Bible Reading Genesis 25-26

On this Episode we do a live Bible Reading of Genises 25-26.

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Transcript

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Welcome to faith fiction and folklore, or as we like to call it the Tri F podcast, where we try not to mess the podcast up. How are you guys today? I'm great.

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How are you, gentlemen?

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Fantastic.

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Doing good here.

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Alright.

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All the kids are in bed by 8 30, so that's a win.

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That's a record. I bet that almost never happens. Yeah. Okay, well, to today we got a very interesting show, I hope. But it's kind of depressing. We'll start off with the sad news. Chuck Norris passed this week, which end of an era. Yeah, so I thought we Trevor wanted to do some stuff on him, and so we kind of decided to go that direction for tonight. And uh so we'll talk about Chuck Norris tonight, and then we'll be doing our regular Bible reading. And uh then I will be reading some from uh Maggie Stone, the new book, which hang on a minute, shameless plug. Temple of Maggie Stone! Book's out. I'm poor. Buy it. Awesome. So yeah, it's about fake bodies waking up. It's great. So we'll read chapter one of it. And then uh we'll end with uh Chad Ripper's uh sh interview on Sean Ryan. And we'll uh because that people seem to like the previous one we did, so I thought we would well he'd already teased that we were gonna do another one anyway, so I thought we would go ahead and do be good to our word and the fact that it seemed to do well last time, you know, motivated me. He has been, yeah. He's been getting pretty deep into the rabbit hole. So anyway, so with that said, who wants to be the first to read tonight? Oh, wait, hang on. I committed a horrible sin last week. It was very awful. I read from the NIV, and I shouldn't have done that.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Unacceptable.

SPEAKER_05 2:28

I know. It's horrid. It's like, what's the matter with me? So we will not make that mistake again. Uh alright. First one. You got me?

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Alright. Whenever you're ready, sir. Are we on 25?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

Alright, Genesis 25. Then again, Abraham took a wife, and her name was Kitura. She bare him Zimran and Jochshan, and Midan and Midian, and moving around. Ishbak and Shuah. And Joxhan begat Sheba and Dedan, and the sons of Dedan were Ashurim and Letis. Let us him.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

Let Shuim or Letushim. Letushem, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

And Limim. And the sons of Midian, Epaph, Epa. Sorry, no, I'm just Epath and Efer and Hannoch and Ebid Abadiah and Eldat, all these were the children of Keturah. And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. But under the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from his from Isaac's son, while he yet lived eastward unto the country. Which is a noble thing, because like we talked about last week, um, he does not have to give his concubines anything or his concubines' children anything.

SPEAKER_05 3:55

That's right, yeah. Yeah, we yeah, we did talk about that last week. So a concubine is basically a wife that doesn't have any legal rights, so he didn't have to provide anything for the inheritance or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 4:06

So he's he's being he's being a cool guy.

SPEAKER_05 4:10

For the place and time, yep.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

Yeah. So verse 7. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived, and 103 score and 15 years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and he was gathered to his people. And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Mekala, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre. The field which Abraham purchased to the sons of Heth, there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt by the well.

SPEAKER_05 4:59

Lah Lahroi? Lahiroi, yeah. Laheroi, Lahairoi, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Uh now these are the generations of Eshmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by the names according to the generations, the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth, and Kidar, and Abdil, and Miz Bibsam.

unknown 5:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

And Mishmah and Duma and Masa. What'd you say?

SPEAKER_05 5:37

Oh, uh, not your dude 96 says, Imagine at the end of one of these chapter-long genealogies, it just records. And then there was doof. We don't like to talk about doof. It's pretty funny. I have a question.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

Yes, sir. Who do you think uh recorded all this, all the name stuff?

SPEAKER_05 6:01

I've heard some interesting I've heard some interesting theories about it. Um Greg, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Titus Kennedy said something about Joseph's son making the Hebrew language, and then all this was compiled in Egypt. Is that correct?

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yeah, there's some there's some stuff I've heard mentioned, like similarities between the you know, Proto-Hebrew and Egyptian hy hieroglyphs, which kind of implot the the story actually goes that this actually slowly developed the Phoenician alphabet, uh, which is where we get our alphabet.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

But um but I it's been a long time since I've sort of read read into that, but um yeah, it seems like this was probably recorded during their time in Egypt, huh? Joseph's son.

SPEAKER_04 6:52

I always assumed it was.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Sorry, Trevor. A generation or two back, huh?

SPEAKER_05 7:00

Right. Sorry, Trevor, what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_04 7:04

I always just assumed it was Moses who kept track of it.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Well, it hadn't been written down before because Moses was like four hundred years later.

SPEAKER_04 7:14

Yeah, I know. He was he I figured he was the one that like tracked it all down and wrote it down for the Bible.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

I have heard Well, he did write him, but I mean it's generally understood that a lot of this was written down before him. He just kind of compiled it.

SPEAKER_03 7:33

Yeah. Oh, okay. And here I thought Greg was gonna say it was all made up in the in the 70s by the CIA.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

No. A lot of stuff was made up in the 70s by the CIA, but not the Bible.

SPEAKER_05 7:48

So yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Like Kara. 15?

SPEAKER_05 7:54

Uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Hadar and Timah, Jater, Nafish, and Kadamah, these are the sons of Ishmael, and there's these are their names by their towns and their castles. Twelve princes according to their nations. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael and 137 years, and he gave up the ghost and died, and he was gathered unto his people. What does that mean? He was gathered unto his people. Does that mean they all got to keep his bones?

SPEAKER_05 8:24

No, they went to heaven. That's all what I've always taken it to mean. Greg, any thoughts?

SPEAKER_01 8:30

And that's sort of the general idea, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:34

Like, yeah, went to be of his fathers, gathered unto his people. Like that's usually a nomenclature that they use for death.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Like in uh I'm just trying to visualize it. So you're talking about like in uh Mulan.

SPEAKER_05 8:51

No, no, they be in heaven, so no, not not in some shrine.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

I'm just basically can always tell.

SPEAKER_05 9:01

Can always tell.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

Uh yeah, 18.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

And they and they dwelt from Bahavilah unto Shur. That is before Egypt. And now goest toward Assyria, and he died in the presence of all his brethren. And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son, Ibrahim, Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel, the Syrian of Panarim, and the sister to Leban the Syrian. And Isaac entreated Sorry, hang on.

SPEAKER_05 9:46

Uh not your dude 96 says it means that his people gathered together to bury him. So maybe it's not a heaven and thing. So maybe it's like they all gathered together to like, yeah, bury him, or like they all came together for the funeral.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

Let's see. I assume there's like a specific meaning for that phrase.

SPEAKER_05 10:09

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna Google it then, because I th I imagine Jeremiah is right.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

Yeah, stop me whenever you find it.

SPEAKER_05 10:18

Yeah, okay, so alright, I'll do it on Google Chrome and you keep going. How about that?

SPEAKER_03 10:25

Oh, hang on.

SPEAKER_05 10:27

Sorry, did I throw you off because I put the window up?

SPEAKER_03 10:30

No, my mom's calling. Babe, can you call?

SPEAKER_05 10:35

Alright, hang on. While he's messing with that, I will Google this. So what does gathered unto his people mean in Genesis? Uh I I'm the dubious source known as AI says, refers to the death I know it's like uh it's AI, but uh refers to the death of a patriarch indicating a return to ancestors, symbolizes a reunion with deceased family members in the afterlife, often used in the well, if the computer is to be believed.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

So I mean the Hebrew did believe in an afterlife, so that kind of checks out.

SPEAKER_05 11:31

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Okay, yeah. That's what it's saying.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

I'm gonna check Bible hub because I don't I don't I was just making sure they didn't uh like keep bones, you know, like like George Bush has or was it was it uh the Harvard College has the skull of uh what's his name? The Indian guy.

SPEAKER_05 11:58

I they don't know they kept the skull of somebody, uh yeah who do they what's his name?

SPEAKER_03 12:06

It's in like family guy and stuff, like it's a classic conspiracy theory.

SPEAKER_05 12:10

I wasn't aware of it. I mean huh.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

I don't know. Not Tonto. Is it Tonto?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

Tonto is from the Lone Ranger.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

No, it's not Tonto. This was a real guy.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Squanto.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

I don't know, man. Forgot. I don't think it's Squanto.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

I forgot his name. Alright, uh maybe I'll think of it later. Anyways, we'll keep going. Where are we at?

SPEAKER_05 12:41

Okay, uh just to confirm, Bible Hub is saying the same thing as uh AI. Uh it says here, the distinction between gathered and buried, in many of these passages, buried is listed separately or described as a subsequent event, which supports the understanding that being gathered to his people goes beyond the bot interment of the body. For instance, Jacob's burial, Jacob's burial is superficially mentioned as performed by a son, yet his gathering occurs right at his final breath. Uh Genesis 49, 33. This distinction suggests a belief that individuals enter a new plane of existence with their forefathers even before any formal burial ritual. Okay, so that's what it says. Alright. Um Jeremiah says, the Old Testament faithful, with the exception of those who were bodily assumed into divine into the divine council, didn't go to heaven per se. They remained in Abraham's bosom, Sheol, until Christ's victory. Right. So I've heard, yeah, I've heard that basically there was like a yeah, Abraham's bosom was kind of like the separate than heaven, but yeah, yeah. So yeah, like the afterlife. Okay. And then sevens pattern, seven seven seven sevens says, hello. It's good to see ya. Thank you for joining us.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

Hello.

SPEAKER_05 14:09

All right.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

All right, we're gonna keep going. I'm on 21, I think, right? Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:15

No, it's right. No, uh, my bad. Start with 19.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

I think I already did that, but it's all right. Yeah, and these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel, and the Syrian of Cadanaran, and the sister to Laban the Syrian. And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her, and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy boughs. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger. And when her days to be delivered were were full, behold there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment. And they called his name Esau. And after that his brother came out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel, and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was three score years old when she bared them. And the boys grew.

SPEAKER_05 15:44

And Esau was a cunning hunter.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

Hang on, I gotta I got a thought. So like um it says the young the older will serve the younger. So Isaac served Esau, is that correct?

SPEAKER_05 16:04

Uh no, Jacob. Uh Esau served Jacob.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

Or sorry, Jacob. Jacob. Yeah, so Esau served Jacob?

SPEAKER_05 16:13

Yeah. Because Jacob was younger, Esau was older.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Okay. Yeah, I just had it backwards my bad.

SPEAKER_05 16:23

Yeah, no, you're good. So. Any thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Oh, mine was a dud.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

Yours was a dud? Pretty straightforward. I always felt a little bad for Esau myself. I kind of do too. But what do you feel bad for? Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

I feel like he kind of gets the stored into the stick there, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_05 16:52

Hmm?

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Kind of gets the stored into the stick.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

It's hard to say. Greg, or what do you think? It's I mean, it's kind of explained later in the narrative. Um, Esau trades his birth right away, and Jacob takes it. Jacob doesn't exactly come out, you know, sparkling clean. He's kind of a sneaky dude. But it Yeah. Esau's never really shown in a positive light per se.

SPEAKER_05 17:20

Yeah. Well, let me sorry, Trevor, go on. So it's kind of like foreshadowing almost. Well, it's a prophecy.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:29

But that's the thing. It's like, how much did was God uh I mean, I think personally, uh God was basically saying what was going to happen, but he wasn't like forcing anything to happen. But some people would use this as like a uh justification for like the idea that God kind of directs us and we don't really have any free will. So what do you guys think? What are your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_03 17:59

Uh I mean that is that is my opinion that we don't have free will.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Really? I mean it goes into the Calvinist thing where it's the idea is, you know, Esau's destined. The Jacob who I loved and Esau who I hated, and you know, Calvinists take that to as proof that we don't have free will. Um which I don't necessarily agree with, but I don't really know that Calvinism is exactly the this is the right time or place to debate Calvinism.

SPEAKER_05 18:32

Yeah. I've read some, I've read the first little bit of the Institute, so I'm not a fan. But anyway. Anyway, excuse me. No, I think we got free will. Uh Sevens Pattern 77 says thanks. And then Beans Decay to Calix says, is it that time of the week already? Yes it is. Yes, it is. And he's got the smiley face with sunglasses. So there you go. Alright. We were just arguing about whether or not we have any autonomy or if it's all futile. But anyway, so Cody, if you want to go on. Oh, uh, hang on here. Before we do, uh, not your dude 96 says, Jacob still honored his brother later in life by prostrating before him, which was interesting. Both were given a kingdom of a kind.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah, but Jacob prostrated himself because he thought Esau was gonna kill him, and then Esau actually turned out to not honor him and back, honor him back.

SPEAKER_05 19:34

Isn't that interesting? Because it's like he starts out going, I'm gonna kill this dude, and then he changes his mind. So I wonder what happened. It turns out Esau ends up being a pretty good guy by the end of it.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

At the end.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Yeah, by the end, yeah. So and Jacob, Jake, Jacob gets as good as he got, you know, thanks to Laban. Like he got messed around a little bit too.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

So if you're wanting vic if Cody, if you're wanting biblical proof of karma where you reap what you sew, the whole thing between Jacob and Laban is pretty interesting. So yeah. But anyway. That's cool.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Um, can we keep going?

SPEAKER_05 20:19

Uh yeah. Well, before you do, uh Beans to Calyx says 100%, and then not your dude 96 says, it was a display of humility that disarmed Esau. That's the point. Well, there you go. There you go. There you go. I think that's a good point. For sure. All right, Cody, you're you're welcome. Move on. We were on 27, I believe. Phrase, a cunning hunter.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a plain, boring man that couldn't change a car tire dwelling in tents. And it doesn't it doesn't say that part about the car. I made that up.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

I kind of figured.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

And Isaac, and Isaac. And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison. But Rebecca loved Jacob. And Jacob sodge. I'm sorry, I don't know what that means. And Jacob sodtage.

SPEAKER_05 21:18

So I think he was making soup or making some kind of meal.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

Pottage is sort of like an old term for basically oatmeal, just sort of boiled grain.

SPEAKER_05 21:28

Yeah. Okay. And so what is sod? I don't know. In the King James version, I don't know. I'm assuming it's make or something like that. We can go to strong. You're cool. You're cool.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Um it's just a weird, I've never said that before. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

So that's the thing about the old King James. There's a lot of stuff in there. It's like, what?

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Okay, so and Jacob soddish, and Esau came from. The field and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red potted, for I'm faint. Therefore was his name called Edom. So he changed his name?

SPEAKER_05 22:15

Yeah, because this is a very poor choice. I'm assuming that's why they did it. Yeah, he's about to give up his whole birthright. That's where the story's going.

SPEAKER_04 22:23

He's like, oh, I'm so hungry. Oh yeah. Saad means the act of cooking or boiling.

SPEAKER_05 22:30

There you go. So he was boiling. Thank you, Trevor. Okay. Nice. And then I thought it meant grass. Trevor, can you look up can you look up what eatum means in that same context? Edom? Edom. That is correct. Yeah. I'm assuming it means something like he was being melodramatic and you know was selling something you shouldn't have sold.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Like that's the first thing you jump to? Like, you want some food? Well, sell me your birthright. What a what a not brotherly thing to do.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

Jacob was a snake.

SPEAKER_04 23:15

Edom derived from Esau is a significant biblical entity representing a nation descended from Esau, Jacob's twin brother.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Oh, the nation Edom. That's what they thought.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

Okay. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Now Esau's descendants became Edom. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 23:38

It means red, which is linked to Esau's reddish appearance at birth.

SPEAKER_05 23:46

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_04 23:47

And the red stew for which he sold his birthright.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

So it's a bunch of there's a bunch of symbolism to this, but I can't see it.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

So it it it represents the uh reddish appearance at birth and the red six for which he sold his birthright.

SPEAKER_05 24:08

Yeah. That's crazy. Not your dude 96 says, you're forgetting Esau's Western obsessed brother, Yeehaw.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Yeehaw. How could we forget him?

SPEAKER_05 24:23

Some bitter teenager died at a horrible from a horrible dad joke tonight. So no doubt.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die. Now what profit shall this birthright do to me? So he I mean, was he being dramatic or was he about to die?

SPEAKER_05 24:44

I think he was being dramatic. Yeah, I mean, God provides all things, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:48

You don't sell your birthright because you're being dramatic, huh?

unknown 24:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:53

He was enraptured by fear.

SPEAKER_05 24:56

I always felt like the implication was he never took it real seriously. You know what I mean? Like he never Yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

That's kind of you kind of see that with like like like flow state alphas. Like, think about like um that movie we were talking about earlier with the cops of the other guys, and they're just like like there's nobody there to regulate them, and they're just on top of the building, and they're like, you know what? Aim for the bushes, bro. Like, they're just sending it, full send. Like, and so Esau is kind of like that same thing. He's just like, I don't give a crap about my birth, right? Like, let's go. Like, I'm hungry.

SPEAKER_05 25:36

Doesn't think it through, yeah. I imagine. Yeah, that's kind of the way I've always understood it, was he was just flippant, and that was kind of like Jake, like Jacob was uh a crook and a villain, but he wanted it, you know what I mean? Like he took God's promise seriously. So even though he was a villain, he was still like believing that this birthright was a real legitimate thing, whereas Esau was just kind of like whatever. You know, it'll all work out, that kind of thing. So that's the way I understand it.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

So alright. Alright, verse 33. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day, and he swear unto him, and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he did eat and drink, and rose up and went his way. Thus, Esau despised his birthright.

SPEAKER_05 26:32

So, yeah, that's kind of the moral of the story there. It's kind of like encapsulating it. It's like he hated his birthright, he had it in contempt. That's the point of the story.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

I don't I don't like Jacob at all.

SPEAKER_05 26:41

I don't think you're supposed to. I think he's he's a badman. So at this point in the story, yeah. His children were worse, but we'll get to that later. Yeah. So anyway. Genesis 26. We got about six minutes to go, I think, before we're done.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

So I is there uh any more of this? Is that all of it?

SPEAKER_05 27:06

Of 25, yeah. That was all 25, so we're moving on to 26. Oh, okay, sweet. So, who wants to take this chapter? I mean, I can if nobody else wants to.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

I didn't exactly come prepared, so I don't have it.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

That's all right. Trevor, you want to do it or you want me to do it? It don't matter to me. I can read it.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

I can keep going.

SPEAKER_05 27:29

Or Cody can keep going. Right, 26.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

All right. And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him and said, Go not down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with me thee, and will bless thee, for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham thy father. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven. Spring is in the air. Stars and seed unto these countries, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest said he, the men of the place, should kill me for Rebecca, because she was fair to look upon.

SPEAKER_05 28:53

Like father like son, eh? Like father like son. Dude, these guys suck. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it didn't work the first two times Abraham tried it.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

I don't know why Isaac just they're like beta males, dude. Like, why why did these guys get the role of this story? Like, beta.

SPEAKER_05 29:19

Because the point is God can love anybody. That's the whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

Like, but yeah, but like I don't know, dude.

SPEAKER_05 29:29

The point is, you're Abraham. You're a degenerate. We're all degenerates. We all suck. That's kind of the that's kind of the idea.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

At least we got Jesus to look up to.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Right? Right. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

And the man of the place asked him of his wife, and she said, he said, She's my sister, for he feared to say she's my wife, lest said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebecca, because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass when he had been there a long time that Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, looked out at a window and saw. And behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah, his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife. And how saidest thou she is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, lest I die for her. And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might lightly have line with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. You almost tricked us, bro, is what he said.

SPEAKER_05 30:50

Didn't he? Didn't he isn't he the same guy Abraham did that too? Like, isn't this the exact same guy? Or is it a different dude?

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Abraham did it to Pharaoh.

SPEAKER_05 30:58

Abraham did it to Pharaoh. Yeah, I knew he did it to Pharaoh, but Abraham does it twice, didn't he?

SPEAKER_04 31:05

Uh I don't recall. I don't.

SPEAKER_05 31:07

Well, that's embarrassing. I only remember the one. We just read the book and we don't recall. Wow. Oh well. What are you gonna do? I only remember one. Okay, well, anyway. I thought this was Abraham. No, this is Isaac!

SPEAKER_04 31:20

Isaac doing the same thing, Abraham did.

SPEAKER_05 31:22

Doing the exact same thing Abraham did.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Oh, and then Jacob is this guy's son?

SPEAKER_05 31:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:30

Jolly, they all suck. They're all terrible. Yes. Yes, that's the moral of the story. Let's just wrap up this book. I'm gonna I'm gonna convert to Islam.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

What?

SPEAKER_05 31:42

Oh my gosh. That's right. You can have uh a harem instead of sisters. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 31:48

You gotta marry a cousin.

SPEAKER_05 31:50

And a goat.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

And a goat. And a goat.

SPEAKER_05 31:54

Alright, we're behind the comments. Let me let me read the comments here. Alright, okay. Um Jacob still honored his brother-in-law. Okay, so we've uh brother-in-law later in life by prostrating him by prostrating him before he was before him, which was interesting. We read that one. Okay, here we go. You're forgetting Esau's Western obsessed, brother Yeehaw. I'm completely lost. Sell me this day thy birthright. While it seems like a human transaction, it is the order of election. The light of the covenant is being passed to the one who values it. Right. Like, so Jacob wasn't taking the birthright seriously, or Esau wasn't taking it seriously. So it's being passed to the brother who will take it seriously. And then setting the stage for the 12 tribes. Right. And then uh not your dude, that was uh Seven's pattern, seven-seven, then not your dude 96 says, God uses the weak to shame the strong. That could be a physical weakness, but also a weakness of moral constitution. Cody is right about Jesus as the example. And then not your dude 96 also says, as man, he is perfect, and he only pulls it off because he is also God. That is very true. That is correct. So see, Cody, you don't you don't have to marry a goat. It's okay.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

I know I don't have to marry a goat. I was being facetious.

SPEAKER_05 33:26

First? Okay. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

All right. Uh verse 11. You want to scroll up a little bit?

SPEAKER_05 33:33

Go ahead. Yeah. There you go. You're right there.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

And Abimelech charged all of his people, saying, He that touches this touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. Then Isaac sowed in that land and received in the same year a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed great and went forward, and grew until he became very great, for he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants. And the Philistines envied him. For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped him after the death of Abraham and called their names after the names by which his father had called them. I mean, if you there's one good thing about these dudes, they can really dig holes. I mean, they are some hole-digging fools.

SPEAKER_05 34:51

Gotta get that water somehow.

SPEAKER_03 34:55

So it's almost like they like digging tunnels.

unknown 34:59

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

Alright. I wonder how long it took them to dig a well.

SPEAKER_05 35:10

I don't know. That's a good question. I would assume a long time, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

Well, they had stores of servants, so schools and schools.

SPEAKER_05 35:22

That's true. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

Uh man, it kind of sounds like a movie that we know. With Oshia LaBouffe.

SPEAKER_05 35:30

With Shila LeBoof, yeah. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

They've got a whole bunch of servant, servant kids, and they just make them all dig holes everywhere.

SPEAKER_05 35:37

There you go.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

This is this is weird.

SPEAKER_05 35:40

This is a weird chapter, Gary. Going down the rabbit hole. Gotta do some introspection. Excited to make our way to the gospel, because this is some weird stuff. Well, keep going. Stay at it. You're doing great. You're doing wonderful. Alright. We're getting there.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

And Isaac's servant digged in the valley and found there a well of springing water. And the herdman of Garar did strive with Isaac's herdman, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek. I just zoomed out, my bad. Um bum bum bum bum.

SPEAKER_05 36:14

Because they strove with him.

SPEAKER_03 36:18

What verse?

SPEAKER_05 36:20

Okay, so the end of that verse 20 was because they strove with him. 21. And they dig you want me to keep you want me to start?

SPEAKER_03 36:28

And they digged another well and strove for that also, and he called the name of it Sitna. And he removed from thence and digged another well. And for that they stove strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. And he went up there from thence to Beersheba, and the Lord appeared unto him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for thy for my servant Abraham's sake. And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pinched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants digged a well. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Azeth. I can't say it.

SPEAKER_05 37:20

Oh, you did good, uh Ahusath, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 37:24

One of his friends and Fitchal, the chief captain of the army.

SPEAKER_05 37:30

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you. 28.

SPEAKER_03 37:44

And they And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee. And thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and we have done nothing unto thee but good, and have sent thee away in peace. Thou art now blessed blessed of the Lord. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink, and they rose up between be te be times, I've never seen that word, but times in the morning, and swear one to another one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. And Esau was forty years old when he took his wife Judith to the daughter of Beerai the Hittite and Bath Bathsheba, the daughter of Elon the Musk Hittite, which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and Rebecca.

SPEAKER_05 39:02

And that's 26!

SPEAKER_03 39:04

Is I have one question. Yes. Is Beersheba still called Beersheba to this day?

SPEAKER_05 39:10

I don't know. That's a good question. Greg, do you know? I don't know, actually. That's a good question, Cody. I don't know. I'm gonna Google it. All right. To the AI. What's it called? Beersheba.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

Beersheba.

SPEAKER_05 39:24

Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 39:26

I had a dog named Sheba. I know, I remember her. Yeah, it was a good dog.

SPEAKER_05 39:31

Wouldn't she like a new one? Is Beersheba still yeah, still in existence? That'll work. Well of the oath. Okay, there's a city called Beersheba in southern Israel. It serves as the capital of Negev of the Negev Desert region. The city has a rich historical and cultural significance.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Um I mean I'm just saying if Beersheba was not called Beersheba, somebody would have had to like directly disobey what the Bible said. That would be kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_05 40:13

Say that again. I think that went over my head, sir.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

Like like if somebody was in charge of naming a city, and it's like it's like, oh, this place used to be called Beersheba. I'm gonna change the name, knowing that the Bible says it's still called Beersheba to this day. Ah that'd be pretty crazy to do.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Well, I mean, I would read that as Moses writing this down saying it's still called Beersheba to this day. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_05 40:39

But wouldn't it be funny if someone tried to change the name and then got struck by lightning? I think is what he's getting at. It's like, you know, it's like, I'm gonna change the name. Then a crater just swallows him whole, and then the next guy's like, it's Bersheba! Bersheba is I'm very excited to call this town Bersheba. So, okay. Not your dude 96 says the first well diggers, hey homie, wanna dig a hole until something happens? Water springs up. Yo, there you go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:16

I mean, they all knew that water came from the ground. I mean, because in Genesis, like before the flood, it was just like it just came up through the ground, right?

SPEAKER_00 41:26

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 41:28

Yeah. So I mean, I would assume the further back in time, like used to in America, we had oil wells everywhere, and it was just like coming out of the ground. Because it was just full, you know, the ground was full.

SPEAKER_05 41:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

And so I would assume that back in the day, I mean, wells, like water wells were kind of like that too. I mean, we've talked about how source water and all that stuff. So I would assume it's just kind of gotten tapped out, and it's probably a lot different than it used to be.

SPEAKER_05 41:53

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

Probably used to be able to dig a six-foot well.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

True. Well, boys, it's uh end of part one. We're past 30 minutes. Ready to move on to part two? Or actually, any final thoughts from anybody?

SPEAKER_03 42:11

Nope. I think I'm gonna bounce out for this one.

SPEAKER_05 42:14

You're gonna bounce out?

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:16

Alright, man. Well, appreciate you coming on here. I guess we will see you next time. Audio some me goes. I'm gonna get some shut eye. Get some shut eye. Have a good night. All right. Peace. Let's see how long it takes for this window to screw up. There we go. Hang on. I'm getting better. I'm getting better at switching these windows over. Goodness gracious. Alright, well, the either one of you. Master switcher. I'm the master switcher, the producer extraordinaire. I don't know what I'm doing. Uh, what do you guys think? Any thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 42:53

It is will with my soul.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

I mean, it's pretty straightforward. It's yeah, it's a straightforward narrative. I always enjoy any time the Hittites get mentioned because, you know, for hundreds and hundreds of years, historians were like, there were no such thing as Hittites, and then, you know, 150 years ago somebody dug up the capital city and they're like, uh, no, there is a absolutely a giant civilization. All the Hittites.

SPEAKER_05 43:20

Wah wah wah. Yeah. Well, boys, we're gonna end uh part one here. So, if you are on the live stream, stay with us. We have got three more segments left. If you are watching this after the fact, thank you so much for watching, and we will see you next time. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Faith Fiction and Folklore. If you did, we would love it if you would subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Rumble. We can also be found on X, Instagram, and Facebook. book. And we are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio. Thank you again very much for listening and we'll see you next time.