Day 76: War Against Midian (2025)

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike breaks down the battle against Midian and explains why God would allow destruction and warfare that can seem brutal. He also highlights how we can learn from Israel's weakness by destroying the things in our lives that lead us away from God. Today's readings are Numbers 31, Deuteronomy 30, and Psalm 116.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast
0:12.3	is brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the way from
0:17.0	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:23.2	It is day 76, and we are reading today from Numbers, Chapter 31, Deuteronomy, chapter 30,
0:28.5	and we are praying today from Psalm 116. As always, I'm reading from the revised standard version,
0:34.3	second Catholic edition. You can get your own great adventure bible from ascension
0:37.9	which is what i'm using to follow along and read if you also want to follow along you can get your
0:42.3	own bible in a year reading plan by downloading that from ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year
0:48.2	and if you haven't it's day 76 for crying out loud if you have not yet subscribed to this podcast
0:52.6	i don't know i don't know what I can do.
0:54.8	What more can I do? You should be subscribing because then you get the alerts every single day.
1:00.4	You don't have to go hunt for it every single day. It'll just appear to you. We have realized,
1:04.5	including today, we have five days left in the desert wanderings. We have five days left of
1:09.9	numbers in Deuteronomy until we get
1:11.6	to conquest and judges until the people of Israel enter into the promised land and we have those
1:16.6	incredible, incredible stories of the conquest and of the judges. But today, we are still with Numbers
1:21.8	31, Deuteronomy chapter 30 in Psalm 116. Numbers chapter 31.
1:28.5	War against Midian.
1:30.5	The Lord said to Moses, avenge the sons of Israel on the Medianites.
1:35.0	Afterward, you shall be gathered to your people.
1:38.3	And Moses said to the people, arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.
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