One of the best parts of reading through Revelation is that although I've read through it before, I haven't read it nearly enough to remember the particulars and how things tie together. Reading chapter 10 makes me wonder how all these strange happenings will come into play in later chapters.
For all the odd things I've read so far, chapter 10 is right up there with the strangest. Now that six out of the seven trumpets have been sounded, we await #7. But that won't happen until later. For now, we meet a mighty angel, presumably enormous, since one of his feet is on the land and the other on the sea. He speaks a powerful message with a voice like a lion, and commands John to keep from writing it down. Hmm.
Later, John is told to take a little scroll from this mighty angel and eat it. It tastes sweet like honey but turns his stomach sour. Sounds kind of like a Halloween candy binge. Once John has eaten the scroll, which is weird enough because who eats scrolls?, he is told that it's OK for him to prophesy again.
I absolutely can't wait to get into chapter 11.
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