Passage Read: Revelation 13-14
Meditation Verses: 13:7-10
Thought
The will be no place where the saints will find safe refuge. Authority over all the nations and peoples will be given to the Antichrist, and all those on the earth who are not chosen b…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-7-2025
Passage Read: Revelation 15-16
Meditation Verses: 15:2-4
Thought
The only way to be victorious over the beast and his image and his mark is by submitting to death at their hands or by enduring until the rapture. Either way, it doesn't go easy for the…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-8-2025
Passage Read: Revelation 17-18
Meditation Verses: 18:19-20
Thought
The sea captains and sailors and all who make their living from the sea understand what has happened when Babylon the Great is destroyed. They knew all the evil that the city was comm…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-9-2025
Passage Read: Revelation 19-20
Meditation Verses: 19:1-3
Thought
Wow! Evidently there will be rejoicing in heaven over the destruction of Babylon! It is not all grief over the destruction of these godless, rebellious people. All of heaven roars in ce…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-10-2025
Passage Read: Revelation 21-22
Meditation Verses: 21:24-26
Thought
There will still be nations and kings in the new heavens and earth, people groups and tribes and clans and families. Perhaps there will also be leaders of tens and fifties and hundred…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-11-2025
Passage Read: Genesis 1-4
Meditation Verses: 4:13-15
Thought
Cain killed his brother, but felt God's sentence on him was too great to bear! His brother Abel became the first inhabitant of Sheol, Hades, and must remain alone until the next righteous m…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-12-2025
Passage Read: Genesis 5-8
Meditation Verse: 7:23
Thought
How many countless people, how many countless animals and birds and other creatures died in this flood? Only a small portion was saved: 8 people, 2-14 of each kind of animal and bird and other …
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-13-2025
Passage Read: Genesis 9-12
Meditation Verse: 11:4
Thought
This was likely Nimrod's doing, or else Nimrod took charge of his own family and language group after this and built his kingdom in this region. Nimrod was Ham's grandson; Peleg was Shem's gre…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-14-2025
Passage Read: Genesis 13-16
Meditation Verses: 16:5-6
Thought
It's interesting that Sarai didn't immediately discipline her maidservant, but first complained to Abram. When Sarai gave Hagar to Abram, it became unclear what her status had become. Did …
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-15-2025
Passage Read: Genesis 17-20
Meditation Verse: 18:32
Thought
"Why is there evil in the world?" Because there are also righteous in it, and God doesn't want to destroy the righteous with the wicked. This is how the righteous serve as salt, allowing the…
https://derfers.us/personal-devotions/december-16-2025
