Day 364: Christ's Sacrifice Once for All (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike dives into the fall of Babylon described in Revelation 18, pointing out how several images and expressions of this key chapter are taken from the judgmental oracles in the old testament, particularly those from the prophet Jeremiah. Fr. Mike also emphasizes the reality of God’s judgment, the resurrection of the dead, and how Christ’s sacrifice is presented to God in the heavenly sanctuary once and for all. Today we read Revelation 18-20, Hebrews 9-10, and Proverbs 31:26-29.
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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. |
| 0:10.2 | 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 unfold and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:20.1 | It is day 364, and there are 364 on birthdays. We're reading the Revelation of John, chapter 18, 19, and 20. Hebrews, letter to the Hebrews, chapters 9 and 10, as well as the book of Proverbs, chapter 31, verses 26 through 29. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, |
| 0:37.7 | second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download |
| 0:41.1 | your own Bible in your reading plan, maybe for the next trip, visit ascensionpress.com |
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| 0:54.8 | It is day 364. |
| 0:57.3 | We are reading Revelation 2 John, Chapter 18, 19, and 20, |
| 1:01.1 | letter to the Hebrews, chapters 9 and 10, as well as Proverbs chapter 31 versus 26 through 29. |
| 1:08.7 | The Revelation to John Chapter 18 |
| 1:11.2 | The Fall of Babylon |
| 1:12.7 | After this, I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, |
| 1:18.6 | and the earth was made bright with his splendor, |
| 1:20.8 | and he called out with a mighty voice, |
| 1:22.8 | Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. |
| 1:25.5 | It has become a dwelling place of demons, |
| 1:48.3 | a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness. Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues. |
| 1:52.5 | For her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. |
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