Introduction to the Exile (with Jeff Cavins) (2026)
7/3/202627 min
"Welcome to the Exile period! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to introduce the eighth biblical period, which covers the fall of the Southern Kingdom, Judah, and its exile into Babylon. They explain how the physical exile of Judah was representative of their spiritual realities, and ultimately oriented towards the healing and restoration of their unfaithfulness. We also learn about the role of prophets in this period.
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First 90 secondsMike 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. Today, we are introducing the next period of our Bible timeline, which is the period of the exile. And so, as always, when introducing these time periods, we're joined by the master, the creator. Uh, not the capital M master, not the capital C creator, [laughs] but one of the masters and c- creators of the Bible, uh, timeline, and the Great Adventure, of course, is Jeff Cavins. And so we're so grateful because this is gonna be, I believe, the longest timeline, or the longest time period that we're gonna be in one time period, the longest stretch of days. And so this is gonna be maybe one of the last times that you get to hear from Jeff in this podcast for a n- number of days. And so, once again, we're joined by Jeff. Jeff, welcome.
Jeff Cavins· Guest1:00
[laughs] Hey, it's good to be with you again. [laughs] As we travel along in salvation history. It's great.
Mike Schmitz· Host1:06
It's, it's such a gift. And also, I'm so grateful for these introductions. I think as people have been journeying for, you know, hundreds, well, almost hundreds, [laughs] almost 200 days, people have been journeying through this. I think they have found these introduction pieces to each different time period to be invaluable as giving them a context for, for launching forward. And so we're leaving the divided kingdom and we're entering into the period of