Day 171: Elijah and Elisha (2026)
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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 171. We are reading from 2 Kings chapter 2. I laugh because there is greatness. There's Elijah. There's Elisha. There is... Some insults and their she bears today. Second Kings chapter two. We're also second Chronicles chapter 25. And we are praying from Psalm 70 today. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version of the second Catholic edition.
I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension, which is color coded. And you can see all of the different time periods and all of the different. um also not only this as we enter into uh this particular season in our bible in a year one of the things that's i mean we've kind of already been there for a little while but we have the divided kingdom right obviously and we have prophets who are part of who are assigned to preach to the divided kingdom some prophets go to the north some stay in the south And it's really helpful for us to have that Bible timeline because the timeline itself gives us a graphic, a visual of here's, oh, we're talking about this person in the north. Okay, this person in the south.
What passages are we reading on Day 171 of the Bible in a Year?
And it can be really helpful. So if you have that, that's phenomenal. If you don't, you can probably get it at ascensionpress.com. Also, if you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, you can click on subscribe to receive daily episodes. One of the things I've heard, people call me a pusher, not a pusher when it comes to subscribing. Just I say what they tell me to say. Kind of like when I read the Bible, just read what I'm given. But when we talk about the subscription, if you subscribe, you don't get any emails. I just want to let you know that. Someone said, oh, I don't want to subscribe because then I'll get all the emails.
You don't get any email, any emails. You just get the Bible in here, a podcast popped up in your whatever podcast every single day. That's all I have to say about that. And that's the last time I will talk about subscribing today on day 171. We're reading from second Kings chapter two, second Chronicles chapter 25, and we are praying Psalm 70. The second book of Kings, chapter two. Elijah is taken up to heaven. Now, when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, Terry, here I beg you, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel. But Elisha said, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.
So they went down to Bethel. And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you? And he said, Yes, I know it. Hold your peace. Elijah said to him, Elijah, tarry here, I beg you, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master from over you? And he answered, Yes, I know it. Hold your peace. Then Elijah said to him, Tarry here, I beg you, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.
But he said, As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. So the two of them went on. fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them as they both were standing by the jordan then elijah took his coat and rolled it up and struck the water and the water was parted to the one side and to the other till the two of them could go over on dry ground
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:18
2
What passages are we reading on Day 171 of the Bible in a Year?
1:18–10:52
3
Who are Elijah and Elisha and where does their journey begin in 2 Kings 2?
10:52–11:34
4
Why does Elisha refuse to leave Elijah as he travels to Bethel, Jericho, and the Jordan?
11:34–15:44
5
How does Elijah miraculously part the Jordan and what does that foreshadow for Elisha?
15:44–16:39
6
What does Elisha mean by asking for a 'double portion' of Elijah’s spirit?
16:39–19:50
7
How does Elisha demonstrate he has Elijah’s spirit after the fiery chariot takes Elijah?
19:50–24:10