Day 235: Lying Prophets (2025)

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike focuses on the prophet Jeremiah’s continued sorrow and explains how lying prophets bring forth destruction. He invites us to examine what lies in our lives are bringing destruction. We also continue reading about Ezekiel’s vision, and see the glory of the Lord return to the temple. Today’s readings are Jeremiah 14-15, Ezekiel 43-44, and Proverbs 15:13-16.

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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,
0:07.6	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.9	The Bible in a podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.4	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 235. We're reading Jeremiah chapter 14 and 15, as well as Ezekiel 43 and 44, and Proverbs chapter 15, verses 13 through 16. 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 bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year you can also
0:41.7	subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes as i said this day is day 235 we're reading
0:47.4	jeremiah 14 and 15 ezekiel 43 and 44 and proverbs 15, verses 13 through 16.
0:59.5	The book of the prophet Jeremiah, chapter 14, the great drought.
1:04.8	The word of the Lord, which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought, Judah mourns,
1:06.3	and her gates languish.
1:10.0	Her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
1:12.5	Her nobles send their servants for water.
1:13.9	They come to the cisterns.
1:15.5	They find no water.
1:17.6	They return with their vessels empty.
1:20.6	They are ashamed and confound it and cover their heads because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land.
1:24.9	The farmers are ashamed.
1:26.3	They cover their heads.
1:29.1	Even the deer in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights.
1:34.5	They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no herbage.
1:40.0	Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake, for our backslidings
1:45.5	are many. We have sinned against you. Oh, you, hope of Israel, it's savior and time of trouble.
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