Introduction to the Royal Kingdom (with Jeff Cavins) (2025)
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Who are the hosts and what is the Bible in a Year podcast about?
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.
What is the Royal Kingdom period and which books of the Bible does it cover?
Today, we are once again joined by Jeff Cavins. as we take our steps away from this last checkpoint we had, the first checkpoint, really, the messianic checkpoint of the Gospel of John. And now today we're taking that step into the royal kingdom. So that encompasses 1 and 2 Samuel, that encompasses the beginning of 1 Kings, as well as the books of Chronicles. And so I'm really excited to have Jeff here with us today as we take this next step in this next time period. I hope and pray that the messianic checkpoint, those seven days we just experienced, of the gospel of John was a massive blessing to you, that sense of just being able to kind of pop your head up and say, okay, this is the fulfillment.
Jesus is the fulfillment of everything that we've been hearing, everything we've been reading, everything has been proclaimed to us. And now we're going back, back in time to 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and the books of Chronicles, as we see what's happened now that David unites the tribes into one kingdom. So Jeff, to orient us as we take these next steps, what do we need to know?
Sure. Well, it's good to be with you once again. Thanks.
You just told us what we need to know. Go.
One, two, three. Well, we're entering now, Father, a period, which on your Bible timeline chart is the purple period, and the purple stands for royalty, because... we're going to make a major, major shift here. And that's one of the reasons we're doing this, is we don't want people to get lost. We want them to know exactly where they are at. And as you mentioned, the narrative books are 1 and 2 Samuel and part of 1 Kings. And In this period, as far as the big picture goes, we're going to see that Israel is going to ask for a king, and we can talk about that. But they're going to ask for a king, and during this period, we're going to see three kings. We're going to see the first king, Saul. He's going to reign for roughly 40 years.
And then David will be the second king, and he's going to reign for 40 years. And Solomon, his son, will be the third king, and he's going to reign for 40 years. And so we're going to be looking particularly at these three kings, but most importantly, David. And something happens between God and David, namely a covenant, and that's going to give us some structure for the rest of the story.
Why did the people of Israel ask for a king?
But I think it's really important, Father, for people to understand where we just came from in the green period, the conquest and judges. Yeah, definitely. You know, we have to ask ourselves, Why would they want a king? Why would they want a king at this point? And if you remember back in Judges, we have that spiral where they go from sin to servitude to supplication to salvation and then silence, and then they continue it. And so in the book of Judges, we see a ever-spiraling, out-of-control iniquity by the leaders of Israel. So in chapter 3 through 5, you have Othniel, Ehud, and Deborah. They're pretty good. And then in chapters 6 through 9, we have Gideon, not so good. Then chapters 10 through 12, we have bad, Jephthah, the very terrible story. And then we have in chapters 13 through 16, Samson, it gets worse. And then chapters 17 and 18, Micah builds a private temple with his own priests and everything. And then chapters 19 through 21 of Judges, it just gets plain ugly.
And it's at the end of this, after we have heard for four times in Judges that Israel did not have a king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's so interesting because we did that, the intro to conquest and judges together and talked about, yeah, it's going to get bad. It's going to get dark. It's going to, that we talked about that cycle and that the devastation that people experienced and how, how dark it would get. But I think a lot of people who have been journeying with us.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and what is the Bible in a Year podcast about?
0:04–0:21
2
What is the Royal Kingdom period and which books of the Bible does it cover?
0:21–2:41
3
Why did the people of Israel ask for a king?
2:41–4:38
4
Who were the three kings of Israel and what was their significance?
4:38–6:55
5
What warnings did God give about having a king?
6:55–9:43
6
How does the covenant with David shape the royal kingdom story?
9:43–11:34
7
What role does the book of Chronicles play alongside Samuel and Kings?
11:34–13:05
8
How should listeners approach the overlapping stories in Chronicles, Samuel, and Kings?
13:05–24:33