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. Thanks. Yeah, just told us what we need to know. Go.

One, two, three. Well, you know, we're entering now, Father, a period, which on your Bible timeline

chart is the purple period and the purple stands for royalty, because we're going to make a major,

major shift here. And that's one of the reasons we're doing this is we don't want people to get lost.

We want them to know exactly where they are at. And as you mentioned, the narrative books are first

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