1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
I love John's description of this angel.
2 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
This seems similar to a vision that Daniel had.
3 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
The angel and the thunders were communicating. Kind of makes you wonder what is being said in the heavens during thunderstorms.
4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down."
John was granted the ability to understand what the thunders had said. He was about to write it down but a voice from heaven said not to.
5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
The angel is looking up as we should to Him whom we serve.
6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
The angel is basically announcing when time is up!
7 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. [Rev 10:1-7 ESV]
At the 3rd woe, the mystery of God is finished. Praise Him!
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