The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Introduction to Desert Wanderings (with Jeff Cavins) (2025)
21 Feb 2025
Congratulations, you've completed the Egypt & Exodus period and you've arrived at the Desert Wanderings ! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to provide us the context for the book of Numbers and the book of Deuteronomy. They discuss how this period is marked by Israel's rebellion against God as they wander in the desert for forty years striving to regain their narrative and identity. 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, I'm 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 together.
into that story today. Today, I'm joined by Jeff Cavins once again to introduce the fourth biblical period of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline. You know, we've gone through the other timeline periods. We've looked at the early world. We looked at the patriarchs. We just finished Egypt and the Exodus, and now we're in the fourth biblical period called Desert Wanderings.
Before we begin, a couple of reminders. One is the Bible translation that I'm using Always is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to have your own Catholic Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
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Once again, Jeff, thank you so much for being back with us again and teaching us about this next period of the desert wanderings. The books we're reading from are Numbers and Deuteronomy, and I'm just really excited to launch into this next biblical period.
Yeah, it's exciting. Thanks for having me back again. Yeah, we're going to look at Numbers as the primary narrative book for the desert wanderings. And in the Bible timeline, it is the color, kind of a tan, standing for the desert, you know, the desert experience. And then the supplemental book is going to be Deuteronomy.
Awesome. Yeah, and so they're kind of overlapping a little bit, but in some ways they're really different. Is that safe to say? Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's safe. What else do you want to know? No, I'm kidding. That's all I wanted to note. It's kind of the same, but kind of different. That's all.
No, it is safe to say that Numbers is the narrative, but Deuteronomy is a second law. It's a second set of laws that are given due to the hardness of Israel's heart at this particular time. But it's chalk-filled with wonderful, wonderful guidance and wisdom for us.
And we can talk about that, particularly in the area of how do you live your life when you're going into a country where it is diametrically opposed to the message of God? Like that's ever going to happen, right? Yeah, that may be once in a while. So we're going to look at that.
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