December 20   Zephaniah 1-2 Psalm 144:9-15 Proverbs 30:15-17 Revelation 13:1-10 What Is Man?   “Lord, what is man, that You care for him, the son of man, that You think of him?  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.”  Psalm 144:3-4 HCSB   In this passage, David demonstrated awareness of man’s insignificance and unimportance compared to the majesty and power of God.  David marveled that God would care for us and that He would even give us a second thought. 

December 19   Habakkuk 2:4-3:19 Psalm 144:1-8 Proverbs 30:11-14 Revelation 12 Yet Will I Exult In Yahweh   “Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no produce on the vines, though the yield of olive should fail and the fields yield no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in Yahweh;  I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.  Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength, and He has set my feet like hinds

December 18   Habakkuk 1:1-2:3 Psalm 143:7-12 Proverbs 30:7-10 Revelation 11:15-19 The Time Has Come   “Then Yahweh answered me and said, ‘Write down the vision and write it on tablets distinctly, that the one who reads it may run.  For the vision is yet for the appointed time;  it pants toward its end, and it will not lie.  Though it tarries, wait for it; for it certainly will come; it will not delay.”  Habakkuk 2:2-3 LSB   “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who

December 17   Nahum 2-3 Psalm 143:1-6 Proverbs 30:1-6 Revelation 11:1-14 The Two Witnesses   “And I will give authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the Earth.  And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wishes to harm them, he must be killed in this way.”   Revelation 11:3-5 LSB

December 16   Nahum 1 Psalm 142 Proverbs 29:26-27 Revelation 10 Yahweh’s Wrath   “Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power, and Yahweh will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.  In whirlwind and storm is His way, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.…Mountains quake because of Him, and the hills melt; indeed the Earth is upheaved by His presence, the world and all the inhabitants in it.  Who can stand before His indignation?  Who can endure the burning of His anger?

December 15   Micah 7 Psalm 141:7-10 Proverbs 129:24-25 Revelation 9 They Did Not Repent   “And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.  And they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their sexual immorality nor of their thefts.”  Revelation 9:20-2

December 14   Micah 5-6 Psalm 141:1-6 Proverbs 29:22-23 Revelation 8 A Guard Over My Mouth   “Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.  Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds in wickedness with men who are workers of iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.”  Psalm 141:3-4 LSB   This verse always makes me think of the guards at Buckingham Palace.  We have all seen videos of people trying to get the guards to

December 13   Micah 3-4 Psalm 140:6-13 Proverbs 29:20-21 Revelation 7 The 144,000 And The Multitude   “Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the Earth and the sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the Earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads.’  And I heard the number of those having been sealed,

December 12   Micah 1-2 Psalm 140:1-5 Proverbs 29:18-19 Revelation 6 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse   “Then I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sits on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out overcoming and to overcome….And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sits on it, it was given to him to take peace from the Earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him….Then I looked, and behold, a black ho

December 11   Jonah 3-4 Psalm 139:19-24 Proverbs 29:15-17 Revelation 5 Search Me   “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.”  Psalm 139:23-24 LSB   Psalm 139 is a beautiful poem about the nearness of God.  He knows our thoughts before we think them.  He created us inside our mother’s womb knitting us together bone by bone and ligament by ligament.  He saw our unformed

December 10   Jonah 1-2 Psalm 139:13-18 Proverbs 29:13-14 Revelation 4 Running Away From God   “Yet Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.  So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, and paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.”  Jonah 1:3 LSB    The book began with Jonah receiving specific instructions from the Lord.  “Arise, go to Ninevah, the great city, and call out against

December 9   Obadiah 1 Psalm 139:7-12 Proverbs 29:11-12 Revelation 3 The Destruction Of Edom   “Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be deeply despised.  Your presumptuous heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down.  This is the Lord’s

December 8   Amos 7-9 Psalm 139:1-6 Proverbs 29:9-10 Revelation 2 Famine Of Hearing God’s Word   “Behold, days are coming declares Lord Yahweh, ‘When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of Yahweh.  People will wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they will go to and fro to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it.”  Amos 8:11-12 LSB   I believe this prophecy was fulfi

December 7   Amos 5-6 Psalm 138:4-8 Proverbs 29:7-8 Revelation 1 Revelation   “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His slaves the things which must soon happen; and He indicated this by sending it through His angel to His slave John, who bore witness to the Word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.  Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it, for the tim

December 6   Amos 3-4 Psalm 138:1-3 Proverbs 29:4-6 Jude 1 Stumbling   “To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power, and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!  Amen.”  Jude 1:24-25 LSB    Jude was the brother of Jesus. He grew up with Jesus and his other siblings in the house of Joseph and Mary. Like J

December 5   Amos 1-2 Psalm 137 Proverbs 29:1-3 3 John 1 The Blessing of Discipleship   “For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and bore witness to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth.  I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”  3 John 1:3-4 LSB   When I was a college student at Auburn University, my Baptist campus minister, Clete Sipes, instilled in me a love for discipleship.  He impressed upon my heart the need to

December 4   Joel 2:12-3:21 Psalm 136:13-26 Proverbs 28:27-28 2 John 1 The Abounding Grace And Mercy Of Our God   “’Yet even now,’ declares Yahweh, ‘Return to Me with all your heart and with fasting, weeping, and wailing;  and tear your heart and not your garments.’  Now return to Yahweh your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness, and relenting concerning evil.  Who knows whether He will not turn and relent and leave a blessing

December 3   Joel 1:1-2:11 Psalm 136:1-12 Proverbs 28:24-26 I John 5 Overcome the World   “For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the overcoming that has overcome the world—our faith.  Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”  I John 5:4-5 LSB   When we think about overcoming something, we think about overcoming in a battle or a fight, gaining a victory.  In sports we overcome our rival by wi

December 2   Hosea 12-14 Psalm 135:15-21 Proverbs 28:22-23 I John 4 Jesus Christ Is The Test   “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  By this you know the Spirit of God:  every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.  This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have

December 1   Hosea 10-11 Psalm 135:8-14 Proverbs 28:20-21 I John 3 Children Of God   “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!  The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.  Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.  But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.  All who have this hope