Revelation 10
11 verses
A mighty angel descends from heaven with a little scroll open in his hand, clothed in a cloud with a rainbow over his head, his face like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire—imagery drawing together Ezekiel's throne vision with divine authority and judgment. The angel cries out with a loud voice like a roaring lion, and seven thunders sound in response, but when John attempts to write what the thunders say, a voice commands him not to seal up what the thunders have said—some divine secrets remain undisclosed. The angel swears by him who lives forever and ever that there will be no more delay: the mystery of God will be fulfilled just as he announced to his servants the prophets, and the seventh trumpet will sound at the appointed time. John is commanded to take the little scroll from the angel's hand and eat it; it is sweet in his mouth like honey but becomes bitter in his stomach—the bittersweet nature of prophecy that speaks God's judgment upon the world. The completion of John's eating the scroll leads to the command: you must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings, establishing his role as messenger of the apocalyptic vision to the churches.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
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And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
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And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
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And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
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And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
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And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
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But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
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And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
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And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
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And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
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And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
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