Revelation 10

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He held a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left on the land, and he cried out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their own voices. When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down.” The angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand toward heaven and swore by the one 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, 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 completed, just as he proclaimed the good news to his own slaves the prophets.” Then the voice I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the open scroll in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.” I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He says to me, “Take it and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it up. In my mouth it was sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. And they say to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

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