Day 69: The Bronze Serpent (2026)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike explains how the bronze serpent is a prefiguration of Jesus on the Cross. We also continue to learn how God's laws in Deuteronomy redefine the social and sexual norms for the Israelites to teach them about the dignity of every human person. Today's readings are Numbers 21, Deuteronomy 22, and Psalm 102.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we |
| 0:08.1 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast |
| 0:12.8 | is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way |
| 0:17.6 | from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 69, and we are reading from Numbers, chapter 21, Deuteronomy chapter 22, and we're praying Psalm 102. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, second Catholic edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to get this Bible, you can go to ascensionpress.com or to any of the places where Bibles are sold. If you also would like to download your Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. And you can download that for free, for now at least. And you can also subscribe to the podcast, this podcast, in your app to receive |
| 0:54.9 | daily episodes. They are posted when it's sometime overnight and you get to listen to them. |
| 1:00.3 | You probably figure that out already since it is almost day 70. It is day 69. Once again, |
| 1:05.0 | we're reading from Numbers chapter 21, Deuteronomy chapter 22, and Psalm 102. |
| 1:11.6 | The book of Numbers, Chapter 21, the bronze serpent. |
| 1:16.6 | When the Canaanite, the king of Erad, who dwelt in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atarim. |
| 1:22.6 | He fought against Israel and took some of them captive. |
| 1:25.6 | And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, |
| 1:29.2 | If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. |
| 1:34.7 | And the Lord listened to the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, |
| 1:38.1 | and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. |
| 1:40.7 | So the name of the place was called Hormah. |
| 1:44.0 | From Mount Hore, they set out by the way to the |
| 1:47.1 | Red Sea to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke |
| 1:53.1 | against God and against Moses, why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? |
| 1:58.4 | For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food. |
| 2:03.5 | Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people so that many |
| 2:07.6 | sons of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned, for we have spoken |
| 2:13.5 | against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he may take away the serpents from us. |
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