The Angel and the Small Scroll
(Ezekiel 3:1–15)
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire. Ezk 1:28Mat 17:2Rev 1:15-16Dan 10:6Rev 5:2Rev 4:3Rev 8:13Rev 8:2-5 He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. Ezk 2:9-10Rev 10:5Rev 10:8-10Rev 5:1-5Mat 28:18Psa 2:8Psa 65:5Rev 6:3 Then he cried out in a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their voices. Isa 31:4Amo 1:2Jol 3:16Rev 4:5Amo 3:8Isa 42:13Isa 5:29Jer 25:30
When the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to put it in writing. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” Dan 12:4Dan 8:26Dan 12:9Deu 29:29Rev 22:10Hab 2:2-3Isa 29:11Isa 8:16
Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven. Dan 12:7Deu 32:40Act 14:15Rev 10:2Rev 14:7Rev 16:17Rev 4:11Rev 1:18 And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay! Rev 4:11Rev 16:17Rev 4:9 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.” Eph 3:3-9Rom 16:25Luk 24:44-47Amo 3:7Act 3:21Rom 11:25Rev 11:15-18
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.” Rev 10:2Rev 10:4-5Isa 30:21
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” Ezk 3:1-3Jer 15:16Ezk 2:8Ezk 3:14Job 23:12Col 3:6
“Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” 1
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter. Ezk 3:3Pro 16:24Psa 119:103Psa 19:10Psa 104:34Ezk 3:14Ezk 2:10
And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.” Ezk 37:4Jer 1:9-10Ezk 37:9Rev 11:9Rev 14:6Rev 17:15Jer 25:15-30