1 And I saw another strong angel descending out of heaven, robed in a cloud, with a rainbow upon his head; his face was like the sun, and his feet like columns of fire.
2 In his hand he held a small scroll that had been opened. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left on the land,
3 and he shouted with a great voice, just as a lion roars; and when he shouted, the seven thunders spoke with their own voices.
4 When the seven thunders had spoken their voices, I was going to write; and I heard a voice from heaven telling me, "Put a seal on what the seven thunders said, and do not write those things."
5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted his hand toward heaven
6 and swore by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there will be time no longer,
7 but in the days when the seventh angel's voice is heard, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God will also be brought to completion, as he announced the good news to his servants the prophets.
8 And the voice I had heard from heaven was speaking with me again, and saying, "Go and take the little scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land."
9 So I went off to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little scroll." And he says to me, "Take it and eat it up. It will turn your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
10 I took the little scroll out of the angel's hand and ate it up; and in my mouth it was sweet like honey, but once I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
11 And he tells me, "You have to prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and languages and kings."