Day 306: Wisdom Is Beautiful (2024)
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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 306. We're reading 2nd book of the Maccabees, chapter 9, as well as Wisdom chapters 7 and 8, Proverbs chapter 25, verses 1 through 3. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 2nd 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.
You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates because today is day 306. You have 59 days. Gosh, math. Why is it so hard? It's not that hard. It's day 306. We're reading 2 Maccabees chapter 9, Wisdom 7 and 8, Proverbs chapter 25, verses 1 through 3. The Second Book of the Maccabees, Chapter 9. The Last Campaign of Antiochus Epiphanes. About that time as it happened, Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of Persia, for he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temples and control the city. Therefore, the people rushed to the rescue with arms, and Antiochus and his men were defeated, with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants and beat a shameful retreat.
while he was in ecbatana news came to him of what happened to nicanor and the forces of timothy transported with rage he conceived the idea of turning upon the jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey But the judgment of heaven rode with him, for in his arrogance he said, When I get there, I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews. But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking, he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures, and that very justly, for he had tortured the bowels of others with many and strange inflictions.
Yet he did not in any way stop his insolence, but was even more filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his rage against the Jews and giving orders to hasten the journey. And so it came about that he fell out of his chariot as it was rushing along, and the fall was so hard as to torture every limb of his body. Thus, he who had just been thinking that he could command the waves of the sea in his superhuman arrogance and imagining that he could weigh the high mountains in a balance was brought down to earth and carried in a litter, making the power of God manifest to all. and so the ungodly man's body swarmed with worms and while he was still living in anguish and pain his flesh rotted away and because of his stench the whole army felt revulsion at his decay because of his intolerable stench no one was able to carry the man who a little while before had thought that he could touch the stars of heaven
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