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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.

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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story today.

It is day 120. We finally made it

to this day, 1-20. We are reading from 2nd Samuel chapter 1. Yesterday, we said goodbye to 1st Samuel, which of course was all one book at one point, but we can pay no attention to that and realize that we're making progress to 2nd Samuel chapter 1. We're also diving for the first time into First Chronicles, chapter one. We're also praying Psalm 13. As always, the Bible

translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking subscribe. It's that

easy to do. As I mentioned, we're dipping our toes into First Chronicles for the first time.

Now, Chronicles is, it's kind of a unique book. One of the reasons it's unique is because

typically it would be the last book in the Hebrew canon, right? So it'd be the last book in the Jewish canon of scripture. If it was included in that, it would be because what's happening is, first chronicles and second chronicles, it is going to be focused on a couple of things. One is the temple and worship. The other is the kingdom and the Messiah. And so what we're going to find is that the person who wrote Chronicles,

who might have been the scribe Ezra, we're not sure, I'm not sure, maybe somebody knows.

The person who chronicled Chronicles is basically setting the stage for ultimately the temple to be

reestablished and temple worship to be given its part of place, but also setting the stage for the Messiah.

And it uses King David as the prototype for the Messiah.

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