Fr. Mike breaks down the battle against Midian and explains why God would allow destruction and warfare that can seem brutal. He also highlights how we can learn from Israel's weakness by destroying the things in our lives that lead us away from God. Today's readings are Numbers 31, Deuteronomy 30, and Psalm 116. 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.
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 76, and we are reading today from Numbers chapter 31, Deuteronomy chapter 30, and we are praying today from Psalm 116. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition.
You can get your own Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is what I'm using, to follow along and read. If you also want to follow along, you can get your own Bible in a Year reading plan by downloading that from ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And if you haven't, it's day 76 for Crying Out Loud. If you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, I don't know.
I don't know what I can do. What more can I do? You should be subscribing because then you get the alerts every single day. You don't have to go hunt for it every single day. It'll just appear to you. We have realized, including today, we have five days left in the desert wanderings. We have five days left of numbers in Deuteronomy until we get to conquest and judges, until the people of Israel...
enter into the promised land, and we have those incredible, incredible stories of the conquest and of the judges. But today, we are still with Numbers 31, Deuteronomy chapter 30 in Psalm 116. Numbers chapter 31, war against Midian. The Lord said to Moses, Avenge the sons of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward, you shall be gathered to your people.
And Moses said to the people, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian. You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war. So they were provided. Out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary, and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and slew every male.
They slew the kings of Midian, with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rechem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, and they also slew Balaam, the son of Baor, with the sword. And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones. And they took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.
All their cities and the places where they dwelt and all their encampments they burned with fire. And they took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and of beast. Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. return from the war.
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