1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a
cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet
like pillars of fire. 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his
right foot on the sea, and his left on the land. 3 He cried with a loud
voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their
voices. 4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I
heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven
thunders said, and don’t write them.”
5 The angel who I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his
right hand to the sky, 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who
created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that
are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no
longer be delay, 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when
he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to
his servants, the prophets. 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again
speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the
angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book.
He said to me, “Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but
in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
10 I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up. It was
as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made
bitter. 11 They told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples,
nations, languages, and kings.”
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