Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, 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. The Bible in the year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. 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. It is day 361. We are reading Revelations chapter 8, 9, 10, and 11, as well as the entire book of Philemon, or Philemon, depending how you like to say it. I like to say Philemon, because, I don't know, that's a way I first heard it. And we're also reading Proverbs chapter 31 versus 16 through 18. The Bible translation I'm reading from, as always, 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 for these last five days, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. Maybe you'd be preparing for the next trip around these 365 days of scripture by getting the Bible in the year reading plan.

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It is day 361.

We're reading Revelations chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11, as well as Philemon and Proverbs 31 versus

16 through 18.

The Revelation to John, chapter 8, the seventh seal and the golden censor.

When the lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

And another angel came and stood at the

altar with a golden censor, and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints

upon the golden altar before the throne. And the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers

of the saints from the hand of the angel before God. Then the angel took the sensor and filled it with

fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth.

And there were peals of thunder, loud noises, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

The seven angels and seven trumpets.

Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready to blow them.

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood,

which fell on the earth, and a third of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were

burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up. The second angel blew his trumpet, and something

like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became

blood. A third of the living creatures, and the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of

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