Day 308: Little by Little (2025)

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike highlights how God fights as a heavenly ally with the people of Israel in 2 Maccabees 11, and encourages us to actively fight alongside God in our daily battles. In our reading of Wisdom, Father points out how God corrects us little by little so we can learn to trust him. Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 11, Wisdom 11-12, and Proverbs 25:8-10.

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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 is brought to you
0:12.4	by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.3	discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that story today. It is day 308. We are reading Second Maccabees, Chapter 11, as well as Wisdom Chapter 11 and Chapter 12. Proverbs chapter 25 versus 8 through 10. 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 a year reading plan, you can visit Ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year because you do have about a page and a half left. So, you know, it's not too late to get in on the action and on the show. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates. And it is today. Day 308, we're reading Second Maccabees
0:55.6	Chapter 11, Wisdom 11 and 12, Proverbs 25, verses 8 through 10. The second book of the Maccabees
1:03.2	Chapter 11, Lysaeus besieges Betzer. Very soon after this, Lyssaeus, the king's guardian and kinsman,
1:10.7	who was in charge of the government,
1:12.3	being vexed at what had happened, gathered about 80,000 men in all his cavalry and came against the Jews.
1:18.2	He intended to make the city a home for Greeks, and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the
1:23.2	sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.
1:28.1	He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of
1:32.4	infantry and his thousands of cavalry and his 80 elephants. Invading Judea, he approached
1:38.2	Betzer, which was a fortified place about five leagues from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.
1:43.8	When Maccabias and his men got word that Lysseus was besieging the strongholds,
1:47.7	they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, begged the Lord to send a good angel to
1:53.0	save Israel.
1:54.4	Maccabias himself was the first to take up arms, and he urged the others to risk their lives
1:59.2	with him to aid their brethren.
2:01.1	Then they eagerly rushed off together, and there, while they were still near Jerusalem,
2:05.6	a horseman appeared at their head clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold.
2:09.8	And they all together praised the merciful God, and were strengthened in heart, ready to assail
2:14.3	not only men but the wildest beasts or walls of iron.
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