In today's reading from Exodus 32, Fr. Mike shows us how when we become uncertain, we immediate try to take control of the situation, and build up idols in our hearts. We also read Leviticus 23 and Psalm 79. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
Chapter 1: Who is Father Mike Schmitz and what is the Bible in a Year podcast?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
Using the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 47. We are reading from Exodus chapter 32, Leviticus chapter 23, and we are praying Psalm 79. Psalm 79. I keep forgetting to say that. I keep forgetting to mention that the Psalms are prayers.
And when we don't just read the Psalms, we pray the Psalms, much like the rest of scripture. But there's something about the Psalms. There's something about that particular genre in the Bible.
where it's it's meant to be a prayer and so hopefully um that's the sense that you get and hopefully that's what's been happening if it hasn't well we have a lot of psalms to go so as you probably already know the bible translation that i'm reading from is the revised standard version second catholic edition i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension you can also follow along by downloading your own bible in a year reading plan
Chapter 2: How does the reading plan of the Bible in a Year work?
When I say follow along, I mean, you get to see where we are and get to see where we're headed. But that reading plan is found at ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year, ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And when you do that, you can check it off and you can check off every day and you can see that we're on page two and we're moving on to day two of page two, which is actually day 47.
Anyways, you can also subscribe in your podcast app. All that being said, Today, moving on to the story of the golden calf in the book of Exodus chapter 32.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the golden calf in Exodus 32?
Exodus chapter 32, the golden calf.
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
And Aaron said to them, Take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters, and bring them to me. So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron, And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a molten calf.
And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord. And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
And the Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and I may consume them. But of you I will make a great nation.
But Moses begged the Lord his God and said, O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, with evil intent he brought them forth to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth?
Turn from your fierce wrath and repent of this evil against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people. And Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tables of the covenant in his hands, tables that were written on both sides, on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
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Chapter 4: How did Moses react to the Israelites' idolatry?
And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them? And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my Lord burn hot, you know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
And I said to them, let any who have gold take it off. So they gave it to me and I threw it into the fire and there came out this calf. And he said to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword on his side, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. And Moses said, Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day.
The next day Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin, and now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. So Moses returned to the Lord and said, Alas, this people have sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I beg you, out of your book which you have written.
But the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, him I will blot out of my book. But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. And the Lord sent a plague upon the people because they made the calf which Aaron made.
The book of Leviticus chapter 23, the Sabbath.
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Chapter 5: What are the appointed feasts mentioned in Leviticus 23?
Chapter 6: How does the Bible in a Year podcast incorporate prayer?
And when we don't just read the Psalms, we pray the Psalms, much like the rest of scripture. But there's something about the Psalms. There's something about that particular genre in the Bible.
where it's it's meant to be a prayer and so hopefully um that's the sense that you get and hopefully that's what's been happening if it hasn't well we have a lot of psalms to go so as you probably already know the bible translation that i'm reading from is the revised standard version second catholic edition i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension you can also follow along by downloading your own bible in a year reading plan
When I say follow along, I mean, you get to see where we are and get to see where we're headed. But that reading plan is found at ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year, ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And when you do that, you can check it off and you can check off every day and you can see that we're on page two and we're moving on to day two of page two, which is actually day 47.
Anyways, you can also subscribe in your podcast app. All that being said, Today, moving on to the story of the golden calf in the book of Exodus chapter 32.
Exodus chapter 32, the golden calf.
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
And Aaron said to them, Take off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters, and bring them to me. So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron, And he received the gold at their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a molten calf.
And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord. And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
And the Lord said to Moses, Go down, for your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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