Day 37: The Mystical Works of God (2025)

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What mystical works of God are discussed in this episode?

Fr. Mike Schmitz 0:04
Hi, my name is Fr. 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. This is day 37, so let's keep on rolling along. We're going to be reading today from the book of Exodus, continuing with our journey through Exodus, chapter 17 and 18, both of those chapters, as well as the book of Leviticus, chapter 12, which is a short chapter, but also, you know, kind of important, I guess. Sorry, that was bad. I guess. Are you kidding me? It's the whole thing's important.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 0:42
as well as we're going to pray Psalm 73. So again, Exodus 17 and 18, Leviticus 12, and Psalm 73. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, specifically speaking, the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to get that Bible, you can go to ascensionpress.com. You can also at ascensionpress.com download for free your Bible in a Year reading plan by going to ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can also subscribe. You're invited, encouraged, asked. I don't know. It'd be nice if you subscribe to this podcast by just clicking subscribe. It's relatively simple. Today, once again, we are reading from Exodus chapter 17 and 18.

What does Exodus 17 teach us about faith?

Fr. Mike Schmitz 1:23
Exodus chapter 17 and 18. All the congregation of the sons of Israel moved on from the wilderness of sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim. But there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people found fault with Moses and said, give us water to drink. And Moses said to them, why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test? But the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses and said, Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? So Moses cried to the Lord, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said to Moses, Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile and go. behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb and you shall strike the rock and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 2:20
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the fault finding of the sons of Israel. And because they put the Lord to the test by saying, is the Lord among us or not? Then came Amalek and fought with Israel at Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, choose for us men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. So Joshua did as Moses told him and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, but whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands grew weary, so that they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and the other on the other side, so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

How does Moses handle challenges in Exodus?

Fr. Mike Schmitz 3:18
And the Lord said to Moses, write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it. The Lord is my banner saying a hand upon the banner of the Lord. The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land, and the name of the other, Eleazar, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

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