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   Bible Reading for December 27   
      
   Revelation 7   
   [1] And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of   
   the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow   
   on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. [2] And I saw another angel   
   ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with   
   a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and   
   the sea, [3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till   
   we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. [4] And I heard the   
   number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty   
   and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.   
   [5] Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben   
   were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.   
   [6] Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of   
   Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed   
   twelve thousand.   
   [7] Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi   
   were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve   
   thousand.   
   [8] Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of   
   Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed   
   twelve thousand.   
   [9] After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could   
   number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before   
   the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their   
   hands;   
   [10] And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth   
   upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. [11] And all the angels stood round about   
   the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the   
   throne on their faces, and worshipped God,   
   [12] Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and   
   honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. [13]   
   And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are   
   arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? [14] And I said unto him, Sir,   
   thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great   
   tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of   
   the Lamb. [15] Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day   
   and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among   
   them.   
   [16] They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun   
   light on them, nor any heat.   
   [17] For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and   
   shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all   
   tears from their eyes.   
      
   Revelation 8   
   [1] And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about   
   the space of half an hour.   
   [2] And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given   
   seven trumpets.   
   [3] And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and   
   there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the   
   prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. [4]   
   And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints,   
   ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. [5] And the angel took the   
   censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and   
   there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.   
   [6] And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to   
   sound.   
   [7] The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with   
   blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was   
   burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. [8] And the second angel sounded,   
   and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and   
   the third part of the sea became blood; [9] And the third part of the   
   creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the   
   ships were destroyed. [10] And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great   
   star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part   
   of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;   
   [11] And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the   
   waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were   
   made bitter.   
   [12] And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten,   
   and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the   
   third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it,   
   and the night likewise. [13] And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through   
   the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the   
   inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the   
   three angels, which are yet to sound!   
      
   Revelation 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.   
      
      
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