Introduction to the Patriarchs (with Jeff Cavins) (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 today. This is Ascension. at the next page of the next stage, next time period in the Bible. We had talked with Jeff Cavins earlier about the early world, and he gave us an incredible opportunity to see the context in which Genesis 1 through Genesis 11 were placed in Scripture, how that was Hebrew poetry. But in Genesis 12 through 50, we have what's called the patriarchs. It's the second time period in the Scripture when it comes to following the Great Adventure Bible timeline.
And it introduces us to a number of incredible characters. This is where we meet Abram and Sarai, whose names change. We meet Isaac. We meet Jacob. We meet their wives. We meet their kids. And we get to know, basically, the patriarchs, our father in faith, Abraham, as well as his kids, the beginning of the people of Israel we get to encounter. And so in order for us to get an opportunity— to have some context for the patriarchs this time period. Once again, we are honored to have Jeff Cavins back. Jeff Cavins is the individual who created the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, as well as the Great Adventure Bible Study, which again, as I've said many times, but I will not stop saying it because it was so important to me, so influential for me, that when I finally heard Jeff teaching about the Great Adventure Bible Timeline, so we have all these narrative books, these 14 narrative books, and understanding
these time periods and how the other books fit into the context, it changed everything for me because I went from knowing the stories to knowing the story. And I'm so grateful. That's one of the reasons why every time we hit these new time periods, what we're gonna do, we're gonna have Jeff back as he gives us some context and tells us what to look out for as we journey through the time period. Right now, we are in the time period of the patriarchs. And once again, that means we're welcoming back Jeff Cavins. Jeff, thank you so much again to being here and giving us this direction.
Oh, thanks for allowing me to come and go for the ride. This is exciting. You know, just came through the early world and that is turquoise. And now we're going to enter a burgundy period. And burgundy reminds us of a blood, blood covenant, big thing that's going to happen in this period. You know, as I've been listening to you over the last number of days, I'm just reminded of the encouragement of the Word of God and just want to extend encouragement to everybody that this is a story that you can get. And we're here to help you to navigate some of the time periods where it could be a little confusing, you know, if you don't have somebody guiding you. So that's good. And it's good to have someone that can kind of help you. And this is chapter 12 of Genesis all the way to chapter 50. And we just came off of 11 chapters that really established kind of the early world. Now we're looking at the history that we're really familiar with, you know?
Yeah, because it changes now, right? It changes from that Hebrew poetry, from that prehistory into, like, these are characters that we know their names, we know their stories, their families, and it's God interacting with them in a really new way, right?
Right, yeah. And God has a plan to redeem mankind, which we saw the fall and original sin, they lost original justice back in the garden. And what we're gonna pick up on now in this period, which you're gonna be going through, I think it's even the day after Christmas, you're gonna be reading quite a bit. Big chunk, yeah. During this patriarchal period, which is gonna cover Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. you're really going to get a look at how God works with mankind. And Abraham is going to become very important to us because how God deals with Abram is going to come into Paul's explanation in the New Testament, for example, in Galatians, dealing with faith and what it means to believe.
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