Day 59: Obligations to God (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As we read Numbers 8-9, Deuteronomy 8, and Psalm 93, Fr. Mike reflects on how the Israelites were expected to celebrate Passover in all circumstances, learned to trust that God would lead them to where they needed to go, and needed to remember God in times of abundance as well as darkness.
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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, |
| 0:07.6 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. |
| 0:11.5 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, |
| 0:16.5 | we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds |
| 0:21.9 | and how we fit into that story today. This is day 59 and so we will be reading two chapters from |
| 0:28.4 | Numbers, it's Numbers, chapter 8 and chapter 9, as well as Deuteronomy, chapter 8, just the one in |
| 0:32.8 | Deuteronomy. And we'll be praying through Psalm 93, as always, I'm reading from the revised standard |
| 0:38.0 | version, second Catholic edition and I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension, you can get |
| 0:41.9 | that at AscensionPress.com or wherever Bibles are sold. If you want to download your own Bible |
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| 1:07.6 | As I said today is day 59. We're reading chapters 8 and 9 of Numbers, chapter 8 of Deuteronomy, |
| 1:13.6 | praying Psalm 93. Numbers, chapter 8. The Seven Lamps. Now, the Lord said to Moses, |
| 1:22.8 | say to Aaron, when you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp |
| 1:27.6 | stand. And Aaron did so. He set up its lamps to give light in front of the lamp stand as the |
| 1:32.8 | Lord commanded Moses. And this was the workmanship of the lamp stand, hammered work of gold. From its |
| 1:39.2 | base to its flowers, it was hammered work, according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, |
| 1:44.7 | so he made the lamp stand. The Levites' consecration and service. And the Lord said to Moses, |
| 1:52.1 | take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them. And thus shall you do to them |
| 1:57.6 | to cleanse them, sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them go with a razor over all |
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