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 will 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 introducing the next period of our Bible timeline which is the period of the exile.

So as always, when introducing these time periods were joined by the Master, the Creator, not the Capital and Master, not the Capital Seek Creator, but one of the Masters and the Great Adventure of the Bible timeline.

The adventure, of course, is Jeff Kavens and so we're so grateful because this is going to be, I believe, the longest timeline or the longest time period that we're going to be in one time period, the longest stretch of days.

And so this is going to be maybe one of the last times that you get to hear from Jeff in this podcast for a number of days.

And so once again, we're joined by Jeff. Jeff, welcome.

Hey, it's going to be with you again. We travel along in salvation history. It's great.

It's such a gift and also I'm so grateful for these introductions. I think as people have been journeying for hundreds, well almost hundreds, almost 200 days, people have been journeying through this.

I think they have found these introduction pieces to each different time period to be invaluable as giving them a context for launching forward.

And so we're leaving the divided kingdom and we're entering into the period of exile.

What should we be looking at or being paying attention to as we make this transition?

Well, I do, I enjoy working with you so much. This is so much fun to be able to read through the Bible with you and then occasionally drop in to be like a guide you know,

to say, hey, where this is where we're at. And it's kind of like, I don't know if you've ever climbed Everest. You probably have knowing you.

But only three times. I'm a Sherpa, you know, I go up and I fix the ropes and I and make sure that that path is straight so that people can can walk with you along the path.

So I will go by Sherpa Jeff from now on.

Yes, well Sherpa Jeff, as we go into exile, so we were leaving the that the divided kingdom, tragic, right?

That black color that represents this, you know, splitting of the kingdom that he established in David and Solomon into exile.

What should we be expecting?

Well, you know, this is a baby blue period on the Bible timeline chart and the clever little way to remember that is singing the blues in baby lawn, which you can hear all right now the groans on that one.

But genuinely laughing, I think that's funny.

We got a we got to pipe in the laughs on this, I think.

...