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December 23 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will continue reading the Book of Revelation, Chapters 5 and 6:1-5 and 7-17.
In today's reading John told us about the worship of Jesus and the songs being sung to praise him by the angels and the 24 leaders who are in heaven. John saw a scroll that was in God's hand. Only Jesus was found to be worthy to open the seven seals and read the scroll.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about how the Book of Revelation is all about Jesus and His second coming to earth. Today we read about how the angels and the leaders in heaven make Jesus the most important one. We need to be worshipping, praising, and making Jesus the most important one in OUR lives, too. As we learn about the big picture this year we have learned that our physical bodies and physical lives are not what is most important. Our eternal spiritual life is what is important. We take care of that eternal life by believing in Jesus, loving Him, obeying Him, and making Him the most important one, rather than ourselves, just as we see by John's vision is being done in heaven. Jesus taught us to pray what we call, "The Lord's Prayer." Part of that prayer says, "Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed by your name. Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." May God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God's will is that we worship, love, and obey Him and His Son, Jesus.
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Introduction and Overview
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And we're back! Today is December 23rd's Daily Reading through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley. My name is Robin. I'm with In the Family Way Coaching and I am so excited that I have been able to do this event with you guys this year. Thank you so much for following along with me, whether you have been joining me on your podcast or whether you've been watching the video somewhere.
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I am just super thrilled with this event. We have been learning so, so much. It can really be hard not to get stuck in the forest with all the trees. I know, especially as we began Revelation, i was just overwhelmed with the amount of detail because it's such a a prophetic and amazing book with so much symbolism and and like that. It's just, it's so complicated. but And I had told you that I was concerned
Purpose of Revelation
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about that. And I know the first day we started Revelation, I just, I felt like I was just getting stuck in all of the detail. And and i I even knew what it was, you know, what we were going to be talking about, but i just still got sidetracked by all the detail.
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But as we are continuing on, it is becoming obvious that, you know what? Revelation is still about Jesus.
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It's not just about judgment on the world.
Significance of Jesus
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This book is about preparing God's kingdom here on earth. Jesus is coming back. And so Jesus's kingdom is going to be prepared. Today we are going to be reading about the seals being opened on a scroll. And who is worthy? Who can open these seals?
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No one was found. And I'm going to be Jesus. about Jesus. going be talking about Jesus. And going be about I'm going talking about Jesus. Jesus.
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of or actually first three the first one was an introductory chapter so the second and third chapter we saw that there was warning issued.
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Jesus knows our hearts. He still knows our hearts. He isn't fooled by outward appearances, as he cautioned one church. We told that, you know, people think that you are rich and that you are doing well, but you are not.
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And we cannot fool him. God has always told us that he is looking at our hearts and Jesus is doing the same.
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So we need to be sure that we are at the heart of worshiping Jesus.
Reading and Interpreting the Seals
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So as we read the book of Revelation, we are seeing the earth being prepared to receive Jesus for his second coming.
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But before we get into that today, we are going to take out our bookmarking commitment calendar here and get ready to cross off our day for December 23rd because we're about to read the Bible today.
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We are going to be covering Revelation chapters five and six today. And as I mentioned, we are going to be reading about scroll a scroll and the seven seals that are on it.
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So as we left off yesterday, John was viewing heaven. Oh, such an amazing sight to be up in the heavenly court.
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It says in yesterday's reading that the 24 leaders bowed down in front of the king. This is God. And they worshiped the one who lives for forever and ever.
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They put their crowns down in front of him. And the leaders say, you are our Lord and our God. Nothing is better than you.
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Your greatness shines. And we show how important you are. You have power. You made everything.
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You wanted to. So all things were made, and they are what they are because of you. Amen. John goes on in chapter 5 to say, Then i saw something in the king's right hand.
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It was a rolled-up paper called a scroll. Both sides of the paper had writing on them. Seven pieces of wax kept the paper rolled up and closed.
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Those seven pieces of wax are called seals. Then I saw a strong angel. He called out loudly, Who is good enough to break the wax seals?
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Who is good enough to open the scroll? But nobody was good enough. Nobody in heaven or on earth was good enough.
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They weren't even good enough to look inside. And so I cried and I cried. Then one of the leaders said to me, don't cry.
Unfolding Events and Worship
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See, Jesus is good enough. He is called the Lion of Judah. He is called the Root of King David.
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He has won over sin, and he can open the wax seals and the scroll.
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Then I saw a lamb. He looked like he had been killed. He was standing in the middle by the king's throne, and the four living beings and the leaders were around him.
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He had seven horns, and he had seven eyes. They were God's seven spirits and the seven spirits go through the whole earth.
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The lamb came and took the paper scroll from the king. Then the four living beings and the 24 leaders bowed down. They bowed down in front of Jesus, the lamb.
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Each one of them had a harp. and each one held a golden bowl. a sweet smell came from each bowl.
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It was the prayers of God's people.
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i just wanted to interject there. Our prayers are the incense in the bowls in heaven, and they are a sweet smell.
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Your prayers are part of that sweet smell. Isn't that amazing? Our prayers are a sweet smell to God.
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Continuing on, the leader sang a new song. You are good enough to open the wax seals on the paper.
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It's because you were killed. You bought people for God. You bought them from every nation and every language.
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You bought them from every group. You made them into a kingdom. You made them God's servants and they will rule on the earth.
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Then I looked around. i heard many angels' voices. There must have been thousands and thousands, 10,000 times 10,000. Wow, that's a lot of angels.
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They went around the king and the beings and the leaders. The angels sang loudly, Jesus is good enough.
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He was killed, so now he has power. He has riches. He is wise. We worship him.
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His greatness shines. We praise him.
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Then I heard all of the living beings in heaven and on earth. I heard all the living beings under the earth. I heard all the living beings in the sea.
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They were singing. We worship the King and Jesus, the Lamb. We praise them. Their greatness shines.
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They have power forever and ever. The four beings said, Yes! Amen!
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and then the leaders bowed down, and they worshiped the King and the Lamb.
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I watched, and Jesus opened the first wax seal. Then one of the four living beings said, Come!
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His voice sounded like thunder, so I looked. And there in front of me was a white horse. The rider of the horse was holding a bow and arrow, and a crown was given to him.
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He rode out and he went like a strong fighter planning to win.
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Jesus opened the second seal. The second living being said, come. And another horse came out.
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He was red like fire. And the rider of this horse had power. He could take earth's peace away.
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He had power to make people kill each other. A big sword was given to him.
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Jesus opened the third seal. The third living being said, Come! And a black horse passed in front of me.
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The rider of this horse had scales to weigh things on.
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Jesus opened the fourth seal. The fourth living being said, come, and a light colored horse stood in front of me.
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The rider of this horse was named Death. He had power to kill.
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He could do it in one out of every four parts of the earth. He could kill some with a sword and some by hunger. He could kill some by sickness and some by wild animals.
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Then Jesus opened the fifth seal. I saw the souls of people who had been killed. They were killed because they believed in God.
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They had kept telling about God until the very end. The souls were under the altar. They called out loudly, How long will it be, Lord?
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How long until you judge people on the earth? How long before you pay them back for killing us? Then they were given white clothes and they were told to wait a while.
Centrality of Jesus in Life
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Jesus opened the sixth seal. The earth shook. The sun turned black. The moon turned as red as blood.
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The stars fell from the sky to the earth. They fell like figs that were blown off of a tree by the wind. And the sky rolled up like a scroll.
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Mountains and islands were pushed out of place. The kings and princes her hid in caves. And rich and powerful people hid.
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Servants and free people hid in rocky mountains, and they even cried out to the mountains. Fall on top of us, they cried, and hide us from the king's face. Hide us from Jesus's anger.
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it is the great day of their anger, and no one can stand up against them.
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That is the end of our reading today.
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Wow. So what we are seeing is Jesus's power. He alone is worthy. He is worthy of our love.
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He is worthy of our praise. He is worthy of our worship for us to bow down and make him the most important one in our lives.
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The heavenly court makes him the most important one in their lives, and we also need to be doing the same. Jesus alone was worthy to open the scroll, to remove each wax seal one by one.
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Revelation is about Jesus and him getting the earth ready for his return. The earth will be judged and there will be a great tribulation before all of that happens.
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But Jesus has told us yesterday that those who are faithful to him to the end, they will even be spared the great trial that will be coming.
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We read about that yesterday.
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When Jesus wrote the letter to the church in Philadelphia, he said, you obeyed me. You waited quietly and kept believing in me. So I will save you from the trouble that is coming.
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Everyone on earth at that time will have hard times that test them. I am coming soon, he told them. Hold on to what you believe.
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And then nobody will take away your crown. Keep following me no matter what. And then you will be like strong posts in God's worship place.
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And you can live there forever. I will write God's name on you. And I will write the name of God's city. It is the new Jerusalem.
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And it will come down from God in heaven.
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Jesus tells us to listen to what the Spirit tells the churches. So we know that there will be those who have who will be saved from that time, and that everyone else on the earth will have difficult times that will be testing them.
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And we read today that there will be many different things happening, such as death, with peace being taken away from the land. There will be hunger.
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There is lots of judgment that is going on that we are reading about. When Jesus sent out the the six horses there with the seals,
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And we saw also that there are souls under the altar in heaven that are the souls of the people who were killed because they kept standing firm in their faith and they were still killed and they did not to turn away from Jesus, not even to the very end.
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And they are waiting for Jesus to avenge them. And Jesus gave them white clothes. Let's see, where are we with that?
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They were given white clothes and they were told to wait a while. Wow.
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It's all about Jesus. So we need to be sure that we are making Jesus the most important one and worshiping him.
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and loving him and honoring him and praising him, not just today, but every day, making Jesus the most important one in our lives.
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And that is our daily application today.
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It can be scary when we think about all of those things happening, but we need to remember that Jesus will take care of us. No matter who is still here, they need to remember if you are hearing this at that time and you have found this reading, to be firm and stay strong in Jesus because he is your only hope for salvation, for eternal life.
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As we are looking at the big picture, we know that our physical body is not what is important. It is our eternal spiritual life that is important.
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That is the big picture we have been learning this year. So no matter whether you are in today's day of 2025 and we are simply reading about it or whether this is being listened to in the future and you are experiencing it, either way, the big picture is the same.
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The most important thing is to worship and love Jesus, to praise him, to love him because he loves you.
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And we need to make him the most important one in our lives, the same way that we see being done in the heavenly court. And what is done on in heaven, may it also be done on earth, just the way Jesus taught us with what we call the Lord's Prayer.
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May God's kingdom come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God's will is being done in heaven.
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May it also always be done on earth as well.
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Well, I hope that you are having a fantastic day, getting ready for Christmas. We are almost at Christmas. It is December 23rd. So I hope that you are excited for this holiday as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, the one that we are reading about for as we celebrate his first arrival on the earth.
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His second arrival will be just as amazing. ad During in Jesus's first arrival, we know that he was heralded by angels, that angels appeared in the sky before those shepherds and that they announced his birth.
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And when Jesus comes again, it will also be announced with the great shofar of heaven, the great trumpet that will blow. and that will also be very exciting and I think a scary time.
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But I hope that as we are celebrating this Christmas that we remember that Jesus is the reason for this season. And I hope that you have a very blessed holiday as you remember our Lord and Savior and that you remember to worship him not just at Christmastime, but at every day throughout the year.
Reflection and Engagement
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So thank you for joining me today, whether you have been following along on your podcast or on your on the video somewhere. I hope that you will join me again for tomorrow's reading. I know we are so close to Christmas, but you can make time. You can do it. I know I've been getting these out late too. I've been having lots of busy things to do, going to the stores and stuff before I go to work. So I have not been able to get them out.
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as early as I would like. But I feel like it's been a win because it's before 11 o'clock and I'm getting it recorded. So ah I'll take any little win I can take right now. ah We are at the very end of the year and we are hoping to finish strong. So please continue to join me during this very busy holiday time as we complete the book of Revelation and the entire Bible.
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And I hope that you will join me again for tomorrow's reading. Before we sign off today, I want to encourage you to click that light button so that we can get the get this event shown and put up in more feeds for people to listen to. And if you have the ability somewhere to please write a review like on Apple Music or if you are following along on any other avenue such as Spotify or Amazon or Pandora or iHeartRadio,
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And I hope that you'll be able to share it from there as well. We want to encourage people to know that Jesus is the king. He will be ruling on earth as he does in heaven with God when he comes back for that thousand years of rain that we will read about in Revelation.
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So I will see you again next time. And until we do, have a very blessed day.