Revelation 10
The Angel and the Little Scroll
10Then I saw another astrong angel bcoming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the crainbow was upon his head, and dhis face was like the sun, and his efeet like pillars of fire; 2and he had in his hand a alittle scroll which was open. He placed bhis right foot on the sea and his left on the earth, 3and he cried out with a loud voice, aas when a lion roars. And when he had cried out, the bseven peals of thunder 1uttered their voices. 4And when the seven peals of thunder had spoken, aI was about to write; and I bheard a voice from heaven saying, “cSeal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write them.” 5Then the angel, whom I saw standing on the sea and on the earth, alifted up his right hand to heaven, 6aand swore by bHim who lives forever and ever, cwho created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that dthere will be delay no longer, 7but in the days of the voice of the aseventh angel, when he is about to sound, then bthe mystery of God is finished, as He proclaimed good news to His slaves, the prophets.
8Then athe voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again speaking with me, and saying, “Go, take bthe scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who cstands on the sea and on the earth.” 9So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. And he *said to me, “aTake it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” 10And I took the little scroll out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. 11And athey *said to me, “You must bprophesy again about cmany peoples and nations and tongues and dkings.”