Day 52: Israel Continues to Journey (2025)
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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 together. Today, it is day 52. We have just left Egypt and the Exodus, and we're entering into the period of the desert wanderings. This is a kind of a big step. And actually, today is going to be a little bit, well, I've got some good news for you and some bad news for you. But before that, I just want to remind you that the Bible translation that I'm using is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Red Adventure Bible from Ascension.
One of the things that gets asked a lot, and you probably have figured this out already on day 52, is, is that you don't need to be following the exact bible translation that i'm reading from in fact sometimes what i'll do is i'll read multiple translations not out loud here on the recording but multiple translations at times can give me a different layered understanding of what's being said So if you have a New American Bible, if you have a New Jerusalem Bible, if you have one of the other English Standard Version, those are all pretty good translations. Again, you can use whatever. Jeff has always said that the Bible translation that is best to use is the one that you will use. And so that's what we got going for us. So that's nice.
But I'm using the Revised Standard Version, 2nd Catholic Edition. A student just asked me, he said, hey, if I want to follow along with you, it's not too late to start if you're just starting today on day 52. How do I do that? I said, well, at the beginning of every podcast, I encourage people to download the Bible in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And he said, thanks, Father. And I said, no problem, bro. So if you want to get your Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash slash Bible in a year. Also, you can subscribe in your podcast app. So as I said, today we have some good news and we have some bad news. The good news is we are journeying into the book of Numbers and the book of Deuteronomy. So good.
Incredible. A new period, new time period. The bad news is this, is the beginning of Numbers is kind of all about Numbers. It's where we got the title, the English title for the book of Numbers. The Hebrew title means into the wilderness, which is much more dramatic and a lot more exciting than But our translation, our title for the book of Numbers is Numbers because it begins by numbering the people of Israel, numbering the tribes, the different 12 tribes of Israel. Now, that numbering can be discouraging for some people because you might get to the end of this day thinking, like, what the heck? That's all this was? Well, it's not all this was because it's very, very important for us to understand that God knows his people and he numbers his people. Also, at the end of Book of Numbers, he numbers them again. So just know that's coming up. Also, we're starting the Book of Deuteronomy. Now, Deuteronomy means the second law. And if you haven't heard this already, here's kind of what we're doing.
The people of Israel have been in the wilderness where they've been at Mount Sinai for one year now, basically 13 months. They were there for one year and the last month of that 13 month period, the 13th month was the book of Leviticus. That's when God gave through Moses the law for Levitical worship, right? This is after the golden calf incident. So if we think about where we've been, we had Exodus and we had the journey into the wilderness. We had the journey to Mount Sinai so they could worship God. But then what happens is they build the golden calf while Moses is on Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb, two names for the same mountain, getting the two tables of stone or two tablets of stone. Comes down, right?
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