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 unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 223. We are reading from Isaiah chapter 66, the final chapter in the book of the prophet Isaiah. We're also reading Ezekiel chapter 25 and 26. Proverbs chapter 14 versus 1 through 4. As always, the Bible translation that I'm 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, and you can receive daily episodes and updates just like that. It's a piece of cake and it works like clockwork. As I said, it's the final, the conclusion of the book of the prophet Isaiah in chapter 66,

as well as we're launching into yesterday. Gosh, Ezekiel's wife died, marking the moment of the

destruction of this final siege of Jerusalem, the destruction of the temple. Now, in Ezekiel

chapter 25 and 26, we're going into some words of prophecy against some of the nations,

right? So the nations, not necessarily the people of Jerusalem, we're shifting Ezekiel's gaze

and the Lord's gaze to prophecies against the Ammonites, against the Moabites, against the Philistines

and Edomites and Tyre and Sidon, those kinds of folks. But before that, we are going

to jump into the conclusion of the book of the prophet Isaiah. The book of the prophet Isaiah

chapter 66, the judgment of God. Thus says the Lord, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my

footstool. What is the house which you would

build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things

are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I look. He that is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man. He who sacrifices a lamb like him who

breaks a dog's neck. He who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood.

He who makes a memorial offering of frankincense like him who

blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and they're sold the lights in their abominations.

I also will choose affliction for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called,

no one answered. When I spoke, they did not listen. But they did what was evil in

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