Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+005   Chapter 5 (ESV) 6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.7 And he went and took the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+004   Chapter 4 (ESV) 1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+003   Chapter 3 (ESV) 14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. 15 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+002   Chapter2 (ESV) 1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+001   REVELATION   INTRODUCTION   The ancient Roman Empire defended its economic and political control in spiritual terms, calling its gospel the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace. While in exile on the island of Patmos, a Jewish Christian prophet named John received a vision showing that the cult of emperor…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+004   Malachi 4 (ESV) The Great Day of the Lord 4 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+003   Malachi 3 (ESV) 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+002   Malachi 2 (ESV) Judah Profaned the Covenant 10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+001   MALACHI INTRODUCTION The rebuilding of the temple under Zerubbabel and Joshua, inspired by the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah, was completed in 516 BC. The new temple was meant to be the centerpiece of a community in which there was true justice and genuine worship. In this way Israel…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Zechariah+014   Zechariah 14 (ESV) The Coming Day of the Lord 1 Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall…