Day 66: Forbidden Forms of Worship (2025)

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike discusses the forbidden forms of worship explained in Numbers 17, and why it's important for us to understand how God desired to be worshipped in the Old Testament. Today's readings are Numbers 17, Deuteronomy 17-18, and Psalm 98.

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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,
0:07.4	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.6	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.5	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.7	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we
0:21.0	fit into that story today.
0:23.1	Today is day 66, and we are reading today from Numbers, Chapter 17, as well as from Deuteronomy
0:28.4	17 and Chapter 18.
0:30.6	We're also praying Psalm 98.
0:32.3	As always, I am reading from the Bible translation of the revised standard version, second
0:36.1	Catholic edition using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading
0:41.4	plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also feel free to subscribe
0:47.2	to this podcast. You haven't yet. It's been 66 days, roughly, exactly. And maybe it's time.
0:53.0	Maybe it's time to commit and subscribe to this
0:55.2	podcast by click and subscribe. But as I said, today is day 66. We're reading Numbers chapter 17,
1:01.0	very short chapter today, as well as Deuteronomy 17 and 18 in Psalm 98. The book of numbers
1:09.6	chapter 17, the blossoming of Aaron's rod. The Lord said to Moses,
1:16.1	Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them rods, one for each father's house, from all their
1:22.0	leaders according to their father's houses, 12 rods. Write each man's name upon his rod and write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi.
1:30.9	For there shall be one rod for the head of each father's house. Then you shall deposit them in the
1:36.0	tent of meeting before the covenant where I meet with you. And the rod of the man whom I choose shall
1:41.0	sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the sons of Israel,
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