 104 00:08:38,639 --> 00:08:42,519 you know what, my son, the rapist and your daughter, 105 00:08:42,759 --> 00:08:47,120 the rape victim, should get married. They wouldn't just make 106 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:51,960 a great couple. This would be a uniting of our tribes. 107 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,519 You can stay in our country, live wherever you want to, 108 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,080 you can trade freely, own property. We would all be 109 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:06,039 one big, happy family, and my son Shechem would get 110 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,320 to marry the woman that he wants. And to sweeten 111 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:14,480 the deal, hay More offered Jacob whatever payment he wanted. 112 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:17,559 He said, you name your price and I will pay 113 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,279 it gladly. Now the story has been pretty awful so far, 114 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:26,600 but this is just where it gets weird. Jacob and 115 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:31,279 his sons came up with a secret scheme to get revenge. 116 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,519 So the brothers looked at Haymore and said, we can't 117 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,799 let our sister marry within a culture of men who 118 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:46,159 don't do this. Practice? What practice? What thing did Jacob's 119 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:52,279 sons require as a condition for the marriage of Dinah. 120 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,759 The men had to cut their hair so they did 121 00:09:55,759 --> 00:10:00,559 not resemble women. The men would not eat un clean 122 00:10:00,919 --> 00:10:05,759 meat like pigs and horses. The men would have to 123 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,480 all get circumcised, or the men had to divorce all 124 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:19,120 but one of their wives. The answer the men would 125 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:25,679 get circumcised. Apparently, hey More just decided he was going 126 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,960 to go back to the village of the town he 127 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:32,200 was ruling over and command the men, Look, my son 128 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,679 really wants to marry this woman, and these people really 129 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,360 want to come and share our land and resources. But 130 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,200 there's just one little thing and it's on the tippy 131 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:50,480 or penis, and it's got to go. And all of 132 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:56,200 the men in the town agreed to this. Yes, yes, 133 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,679 sir Haymore, to facilitate your son's marriage and bring these 134 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:05,440 people into our lands. You may take your knife and 135 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:12,879 you may flay my flesh weasel. Then, according to the 136 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:17,919 Book of Genesis, three days later, three days after the procedure, 137 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:23,240 all of the circumcised men were sitting around soar from 138 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,000 having their foreskins removed. They were still in great pain, 139 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:33,159 and they were incapacitated. And at this point, while everybody 140 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,720 was sort of grabbing their crotch, or doing ointment or 141 00:11:36,799 --> 00:11:41,200 whatever painkillers you know, extra strength, tailand all whatever they 142 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,679 were doing. Two sons of Jacobs, each carrying one sword, 143 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,200 went into the camp and managed to kill all of 144 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:57,279 the men. Two guys wiped out an entire army of men. 145 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,320 Apparently the males were so distracted by the pain that 146 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,080 they didn't hear the assailant coming, or they just weren't 147 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,039 able to get to a standing position for proper defense. Anyway, 148 00:12:10,759 --> 00:12:15,519 they were all slaughtered, including Shechem and his father Haymore. 149 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,919 And then, because God is so just and moral and good, 150 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:23,799 he allowed his agents of righteousness to go in and 151 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:30,240 kidnap the women and children. Genesis does not specify what 152 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:38,120 was done with all the foreskins. Here is one that 153 00:12:38,279 --> 00:12:44,120 is somewhat related. Traditionally, we know the Israelites as having 154 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:49,480 been divided into twelve tribes. The twelve tribes of Israel 155 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:54,440 descended from the patriarch Jacob, and one of those tribes 156 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,639 was the Levites Judges Chapter nineteen. A Levite and was 157 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,679 traveling with his concubine. Now, a concubine is a woman 158 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,039 who lives with a man to whom she is not 159 00:13:09,279 --> 00:13:15,799 legally married, and she likely serves him both socially and sexually. 160 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:20,559 This makes no sense to me. Yahweh despises sex out 161 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,000 of wedlock, he condemns adultery, and yet he says nothing 162 00:13:25,039 --> 00:13:29,879 in protest about his levite bachelor who had been porking 163 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:33,919 the help. Now how did he get the concubine? The 164 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,720 Bible says that the woman was taken from Bethlehem, and 165 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,240 taken's a weird word, like did she leave on her 166 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:46,679 own from Bethlehem or did he just like roper to 167 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:49,840 the donkey or toss her in a sack? The Bible 168 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:55,480 doesn't say, but uh oh. Verse two of Judges nineteen 169 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,080 says that the woman was unfaithful. Now this doesn't necessary 170 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,799 sarahly mean sexually unfaithful. It's possible she was just upset 171 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,879 and fearful and angry. She made the mistake of having 172 00:14:09,919 --> 00:14:13,799 a mind of her own and demanded respect as she 173 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,039 shared a home with this selfish bastard of a man. 174 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,759 And so she walked. She left him, and she went 175 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:27,879 back to her parents' house in Bethlehem. Four months later, 176 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,679 the leevite man who suddenly in verse three is called 177 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:38,519 her husband. He traveled to Bethlehem to retrieve her, and 178 00:14:38,639 --> 00:14:42,600 for five days he haggled with the father, because of 179 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:46,879 course the woman is under the dominion of men, and 180 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,639 her father was the one who would make that deal. 181 00:14:49,759 --> 00:14:56,080 After five days, the leevite man left again with his concubine. 182 00:14:56,159 --> 00:15:00,519 Now stick with me. These two arrived in the city 183 00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:06,600 of gibbea nobody offered them any hospitality. They just stood 184 00:15:06,679 --> 00:15:10,919 in the town square looking for options, a place to stay, 185 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:16,559 some food. Nobody until an old man showed up, and 186 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:19,759 he invited them to spend the night in his home, 187 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:22,799 and he treated them well. He gave them food and 188 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:28,240 water and care for their donkeys, etc. All of a sudden, 189 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,559 some men in the town surrounded that old man's house 190 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,279 and banged on the door, demanding bring out your guest 191 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:42,720 so we can know him. In other words, they wanted 192 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,120 to rape the man, but that would not do. In 193 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:52,080 Bible times, the value of a man was obviously so 194 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,320 much greater than the value of a woman, and homosexual 195 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,960 rape would be a particularly haus attack on male honor. No, 196 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:09,159 the host insisted the male guest stay protected inside, and 197 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:14,559 that leevite man then grabbed his concubine and threw the 198 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,440 woman out the door to be raped by the mob, 199 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:25,200 and that mob abused her all nights. The next morning, 200 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:31,600 that concubine was lying at the door totally unresponsive. The 201 00:16:31,679 --> 00:16:35,759 Leevites took her body, put it on his donkey, and 202 00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:39,440 rode home. And when he got to his house, he 203 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,960 decided that all the twelve tribes of Israel had to 204 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,159 be made aware of what had happened, this terrible act 205 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,759 of violence, this rape and murder of his woman. But 206 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,759 how was he going to get their attention so they 207 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:02,759 would agree to join him for war? Did he lay 208 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:07,720 her body on the mountain of Ephraim, chop her up 209 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:15,039 into twelve pieces, sound a trumpet twelve times, or burn 210 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:21,559 her body upon an altar of bronze. So lay her 211 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,160 body on the mountain of Ephraim, chop her up into 212 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,720 twelve pieces, sound a trumpet twelve times, or burn her 213 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:36,759 body upon a bronze altar. And the answer once again is, 214 00:17:39,279 --> 00:17:45,440 let's chop up the woman twelve pieces, hacked off body 215 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:49,960 parts that would be separated and then each mailed to 216 00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:54,920 a separate tribe of Israel. I have no idea how 217 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,839 this was done. You know, paper envelopes just don't seem practical. 218 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,680 I'd get all soggy boxes. Maybe did he sealed the 219 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,279 body parts and zip lock baggies, you know, freezer bags. 220 00:18:08,279 --> 00:18:10,920 He put him in ice. I have no idea Each 221 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,759 of those twelve tribes received their package. Oh look, it 222 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,119 is a body part, presumably with a posted note from 223 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,599 the leevite explaining why he'd mailed it in the first place. 224 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:29,160 And instead of punishing that leevite man who tossed his 225 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,880 woman into a horde of crazed rapists to save himself, 226 00:18:34,799 --> 00:18:40,599 they mobilized about four hundred thousand Israelite warriors ready to 227 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:45,160 slaughter the town where it all went down. After that, 228 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:50,119 there was some snarking within the tribes, taking sides between 229 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:54,480 this tribe or that tribe, but ultimately the Israelites did 230 00:18:54,599 --> 00:18:57,480 what they so often did in the eyes of Yahweh. 231 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:04,480 They just slaughtered every and everything across the region, including 232 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,880 all the livestock, because you got to kill the cows 233 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,000 when the people have offended you. More trivia to come. 234 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:17,200 I'm going to talk about the end of Days, the Apocalypse. 235 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:33,480 I have End Times trivia next. I love doing Bible 236 00:19:33,599 --> 00:19:37,160 stories when I get to pick them right when we're 237 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,559 not doing all the happy clappy, empty calorie stuff that 238 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,680 everybody knows or thinks they know. Oh, Adam and Eve 239 00:19:44,799 --> 00:19:48,839 were frolicking around the garden, and somehow they didn't get 240 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:53,559 a rash while brushing up against the foliage, you know, 241 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:56,039 while they had no clothes on. And then look there's 242 00:19:56,079 --> 00:19:59,119 Noah and all the camels and the penguins and the 243 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,440 fruit bats, the anacondas and the hamsters. They all went 244 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:05,640 up the ramp and they boarded his arc and there 245 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,960 was a dove and an olive branch and rainbows. What 246 00:20:10,039 --> 00:20:13,480 a lovely story. They don't talk about the bodies banging 247 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:17,640 up against the hull of the boat. Moses held out 248 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,920 his staff, parting the Red Sea. The Israelites were saved. 249 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,200 The baby Jesus in a manger. I always think about 250 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,039 Talladega Knights starring Will Ferrell. You know, he's sitting at 251 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:32,319 the dinner table and he does that prayer, you know, 252 00:20:32,559 --> 00:20:39,839 dear Lord baby Jesus, right, dear tiny Jesus and your 253 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,839 golden fleece diapers with your tiny little fat balled up fists. So, 254 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,400 dear eight pound six ounce newborn infant Jesus, don't even 255 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,359 know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly 256 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,160 but still omnipotent. That prayer always totally cracks me up. 257 00:20:55,599 --> 00:20:58,880 But we're not talking about the sweet little baby Jesus 258 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,519 right now. We're going to do some trivia out of 259 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:07,759 the last book of the Bible. Let us for a 260 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,079 moment jump from the Old Testament to the New. Let 261 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:17,559 us talk about the apocalypse. The Book of Revelation describes 262 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,359 the end of days. Now, the author of this Bible 263 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:29,039 book had apparently just recently discovered that licking certain frogs 264 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,559 will make you hallucinate, because he was obviously on something right. 265 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,279 The shit written in Revelation can only be the result 266 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,440 of some kind of psychotropic compound. It's the only explanation. 267 00:21:43,759 --> 00:21:47,240 Reading Revelation is kind of like watching Layer of the 268 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:54,400 whiteworm while spinning in a centrifuge. Even the apologist all 269 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:59,119 get together and they're like, whoo, you know, even the 270 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:04,599 Bible expert, many Bible believers are saying, okay, somebody inhaled 271 00:22:05,039 --> 00:22:08,400 when they wrote Revelation. So of course this seems like 272 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:13,119 a great place for an interesting trivia question. At the 273 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,880 end of days, the whole planet is going to go 274 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:24,319 absolutely bonkers. Revelation Chapter seven has four angels and they 275 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,759 show up and they hold back the four winds of 276 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:33,440 the earth, so everything is perfectly still. And another angel 277 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:38,480 from the east will call out, okay, don't smite anybody, 278 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,079 don't destroy anything until we have had a chance to 279 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:46,920 go and identify God's people, the righteous people, and then 280 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,640 we're going to designate him by stamping a seal on 281 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:55,000 their foreheads. And these are the tribes of Israel, twelve 282 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:59,559 thousand people from the tribe of Judah, Semi and Benjamin, etc. Okay, 283 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,480 Then all of a sudden appears a great multitude in 284 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:09,440 white robes, and they are waving palm leaves, shouting salvation 285 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,880 belongs to our God, who sits on the throne. These 286 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:18,359 robed people will be those who survived the great tribulation. 287 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,720 Then things go crazy. Verse six of chapter seven in 288 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,720 Revelation says there are seven angels that will sound big trumpets, 289 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,279 one at a time, and every trumpet will unleash a 290 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,680 fresh horror upon humankind. In fact, things are going to 291 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,240 get so bad that people will beg to be killed. 292 00:23:42,599 --> 00:23:45,960 Please kill me. I would like to die rather than 293 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:50,240 endure what you're sending down from heaven. The first angel 294 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:55,079 trumpet will bring hail and fire mixed with blood. The 295 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:00,960 second trumpet turns all the waters to blood. The third 296 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:07,039 trumpet brings a giant, flaming star crashing down to poison 297 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:14,039 one third of the water on Earth. Now, your question is, 298 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:22,440 what is the name of that falling star? Is it wormwood? 299 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:38,960 On Taris Dionysus or Magrithea? Wormwood and Taris Dionysus or Magrithea. 300 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:48,079 The correct answer here is wormwood. And it's interesting that 301 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,759 this falling star, filled with horrors, is poisoning one third 302 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:56,599 of the water on Earth. But the second trumpet had 303 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,640 previously turned the waters to blood, which I it assume 304 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,359 already made the water undrinkable. So you're poisoning blood water. 305 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,839 I don't know. It's weird. Revelation eight ten through eleven 306 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,920 says that a third of the waters become wormwood. Now 307 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,480 this is interesting because there's a Greek word for wormwood. 308 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,640 It is abscynthus, which may refer to a plant, a 309 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,680 bitter tasting, dark green plant. And if that's the case, 310 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,279 Revelation might be attempting to say that a third of 311 00:25:32,319 --> 00:25:35,960 the waters on planet Earth would simply taste like the 312 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,000 plant too bitter to drink. And a quick piece of 313 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:46,279 trivia regarding wormwood. We all remember, surenoble, the big nuclear 314 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,880 meltdown in the Soviet Union in nineteen eighty six. This 315 00:25:51,039 --> 00:25:57,759 power plant produced the worst nuclear disaster in history. And 316 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:01,319 there's radiation damage and poisoning. It's just awful. Okay, Well, 317 00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:06,200 there are some who have said that Chernobyl actually links 318 00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:11,240 to the worm wood of revelation and that star falling 319 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:16,519 down and contaminating the waters. This has been interpreted as 320 00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:20,640 the fallout that toxified the lakes and the rivers and 321 00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:26,880 the entire region. Wormwood poisoned that land. And if you 322 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,519 go to the Chernobyl Town Center, there is an actual 323 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:35,799 memorial there. It's the Wormwood Star Memorial. It depicts an 324 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,960 angel blowing a trumpet, that third trumpet which brought the 325 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,880 deadly star out of the sky to land on humankind. 326 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,160 Now you might be wondering about the other trumpets. I 327 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,400 gave you three of the seven. The first was hail 328 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,079 and fire mixed with blood. The second, the waters became blood. 329 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,839 The third was wormwood. Trumpet number four. This will make 330 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:06,000 the sun and stars go black. Trumpet five brings a 331 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:10,440 plague of locusts now. According to the scriptures, these aren't 332 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,480 just locusts that come down and become an annoyance or 333 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,440 eat your crops or whatever. These are gonna be little sadists. 334 00:27:18,079 --> 00:27:22,799 And these locusts will torment the wicked. So I don't 335 00:27:22,839 --> 00:27:25,240 know if it's like I will taunt you a second time. 336 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,839 I don't know if that's gonna be what you or 337 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:29,799 are they going to eat people. I don't know, but 338 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:34,039 they're gonna torment the wicked. Let's see Trumpet number six. 339 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,279 It releases four angels which bring two hundred million horsemen 340 00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:46,200 that execute most of the planet. And these horsemen are wild. 341 00:27:47,079 --> 00:27:51,000 They cough up plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur out 342 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:54,240 of their mouths. And the horses aren't even horses. They've 343 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,960 got the heads of lions and the tails of snakes. 344 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:04,000 And finally, the seventh trumpet kicks off the next series 345 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:09,480 of jaw dropping horrors known as the Seven Bowls. These 346 00:28:09,519 --> 00:28:12,680 bulls are loaded with all kinds of nastiness and they're 347 00:28:12,759 --> 00:28:18,119 poured out on us, oozing sores, blood rivers, earthquakes, lightning, 348 00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:23,599 that kind of thing, including a heat wave so intense 349 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,799 that it will cause people to spontaneously combust it. Just 350 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,599 standing there, the Angel pours out his bowl of fire. 351 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,680 You literally catch on fire and burn to ash where 352 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,400 you're standing. What a great story for children's pastors to 353 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:46,400 bring the Sunday school for all the little nine year 354 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:51,039 olds sitting in their colored plastic chairs. That's right. Revelation 355 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,319 has so many good children's stories. But if you're teaching 356 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,039 this stuff to kids, you might want to speak nice 357 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,440 and loud so you can be heard above all of 358 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:08,880 the screaming by the horrified children. Also related to the apocalypse, 359 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:14,039 Revelation Chapter seventeen talks about a woman sitting on a 360 00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:20,240 scarlet beast, a beast that had seven heads and ten horns. 361 00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:24,079 She is adorned in scarlet and wearing a whole bunch 362 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:34,680 of ornate jewelry. The Bible calls her the horror of Sodom, Egypt, Babylon, 363 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:41,160 or Nineva. Was she the horror of Sodom, the horror 364 00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:49,000 of Egypt, the horror of Babylon, or the horror of Nineva? 365 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:57,000 And the answer is the horror of Babylon. By the way, 366 00:29:57,119 --> 00:30:02,400 Babylon is referenced two hundred and eighty times in the Bible, 367 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,720 Old Testament and New Testament. Babylon, the city was noted 368 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:11,720 for being just a sinful place, and yet even in 369 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,119 all of its iniquity, Babylon became one of the most 370 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:22,319 advanced civilizations in the world. I'm sometimes amused by the 371 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,759 name of the guy who founded Babylon. According to Genesis 372 00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:31,960 chapter ten, his name was King Nimrod. Nimrod's just a 373 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:36,160 funny name. I mean, how could you take King Nimrod seriously? 374 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,440 In truth, it was King Hamarabi that founded the Old 375 00:30:40,559 --> 00:30:46,839 Babylonian Empire in the eighteenth century BC. Babylon would grow 376 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,759 to become the largest city in the world in its day. 377 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,920 Babylon traces back to Latin and Greek, the name meaning 378 00:30:56,599 --> 00:31:04,640 gait of the gods. Okay, for the next series, we're 379 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,039 going to speed things up a bit, a series of 380 00:31:08,519 --> 00:31:11,960 rapid fire Bible questions that are just a bit more 381 00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:19,799 mainstream of What kind of wood was Noah's arc constructed? 382 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:27,440 Was it gopher wood, a Kadia wood, the cedar of Lebanon, 383 00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:33,400 or the wood of an olive tree? Gopher wood, a 384 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:40,599 Kadia wood, cedar of Lebanon, or olive tree. The answer 385 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:47,880 is gopher would. By the way, nobody knows what gopher 386 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,319 wood means. It's not a thing like there's no such 387 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,519 thing as a gopher tree. Apologist speculated might have just 388 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,000 meant timber, but that seems kind of In Mark chapter one, 389 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:09,000 Jesus was speaking to Simon, Peter, and Andrew, saying that 390 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:15,920 he would make them what of men, comforters of men, 391 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:26,680 judges of men, fishers of men, or rulers of men? Comforters, judges, 392 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:33,000 fishers or rulers. Jesus told them, I will make you 393 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,400 fishers of men. And I find this an interesting metaphor 394 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,880 for making converts. You know, with fish, you set the 395 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,559 hook and then you reel them in against their will, 396 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,480 and then you eat them. In the Book of Genesis, 397 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,519 God promised a man that his children would number like 398 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:59,839 the stars in the heavens. Which man was he talking to? 399 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:09,559 Was it Moses, Abraham, Isaac or David. God made that 400 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:17,160 promise to Abraham Genesis chapter fifteen, verses five and six. 401 00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:21,000 And he brought him outside and said, look toward heaven 402 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,759 and number the stars. If you are able to number them, 403 00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:29,759 then he said, so shall your offspring be. And it's 404 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:34,720 for this reason that believers reference Father Abraham, who is 405 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:41,920 the cornerstone of the Abrahamic religions. There are two books 406 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:47,799 in the Bible that do not mention God anywhere in them. 407 00:33:48,119 --> 00:33:50,799 Now this is a tough one, but take a guess 408 00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:55,680 and pick two out of these four. Was it hagi 409 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:07,279 Ruth Song of Solomon, Esther, hagi Ruth Song of Solomon Esther. 410 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:14,199 One book that never mentions God is the Song of Solomon, 411 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,199 which is a creepy sex poem where a hot couple 412 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:26,360 talks about body parts using descriptors like honey, blossoms and stag. 413 00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:32,760 And then the Book of Esther Esthers the story of 414 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,639 a Jewish woman who becomes the queen of Persia and 415 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:42,519 prevents the genocide of her people. Next question for Samuel 416 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,599 sixteen tells the story of David in King Saul's court. 417 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,719 Saul had been afflicted by an evil spirit. He was 418 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,320 in a very bad way, and so David calmed Saul 419 00:34:56,599 --> 00:35:03,679 by playing music. What in instrument did David play? Was 420 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:11,559 it a harp, a flute, a liar, or a gibson 421 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:21,239 flying the electric guitar, harp, flute, liar, gibson And the 422 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:27,559 answer is the harp. In fact, this story is where 423 00:35:27,639 --> 00:35:32,639 Saul is first introduced to David. God had abandoned Saul 424 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,440 because he was wicked and full of evil and just 425 00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:39,199 not a good guy. So Saul had no God, there 426 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,840 no goodness there, and he was all agitated with evil. 427 00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:46,800 And he told his minions, go out and find someone 428 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,199 who will play a harp for me. This ought to 429 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,239 make me feel better. And there was a man named 430 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,599 Jesse from Bethlehem. He raised up his hand and he said, hey, King, 431 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,079 my son is a she herder. He's brave, and he's handsome, 432 00:36:03,159 --> 00:36:07,400 he's articulate, he's favored by God. And man can he 433 00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:11,159 wail on the harp? And that is where the Saul 434 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:18,480 David friendship began. If we use the ten Commandments from 435 00:36:18,559 --> 00:36:24,760 Exodus chapter twenty, what is the very first commandment given? 436 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,079 Is the first commandment? Thou shalt not take the name 437 00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:32,599 of the Lord thy god in vain. Thou shalt not 438 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,760 make idols, Thou shalt have no other gods before me, 439 00:36:39,079 --> 00:36:44,880 or remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. Was the 440 00:36:45,039 --> 00:36:48,639 very first commandment in Exodus twenty. Don't take the name 441 00:36:48,679 --> 00:36:51,880 of the Lord in vain, don't make idols, have no 442 00:36:52,039 --> 00:36:59,000 other gods before me or remember the Sabbath. And the 443 00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:06,800 answer is thou shalt have no other gods before me. 444 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,960 And I find this first commandment telling because the Book 445 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,079 of Exodus was written during a time of the Near 446 00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:20,480 Eastern religions, which were often polytheistic, so the idea that 447 00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:24,639 there were many gods out there that were actually gods, 448 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,599 and so you had to pick one. The author of 449 00:37:27,639 --> 00:37:31,440 Exodus was saying, Okay, we got some options here, but 450 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,519 Yahweh is the one, and you won't put any of 451 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:41,440 the other gods before Yahweh. I find that extremely revealing. 452 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:48,119 Matthew chapter three, Jesus had just arrived from Galilee at 453 00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:52,280 the Jordan River, and he insisted that one of the 454 00:37:52,360 --> 00:38:00,599 disciples baptize him. Which disciple baptized Christ. Was it Matthew 455 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:10,800 Luke James or John Matthew Luke James John. The correct 456 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:18,280 answer is John, John the Baptist. To be specific, Matthew 457 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,639 chapter three, verse fourteen, I need to be baptized by you. 458 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,199 Do you come to me? Jesus said to him, Let 459 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,320 it be done. Now we should do what his rights. 460 00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:38,360 John agreed and baptized Jesus. In the Book of John 461 00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:43,280 chapter eleven, there's the story of the man Lazarus of 462 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,960 the village Bethany. He had been terribly sick, and he 463 00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:52,480 was getting worse and worse, and his sisters Mary and 464 00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:56,239 Martha were very upset, and they went to Jesus and 465 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,880 they said, hey, our brother is in failing health and 466 00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:04,199 it doesn't look good. But Jesus didn't get up to 467 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,960 go and help the man. Instead, he waited until Lazarus 468 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,039 died and was placed in a tomb. It was a 469 00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:18,440 cave sealed with a big stone door. And finally Jesus 470 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,480 got up and traveled to that cave and said, take 471 00:39:21,519 --> 00:39:27,519 away the stone, commanding Lazarus come out, and Lazarus was 472 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:34,639 raised from the dead. Now, how long had Lazarus's dead 473 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:40,639 body been locked in that tomb? Was it one night 474 00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:48,800 a fortnight, four days, or until after the cock crowed 475 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:56,320 three times, one night a fortnight four days, or after 476 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:02,039 the cock crowed three times? Lazarus had been in that 477 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:10,920 tomb for four days, so long that when they got there, 478 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,719 Martha said to Jesus, hey, wait a minute, you may 479 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,039 not want to roll back the stone door. This guy's 480 00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:21,119 been in there for four days and it's going to 481 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:25,440 stink like death. I mean literal death. The Book of 482 00:40:25,519 --> 00:40:28,239 John doesn't say there was an odor that came out 483 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:33,119 when the stone was rolled back, but Lazarus emerged his hands, feet, 484 00:40:33,199 --> 00:40:39,800 and face were still covered in burial cloth. The Book 485 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:45,119 of John also contains the shortest verse in the entire Bible. 486 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:52,599 What is that verse? Is it, I am Jesus wept 487 00:40:53,360 --> 00:41:04,840 Jehovah jyra or obey Christ? I am Jesus wept Jehovah Jirah, 488 00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:16,000 obey Christ. The correct answer here is Jesus wept. And 489 00:41:16,079 --> 00:41:20,440 this is also connected to the Lazarus story. Because Mary, 490 00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:24,679 Lazarus's sister, had been weeping. She'd been crying about the 491 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,239 death of her brother. Jesus was all of a sudden 492 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:33,199 deeply moved, and so he cried as well. John eleven 493 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:39,400 thirty five then says, Jesus wept, which is bizarre because 494 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,440 of his Christ, who sat back, did nothing and allowed 495 00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:48,039 Lazarus to die in the first place. More trivia on 496 00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:58,599 the way in just a second. Stick with me. We're 497 00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:03,079 knowing some Bible, we're teaching some Bible. It is atheist 498 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:11,239 Bible trivia. In the Book of Job, a giant creature 499 00:42:11,559 --> 00:42:18,559 is described a chaos monster, the Behemoth, a beast so 500 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:24,639 powerful that only Yahweh himself could overcome it. The verses 501 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,320 go into detail, but just a few here. The behemoth 502 00:42:28,519 --> 00:42:33,079 eats grass just like cows do. He makes his tail 503 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,280 stand up tall like a cedar tree. His bones are 504 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,159 like tubes of bronze. He is so big he can 505 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:47,320 stop a river from rushing. He cannot be subdued by 506 00:42:47,519 --> 00:42:54,559 pithy humans. This unconquerable animal allegedly lived in an invisible 507 00:42:54,800 --> 00:43:01,199 desert just east of the Garden of Eden. Some creationists 508 00:43:01,199 --> 00:43:05,559 have claimed that the behemoth was a dinosaur, so this 509 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:10,239 is proof that humans and dinosaurs lived together. Other people 510 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,320 say that the author of Job just got carried away 511 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:18,039 after he saw a hippopotamus. Okay, but the Book of 512 00:43:18,199 --> 00:43:22,599 Job has the Behemoth, and it places the Behemoth in 513 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:28,920 its story against another creature of enormous strength, this one 514 00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:35,639 dominating the waters and not the land. The water monster 515 00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:42,880 was called What was it the Titan, the Dragon, the 516 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:50,280 ash Ray, or the Leviathon? The water monster of chaos? 517 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,559 Was it the Titan, the Dragon, the ash Ray or 518 00:43:54,880 --> 00:44:05,679 the Leviathon? The correct answer is the Leviathon, and the 519 00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,840 Leviathon is referenced beyond the Book of Job. You'll find 520 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,400 it in Psalms, Isaiah, the Book of Enoch, which did 521 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,760 not make the final canon. It's one of the pseudepigrapha. 522 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,079 The Leviathon is the embodiment of chaos. It threatens to 523 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:28,280 eat the damned. Leviathon is associated with envy, as written 524 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:34,079 about by Thomas Aquinas Now. Sea serpent creatures were common 525 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:39,840 in ancient mythologies far beyond and long before Christianity. The 526 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:45,599 Sumerian god Ninurta overcame a seven headed serpent, that kind 527 00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:51,960 of thing. Some Christian apologists actually say the biblical Leviathon 528 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:57,199 was a real dragon, and the Book of Isaiah declared 529 00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,559 that the dragon would be slain by God God on 530 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,199 the last Day and cast into the Abyss. So perhaps 531 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:11,079 the dragon represented Satan, Lucifer, the evil one, et cetera, 532 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:16,119 and after the dragon was dispatched, an entirely new, evil 533 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:23,840 free era would begin. We're spending a lot of time 534 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,920 in the Book of Genesis today, but I can't pass 535 00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:30,960 up this one. It is a trivia question from the 536 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:37,000 story of Onen. Now. Onen was the second son of Judah. 537 00:45:37,199 --> 00:45:41,960 Onen had two brothers, the older brother erb and the 538 00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,840 younger brother, Sheila. But it's the older brother, Er that 539 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,760 we are interested in today. Er was not a good guy. 540 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,760 He was wicked in the eyes of the Lord. So, 541 00:45:55,519 --> 00:45:59,760 as Yahweh often does with the wicked, he decided to 542 00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:05,239 kill Er. But now there was nobody to impregnate ER's 543 00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:10,000 wife and carry on the family line. According to the 544 00:46:10,039 --> 00:46:15,320 tradition of Leverett marriage, a dead husband's brother was obliged 545 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:20,159 to marry his brother's widow, and apparently this was supposed 546 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:24,320 to keep family lines tight. You know, you don't want contamination. 547 00:46:24,519 --> 00:46:27,119 You want to keep out the riff raft. Let's bring 548 00:46:27,199 --> 00:46:30,719 him the brother and he can bring his seed to 549 00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:36,639 the party. Genesis chapter thirty eight, verse six says Judah's 550 00:46:36,679 --> 00:46:41,000 first born, Er was wicked in the lord's sight, so 551 00:46:41,119 --> 00:46:43,920 the Lord put him to death, and then the following 552 00:46:44,039 --> 00:46:48,840 verses say, then Judah said to Onen, sleep with your 553 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,599 brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a 554 00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,679 brother in law to raise up offspring for your brother. 555 00:46:57,599 --> 00:47:01,199 But Onen knew that the child would not be his, 556 00:47:01,599 --> 00:47:05,800 and this bothered him, so he went as far as 557 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:11,000 to engage in sexual congress. And then while these two 558 00:47:11,199 --> 00:47:15,199 were doing the hokey pokey he had a change of mind. 559 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,880 He said, you know what, this child would not be mine, 560 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,480 or it wouldn't be raised as mine. And then he 561 00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:30,559 did one of the following. He pulled out. He demanded 562 00:47:30,639 --> 00:47:34,480 to finish by having sex with the woman's slave girl. 563 00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:40,639 He complained to God and was killed during sex. Or 564 00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:47,079 he finished and dropped off to sleep. So onan pulled out. 565 00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:51,320 He demanded to finish with a slave girl. He complained 566 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,559 and was killed right there on top of the woman 567 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,800 or under the woman, or he finished and then went 568 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:04,760 to sleep. Oan was so close. He was this close 569 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:09,719 to fulfilling his duty as both brother and sperm donor. 570 00:48:10,559 --> 00:48:14,599 But verses nine and ten say this, he spilled his 571 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:21,079 semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring to 572 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:28,480 his brother. So, in other words, he pulled out. Yahweh 573 00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:33,639 saw this happen, He got pissed, and he executed Onen 574 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:38,800 as punishment. So let this be a lesson kids. If 575 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,239 God says he wants a child and he commands you 576 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,480 to have unmarried sex with your dead brother's wife, make 577 00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:50,679 sure you always leave the bam bam in the ham. Okay, 578 00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:56,760 that's a freebie. That's life advice, good life coaching. Right there. 579 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,960 No wonder the Christian right wants the Bible taught in schools. 580 00:49:02,199 --> 00:49:07,800 There's so much good stuff in there, just educational. In 581 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:12,239 the book after Genesis, the Book of Exodus, we discover 582 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:16,360 something interesting about Yahweh that has nothing to do with 583 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,559 his homicidal rage or that he apparently likes to watch. 584 00:49:22,519 --> 00:49:26,480 So after Moses had delivered the Israelites from Egypt, they 585 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,480 were all wandering about in the wilderness. God was promising 586 00:49:30,599 --> 00:49:33,880 Moses that he was going to essentially drive out all 587 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,599 of those other icky tribes in the land to clear 588 00:49:37,639 --> 00:49:41,599 a space for God's people. So say goodbye to the Canaanites, 589 00:49:41,679 --> 00:49:48,119 the Hittites, the Jebusites, etc. Now outside the Israelite camp 590 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,480 was something called the Tent of Meeting. Anybody who had 591 00:49:52,519 --> 00:49:56,000 a question for God would go to the Tent of Meeting. 592 00:49:56,039 --> 00:49:59,199 They wouldn't go in, they would just be there in proximity, 593 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,519 and it would be the Moses who walked inside the 594 00:50:02,639 --> 00:50:07,119 tent to represent them, and they would begin to praise God. Yay, 595 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:12,719 God's meeting with Moses. This is wondrous. While Moses was 596 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,800 in the tent, a pillar of cloud would come down 597 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,000 from the heavens and guard the door. The people were 598 00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:26,239 amazed as God chatted one on one with Moses. And then, 599 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:32,159 in Exodus chapter thirty three, verse eighteen, Moses made a request. 600 00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:38,719 He said, God, would you could you show me your glory? 601 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,920 Now this sounds vaguely naughty, but what it means is, 602 00:50:44,039 --> 00:50:47,559 or what it's commonly accepted to mean, is that Moses 603 00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:51,920 wanted to see the dwelling glory or what is known 604 00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:58,079 as the Chickina glory. Moses had already encountered God in conversation. 605 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,119 It was apparently awesome. It was like getting high. So 606 00:51:02,199 --> 00:51:06,239 he wanted even more. He wanted an even more intense 607 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:12,960 connection with the All Mighty, an overflow of abundance from Yahweh. 608 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:18,400 So he said, please, God, show me your glory. But 609 00:51:18,559 --> 00:51:22,679 God said, I can't do that, Moses, verse twenty. You 610 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,679 cannot see my face, for no one may see me 611 00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:32,840 and live. But then the Lord came up with a solution. 612 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,079 He said, there's a place near us, and you can 613 00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:41,480 catch a glance at another part of me, and that 614 00:51:41,639 --> 00:51:45,719 part is safe. You're not going to drop dead. According 615 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:51,000 to Exodus chapter thirty three, what part of God was 616 00:51:51,159 --> 00:51:57,519 Moses allowed to look at? Was it God's right hand, 617 00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:05,519 his feet, the light from his hair, or his ass, 618 00:52:07,119 --> 00:52:11,159 God's right hand, God's feet, the light from God's hair, 619 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:21,079 or God's dairy air. The correct answer is God's dairy air, 620 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:26,239 the Lord's ass, the backside, the behind. Exodus twenty three, 621 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:31,199 verses twenty two and twenty three said God would put 622 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,960 Moses safely in a cleft in the rock, and he 623 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,679 would cover his eyes for him. God would pass by, 624 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,440 and when he got to a safe distance, facing the 625 00:52:40,599 --> 00:52:45,480 opposite direction, quote, I will remove my hand and you 626 00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:50,559 will see my back now. The King James translation says 627 00:52:51,199 --> 00:52:56,000 back parts. So it is commonly accepted we're not talking 628 00:52:56,039 --> 00:53:02,480 about the back, We're talking about the back side. Yahweys 629 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:10,480 butt cheeks. Just enjoy that visual. Another lightning round here 630 00:53:10,519 --> 00:53:17,039 we go. Adam and Eve had three sons, Cain abel 631 00:53:18,159 --> 00:53:24,360 and who was the third son? Was it Caleb Seth 632 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:34,760 a Bijah or Ishmael. Caleb Seth a Bijah or Ishmael 633 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,079 Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve. I 634 00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,960 like to refer to him as the child not directly 635 00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:51,239 involved in a homicide. Seth means the appointed one or 636 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,360 the anointed one, So apparently I am a child of 637 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,800 divine destiny. By the way, there is an Egyptian god 638 00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:04,239 called Seth or Sets, and he's a badass. He's a 639 00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:09,119 god of storms, disorder, and violence. He even gets to 640 00:54:09,159 --> 00:54:13,199 hang out with the Egyptian god raw. So that was 641 00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:17,960 an interesting piece of trivia for me to learn. What 642 00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:23,159 was the food that Jesus multiplied to feed the five thousand? 643 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,159 Remember he was preaching near the Sea of Galilee and 644 00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:31,280 a huge crowd showed up. Everybody was hungry, and Christ 645 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,519 took just a few items and he multiplied them. Which 646 00:54:35,599 --> 00:54:40,679 items did he use and how many of each? Five 647 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:47,159 loaves and two fishes, three doves and a full wine skin, 648 00:54:48,199 --> 00:54:53,880 one lamb and one oxen, or five fruits and a 649 00:54:54,039 --> 00:55:01,440 basket of manna. You got this one. It is five 650 00:55:01,599 --> 00:55:06,880 loaves and two fishes that Jesus multiplied to feed five 651 00:55:07,079 --> 00:55:12,920 thousand men, women and children. According to the Book of Matthew, 652 00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:19,000 Judas was the doomed disciple who was apparently created just 653 00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:23,599 for the sole purpose of being an asshole. Right. I 654 00:55:23,639 --> 00:55:26,559 feel bad for Judas because if you look at God's 655 00:55:26,599 --> 00:55:30,280 plan for salvation, the whole purpose of Judas being born 656 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,440 and growing up and becoming one of Jesus's disciples was 657 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,119 that he was supposed to betray God, and he gets 658 00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:42,039 a lot of shade for something that was preordained. Anyway, 659 00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:48,920 the Bible identifies Judas with both a first and last name. 660 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:56,960 What was Judas's last name? Was it? Thaddeus is scary 661 00:55:57,039 --> 00:56:06,920 It Levi or cobble Pott. Thaddeus is Scariot Levi or 662 00:56:07,679 --> 00:56:14,639 cobble Potts. Of course we're talking about Judas is Scariot. 663 00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:20,400 By the way, Judas's surname was likely not a surname. 664 00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:24,719 Most probably it wasn't even his name at all. It 665 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,760 seems to be a variation on a Latin word sikarius, 666 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:34,239 and that translates murderer or assassin. So is Scaryo. It 667 00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:39,039 was a descriptor for a killer. Surnames were not common 668 00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:43,360 in Bible times. Instead, you would see lots of lineages. 669 00:56:43,639 --> 00:56:47,679 You know, Bob, son of Michael, brother of Donald, eldest 670 00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:53,400 of the tribe of are in Raw or whatever. Here's 671 00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,960 the question with a longer setup, but it will test 672 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,760 your knowledge. Let's go to the Book of Judges and 673 00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:03,239 talk about Sam's samson, the one with all that long 674 00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:09,039 hair which gave him tremendous strength. Judges chapter fifteen says 675 00:57:09,119 --> 00:57:13,519 Samson was doing battle with the Philistines. He was mad. 676 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:18,920 He wanted revenge after a Philistine companion stole his wife, 677 00:57:19,559 --> 00:57:23,639 and so his fury was unleashed. And the story gets 678 00:57:24,079 --> 00:57:29,440 really awful here. Samson went out and he caught three 679 00:57:29,559 --> 00:57:35,039 hundred foxes, and two by two, he tied their tails together. 680 00:57:35,559 --> 00:57:39,320 He then tied a torch to the tails, and he 681 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:44,159 set these foxes loose in the Philistine grain fields, and 682 00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:49,039 of course those fields burned down. The Philistines saw this 683 00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:52,599 happen and they said, oh yeah, we've got the woman 684 00:57:52,679 --> 00:57:55,880 that used to be your wife. We're going to burn 685 00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,000 her to death, and we'll do it to our father 686 00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:03,559 for good men. And that's exactly what they did. Samson 687 00:58:03,679 --> 00:58:07,119 saw this and he said, oh yeah, now you've done it, 688 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:11,599 and he went on a blood drunk killing rampage before 689 00:58:11,679 --> 00:58:14,519 finally he got tired and went to sleep in a 690 00:58:14,599 --> 00:58:19,960 nearby cave. At this point, Samson's people showed up his 691 00:58:20,119 --> 00:58:24,920 tribe and they're like, dude, you have slaughtered so many Philistines. 692 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:29,480 They are the rulers of this land. They rule over us, 693 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:34,000 and you have offended them. We're all doomed to try 694 00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:36,559 to save our own skins. The only choice we can 695 00:58:36,599 --> 00:58:39,679 see is we're going to tie you up and deliver 696 00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,880 you over to the enemy. So they grabbed Samson, they 697 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:45,760 tied him up, and they were going to just drop 698 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,840 him off with the Philistines and say, fine, like it 699 00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,280 was him, It wasn't us, wasn't our idea. You take 700 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,920 Samson and you can just do whatever you want to him. 701 00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,760 But as they got into the Philistine camp, God's came 702 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:06,239 down and super charged Samson. The ropes fell off, and 703 00:59:06,559 --> 00:59:12,840 right there Samson slaughtered one thousand people with a single weapon. 704 00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:20,280 What was the weapon a two edged sword, a sling, 705 00:59:21,519 --> 00:59:29,679 his bare hands, or a donkey's jawbone, A two edged sword, 706 00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:37,079 a sling, his bare hands, or a donkey's jawbone. Judges 707 00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:43,519 fifteen fifteen says this, finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, 708 00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:50,920 he grabbed it and struck down one thousand men. This 709 00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:56,760 makes no sense. Bones are fragile. Bones can be broken 710 00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,239 just by falling down a certain way. Right. We see 711 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,199 broken all the time in animals across the living spectrum. 712 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,079 So Samson went out and with all of his might, 713 01:00:07,199 --> 01:00:10,880 with all of his strength was smashing this jawbone against 714 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,960 a thousand bodies multiple times until each guy was dead 715 01:00:15,679 --> 01:00:20,119 and the jawbone didn't snap or shatter. This doesn't work 716 01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:23,559 in my brain, but then again, it is the Bible, 717 01:00:24,039 --> 01:00:27,039 so we are used to things not adding up. And 718 01:00:27,079 --> 01:00:31,599 here's some trivia. Did you know that a common musical 719 01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:35,719 instrument is made from the jawbone of a donkey. It's 720 01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:40,119 called the kihadda. You take the jawbone and you clean 721 01:00:40,119 --> 01:00:42,440 all the tissue off, and you dry it out, and 722 01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,679 then you loosen the teeth just a little bit and 723 01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:49,199 you kind of tap it with a rod and shake 724 01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,440 it like a rattle. It's a rhythm instrument. So a 725 01:00:53,519 --> 01:00:57,159 musical instrument made from a donkey's jaw. Maybe Samson just 726 01:00:57,199 --> 01:00:59,920 showed up at the camp and he was playing the kihata, 727 01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:03,480 you know, and everybody started to dance and they boogied 728 01:01:03,599 --> 01:01:06,239 until they died of exhaustion. I mean, that's the only 729 01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:11,400 way the story even remotely works in my head. And 730 01:01:11,519 --> 01:01:15,440 one more, just to finish us off here, we all 731 01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,199 know the biblical story of Jonah. This is one of 732 01:01:18,239 --> 01:01:22,920 the most famous tales in scripture. In short, God commanded 733 01:01:23,039 --> 01:01:26,760 Jonah to travel to the wicked city of Ninevah to 734 01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,800 preach the good word, and Jonah said, nope, I'm not 735 01:01:31,039 --> 01:01:36,199 doing it, and instead Jonah hopped on a boat to Tarshish. Instead, 736 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,760 God sent a great storm. He knocked the boat all around. 737 01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:45,920 The crew freaked out. Jonah said, you're cursed because I'm 738 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,840 out of favor with God. Throw me into the sea 739 01:01:50,159 --> 01:01:54,199 so that you won't sink. And once Jonah hit the water, 740 01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,800 he was swallowed up by something that is commonly called 741 01:01:58,199 --> 01:02:02,159 a whale. The Bible never actually uses the word whail. 742 01:02:02,679 --> 01:02:06,400 So there was Jonah and he was living for three 743 01:02:06,559 --> 01:02:12,800 days and three nights in a giant, submerged prison fish. 744 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:18,079 How did he breathe? This is a question that has 745 01:02:18,199 --> 01:02:21,639 always vexed me. Was there like an air pockets at 746 01:02:21,679 --> 01:02:25,440 the top of the stomach? How did Jonah breathe for 747 01:02:25,519 --> 01:02:29,719 three days in a submerged fish. Okay, that's a whole 748 01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:33,840 other conversation. Jonah's in there, and I don't know if 749 01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,239 there's stomach acid or just the stench of the krill 750 01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,880 or whatever else was going on. But he decided, I've 751 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,400 had enough. Please God deliver me from this fish. I 752 01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:48,400 will go and do thine will. And so the fish vomited. 753 01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:52,400 Jonah up and he went to preach at Ninevah like 754 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,440 a good boy, and the king and the people of 755 01:02:55,480 --> 01:03:01,079 that city repented, and Nineba was spared from God's now 756 01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:04,599 Here is a part of the story that few people 757 01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:11,480 have heard. This outcome actually made Jonah angry. God was 758 01:03:11,519 --> 01:03:14,119 going to wipe out the city because they were disgusting 759 01:03:14,159 --> 01:03:18,239 and evil and wicked, and then Jonah preached to them. 760 01:03:18,719 --> 01:03:21,239 They had a change of heart. They would no longer 761 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:25,320 be wicked. But Jonah thought, wait a minute, why are 762 01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,280 you letting this city off the hook. They deserve to 763 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,800 be wiped out. Which makes no sense to me. Why 764 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,760 would Jonah preach to a city in the hopes that 765 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:39,440 they would be spared and then complain that God had 766 01:03:39,639 --> 01:03:42,599 spared them? You know, why did you rescue the people? 767 01:03:42,719 --> 01:03:47,360 I was preaching rescue too. And so Jonah was all 768 01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,840 angry about this, and he stomped out of Nineveh and 769 01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,880 he sat down at a place east of the city, 770 01:03:54,719 --> 01:03:57,679 and in that place, just outside the city, he made 771 01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:01,079 a shelter which would give him shade, but it wasn't 772 01:04:01,079 --> 01:04:05,360 a very good shelter. He was watching Ninevah very closely, 773 01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:08,360 because he thought, you know, what's God gonna do? Is 774 01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,280 he gonna spare Nineveh? Or is he going to rain 775 01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:15,599 down sulfur and plagues and horror and death? He was 776 01:04:15,639 --> 01:04:20,320 a spectator from this distance. Jonah sitting in the shade 777 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:25,480 of his shelter. And then suddenly the Lord God conjured 778 01:04:25,599 --> 01:04:29,519 a leafy plant, and it grew and grew and grew 779 01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:34,079 over Jonah to provide shade for his head so he 780 01:04:34,159 --> 01:04:39,519 would be more comfortable to ease his hot temper. But 781 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:45,119 the following morning, Yahweh sent a creature to eat the plant. 782 01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:51,559 What kind of creature ate the big shade plant? Was 783 01:04:51,599 --> 01:05:01,840 it a ram, a serpent, a worm or a locust? Ram? 784 01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:08,639 Serpent worm, locust? Jonah, Chapter four, verse seven. But at 785 01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:15,840 dawn the next day, God provided a worm which chewed 786 01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:19,400 the plant so that it withered. Jesus, what kind of 787 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:23,880 worm we talking about? Like the worm from done? I'm 788 01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:27,320 thinking earthworm, you know, or a grub. But no, this 789 01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,639 thing came out and it ate the whole plant. That 790 01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:34,440 just conjures wild images in my brain. But God wasn't done. 791 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,559 He whipped up a scorching wind from the east and 792 01:05:38,639 --> 01:05:42,239 the sun blazed so hot on Jonah's body that he 793 01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,880 almost passed out right there. He was miserable. He looked 794 01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,599 up and said, just kill me, just let me die. 795 01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:54,239 But it was at this point that Yahweh revealed his 796 01:05:54,480 --> 01:06:00,440 clever object lesson. He told Jonah, you didn't make the plant, 797 01:06:00,599 --> 01:06:04,039 you didn't tend the plants. It grew, and it died 798 01:06:04,079 --> 01:06:06,920 in a day, and yet you were concerned about it. 799 01:06:07,559 --> 01:06:11,320 Should I not have concern for the city of Ninevah, 800 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:15,239 especially knowing that the one hundred and twenty thousand people 801 01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:20,559 who live there are pretty much dumbasses. Now we know 802 01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:25,360 Yahweh didn't say dumbasses in the Bible, but verse eleven 803 01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:30,519 says they cannot tell their right hand from their left, 804 01:06:30,719 --> 01:06:33,559 So it's obvious God did not have a high opinion 805 01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:37,119 of their intellect. All right, if you can't tell left 806 01:06:37,199 --> 01:06:40,519 from right, it is obvious you have got a big 807 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:47,000 leak in your think tank. And that'll do it for 808 01:06:47,159 --> 01:06:51,320 today's edition. Thanks for playing along. I'll see you back 809 01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:52,039 here next week. 810 01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:55,639 Speaker 1: Follow out The Thanking Atheist on Facebook and Twitter for 811 01:06:55,719 --> 01:06:59,360 a complete archive of podcasts and videos. 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