First Reading
Revelation 14:14-19
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
14:14And I saw, and look a white cloud; and upon the cloud one sitting like to the Son of Man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15And another angel came out from the temple crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in your sickle, and reap, because the hour is come to reap: for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire; and he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth; because the grapes thereof are ripe.
19And the angel thrust in his sharp sickle into the earth, and gathered the vineyard of the earth, and cast it into the great press of the wrath of God: