Dual Panel1THEN I saw another mighty angel descending from Heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow around his head. His face blazed like the sun, his legs like pillars of fire,
2and he had a little book lying open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,
3and then shouted with a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he shouted the seven thunders lifted their voices.
4When the seven thunders had rolled I was on the point of writing but I heard a voice from Heaven, saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders said, but do not write it down!"
5Then the angel whom I had seen bestriding the sea and the land raised his right hand to Heaven
6and swore by the living one of the timeless ages, who created Heaven, earth and sea and all that is in them: "There shall be no more delay!
7In the days which shall soon be announced by the trumpetblast of the seventh angel the mysterious purpose of God shall be completed, as he assured his servants the prophets."
8Then, the voice which I had heard from Heaven was again in my ears, saying, "Go and take the little book which lies open in the hand of the angel whose feet are planted on both sea and land."
9So I went off towards the angel, asking him to give me the little book. "Take it," he said to me, "and eat it up. It will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth."
10Then I took the little book from the angel's hand and swallowed it. It was as sweet as honey to the taste but when I had eaten it up it was bitter to my stomach.
11Then they said to me, "It is again your duty to prophesy about peoples, nations, languages and many kings."