From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 31   
      
   Revelation Chapter 20   
      
   1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the   
   bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.   
      
   2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil,   
   and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,   
      
   3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal   
   upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand   
   years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.   
      
   4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto   
   them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of   
   Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast,   
   neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads,   
   or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.   
      
   5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were   
   finished. This is the first resurrection.   
      
   6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on   
   such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God   
   and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.   
      
   7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of   
   his prison,   
      
   8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters   
   of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the   
   number of whom is as the sand of the sea.   
      
   9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp   
   of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God   
   out of heaven, and devoured them.   
      
   10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and   
   brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be   
   tormented day and night for ever and ever.   
      
   11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose   
   face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place   
   for them.   
      
   12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books   
   were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and   
   the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the   
   books, according to their works.   
      
   13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell   
   delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man   
   according to their works.   
      
   14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the   
   second death.   
      
   15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into   
   the lake of fire.   
      
   Revelation Chapter 21   
      
   1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the   
   first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.   
      
   2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out   
   of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   
      
   3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle   
   of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his   
   people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.   
      
   4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be   
   no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any   
   more pain: for the former things are passed away.   
      
   5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.   
   And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.   
      
   6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning   
   and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the   
   water of life freely.   
      
   7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God,   
   and he shall be my son.   
      
   8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers,   
   and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall   
   have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which   
   is the second death.   
      
   9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven   
   vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come   
   hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.   
      
   10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain,   
   and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of   
   heaven from God,   
      
   11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most   
   precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;   
      
   12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates   
   twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the   
   twelve tribes of the children of Israel:   
      
   13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three   
   gates; and on the west three gates.   
      
   14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the   
   names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.   
      
   15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and   
   the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.   
      
   16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the   
   breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand   
   furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.   
      
   17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four   
   cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.   
      
   18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was   
   pure gold, like unto clear glass.   
      
   19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all   
   manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,   
   sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;   
      
   20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the   
   eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the   
   eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.   
      
   21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of   
   one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were   
   transparent glass.   
      
   22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb   
   are the temple of it.   
      
   23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in   
   it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.   
      
   24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of   
   it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.   
      
   25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall   
   be no night there.   
      
   26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.   
      
   27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,   
   neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which   
   are written in the Lamb's book of life.   
      
   Revelation Chapter 22   
      
   1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,   
   proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.   
      
   2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was   
      
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