The Husband and the Adultress
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When Yahweh commands Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman, will he do it? And if he does, how will the story end?
Text: Hosea 1-3
Players:
- Yahweh
- Hosea
- Gomer
What's Spooky:
- Depictions of sexual promiscuity
- Depictions of sexual acts in cultic worship
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | To what lengths will he go to be with us? |
| 0:08.0 | How much grace will he show? |
| 0:12.0 | How high a price will he pay? |
| 0:16.0 | How many trespasses will he forgive? |
| 0:22.6 | Is divine affection fragile? |
| 0:27.4 | And how could we know? |
| 0:32.0 | This is a love story, a story shot through with unparalleled passion and heartbreaking betrayal and |
| 0:40.3 | shocking vulnerability. It's a strange story, but so many of the best ones are. I'm Justin Gerhard. |
| 1:32.8 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. A mob of flies is picking them apart. |
| 1:37.8 | Or rather, sucking them up. |
| 1:47.9 | One of the winged scavengers lands and scuttles and stops, extending its proboscis toward the flesh. A mixture of saliva and acidic bile squirts through the tube. |
| 1:53.4 | What was a cheek or a nose or an ear now becomes a gelatinous soup, slurped back through |
| 2:00.7 | the proboscis and into the fly's stomach. |
| 2:05.6 | A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand hungry insects join in this carrion banquet, |
| 2:12.6 | a grotesque breakfast at Jesreel's gates. |
| 2:21.3 | Stacked in two piles flanking the city entrance, |
| 2:24.9 | still but for the motion of the feasting swarm, |
| 2:29.4 | the severed heads of King Ahab's 70 sons proclaimed the end of Ahab's bloodline |
| 2:32.4 | and the primacy of the house of Jhu, newly crowned king of Israel. |
| 2:42.1 | But Jehue is not finished. He takes an old prophecy from Elijah regarding the destruction of Ahab's house and builds on it. |
| 2:53.9 | Priests, advisors, friends, anyone he can find who was associated with the former regime, |
| 3:01.5 | Jehu kills them all. |
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