The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Introduction to Conquest & Judges (with Jeff Cavins) (2025)
22 Mar 2025
Congratulations on completing the Desert Wanderings period! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to introduce the fifth biblical period, Conquest and Judges. They discuss the trials the Israelites face as they enter the Promised Land. We learn that the book of Joshua and the book of Judges are characterized by Israel's unfaithfulness, destruction, and repentance. 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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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. Once again, today we are joined by Jeff Cavins, who's going to introduce the next time period. We've gone through a number of time periods already from the early world to the patriarchs, to the desert wanderings, Exodus in Egypt. And now we're coming on to the next time period, which is conquest and judges.
And we're entering into this time period where Israel is about to cross the Jordan River and heading on in to the promised land. And whatever happens now is going to be the content of the next number of days as we're going into Judges and the book of Joshua. And that's what we have.
So Jeff is joining us today as the expert, helping us to kind of get ourselves situated and having a context for these next number of days as we're going through this new time period. Welcome, Jeff, once again.
Oh, thank you. It's good to join you. And yeah, we're going into a very, very exciting period. Yeah, there's a lot that happens. Yeah, there's an amazing amount that happens. And this period is actually not that long. And it's made up of two books. It is Joshua and Judges. And for those of you that are following along in your Bible timeline chart, this is the green period.
And it's green because it reminds us of going from the desert wanderings, which is tan, now into the lush, green land of promise, the land of Canaan. That's why it is green.
And yet, there's going to be not just green means go, like in the sense of easy or in the sense of just kind of go up and take the land. There's going to be some struggle that is kind of really marks, I think, this time of conquest and judges. I mean, obviously, conquest would involve struggle, but this time period isn't clean.
And it's one of those things, I think, if anything, we take away from these first however many days we've been journeying through the Bible is is that even though God is with his people, it's not always very clean. You know, it's not that one of those situations where it's just, oh, God's with us, therefore the road is smooth.
It is oftentimes marked by a certain struggle and certain even catastrophe.
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