Day 149: All Is Vanity (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] 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, it is day one hundred and forty-nine. We are reading from First Kings chapter seven. We're also beginning today five days of the Book of Ecclesiastes, one of the wisdom books. We're reading Ecclesiastes chapter one and chapter two. We're also praying Psalm five today. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you wanna download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking subscribe, and that would be wonderful. Now, quick... One quick note before we begin Ecclesiastes. We're continuing with King Solomon in First Kings chapter seven. He's gonna be building his own home and some other kinds of things. [chuckles] We're gonna see some of those dimensions. Like yesterday, we followed the building, the construction of the temple, and what that looked like. Today, it's Solomon's... his, uh, some other buildings that he's, he's building. Ecclesiastes, um, it's one of the, as I said, one of the books of wisdom literature. And so it is classically ascribed to Solomon himself. Remembering that Solomon is the wisest man who ever lived, this Book of Ecclesiastes, this book of the Song of Solomon, is, um, basically a