Day 61: Complaining in the Desert (2025)
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Who is Fr. Mike Schmitz and what is the Bible in a Year podcast?
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.
What are the readings for Day 61?
Today is day 61, and we are reading from Numbers chapter 11 and Deuteronomy chapter 10. We'll also be praying Psalm 33 today. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. You can get that Bible wherever you get Bibles. You can also download your Bible in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. Also, before we start, if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, go ahead and click on that subscription button. I don't know why it's taking you 61 days to do it, but this could be the day that changes everything. As I said, today is day 61.
Why did the Israelites complain in the desert?
We're reading Numbers chapter 11, Deuteronomy chapter 10, and Psalm 33. The book of Numbers chapter 11, complaining in the desert. And the people complained in their hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes. And when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Then the people cried to Moses and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire abated. So the name of that place was called Taborah because the fire of the Lord burned among them. Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving, and the people of Israel also wept again and said, Oh, that we had meat to eat. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at. Now the manna was like coriander seed, in its appearance like that of gum resin.
The people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it. Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent, and the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased. Moses said to the Lord, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me? Did I conceive all this people?
What was Moses' reaction to the people's complaints?
Did I bring them forth, that you should say to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child to the land which you swore to give to their fathers? Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me and say, give us meat that we may eat. I am not able to carry all this people alone. The burden is too heavy for me. If you will deal thus with me, kill me at once. If I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness. the seventy elders. And the Lord said to Moses, Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
How did God respond to the Israelites' demands for meat?
And I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take some of the spirit which is upon you and put it upon them. And they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. And say to the people, Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat. For you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall not eat one day or two days or five days or ten days or twenty days. but a whole month until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him saying, why did we come forth out of Egypt?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Fr. Mike Schmitz and what is the Bible in a Year podcast?
0:04–0:24
2
What are the readings for Day 61?
0:24–1:02
3
Why did the Israelites complain in the desert?
1:02–2:39
4
What was Moses' reaction to the people's complaints?
2:39–3:26
5
How did God respond to the Israelites' demands for meat?
3:26–4:10
6
What significant event happened with the seventy elders?
4:10–7:19
7
What lessons can we learn from Deuteronomy chapter 10?
7:19–19:54