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Day 1   In a Single Moment  READ   Revelation 18:9-10   9 And the kings of the world who committed adultery with her and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains. 10 They will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will cry out, “How terrible, how terrible for you, O Babylon, you great city! In a single moment God’s judgment came on you.”     The voice from heaven continued with this announcement abou

Day 1   Never Heard Again  READ   Revelation 18:21-22   21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted, “Just like this, the great city Babylon will be thrown down with violence and will never be found again. 22 The sound of harps, singers, flutes, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No craftsmen and no trades   will ever be found in you again. The sound of the mill will never be heard in you again.”

Day 1   READ   Revelation 19:7-8   7 “Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself. 8 She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear.” For the fine linen represents the good deeds of God’s holy people.     It seems the “bride” refers to the Church-age believers. The Bible distinguishes between the Church, Israel and the Gentiles (see 1 Corinthians 10:32). Dresse

Day 1 READ   Revelation 19:19   19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the world and their armies gathered together to fight against the one sitting on the horse and his army.     As referred to in Revelation 13, the “beast” is the Antichrist. He seems to be over all the kings and armies of the world and at the end gathers them all to fight against the Lord Jesus Christ. The outcome will not be good for the wicked kings and armies.   REFLECT   No army is able to conquer the

Day 1 READ   Revelation 20:7-9   7 When the thousand years come to an end, Satan will be let out of his prison. 8 He will go out to deceive the nations—called Gog and Magog—in every corner of the earth. He will gather them together for battle—a mighty army, as numberless as sand along the seashore. 9 And I saw them as they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded God’s people and the beloved city. But fire from heaven came down on the attacking armies and consum

Day 1 READ   Revelation 21:1-2   1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.     Instead of the old heaven and the old earth, the apostle John now sees a new heaven and new earth. Instead of an old earth covered by so much water, the new earth will have no sea. John al

Day 1 READ   Revelation 21:12-14   12 The city wall was broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels. And the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates. 13 There were three gates on each side—east, north, south, and west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.     The mention of the twelve tribes of Israel and their arrangement around the city is a reminder

Day 1 READ   Revelation 22:1-2   1 Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.     This passage reveals the beauty of the New Jerusalem. It also reveals God will provide abundantly for all o

READ   Revelation 22:12-13   12 “Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”     The Lord Jesus speaks and says He is coming soon. Again, the word “soon” can mean “quickly.” He will “repay all people according to their deeds.” Jesus emphasized He is “the Beginning and the End” by saying He is “the Alpha and the Omega,” the first and last le

“In the beginning God…” In Genesis we see the full majesty of God on display. From awe-inspiring acts of creating, to walking with Adam in Eden, God’s love and holiness fill every page.     In this verse-by-verse study we’ll take a close look at this important Book of the Bible. We’ll follow God and His interaction with man from Adam’s first breath to the scattering of the people at the tower of Babel. We’ll see the loving care with which God first formed Adam and the plan He

Day 1     READ   Genesis 1:1-2   1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.     Verse 1 says what God did. No human witness was there. All those who describe it otherwise only prove they were not a witness. True science has to do with what is observable, testable and repeatable. That cannot be done with creation. Some want

Day 1     READ   Genesis 1:14-16   14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. 15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened. 16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.     God made lights to separate the days and nights. They were to be signs of the “seasons, d

Day 1     READ   Genesis 1:26   26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”     God now came to the capstone of all His creative works: creating humans in His image. They were to have dominion over all he had already created. The animals were not created in His image, but the human b

Day 1     READ   Genesis 2:1-2   1 So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. 2 On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.     Notice that the work of creation included “everything” in the heavens and the earth. Nothing else needed to be added. It was “completed.” God did not rest because He was tired. The word simply means that He ceased from His work.     REFLECT   Ponder what it means th

Day 1     READ   Genesis 2:10-12   10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches. 11 The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found. 12 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.     The river flowing from the land of Eden divided into four branches. This is the only mention of Pishon in the Bible. Although these four br

Day 1     READ   Genesis 2:23-25   23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” 24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. 25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.     Adam realized his true helper had come! He said she was “bone of my bone, and flesh from my flesh!” Whe

Day 1     READ   Genesis 3:8-9   8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”     Until the second person of the Trinity took on a human body, God had no body. Adam did not see anyone but he “heard” God in the garden. That was enough to scare him so Adam and Eve hid “among the trees.” Apparently they had n

Day 1   READ   Genesis 3:16   16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”     After God placed a curse on Satan, the serpent, He pronounced a curse on the woman. Her pain in child birth would be increased. There would also be strife between the woman and her husband. She would want to control him, and he would want to control her. Such confli

Day 1     READ   Genesis 4:1   1 Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have produced a man!”     Eve was aware that this birth was “With the Lord’s help.” The birth of Cain perhaps gave hope to Eve that she had produced the one promised in Genesis 3:15. That would be the one who would crush the descendants of the one who had tempted and deceived her. This is not the end of the

Day 1     READ   Genesis 4:13-16   13 Cain replied to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear! 14 You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!” 15 The Lord replied, “No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him. 16 So Cain left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, eas

Day 1     READ   Genesis 5:1-2   1 This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself. 2 He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”     God created the animals but only humans were made “like himself”; in His image. He only created male and female. Those who say there are more genders than male and female do not believe in God and they want to decide what He decided long ago

Day 1     READ   Genesis 5:25-27   25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. 26 After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters. 27 Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died.     These verses introduce you to Methuselah. At the end of the passage you see he died at 969 years. He was the oldest man ever recorded to have lived that long. In spite of how long he lived, he still met the same end as

Day 1     READ   Genesis 6:7-8   7 And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” 8 But Noah found favor with the Lord.     God was so broken hearted over how the human race had devolved. He had given Adam and Eve the free will to choose His way or

Day 1     READ   Genesis 6:20-22   20 “Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive. 21 And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals.” 22 So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.     Noah did not have to go out and round up the animals to put them in the big boat; they came to him to be kept alive. God told Noah to take