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The angel that swore that there should be time no longer
Revelation 10: 1 – 11
I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud and the rainbow around his head, and his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. And he had in his hand a little book, open.
And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel , and I swallowed it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, and after I had swallowed it, my belly was bitter. And he said to me: You must prophesy again to peoples, and nations, and tribes, and kings, in large numbers.
And he set his foot, the right, upon the sea, the left on the earth, and cried with a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he had cried, seven thunderclaps uttered their voices.
And he said to me: Take it and eat it up! And it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.
And after the thunderclaps had uttered their voices, I was about to write them; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up those things which the seven thunderclaps uttered, and write them not!
And the voice that I heard from heaven, spoke to me again, and said: Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and on the earth! And I went to the angel, and asked him to give me that little book.
And the angel, which I saw stand upon the sea and on the earth, lifted up his hand, the right, to heaven and swore by him that lives from aeons to aeons, who created heaven, and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea, and the things that are therein: Time should there be no longer. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he will blow the trumpet, the mystery of God should be fulfilled, as he has declared as the glad tidings to his servants, the prophets.
I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud and the rainbow around his head, and his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. And he had in his hand a little book, open.
And he set his foot, the right, upon the sea, the left on the earth, and cried with a loud voice as a lion roars. And when he had cried, seven thunderclaps uttered their voices.
And after the thunderclaps had uttered their voices, I was about to write them; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: Seal up those things which the seven thunderclaps uttered, and write them not!
And the angel, which I saw stand upon the sea and on the earth, lifted up his hand, the right, to heaven and swore by him that lives from aeons to aeons, who created heaven, and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea, and the things that are therein: Time should there be no longer. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he will blow the trumpet, the mystery of God should be fulfilled, as he has declared as the glad tidings to his servants, the prophets.
And the voice that I heard from heaven, spoke to me again, and said: Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and on the earth! And I went to the angel, and asked him to give me that little book.
And he said to me: Take it and eat it up! And it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel , and I swallowed it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, and after I had swallowed it, my belly was bitter. And he said to me: You must prophesy again to peoples, and nations, and tribes, and kings, in large numbers.
In art
Revelation 10: 1 – 11
Apokalipsis cum figuris, Albrecht Dürer, 1496-1498, the angel with the little book
