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Daily Readings for December 30
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Job 40
1.Moreover Yahweh answered Job, 2."Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
3.Then Job answered Yahweh, 4."Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5.I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
6.Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, 7."Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. 8.Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? 9.Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
10."Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. 11.Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12.Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. 13.Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. 14.Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.
15."See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. 16.Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. 17.He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. 18.His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron. 19.He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. 20.Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. 21.He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. 22.The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. 23.Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. 24.Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
Malachi 2
1."Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2.If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart. 3.Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 4.You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. 5."My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. 6.The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. 7.For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies. 8.But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. 9."Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law. 10.Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11.Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12.Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies. 13.This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. 14.Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15.Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16.For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously. 17.You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
Revelation 19
1.After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: 2.for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
3.A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever." 4.The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!"
5.A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"
6.I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! 7.Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready." 8.It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9.He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
10.I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
11.I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. 12.His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. 13.He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "The Word of God." 14.The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. 15.Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod.39 He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. 16.He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
17.I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,40 18.that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great." 19.I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. 20.The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21.The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
Revelation 20
1.I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2.He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3.and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time. 4.I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5.The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6.Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
7.And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, 8.and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9.They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. 10.The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11.I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. 12.I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13.The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades41 gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 14.Death and Hades42 were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15.If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.