Revelation 10 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ Then I saw another mighty angel descend from heaven. He was clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow encircled his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire, ² and he had a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, ³ and he uttered a great shout like the roar of a lion; and when he shouted, the seven thunders raised their voices. ⁴ When the seven thunders had spoken I was going to write it down, but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said! Do not write it down!" ⁵ Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to heaven, ⁶ and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, that there should be no more delay, ⁷ but at the time when the seventh angel spoke, when he should blow his trumpet, then God's mysterious purpose, the good news of which he gave to his slaves the prophets, would be accomplished. ⁸ Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, "Go and take the little scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." ⁹ So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey." ¹⁰ So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it, it made my stomach bitter. ¹¹ Then they said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings!"

² And his appearance underwent a change in their presence and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

¹⁸ And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you—that everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures, ⁴⁶ and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.

²¹ Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

¹⁵ and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

²³ For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.

¹³ when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers.

²⁰ Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine character—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

²⁵ For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

²⁵ To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed,

²⁰ he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven, ²¹ far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come. ²² He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

³ and how the secret was made known to me by revelation, as I have just briefly written. ⁴ As you read that, you will be able to understand the insight I have into the secret of the Christ ⁵ (which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets) ⁶ that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news ⁷ for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me. ⁸ To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ, ⁹ and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

¹⁰ so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven and on earth and in the underworld, ¹¹ and everyone should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, and thus glorify God the Father.

⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming.

¹³ For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself,

⁷ See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over him. So it is to be, Amen.

¹¹ say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

¹⁵ his feet were like bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the noise of mighty waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.

¹ "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: " 'He who holds the seven stars in his right hand and goes about among the seven gold lampstands speaks thus: ² I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors. ³ You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.

³ The one who was seated on it looked like jasper and sardius, and around the throne was a halo of the color of an emerald.

⁵ Out from the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder. In front of the throne seven blazing lamps were burning; they are the seven spirits of God.

⁹ And whenever the animals offer glory, honor, and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

¹¹ "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, for you created all things; by your will they existed and were created."

¹ Then I saw lying in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a roll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals. ² And I saw a mighty angel announcing in a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the roll and break its seals?"

² And I saw a mighty angel announcing in a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the roll and break its seals?" ³ But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the roll or look into it. ⁴ Then I cried bitterly because no one could be found fit to open the roll or look into it. ⁵ But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

¹ In my vision, when the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four animals say with a voice like thunder, "Come!"

³ When he broke the second seal, I heard the second animal say, "Come!"

¹ After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ² Then I saw another angel ascend from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had it in their power to harm the earth and the sea,

² Then I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. ³ Then another angel with a gold censer came and stood at the altar, and he was given a great quantity of incense so that he might mingle it with the prayers of all the saints on the altar of gold that stood before the throne. ⁴ So the smoke of the incense went up before God from the angel's hand for the prayers of his people. ⁵ Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and emptied it upon the earth, and there followed peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

⁵ Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and emptied it upon the earth, and there followed peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

¹³ Then in my vision I heard an eagle flying in midair say in a loud voice, "Alas! Alas! Alas for the inhabitants of the earth, because of the other blasts of the three angels who are going to blow their trumpets!"

¹³ Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the corners of the altar of gold that was before God ¹⁴ say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates."

² and he had a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

⁴ When the seven thunders had spoken I was going to write it down, but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said! Do not write it down!" ⁵ Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to heaven,

⁵ Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to heaven,

⁵ Then the angel, whom I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, raised his right hand to heaven, ⁶ and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, that there should be no more delay,

⁸ Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, and said, "Go and take the little scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." ⁹ So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey." ¹⁰ So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it, it made my stomach bitter.

⁹ For three days and a half, men of all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their bodies, and will not let them be buried.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever." ¹⁶ Then the twenty-four elders who were seated on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying, "We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and were, because you have assumed your great power and begun to reign. ¹⁸ The heathen were enraged, but now your anger has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your slaves the prophets and your people high and low who revere your name, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth!"

² And I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of great waters, and loud peals of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with eternal good news to announce to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people. ⁷ He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour for his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

¹⁴ Then I saw a white cloud, and seated on it a being like a man, with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple and cried in a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, "Use your sickle and reap. The time has come to reap, for the earth's harvest is ripe."

¹ Then I saw another great, marvelous portent in heaven. There were seven angels with seven plagues which are to be the last, for they complete the expression of God's wrath.

⁷ Then one of the four animals gave the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,

¹⁷ The seventh emptied his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is all over!"

¹⁵ "The waters that you saw," he said to me, "on which the idolatrous woman was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

¹⁰ "Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near.