Revelation #33

Lets finish chapter 10 this morning!



Revelation 10:8-11



8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." 9So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." 10And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. 11And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings."



These verses are good for us to study this morning. This is very similar to what happened in Ezekiel 3:1-3, 10.



Ezekiel 3:1-3



1And he said to me, "Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." 2So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 3And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it." Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.



Ezekiel 3:10



10Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.



Very cool huh? In the revelation verses we have for today we see John hear the voice from heaven speak and tell him to get the scroll from the angel who we seen yesterday was Jesus. In verse 9 we see when John got the scroll he is told to eat it but it will make his stomach bitter. In verse 10 we see John does as he is told and eats the scroll and it is sweet to taste but bitter to his stomach. Why was it bitter? First the scroll was full of judgement....that is not sweet but bitter! Second when our stomach is bitter many times it makes us vomit. This is picture we can get from here too....Get God's Word out! Judgement is coming to the world and we must get this message out along with the good news of Jesus Christ!



Are we obeying like John and telling folks about the Word of God?



Tom