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🗓️ 10 September 2022
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As Fr. Mike begins the book of Lamentations, we read about Jeremiah’s sorrow as he witnesses the siege and suffering of Jerusalem. In the book of Jeremiah, we hear a word of comfort from the Lord to Baruch. Today’s readings are Jeremiah 45-46, Lamentations 1, and Proverbs 17:21-28.
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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, |
0:07.6 | where we 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. |
0:13.4 | Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
0:17.6 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
0:21.2 | It is day 253. |
0:22.4 | We're reading today from Jeremiah, chapter 45 and 46. |
0:26.2 | And chapter 45 is a little word of comfort to Baruch. |
0:29.7 | Remember Baruch is the scribe, the one who's writing down the words of Jeremiah. |
0:33.3 | And he's been discouraged. |
0:34.4 | He is disheartened. |
0:35.4 | And we also, this is a flashback in case you're wondering. |
0:38.4 | Remember the book of Jeremiah is not incredibly chronological. |
0:41.9 | So this is going back to before even the complete destruction of Jerusalem and before he and |
0:47.4 | Baruch and Jeremiah were carted off to Egypt. |
0:50.3 | So chapter 46 begins this section of God's words of condemnation, God's words of judgment |
0:57.2 | essentially on the nation's surrounding Judah. |
1:00.8 | So that goes from 46 to 51. |
1:02.6 | So that's going to be what's happening today in the next couple days, as well as lamentations |
1:06.7 | chapter 1. |
1:07.7 | So lamentations chapter 1, if you remember the context, is when the Babylonians were |
1:12.0 | besieging the city of Jerusalem, it was horrible. |
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