"And the voice I had heard from heaven spoke again, saying to me, 'Go near the angel who stands on the sea and on the land, and take the small book open in his hand.' So, I approached the angel and asked him for the small book; he said to me, 'Take it and eat; although it be sweet as honey in your mouth, it will be bitter to your stomach.'
I took the small book from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, it turned bitter in my stomach. Then I was told, 'You must again proclaim GOD's words about many peoples, nations, tongues and kings.'" - Revelation 10:8-11
(As to the small book, it contains new events that will accompany the spread of the gospel. This means that CHRIST's coming does not put an end to history, nor does it bring heaven on earth.
John must eat the book, an expression that we already found in Ezekiel [2:8-3:4]. It is both sweet and sour: the voice is sweet, but the task is difficult. Thus we understand that the history of Israel, imaged by the book of the seven seas [5:1], was not all of sacred history but only its first part, the Old Testament.)
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