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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 310. You might know this, but there are three days left in the Old Testament.
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not counting the book of Proverbs, which is pretty phenomenal. We have 2 Maccabees chapter 13, the book of Wisdom chapter 15 and 16, as well as Proverbs chapter 25 verses 15 through 17. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
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We are reading 2 Maccabees chapter 13, the wisdom of Solomon chapter 15 and 16, as well as Proverbs chapter 25 verses 15 through 17. The second book of the Maccabees chapter 13. Then allow us the first put to death.
In the 149th year, word came to Judas and his men that Antiochus Jupiter was coming with a great army against Judea and with him Lysaeus, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of 110,000 infantry, 5,300 cavalry, 22 elephants, and 300 chariots armed with scythes.
Menelaus also joined them and with utter hypocrisy urged Antiochus on, not for the sake of his country's welfare, but because he thought that he would be established in office.
But the king of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel, and when Lysaeus informed him that this man was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered them to take him to Berea and to put him to death by the method which is the custom in that place.
For there is a tower in that place, fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it has a rim running around it which on all sides inclines precipitously into the ashes. There they all push to destruction any man guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes. By such a fate it came about that Menelaus the lawbreaker died without even burial in the earth. And this was eminently just.
Because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes. A Battle Near Modine The king, with barbarous arrogance, was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father's time.
But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever, to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple. and not to let the people who had just begun to revive fall into the hands of the blasphemous Gentiles.
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Chapter 3: What readings are covered on Day 310 of the Bible in a Year?
But most foolish and more miserable than an infant are all the enemies who oppressed your people. For they thought that all their hidden idols were gods, though these have neither the use of their eyes to see with, nor nostrils with which to draw breath, nor ears with which to hear, nor fingers to feel with. And their feet are of no use for walking.
For a man made them, and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them. For no man can form a God which is like himself. He is mortal. And what he makes with lawless hands is dead. for he is better than the objects he worships since he has life, but they never have.
The enemies of your people worship even the most hateful of animals, which are worse than all others when judged by their lack of intelligence. And even as animals, they are not so beautiful in appearance that one would desire them, but they have escaped both the praise of God and his blessing. Chapter 16.
Therefore, those men were deservedly punished through such creatures and were tormented by a multitude of animals.
Instead of this punishment, you showed kindness to your people, and you prepared quails to eat, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite, in order that those men, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while your people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies.
For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inexorable want should come, while to these it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented." For when the terrible rage of wild beasts came upon your people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, your wrath did not continue to the end.
They were troubled for a little while as a warning and received a token of deliverance to remind them of your law's command. For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he saw, but by you, the Savior of all. And by this also you convinced our enemies that it is you who deliver from every evil.
For they were killed by the bites of locusts and flies, and no healing was found for them, because they deserved to be punished by such things. But your sons were not conquered even by the teeth of venomous serpents, for your mercy came to their help and healed them.
to remind them of your oracles they were bitten, and then were quickly delivered, lest they should fall into deep forgetfulness and become unresponsive to your kindness. For neither herb nor poultice cured them. But it was your word, O Lord, which heals all men. For you have power over life and death. You lead men down to the gates of Hades and back again.
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Chapter 4: How does the story of Judas and Antiochus unfold in 2 Maccabees 13?
For what was not destroyed by fire was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun, to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give you thanks and must praise to you at the dawning of the light. For the hope of an ungrateful man will melt like wintry frost and flow away like wastewater.
The book of Proverbs, chapter 25, verses 15 through 17.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it. Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Father in heaven, we give you praise. Thank you so much. Thank you for your word.
Thank you for this day. Thank you for constantly bringing us back again and again, that you might remind us that you not only love us, not only that you are interested in us, but in the most mysterious way, you have a destiny for us. You have a destination you want us to reach, that you have... in some ways, we can maybe say plan.
That plan, that hope, that desire, that will that you have for us is that we live forever with you, that we live this life with you and that we live forever with you. Help us to say yes to your will today. Help us to say yes to this destiny for eternity. And we make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
You know, sometimes we have the book of Proverbs and it's just kind of one of those Proverbs you have to recover or like, what's the word? Reread. And what we have, we had three today, or kind of three that I think were really remarkable and worth commenting on. Here we go. The first is chapter 25, verse 15. With patience, a ruler may be persuaded and a soft tongue will break a bone.
There's that sense of If you've ever seen the movie Shawshank Redemption, you realize there is this pressure in time, right? Pressure in time is what Andy Dufresne, one of the characters in this movie, that's all he needed to get from a place of slavery or a place of imprisonment, a place of being caught to a place of freedom, pressure in time.
And here's the book of Proverbs saying more or less the same thing. With patience, a ruler might be persuaded and a soft tongue will break a bone. There's that sense of being able to say there is such a thing as pressure over time that can accomplish great things.
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