today's Bible Reading for December 14

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Amos 1, 2, 3; Revelation 5

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Today's Verse:

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” Revelation 5:13b ESV

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Welcome to Amos! Barnes Notes says this about Amos the man:

 “Amos begins by setting forth his own nothingness, and withal the great grace of his Teacher and Instructor, the Holy Spirit, referring all to His glory.” He, like David, Peter, Paul, Matthew, was one of “the weak things of the world, whom God chose to confound the mighty.” He was himself a herdsman only “among herdsmen”; but the words which he spake were not his own. They were words which he saw, not with eyes of flesh, but “with that vision wherewith words can be seen, the seer’s vision in the mind.” They were “words concerning,” or rather “upon Israel,” heavy words coming upon the heavy transgressions of Israel. The Hebrew word “saw” is not of mere sight, but of a vision given by God. Amos only says that they were “his” words, in order immediately to add, that they came to him from God, that he himself was but the human organ through which God spake. 

Revelation 5 opens to us "the counsels and decrees of God are set before the apostle, as in a book, which God held in his right hand..."

Today's Prayer 

Tomorrow's Reading
December 15
Amos 4, 5, 6; Revelation 6
December 16
Amos 7, 8, 9; Revelation 7