10 Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire. 2 He had in his hand a small, open scroll. He put his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. 3 Then he shouted like the roaring of a lion, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded.  4 When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders said and do not write it down.”  5 Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven,  6 and swore by the One who lives to the ages of the ages, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it,[1604] “There will be no more delay! [1605] 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet, then the revealed mystery of God’s plan will be completed — the Gospel which He announced to His servants the prophets.”
    8 Then the voice I had heard from heaven spoke to me again: “Go and take the open scroll from the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”  9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will be bitter to your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”  10 So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, it was bitter to my stomach.  11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”