Day 171: Elijah and Elisha (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro jingle] 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 seventy-one, and we are reading from 2 Kings chapter 2, and [laughs] second... I laugh because, um, there is greatness. There's Elijah, there's Elisha, there is some in- insults, and there are she-bears today. 2 Kings chapter 2. We're also 2 Chronicles chapter twenty-five, and we are praying from Psalm seventy today. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version of the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is color-coded, and you can see all of the different time periods and all the different... Um, also, not only this, as we enter into, uh, this particular season in our Bible in a Year, one of the things that's... I mean, we've kind of already been there for a little while, but we have the divided kingdom, right? Obviously. And we have prophets who are part of-- who are assigned to preach to the divided kingdom. Some prophets go to the north, some stay in the south, and it's really helpful for us to have that, uh, Bible timeline because the timeline itself gives us a graphic, a visual of here's... Oh, we're talking about this person in the north. Okay, this person in the south. And it's... can be really helpful. So if you have that, that's phenomenal. If you don't, you can probably get it at ascensionpress.com. Also, if you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you have not yet subscribed