Daily Devotions

Who Wrote the Book?

The first word of this epistle, Peter, identifies the author, who called himself “an apostle of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:1). He wrote this letter to a group of Christians scattered throughout the northern areas of Asia Minor, where he may have
previously preached the gospel.

Peter wrote to a group of people that probably included both Jews and Gentiles. The apostle addressed the letter’s recipients as “aliens” (1:1), a word indicating that Peter was speaking not just to Jews or just to Gentiles but to Christians who were living their lives in such a way that they would have stood out as
aliens among the surrounding culture.

https://insight.org/resources/bible/the-general-epistles/first-peter

Day 1 (October 6)
I Peter 1:1-25
Key Verse: 17

Day 2 (October 7)
I Peter 2:1-25
Key Verse: 14

Day 3 (October 8)
I Peter 3:1-22
Key Verse: 14

Day 4 (October 9)
I Peter 4:1-19
Key Verse: 12

Day 5 (October 10)
I Peter 5:1-14
Key Verse: 8

Day 6 (October 11)
II Peter 1:1-21
Key Verse: 19

Memory Verse
I Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 

Who Wrote the Book?

Peter introduced himself at the beginning of the letter as “a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,” and he addressed the letter “to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours” (2 Peter 1:1). Only later does it become apparent that Peter was writing to the same group of believers who had received his first letter. In 2 Peter 3:1, the author reflected that this is “the second letter I am writing to you.”

https://insight.org/resources/bible/the-general-epistles/second-peter

Day 1 (October 13)
II Peter 2:1-22
Key Verses: 21-22

Day 2 (October 14)
II Peter 3:1-18
Key Verse: 17

Day 3 (October 15)
I John 1:1-10
Key Verses: 5-6

Day 4 (October 16)
I John 2:1-29
Key Verse: 15

Day 5 (October 17)
I John 3:1-24
Key Verse: 13

Day 6 (October 18)
I John 4:1-21
Key Verse: 16

Memory Verse
I John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Who wrote the Book?

The author of this epistle never identified himself by name, but Christians since the beginning of the church have considered this letter authoritative, believing it was written by John the apostle. That group of witnesses includes Polycarp, an early second-century bishop who as a young man knew John personally. In addition, the author clearly places himself as part of a group of apostolic eyewitnesses to the life and ministry of Jesus, noting that “what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also” (1 John 1:3).

https://insight.org/resources/bible/the-general-epistles/first-john

Day 1 (October 20)
I John 5:1-21
Key Verse: 21

Day 2 (October 21)
II John 1:1-13
Key Verse: 4

Day 3 (October 22)
III John 1:1-15
Key Verse: 11

Day 4 (October 23)
Jude 1:1-25
Key Verse: 24

Day 5 (October 24)
Revelation 1:1-20
Key Verse: 8

Day 6 (October 25)
Revelation 2:1-29
Key Verse: 17

Memory Verse
Revelation 2:29
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

Who Wrote the Book?

The author of Revelation mentioned his name, John, four times throughout the book (Revelation 1:1, 4, 9; 22:8). Christians throughout history have given almost unanimous affirmation to the identity of the book’s author as John the apostle, who had been exiled to the island of Patmos by the authorities for preaching the gospel in Asia. Some traditions say that the Romans dropped John into a vat of boiling oil, but when the apostle did not die, they instead banished him to the barren rock of Patmos.

The title of the book, Revelation, comes from the Greek word for apocalypse and refers to an unveiling or a disclosure of something as yet unknown. This title is certainly appropriate for the book, a work so interested in making known the events of the future.

https://insight.org/resources/bible/the-apocalypse/revelation

Day 1 (October 27)
Revelation 3:1-22
Key Verse: 10

Day 2 (October 28)
Revelation 4:1-11
Key Verse: 11

Day 3 (October 29)
Revelation 5:1-14
Key Verse: 13

Day 4 (October 30)
Revelation 6:1-17
Key Verses: 16-17

Day 5 (October 31)
Revelation 7:1-17
Key Verse: 9

Day 6 (November 1)
Revelation 8:1-13
Key Verse: 13

Memory Verse
Revelation 5:13
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Where are we?

The apostle John wrote the book of Revelation around the year AD 95 from his exile on the island of Patmos. He addressed his work to seven Asian churches—Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Because John worked in Ephesus for so many of his later years, it would have been natural for him to communicate this vision to the churches under his immediate care and influence. Each of those seven churches received a message directed specifically to them (chapters 2 and 3) before John launched into his account of the future which he received in his vision from God.

https://insight.org/resources/bible/the-apocalypse/revelation

Day 1 (November 3)
Revelation 9:1-21
Key Verses: 20-21

Day 2 (November 4)
Revelation 10:1-11
Key Verse: 7

Day 3 (November 5)
Revelation 11:1-19
Key Verses: 11-12

Day 4 (November 6)
Revelation 12:1-17
Key Verse: 10

Day 5 (November 7)
Revelation 13:1-18
Key Verse: 16

Day 6 (November 8)
Revelation 14:1-20
Key Verse: 16

Memory Verse
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.