From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 28   
      
   Revelation Chapter 9   
      
   1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto   
   the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.   
      
   2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the   
   pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were   
   darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.   
      
   3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them   
   was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.   
      
   4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the   
   earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men   
   which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.   
      
   5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they   
   should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of   
   a scorpion, when he striketh a man.   
      
   6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and   
   shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.   
      
   7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto   
   battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their   
   faces were as the faces of men.   
      
   8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the   
   teeth of lions.   
      
   9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the   
   sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running   
   to battle.   
      
   10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in   
   their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.   
      
   11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless   
   pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue   
   hath his name Apollyon.   
      
   12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.   
      
   13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns   
   of the golden altar which is before God,   
      
   14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four   
   angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.   
      
   15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and   
   a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.   
      
   16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand   
   thousand: and I heard the number of them.   
      
   17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them,   
   having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the   
   heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths   
   issued fire and smoke and brimstone.   
      
   18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by   
   the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.   
      
   19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their   
   tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.   
      
   20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet   
   repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship   
   devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of   
   wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:   
      
   21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor   
   of their fornication, nor of their thefts.   
      
   Revelation Chapter 10   
      
   1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a   
   cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the   
   sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:   
      
   2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot   
   upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,   
      
   3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had   
   cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.   
      
   4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to   
   write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those   
   things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.   
      
   5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted   
   up his hand to heaven,   
      
   6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven,   
   and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that   
   therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there   
   should be time no longer:   
      
   7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin   
   to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to   
   his servants the prophets.   
      
   8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said,   
   Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which   
   standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.   
      
   9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book.   
   And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly   
   bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.   
      
   10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up;   
   and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my   
   belly was bitter.   
      
   11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples,   
   and nations, and tongues, and kings.   
      
   Revelation Chapter 11   
      
   1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood,   
   saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them   
   that worship therein.   
      
   2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it   
   not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they   
   tread under foot forty and two months.   
      
   3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a   
   thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.   
      
   4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing   
   before the God of the earth.   
      
   5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and   
   devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this   
   manner be killed.   
      
   6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their   
   prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite   
   the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.   
      
   7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that   
   ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and   
   shall overcome them, and kill them.   
      
   8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which   
   spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.   
      
   9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see   
   their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their   
   dead bodies to be put in graves.   
      
   10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make   
   merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets   
   tormented them that dwelt on the earth.   
      
   11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered   
   into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them   
   which saw them.   
      
      
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