Day 189: Follow the Lord (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[outro 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 eighty-nine. It's the last day on this whatever number of page this is, maybe page three? Gosh, for crying out loud. Day one eighty-nine. We're reading Second Kings twenty-three, Second Chronicles thirty-four. We're also reading Proverbs chapter eight, verses one through twenty-one. As always, the Bible translation that I'm using 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 plans, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. If you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can, and if you don't, you don't have to, but I'm gonna keep reminding you because that's my job. That's [chuckles] that's one of the things that I've been told to do, so I do it. Okay, here we are. We are at Josiah. We got introduced to him yesterday and just phenomenal. Really great king. And yet every good thing comes to an end. Every good king comes to an end. Every good kingdom comes to an end, and we are getting closer and closer to the end of Second Kings, which-- and Second Chronicles, which means we're getting closer and closer to the end of this time of Israel. They're gone. The kingdom of Israel, nation of Israel, that is gone. Also, the kingdom of Judah is about to be put into, spoiler alert, into exile coming up soon. Today, one eighty-nine,