Elijah Meets the Still Small Voice — Book of Elijah Part 2 | NDS Bible Study

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Nephilim Death Squad — Elijah Meets the Still Small Voice (Book of Elijah Pt. 2 | NDS Bible Study)

Episode Date: November 19, 2025
Hosts: David Lee Corbo (The Raven / TopLobsta), Matt Hepner, Co-host (Jason or another regular contributor)

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Overview

In this lively and irreverent Bible study, the NDS crew (The Raven/TopLobsta, Matt, and friends) continue their unique journey through the Book of Elijah. This episode delves deep into Elijah’s confrontation with despair, spiritual loneliness, and his encounter with the "still small voice" of God. Along the way, the hosts riff on generational clashes at their community library, riff about working-class spirituality, wrestle with the quirks of Biblical language (like “jealousy” or “zeal”), and drag in modern themes—from church politics to conspiracy artifacts and the confusion of contemporary news.

With a blend of stand-up banter, cultural critique, and searching scriptural commentary, the squad moves from the aftermath of Elijah’s slaying of 850 false prophets to his spiritual crisis and divine reassurance in the wilderness. The backdrop includes ongoing dramas with Blue Letter Bible, shout-outs to dedicated fans, and a recurring undercurrent: how ancient stories remain weirdly resonant in today's chaotic world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Community, Blue Letter Bible Dust-Up, and Listener Engagement

[03:15–10:13]

• The crew explains their earlier friction with Blue Letter Bible, clarifying that "the higher ups" never asked for the show's removal; it was an overreaction by a well-meaning rep, Jake.
• Listeners ("NDS homies" or "dangerous retards"—a term of endearment in their lingo) are celebrated for their devotion—calling in, sending Bibles, and supporting the hosts online.
• Quote: “NDS fans are, like, no joke, bro. They’re like very real people.” —Matt [04:08]

2. Generational & Cultural Tension Around Faith

[13:35–20:25]

• The hosts recount conflict at their local library/coffeeshop with retirees skeptical about their “Nephilim Bibles” and wild décor, discussing how older generations resist change or difference in worship environments.
• Matt highlights generational insularity in churches and hopes for greater inclusivity.

3. Elijah Recap/Biblical Context

[22:32–26:00]

• Quick recap: previous week’s “Mount Carmel Showdown”—Elijah calls out Israel’s double-mindedness, challenges the prophets of Baal, and miracles ensue.
• The team riffs: “He murdered the crap out of a ton of people.” —The Raven [22:35]
• Spiritual application: Todays’ battles are not against flesh and blood but have spiritual allegories.

4. Elijah’s Despair and the Human Experience

[26:01–32:42]

• After his triumph, Elijah collapses into despair and asks God to take his life, highlighting the contrast between public victories and private suffering.
• Discussion on the difference between asking God to end one’s life and suicide.
• Quote: “Your life isn’t yours to take.” —Matt [28:47]
• Comparison with Moses’ moments of defeat and Jesus’ voluntary sacrifice.

5. The Angelic Interlude and Spiritual Provision

[46:48–53:03]

• Elijah, alone in the wilderness, is visited twice by an angel who provides food (“cake on the coals”). The squad jokes about angel food and connects it to later Christian miracles involving tangible objects imbued with spiritual power.
• Spiritual life is depicted as a journey “too great for you,” requiring God’s help and provision.
• Quote: “I feel like there was a time where the Lord just looked at me, he’s like, dude, the journey’s too great for you.” —Matt [49:29]

6. The Still Small Voice—Hearing God in Quietness

[61:21–66:41]

• The heart of the episode: The famous “still small voice.” God is not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but rather in a gentle whisper.
• Reflection on how modern busyness drowns out opportunities to hear God intimately; critique of church culture’s obsession with spectacle.
• Quote: “The voice of God is subtle…if you’re too busy with all this other stuff, you’re going to miss it.” —Matt [63:16]
• Theological tangent: importance of the Old Testament for knowing God’s character.

7. Zeal, Loneliness, and Human Frailty

[66:07–70:27]

• Elijah voices spiritual loneliness, believing himself to be the last true believer.
• The group unpacks the Biblical word “jealous/zealous,” contextualizing "God's jealousy" and human emotional responses to spiritual abandonment.

8. God’s Remnant and Elijah’s Successor

[70:28–83:12]

• God tells Elijah there remain 7,000 in Israel who haven’t bowed the knee to Baal; he’s not alone.
• Discussion of working-class men as God’s agents—contrasting today’s “feminized” church with the hard-edged prophets and the manual laborers God calls (Elisha is plowing).
• Anointment of Elisha as Elijah’s successor, transfer of “mantle,” and lore about spiritual artifacts (Nazis, Shroud of Turin, etc.).
• Quote: “Idleness, there’s no laziness in our kingdom. He finds Elisha in the field working. He’s a working man.” —Matt [77:27]

9. Forsaking All—The Cost of Calling

[88:21–95:09]

• Elisha is called, requests to say goodbye to his parents, then slaughters his oxen as a final break from his old life.
• Application: God demands full commitment—“No man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom…” (Luke 9:62).
• Examination of commitment, discipleship, and irrevocable choices in faith.

10. Next Chapter: Political Machinations, Weak Kings, and Spiritual Consequences

[99:01–119:45]

• Chapter 20: The crew narrates Israel's political/physical warfare with Syria, contrasting the faithless, easily cowed King Ahab (“wanker vibes”) with spiritual strength.
• Strange Biblical incidents: the prophet who needs to be punched, lions exacting judgment, and parable-pranks reminiscent of Nathan-David or Daniel-Nebuchadnezzar moments.
• Spiritually, what you don’t kill (old habits, idols) may destroy you in the end.

11. Modern Parallels, News Skepticism, and Existential Confusion

[121:36–127:11]

• The crew plays with comparing ancient fraught Israel with modern Israeli politics, expressing confusion over news cycles, symbols (like the Star of David), and propaganda.
• Quote: “Stay out of the modern news, bro…the modern news cycle is designed to just have you in confusion.” —Matt [124:40]
• Emphasis returns to reading scripture and trusting the Spirit over current events for spiritual guidance.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• “NDS fans are, like, no joke, bro. They’re like very real people.” —Matt [04:08]
• “He murdered the crap out of a ton of people.” —The Raven [22:35]
• “Your life isn’t yours to take.” —Matt [28:47]
• “The voice of God is subtle…if you’re too busy with all this other stuff, you’re going to miss it.” —Matt [63:16]
• “Idleness, there’s no laziness in our kingdom. He finds Elisha in the field working. He’s a working man.” —Matt [77:27]
• “No man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” —Luke 9:62 [94:52]
• “Stay out of the modern news, bro…the modern news cycle is designed to just have you in confusion.” —Matt [124:40]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Listener/Blue Letter Bible Drama: 03:15–10:13
• Generational Library/Church Culture: 13:35–20:25
• Elijah Recap and Showdown: 22:32–26:00
• Elijah’s Despair and Human Struggle: 26:01–32:42
• Angel Feeds Elijah: 46:48–53:03
• The Still Small Voice: 61:21–66:41
• Loneliness & Zeal for God: 66:07–70:27
• Remnant & Elisha's Calling: 70:28–83:12
• Forsaking All/Commitment: 88:21–95:09
• Warfare, Ahab, Lions, and Parables: 99:01–119:45
• Current Events Parallels and Skepticism: 121:36–127:11
• Final Prayer and Takeaway: 127:11–episode end

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Closing Reflections

The hosts wind down with prayer and gratitude for their eclectic online community and a robust exhortation:
“Read the Bible, man. Like, you live on the planet one time…You had a Bible. Like, read your Bible. Pray that God explains it to you.” —Matt [125:34]

They circle back to the episode’s heart—direct, personal spiritual engagement trumps spectacle, tradition, or headline anxiety. Modern believers can take courage from Elijah’s story: even the greatest prophets struggled but found sustenance, reassurance, and direction in a quiet, persistent relationship with the divine.

“Everything in the universe is always changing. Right. That's why God instituted seasons.” —Matt [19:02]

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Overall Tone

• Irreverent, humorous, often edgy, but deeply earnest about drawing real-world meaning from ancient texts (and exposing church or cultural hypocrisy).
• Lively, informal banter, but with regular pivots to serious, introspective theological questions.

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This episode is a wild, heartfelt ride—part stand-up, part scripture deep-dive, and part group therapy for a postmodern audience still chasing that "still small voice" in an age of earthquake, wind, and fire.

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Transcript

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[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

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[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

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[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, he doesn't like this one. So let's show this one. This is the one that Matt doesn't like is the Nephilim death squad, youth group, summer camp.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I think he doesn't like the youth group.

[Matt Hepner]

I like the shirt. I just won't wear it. I think it's a rad shirt. I just. I don't want to promote. He's like, it's pagan, but I think the context behind it's kind of cool.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, no, I mean, he's Full artwork. He's an. He's an asshole. He's been cast out.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, I just do things that promote God. I just.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. You didn't read the Book of Jude?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I just don't think he likes that he has a six pack. But, like, obviously he probably had a six pack when he was casting out.

[Matt Hepner]

I never even said I had a six pack.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Dude, we're not talking about you, dude. See, this is. Everything is about you, you, you, you. Joining us today is Matt. We're going to talk about Elijah, which is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to continue the. The. The. The. The Bible study.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's a good shirt.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And it's like, nobody said you couldn't. This is. This is your place.

[Matt Hepner]

No, it's just, like, a respectful thing to say if you want to, like, butt into the conversation. Oh, now you want to get talking? I'm just saying that I'm really grateful to all the NDS fans. Is that, like, bad to say that? Is that, like, you're supposed to always say, like, mean stuff in the chat and stuff? Like, that's their love language. Been, like, very cool. And in the beginning, if I'm being honest, the first time we did it, like, when the chat was up, I was like, okay, those are just robots or those are just like, whatever. That's not actually real humans. I only ever deal with, like, real humans. And I don't do a lot, like, online, which is opposite of you guys. But then the people were, like, calling here and saying nice things. The dude bought us a box of Bibles. Another guy called Nephilim Bibles, Oregon yesterday wanted to talk about Jude. Then a dude called from Illinois yesterday and wanted to have more conversations. And, like, really? NDS fans are like, no joke, bro. They're like, very real people.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, they're awesome.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's actually a good segue to get into what we want to talk about today and not. Not the Bible, but pertaining to the Bible. So right There at the top, that company, Blue Letter Bible, we're talking about, like, I guess, the pressure of the Nephilim death squad fans. But Matt, I didn't have the conversation. You did. I look so much better than you guys. I got a little bit of tint. That's not what.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

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[Matt Hepner]

The bright white. Well, actually that's kind of a vibe though.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Do we like the blue? Oh, is that why we did the blue for the blue Letter? Oh, my God.

[Matt Hepner]

Top has come around like he, you know, he gets hostile, but he's working on it. Yeah, I think we loved Blue Letter Bible the whole time. Top took it very personal. But we just are gonna take a.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Second hurt before we know it's fair.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, we're doing red. Now we know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And I like red. All right, whatever.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, it's fine.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Explain it.

[Matt Hepner]

Do whatever you want. So. Okay, just go ahead and jump right into it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Okay, go ahead. You have something to say.

[Matt Hepner]

So our boy Jake, you guys remember the episode with Jake? We interviewed him from Blue Letter Bible. He's like the rep for the southeast. Wonderful dude. 25. When I was 25, I was incredibly stupid. And so I always love to be around 25 year olds, especially ones that are not stupid. I'm like, wow, this guy's like so Grown up for 25. Great dude. He actually, if you guys remember, the story, was that Blue Letter Bible asked us to take the episode down, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yes. I think the exact language used was, you guys sucked. Idiots, immature losers. And the Bible's not for you.

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, no, no. I. Now I was saying some of those things. Not the part about the Bible not being for you, but the other stuff I was saying to Jake. I was like, yeah, I get it because of those things with these guys. But what ended up happening was that that high ups at Blue Letter Bible actually never did say to take that episode.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's so crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

I know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So wait, you mean it? That I threatened their lives and they didn't even. They didn't. They didn't say any of that. That's crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

They didn't say that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It was all a fiction.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, what happened was, and I completely understand, if you remember, that was our first episode in the new studio in record time. We got 70% of the studio done in three days so that we could do that episode, by the way.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

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[Matt Hepner]

It looks good.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

In here looks good. We got everything done.

[Matt Hepner]

But what happened was Jake didn't get the call from the higher ups at Blue Letter Bible to not air it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He got a call from Israel?

[Matt Hepner]

No. As an ambassador for the company that he works at. He looked at the intro where you smell poop on your finger and his lobster claw and where the raven poops out an egg and there was a gun on the table.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, it's Florida.

[Matt Hepner]

And he.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's Florida.

[Matt Hepner]

And he kind of made the call to, like, hey, let's just not post that. Like, let's not post that. The higher ups at Blue Letter Bible didn't do that. So what ended up happening was some NDS fans started calling Blue Letter Bible and saying, hey, what's up?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Hey, mate, what's going on?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

By the way, we said that was going to happen when the theater in Leesburg told us that we couldn't do it there. They then were inundated by phone calls and emails from, you know, dangerous retards, which is what they're called. And respectful. Please stop.

[Matt Hepner]

So Jake is a good man. He called to make this right again. He's 25, so anybody who's like, oh, blah, blah, blah, like, just remember where you were when you were 25. He said, hey, man, I kind of made the call to not put this out. This is a lot. He did. He didn't know what he was stepping into, bro. Like, I just told him, hey, want to come on this podcast?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He didn't know how cool.

[Matt Hepner]

He had no clue what he was stepping into, bro. And he just assumed, like, oh, Matt's a Blue Letter Bible guy. He talks about the Bible all the time. He's not assuming it's. He's stepping into Crazy Town or Jokeville, USA with you guys. He had no clue. All right, so with us, then he looked at it and said, I don't know if this is a good idea. We shouldn't do it. And he made a mistake. And he openly called and confessed that and said, I made a mistake and I'm sorry. And the higher ups were not happy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

With the law of Moses say about this. We should stone him, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think we should stone him. He never called me and apologized to me and it hurt me.

[Matt Hepner]

You didn't answer and he did call you and he called you and you guys didn't answer.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So.

[Matt Hepner]

So let's.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He definitely doesn't have his number straight.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, he reached out to him.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Did he say that he called me? Yes, because I do ignore every phone.

[Matt Hepner]

Call that comes on to him. He personally wanted to call and apologize to you guys, and you guys blew him off, which is fine. It's whatever. I understand you were hurt.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Possible.

[Matt Hepner]

And so anyway, so he called and said, hey, I'm in the wrong, and I'd like to make this right. Can you just let everybody know that the higher ups at blue letter bible did not say that they didn't want to be associated with it. I made that call, and I was wrong for doing that. And the higher ups started watching the show and they actually like it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So that we know it's a good show.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's a good. Yeah. That's unsurprising.

[Matt Hepner]

So the end that they actually like BLB relationship just did a 180. Like, it's.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, I think we'll be the judge of that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's a theoretical 180. I feel like we hold all of the balls.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, that you would say a grudge. Because I was like, I hold a mean grudge. Yes.

[Matt Hepner]

And even though they don't do anything, you don't. You have no feelings.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I want them to apologize for making me say that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I kill them all. I hold all the balls in my hands. And I think we'll decide what we want to do.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think we'll consult with the chat. By the end of this show, we'll have an answer for blue letter bible.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, the dude called. Yeah, Blop town, honey. It says blap town. He wanted to make it right.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Blap, blap.

[Matt Hepner]

I got blap.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, so.

[Matt Hepner]

So.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So I guess we're gonna talk about it. Is. Is. Is blue letter Bible. Excuse me. Are they blapping or are they guaming?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They.

[Matt Hepner]

They are our homies, dude. Like, we're. We're in a long game right now. You guys probably don't care about, like, what's really shaping up here. I get it. I get it. You're like, no, we just want to do joke town and crazy stuff.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I care a lot.

[Matt Hepner]

But we're a part of something big, and blue letter bible is going to be a part of this, too. And I'm honored to be, like, teammates with them in this journey for the long game.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think we decide if we're teammates. You know, I want a good team. And I don't know if this episode.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Has been brought to you by Blue letter Bible.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Shout out to blue letter Bible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's right.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

If you ever.

[Matt Hepner]

Even when top was mad at them, he still had to admit it was the best platform for what we were trying to do.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Listen what he told me before is that the check is in the mail, so.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, by the way, shout out to a couple of the NDS homies, the dangerous retards. They have been going and finding the standard coffee on Google and such and leaving five star reviews. Isn't that nice?

[Matt Hepner]

Have they?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, isn't that awesome?

[Matt Hepner]

Dude, I love the NDS fans.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They, they're solid.

[Matt Hepner]

They're solid real ass people, dude. I love that they.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Them.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You thought they were fake people in the beginning.

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, it's just weird for me because I'm not from like your GU generation where you play all these games. You are very old and so like to me people are only real if you can like see them and talk to them. But like if they call on the phone, then they're real to me. And they've been calling and saying like the nice.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Then they're real.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, then they call. Yeah, like things on the screen like that. I like.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Who do you, what do you.

[Matt Hepner]

What are you saying? From my generation, it's like, I, I don't know, like what is.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yes, Joe Brown.

[Matt Hepner]

Maybe it's robots. I don't know. Like it's, it's whatever. All right. Call and they say nice things. It's like, it's really cool actually, man, to be honest, people from all over the country, all over the planet are like calling and saying nice things. It's really cool.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's right. And at the bottom of the screen you can call 352-775-8358 and buy us a pastini.

[Matt Hepner]

Nobody's gonna buy you a pastinio.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

These are great. Fantastic. He's got me addicted to them.

[Matt Hepner]

Who's gonna do that?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can we. To prove that. That you guys are real. When you leave these, these five star ratings and reviews on Google say put like a little NDS at the end so we know like it's homies from the show that are doing like a little skull. And that way he can see that not only are you guys real, but you're more valuable than the actual people that he meets in the flesh.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, we don't want to start getting into that.

[Matt Hepner]

No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying I really tired of.

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[Matt Hepner]

I'm grateful to be a part of.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This community now apparent. Now, look, Blaptown honey is now Bot Town honey, because apparently they're all bots according to you. So thanks a lot anyway.

[Matt Hepner]

Thank you, Diaz.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can we get into Elijah?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I don't like the narrative that we've put out about Blue letter Bible, though.

[Matt Hepner]

What is it?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

See, they're thinking, look, they came crawling back.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They did come crawling back. And we don't know if we'll have them yet.

[Matt Hepner]

No, it wasn't like that. It was just Jake trying to make it right, that's all.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Crawling back.

[Matt Hepner]

The higher up said, wait, what? And then they watched Nephilim Death Squad and they said, yeah, these dudes are a little weird. Like, they're a little out there, but we kind of like it. We kind of like what they're doing.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

These dudes rule.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So I can put the gun on the table again.

[Matt Hepner]

They didn't have a chance to see it before, man. They said, jake, we get it. We're mad at you because you said a thing that wasn't true. We didn't say this, but we understand where you're coming from, that you did, that you were looking out for the good of the company, but it was wrong. And you're 25.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So he's been fired.

[Matt Hepner]

No, he's just made it. He's a man and he owed up to it and he made it right. Which is a solid thing for a 25 year old young guy like that. All right, so are we in 1 Kings 19? Because I know everybody doesn't like all the banter.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's just a lot of banter. And I wish you really like a.

[Matt Hepner]

12 minute banter just to get the views up. And then we like it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, that's kind of. Yeah, we're letting the chat build up.

[Matt Hepner]

Do you guys want to talk about other stuff first then, or.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, let's talk about what you've been doing. You've been tearing down the church, man.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, yeah. And these old ladies in the back have been saying that we're giving out Nephilim Bibles.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What's that about?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What's that about?

[Matt Hepner]

Do I address one of those or two of those or like at the same time? I wasn't around with the Nephilim Bible thing, so I can't really speak to that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, I do want to talk about that a little bit because it seems that We've ruffled some feathers in the back of house and that the retirees at the Villages are getting a little sick of our shit. And somebody donated 60 Bibles. God bless them. Ginger with a hard R. Ginger with.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

A hard R. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, that's who did it. Love that guy. Longtime supporter and homie of the show. And they've been moving like hotcakes. We put them all out and we gave them away. And these old ladies who were getting.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Ruffled by our presence of Enoch, they.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Come out and they look at them and they go.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's the whole thing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What's this?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's the whole Bible.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's literally the whole Bible. It's just in tiny version. And they go, sis, I don't understand. Are these Nephilim?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, I think what it is, David, I'll be honest with you. It's your. It's like how you dress.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

We're literally wearing the same shirt.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, I know we wore the same shirt, but usually very off putting.

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, the cold weather's caused me to reel it in a little bit because I don't have long sleeve Hawaiian shirts. Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Okay. That is like a ready or non starter for old people. They see you and they go like, there's been a couple of falls.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's like epilepsy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. And I get it. You cause this reaction and then what you've done is I said, hey, Dave, go ahead and design the studio here.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You're like, as loud as it is in here, make it loud out there too.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And then I, then I said, go ahead and you, you do whatever you want out there. And he did it too. So now when they come in, I.

[Matt Hepner]

Just watch Badass Bro shout out to the raven because he grinded on that. He grinded on that through the whole weekend after hours. And that was like solid, solid.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And we, we forced our wives to. Our wives forced them to work that.

[Matt Hepner]

Dude, it looks awesome out there. And it, it doesn't matter, man. Like, we've been here, We've had the library running hard for six years, bro. For six years we've been promoting Bible studies, prayer groups. You could say it's pretty supporting the Republican party over. And I. You could say that the 55 and over generation kind of doesn't necessarily like people that aren't like them. Right. Which. Which isn't necessarily very church like. Right.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What is it? What is what? What would it be to be like them?

[Matt Hepner]

Well, it would be like you live in the same kind of Neighborhood, you drive the same kind of car you're in party with them, you got to support Israel. And I get into that because I.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Got to kill the muzzies.

[Matt Hepner]

And the Democrats saying, like, a lot of times, the 55 and over want you to be part of their church as long as you're just like them. But. But I'm saying, I get it. That's a generation they came from. That's what they know. Hopefully the next generation learns from that. Says, no, no, I'm cool with people that are different from me. Like, we're the body of Christ. It's not going to work if we're all kneecaps.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I just don't know how I feel about what I've done here or the part that I've played, because they come in, they see the animal heads, the leopard print, they see the. All the. The colors, and I feel like I'm waging war on them.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They came in the other day and they go, oh, that's animal heads. And Mac goes, yeah, what's the matter? Are you, like, vegetarian? She goes, no, but I just. Killing animals.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I just feel like we're doing their heads.

[Matt Hepner]

If you're not a vegetarian, animals have to die. If you are a vegetarian, animals have to die.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I was explaining that to my plow fields. We were driving the other day, and you could see all the turkey vultures just in big spirals all over the fields because they had just plowed. They had just, you know, whatever.

[Matt Hepner]

Yes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And it's like, all these little critters are dying everywhere. And I'm explaining to my son, like, yeah, dude, something's gonna die.

[Matt Hepner]

And if you want to throw animal heads away, that's fine. I've got nothing. That's. That's whatever.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, but you were like, they deserve. Yeah, but you said. You go, I don't know. I just kind of feel like she's like, well, yeah, it's one thing for them to die, but isn't this grotesque? And you were like, I don't know. I just feel like they deserve, you know, some respect and some reverence for, you know, what they do for us. And. And it just seems like such a shame to just throw away their. Their heads and their body.

[Matt Hepner]

And she was like, yeah, I want to, like, you know, it's not always going to be like this. Right. The whole creation's waiting and groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

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[Matt Hepner]

So it's not always going to be like us eating animals, like killing animals, right? So, like, if I shoot a deer, I do like to put a hand on it and say, dude, right on, man. My family's going to eat you. Like, this is an honorable way to die. This is just the way it is right now. It won't always be like this. We're going to use the bones. We're going to make bone broth. We're going to decorate with part of your body. And so if some people don't like that, I get it. It's no problem.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I'm just. What I'm getting at, though, is that I really like old people. I really.

[Matt Hepner]

We're going through a transition. All right, let's just cut the beat.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You had one of those earlier, what's.

[Matt Hepner]

Called a transitional phase.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, it was one of those transition.

[Matt Hepner]

Of a transition of where, you know, it was a certain way in the back, and now it's going to be a little bit different. It's going to be a little bit different. We got one studio in here. We're going to have multiple shots throughout the library. And as long as people are using the library that's been completely free since the day we opened, that's creating a space for free. So if we decorate it a certain way, that's okay. Different is okay. I think that's another thing with the older generation is like, oh, something different that means not okay. Where it's like, no, no, change is good. Everything in the universe is always changing. Right. That's why God instituted seasons. There's these things called seasons. Right.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We picked the most volatile person to do the change.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Wait, can I tell you a quick story? I know I told you guys this for the audience the other day, so. So the other day I'm in here, I'm in here, and I'm. I'm looking at some of the things that I want to mock up into that room.

[Matt Hepner]

How does Cho Brown know about the ribeye in the sky?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What's that mean?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Oh, yeah, that's like the. Those. Those tall ones.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You're not allowed to kill them, right?

[Matt Hepner]

Not in Florida, but we've eaten them. Because you can Shoot them in Texas.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They're like red meat, bro.

[Matt Hepner]

It's like a really ribeye, but it's a bird.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Those are the birds. They cross the street and they don't care that you're driving.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, the big dinosaur brown, huh?

[Matt Hepner]

Let's go.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Dude, they're like when they. When they start coming in for a landing.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, I like those. So.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So I'm looking at what I want to do with the room, and some old lady comes up to me, and she goes, hey, what do you get? What are you.

[Matt Hepner]

What are you doing?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I said, oh, I'm just kind of getting an idea of how. Because we're going to redecorate this entire area.

[Matt Hepner]

You look good with the blue light, bro.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, hold on a second.

[Matt Hepner]

Let's go back to that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And I go. And I Sharp with the blue light. And I go. So I explained. And we're making eye contact the whole time, right?

[Matt Hepner]

And I go, yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So this is what I want to do. I want it to look like this. We're working hard. Pretty soon we're going to redecorate in here. And she goes. And then just walks away. And you could see, like, the disdain on her face. I mean, I get it for, like, just redec. And I was like, dude, like, they don't.

[Matt Hepner]

They don't like us. Not what they do. It doesn't. I mean, it's. Whatever you're dealing with, the public, you got to deal with a lot of different types of people. And I think a big thing is understanding people. That's a big thing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I kind of like that they don't like us.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I don't like it.

[Matt Hepner]

Some of those conversations. You. You've seen some of the conversations where people aren't necessarily, like, wonderful. To me, it's fun to have those conversations from time.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You're.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You're very.

[Matt Hepner]

I kind of enjoy it a little.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You do a thing.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And it's. And it's, like, very rude, but it goes right over their heads.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, if they cut. If they cut in front of the lady who's a single mom, who's on lunch break and they're retired, and they cut in front of that lady. You have to use. You have to say something.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I came in the other day, and then we'll read the Bible. I came to read the Bible. And Matt's talking to two older women who haven't been here before. And he goes. He goes, hey, top, come here. Stand right there. Don't go to the back. So I stand there and I watch how he patronizes them for five minutes.

[Matt Hepner]

And then patronize them. I just wanted you to hear the conversation.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's weird because he plays his own game and it goes right over their head.

[Matt Hepner]

What does patronize mean again?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Patronize means like they.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Let's not do this.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They're taking you seriously. Yeah, look it up. Because it's the exact word and he's trying to using it correctly.

[Matt Hepner]

No, you're using it instantly in my mind.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, here we go.

[Matt Hepner]

They love America, but that's not.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, this is literally it. Oh, my God. Okay. Treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful, but that betrays a feeling of superiority.

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, I was not. But. No, I was not.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The way you were talking to those woman.

[Matt Hepner]

No. Yeah, the woman.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Oh, stop it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, can we read Elijah, please? What's going on? Because last I knew, Elijah killed everybody.

[Matt Hepner]

Why do I always have to do the reading?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Because it's the best.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You're the best reader.

[Matt Hepner]

Dude, you don't mean it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, we don't mean it.

[Matt Hepner]

We mean it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What do I do? Bring it up.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Read the words.

[Matt Hepner]

All right, Watch it. Okay, so can we do the backdrop? Like, what happened last week?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, Eli murdered the crap out of a ton of people.

[Matt Hepner]

We're not going to say anything about the Raven, like, dissing us last week. We just. Let's just say we couldn't do it last week, which is fine. Which is whatever.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He had other things to do, and that's okay.

[Matt Hepner]

So we dealt with Elijah. He had the Mount Carmel Showdown. He told the Confessing Church, you cannot serve God in Mammon.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He was like, get all your ho ass wizards around. And then we're gonna have a competition. And then the ho ass wizards were like, what is. What is altar? Wet it up. Get it wetted.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He said, watch me wet this altar.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay. He wedded his own altar.

[Matt Hepner]

But hang on, hang on.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay.

[Matt Hepner]

I said, you can't serve God in Mammon. But I was trying to make a point. He said, you can't serve God and baal. That's what he told the Confessing Church.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He's always trying to trick us.

[Matt Hepner]

Told the Confessing Church of this day, you can't serve God in Mammon. So it's a similar vibe. It's a similar thing. But he says, you got to. You guys got to pick. You can serve God or you can serve baal, but you can't serve both.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Is this why people thought Jesus was Elijah?

[Matt Hepner]

No, I mean, the whole Jesus thing is that people thought he was one back from the Dead, bro. Like, all of them were like, we don't know. They said, we think he's John the Baptist. We think he's Elijah. And some say even Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. So just. I know some people were like, yeah, can't you picture Jesus just sitting around the fire telling jokes like Blazing Saddles? That scene where they sit around the fire. I'm like, yeah, maybe, but maybe not. Because, like, they. They looked at him like the weeping prophet, Jeremiah. Dude, he had a heavy spirit. Even the disciples were like, bro, I'm not asking him. You ask him, right? Like, he, like, he was crying. He's heavy, bro. No, it wasn't necessarily like that. But he's just happy, right? But everybody thought he was somebody back from the dead. Like, this is not a normal person. Yeah, but yeah, some thought he was Elijah. So just because he, like moved in that kind of power. Right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But then, so, so going back to. Because I feel like you're getting a little bit. He murdered a lot of people, right? He killed them all.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Elijah, 800, 550.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, that's a ton of people.

[Matt Hepner]

400, was it? 450 prophets of Baal and 400 of the grove. I know, it's 850 total.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Damn.

[Matt Hepner]

He says, yeah, get rid of them. Get rid of them. So now we apply that in a spiritual sense. Our battle's not against flesh and blood. Like, in that day, there was a battle with flesh and blood over nations, over.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Is that like Elijah just soloing? 850 dudes? I don't know.

[Matt Hepner]

It does.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Or does he, like, use homies?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Kind of said he was like, yo, just gather them up. And then maybe he did himself. But let's see. I'm sure, like, there's like a million.

[Matt Hepner]

We're gonna read in a little bit where he smokes 50 in one shot.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Damn.

[Matt Hepner]

Wow. Okay, never mind, never mind. I don't know.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Elijah was brawling.

[Matt Hepner]

You never read ahead, which is good.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I did read ahead, which is fine.

[Matt Hepner]

You did?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah. You want me to give you a synopsis?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, no.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Kills these guys.

[Matt Hepner]

Kill these guys.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

My favorite part is that he's like filled with the spirit, then run super fast to Jezreel, which to me makes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It feel like that's a guy that could kill 800.

[Matt Hepner]

Now imagine where he's at. He's saying, like, yeah, dude, this fake ass church that existed in that day.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This 501 showed the truth.

[Matt Hepner]

They just got showed the truth. And now hopefully this kingdom, this king, this queen, this whole nation is going to turn To God, man. Like, I just, we just proved me and God just proved like, he is the real God. He is the one that should be served. Let's go.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Do you see how fast I ran?

[Matt Hepner]

And here's what happens next. And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, so let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So she basically says, so help me God, if I don't kill you.

[Matt Hepner]

Yes.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right. By tomorrow.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

By tomorrow you're getting wrecked.

[Matt Hepner]

She said, oh, you want to kill off my prophets? I'm going to kill off you.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay.

[Matt Hepner]

And when he saw that he arose and went for his life.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's like, dude.

[Matt Hepner]

And came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. So he had a servant that rolled with him, Dude, I don't know the details of that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You think that guy was brolic too?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Why does he have a servant? Like, why is it, Especially when he's.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Out in the wilderness, he's like, fetch me that rock.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Does he have a lot of money?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no. It's like in Dominican Republic. Like, remember we Talked to Nalisa, Dr. Leilani, she's a doctor. And she said, yeah, in doctor they have servants. It's just part of the culture. It's not. It doesn't mean you're rich. It doesn't mean you're like big money. It's like, should we get servants? Even so called middle class has servants in that culture. So it seems like this is kind of a thing. And servants, I don't know. Some people like that life. They're like, yo, I have nothing to worry about. Like, I just roll with Elijah. It's his job to get the food and the water.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Owen Benjamin said about that.

[Matt Hepner]

And so I'm just chilling, man. I like this guy. I want to hang with him. I'm willing to serve him, especially because of what he's doing for the Lord. We have to imagine that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

True.

[Matt Hepner]

The servant is saying, I'm willing to be a servant because I'm doing something bigger than me.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Also, if you just watched him kill 850 dudes and then run faster than a horse.

[Matt Hepner]

You see, I'm like, I'm serve. That guy crushes, but he himself. So he leaves his servant behind. He says, bro. I think he's saying like, bro, this is going to get Ugly like, I love you, but you got to stay behind. So he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die. Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So he's just that. But which is kind of wild because she's talking about how, I'm going to kill you. And he's like. He's not like, I just killed 850 dudes and ran really fast. Bring it. He's more like, this is just too much. So just like, let me die.

[Matt Hepner]

This is a topic of a lot of discussion is like, what? Like, why? Right? He then he said, it is enough now. Oh, Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers. So please draw the difference between taking your life and requesting that God takes your life.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

There's interesting.

[Matt Hepner]

Let's just. Let's just make sure we are understanding that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I. I miss. When I read that, I. I took it as him being like, yo, I'm throwing the towel in, like, just take me away, God. But then it's this kind of just like, whatever your will is.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Could this be what happened with Moses, what we were talking about just before?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, he's like, yo, you took Moses.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, there's another time where Moses says, yeah, take me, God. Like, I'm done.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I'm done. I get it.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't know. So there's a lot wrapped up in this. All I'm saying is, like, if you're a man of God and you're in the journey and you're in the trenches and you're going hard, and you find yourself in a place where you go, dude, I've had enough, God. Just like, take me. A, you're not alone. You're not the first one that felt like that. But B, that's not the same as taking your life. Requesting that God take your life. Your life isn't yours to take.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He's kind of asking. He's like, is this, like, did I do enough because I'm tired?

[Matt Hepner]

I guess, potentially, I think, maybe. See, this is like one of those examples where, like, in the scripture, you. Your take on it is whatever would be your life. Right? Right.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, your take on it is like, yeah, if you've ever been somebody who's been exhausted, you read this, you go, yeah, he's exhausted.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He might be. Just ran super far really fast.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's true. Yeah, he just killed 850 dudes and then ran really fast.

[Matt Hepner]

If you're somebody who's ever had beef with the current church structure, 501C3. But you love the church of the living God, and you just want what's best. You just want what God wants for that church. Right. If you ever had beef with that system, and then you're hoping that they are seeing now, oh, wait, this is the true God. Like, he's shown us the right way. We should have never been serving baal. He's right. Now we're going to see revival. And then you don't. Then you don't.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So here's the problem, though, and this is what we were talking about yesterday, about a certain somebody or the day before. They're like, we're going to change his mind. It's like, no, no, you got to change his money, and you're not going to do that. So it's almost like a defeated thing, but I think we should still talk about it. Does that make sense?

[Matt Hepner]

Do you know what he's talking about?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Talking about Indiana moans. Okay, yeah, yeah, that idea. You're like, oh, we could. We could change. We could change my. We talk. We can talk.

[Matt Hepner]

I didn't say we're changing money.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, this is. This is the. This is the church, though, when you're discussing people with people in the church and saying, come out of it, you got to change the money.

[Matt Hepner]

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, he knows I'm right. Then Joel touched him and said unto him, arise and eat. I love the angelic realm, bro.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This is cool, because. Well, read the next part.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What's a juniper tree?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's just, like, berries.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You don't know?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, they use them to make mead and shit.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He. He's a. He's a food forest guy. He knows I don't.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't have juniper trees, so. No, I would lean on the radio.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Berries.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They're just berries.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This guy's a liar.

[Matt Hepner]

He's not, man.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Ask him. Tell him a bird fact.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The. You know what the fastest bird in the world is? Fastest animal, period.

[Matt Hepner]

Ostrich.

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[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Whoa.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Sorry, dude.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm sorry. That was just words.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That was just super dumb. The peregrine falcon.

[Matt Hepner]

That was literally my next guest.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That was not your next guest even at all.

[Matt Hepner]

All right. So he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, not for God, but for himself, and said, it is enough. Now, oh, Lord, take away my life, for I'm no better than my fathers. All these prophets that came before me. God they got treated the same way. I'm not any better. Maybe I thought that I was going to get Israel to repent and turn to you, but they're not going to repent and turn to you. I'm no better than my fathers. Like we all go through this. Like we're all doing the same thing. Israel has gone away from you, God. They've forsaken your word. They've gone astray. And true prophets come along and say, we've got to get back to God according to his word. And I've done this now. And now they want to kill me. I'm no different than anybody that came before me.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But God was like, no, eat. Isn't it interesting that Jesus said like, it is finished. He's the one who took his own, I guess, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

He said, I lay my life down. Yeah, he was. Jesus was never a victim of the Romans.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's why I joke it down when people are like, oh, the Jews killed Jesus. It's like he says he lays his own life down. No man takes it.

[Matt Hepner]

Me and you killed Jesus. Our sin is why he had to come and die. Dude, there's no. That was for. Ordained from the beginning of the world.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I wasn't born yet.

[Matt Hepner]

There's no nation state responsible for that. It's the entire human race now. The Jews did do a crazy thing at the cross. They said, let his sin be upon us and forever. Let his blood. Sorry. Let his blood be upon us and our children.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's why they're all cross eyed now and everything.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Let it be known. Let it be known. I would never, I would never say that.

[Matt Hepner]

I know that's such a wild. That's occurred like when like the Bible talks about cursing and swearing. It's like that they put a curse on themselves. It's not saying the sh word or the F word, which I'm. Which I'm happy to say sometimes too.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And just he's really happy to say.

[Matt Hepner]

It when it needs to be said. But like, so do you think this.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Angel, like, hold on.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Can you just say a prayer? Like it's very disrespectful. You've done two shows and not one prayer.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He did that one time and he was like, these guys don't deserve it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They're not serious about it.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, yeah, you guys are like mocking while I'm praying.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You said the F word was.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I just never heard anybody drop a F bomb during a prayer.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I. Whatever. All right, we're at 31 minutes in, so go ahead, please. That was just a little weird.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay? And no. What, you want me to pray?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. Okay, I'll pray, and then we're gonna kick the pores out.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, we don't kick them out of the Bible.

[Matt Hepner]

This is the end for some people because they have to. Okay?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They got.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's kind of the end for us all.

[Matt Hepner]

Can you guys be respectful while I pray, though? Like, I'll pray either way.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Wait, why are we gonna kick the pores out? It's a Bible study.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Can we be respectful?

[Matt Hepner]

No, let's not kick them out. Can they stay on?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, they could stay on. It's a Bible study.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I kind of don't want them here.

[Matt Hepner]

No, bro, keep them on.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I got to pee.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

They can get it in in a week or so. Five. Five weeks?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, it's way too long, dude. Everybody's like, oh, three weeks till it comes out that it's literally a week. The last one we did on Elijah was two weeks ago. It's still not out on.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Let's say a prayer. We'll take a break to pee.

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[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay? Can we play some music when we go?

[Matt Hepner]

No, this isn't a pee break. Three systems for the pee break.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You just want them to have silence.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm gonna pray. If you could be a little bit respectful just for a little bit.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Starting now.

[Matt Hepner]

God, I just want to thank you for this whole situation right now. Like, this is this incredibly crazy scene that this dude, Top Lobster just, like, walks in the coffee shop and he's got a nephilim shirt on, and then he has a podcast, and then he wants to talk about Bible stuff. And then the raven comes in and you remember that whole thing, Lord, that he just did, like, the. He was like the super quiet, almost like, faker thing, but then he ended up being a total real one, even though he looked like a undercover cop.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Amen.

[Matt Hepner]

And this whole thing was just, like, so strange. But in all of that, Lord, it was you. Like, it was you guiding and instructing and doing all this, like, bringing about this podcast. Like, this is this crazy Thing, Lord, like you just had me preach the gospel from behind the counter at a coffee shop and then you know, to onesie twosies here and there, which has been an incredible thing and I'm incredibly grateful for. And then just one day you send these dudes in here and there's like thousands of listeners that now I'm having opportunity to preach the gospel to them. Lord, I just pray that you help me be a faithful witness and testifier of the truth and don't get into my own flesh and don't do the things that I do that are not of you. God, I pray that you would guide my words and I really pray that you would really grab these two, Lord, that the raven and top lobster would become so serious about the calling on their life and really begin to enter into the destiny that you made them for. And I pray that they would begin to really get into the scripture and take notes and chew on it and talk about it and let it be everything in their life that they're always thinking about and applying all things that they see around them to your word. God, I pray that you'd use our voices to change people's lives and make people love you more and read the Bible more. I pray that there's a list of people that when we get into the eternal realm, you're going to be like, here, Matt, Danny, David, meet Susie here, meet Jason, meet Jacob, meet these guys. These are people that were not on a path to the kingdom of God, but then you put them on that path by words that you said through this platform. I pray that that would happen, God, that you would use this in some way to bring people to you and that we would simply be like introducing people to you and then not needing us anymore. Just simply we would be saying things and doing things that would lead people into a relationship with you to where they would know you and you would know them and then we would know them for all eternity, Lord, and I pray that you would raise up that army even today in this nation. God, I feel like there is this great transition taking place right now. Like this crazy ass transition is happening from the old ways that are not the good ways. There's some of the old ways that are the good ways if we go old enough back to the scripture. But then there's like these old ways in America today that are not the good ways. Like there's these weird things that have been brought about by man made religion and I pray that we begin to forsake that and that this generation is the Generation that knows the truth, that sees the truth and starts to live the truth, as opposed to these weird old systems that man has made up. Pray that we'd really begin to walk in that. Lord, I love you, and I don't. I just want you to have your way, Lord. Like, you know, that's like. If I can only say one thing, I just say, I want yout to have youe way, Lord, in my life and my family's life, in Top's life and in his family's life, and in the Raven's life and in his family's life, Lord. And I pray that yout would bless the people that listen and guide them into a path to youo heart, Lord, in Jesus name, amen. Amen.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You only said one swear word.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Pretty good.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't think I said swear words.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You said ass.

[Matt Hepner]

So can we keep going or.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, we have to play music for the people. And then. And then we have to go to the bath.

[Matt Hepner]

Like a break Break?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

And then they're gonna cut people off. They can't watch.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, we're gonna leave them. That's not.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, we have, like, three minutes to decide, so. Guys, hang out. We'll be back in a minute.

[Matt Hepner]

This is to get more people on.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What are they gonna do? Are they gonna just.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, it's for PB breaks.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You know what this is? This is because we can't in.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, that's true. Well, yeah, I think it's. It's important to get comfortable in. In the show.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We'll be back in a few minutes, guys.

[Matt Hepner]

Sa, Sam.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Sa. Sa. Sam.

[Matt Hepner]

Sa.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

She was like, you guys are messing with the Internet. She was. She came all the way in this place. She just walks into the thing like she owns the place.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, we're back on.

[Matt Hepner]

They're very sweet people normally, but.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

We should have hit her.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What? No, I don't think so.

[Matt Hepner]

Are we on?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hey, guys.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Hey. We're back. Thanks for bearing with us. Had to take a little break, and now we're gonna get back to it. But I hope you enjoyed the prayer.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can we actually read the book of. Well, the story of Elijah now?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right. But not with bath salts. And then we'll do it. But this is very interesting.

[Matt Hepner]

They know the Raven. Raven always looks like he's dealing with acid reflux.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, I used to have acid reflux, and they told me that was a permanent disposition as a child, and now.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't have it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Would you like some bath salts?

[Matt Hepner]

He's always like, I'm gassy. It's so weird when he does that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm not gassy anymore. I'm fine today. What the is that noise?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He slept under the juniper tree.

[Matt Hepner]

And you're just going out of your way to say cuss words? Yeah, I'm not promoting like foul language. I'm just saying it happens sometimes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hey, dude.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm just following your lead, dude.

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[Matt Hepner]

Okay? And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, arise and eat. It just seems like the angels are doing stuff on the earth, dude. It's like kind of intriguing how this goes down. And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals in a crus of water at his head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. So look, he's just out. He's in the wilderness, right? He's just chilling. He's in the woods. Imagine you're just like. You're just like sleeping. Yeah. Angel like wakes you up.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He's like, yo, eat this.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, he's not spooked at all. He's like, hey, what's up? And the angel's like, hey, man, I got the little fire going. Baking you a little cake on the. On the fire. And here's some water, man.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You know how angels will take human form periodically?

[Matt Hepner]

Like physical form, or they just look like humans all the time or.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But like, this dude is just such a gangster where they like, we don't even have to say. Fear not. Like, they're just like, here.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, yeah, dude. Like, he's. Here's cake. He looks. Behold, there's a cake and a cruise of water. He ate it and goes back to sleep.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, that's my thing is what I'm.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Wondering is like, so the next time I'm in here, I would like for Matt, because sometimes he'll come in and he'll be like. He'll be like, yo, here's a bottom of the blender.

[Matt Hepner]

I already see where this is going.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

For once cake.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Put it down and go, behold.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, you gave me a whole pumpkin cake roll I ate because I care.

[Matt Hepner]

About you, cuz you're my friend.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I ate the whole thing. But I wonder.

[Matt Hepner]

And two dozen eggs.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Thank you very much for that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All the eggs already?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, I ate all the cake.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Let me tell you something. I took care of David's house and.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And in his fridge where I like to 64 eggs. Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't see anything wrong with that stack.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I like a lot of eggs.

[Matt Hepner]

It's like a major, major food source.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm a big egg guy.

[Matt Hepner]

Like red meat and eggs. You could like live incredible life.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What I had for breakfast this morning, steak.

[Matt Hepner]

That's a great.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's why you're so gassy. Probably.

[Matt Hepner]

Maybe that's a lot of eggs. Oh, you're probably gassy when you're eating other stuff other than that. But let's stay on track because sometimes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can I ask you, do you think that the angel took the time to bake the cake or was he just like, yeah, cake?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, I think he's chilling. He made a little fire. He made like the little cake, like a bread, like a loaf of bread.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, it says cake. I think like a decorating. Talking about icing.

[Matt Hepner]

It's not making a wedding cake. So strawberry bread thing, he gives it to Elijah, Elijah like gets it and just goes back to sleep.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So like a little pound cake.

[Matt Hepner]

He's just so chill. He's so chill with like the like the spirit realm.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He's got it. He's at a point. Pound cake.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Pound cake is so good.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

If he gave him something like a small raven and he's like, is it cake?

[Matt Hepner]

Oh, oh, oh.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You know they make like angel cake. Angel. Angel cake is a thing.

[Matt Hepner]

Wow. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said, arise and eat.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Came twice.

[Matt Hepner]

Cuz the journey is too great for you. I don't know. I love that statement, man. I feel like that's like the story of my life, dude. Not, not necessarily like the arise and eat, but just like God's like, hey bro, I got some stuff for you to do and the journey's too great for you. I. I really feel like that, man. If I look back to when I'm like a kid getting kicked out of my house and living on the street and just being a loser and an idiot and like hooked on oxycontins and just this complete idiot and imbecile and somehow I, like somehow this is where my life's at right now. I feel like there was a time where the Lord just looked at me, he's like, dude, the journey's too great for you.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, but do you think this is better? Like, you got to deal with this guy constantly?

[Matt Hepner]

No, this is great, dude. If you have a wife that's, like, super hot, that loves you, and you have really cool kids that love the Lord, and one just got married to a wonderful young man who you love, and you shout out forest. You have a coffee shop and you have, like, a podcast where you can preach the gospel. Like, there's not. Like, what? Like, what else? Would somebody stop doing that? Like what?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I mean, that's the heavy.

[Matt Hepner]

I know that part's a lot, but I'm just. Like, what else?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You said a bunch of. That's high five worthy.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, what if God was, like, when he came to Solomon, said, I'll give you whatever you want. Like, what else would I tell him?

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[Matt Hepner]

My car door doesn't work. I mean, I probably want the door handle to work. Yeah, it's weird, bro. Like, the driver's door just stopped working last night.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What do you mean, stopped working?

[Matt Hepner]

Like, you go to pull on it and it's not doing anything. It'll lock and unlock. So I wouldn't get out the passenger door. So, like, that's a thing. But, like, whatever. I don't care. Like, everything else the way it is right now, I'm not complaining.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Okay. Okay, I'm gonna. Here's a new video. Matt getting out of the passenger door. Just, like, fumbling over, falling out the other side.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm not falling.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And then it goes.

[Matt Hepner]

Coordination. I get in and out just with the passenger door, But I'm just saying. So that's like this little.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The screen turns black, and then it goes pilgrim slash stranger.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, I like that.

[Matt Hepner]

Kind of into that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I like that.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You know what?

[Matt Hepner]

You know what's funny about that is, like, those things do just remind you that you're a pilgrim and a stranger. And so it's like, yeah, I'm not trying to be comfortable in this realm and just, you know, relax on the La Z Boy chair and just get cozy in the world. Like, remember what we just read in James 4? Yeah, don't remember, dude, because that was a lot. That was a lot for you to track with in the last episode.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I was listening. I got to admit, Top sounded sleepy.

[Matt Hepner]

He. Well, he started off with, like, a groggy voice.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, he had, like, a grog.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't think he talked to anybody today before he got.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think that's what it is. You Got to break the seal on the voice.

[Matt Hepner]

Me too. Like, where if you're the first person I talk to, I just don't feel.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Right sometimes before I start a show.

[Matt Hepner]

James 4:4 says this. You adulterers and adulteresses know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of go. So, like, if the car door doesn't work for a while, it's kind of okay. I'm just getting out the passenger doors. Just reminding me I'm just a pilgrim and a stranger. I'm just passing through this realm.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's it. In. In the 501C3 that I used to go to when I play in the worship with my guitar, we had a song called I am a Friend of God. I am a Friend of God is really cool song.

[Matt Hepner]

Kind of. Abraham was called a friend of God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, me too. Yeah, he calls me friend.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, that's a big deal then. That's like a. That's like a very great title. Like, if people want to have these big, lofty titles, like, Friend of God is maybe, like, the radest title you could have if you're a human, for.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

A sweet baby boy of God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Associate of God.

[Matt Hepner]

So the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched Elijah and said, arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat. 40 days and 40 nights.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That happens again. What's up with that?

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, Moses. We just read it in the earlier thing too, right? Yeah, 40 days and 40 nights with no food and water.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This guy's going through some wild stuff, and he sounds pretty depressed here.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You think there's anything he'd be, like, pumped after he just ran super fast?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But do you think there's anything else here that happened? Or you think maybe he had some sort of, like. I mean, you kill 850 men, that might take a toll on you.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Maybe, yeah. Spiritually or like, you're saying, I just.

[Matt Hepner]

Think this is a human just on another level that we have no understanding of today. Because, like, what we call, like, a man of God today is a guy who, like, he just, like. No, no, I'm just saying he preaches a sermon on Sunday morning to people in air conditioning, on soft cushioned seats that came there to hear that. So, like, that's cool. I'm not knocking that. I think that's wonderful.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Can I ask you seriously?

[Matt Hepner]

No. And through the church Great men of God have done that. Spurgeon, G. Kimmel, Morgan. They preached to people who came there to sit in air conditioned buildings to hear that. So there is a place for that. I love that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Is this why you turn off the AC when we do the podcast and you gave us such hard chairs.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Because suffering, it builds strength, character, closeness to God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Something like that.

[Matt Hepner]

So all I'm saying is that, like, Elijah is just a dude on another.

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[Matt Hepner]

He's just on another level. So, yeah, there's probably a lot going through his head for 40 days, by.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The way, more than 20 times, 24 times. Does 40 days and 40 nights appear in the Bible. That's an interesting.

[Matt Hepner]

But there are references to the same story some of those times. Oh, you have whatever.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

The flood. I mean, you got Jesus. Yeah. In the wilderness, you got Moses, you got Elijah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You also got the 40 days between Jesus's resurrection and then his ascension into him.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

When he hangs out for 40 days.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

She'S like, what's up, pimp?

[Matt Hepner]

Preaching and teaching things pertaining to the kingdom of God for 40, 40 days.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Like, he wasn't done. He's like, three years, he's still not done. 40 days.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, he's still not done.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Jonah's warning that the opening of Neva would be destroyed in 40 days.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, yeah. In Acts, it says these are the things that he began to do and teach. Like, he's still doing it. He's at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us. Thank God. But yeah, dude, this story is still going, man. Like, if you just think you have this cold, dead religion that you can frame in and put on the wall and say, that's my religion, like, you're sorely mistaken. Dude, this is a thing that's absolutely. We're still in the middle of the story.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

High 5. For 40 days and 40 nights.

[Matt Hepner]

Can you tell him to quit doing that? Like, I. What?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I can't make him stop. This is part of your punishment.

[Matt Hepner]

You have sinned so great that, like, what's going on Elijah's mind, dude, he's like, yo just killed off 850. Had, like, this. This giant victory on behalf of the kingdom of God. Now Jezebel wants me dead. I lost my servant. Now I left him behind. I'm in the middle of the wilderness. Angels are visiting me, feeding me. Now I'm going 40 days, and I'm going to Horeb the mountain of God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You know what it is, too? It's like, he just. He just beat that whole being in banishment from King Ahab. And then it happens immediately again.

[Matt Hepner]

That's a great point.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, it's probably like, just like, damn, dude.

[Matt Hepner]

He's like, wait, I'm going to hang with some humans again, man. Like, I'm about to be back on the seat.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, it's like, top. Like, Top kills like 850 people on Twitter. And then he gets banished.

[Matt Hepner]

He's got to stop doing that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And then he's like. He sits there and it's like. It's a heavy thing. It's a heavy.

[Matt Hepner]

Very hateful on Twitter.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I mean, you know, it was a little hateful.

[Matt Hepner]

Hateful is a word arguments with people. It's like, bro, cut him some slack.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's like, swing that sword. 843. 844, 800.

[Matt Hepner]

He. He loves the tension, though.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He's done. He's like, just take me, Lord.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I must. I must sleep underneath this juniper.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This juniper tree. Don't eat the juniper berries, though.

[Matt Hepner]

Here we're going hard now. In verse nine, he came there unto a cave and lodged there. Just saying, bro, like, dudes in the Bible, they're not like, sweet little cupcake dudes like today, bro. They're like, this dude just goes and lives in a cave Again. Again.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

If I came across a cave, d. Rest in it.

[Matt Hepner]

Ravens are feeding them. Yeah, he came there, lodged there with no ac. None of the nice things, no tik tok. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, what are you doing here, Elijah?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Stupid.

[Matt Hepner]

No, he didn't say that. He just said, what are you doing here, bro? Let's talk. Like, I feel like the Lord is like this. He's like, let's talk, man. Like, where are you at? You know what I'm saying? Like, adam and Eve in the garden. Where you at? This is. We're naked. Who told you you were naked? Let's talk through this, Adam. Like, Elijah, he's like, bro, what are you doing here? Like, let's talk through, like, I feel like the Lord did that with me to get Me broken from the love of drugs. You're like, he talked me through why I love drugs so much and, like, made me deal with it. I just feel like he's like that. Like, he goes into the synagogue and there's a man with a withered hand. He goes straight to the man with the withered hand. He doesn't beat around the bush.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Like, sup with that hand, dog.

[Matt Hepner]

Judas is a thief. He says, let's put Judas in charge of the money. Says, let's. We're gonna deal, like, whatever your thing is, we're gonna deal with it. We're not going to beat around the bush. Elijah, what are you doing here? And he said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They've throw down your altars and they slain your prophets with the sword. And I, even I only am left. And they seek my life now, too, to take it away.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I. I don't understand that. I am jealous for the Lord of hosts. How is jealous being?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He loves. He's like, he's the only one that loves you still. And he's like, everything is taken away from me.

[Matt Hepner]

You're going to get.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And they want to kill me.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm glad that this was recorded. You're going to get there. At some point. You're going to get there. You're going to feel exactly how he feels.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm just. I'm still stuck on, like, four. Meaning?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Because we're not going to. We're not going to feel how he feels because we're building a great community of people who feel the same way.

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, no. You could definitely get to a place where you're saying, like, you're just zealous over the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And you're saying, like, man, I've been jealous for who you are in the earth. God. Like, you made everything and all the people just despise you and brush you off. Like, they're done with you. They haven't even begun with you. What would be a good world thinks they're done with Jesus. They haven't begun with Jesus, dude.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Everyone write this down. Kings 19, verse 10. This is like, Just put that right next to Matt's face when he's scowling. I think that's the scripture.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, yeah, that goes with the face. You should get a T shirt where it's that scowling face.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And that's 1910.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What would be a good interchangeable expression to use in place of Jealous?

[Matt Hepner]

Jealous is great, bro.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, I guess I'm just retarded then.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Jealous? Yeah. Like. And I don't know, you guys just.

[Matt Hepner]

Look at it as, like, a bad thing?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, like, that's what I'm trying to. Is there not a. Like, a synonym?

[Matt Hepner]

You know how, like, God being jealous for you, bro? Like. Like, you okay? God, who can do whatever he wants, never had to make us, never had to do any of this, isn't just, like, intrigued by your life or curious about your life. He's jealous over what you're doing with your time. You don't understand how if your wife was hanging out with some other dude and, like, whatever the other dude did, like, he's hanging out at the bar, she goes to the bar with them, they go to lunch together, you'd have this thing called jealousy, which I know is, like, this bad thing. Like, it is a bad thing or whatever, but you understand, like, in relation to a spouse, that that would be a very natural reaction. Dude, in some crazy way, God has that feeling towards us, and some of us get that feeling towards him. We're looking at the church, and we're saying, like, the church has gone a whoring on God. Like, this system has completely gone a whoring on God and forsaken his name and loved the world and spitting in God's face because they love the world so much and they're just using him for personal gain. And now I'm jealous for the life of God. I'm jealous for his relationship with these people that he's supposed to have. Yeah, there's people that feel like that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

All right, I'll just pull up blue letter Bible.

[Matt Hepner]

And he said. Yeah, and he said, go forth and stay. I don't know. You're struggling with the fact that he could be jealous for God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He just wants to know the definition.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm just jealous.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm just like, look at.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I got it right here. Hold on. Put on the screen.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I can't ask Matt stuff. He gets really mad at me.

[Matt Hepner]

No, because you're trying to say. Oh, I can't say what it means.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So jealous.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm not saying that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The definition, the primitive root is kana. To be jealous, to be envious, to be zealous of. To excite, to jealous.

[Matt Hepner]

Zealous. I think zealous is a good use there too.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm not gonna lie.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Zealous.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

She doesn't know what zealous means either. This is.

[Matt Hepner]

This is aggressive and passionate about it. Okay, okay.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, let's keep reading. Because this is like, I, I, I, we're going to be circling the drain here if we try to. Because we, we'll have to explain the next word that zealous translates to.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's true.

[Matt Hepner]

And he said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord. So this is God speaking with Elijah. Now, remember, the angel comes to him. He just goes back to sleep. The angel comes a second time. Now he's communicating, like, face to face with God. Heavy, bro. He said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by in a great and strong wind, ripped the mountains and broken pieces the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind and earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. There's a difference between God and the effects of God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The Lord passed by and did all this stuff, but it, he wasn't in that.

[Matt Hepner]

He like, he sent it, he did this, it had this effect, right? Remember even Jesus talking about the born again experience. He tells the dude, Nicodemus, he says, it's kind of like the wind, man. You can't, you don't really know where it comes from, but where it goes. But you see the effect of it. And so there's some of that. There's like the Lord, he's dealing with Elijah. He passes by, there's a strong wind. I don't know, let's call it a tornado or a hurricane. This isn't like this sweet little thing. It's something aggressive and crazy, and it ripped the mountains in broken pieces, the rocks. Like, this isn't a normal window. But the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake starts shaking everything. But the Lord's not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. These are all these effects of God around us happening.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Boom.

[Matt Hepner]

These things are happening, but he's not those things. But after the fire, there was a still, small voice. I just think people aren't ready for that, dude. The voice of God is subtle. Like, they like it. If like the voice of God comes from an angel that just like bursts through your window and is like, ah, it has like some cool thing to say. And they want to tell everybody these visions they had and these dreams they had and all this stuff, and there's some super holy spirit, spirit, realm, person. But the voice of God is subtle, subtle. And if you're too busy with all this other stuff, you're going to miss it. This is a big deal, man, because sometimes you talk to people and like, oh, God told me this, God told me that. And then you're like listening to him. And the thing that they're saying sounds foolish as well. But then, you know, their life, they're so busy, busy, busy, busy. You're like, I don't know, man. Of course we don't want to be super judgy, but we're like, can you really hear the voice of God when you're so busy? I don't. I don't know. I can't. I guess that's all I know is me. Maybe other people can. So I shouldn't be super judgy about it, but I know, like, the number one thing that crushes my spiritual life is busyness. Go, go, go, go, go. All the information, all the stuff coming in, all the. That's why I could never play on the tweeter like, I never could. You can because you have like a capacity for, like, more. I don't have that big of a capacity because I'm not that bright. Like, I have to put all of everything in me into God. Because if I'm kind of in this and kind of in that kind of and all these other things, like, I'm just not going to hear the voice of God. It's just not going to happen for me.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Less and less these days.

[Matt Hepner]

But yeah, so there's all these things happening and these are the effects of God, but they're not God. Man.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

13 Right?

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. So it was so when Elijah heard it, then he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering into the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him and said again, the second time, Elijah, what are you doing here?

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[Matt Hepner]

I love God. I love how he operates with people, man. I love how he does this. This is why you have to read the Old Testament. People are wankers. And they say, I don't read the Old Testament, only read the New Testament. Imagine if you told your wife when she starts telling you stories of her life before you married her, if you're like, I don't want to hear It. That's before our covenant. So it does. That's the Old. That's old. That's the Old Testament. I don't want to hear it. Can you imagine saying that to God? I don't want to read the Old Testament. Like, this is how you find out who he is. This is. You find out. This is where you find out, like, what God has been through with humanity. Like, this is how you get to know the Lord. If all you want is, like, all the benefits you get from the New Testament, go ahead, just read that. That's fine, whatever. But you're completely missing out on who God is and what his heart is like. Like, this is where we really begin to understand what he's been through and how he operates. He said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. This is Elijah speaking now. Because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain the prophets with the sword. And I, even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away. So they're having this conversation again. Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah. He said the same thing again.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So is it. Is it like he hasn't learned, or is he just saying, like, yo, dude, same thing. That's why I'm depressed.

[Matt Hepner]

All of the above. All the above. Like, let's dig into that. I mean, yeah, he's going through it again. He's explaining it again.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And then I guess God gives him more direction.

[Matt Hepner]

But does God need him to explain it, or does God need him to explain it? Do you see what I'm saying? And make him explain it and talk through it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Like, say it out loud.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. Yes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It is a weird dialogue, though, because he's like. He already has the conversation. And then he's like. He tells him, yo, go here and witness all this crazy shit that I'm about to do. And then I'll talk to you again. And then he does all this shit. And then he talks to him again. And then he's like, so, what's up? What are you doing? And then he says the same thing over again. It was. It's kind of weird because it feels like that's how the conversation started.

[Matt Hepner]

I know. Isn't that wild? Like, Elijah, who. This dude is like, I broke the mountain. I sent the thing. Now what? He's like.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And then, like, I'm saying, I'm still.

[Matt Hepner]

Feeling, quite speaking, like Elijah's awake.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, I'm not saying he's a wanker.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Sleepy. He's just kind of sleepy.

[Matt Hepner]

Oh, he's been through a lot, dude. I don't think we understand what this is like, dude. I don't think we live like this.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I just feel like when. When God destroys a mountain and creates a tornado of fire and all this crazy stuff.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Not after you kill 800.

[Matt Hepner]

No. And I think Elijah's like, yes, God. Yes. Even at all that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yes, God.

[Matt Hepner]

You and I know each other and love each other. I know, but this is still where I'm at. Like, this is where I'm at.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I find it really funny if you. If you look at it this way, where he's kind of like. God's like. He's like, yo, you okay? And he's like, yeah, I'm kind of depressed. And God's like, that's how I'm looking at it. And then he goes. He goes, yeah, man.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So how about now?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

God's like, yeah, like, what's up now? And he's just, like, still kind of still sad. Still, like, not feeling it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Still sleeping.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right. Get up and go somewhere. Yeah, that's hilarious.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, honestly, it's a lot hilarious. But that's what happened.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Wakes him up, makes him a cake.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's funny because God's like. He's like, all right.

[Matt Hepner]

He's alone, bro. Loneliness is a hard thing, dude. You guys don't know anything about that because you guys have this whole thing with the chat. These are fake people. They're not. They're not robots. Your best friends. You guys have all these people in your life all the time. Some people are lonely, dude, and it's rough on the Earth for lonely people. He's saying, like, I'm the only one left.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What the hell was that?

[Matt Hepner]

Now there's also. Now there's also this element we're gonna see moving forward that he actually wasn't alone. He was, but he wasn't. But this is, like this loneliness that he's going through. He's saying, like, lord, I'm alone, man, this is rough down here.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is like Noah. I mean, for, like, the 40 days, right? And then I think Noah's big issue while he was probably drinking in the cave is because even though I guess he had his family, but you got to feel alone, right? Like, you're the only humans on the Earth, and you're like, damn, what now, bro?

[Matt Hepner]

Go through the whole book, dude. Moses has this lonely thing. Like, Paul has this lonely thing. Jesus goes to get alone a lot. Like, no matter what, no matter how many times Jesus was with people, he was never really with people.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Like, he Was, like, in the room.

[Matt Hepner]

But not something else. Right. So, like, Buddy was living the human experience. Like, how much, like, could he really not be alone? Right, Right. I'm just saying, dude, this is a thing that men of God go through, dude. It's like, damn, I'm kind of alone. This is a thing. Just go through the scripture and study it out. Elijah is one of them. It's just a thing. And he said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel forsaken thy covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain the prophets with the sword. And I'm the only one taking this serious, Lord. I'm. I'm the only one left. And now they're seeking my life to take it away. Yeah, I'm. It's kind of rough. God. This is kind of rough. Can we just be honest? Can we just. I'm not trying to do, like, the super holy prayer, God. I'm just trying to be honest. Like, this is a lot.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This almost feels like the hook to a song, like, because it's said twice, and then, like, the in between is the verse.

[Matt Hepner]

I can't wait till you guys become super serious about the Bible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

There is an intrigue.

[Matt Hepner]

You're talking about, like, 16 bars in a hook. It's kind of like, the same.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's what it feels like to me.

[Matt Hepner]

Boom. Yeah, I like that. I see what you're saying.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Now we hit the bridge.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. Yeah, man. But I mean, the repeating, the repeating of things is a thing in Scripture. It's like when we underline or, like, put it in bold or, like, whatever, all caps. Like, repeating a thing in scripture is, like, a thing. It's like, get this. Like, get this. We're repeating it. Get it. Make sure you get it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Especially when God says it twice.

[Matt Hepner]

And the Lord said unto him, go return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. What authority did Elijah have over the king of Syria? I don't know. I don't know, bro. Again, Elijah the Tishbite. Where is he from? Who's his, like, ancestors? I don't know. We don't have any record better than him, apparently.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I mean, father was better.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't exactly know much about this dude, but in somehow, some way, God's given him authority to go anoint a king of another nation. Not Israel, Syria.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Oh, and he anoints Jehu also, bro. Didn't remember that, bro.

[Matt Hepner]

Hang on. So he goes and anoints the king of Syria, Hazael. This is what he's told to do right here. And Jehu the son of Nimshi shall thou anoint to be king over Israel. So now he's anointing the king in Syria and the king in Israel and Elisha the son of Shaphat, of Abel, Mehela, shall thou anoint to be prophet in your room or in your place. Yeah. I'm taking you out. But you're not running out of here. You're given a two week notice and you're going to find your replacement before you go.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So Elisha is.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Is his replacement.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Is. Okay.

[Matt Hepner]

Just the anointed prophet in the place of Elijah. Not that there wasn't other prophets on the planet at that time, because come to find out there are. But like, this was a very specific prophet and he says, dude, we need another one.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The son of Snapchat.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. So Elisha is going to get anointed prophet in the place of Elijah. This is where people get confused.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I just got confused, but now I'm good.

[Matt Hepner]

You good?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yep.

[Matt Hepner]

Stop doing that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay.

[Matt Hepner]

It's very inappropriate.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He's not gonna stop. He's not gonna stop now that you asked him.

[Matt Hepner]

And it shall come to pass that him that escapes the sword of Hazael, who's going to be the king of Syria, shall Jehu, who's going to be the king of Israel, shall Jehu slay. And him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. But just keep in mind, bro, I know we haven't talked about this yet. I have 7,000 in Israel. All the knees which have not bowed unto BAAL in every mouth which hath not kissed him. So this kissing of a false God. Right. Every mouth which hath not kissed him. This is why it's super offensive to a lot of people that the creature called the Pope will, like, let people kiss. Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's wild.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, they let them do that. We're bluntly like this. I. I even think that's what's wrapped up in when Judas comes and betrays Jesus with a kiss. And Jesus goes, bro, you're gonna betray the son of man with a kiss? Yeah, like this. Like the same way they do with idols.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

There's some knowledge behind that.

[Matt Hepner]

Is that what we're doing? That's what I'm saying. These creatures that have come through the line, they say they're from the line of Peter, whatever. They call themselves popes. They, like, let people kiss them. I'm like, bro, go Just go read the Bible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's a holy kiss.

[Matt Hepner]

Yikes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So you kiss your homies. So Holy kiss.

[Matt Hepner]

So this is a thing, man. He's got a remnant. He's got a 7,000 person remnant, right? All the knees which have not bowed into bail. So this is kind of a two sided coin here, is like, Elijah, you're not alone. There's 7,000 that have not bound, bowed. The flip side of the coin is like, how many people are in this nation at this time? That's supposed to be the Covenant people. Several million people. And there's only 7,000 that haven't bowed to Baal. Like that's it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Not, not good numbers.

[Matt Hepner]

That's it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Even after they saw the stuff at Mount Carmel. But I guess, I don't know. But then we're talking about repentance of these people beyond, or is it not there yet?

[Matt Hepner]

Just loaded, bro. It's just loaded, man. So God shows him first that he's with him, right? Like that's the first thing. The whole thing that goes down the caves is, look, I'm, I'm with you. Then he shows him that there's others, right, that just weren't connected. He just wasn't connected with them. I guess that's a cool thing about the NDS homies, man, when they call in is like, we're all connected now, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The holy kiss. It's interesting because in Revelation it talks about 11, 13, 7,000 people killed in an earthquake. I just find it interesting because a lot of the same numbers repeat themselves throughout the Bible. And it's interesting that you have 7,000 people that didn't bend the knee or, or give balakis. And then 7,000 people that are killed in an earthquake later on in Revelation.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Nowadays people are getting paid $7,000 to promote Israel. Kind of crazy, but that's a different subject.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's $7,000 to give Balakis.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It actually is. And it's crazy too, because the $7,000 would translate to about 40 pieces of silver in today's currency. Real crazy stuff.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Take the average person.

[Matt Hepner]

How big are the pieces of silver, bro? Silver's like $50 an ounce, bro.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Pretty big pieces.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And take people about 40 days of work and nights to make that sort of money.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm not doing this with you guys. In Israel, the Messiah came from Israel. All the scriptures came from Israel. Okay?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I didn't say it. Why are you yelling at us?

[Matt Hepner]

No, if they came from Puerto Rico, you'd be very intrigued with Puerto Rico, right?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I mean, I'm super Intrigued with Israel.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay, good. Then that's. Yeah, that's good.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Just looking at it.

[Matt Hepner]

So he departed there and found Elisha, the son of Shafat, who was working in the temple because he had gone through cemetery school. And now he was one of the priests, one of the big shots inside organized religion of that day.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You thought you were going to get us.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He was plowing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He didn't get us.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen before him.

[Matt Hepner]

So he departed there and found Elisha in the college. He had a lot of letters behind his name and had a lot of education within that worldly system of his day.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They found him praying for the Republican party.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Very disrespectful.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay, dude, think about this, bro. Think about when Samuel is told to go and go to the house of Jesse and anoint one of the sons of Jesse to be king over Israel. You guys are familiar with this story?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yes.

[Matt Hepner]

You're not?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Of course not.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's. It's literally your story.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. So Samuel the prophet is told to go to the house of Jesse and anoint one of the sons as king of Israel.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's like, which one?

[Matt Hepner]

Right? So he goes, there's seven songs.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, I'm sorry.

[Matt Hepner]

Yes. God says, no, not that one, not that one, not that one. Until David finally said. Until Samuel finally says, hey, man, do you have another kid?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Because all these kids suck in this.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, we've got another one. But we think so low of him that we didn't even invite him to come see one of his brothers get anointed king. Yeah, surely you're not going to anoint him king. But we didn't even invite him to let his brother, like, let him see his brother get anointed king.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is the story of David.

[Matt Hepner]

He's trash, man. He's out in the field working. What? Yeah, there's an interesting thing with the working man in the scripture, bro. It's an interesting thing that Adam gets put in the garden to work and keep it even before we should work more.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

David, we're just doing playtime.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yes, I would love to get shout out to Z man, by the way. So he's in the chat welding.

[Matt Hepner]

So you get found.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hell yeah, boy. What's happening?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He got lost in the chat. You get found?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no. So I just want to make this point about the working man, dude. Like, that's who God operates with in the earth. I know that's offensive, but I don't care. He finds Elisha. He's getting. Not the welfare in the place of the prophet. The dude's working. David gets found. He's working. The creator of the universe comes down to the earth as a man and picks 12 people. He picks working men. He could have went and picked people from the temple or the college as well. He very specifically picks working men. Dudes who are grinding. They're on the grind, that aren't lazy. Remember we talked about idleness last week? Like, he's not doing the idle thing. He's not doing that. He's doing the let's go thing. Let's go. There's no idleness. There's no laziness in our kingdom. Like, let's go. Those are the people he can work with. So he finds Elisha in the field working. He's a working man. I think that's why there's been this thing to feminize the church in America today, bro. That it's like, not like, you don't see these rough dudes in the church. You see, like, you know how many times you see, like, the wife in the church, but the husband's not. You see a lot of that. It's kind of feminized. Maybe even the dude in the pool.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Actually see a lot of that. Like a. Like a, you know, husband stays home, doesn't go to the church kind of a deal. That's what I'm saying.

[Matt Hepner]

Because the dude looks at it and says, I'm not. I don't get down with this, dude. This is fake. Yeah. Whether. Whether it is or not, whatever, we can all argue and fight about that. But that's why the dudes are not going. Because they're saying, like, this is fake. I'm not doing this. Whereas the females are more like, I think it's fake too, but I wanna. I just have a heart that this is gonna change. Like, males and females are different, dude. It's like females at Jesus tomb. He tells everybody that he's gonna rise from the dead. There's nobody there except females, bro. Like, females have, like, this different patience and spiritual insight. It's just a different thing, dude. But the dudes are missing today. Like, that's the problem. The dudes are missing because they're grimy, rough working men who maybe even have had drug problems because they know that they're pilgrims and strangers and they don't fit in on the earth. They're like, punch in, punch out, mow the lawn, wash the car, do the 401k. They're like, yeah, no, and maybe that, like, a lot of them go to Drugs, because they know they're a pilgrim and a stranger, and they don't fit in in this realm. People that are junkies aren't far from the kingdom of God, dude. Most of them. The more you get down with them, you find out they just know that they don't belong here. Like, that's the big thing. They don't belong here. But the church hasn't reached them yet. But the church is going to start reaching them, dude. And those are probably going to be the people that, like, take us to the next level. But. But this is the thing, man. This is why it's, like, a crime that the church has been so feminized, right? And he left the oxen, right? So. So, Elisha, we'll go back to 19. So he departed there and found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen before him. And he. With the 12. And Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle upon him. So he was saying, like, he. Elisha knows what's happened. He's saying, like, bro, you're the one now. Like, you're wearing the mantle now. And he, Elisha, left the oxen. Remember when Jesus called the fishermen and they left their boats behind?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What kind of mantle? So he threw. He actually put, like, a cloak on him.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, sure. You guys are going to have a field day with that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Let's hear it. Yeah, let's hear it. We're going to talk about it. He's going to roll his eyes. I just don't know, dog.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Go ahead. Hey, Matt, do me a favor. Get the face out of your system.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Just do it.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm intrigued to hear it. Let's go.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Now, this is like. Is this the robe that Adam took from the garden that was then passed.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

To the priestly robe?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And then Noah got raped? And then it was. Whoa. Then it was stolen from him. And then it goes to, like, Nimrod.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think Noah was just drunk and.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He just saw his butt in the Book of Jasher. And then now and then it gets lost and it shows up in Joseph's coat of many colors.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Now this Tish bite just has it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And then he puts it on somebody else. But there's something special about it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Priestly robes of the Nakash.

[Matt Hepner]

Maybe this guy, he makes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You know how hard it is. He didn't want to make that face.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He tried so hard not to try it. Maybe he makes me look like a real asshole.

[Matt Hepner]

No, I do not.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I go do it. Maybe this. And he goes. He goes, dog, that was stupid. Probably.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I heard him pull up the next scripture.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Sometimes he doesn't even say that. He just makes the face. He goes, no, it's just on your Bible.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm just in the zone, and I can't get sidetracked.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Does it say that anywhere? Here? Because I'm looking at the Bible. And does it say, because you've been.

[Matt Hepner]

Incredibly gracious for everything you're doing, I'm.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Very good at what.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm grateful for it. And, like, as far as it being that. It could be that. It could be that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That you just said, I think it's just a big deal that he threw his cloak on him. But when. When you have a dude like Elijah that's being fed by angels and ravens and God and seeing all this stuff, his cloak probably means something. But then that's weird, too, because then it's like, now this is like a powerful item.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, okay, but Paul in the New Testament, it says, like, handkerchiefs and aprons were taken off of him, put on people with diseases and evil spir.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The.

[Matt Hepner]

And the diseases left them, and the evil spirits left them. Like, there was a saturation. There was a. There was a presence in that physical clothing. So I got no beef with that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The chat says Matt is so triggered.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

With a couple of teeth. I don't think he's triggered. No, no.

[Matt Hepner]

I. No, I like where you guys go with it. I get excited about it, but I think I want to mock it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It just wouldn't fly. Listen to it. This wouldn't fly with the other Bible studies he does.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, no. Definitely not with, like, the smart people.

[Matt Hepner]

That he doesn't make a joke. Joke. Because you guys like to attack me too. Like, especially the radio.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Never attack.

[Matt Hepner]

Oh, bro.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You're always like, I bring you scraps of food and meat.

[Matt Hepner]

So, yeah, so there's that. Okay. Don't forget Peter's shadow was healing people in the Book of Acts. They brought out beds and stuff to lay on the street so that the shadow of Peter walking by would heal him. Like, yeah, dude. It seems like shadow of Peter seems like things. The woman who touched Jesus hem of his garment, she gets healed. She just touched the hem of the garment. Yeah. Looks like there's things that can get so saturated with the presence of God that it matters. I don't know if that's what's happening here or not. I don't know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is why. I mean, I don't know if you know this, but, like, the Nazis were looking for the Spear of Destiny that's what they used, like, to poke Jesus.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The Holy Grail, and a number of other things.

[Matt Hepner]

Should I do the face?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Do the face. You could do the face, but it's just the people want the face.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Matt, put the camera on. Matt, do the face.

[Matt Hepner]

Dude, I actually like where you're going with this.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, it's true, though. The Nazis were. Were looking for this stuff, man. Yeah, they were looking for, like, these ancient artifacts and. Because there probably is. Listen, if you. If you poke Jesus in the side with a spear or even, like, maybe the Shroud of Turin, like, there's got to be some kind of special property to this stuff.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You don't like the shrouded turin?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You don't like that? You think it's fake?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Go ahead, say it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And gay.

[Matt Hepner]

No, I don't. The thing is, I just.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Gay.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, I don't care. Hold on, hold on. We have the spirit of God. Yeah. There's no Ark of the Covenant. There's no Shroud of Termin or whatever.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Termin.

[Matt Hepner]

There's no, like, all these. The spear, whatever. Maybe those are rad things for people who need to access the spirit realm through those things. We access the spirit realm through God himself. So those things, why can't they just.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Be, like, read like in the.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, we found the Ark of the Covenant, and they brought it in and we kept in the library. Sweet, sweet. But that's not, like, the thing now. The thing now is the Holy Spirit that lives within me.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

And so all these things. Maybe the occult does want to get a hold of those things for somehow accessing the spirit realm through those things through those physical things. I don't access the spirit realm through physical things like that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You should have been at church this week because Pastor Rick, who rules, has.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The Shroud of jury, who's excluded.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Who is excluded from all the stuff that he just said about the church that Matt just said about the church. He gave a great message on Holy Spirit. He calls it Holy Spirit because he feels like the Holy Spirit is too impersonable. And I kind of agree with him.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He really changed my perspective. I'd be asking God to send Holy Spirit all the time now.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay. In the Bible, he's called the Holy Ghost.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I know, but he calls him Holy Spirit.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't think our boy Stephen from Biblical Hitman would agree with you guys right now on calling him Holy Spirit without the.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, the Matt Hepner.

[Matt Hepner]

But. But whatever. Whatever.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Good point. What if every time you picked up, I go, hello, the Matt Hepner. You don't even, like, when I call.

[Matt Hepner]

You Matt, you're addressing God. And it's a tricky thing because he is referred to as a he and an it. So he is.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Is. I think I get carried away. I go, father God.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You do.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

In the name of Jesus Christ, can you send Holy Spirit? Like, I'm like. I'm trying to. I'm like, do I talk to you?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I never pray and ask for Holy. The Holy Spirit.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I do. I say I asked it to be sent here.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I usually talk to God, and I'd be like, in the name of Jesus. Even in your prayer, you mentioned Holy.

[Matt Hepner]

Spirit, but God references all three. I know.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I asked the Holy Spirit to come to the gym with me.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Anyway, Pastor Rick was just saying, dude, it's like, important. Like. Like, this is what we should be asking for first and foremost every time.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Was what Jesus had to go so help could be sent.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. Like, yo, ask for that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So now we could ask Holy Spirit to be here.

[Matt Hepner]

Amen. Yeah, Jesus talks about that. He says, if you ask your father for bread, is he going to give you, like a snake or a scorpion? Something along those lines? Said, how much more if you ask your father for the Holy Spirit, will he give it to you? Yeah. Amen.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. Just saying.

[Matt Hepner]

So the dude's going straight Bible. That's great.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But he gets upset if he's. If you drop the.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He makes the face.

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, no. I don't know enough about it. You can call God whatever you want to call God. If you know the Lord, he speaks to you the way you know how.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

To communicate God the Father.

[Matt Hepner]

If you drop the. From Holy Spirit, I believe Stephen from Biblical Hitman, who's a savage. We love this guy. He's very good at the deep dive.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Don't invoke Steven, bro.

[Matt Hepner]

I was talking to him for the week before, and he was talking about how, like, that's something tied to some other spirit. But if he knows all that. So I'm just straight by.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, here, let me ask you this. If I pray to God and I say, father God.

[Matt Hepner]

Right on.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But when we get baptized, it's in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So I'm not going, you know, the Father God. Are you there? Like, I'm going, father God, in Jesus name I pray. So I'm dropping the the. But when you're talking about it in the. In the spirit of baptism, it's in the name of the Father, the Son, and The Holy Spirit. So in the same sense, couldn't I drop the the and say holy Spirit?

[Matt Hepner]

I'm safe saying I don't care. I feel totally.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I feel like you care.

[Matt Hepner]

Saying, like, whatever you. As long as I feel like when.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He actually cares, he's like, you know the Lord.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, that's what matters in this. Like, what if I call you the Raven? Or if I call you, I tell.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

People call me Raven because, like, the.

[Matt Hepner]

The is like, okay, okay, take the dove. What if I call you Raven or David? It's like, whatever. Do I know you? And no, it's not whatever if you.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Call me the David.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, if you know the Lord, that's what matters.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Matters. This argument got lost in the fact that I just felt like saying, he said that. He took that off because I found it. I find it interesting. Every time he does say it, he goes, we invite Holy Spirit in. He never says the Holy Spirit and nobody ever asked him until he decided.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Z man says, does the extra T in matt stand for the.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It does.

[Matt Hepner]

Not doing this. Can you guys talk to Stephen from Biblical Hitman about this topic? Because I think it's intriguing. I kind of don't care the Raven like other people. I don't. I don't know.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Stephen will be in next week and we'll talk about it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Steven's coming next week.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Maybe.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I don't know.

[Matt Hepner]

Hit him up, man.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Somebody tell Stephen to come next week.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, let's finish.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Let's.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Let's read. Let's read. Let's read.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He left the oxen and ran after Elijah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Did you see that? I sent something in the private chat. I didn't want to say.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, I didn't.

[Matt Hepner]

He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go follow you. And he said unto him, go back again, for what have I done to you? Elijah's just like, bro, you don't even know what you're signing up for. Maybe he's a young man. Maybe he's very young. And so he's like, dude, I don't know. Like, what have I done to this guy? He doesn't even know what he's signing up for. This is a whole life commitment. He'll never be able to go back to his mother and father like this calling that's on his life now. Like, he'll never be able to go back.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But if God told him to, why is he being so goofy about it?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is what I was Talking about with. What's his name? Jason. Yesterday. Jason.

[Matt Hepner]

The mood is.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We like, jason. He's okay.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, yeah. People said they wish you were on that episode yesterday.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. Just to make faces, not to say anything.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Just.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But when I was talking about the door, I was like, all right, so you get called to the door, you're at the door, and you don't go through. And I understand why you don't go through, because it's. It's a heavy thing. But this right here is what he's saying. I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and I'll follow thee. And he said unto him, go back again for what have I done to thee? Because it's like. It's like there's the door, and you kind of like, you're presented it. Are you going to go through it? This is a heavy thing, dude.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I was like, throughout that whole episode, he kept using expressions like, the door. It gets you to the door of the truth. You know, it's a path there. And I'm just thinking, like, the road is narrow, the path is narrow. Jesus Christ is the truth. Jesus Christ stands at the door. So it's like you're telling me all this stuff about how to be on the other side of this process. Maybe I was overthinking it, but it was like the language that he was using was like, it's like, you know, it's a. It's kind of like a wide path that gets you to the truth. You know, it gets you to the door.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I like listening. I like the conversation that we have with him. And I feel like he. He did say that. All right.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I didn't mean to make that mocking voice.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, I know. But, like, through this path, he has walked up to the door, and he has noticed these things. He's had experiences with Jesus, or he's calling it the Christ and with God.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And I was like, Christ consciousness.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I was like, yeah, dude. So walk through. So walk through. You see it. Walk through. Leave this stuff behind. And I know that's like a hard. Because, like, for me, too, like I said, I. We were at the door for how long?

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, that's what I would say. You never know where people are at in the journey, dude. Like, true.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's true.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm. Dude, yesterday. And he's like a Buddhist guy. Like, we don't know. Like, maybe as he digs in a little deeper and he's on the path for truth, maybe he does go, damn, dude. Like, Jesus is the one.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. I don't want. I don't want to push him away.

[Matt Hepner]

Hey, but I think a nice guy.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, he was really nice. I wanted a cool guy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I want to tell him that, like. Yeah, we were at the door, and we were kind of, like, standing there, and we were doing this thing, like, in between pokey with. Yeah. With whatever we were doing with comedy and all this stuff like that. And then at some point, you're like, well, you got to go through. You can't stand here forever.

[Matt Hepner]

Right?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You got to go this way. You can go that way, you can go that way, but you can't stand here forever because it's like. It's just not a good thing. You're gonna get closed and you cut in half. Yeah, whatever, man. Hopefully you didn't take what I said to.

[Matt Hepner]

No, we didn't say anything like a nice guy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, no. I just felt like people are usually.

[Matt Hepner]

Super chill anyway, right? They're just like, chill. Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But it's a heavy message. And what I'm telling him and what I never do is, like, I told you I'm not gonna, like, preach. Like, accept Jesus into your life right now. Hellfire, brimstone. That's not what I do. But, like, what you're telling me, what that whole show told me. Yeah, it's. But it's like, hey, there's a decision to be made here, and I think you're at it, and you need to consider that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I think he's got enough information.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You got enough information, and that's a dangerous place to be. You'd be better off not knowing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, in some ways.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Once you get enough information, it's like, you better be.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And you're, like, surrounded by some heavy hitters that do know. So we're like, all right.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, like, you guys.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Not like, no, no stuff. Ed Mabry. But yeah, all right, so.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, if he hangs around at Mabry, he's gonna figure it out, dude.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

I mean, that's what it is. You just give people time and pray for them and love them, you know? It just is what it is.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Shout out to top. Leaving the chat visible yesterday. Yeah, I didn't know that that was the case. I thought that it was invisible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Damn guys said horrible things. It was not nice.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They were brutal chat.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

1921, it says. And he returned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose and went after Elijah and ministered unto him.

[Matt Hepner]

So this is a loaded statement. So just like, the fisherman left everything behind to go follow Jesus. He even, like, some of the stuff that he used in his career. He even, like, burned that up and had a feast with the people and said, guys, let's celebrate. Almost like to say, guys, I may never see you again, dude. Like, what I'm signing up for, I'm not coming back. This is heavy, man. That's why Elijah's like, damn, what did I. Does he even know what he's getting into, man? Like. Like, once you sign up for this, any man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is not fit for the kingdom of God. That's what it says in Luke. Is it in Luke? It's somewhere.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's interesting. That reminds me of, like, the pillar of salt situation.

[Matt Hepner]

Yes, yes. I guarantee you in my Bible, where that's at, I guarantee you there's a reference to that to Lot's wife that look back. I guarantee.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Hey, real quick, though. How much better are our Bible studies than the other ones?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You do at least 63%.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

40 times better. They'd say no.

[Matt Hepner]

40%. These are about 40% of what my other ones are like, let's see here. Luke 14.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, no, we said, how much better is it?

[Matt Hepner]

No, no, no, it's about 40% as good as the other ones. Let me see here.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Waker.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Whoa.

[Matt Hepner]

It's inappropriate, bro.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We say Luke 14.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, one thing that's in Luke 14:33, it says, so likewise, whosoever he be of you, that fors that he has, he cannot be my disciple. So this is an example of Elisha forsaking all that he has, I don't think people will understand that that passage even exists. So likewise, whoever, whosoever he be of you, that forsakes not all that he has, cannot be my disciple. There's anything in your life that you're still saying like, no, this is mine. Jesus says, yeah, no problem, but you can't be my disciple.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying about the episode yesterday, because I've had that situation where it's like, I like. I like the thing I do, and I don't want to give it up.

[Matt Hepner]

Can you type in the search bar? Wait, what's wrong with the thing you're doing?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, no, before, the thing that I was doing, I like this thing that I do. I'm not gonna give it up.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He means collecting Jordan's search bar.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Search bar, yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

Can you just Type in hand and then plow.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. P, L, O, U, G. What do you mean?

[Matt Hepner]

It's King James, bro. Plus okay, scroll down. Yeah, I knew it was Luke.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Luke 9:6.

[Matt Hepner]

Jesus said unto him, no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God. Everybody should put a, like, star next to that in their Bible. You see what I'm saying? If you're not willing to forsake everything, then don't sign up for this. Like, do not sign up for this.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is also what I was telling you, David.

[Matt Hepner]

Good.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

About what we tell him. Well, you said. Well, I mean, it's too late now.

[Matt Hepner]

No, tell him. Say mean things to him. Pretend he's on Twitter and say mean things.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Right now you're in too deep.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Pretended I'm Mormon.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You're in too deep. There's no turning back now.

[Matt Hepner]

That's what I'm saying about YouTube. I'm like, you guys have gone too far now to keep, like, playing the game of, like. Well, we're kind of comedians still, and we're kind of this and that.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's like, okay, this wallpaper's here forever.

[Matt Hepner]

He's gonna keep, like, drawing you closer and closer and closer now.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Dude, we're not allowed to be funny.

[Matt Hepner]

No, you can't. I mean, you weren't really. Technically, I'm super funny.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm very funny. People say that about me all the time. They go, that guy, he's very funny.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's a funny guy.

[Matt Hepner]

Raven. Raven.

[Apollo Ad Speaker]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay, can we pull. Raven, can we pull up Genesis 19?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I can't pull anything up because I'm not the guy with the computer. Well, I mean, I have one, but it's not.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, no, but I. This dude, this. I'm saying, like, I'm so excited for you to, like, get it and be honest about the Kingdom of God. Because right now you're just, like, playing playtime and joke time and jokes and city, usa, and you sit in on some, like, Bible studies, but it's mostly play time for you. But did you see how quick his brain. When I said, no, man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. You see how quick he said, oh, that reminds me of Lot's wife.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I said it at a reasonable scroll.

[Matt Hepner]

Down to verse 17. Genesis 19, verse 17.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

David, you could pull it up. You could log in.

[Matt Hepner]

He doesn't care. That he doesn't care.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We have the bandwidth.

[Matt Hepner]

But when he does care, it's going to be Like a whole other level.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

19, you said?

[Matt Hepner]

No. Chapter 19, verses 17 through 26.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Okay. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, escape for thy life. Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain. Escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed. Escape to the mountain is also. That's the book of Revelation, right?

[Matt Hepner]

Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. When they. When they escape and they go to Petra.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, yeah, go to the mountains. And Lot said unto them, oh, not so, my lord. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hath magnified thy mercy which thou has showed unto unto me in saving my life. And I cannot escape to the mountain lest some evil take me and I die. Behold now the city is near to flee unto. And it is a little one. Oh, let me escape tither hither.

[Matt Hepner]

Hang on. So he's saying, all right, escape, get to the mountains. He says, dude, I'm a city slicker. That's what's going on right here. If we can just speak in plain English. Lot's like, oh, man, I'm afraid of the mountains, man. Let me just go to the city. So the angel tells him, yeah, I've accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. So Lot like, saves another city because that's the one he wants to go to. Hasty escape there, for I cannot do anything till you are come there. Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord reigned upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven black over through those cities and all the plane in the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back, women from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. So did you see how the raven cross referenced that? That's a big deal, dude. Like, I know he's just joke town and playtime, but like, it's a big deal that he like, immediately he hears a passage like that and then he cross references it. That's because your guys brains are like that. But you're just doing it with like tweeter and Facebook and like whatever the other things are today. I don't know. But like, as he starts to do that more and more in the scripture, it's gonna be. He's gonna give Satan a handful, dude. He's gonna. He's gonna really like, be a handful for the forces of darkness. And I'm excited for that to start happening.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hear that, Satan? You're a.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You hear that Blue letter Bible?

[Matt Hepner]

We're not necessarily saying stuff like that. We're not necessarily doing that. Like, we read that. We read that in Jude today. That. We're not really, like, railing on Angel.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, no. I just want to let you let her Bible know that we have a handful of bulls, and they're in our court.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's right. We got mad balls.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right.

[Matt Hepner]

It's too weird.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It is getting weird, but I think we finished that chapter. Are we? What do you guys want to do?

[Matt Hepner]

I don't know.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I'm out. I want a snack.

[Matt Hepner]

It's up to you guys if you want to keep going or not. I don't. I mean, it's. Whatever. Where are we at now? We're in chapter 20.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, chapter 20. I mean, I kind of. Do we have a show after, but we'd be cutting it close. We've got an hour, people. What do you think we should do?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Blap, blap.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, don't say that first Kings.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I want to get really loud because there's people outside.

[Matt Hepner]

No, let's just. We can do chapter 20. I don't think there's, like, a whole lot.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Was that a play on a whole lot?

[Matt Hepner]

You see what I'm saying? His brain is sharp even when it's not.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, so chapter 20. Let's. Let's start it.

[Matt Hepner]

And Ben Haddad, the king of Syria, gathered all his hosts together. This is not the one that Elijah has been sent to anoint king of Syria. This is the. This is another guy. Ben Haddad, the king of Syria, gathered all his hosts together, and there were 32 kings with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Samaria and ward against it. And he sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel into the city and said unto him, thus saith Ben Hadad, and that the silver and the gold is mine. Your wives also, and your children, even the goodliest, are mine. This is.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This is crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

This is ancient warfare, bro. He's like, dude, I'm taking over. And remember, all this revolves around lowercase G. Gods of territories. They don't just go to war just between, like, humans.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

This is all happening in the spirit realm as well. And the king of Israel answered and said, my lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am yours and all that I have.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So he's like, like, yeah, go ahead. Take all my.

[Matt Hepner]

It just reminds me of the. So Called America today, bro. It was like, there's some nations that just give themselves away. Like, it. Like, this doesn't make any sense. That he's just like, okay, yeah, man, you're gonna come take a go ahead.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I thought that.

[Matt Hepner]

That doesn't make any sense. That, like, in America, we just started, like, shipping all our jobs overseas. Like, we just started giving our nation away just very.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's just like human children, wives, too.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, we're not ready for that conversation.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, I don't think people are ready for too much.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm just saying there are nations that just. Just give themselves up. They just give themselves away, and they didn't have to.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's like this guy lives in Jokeville.

[Matt Hepner]

And the messengers came again and said, thus speak of Ben Hadad, saying, although I've sent unto thee, saying, thou shalt deliver me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Damn.

[Matt Hepner]

Yet I will send my servants unto you tomorrow about this time. And they shall search your house and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put in their hand and take it away. He says, bro, I'm not just taking all that stuff. I'm taking everything.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But it was like, in response to him being like, okay, yeah, it's. It's yours. And then he's like, you know what, dude? You're kind of a. I'm taking everything.

[Matt Hepner]

Yes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Which is crazy, because it's like, how's.

[Matt Hepner]

The saying go if you leave the door open?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, if you give a mouse a cookie.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, give mouse cookie. Or give somebody an inch, they take a foot. Yeah, it's all. No.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

If you give a mouse a cookie, if you're gonna want a glass of.

[Matt Hepner]

Cookie is technically how it goes. Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, mark, I pray you and see how this man seeks mischief. For he sent me un. Unto me for my wives and for my children and for my silver and for my gold, which again, is money. Like in the Bible, gold and silver is money. Like, it's paper money. Isn't real money?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

And I denied him not. And all the elders and all the people said unto him, hearken not unto him nor consent. Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben Hadad, tell my lord the king all that thou did sin for to thy servant. At the first. I'll do that. But this thing I'm not doing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's still, like, wanker.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. Yeah. He should have just came back and said, Like, f you, bro. I. I was trying to be nice. Now I'm not.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I was trying to be nice by giving you my wives and my children and all my gold and silver.

[Matt Hepner]

But, yeah, I guess there's no really good answer once you say, I'll give you my wives and children.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Like, he's already like, well, then what's. What's stopping me from taking the rest?

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, Ahab is the biggest wanker like, in history. And the messengers departed and brought him word again. And Ben had Dad sent unto him and said, the gods notice. It's always gods, man. It's never just in the natural. The gods do so unto me and more also. At the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. He's like, I'm coming with a giant army. And the king of Israel answered and said, tell him, actually, this is one place where Ahab's not a wanker. Let not him that girds on his harness boast himself as he that puts it off.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Okay, dude, don't think that that's based and cool, but I don't even know what that is.

[Matt Hepner]

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Like, bro, you're acting like this big shot. You haven't even put the harness on yet. You haven't even put your.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's kind of crazy, though, to talk like that, though, when you were like, fine, take the first wave of children.

[Matt Hepner]

I know. Now he's in a pickle.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Now you've crossed the line. Now I'm feeling kind of tough.

[Matt Hepner]

And it came to pass when Ben had Dad heard this message is as he was drinking. So here we go with the timing of God. As he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions that he said unto his servants, set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city. So Ahab says this back to him. He's just out there getting crunk. They're drinking out of the big gold goblets. Yeah, they're getting trash. He goes, all right, it's time to go to war. And they're wasted. And behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is like Buddhism. You make them react first.

[Matt Hepner]

This is a prophet coming to him. This isn't Elijah or Elisha. This is just a prophet. So there was other prophets.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Z man says, quote, you're talking a lot of shit for somebody not strapped up.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, that's true.

[Matt Hepner]

And behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of Israel, saying, thus saith the Lord have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day, and then you shall know that I am the Lord. So here's God even dealing with this wicked dude, Ahab. He's still trying to reveal himself to Ahab. And Ahab said, by who? And he said, thus saith the Lord, even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, who shall order the battle? And he answered, you. So he says, get all the young princes, put them together, and you set the battle together, Ahab. But I'm going to be with you. I'll take care of this. Which is always the message of God. He's like, it's not your job to win the fight. It's your job to go get in the fight. I'll take it from there. Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were 232. And after them, he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being 7,000. Oh, there's your 7,000 again.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But that's the same ones that he was talking about before that didn't kiss about ball, is it?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I don't know.

[Matt Hepner]

Ahab just has an army of dudes that didn't cast kiss bell. That'd be interesting.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, and they went out.

[Matt Hepner]

They went out at high noon.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Don't do that. Stop.

[Matt Hepner]

But Ben had. Dad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions. He and the kings, the 32 kings that helped him.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

33 altogether too. Very interesting there. More. More numbers. More numbers.

[Matt Hepner]

Why do you get funny if I text you at 3:33? You're like, that's why.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Because it's in the morning.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He's like, anybody gets funny if you text at 3:33 in the morning?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's the witching hour. 33. Jesus died at 33. That's like Illuminati. We got so many vertebrae, so many 33 vertebrae doing this. No, I'm serious.

[Matt Hepner]

No, it's 333. Because it was. Technically, it was more like 433 because of the time change. So it, like, wasn't that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, they set the clocks back, and.

[Matt Hepner]

The young man of the princes of the provinces went out first. And Ben Haddad sent out and they told him, saying, there are men come out of Samaria. And he said, whether they become out for peace, take them alive. Or whether they become out for war, take them alive. So he sees these. These people coming from the army of Israel. He's all right, take them alive. So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city and the army which followed them, and they slew everyone his man. And the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. And Ben had Dad. The king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen. And the king of Israel went out and smote the horses and chariots and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. Ben Haddad is a. Yeah, he just got punked, man. He tried to start the fight, but he didn't end it. And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said unto him, go strengthen yourself and mark and see what you do. For at the return of the year, the king of Syria will come up against you again. He's saying, another time. And the servants of the king, Assyria said unto him, their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, principalities and such.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, they're saying, like, the principalities and powers that rule in this area.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What did we just read about the plane? There was another scripture about the plane.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

But that's why we couldn't do to Afghanistan because they had a principality of mountainous ranges, hills.

[Matt Hepner]

Intriguing statement. It's an intriguing statement.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Vietnam.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Vietnam. Yeah. They've got a principality of jungle spur.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You know the stories about Vietnam?

[Matt Hepner]

Not really, but I'm just saying. I'm straight bible, but verse 23, like, do you see how, like, hold on.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We have to talk about dice?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I know.

[Matt Hepner]

Do you see how they know this has to do with lowercase g? Gods? Yeah, like, they're. They're not like, oh, that's so silly. That's not real. Like. Like modern people would be like that. Ancient people weren't like, they're like, no, no, this is a God's thing. This is a lowercase g. Gods, don't fight them there. Things that rule in those territories. Why we got to switch this up a little bit?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We were talking with Pastor Joe and Franco about that, about the principality aspect, about where not to go, and he.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Was like, very much like, yeah, principalities, baby.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, maybe. Maybe not smart to fight them there, but Dicenian glass from Vietnam.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, dude.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Very interesting stuff. Couldn't beat them in the battle because they have, like, this jungle terrain. But they gave the American troops Dicinian glass as part of, like, the old school night vision technology. And when they'd put it on, they would see entities, demons and stuff in the. In the hills of Vietnam, and they freaked out. So that's why they change. It's like, it's like more like a green. Now the Diceinian glass is like weird properties which are like. People are still investigating it, but they.

[Matt Hepner]

Were seeing, like spirit realm stuff on.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The American soldiers put it on screams like they were. They were hearing stuff visual.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

There was like a hearing aspect where they were doing like this kind of psychological.

[Matt Hepner]

What even is the narrative for America that we.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

We went to Vietnam for plastic and rubber?

[Matt Hepner]

That was the narrative was realistically, we went to Vietnam because we needed resources.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah. We wanted to take their rubber.

[Matt Hepner]

What it's. I guess that happens in the Congo. That was like they're. They get raped and pillaged for the resources.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

Like, when the tire industry took off, they had to do that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

They're still doing it with the cobalt. Yeah.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The British invaded India for spices, but.

[Matt Hepner]

That'S what Vietnam was about. I don't know, like any of the stuff. Stuff, dude, in the end, just tons of people just died. And we're just like, yeah, we needed their plastic in the end.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's it. And then we figured out how to make it ourselves. And now we can get rid of.

[Matt Hepner]

All the weird bro.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All the Mexicans.

[Matt Hepner]

But what's the real reason? Like, if that was the narrative. The real reason was just keep the war machine going. Because it's like a lot of money probably.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, I mean, like, underneath it, I think it was the. The acquiring of plastic. But yeah, there was propaganda behind it. Like, they did this to us. I think they were communists. They said that they were a communist, so we had to go.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can you focus?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Stuff like that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Is he, like, using his phone in.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The middle of the. That's cool.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm just wondering.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I get it.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Let's know. Let's get back to the iron.

[Matt Hepner]

You guys are very, like, serious about the electrician, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, is he here?

[Matt Hepner]

And do this thing? Take the kings away, every man out of his place. And put captains in their rooms. And number the. Number the. An army. Like the army that you have lost. Horse for horse and chariot for chariot. And we'll fight against them in the plane. So this is like the council Syria and saying, hey, man, put another army together. But this time we'll fight him in the plain, not in the mountains. And surely we'll be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice and did so. And it came to pass at the return of the year that Ben Hadad numbered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. And the children of Israel were numbered and were all present. And Went against them. And the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids. But the Syrians filled the country. So it's like this very little army of Israel, but the Syrians, like, like, fill the country. Like kind of like the movie 300 vibes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

And there came a man of God.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's a lot of foreskins.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm not doing this. And there came a man of God and spoke unto the king of Israel and said, thus saith the lord. Because the Syrians have said, the Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys. Therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord. He's just making a point. Like, it's not because of your strength. Strength. It's not because you've got some better army. It's because these dudes are trying to punk me and say, like, I'm not the God of everything. We're gonna wipe them out. You just happen to be on the lucky end of this deal. And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was that in the seventh day, the battle was joined, and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians. A hundred thousand footmen in one day. That's a lot, dude, especially in an ancient army. But the rest fled to Aphek into the city. And there a wall fell upon 27, 000 of the men that were left.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Left? What?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

What's that mean?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

No, bro, like, this is. These are just some of these rad stories where it's like, what? Which kind of has Jericho vibes. Remember in Jericho, the walls fell. I don't know, but somehow they were near some wall, and the whole thing.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Just tipped over and crushed. 7, 000 of them.

[Matt Hepner]

We could probably do a better deep dive on that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And this all happened in apac, but I don't know.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah. And Ben had dad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber. So he's hiding. And his servant said unto him, behold, now we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel because he might save your life. So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel and said, thy servant Ben Haddad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And then Ahab said, is he yet alive? He's my brother. Remember the same guy that was going to take his wives and children?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He's like, that's my brother. That's my boy.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, man. Yeah, let's be tight. I always liked you, man. Now, the men did diligently observe whether anything would come from him and did hastily catch it. So his servants, they caught it that he said that. And they said, yeah, yeah, man. Your brother Ben had Dad. Then he said, go bring him. Then Ben Haddad came forward to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot. And Ben Hadad said unto him, the cities which my father took from your father, I'll give them back to you. And you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said, ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him and sent him away. I don't know. It's kind of wanker vibes. And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbor in the word of the Lord, smite thee, I pray you. And the man refused to smite him. He says, punch me. The man refused to punch him. Then said he unto him, because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion will slay you. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him and slew him.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Wait, who?

[Matt Hepner]

Okay, I knew you weren't.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Just. Just.

[Matt Hepner]

35, verse 35. The plot changes.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah, it's. Now we're dealing with different people.

[Matt Hepner]

A certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbor, like, by the word of the Lord. Hey, man, this thing from the Lord, punch me.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Well, you said. Wait, wait. The Lord said for me to tell you to punch me?

[Matt Hepner]

Me? Basically, yeah. Okay, I pray you. And the man refused to punch him, then said he unto him, because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. I'm not even gonna get into all this.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This is a crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

This feels wild stuff in the scripture.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's like, yo.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And the guy's like, I'm not gonna punch you. And he's like, the lion's gonna kill you.

[Matt Hepner]

This is the stuff that the raven is gonna have, like, a couple weeks now. He's gonna be like, bro, remember that passage we were reading a couple weeks ago? This is what I think now. He's gonna have some cool insight on it. You watch, dude. Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord. As soon as you're departed lion's gonna eat you or he's gonna kill you. And as soon as he was departed from a, lion found him and killed him. Then he found another man and said, smite thee, I pray you.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Oh.

[Matt Hepner]

And the man was like, yeah, yeah, I will. He's. He punched him so that in the smiting, he wounded him. Right? This is what he needed. He needed to have, like, a black eye, like, a bloody nose. He needed to be roughed up.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

This is like a. You know, anytime you're out in public and anybody ever comes up to you, like, yo, punch me in the face.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I'm like, is there any lines here? Sleep them before we make any decisions.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Don't even do it. Just put them to sleep. I mean, it's. That's what. That's what this is taught me. I mean, maybe. I'm. Maybe speaking of that, can we get.

[Matt Hepner]

That picture where the ravens, like, getting his boxing gloves put on?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's in my studio. We don't use anymore.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Are we ever gonna use that?

[Matt Hepner]

Because a lot of people know the Raven was a boxer and was, like a solid MMA guy. Yeah. Just think he's a wanker.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Are we ever gonna use it the studio again?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Probably not. We're gonna burn it. Well, before we do, let's roll over.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Some of the stuff.

[Matt Hepner]

Then he found another man and said, all right, well, you punch me. And the man did so in the smiting, he wounded him. So the prophet departed and waited for the king, by the way, and disguised himself with ashes on his face. All right? So that's why he needed this. Now his face is all beat up. Some ashes on his face so he looks like. And as the king passed by, he cried, under the king, I'm not doing this.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

And spread cherry juice on his lips.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm sorry.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Go, go, go, Please.

[Matt Hepner]

That's not cool. That cool. So he cries into the king, he says, your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man unto me and said, keep this man.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, so he's looking like a dude that was in the battle.

[Matt Hepner]

And he says, look, somebody captured somebody and gave him to me and said, you keep him. If by any means he's missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver. So he says, hey, hey, King, I need some justice here. I need a judgment from you.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

You.

[Matt Hepner]

A guy gave me a captured servant, right?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Which is this guy in blackface.

[Matt Hepner]

Midst of the battle, he brought a man unto me. And said, you have to keep him, your life for his life. If you lose him, then I'm taking your life. And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. So, man. So I was supposed to watch this servant, but that watch, this captured enemy. But now he got away. And the king of Israel said unto him, so shall thy judgment be. Thyself has decided it, right? He says. He says, yeah, man, the judgment's true. If that guy told you to watch him and you let him go, then it's your life now for his life. This is how prophets always operated, bro. They always operated in riddles. Remember? Jesus speaks in parables.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Yeah, this is a real.

[Matt Hepner]

I'm like, spoken to in dreams sometimes.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Why is this guy lying?

[Matt Hepner]

Very riddle vibes. Watch, bro, watch. Because sometimes this is how you. How you had to get across the people. It's like what Nathan did to David.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Oh, dude, look. Goes on watching. Says this part remind me of Nathan talking to David.

[Matt Hepner]

He knows.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

High five for goes on watching, man.

[Matt Hepner]

Bro, so he says, all right, man, the same way you said, that's how it's going to happen. Verse 41. And he hasted and took the ashes away from his face. And the king of Israel. And he was of the prophets. Yeah, he said, oh, damn, this is one of them.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I thought this was a regular black dude, but.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

So he's a sneaky guy.

[Matt Hepner]

And he said unto him, thus saith the Lord, because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I appointed utter destruction. Like God's. Like, dude, I got this guy delivered into your hand to kill him. Like, you're supposed to wipe him out. He was about to take all your wives and all your children, and I delivered them into your hand, and you let them go.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Damn.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So of course, this is Saul's problem as well, right? This is what?

[Matt Hepner]

Well, of course, the application. Now we're not killing people. We're not in wars like, killing people. Our war is not in the flesh. Right? It's in the spirit realm. So it's the same things of, like, God kills a thing off in your life. Like, say, if I was to go back to snorting oxycontin, Scott would be like, bro, are you effing kidding me? Are you kidding me? Like, I delivered that enemy into your hands, and you let it live. You. You let it live. Like, this is what this would be like. Now kill yourself. No, no, but do you see what I'm saying?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But. So wait up. So he got. He got Ahab to speak his own judgment. On himself. And then now, now he's like, now it's up to you. Now you have to carry out that judgment. That's like with Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar where.

[Matt Hepner]

He'S like, dude, in our kingdom it's very mysterious with like riddles and parables and things to think through. It's very, it's interesting.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's. It's also interesting to put a king in that position. Like, like, like Daniel Nebuchadnezzar. He was like, haha, that's the punishment. And he's like, damn, you fooled me, bro. I really like Daniel. I didn't realize I was being tricked, but that's the rule that I said. Therefore we got to do it. So now he put it on him. He's like, now you got to do it. But I don't think he's going to do it it.

[Matt Hepner]

Well, hold on. Okay, so let's read it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Don't do spoilers.

[Matt Hepner]

I like your insight. I like your guys insight.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I know you do spoilers.

[Matt Hepner]

Great.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I know you do.

[Matt Hepner]

This isn't like a normal Bible study with church people.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Cuz you guys are like better.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, you guys are crazy people. So it's like very intriguing how you understand this stuff.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Why does he say unto him, thus.

[Matt Hepner]

Saith the Lord, because thou has let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction. There's things in our life that God has appointed to utter destruction.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

So he was supposed to cut this guy's head off when he came groveling.

[Matt Hepner]

Therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy life for his people.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Don't. Don't.

[Matt Hepner]

There's another thing to be learned in this. Like what you don't kill will end up killing you. You learn that in the life of Saul. He's. We're not going to get into all that. But watch out for the thing that you don't kill off. It's going to come back and kill you. That's a very real thing. In the kingdom of God. And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

End of the chapter. Damn. There's still more to Elijah's story. I guess we're gonna have to get to it soon, but okay.

[Matt Hepner]

It's just this intriguing thing, dude, we're Gonna read in 21, where he goes to kill Naboth.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Every chapter is because he's got a.

[Matt Hepner]

Vineyard so that he wants. So you just see Ahab just being the straight wanker, man. He lets people live that should be killed. And then he kills people that he should be letting. Ahab sucks. We're gonna get into that. Yeah. Str. Wanker. He's. He's the most evil of all the kings of Israel is what it says at that time.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

What a bitch.

[Matt Hepner]

So we'll get into 21 next week, dude, where he does crazy stuff.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

A T shirt that says I'm with the wanker, and it points to Ahab. To whoever's next to you.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Or just one that says ahab's a wanker.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

That's a little far fetched. Every single chapter that we read, there's something in it that's a lot of fun. Because this chapter, to be honest, when I did read it again, I'm like, I don't know what number one. I don't know what they're talking about. I don't understand this. There's like a lot of riddles.

[Matt Hepner]

Because you live in the realm of Twitter, dog.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This makes no sense.

[Matt Hepner]

You're slowly getting out of it and you're entering into the kingdom of God and you're going to understand scripture way more.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

But no, for real, though. For real.

[Matt Hepner]

I was totally for real right there.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

For real. And Ben Haddad said unto him, so he made a covenant with him and sent him away. And then a certain man. I'm like, what the. What are you talking about?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Just a certain man. Just.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Anyway, a certain man. I don't get it. Puzzle pieces.

[Matt Hepner]

Puzzle pieces, bro. The puzzle is the most complicated and not fun. In the beginning.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

It's puzzling. Some would say as soon as you.

[Matt Hepner]

Get a couple more pieces together, like the raven has done. Notice how I say the scripture? And then he goes, yeah, that's like Lot's wife. He's starting to put the puzzle pieces together. That's when it gets more intriguing. That's when you really want to dig into it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He just did. Another whiff of smelling.

[Matt Hepner]

So it's just a man.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

And he's okay, no, man, I think this. This is the type of guy that you're supposed to take. And.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Is that why Palestine is being wiped?

[Matt Hepner]

I don't know enough about Israel, bro. I'm not getting in any of that. I don't know enough about it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

By Israel.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, well, listen, I don't want to talk about the. The crimes of it.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, no, we don't want to do this.

[Matt Hepner]

Yeah, maybe. I mean, that's a good application, bro. Is look at Israel today the same way you look at Israel in the Bible. That's that's good. Yeah. I don't know enough about Netanyahu to say anything about him. I don't know the guy.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I know he's foolish.

[Matt Hepner]

I know he used to be like a.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

He was in like Javier Malay is.

[Matt Hepner]

He used to fly airplanes. Like I know some stuff like that. He seems to be like well spoken. Sometimes he says stuff and it hits hard. Like sometimes he's like boom. But sometimes Modi does too. The president of India. Like I don't even know what he's saying. He's speaking in Hindi but he like the way he's. Plus he wears the skirt thing like the cool Indian stuff and he just hits hard. Even though I don't know what he's saying. Sometimes I see him, he's like hitting hard.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

The skirt is just easier to poop in the street.

[Matt Hepner]

Just like Ahab's like yeah probably bro. Like it like these guys, these kings today are just like the kings back then, dude.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Like isn't it weird that the star of David has six points and six triangles and then like six intervals?

[Matt Hepner]

I don't see that, I don't see that star in the Bible. I don't. So I don't know like I'm straight Bible. So whatever that symbol is that they use for Israel today. I don't know, I don't see in the Bible. We talked about that before. The star rim fam. There's not really a. As far as I know any star that's supposed to symbolize Israel. I don't know what would. Maybe they would say if there's 12 points on it, it's the 12 tribes of Israel. Is there 12 points on it or something? There's got to be a 12 on it in some way for them to count.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Maybe 6.6 triangles with the.

[Matt Hepner]

When he makes the fire, the sacrifice, the 12 stones are on it. There's other places where it references 12 stones. So I, I don't know. I guess maybe I should know this. I don't know the so called star of David. Like we see Jewish people. The tattoo or the necklace?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Yeah.

[Matt Hepner]

There's got to be 12 points. Is that what it is?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

No, it's six points then I don't know bro.

[Matt Hepner]

Who knows what that can. But again I'm not a specialist on that topic. I'm straight Bible so who knows? Like I have no clue.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The more I learn about Israel, the more I like them about it. No, I just don't know what they're doing. I don't know what it's very confusing.

[Matt Hepner]

That that nation even exists, bro. Like, which is one of the things that proves the Bible to be real in my view. Whether you hate that, I don't care. I know that's a trick, but like, how does this nation even exist, bro? I mean, and the entirety of the Bible revolves around this nation and somehow they exist around a bunch of people that have sworn to wipe them off the map. Like, that's crazy to me. That's crazy. And I don't think we know what that's like because not like Mexico and Canada is like swearing to wipe us off the map. So I don't know. I'm totally comfortable saying I don't know. The stuff you tell me that they do that's so bad. It sounds terrible. It sounds terrible. I'm not saying it's good sounds terrible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I'm just very conflicted about all of these.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I don't like it. I don't like.

[Matt Hepner]

I know what you're doing and I don't like it.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

I know what you're doing. Israel. I don't, I don't like, but I don't know. I have no idea what's going on anymore.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Shout out to Benjamin Netanyahu. Shout out to Blue Letter Bible.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

No, not in the same sentence. Don't do that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Why not?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Because we don't. We listen. The fact is I just, I just don't even know anymore. The more I learn about it, the more I'm like, this is obviously crazy.

[Matt Hepner]

Stay out of the modern news, bro.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Why can't I just give people news.

[Matt Hepner]

Cycle is just going to have you, you flustered. That's the, like the modern news cycle is designed to just have you in confusion, bro. Like that, like that's the, that's the thing. So like maybe you of Israel, like, that's fine to look at the news, the current news of Israel. That's fine. I'm not knocking it, but you've got to have the more 5,000 year view in mind first. Then look at the view of whatever Israel is supposedly doing on the earth today. I don't know who's feeding us the news anyway.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Like that's, that's a good take.

[Matt Hepner]

Who knows who's like feeding the news.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

That's a good day.

[Matt Hepner]

I don't know, we're like, oh no, it wasn't cnn, it was the real news. Okay, but now is there fakers on like the real news too? Who knows?

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I think that's important. I think that's a good take.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

This is so you're making him so uncomfortable.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I just. Can I. It was a good take and I have a high five for it.

[Matt Hepner]

No.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

All right, guys, listen, this has been a great episode and I think we should bring it in for a landing here. Do you have any final words for us? Matthew.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

It's a good take.

[Matt Hepner]

Read the Bible. Read the Bible, man. Like, you live on the planet one time. You're not going to have any excuse before God to say, like, oh, I lived in a day of an apostasy church. He's going to say, I don't care. I don't care. You had a Bible. Like, read your Bible. Pray that God explains it to you. Because he promises to do that in John 14, says the Holy Spirit will teach you all things and bring all things to your memory. Because sometimes people say, oh, Matt remembers a lot of stuff in the Bible. Yeah, the Holy Spirit promises to do that. Like, that's the promise that he gives us. He wants us to know His Word. He wants us to dive into His Word. You want to fellowship with God. And the number one way to fellowship with God is through His Word. So read a Bible. Get a good understanding. Maybe get away from all of the noise pollution that's in, like the modern news cycle. Like doing that with the Kardashians and the Republicans and the Democrats in the Walmart. People are going to go take all the stuff at Walmart because of the shutdown or whatever. If that's still the news, that's probably not still the news anymore. That was like.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Well, actually because of the government shutdown, I won't be going to New York.

[Matt Hepner]

Okay.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Jackpot is important. Pay attention to. Yeah, I mean, it's. It works out great. The modern news cycle for.

[Matt Hepner]

So just stay in the word of God. And I really do want to say a like, really heartfelt thank you to all the homies in the chat. Like, I'm just grateful to be like a part of this community.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

There are friends.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

You know what? That's cool.

[Matt Hepner]

All around the country and all around.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Glazing at this point.

[Matt Hepner]

No, it's really incredible what you guys have built, dude. Like, I don't usually like to compliment you guys.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

We didn't build anything.

[Matt Hepner]

Incredible that you allowed God to work through you to. To like create this atmosphere and like create this thing you guys have built. And I'm incredibly grateful to somehow like, step right in here and I could preach the gospel. Like, I'm just very grateful and I appreciate you guys a lot.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Especially, I mean, you didn't really step right in you kind of like nudge kind of barged in like, I'm coming.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hey, dude, I'm grateful for you.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He kept doing the thing. Like, he's like. He's like, what? Look at this. I changed my email header to I like that.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

I like when he emails companies and he goes to standard coffee shop slash NDS Studios. That's what I do now. High five for that.

[Matt Hepner]

Somebody says, hey, what do you do? I don't tell him I work at a coffee shop. Not tell them I'm a podcaster. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

He's not kidding at all.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Can I have a holy high five?

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

Guys, thank you again for hanging out. It's been another great bible study. I'm a little upset nobody brought us a coffee from the standard coffee shop.

[Matt Hepner]

The girls have been drinking.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Hell yeah, dog.

[Co-host (Possibly Jason or another regular contributor)]

The girls are actually drinking our coffee. They're all amped up out there. But go. Leave the Standard coffee shop a five star review. And until about 30 minutes when we talk to Samuel Urban, don't forget to obey, submit and comply. We will see you soon.

[David Lee Corbo (The Raven / Top Lobster)]

Sam.