****Please read the scripture from the Bible first as this is God's Word****

It is quite amazing to think that the God of the universe would bother to communicate with us. But He has done so, and in marvelous ways. We must listen and respond to His revelation to us. Revelation is basically how God is revealing Himself to us.

We can see and understand a little about our God by reading Psalm 19. This tells us of Gods great power, and goodness, beauty and most of all love. In Revelation Chapter 10 we see an angel descend from heaven that will give us revelation of God. Some say this is actually Christ Himself, however if we read verse 6 we see that the Angel swore by Him that liveth forever and ever which is God (Why would Jesus swear by Himself?). This leads us to believe that the angel has been given power from God since he is able to stand on water and earth at the same time, but the indication is that this is an angel and not Jesus Himself. However the angel is bringing us revelation of God.

We also see revelation by means of a profit. If you remember, John has been taken up to heaven to witness these prophecies so that he may write them down so that God's revelation would be preserved for us to see. It is amazing how the bible, a book with 40 different authors, written over a span of 1500 years has been preserved over the years. 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that the bible has been given to us by inspiration of God. 2 Peter 1:21 tells us that men wrote the bible as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. God has written for us a perfect bible and communication to us that we may obey his commandments and live as he has taught us.

In verse 3-4 we see that the angel cried 7 thunders. John heard a voice from heaven that said not to write these things that the angel had cried. God has placed this in the bible for a reason. He wants us to know that there is more revelation, but maybe it just isn't time for us to know. He always has perfect timing with what he wants us to know.

We see in verse 2 that the angel had a book in his hand. We notice that this book is little and appears to be an open book like that of a normal book, not a scroll type book. The book is to be consumed and will taste sweet in the mouth and bitter in the belly. We also see that this may be an international book because John is to prophecy before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings. This is believed to be the bible. To consume a book means to read a book. The bible is full of prophecies in which some are of good news and some are of bad news. The bad news is to those who are unbelievers.

We are very blessed that we have an all sufficient God who loves us and has given us this revelation along with mercy and a time of grace that we may come to know Him and obey Him.

posted by Ben at 8:49 PM