4: Wittgenstein's Monster (The Book of Isaiah)

Apocrypals

Chris Sims

Comedy, History

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

"Woe to those that are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight." -- Isaiah 5:21

Isaiah, the biggest beefiest boy of all the prophets, steps into the spotlight to put our very premise to the test. Can we actually do an episode when there's no real narrative and about 66 chapters of prophecies that require a 45-minute history lesson? U-DECIDE! We dive in for some complicated context, check out the most quotable book of the Bible, and at long last, start runnin' with the devil.

Topics of discussion: Joshua, Isaiah, and Jesus all having the same name, the Three Isaiahs, the Regret Box, "Feet," Alma vs. Parthenos, the Syro-Ephremite War, Hezekiah building a tunnel to avoid eating his own poop, God is sick of your parties, swords to plowshares and other common phrases, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz vs. Pele-Joez-El-Gibbor-Abi-Ad-Sar-Shalom, Sheol vs. Hades vs. Hell vs. Gehenna the perpetually burning garbage dump, Lucifer (actually Venus), the first appearance of monotheism, Cyrus the Great

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0:00.0	woe to those who are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight the book of
0:07.0	Isaiah chapter 5 verse 21 let every knee be bent and every tongue confess.
0:29.5	And I won't get better, but someday I'll be free.
0:40.5	Because I am not this body that in prison... Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Apocrypal's.
0:44.4	It's the podcast where two nonbelievers read through the Bible, and we really try to not be jerks about it.
0:45.5	My name is Chris Sims.
0:46.8	With me, as always, is the other set of footprints, Benito Serrano.
0:49.8	Benito, how are you today?
0:52.3	I'm pretty good, Chris.
0:53.8	I'm going to be honest, man.
0:55.1	I'm a little nervous.
0:56.2	A little nervous.
0:57.1	Got some anxiety a little bit.
0:59.4	What's troubling you?
1:00.9	This episode that we are recording right now has given me a little bit of that nervous
1:07.4	anxiety a little bit, to be honest.
1:09.3	Well, let's talk about that then.
1:10.9	Why are you nervous about this episode?
1:12.7	This week, we are reading the Book of Isaiah.
1:16.2	And again, this is one of my picks.
1:19.3	And I picked this because in Daniel and in the Book of Acts, we ran into people talking about the prophecies of Isaiah.
1:27.8	They are very important.
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