Day 179: Blinded by Comfort (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 seventy-nine. We're creeping up on that halfway mark, which is phenomenal, you guys. Congratulations. We're reading today from Second Kings chapters eleven and twelve, from Amos chapters four, five, and six, and we are praying Psalm one hundred and twenty-two. 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 want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can. Just click Subscribe. If you don't, no problem. [laughs] Live and let live. That's what... That's the motto for today. Unless you're one of these bad people in, uh, like Athaliah in Second Kings eleven. Then, then in that case, we're not gonna live and let live, I guess. [laughs] But that's what we're reading today, day one seventy-nine, Second Kings eleven and twelve, Amos four, five, and six, and Psalm one hundred and twenty-two. The second book of Kings, chapter eleven. Athaliah reigns over Judah. Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family. But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be slain,