Introduction to the Exile (with Jeff Cavins) (2026)
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What is the Exile period and why are we entering it now?
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 your 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 today we are introducing the next period of our bible timeline which is the period of the exile and so as always When introducing these time periods, we're joined by the master, the creator, not the capital M master, not the capital C creator, but one of the masters and creators of the Bible timeline. And the great adventure, of course, is Jeff Cavins.
And so we're so grateful because this is going to be, I believe, the longest timeline or the longest time period that we're going to be in one time period, the longest stretch of days. And so this is going to be maybe one of the last times that you get to hear from Jeff in this podcast for a number of days. And so once again, we're joined by Jeff. Jeff, welcome. Hey, it's good to be with you again as we travel along in salvation history. It's great. It's such a gift. And also, I'm so grateful for these introductions. I think as people have been journeying for, you know, hundreds, well, almost hundreds of Almost 200 days of people have been journeying through this. I think they have found these introduction pieces to each different time period to be invaluable as giving them a context for launching forward.
And so we're leaving the divided kingdom. We're entering into the period of exile. What should we be looking at or being paying attention to as we make this transition?
Well, I do. I enjoy working with you so much. This is so much fun to be able to read through the Bible with you and then occasionally drop in to be like a guide, you know, that say, hey, this is where we're at. And it's kind of like, I don't know if you've ever climbed Everest. You probably have, knowing you. Only three times. I'm a Sherpa. I go up and I fix the ropes and make sure that that path is straight so that people can walk with you along the path. So I will go by Sherpa Jeff from now on.
Yes. Well, Sherpa Jeff, as we go into exile, so we're leaving the divided kingdom. Tragic, right? It's that black color that represents this splitting of the kingdom that he established in David and Solomon into exile. What should we be expecting?
Well, you know, this is a baby blue period on the Bible timeline chart, and the clever little way to remember that is singing the blues in Babylon, which you can hear right now the groans on that one. I'm genuinely laughing. I think that's funny. We got to pipe in the laughs on this, I think. Yeah. We just came out of the darkest period of the history of Israel, where we saw the kingdom divide into two nations, Israel with 10 tribes to the north, and Judah down in Jerusalem with two tribes, and that's Judah and Benjamin. But the prophets have been speaking to both of them. Hosea and Amos were speaking to the north, and we've got other prophets speaking to the south, and they're not listening. They simply are not listening.
The very first part of the exile is going to be the 10 northern tribes. They're going to be taken out of the north. And when you're reading along here, it's a relatively short period of Scripture, and that's 2 Kings 17 to 25. But as you mentioned, it really covers a lot of years here. Mm-hmm. And so the very first exile is the 10 northern tribes. They're going to be taken out by the Assyrians. And the Assyrians are really a tough group of people. It's been Egypt up to this point, and now Assyria is the world power. And they're going to come down, and they're literally going to wipe out the north and and they bring them to some other nations, they're gone for the most part, and the Assyrians bring in five other conquered nations into the north, and they mix with the remnant in the north, and that becomes the beginnings of the Samaritans.
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