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Revelation 10

Before the last trumpet, a pause. A mighty angel holds a small open scroll, and John is told to take it, eat it and speak again.

11 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–3Seven churchesChrist among His lampstands
  2. 4–11Seals & trumpetsThe Lamb opens the scrollChapter 10
  3. 12–16The great conflictThe dragon, the beasts, the bowls
  4. 17–20The King comesBabylon falls; the Lamb wins
  5. 21–22All things newA new heaven and a new earth

The Angel and the Small Scroll

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John

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. 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.

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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.

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.”

Question

Quick question

John hears the seven thunders speak, and he is about to put it in writing.

What did the voice from heaven tell John to do with what the seven thunders said?

Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven. 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!

Revelation 10:5–6

But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”

Where the small scroll comes from

sentEzekiel 2–3eats a scroll, sweetas honeyDaniel 12hands raised, wordssealedThe smallscrollJohn takes it and eatsitAmos 3the lion roars, theprophet speaksProphesy againto “many peoples andnations”

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Almost every picture here comes from the prophets. Ezekiel was handed a scroll to eat before he was sent to speak. Daniel saw a man raise his hands toward heaven and swear by the living God, and was told to seal up what he heard. Amos heard the lion roar and could not keep silent. John stands in their line: the scroll is “as sweet as honey,” and then he is sent again.

John
At dawn a dirt road runs down from the hills toward a wide land of distant towns, rivers and the sea, the morning light spreading over it all.

And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Reflect

Sweet, then sent

God’s word was “as sweet as honey” to John, yet its message was hard to carry, and then came the charge: “You must prophesy again.” Where have you found God’s word sweet lately? Is there a part of it you find hard to carry? Who might He be sending you to speak to this week?

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A verse to carry with you

You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.

Revelation 10:11

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