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Escenas intermedias

10 Vi otro ángel poderoso, que bajaba del cielo envuelto en una nube; tenía un arco iris sobre la cabeza, su cara brillaba como el sol y sus piernas parecían columnas de fuego. Llevaba en la mano un rollito abierto, y puso el pie derecho sobre el mar y el izquierdo sobre la tierra. Y gritó con fuerte voz, como un león que ruge; y cuando gritó, siete truenos dejaron oír sus propias voces. Después que los siete truenos hablaron, iba yo a escribir; pero oí una voz del cielo, que me decía: «Guarda en secreto lo que dijeron los siete truenos, y no lo escribas.»

Entonces el ángel que vi en pie sobre el mar y sobre la tierra, levantó al cielo su mano derecha y juró por el que vive para siempre, el que hizo el cielo, la tierra, el mar y todas las cosas que hay en ellos. Dijo: «Ya no habrá más tiempo, sino que cuando llegue el momento en que el séptimo ángel comience a tocar su trompeta, quedará cumplido el designio secreto de Dios, como él anunció a sus propios siervos los profetas.»

La voz que yo había oído, y que salía del cielo, volvió a hablarme, y me dijo: «Anda y toma el rollito abierto que tiene en la mano el ángel que está de pie sobre el mar y sobre la tierra.» Fui al ángel y le pedí que me diera el rollito, y me contestó: «Toma y cómetelo. En tu boca será dulce como la miel, pero en tu estómago se volverá amargo.»

10 Tomé el rollito de la mano del ángel, y me lo comí; y en mi boca era dulce como la miel, pero una vez que me lo comí, se me volvió amargo en el estómago. 11 Entonces me dijeron: «Tienes que comunicar nuevos mensajes proféticos acerca de muchos pueblos, naciones, lenguas y reyes.»

The Angel and the Small Scroll

10 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face shone like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire. And in his hand was a small scroll[a] that had been opened. He stood with his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. And he gave a great shout like the roar of a lion. And when he shouted, the seven thunders answered.

When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Keep secret[b] what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down.”

Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand toward heaven. He swore an oath in the name of the one who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and everything in them, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it. He said, “There will be no more delay. When the seventh angel blows his trumpet, God’s mysterious plan will be fulfilled. It will happen just as he announced it to his servants the prophets.”

Then the voice from heaven spoke to me again: “Go and take the open scroll from the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

So I went to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. “Yes, take it and eat it,” he said. “It will be sweet as honey in your mouth, but it will turn sour in your stomach!” 10 So I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but when I swallowed it, it turned sour in my stomach.

11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”

Footnotes

  1. 10:2 Or book; also in 10:8, 9, 10.
  2. 10:4 Greek Seal up.

10 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, 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 hath declared to his servants the prophets.

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.