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A.A Mighty Angel and Seven Thunders Sealed Upvv. 1-7
1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire. 2 He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. 3 Then he cried out in a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their voices. 4 When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to put it in writing. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” 5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”
B.Sweet in the Mouth, Bitter in the Bellyvv. 8-11
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.” 9 And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” 10 So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter. 11 And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
Chapter summary
Another interlude, and one of the strangest.
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Chapter summary
Another interlude, and one of the strangest.
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Another interlude, and one of the strangest. A strong angel comes down arrayed with a cloud, the rainbow upon his head, his face as the sun, his feet as pillars of fire, a little book open in his hand; he sets one foot upon the sea and one upon the earth and cries 'as a lion roareth'. And seven thunders utter their voices. John is about to write, and a voice from heaven stops him: 'Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.' In a book that unseals everything, one thing stays sealed. Then the angel swears 'that there shall be delay no longer.' John is told to eat the little book: bitter in the belly, in the mouth 'sweet as honey,' Ezekiel's scroll handed to a second prophet.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament.
Context
Apocalyptic · John — Revelation overview
- A. 1–7 A Mighty Angel and Seven Thunders Sealed Up
- B. 8–11 Sweet in the Mouth, Bitter in the Belly
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