Day 80: Cities of Refuge (2023)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As we finish our journey through the Desert Wanderings, Fr. Mike zeroes in on the purpose of cities of refuge for the Israelites and the strong bond of community that they shared and maintained as the tribes grew. Today's readings are Numbers 35-36, Deuteronomy 34, and Psalm 121.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible Any Year podcast where we |
| 0:07.9 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible Any Year |
| 0:11.9 | podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll |
| 0:16.2 | read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold |
| 0:20.7 | and how we fit into that story today. It is day 80. It is the last day in Desert Wondering's |
| 0:25.0 | and so we are concluding our reading of the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. We are reading |
| 0:30.0 | today from Numbers 35 and 36 as well as Deuteronomy chapter 34, just the last few words describing |
| 0:37.3 | the death of Moses. We're also praying the second Psalm of Ascent, which is Psalm 121. As always, |
| 0:43.3 | I am reading from the revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition using the great adventure |
| 0:47.4 | Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your Bible Any Year reading plan, you can visit |
| 0:51.7 | AscensionPress.com slash Bible Any Year to get that. You also can subscribe in your podcast |
| 0:56.4 | app to receive the daily episodes. As I said, we are concluding our books and concluding |
| 1:00.4 | not only the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, but also concluding the Desert Wondering's |
| 1:05.6 | and tomorrow. Gosh, tomorrow we're jumping into the period of conquest and judges. I don't |
| 1:11.4 | know if you noticed this. If you have downloaded that Bible Any Year reading plan, you note that |
| 1:15.4 | in less than 20 days, we are having our first Messianic checkpoint, which I am so excited |
| 1:20.6 | about. On day 99, we are having basically, I think it's seven days of reading through |
| 1:26.9 | the Gospel of John. You know, if we put off the New Testament and read it in order, we wouldn't |
| 1:32.6 | be reading anything in the New Testament. I think until November. And we do not want that. |
| 1:37.0 | We want to be able to encounter and hear the story of our Lord Jesus much, much sooner. |
| 1:42.2 | So on day 99, coming up so soon, we have our first Messianic checkpoint reading all the |
| 1:47.0 | way through the Gospel of John in just seven days. And I'm so excited about that. But today, |
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