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Day 172: Uzziah's Pride (2023)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Importance of False Worship

Elisha creates a miracle because as these three armies are going to battle against Moab, they run out of drinking water. And so Elisha provides massive amounts of people with a massive amount of drinkingwater. Because of that, Moab thinks they wake up early in the morning, they see the sun rising up over the, or at least see the water and think of it as blood. So they defeated the Moabites. Then we get to the story of Uzziah, and Uzziah is one of the good kings. He doesn't turn to false gods, but what he does is he takes upon himself the tasks that belong to the Levitical priests.

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