Day 82: The Valley of Achor (2025)

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike explains the meaning of circumcision for Israel's relationship with God. He also underscore the gravity of Achan's sin, and how the Valley of Achor symbolizes shame that is painful but not hopeless. Today we read Joshua 5-7 and Psalm 125.

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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 encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.5	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.1	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into
0:20.8	that story today.
0:21.7	It is day 82, and we are on the second day of the time period of conquest and judges.
0:26.4	We are reading today from Joshua chapter 5 through chapter 7, sticking, as I mentioned
0:30.5	yesterday, with the book of Joshua pretty much for the next eight or so days until day 88,
0:36.2	where we'll conclude Joshua, and then day 89, move over
0:38.9	to judges. We're also praying today from Psalm 125. I am reading, as always, from the revised
0:43.7	standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you
0:48.6	want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com
0:52.1	slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to
0:54.4	this podcast that you're currently listening to on day 82 for crying out loud if you've not
0:58.7	say it's subscribed. We just all wonder. We just wonder like what is it, what is it we need to do?
1:03.2	What is it we need to do after 82 days to get you to subscribe? Chances are you've already
1:08.3	subscribed and we are really, really for that as i said today we are
1:12.4	reading from joshua chapter five through chapter seven in praying psalm one hundred and twenty
1:17.0	five the book of joshua chapter five the sons of israel are circumcised when all the kings of
1:25.0	the amurites that were beyond the jordan to the west and all the kings of the canaanites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings
1:28.0	of the Canaanites that were by the sea heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan
1:32.2	for the sons of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer
1:37.0	any spirit in them because of the sons of Israel. At that time, the Lord said to Joshua,
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