1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire.
2In his hand he had a little book, open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
3and he cried out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he had cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their voices.
4When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and do not write them."
5Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven.
6He swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there should be time no longer.
7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he begins to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be finished, just as he told his servants the prophets.
8Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, "Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
9So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."
10I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. In my mouth it was sweet as honey, but as soon as I had eaten it, my stomach was bitter.
11And he said to me, "You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and languages, and kings."