2015
Christmas Daily Readings
From the Sacred Scripture and the Heavenly Doctrine
Arise, Shine, For Thy Light Has Come
The Prophecy of Isaiah 60 and its fulfillment in the Christmas stories, the life of the Lord, and the New Jerusalem
- December 1: “Arise, give light; for Thy light comes, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon Thee.”
- December 2: “For, behold! The darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness the peoples; but on Thee shall Jehovah rise, and His glory shall be seen upon Thee.”
- December 3: “And the nations shall walk to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
- December 4: “Lift up thine eyes all around and see; all of them are brought together, they come to Thee; Thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall be cared for at the side.”
- December 5: “Then shalt Thou see and flow together, and Thy heart shall dread, and be enlarged; for the crowd of the sea shall be turned to Thee; the host of the nations shall come to Thee.”
- December 6: “An abundance of camels shall cover thee; the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;”
- December 7: “All of them from Sheba shall come; gold and frankincense they shall carry; and they shall bring tidings of the praises of Jehovah.”
- December 8: “All the flock of Kedar shall be brought together unto thee; to thee the rams of Nebaioth shall minister…”.
- December 9: “They shall ascend with good pleasure on My altar, and I will adorn the house of My adornment.”
- December 10: “Who [are] these [that] fly as a thick cloud, and as doves to their windows?”
- December 11: “For the islands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish among the first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel; for He has adorned thee.”
- December 12: “And the sons of the foreigner shall build thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee; for in My rage I smote thee, but in My good pleasure I had compassion on thee.”
- December 13: “And thy gates shall be open continually; by day and by night they shall not be shut, to bring to Thee the force of the nations, and [that] their kings [may be] directed [there].”
- December 14: “For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve thee shall perish; nations, being wasted, shall be a waste.”
- December 15: “The glory of Lebanon shall come to Thee, the fir, the pine, and the boxwood together, to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.”
- December 16: “And the sons of those who afflicted thee shall walk to thee bowing down; and all those who disdained thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet.”
- December 17: “and they shall call thee, The City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”
- December 18: “Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, and none passing through [thee], I will set thee for an eternal excellence, a joy of a generation and generation.”
- December 19: “And thou shalt nurse [on] the milk of the nations, and thou shalt nurse [on] the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, [am] thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Powerful One of Jacob.”
- December 20: “Instead of the bronze, I will bring gold; and instead of the iron, I will bring silver; and instead of the wood, bronze; and instead of the stones, iron; and I will set thine overseers for peace, and thy taskmasters for justice.”
- December 21: “Violence shall not be heard any more in thy land, nor devastation and breaking in thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.”
- December 22: “The sun shall not be for thee for a light by day any more, and for brightness the moon shall not give light for thee; but Jehovah shall be for thee an eternal light, and thy God shall be thy splendor.”
- December 23: “Thy sun shall not go in anymore; neither shall thy moon be gathered in; for Jehovah shall be for an eternal light for thee, and the days of thy mourning shall be complete.”
- December 24: “And thy people, all of them shall be just; to eternity shall they possess the land; the stem of My planting, the deed of My hands, that I may have splendor.”
- December 25: “A small one shall become a thousand, and a little one a numerous nation; I, Jehovah, will hurry it in its time.”