Day 312: Conclusion to the Old Testament (2024)

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Fr Mike celebrates the accomplishment of reading the entire Old Testament and wraps up the books of 2 Maccabees and Wisdom, talking through the key themes of the Old Testament visible in the conclusions to these books. He also discusses the motivation of the Maccabees to defend the temple and maintain its purity as well as uphold God’s honor. Today’s readings are from 2 Maccabees 15, Wisdom 19, and Proverbs 25:21-23

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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,
0:07.3	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.4	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:12.9	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:16.6	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:19.9	It is day 312. We're reading the final chapter of Maccabees, the final chapter of the wisdom of Solomon,
0:26.3	and the book of Proverbs, chapter 25, verses 21 through 23. As always, the Bible translation I'm
0:31.0	reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure
0:34.8	Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in your reading plan, you can visit
0:38.3	ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
0:40.0	If you had done so, you would realize that today, as I said yesterday, and maybe even the
0:43.9	day before, today is date 312.
0:46.8	It is the final day in the Old Testament.
0:49.2	We are still going to hang out with Proverbs, of course, every single day.
0:52.5	But my gosh, this is it, you guys. You will be
0:55.4	able to say, basically, you've read the entire Old Testament by the end of today, within the next
1:00.9	20-ish, however long we have together minutes. Ah, that's congratulations. You would know that if you had
1:06.8	downloaded the Bible in a year timeline that I keep talking about all the time. Anyways, you also subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes and daily updates.
1:15.1	As I said, it is day, 312, reading Second Book of the Maccabees, chapter 15, the book of Wisdom
1:19.7	of Solomon, chapter 19, and Proverbs chapter 25 versus 21 through 23.
1:26.0	The second book of the Maccabees, chapter 15, Nicanor's arrogance.
1:30.9	When Nicanor heard that Judas and his men were in the region of Samaria, he made plans
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