Father Mike Schmitz

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The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) · Day 267: Indifference and Apathy (2026) · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

Every quarrel and we recognize that way back when we were reading the story of King David, we had asked that prayer was, God, you show me the battles you want me to fight and the battles you want me to stay clear of. voice-verified

Where do you want me to engage and go up and do battle or engage? voice-verified

I use those words again. voice-verified

And where do you want me to just say, okay, that's a fight, but it's not my fight. voice-verified

To have that wisdom to be able to do that and to not have that wisdom is, as scripture says, to be a fool. voice-verified

So going back to our scriptures today, gosh, it's so good. voice-verified

We have this story of the return, right? voice-verified

The beginning of the return in Ezra. voice-verified

Ezra is a scribe. voice-verified

And we're going to see that chapters one through six in Ezra are going to look a certain way. voice-verified

And then the second half of the book of Ezra is going to look a different way. voice-verified

But the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, originally one contained book. voice-verified

Usually they're called first and second book of Ezra, but the two books, originally one, probably written the same time as Chronicles. voice-verified

Remember Chronicles is that summary story that we read already, the summary story of God leading his people from slavery in Egypt to freedom, to the land, the promised land, to exile and back again. voice-verified

So here is the story of back again, right? voice-verified

The story of return. voice-verified

And one of the things we realize is that voice-verified

This beginning of the book of Ezra fulfills the prophecy of Jeremiah where King Cyrus was named as the one who would let the people of Israel go back to Israel. voice-verified

I believe I have to double check on this one. voice-verified

I thought also that he might be named in Isaiah. voice-verified

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