Day 177: Return, O Israel (2026)
6/26/202627 min
Fr. Mike shortly touches on David's honest prayer in Psalm 109 before diving into the unending love God has for his people. As we continue to journey through our readings, we will begin to see the words of the prophets come to fruition as those who return to the Lord in faith will experience his undying love and forgiveness, despite their unfaithfulness. Today's readings are 2 Kings 9, Hosea 11-14, and Psalm 109.
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[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 177. We are reading from II Kings Chapter 9, also the last four chapters, chapter 11, 12, 13, and 14 of Hosea, and we're also praying Psalm 109. As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm 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. You also can subscribe to this podcast if you're in a podcast app that allows you to subscribe, and if you can't, then you can't, and we'll move on with life because that's how it goes [laughs] when we're on day 177. We're getting closer and closer to the end of the kingdom, northern kingdom of Israel. With each passing story and with each passing day, we get more and more dangerously close to those Assyrians who are gonna come in. Spoiler alert, they're going to come in, and they're going to destroy the northern 10 tribes of Israel because they refuse to listen to people like Hosea or tomorrow when we start with the prophet Amos. They refuse to listen to God's call, and so God is going to have to respond, not with gentle words of mercy, but with his justice, which is, um, always oriented towards conversion but is also difficult sometimes to, to live through. And so we're gonna