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

I'm going to double check on that. voice-verified

Get back to you because we have a few days with Ezra and Nehemiah. voice-verified

But there's something really remarkable about this story that here's God being faithful to his promise. voice-verified

Remember, he brought his people, the people Israel, into exile, not to destroy them, not at all to destroy them, but to reform their hearts. voice-verified

And now they have the opportunity to go back home. voice-verified

And one of the things we're going to see is that not everybody goes back home. voice-verified

In fact, there are a number of waves, kind of like there were waves of people in the exile, three waves. voice-verified

There are going to be three waves of people returning from exile back to Jerusalem. voice-verified

But an interesting thing is not everyone decides to return. voice-verified

Even though here's Cyrus, king of Persia, who goes into the storehouses of the Babylonians and says, okay, here's all the vessels or many of the vessels, at least that were stolen from the temple of God. voice-verified

You can bring them back, decorate the temple when it's built. voice-verified

And that's where we bring our, that's what that brings us to. voice-verified

My goodness, easy for me to say that brings us to the book of Haggai. voice-verified

Haggai, only two chapters long, so it's the second, maybe shortest, book of the Old Testament. voice-verified

It can be divided into maybe three parts, and those three parts is, I heard a Bible teacher talk about this, that the first part is apathy, that here's the people who, they were brought back to voice-verified

Jerusalem so they could rebuild the temple. voice-verified

All those lists of families, all the Levites, all the priests, they came home so that they could rebuild the temple and now it's been 16 years, that's when Haggai's written, it's been 16 years since they've been back and they haven't even started constructing the temple. voice-verified

They're apathetic towards this. voice-verified

They're just building their own homes. voice-verified

And so God points out, yeah, you might have noticed that you're not satisfied. voice-verified

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