Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+003   Chapter 3 (ESV) 14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. 15 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+002   Chapter2 (ESV) 1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+001   REVELATION   INTRODUCTION The ancient Roman Empire defended its economic and political control in spiritual terms, calling its gospel the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace. While in exile on the island of Patmos, a Jewish Christian prophet named John received a vision showing that the cult of emperor worship […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+004   Malachi 4 (ESV) The Great Day of the Lord 1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+003   Malachi 3 (ESV) 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in […]