Revelation - 10 8-11

 BooK of Revelation

                  a paraphrased study

8 - Then the voice that I [John] had heard from heaven spoke to me again, “Go and take the open {meant to be understood?} scroll from the hand of the angel who’s standing upon sea and land.”

     9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. And he said, “Take and eat it.” [Katesthíō - from katá - down, and esthíō - eat all the way down.] “It will turn your stomach sour {it’s a bitter cup} “but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” {The little scroll, prophecy, highlighted like this, shows its importance. Prophecy puts the jigsaw pieces together. The consummation, the full and mature fruit, consequences, results, tells the whole story. Straying cannot work. God iS life, and he “is perfect”. Every self first and dog eat dog cannot work. Life as we presently know it is a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ - and its “worm that doesn’t quit” - which is the decomposing. The fading away (slow gehenna) that doesn’t stop. Imperfection is the worm, because God iS life. But, no option to stray in Eden would mean creation as a mere ant farm.}

     10 So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and I ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth but when I had eaten it, my stomach became sour. 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy more about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”                           

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