Day 179: Blinded by Comfort (2025)

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike points out how Amos' warning against being overly preoccupied with comfort and thus blinded to the needs of others can be especially relevant to us today. The readings are 2 Kings 11-12, Amos 4-6, and Psalm 122.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,
0:07.4	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.7	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.1	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.2	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.3	It is day 179. We're creeping up on that halfway mark, which is phenomenal. You guys, congratulations.
0:25.6	We're reading today from 2nd Kings, chapters 11 and 12, from Amos, chapters 4, 5, and 6, and we are praying Psalm 122.
0:32.6	As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download
0:40.6	your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
0:44.4	And if you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can. Just click subscribe. If you don't,
0:47.8	no problem. Live and let live. That's the motto for today, unless you're one of these bad people in, like, Adelaia, in Second King's 11.
0:56.7	In that case, we're not going to live and let live, I guess.
0:59.8	But that's what we're reading today.
1:01.0	Day 179, 2nd Kings 11 and 12, Amos 4, 5, and 6, and Psalm 121212, Psalm 121212, Psalm 121212,
1:06.2	Psalm 1212, The Second Book of kings, chapter 11.
1:12.5	Atalaya reigns over Judah.
1:14.5	Now, when Atalaya, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed
1:19.5	all the royal family.
1:21.3	But Jehoshaba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Ahaziah,
1:26.5	and stole him away from among the king's sons
1:28.6	who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from
1:33.8	Atalaya, so that he was not slain, and he remained with her six years hid in the house of the
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