Day 237: Water from the Temple (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike guides us through the last two chapters of Ezekiel, explaining the biblical significance of the water flowing from the right side of the temple, and how it foreshadows Christ's passion. He also emphasizes the imagery of the clay and the potter in Jeremiah, signifying how our lives are meant to be open for God to mold and shape, according to his will. Today's readings are Jeremiah 18-19, Ezekiel 47-48, and Proverbs 15:21-24.

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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
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast
0:11.8	is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:15.7	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story
0:20.0	today. It is day 237.
0:22.3	We're reading today from Jeremiah chapter 18 and 19 from Ezekiel chapter 47 and 48,
0:27.0	the last two chapters of Ezekiel, as well as Proverbs chapter 15 versus 21 through 24.
0:32.5	As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version second Catholic edition.
0:37.1	I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in your reading plan, because, you know, why not start on day 237? You can go to ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes and updates and all good things if you want to. If you don't, it's your life, man. It's your life.
0:57.0	As I said, today is day 237. We're reading Jeremiah 18 and 19, Ezekiel 47 and 48, the last two chapters,
1:05.3	as well as Proverbs chapter 15 versus 21 through 24.
1:10.6	The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, chapter 18, the potter and the clay.
1:15.6	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, arise and go down to the potter's house,
1:20.2	and there I will let you hear my words. So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was
1:24.6	working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the
1:28.1	potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good to the potter to do.
1:33.6	Then the word of the Lord came to me, O House of Israel, can I not do with you, as this potter
1:38.9	has done, says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O House of Israel. If at any time I declare
1:47.5	concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation,
1:53.2	concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended
1:58.1	to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
2:04.5	and if it does evil in my sight not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good
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