The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Day 307: Courage in Battle (2024)
Sat, 02 Nov
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Today, Fr. Mike discusses the confidence that faith in God can provide as we fight the battles of our lives. He also engages with the riddles found in Wisdom 10 and points out that we can now not only understand the characters, stories, and allusions of Scripture, but can recognize the fingerprints of God in the world around us and better understand the main character of Scripture: God. Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 10, Wisdom 9-10, and Proverbs 25:4-7. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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 307.
Chapter 2: What readings are covered on Day 307?
We're reading 2 Maccabees chapter 10, Wisdom chapters 9 and 10, and Proverbs chapter 25, verses 4 through 7. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the 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. Also a little shout out to all of those who don't merely listen, but also read along on YouTube because I think you can subscribe to that too. Oh man, subscriptions all over the place.
Subscriptions abound on day 307 as we're reading 2 Maccabees chapter 10, Wisdom chapter 9 and 10, and Proverbs chapter 25 verses 4 through 7. The second book of the Maccabees, chapter 10, the purification of the temple.
Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city, and they tore down the altars which had been built in the public square by the foreigners and also destroyed the sacred precincts. they purified the sanctuary and made another altar of sacrifice.
Then striking fire out of flint, they offered sacrifices after a lapse of two years and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the presence.
And when they had done this, they fell prostrate and begged the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, but that if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations.
it happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners the purification of the sanctuary took place that is on the twenty-fifth day of the same month which was chislev and they celebrated it for eight days with rejoicing in the manner of the feast of booths remembering how not long before during the feast of booths they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals
Therefore, bearing ivy-wreathed wands and beautiful branches and also fronds of palm, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him who had given success to the purifying of his own holy place. They decreed by public ordinance and vote that the whole nation of the Jews should observe these days every year. Such then was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes.
Now we will tell what took place under Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of that ungodly man. and will give a brief summary of the principal calamities of the wars. This man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysaeus to have charge of the government and to be chief governor of Koel Syria and Phoenicia.
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