The Bible Reading Plan

Readings for December 20:

First, from Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verse 58 to Chapter 29 verse 1. Follow that by reading from Haggai Chapter 1 verse 1 to Chapter 2 verse 9. Follow that by reading Daniel Chapter 6 verses 1 to 17; and lastly Revelation Chapter 12

You can read the passages below. If you're looking to read for a different day or want to use your own Bible, then here’s the entire year’s plan as a list. Enjoy!

For certain interesting words:

Section 1

Deuteronomy 28:58-29:1

12 verses

Deuteronomy Chapter 28

58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, ForeverOne YOUR God; 59then ForeverOne will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.

60He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.

61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, ForeverOne will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.

62You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to the voice of ForeverOne your God.

63As ForeverOne rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so ForeverOne will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

64ForeverOne will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

65Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but ForeverOne will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 66and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

67In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

68ForeverOne will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.

Deuteronomy Chapter 29

1These are the words of the covenant which ForeverOne commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Section 2

Haggai 1:1-2:9

24 verses

Haggai Chapter 1

1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of ForeverOne came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2"This is what ForeverOne of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for ForeverOne's house to be built.'" 3Then the Word of ForeverOne came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 4"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

5Now therefore this is what ForeverOne of Armies says: Consider your ways.

6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." 7This is what ForeverOne of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says ForeverOne.

9"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says ForeverOne of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

11I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands." 12Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of ForeverOne, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as ForeverOne, their God, had sent him; and the people feared ForeverOne.

13Then Haggai, ForeverOne's messenger, spoke ForeverOne's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says ForeverOne.

14ForeverOne stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of ForeverOne of Armies, their God, 15in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Haggai Chapter 2

1In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the Word of ForeverOne came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 2"Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, 3'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?

4Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says ForeverOne. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says ForeverOne, 'and work, for I am with you,' says ForeverOne of Armies.

5This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. 'Don't be afraid.' 6For this is what ForeverOne of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; 7and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says ForeverOne of Armies.

8The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says ForeverOne of Armies.

9'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says ForeverOne of Armies; 'and in this place will I give peace,' says ForeverOne of Armies."

Section 3

Daniel 6:1-17

17 verses

Daniel Chapter 6

1It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; 2and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.

3Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

4Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

5Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

6Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.

7All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.

8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.

9Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

10When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

11Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

12Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Haven't you signed an decree, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.

13Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.

14Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

15Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.

16Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and threw him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.

17A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

Section 4

Revelation 12

17 verses

Revelation Chapter 12

1A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

2She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

3Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

4His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

5She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

6The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

7There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

8They didn't prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.

9The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his AnointedOne has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

11They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

12So rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." 13When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

14Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

15The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

16The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.

17The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.

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