Day 182: The Inescapable God (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 182. We are reading from 2 Kings chapter 16, from Micah chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4, and we're also praying Psalm 139, one of my favorite Psalms in the Bible. I have a lot of favorites, I guess. But we also are introduced to the prophet Micah, which is pretty phenomenal. Micah is a contemporary of Isaiah in the Old Testament, and he is prophesying not just to the people of Israel.
He's prophesying to the people of Judah as well. He's prophesying to all of God's people and calling them back to repentance, telling them what's going to happen if they don't repent and don't go back to the Lord. Sounds like a prophet. He is. So we're reading from Micah 1 through 4 today and then tomorrow from Micah 5 through 7. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. 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 want to, you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe. As I said, it's day 182.
And I think that that means when you're halfway through, when you're halfway through this, today's readings, You will be halfway through the entire Bible. Is that accurate when it comes to math?
What readings are covered on Day 182 of the Bible in a Year plan?
365 divided by two is what? 182.5. That sounds right. Is that good math? Maybe. Maybe it is good math. If it is good math, then hey, congratulations. This is the midpoint. Well, not yet. In the middle of this day, it'll be the midpoint. So go you. Congratulations, everybody. This is phenomenal. I mean, sorry, not go you. Go us. Because this is the team. This is the folks who have been faithful on this for the last 182 days. So what a gift to be able to walk with y'all. Here we are, day 182, reading 2 Kings chapter 16, Micah 1, 2, 3, and 4, and praying Psalm 139. The second book of Kings, chapter 16, Ahaz reigns over Judah. In the 17th year of Pekah, the son of Amalia, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Then Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Ramaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz, but could not conquer him. At that time, the king of Edom recovered Elath for Edom and drove the men of Judah from Elath.
And the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pilser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel who are attacking me. Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Razin. When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pilser, king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus.
And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar and its pattern exact in all its details. And Uriah the priest built the altar in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–1:26
2
What readings are covered on Day 182 of the Bible in a Year plan?
1:26–9:23
3
Who is King Ahaz and why did he turn away from proper worship?
9:23–14:15
4
How did King Ahaz’s alliance with Assyria impact Judah’s future?
14:15–16:27
5
Why did Ahaz replace the temple altar and perform foreign sacrifices?
16:27–24:33
6
Who is Micah and what is his central message to Israel and Judah?
24:33–25:25