Day 231: The Valley of Dry Bones (2025)

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

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Fr. Mike explains the significance behind the mention of bones in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. In Jeremiah, we learn that the bones of God's people are scattered because of their worship of false gods. In Ezekiel, we see the prophet prophesy over the valley of dry bones and the Lord’s Spirit restoring and moving within them. Today’s readings are Jeremiah 8, Ezekiel 37-38, and Proverbs 14:33-35.

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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
0:08.1	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.0	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.5	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.4	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 231. We're reading today from Jeremiah chapter 8, Ezekiel chapters 37 and 38, and Proverbs chapter 14 verses 33 through 35. 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 into your reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and you receive daily episodes and updates and all those fun things. Speaking of days, it is day two, three, one, which is the opposite of one, two, three, Not really. But we're reading Jeremiah chapter 8.
0:56.4	And as I mentioned, Ezekiel 37 and 38, the dry bones, the valley of dry bones, the
1:00.7	sticks, the prophecy about Gog, if you've ever heard of that guy.
1:04.1	Well, you will today.
1:05.4	And Proverbs 14, 33 through 35.
1:10.6	The book of the prophet Jeremiah chapter 8.
1:13.4	A lament for Judah.
1:15.3	At that time, says the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its princes,
1:20.3	the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of
1:24.6	Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs, and they shall be spread
1:27.9	before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served,
1:32.4	which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshipped. And they shall not be
1:36.9	gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. Death shall be preferred
1:42.4	to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of Hod ground. Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family
1:45.4	in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts. You shall say to them,
1:50.6	thus says the Lord, when men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
1:57.7	Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit.
2:03.3	They refuse to return. I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken rightly.
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