Day 174: The Prophet Hosea (2026)

Father Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name's 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 174, and we are reading from II Kings Chapter 5. We're continuing on with II Kings, but we're also dipping in for the next four days to one of the minor prophets, Hosea. We're reading chapters one through three today, as well as praying Psalm 101. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you'd like to subscribe to this podcast, you can click on Subscribe, and if you can't, no problem. We'll just moving on because that's how we do it, because it's day 174 and we're reading II Kings Chapter 5, as well as, as I said, uh, Hosea is one of the minor prophets. He's one of the 12 minor prophets, but he's not called one of the minor prophets. If you have your Great Adventure Bible, you can see this in one of the footnotes. He's not one of the minor prophets because he was unimportant. Actually, the minor prophets are very important, but because their writings are a little bit shorter than the major prophets who are longer, like Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Isaiah. But today we have Hosea one through three and Psalm 101. The Second Book of Kings, Chapter Five. Naaman is Cured of Leprosy. Naaman, commander of the army