Fr. Mike makes note of how the tribes of Israel travel with Judah (praise) leading the way, and makes note of how Moses intercedes for the people and acts as a mediator between God and man. Today's readings are Numbers 10, Deuteronomy 9, and Psalm 10. 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.
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Hi, my name's 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. Today is day 60, as I said yesterday. That is two months, not three, it's two months of being able to be formed, being formed by God's word. Congratulations. This is, it is an accomplishment.
They say it takes 30 days to make a habit. And if you've made it here to day 60, you have a double habit. Today on day 60, we're reading Numbers chapter 10 and Deuteronomy chapter 9. We'll also be praying from Psalm 10. Psalm 10 is what we're praying with today. As always, the Bible translation that I am using is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition.
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As we read from Numbers chapter 10, Deuteronomy chapter 9 in Psalm 10. The book of Numbers, chapter 10. The silver trumpets. The Lord said to Moses, Make two silver trumpets of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.
And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out. And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out.
An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
On the day of your gladness also and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall serve you for remembrance before your God. I am the Lord, your God. Departure from Sinai.
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His ways prosper at all times. Your judgments are on high, out of his sight. As for all his foes, he puffs at them. He thinks in his heart, I shall not be moved. Throughout all generations, I shall not meet adversity. His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. He sits in ambush in the villages. In hiding places, he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless. He lurks in secret like a lion in his den. He lurks that he may seize the poor. He seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might. And he thinks in his heart, God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He will never see it. Arise, O Lord. O God, lift up your hand. Forget not the poor.
Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, you will not call to account? You see, yes, you note trouble and vexation, that you may take it into your hands. The hapless commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer. Seek out his wickedness till you find none. The Lord is king forever and ever.
The nations shall perish from his land. O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek. You will strengthen their heart. You will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of earth may strike terror no more. Father in heaven, we thank you and we give you praise just like the psalmist praying this Psalm 10.
Lord God, it seems like so often those who do not listen to you and those who do whatever they want, those who hurt other people among us. seem to be the most blessed sometimes. The ones who say, who cares about God? Where's God? Seem to have even happiness. They seem to even have joy.
They seem to have maybe even sometimes more love than those who are listening to your word and those who look for you in everything, Lord. Those who follow you sometimes seem to have more problems than those who forget about you, those who ignore you, even those who outright reject you. Lord God, this is such a mystery to us It's just like the psalmist. We recognize the truth.
The truth is that there are some people who want nothing to do with you, God, that seem to have everything going right for them. And some people who love you with their whole heart and seem to be forgotten. We know the truth, Lord God. that you are just and you do not forget the cry of the poor. You do not neglect those whom you love. And so we continue to cry out to you.
We continue to listen to your word. We continue to place our trust, our hope, and our entire lives in you alone. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. So as we said, we are going through Numbers chapter 10 and Deuteronomy chapter nine. A couple of things just to kind of keep in mind. Numbers, they're going into the wilderness.
And so this is the move. This is where they first start moving. This is the narrative book. Remember, Numbers is along the line of the books that are the narrative books of the Bible. This story in Numbers is when you hear the people, they're consecrated, they're divided into their tribes, right, divided into their families.
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