Day 286: The Battle to Choose God (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike walks us through the current battles of Judas Maccabeus and the Israelite people, emphasizing that while war is violent, freedom to belong to God and worship him is worth fighting for. He also discusses the importance of spending time with virtuous people to acquire their positive qualities and the need to seek good rather than evil to attain the riches of heaven. Today’s readings are from 1 Maccabees 5, Sirach 13-15, and Proverbs 22:13-16.
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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, |
| 0:07.3 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
| 0:10.6 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:13.2 | Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
| 0:17.0 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:20.5 | It is day 286, if you have, the Bible in a year reading plan printed out, you are on the second |
| 0:26.3 | to last page. You're on the top of the page. It's amazing. It's incredible. We have one and three |
| 0:31.3 | quarters maybe pages left to go for the remainder of our time, which is not like we're trying |
| 0:35.4 | to get it over with, but what I just 286 days. Well done. It's amazing. Today we're reading First Maccabees chapter 5, Syrac chapter 13, 14, and 15, Proverbs chapter 22 versus 13 through 16. 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. If you want to download your own Bible in your reading plan, and you could also, I have a blue magic marker and I write through every day after we've read it after we've listened to it. It's a way that I track my progress. It's no big deal. You can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can print that off and and yeah just maybe do the last two pages either way |
| 1:11.9 | you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and updates |
| 1:17.2 | it's day 286 we're reading first maccabees chapter 5 syrac 13 14 and 15 and proverbs chapter 22 |
| 1:23.6 | verses 13 through 16 the first book of maccabees, chapter 5. Wars with neighboring peoples. |
| 1:32.1 | When the Gentiles round about heard that the altar had been built and the sanctuary |
| 1:35.7 | dedicated as it was before, they became very angry, and they determined to destroy the descendants |
| 1:40.9 | of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people, |
| 1:45.9 | but Judas made war on the sons of Issa in Ijumaya at Akhrebateh, |
| 1:50.0 | because they kept lying in wait for Israel. |
| 1:52.3 | He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them. |
| 1:55.8 | He also remembered the wickedness of the sons of Bayan, |
| 1:58.5 | who were a trap and a snare to the people and ambushed them on the |
| 2:02.0 | highways. They were shut up by him in their towers, and he encamped against them, bowed their complete |
| 2:07.2 | destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them. Then he crossed over to attack |
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