First Reading
Revelation 20:1-4, 11—21:2
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.
1And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.
2And he laid hold on the dragon the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
3And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations, till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time.
4And I saw seats; and they sat upon them; and judgment was given to them; and the souls of them that were beheaded for the teaching of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not adored the beast nor his image, nor received his character on their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.