The angel and the little scroll
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📚And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. 2 📚And he had in his hand a little scroll which was open. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, 3 📚and cried out with a loud voice like the roar of a lion, and when he had cried out, seven thunders spoke with their voices. 4 📚And when the seven thunders had spoken with their voices, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Seal up those things which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them down”.
5 📚And the angel which I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 📚and swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, and the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there would be delay no longer, 7 📚but in the days when the seventh angel sounds his trumpet, when he begins to sound it, the mystery of God will be completed, as he declared to his servants the prophets.
8 📚And the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, “Go and take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land”.
9 📚And I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little scroll”. And he said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth be as sweet as honey”. 10 📚And I took the little scroll out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but as soon as I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
11 📚And he said to me, “You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and languages, and kings”.