Dec.
30
Zechariah
13, 14
Zec
13:1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for
uncleanness.
Zec
13:2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I
will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be
remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of
impurity to pass out of the land.
Zec
13:3 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his
father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die,
because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;' and his father and his
mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
Zec
13:4 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be
ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a
hairy mantle to deceive:
Zec
13:5 but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground;
for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'
Zec
13:6 One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?'
Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of
my friends.'
Zec
13:7 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man
who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies. "Strike the
shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand
against the little ones.
Zec
13:8 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two
parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in
it.
Zec
13:9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them
as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They
will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my
people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.' "
Zec
14:1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided
in your midst.
Zec
14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and
the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished.
Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the
people will not be cut off from the city.
Zec
14:3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as
when he fought in the day of battle.
Zec
14:4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which
is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be
split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of
the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the
south.
Zec
14:5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of
the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you
fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
Zec
14:6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold,
or frost.
Zec
14:7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and
not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will
be light.
Zec
14:8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them
toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
Zec
14:9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will
be one, and his name one.
Zec
14:10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her
place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the
corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
Zec
14:11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but
Jerusalem will dwell safely.
Zec
14:12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the
peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume
away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away
in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
Zec
14:13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh
will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of
his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his
neighbor.
Zec
14:14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the
surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and
clothing, in great abundance.
Zec
14:15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel,
and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those
camps, as that plague.
Zec
14:16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations
that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship
the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
Zec
14:17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth
doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on
them there will be no rain.
Zec
14:18 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come,
neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which
Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of
tents.
Zec
14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.
Zec
14:20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY
TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the
bowls before the altar.
Zec
14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to
Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of
them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a
Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
Dec. 30
Revelation 21, 22
Rev 21:1 I saw a new
heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have
passed away, and the sea is no more.
Rev 21:2 I saw the holy
city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready
like a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 I heard a loud
voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with
people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and
God himself will be with them as their God.
Rev 21:4 He will wipe
away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more;
neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The
first things have passed away."
Rev 21:5 He who sits on
the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." He
said, "Write, for these words of God are faithful and true."
Rev 21:6 He said to me,
"It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the
End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the
water of life.
Rev 21:7 He who
overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he
will be my son.
Rev 21:8 But for the
cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the
lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Rev 21:9 One of the
seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven
last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I
will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
Rev 21:10 He carried me
away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the
holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11 having the
glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it was
a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Rev 21:12 having a
great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve
angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel.
Rev 21:13 On the east
were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south
three gates; and on the west three gates.
Rev 21:14 The wall of
the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the
twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 He who spoke
with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its
gates, and its walls.
Rev 21:16 The city lies
foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured
the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length,
breadth, and height are equal.
Rev 21:17 Its wall is
one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of
an angel.
Rev 21:18 The
construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like
pure glass.
Rev 21:19 The
foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
Rev 21:20 the fifth,
sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth,
beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh,
jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.
Rev 21:21 The twelve
gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one
pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
Rev 21:22 I saw no
temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its
temple.
Rev 21:23 The city has
no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very
glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Rev 21:24 The nations
will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and
honor of the nations into it.
Rev 21:25 Its gates
will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Rev 21:26 and they
shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that
they may enter.
Rev 21:27 There will in
no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an
abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's
book of life.
Rev 22:1 He showed me a
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the
throne of God and of the Lamb,
Rev 22:2 in the middle
of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of
life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month.
The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:3 There will be
no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it,
and his servants serve him.
Rev 22:4 They will see
his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
Rev 22:5 There will be
no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will
illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
Rev 22:6 He said to me,
"These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits
of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things
which must happen soon."
Rev 22:7 "Behold,
I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of
this book."
Rev 22:8 Now I, John,
am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I
fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me
these things.
Rev 22:9 He said to me,
"See you don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and
with your brothers, the prophets, and with those who keep the words
of this book. Worship God."
Rev 22:10 He said to
me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for
the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He who acts
unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be
filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He
who is holy, let him be holy still."
Rev 22:12 "Behold,
I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according
to his work.
Rev 22:13 I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the
End.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are
those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the
tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
Rev 22:15 Outside are
the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the
idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Rev 22:16 I, Jesus,
have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies.
I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning
Star."
Rev 22:17 The Spirit
and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say,
"Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires,
let him take the water of life freely.
Rev 22:18 I testify to
everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone
adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in
this book.
Rev 22:19 If anyone
takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take
away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which
are written in this book.
Rev 22:20 He who
testifies these things says, "Yes, I come quickly." Amen!
Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21 The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.