Hi, my name is 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.

We are once again joined by Jeff Kaven's as we take our steps away from this last checkpoint we had,

the first checkpoint, really, the Messianic checkpoint of the Gospel of John.

And now today, we're taking that step into the royal kingdom,

so that encompasses first and second Samuel,

that encompasses the beginning of first kings, as well as the books of Chronicles.

And so I'm really excited to have Jeff here with us today as we take this next step in this next time period.

I hope and pray that the Messianic checkpoint, those seven days we just experienced of the Gospel of John,

was a massive blessing to you, that that sense of just being able to kind of pop your head up and say,

okay, this is the fulfillment.

Jesus is the fulfillment of everything that we've been hearing, everything we've been reading,

everything has been proclaimed to us.

And now we're going back, back in time to first Samuel, second Samuel, first kings,

and the books of Chronicles, as we see, what's happened now that David unites the tribes into one kingdom?

So Jeff, to orient us as we take these next steps, what do we need to know?

Sure. Well, it's good to be with you once again.

And it just tells us what we need to know. Go.

One, two, three.

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