by RQue Royal Design | Nov 19, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29 15 The king’s commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices.16 Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart.17 The king’s commissioners then...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 18, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 1 It also happened that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges.20 But the mother was especially admirable...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 17, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Maccabees 6:18-31 18 Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, had his mouth forced open, to make him eat a piece of pork.19 But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 16, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 10 From these there grew a wicked offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes son of King Antiochus; once a hostage in Rome, he became king in the 107th year of the kingdom of the Greeks.11 It was then that there emerged from...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 15, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Malachi 3:19-20 19 ‘For look, the Day is coming, glowing like a furnace. All the proud and all the evil-doers will be the stubble, and the Day, when it comes, will set them ablaze, says Yahweh Sabaoth, leaving them neither root nor branch.20 But for...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 14, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9 14 When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course,15 down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word like a pitiless warrior into the heart of a land doomed to...
