As we read about Joshua leading Israel into battle, Fr. Mike helps us comprehend the meaning behind all the destruction God commands. He emphasizes that God ultimately wants us to fight for each other and not against each other. Today's readings are Joshua 12-14, and Psalm 129. 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 this podcast about?
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 85, and we're reading today from Joshua chapters 12, 13, and 14. We're also praying Psalm 129.
as always i am reading from the revised standard version the second catholic edition i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension which is just such a gift especially when we're in the midst of the period of conquest and judges it gives some backstory it gives a great summary you know at the beginning of every one of these time periods and kind of gives us an orientation of here's where we are here's where we're going uh if you want to also know here's where we are here's where we're going you can download your own bible in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com bible in a year and you'll be able to cross out those dates and those
chapters. I do it every day. I have this blue marker that I just mark off every day. And it's just such a great gift of being able to say, yeah, we're moving and we're still cruising along and going through the Bible and marking up our Bibles and writing down these insights that the Lord is giving to us. It's just such an incredible gift.
You can also subscribe in your podcast app to this podcast to receive the daily episodes, which are put out pretty much every day, as you would expect daily episodes to be put out. So once again, it's day 85. We're reading from Joshua chapter 12, 13, and 14. We'll also be praying Psalm 129. the book of Joshua, chapter 12, the kings conquered by Moses.
Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sun rising from the valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon with all the Arabah eastward. Sihon, king of the Amorites who dwelt at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon,
and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is half of Gilead, and the Erebah to the sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-Jeshimoth, to the sea of the Erebah, the salt sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah,
and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Raphaim, who dwelt at Ashteroth and at Edrei, and ruled over Mount Hermon, and Salekah, and all Bashan, to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maakathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.
moses the servant of the lord and the sons of israel defeated them and moses the servant of the lord gave their land for a possession to the reubenites and the gadites and the half tribe of manasseh the kings conquered by joshua and these are the kings of the land whom joshua and the sons of israel defeated on the west side of the jordan
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Chapter 3: How does the Great Adventure Bible help in understanding the Scriptures?
And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. And now behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said, all these forty years, since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness.
And now behold, I am this day eighty-five years old." I am still as strong to this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. My strength now is as my strength was then for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day. For you heard on that day how the Anakim were there with great fortified cities.
It may be that the Lord will be with me and I shall drive them out as the Lord said. Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba.
This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim, and the land had rest from war. Psalm 129. Prayer for the downfall of Israel's enemies. A song of ascents. Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth. Let Israel now say, sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back, they made long their furrows. The Lord is righteous.
He has cut the cords of the wicked. May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turn backward. Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his arms. While those who pass by do not say, the blessing of the Lord be upon you. We bless you in the name of the Lord.
Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. We thank you for bringing us to this day. We thank you for bringing us all the way through this Bible to this point, your word to this point, and we know that without your word, we wouldn't even know who you are. We would not know who we are, God, without revealing yourself to us and revealing your heart to us. Yes, we could see your traces.
We can see your fingerprints in the world around us. We can see hints at your truth in the created world, the world that you created, as we can see the person of the artist in the artwork. Yet, Lord, we still might not know your heart unless you revealed your heart to us. And so we ask you to please continue to reveal your heart to us that we can reveal our hearts to you.
We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Okay, just a couple quick things. I want to, this is where we kind of go deep into this whole thing of like, what's happening when it comes to the battles? What's happening when it comes to this war? And how easily is it for us to misunderstand what is happening?
Now, this is clearly, this is not meant to be a whitewashing of history, right? And what I'm about to say is not meant to take away from the fact that, like I said yesterday, these are troubled times and it was not part of God's original plan. Now, not only was this not part of God's original plan, His original plan was peace, right? Harmony, as I said yesterday.
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