Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmidt 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.

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Using the great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

We are on day two of the returns. That means day 268 total.

We're reading Ezra chapters three and four as well as a new book, Zechariah, The Prophet Zechariah, chapters one, two, and three, as well as Proverbs chapter 20 verses four through seven.

As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great Adventure Bible from Ascension.

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As I said, it is Ezra, chapter three and four today, a new book, The Book of the Prophet Zechariah, who is contemporary of Heggai that was yesterday, chapters one, two, and three, as well as Proverbs chapter 20 verse four through seven, little heads up when it comes to Zechariah.

He's going to have a bunch of dreams, kind of a crazy night for the life of the Prophet Zechariah.

When I say dreams, I mean God inspired dreams, aka visions. And so it's going to be a little bit read here a lot of symbolic language and symbolic stuff going on in Zechariah's prophecy.

But then again, he's a prophet, so we're getting after it. Again, for the third time, day 268, Ezra three and four, Zechariah one, two, and three, Proverbs 20 verses four through seven.

The Book of Ezra, chapter three, worship restored at Jerusalem.

When the seventh month came and the sons of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.

Then arose Joshua, the son of Joseph Dach, with his fellow priests, and Zerubavel, the son of Sheldtiel, with his kinsmen.

And they built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings upon it as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.

They set the altar in its place for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings upon it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

And they kept the feast of booths as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance as each day required.

And after that, the continual burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon, and all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a free will offering to the Lord.

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