Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we

encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is

brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the way from

Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit

into that story today. Today I'm joined by Jeff Kavins once again to introduce the fourth

biblical period of the Great Adventure Bible timeline. You know we've gone through the other

timeline periods. We've looked at the early world. We looked at the patriarchs. We just finished

Egypt and the Exodus. And now we are in the fourth biblical

period called Desert Wanderings. Before we begin, a couple of reminders. One is the Bible

translation that I'm using, always, is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition.

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Once again, Jeff, thank you so much for being back with us again and teaching us about this

next period of the desert wanderings. The books we're reading from are Numbers and Deuteronomy.

And I'm just really excited to launch into this next biblical period. Yeah, it's exciting.

Thanks for having me back again. Yeah,

we're going to look at Numbers as the primary narrative book for the desert wanderings, and in the

Bible timeline, it is the color, kind of a tan standing for the desert, you know, the desert experience,

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