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Elijah’s a prophetic old man, so we’d better pay attention, then buy some lottery tickets. ...Or just pay attention to this video. That works, too.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Moby dick Alicia shmoop okay so
- 00:12
we're ready to go set sail and head out to
- 00:16
sea The boat is named the peak wad Interesting name
- 00:21
But first we have to talk about a cracked old
- 00:24
guy named elijah who has some interesting things to say
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- 00:27
to the crew before they depart Maybe prophetic words What
- 00:30
is the elijah Tell them And why should we care
- 00:32
about this Seemingly inconsequential Yeah I mean you hit the
- 00:36
nail on the head caesar Prophetic words Elijah is super
- 00:39
famous profit from the bible on dh So whenever anyone
- 00:43
named elijah comes along it happens in like other book
- 00:46
happened The road happens all the time You hear elijah
- 00:49
it's because guys of profit on dh that's Why we
- 00:52
should pay attention to him Honestly but but aside from
- 00:56
being prophetic and elijah in moby dick actually does give
- 01:00
us some words of wisdom of what's to come first
- 01:03
Paul tells us that a hat is not job So
- 01:06
he's kind of the first person you haven't met a
- 01:07
happy it Really So he's the first person to say
- 01:09
like hey this guy's captain your ship is a total
- 01:12
weirdo on dso that's Unsettling to say the least he
- 01:17
also prop sizes that there's prophecies Pop says he also
- 01:22
prophesized that there's going to be some stowaways on this
- 01:25
ship that they don't know about yet and we'll see
- 01:27
that happen He talks about how they have once died
- 01:31
and came back to life bring any biblical bells there
- 01:35
jesus and and so on and so forth But what's
- 01:38
most important about about elijah in terms of what he
- 01:42
means in the bible is that he was a prophet
- 01:44
But he's also known as the guy who shows up
- 01:47
right before god shows up So every time elijah comes
- 01:50
around like it's kind of like thinking god's about to
- 01:53
show up too And so who shows up right after
- 01:57
elijah A happy on and so we kind of are
- 02:00
saying like oh here's some more is re supposed to
- 02:02
equate a have with god And sure enough we are
- 02:08
Who is elijah Why is he important to the novel
- 02:11
We have to leave the door open for him again
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