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Brown comeafterme.com JANUARY “Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever” (Ps 145:2) January 1 Bible Reading Prayer January 2 Bible Reading Prayer January 3 Bible Reading Prayer January 4 Bible Reading Prayer January 5 Bible Reading Prayer January 6 Bible Reading Prayer January 7 Bible Reading Prayer January 8 Bible Reading Prayer January 9 Bible Reading Prayer January 10 Bible Reading Prayer January 11 Bible Reading Prayer January 12 Bible Reading Prayer January 13 Bible Reading Prayer January 14 Bible Reading Prayer January 15 Bible Reading Prayer January 16 Bible Reading Prayer January 17 Bible Reading Prayer January 18 Bible Reading Prayer January 19 Bible Reading Prayer January 20 Bible Reading Prayer January 21 Bible Reading Prayer January 22 Bible Reading Prayer January 23 Bible Reading Prayer January 24 Bible Reading Prayer January 25 Bible Reading Prayer January 26 Bible Reading Prayer January 27 Bible Reading Prayer January 28 Bible Reading Prayer January 29 Bible Reading Prayer January 30 Bible Reading Prayer January 31 Bible Reading Prayer © Nathan E. Brown January 1 – Chronological Synopsis of the Bible – LEB Version comeafterme.com Before Creation (Eternity Past) Various The Existence of the Trinity—Father, Son and Spirit . In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This one was in the beginning with God (John 1:1–2). Father, those whom you have given to me—I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world (John 17:24). How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14). The Father’s Plan of Salvation was the Son’s Sacrificial Death . This man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing to a cross through the hand of lawless men (Acts 2:23). But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you (1 Peter 1:19–20). The Father Chose the Saints in the Son . Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love (Ephesians 1:4). Who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began (2 Timothy 1:9). And all those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name is not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered (Revelation 13:8). Creation—Days 1–5 (4174 BC) Genesis 1:1–23 Day 1 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth— [John 1:3; Col 1:16; Prov 8:22–31] 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good, and God caused there to be a separation between the light and between the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Day 2 6 And God said, “Let there be a vaulted dome in the midst of the waters, and let it cause a separation between the waters.” 7 So God made the vaulted dome, and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome. And it was so. 8 And God called the vaulted dome “heaven.” And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. Day 3 9 And God said, “Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 And God called the dry ground “earth,” and he called the collection of the waters “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, “Let the earth produce green plants that will bear seed—fruit trees bearing fruit in which there is seed—according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit in which there was seed according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. Day 4 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to separate day from night, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years, 15 and they shall be as lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars. 17 And God placed them in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. © Nathan E. Brown January 1 – Chronological Synopsis of the Bible – LEB Version comeafterme.com Day 5 20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome of heaven. 21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day. Creation—Day 6: Toledot of the Heavens and the Earth (4174 BC) Genesis 1:24–31; 2:4–25 Morning of the Sixth Day 2:4 These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven— 5 before any plant of the field was on earth, and before any plant of the field had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground, 6 but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground— Creation of Land Animals 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals according to their kind.” And it was so. 25 So God made wild animals according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Creation of Mankind 26 And God said, “Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth.” 27 So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them. [Matt 19:4; Mark 10:6] Creation of Mankind—Expanded Account 2:7 when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. [1 Cor 15:45] 8 And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there.) 13 And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. 16 And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.” 18 Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man is alone.