**DECEMBER 16**

DECEMBER 16- Amos 8:1–9:15 - Ripe fruit vision: Israel’s end near; famine of God’s word - Judgment fierce, yet final restoration: David’s kingdom rebuilt forever- Psalm 143:1–6 - David begs mercy; spirit faints, heart desolate - Thirsts for God like dry land; hands stretched out- Proverbs 30:1–4 - Agur: “I’m brutish, no understanding” - Who but God ascended/descended, holds wind, bounds waters, set earth?- Revelation 6:1–17 - Four horsemen: conquest, war, famine, death; martyrs cry - Sixth seal: cosmos shakes; all hide from wrath of Lamb