The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Book” it comes from the Greek Word “biblaridion” which means “little book, scroll.”
John receives and eats a mysterious little book, sweet yet bitter. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Revelation 10.
John describes seeing another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, a rainbow being upon his head, his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, having in his hand a little “book,” “biblaridion” in Greek, open, setting his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, crying with a loud voice, as when a lion roars, and when he cries, seven thunders utter their voices. John describes being about to write when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, but he hears a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not,” then the angel he saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifts up his hand to heaven, and swears by Him who lives forever and ever, that there should be time no longer, but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He has declared to His servants the prophets. John describes the voice from heaven speaking to him again, telling him to go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands upon the sea and upon the earth, so he goes to the angel, asking him to give him the little book, and the angel tells him to take it, and eat it up, and it shall make his belly bitter, but it shall be in his mouth sweet as honey, so he takes the little book out of the angel’s hand, and eats it up, and it was in his mouth sweet as honey, but as soon as he had eaten it, his belly was bitter, then he is told he must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings, this remarkable, embodied experience echoing similar imagery found earlier in Ezekiel, communicating the mixed, complex nature of prophetic ministry, genuinely sweet in its calling yet genuinely bitter in the difficult message it often requires delivering.
John’s experience eating the little book, sweet as honey in his mouth yet bitter in his stomach, offers a vivid, memorable picture of prophetic calling’s genuinely mixed nature, honored and meaningful yet requiring the delivery of genuinely difficult, unwelcome truth. This chapter’s mysterious sealed thunders, deliberately withheld from being written down, reminds readers that not every aspect of divine revelation is meant for immediate, complete human understanding or disclosure.
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