Day 80: Cities of Refuge (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

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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 Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:08.0	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you
0:13.1	by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.8	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:22.5	It is day 80.
0:23.5	It is the last day in Desert Wandering, and so we are concluding our reading of the books
0:27.8	of Numbers and Deuteronomy.
0:29.7	We are reading today from Numbers chapter 35 and 36, as well as Deuteronomy chapter 34.
0:35.1	Just the last few words describing the death of Moses.
0:39.1	We're also praying the second Psalm of Ascent, which is Psalm 121. As always, I am reading from
0:43.9	the revised standard version, second Catholic edition using the Great Adventure Bible from
0:47.8	Ascension. If you want to download your Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit
0:51.3	Ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year to get that.
0:54.9	You also can subscribe in your podcast app to receive the daily episodes. As I said, we are
0:58.9	concluding our books and concluding not only the books of numbers in Deuteronomy, but also
1:03.4	concluding the desert wanderings. And tomorrow, gosh, tomorrow we're jumping into the period
1:09.6	of conquest and judges. I don't know if you notice this.
1:12.3	If you have downloaded that Bible in a year reading plan, you note that in less than 20 days
1:16.7	we are having our first messianic checkpoint, which I am so excited about. On day 99, we are having
1:23.3	basically, I think it's seven days of reading through the gospel of John.
1:28.4	You know, if we put off the New Testament and read it in order, we wouldn't be reading
1:33.1	anything in the New Testament, I think, until November.
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