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. Today is day 152, and we are reading from First Kings chapter 10, Ecclesiastes, chapters 8 and 9 in Psalm 8. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition, and I am 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, and you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and that you know the drill. As I said, it's First Kings chapter 10 today. So we're getting closer and closer to the end of King Solomon's reign. We're going to see the queen of Shiba Sheba and we're gonna see how everyone's coming to see Solomon

because of all of his wisdom and because of how he's just,

man, the guys, the guys are wealthy.

He is rich, he's super rich.

We're also coming closer and closer.

The day after tomorrow, we're encountering

our second messianic checkpoint.

So just the day after tomorrow, we're gonna begin Mark second messianic checkpoint. So just the day after tomorrow,

we're going to begin Mark chapters one and two. So excited to go back to the Gospels after it's

been, you know, a while since. It's been a minute since we had the gospel of John. But the day

after tomorrow, we are in the gospel of Mark. So good. also as they said first kings 10 ecclesiases eight

and nine we're praying psalm eight the first book of kings chapter 10 visit of the queen of shiba

now when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the lord she came to test

him with hard questions she came to test him with hard questions.

She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold

and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

And Solomon answered all her questions, there was nothing hidden from the king which he could not

explain to her. And when the Queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the intendants of his servants, their clothing, his cup-bearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. And she said to the king, the report was true which I heard in my own land of your affairs and of your wisdom,

but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it.

...