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Mon, Feb. 24 - The Coming Day of the Lord
Zephaniah 1:14–18
Zec 1:14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zec 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Zec 1:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Zec 1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zec 1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Tue, Feb.25 - Judgment Coming to the Nation
Amos 5:1–3, 16, 17
Am 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Am 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Am 5:3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
Amos 5:16-17
Am 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Am 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.
Wed, Feb. 26 - Seek God, Establish Justice
Amos 5:4, 5, 14, 15
Am 5:4 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
Am 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
Amos 5:14-15
Am 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Am 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Thu, Feb. 27 - Injustice Leads to Ruin
Amos 5:6, 7, 10–13
Am 5:6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
Am 5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos 5:10–13
Am 5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Am 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Am 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Am 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Fri, Feb. 28 - Creation and Judgment
Genesis 1:4–9; Amos 5:8, 9
Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Ge 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Ge 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Ge 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Ge 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Ge 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Amos 5:8, 9
Am 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
Am 5:9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Sat, Feb. 29 - God Loves All People
Hosea 2:14–23
Ho 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Ho 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Ho 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
Ho 2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Ho 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Ho 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Ho 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Ho 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
Ho 2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Ho 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Sun, Mar. 1 - Justice for the Distressed
Amos 5:18–24
Am 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Am 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Am 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Am 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Am 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Am 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Am 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.