Day 17: Jacob Meets Esau (2025)

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike dives into the love Jacob has for God, and how this is shown when Jacob meets Esau. Today's readings are Genesis 33-34, Job 23-24, and Proverbs 3:13-18.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast
0:12.0	is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:17.6	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and
0:21.7	how we fit into that story today. This is day 17. Let's keep on going. And day 17, we'll be
0:27.7	reading Genesis chapter 33 and 34, Job chapter 23 and 24, and Proverbs chapter 3 verses 13 through 18.
0:36.4	As always, I am reading from the revised standard version,
0:39.3	Catholic edition of the Bible. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible you can get from Ascension.
0:43.2	Speaking of Ascension, if you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, the reading
0:47.4	plan that we're following this entire year, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a
0:52.8	year. Again, that's ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. Again, that's ascensionpress.com
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0:59.8	email list by texting the word Catholic Bible to 33777. That's all one word, all together,
1:07.4	all caps, or no caps, doesn't matter, Catholic Bible to 3377.
1:13.4	Again, as I said, today we are reading from Genesis chapter 33 and chapter 34.
1:18.1	As we heard yesterday, Jacob wrestled with the angel all night, and his name was changed.
1:23.6	His name was changed from Jacob to Israel, which marked something unique. He marked
1:30.2	something we have never seen yet in the Bible. In this whole story of salvation, chapter 33,
1:36.1	reveals something we have not yet seen. We've seen plenty of brokenness. We've never seen
1:43.0	reconciliation.
1:47.2	So here we start with Genesis chapter 33 and 34.
1:51.7	And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked.
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