Day 181: Jonah and the Whale (2026)

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 181. We are reading from 2 Kings 15, Jonah, the book of the Prophet Jonah chapters one, two, three, and four, the entire book of the Prophet Jonah. It's just four chapters, so we'll get through that today, as well as praying Psalm 138. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition, and 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. You can also subscribe to this podcast in your podcast app, unless you're listening in an app that I've already said it 1,000 times, right? [laughs] Okay. So yeah, moving on. Moving on, on day 181, 2 Kings 15. We're getting closer and closer to our next time period, the time period of exile. And so, ah, man, as we get closer and closer... In fact, we're on day 181. In 10 days from now, on day 191, we'll be coming to a conclusion of 2 Kings. And what that means is... And 2 Chronicles 36. So what that means is going to be that on day 192, we're going to begin a different kind of thing. And what we're doing is we're not leaving the story, but we're taking a deeper dive into the other books, the prophetic books, and some other historical books, and some other wisdom books that were written or proclaimed