Day 201: Keys to the Kingdom (2026)

Father 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 two oh one, two hundred and one days. We are reading from Isaiah chapter twenty-one and twenty-two, Nahum or Nahum. I keep saying that. I don't know why I do it, but we do it. Uh, Nahum chapter three. It, it's only three chapters long, so we read the entire book in two days. Also, we're reading Proverbs chapter ten, verses twenty-nine through thirty-two. I said reading Proverbs, not eating Proverbs. Hopefully, you caught that. [laughs] As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from, not eating from, is also 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 can also subscribe in your podcast to receive daily episodes, um, every day. That's how daily episodes work. But as I said, today is day two oh one, reading Isaiah twenty-one and twenty-two, Nahum chapter f- three, and Proverbs ten, verses twenty-nine through thirty-two. The book of the Prophet Isaiah, chapter twenty-one. Oracles concerning Babylon, Edom, and Arabia. The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negev sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. A stern vision is told to me: the plunderer plunders