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. It is day 181. We are reading from 2nd Kings chapter 15, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 181.

We are reading from 2nd Kings chapter 15, Jonah, the book of the prophet Jonah chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4,

the entire book of the prophet Jonah.

It's just four chapters, so we'll get through that today.

As well as praying Psalm 138, as always the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the

revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. And I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to

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in an app that I've already said it a thousand times, right? Okay. So yeah, moving on. Moving on on on day 181, Second Kings 15. We're getting closer and closer to our next time period, the time period of exile. And so, ah, man, as we get closer and closer and fact, we're on day 181 in 10 days from now, on day 191, we'll be coming to a conclusion of Second Kings. And what that means is, and Second

Chronicles 36. So what that means is going to be that on day 192, we're going to begin a different

kind of thing. And what we're doing is we're not leaving the story, but we're taking a deeper

dive into the other books, the prophetic books and some other historical books and some other wisdom books that were written or proclaimed at the time of the exile. And so,

for example, Isaiah on day 192, we're beginning the book of the prophet Isaiah. Now, Isaiah,

at the end of today's reading, 2nd Kings chapter 15, we're going to hear about a guy named

Ahaz. And Isaiah lived at that time. And he actually speaks to Ahaz in Isaiah chapter 15, we're here about a guy named Ahaz, and Isaiah lived at that time,

and he actually speaks to Ahaz in Isaiah chapter 7, I believe it is. So we have some crossover,

but in 10 days we are going to come to a conclusion in some ways, not a conclusion, we're

coming to a, let's call it a marker, and that marker is going to be taking a deep dive

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