Day 227: The Towering Cedar
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike highlights the people of Israel's flaw in trusting in the strength and power of Egypt, not realizing that although Egypt is like a towering cedar tree, the nation will eventually collapse. Fr. Mike also points out Jeremiah's vehement message to Israel to brace themselves for God's judgment. Today we read Jeremiah 4, Ezekiel 31-32, and Proverbs 14:17-20.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:10.8 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:13.2 | Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:20.4 | It is day 227. We are reading from Jeremiah chapter 4, Ezekiel chapter 31 and 32, Proverbs |
| 0:26.4 | chapter 14 versus 17 through 20. The Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised |
| 0:31.3 | standard version, second Catholic edition. I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension |
| 0:35.0 | 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 |
| 0:41.5 | podcast and receive daily episodes and daily updates for every day because that's what daily means. |
| 0:46.7 | If you want to subscribe, you can. If you don't, let's move on. It's day 227. We're reading |
| 0:52.8 | Jeremiah four. Moving through Jeremiah, this is so good. Ezekiel 31 and 32. Again, one of the things we're getting to the kind of closer to the end of the book of the prophet Ezekiel. Things are going to change in a couple of days from now. Not today. Today we're continuing to talk about Egypt and to Syria and all these incredible nations that will experience God's judgment, we're also reading from |
| 1:11.1 | Proverbs chapter 14 versus 17 through 20. |
| 1:15.5 | The book of the prophet Jeremiah, chapter 4. |
| 1:18.9 | If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, to me you should return. |
| 1:23.3 | If you remove your abominations from my presence and do not waver, and if you swear, as the Lord |
| 1:28.4 | lives in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, |
| 1:34.9 | and in him shall they glory. |
| 1:37.7 | For thus, says the Lord, to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, break up your |
| 1:42.5 | fallow ground and so not among thorns. Circumcive yourselves |
| 1:46.3 | to the Lord. Remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, |
| 1:51.4 | lest my wrath go forth like fire and burn with none to quench it because of the evil of your doings. |
| 1:58.2 | Judah threatened with invasion. Declar in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, |
| 2:04.4 | Blow the trumpet through the land. Cry aloud and say, assemble. Let us go into the fortified cities. |
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