Revelation 10 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then I saw another strong angel descend from heaven; he was clad in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, his face like the sun, his feet like columns of fire, ² and a small scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea, his left upon the earth, ³ and shouted aloud like a lion roaring; and at his shout the seven thunders gave voice. ⁴ After the seven thunders had spoken, I was going to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, do not write it." ⁵ Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and the earth raised his right hand to heaven ⁶ and swore by Him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, "There shall be no more delay; ⁷ in the days of the seventh angel's voice, when he now blows his blast, then shall the secret purpose of God be fulfilled, as he assured his servants the prophets." ⁸ Then the voice I had heard from heaven again talked to me, saying, "Go and take the small scroll which lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and the earth." ⁹ So I went to the angel, saying, "Give me the small scroll." "Take it," said he, "and swallow it; it will taste sweet as honey, but it will be bitter to digest." ¹⁰ Then I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel and swallowed it; it did taste sweet, like honey, but when I had eaten it, it was bitter to digest. ¹¹ Then I was told, "You must prophesy again of many peoples and nations and languages and kings."

² in their presence he was transfigured, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes turned white as light.

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

¹³ when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers.

⁷ Lo, he is coming on the clouds, to be seen by every eye, even by those who impaled him, and all the tribes of earth will wail because of him: even so, Amen.

¹⁵ his feet glowed like burnished bronze, his voice sounded like many waves, ¹⁶ in his right hand he held seven stars, a sharp sword with a double edge issued from his mouth, and his face shone like the sun in full strength.

³ the seated One resembled in appearance jasper and sardius — and round the throne a rainbow resembling emerald in appearance;

² And I saw a strong angel exclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the scroll, to break the seals of it?"

¹ After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ² And I saw another angel rise up from the east, with the seal of the living God; he shouted aloud to the four angels who were allowed to injure the earth and sea,

² Then I saw seven trumpets being given to the seven angels who stand before God. ³ And another angel went and stood at the altar with a golden censer; he was given abundant incense, to be laid with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar in front of the throne; ⁴ and the smoke of the incense with the prayers of all the saints rose up from the angel's hand before God. ⁵ And the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and poured it on the earth; then followed peals of thunder, loud blasts, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

¹³ Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven with a loud cry, "Woe, woe, woe to the dwellers on earth, for the rest of the trumpet-blasts that the three angels are about to blow!"

¹³ Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, ¹⁴ telling the sixth angel with the trumpet, "Let loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

⁵ Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and the earth raised his right hand to heaven ⁶ and swore by Him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, "There shall be no more delay;

¹⁴ Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud One resembling a human being, a golden crown upon his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, shouting aloud to him who sat upon the cloud, "Thrust your sickle in and reap, the time has come to reap, the harvest of earth is ripe and ready."

¹⁸ Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere, ²¹ above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come — ²² he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church,

¹⁰ so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.

¹ Then I saw lying on the right hand of him who was seated on the throne, a scroll with writing on the back, as well as inside, sealed with seven seals. ² And I saw a strong angel exclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the scroll, to break the seals of it?" ³ But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it. ⁴ So I began to weep bitterly because no one had been found fit to open the scroll or look into it; ⁵ but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

¹ And when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, I looked, and I heard one of the four living Creatures calling like thunder, "Come."

³ And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living Creature calling, "Come."

⁵ Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and the earth raised his right hand to heaven

⁸ Then the voice I had heard from heaven again talked to me, saying, "Go and take the small scroll which lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and the earth." ⁹ So I went to the angel, saying, "Give me the small scroll." "Take it," said he, "and swallow it; it will taste sweet as honey, but it will be bitter to digest." ¹⁰ Then I took the small scroll from the hand of the angel and swallowed it; it did taste sweet, like honey, but when I had eaten it, it was bitter to digest.

⁵ From the throne issue flashes of lightning and loud blasts and peals of thunder. And in front of the throne seven torches of fire burn (they are the seven Spirits of God);

⁵ And the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and poured it on the earth; then followed peals of thunder, loud blasts, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

² And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waves and the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like harpists playing on their harps;

¹ Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and marvellous: seven angels with seven plagues — the last plagues, for they complete the wrath of God.

⁷ Then one of the four living Creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever;

¹¹ "Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

¹ To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who moves among the seven golden lampstands: ² I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars; ³ I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

¹⁰ He said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near:

¹⁵ shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

²³ Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

²⁰ for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

¹³ For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater),

¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

⁹ And whenever the living Creatures render glory and honour and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,

¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

² and a small scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea, his left upon the earth,

⁷ he cried aloud, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."

¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air; then came a loud voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne, crying, "All is over!"

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." ⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. ⁴⁶ "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

²¹ who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

²⁵ [Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

³ how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this, ⁴ you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ ⁵ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit), ⁶ namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise. ⁷ Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power; ⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ ⁹ and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever." ¹⁶ Then the four and twenty Presbyters who are seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshipped God, ¹⁷ saying, "We thank thee, Lord God almighty, who art and wast, that thou hast assumed thy great power and begun to reign; ¹⁸ the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

⁴ After the seven thunders had spoken, I was going to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, do not write it." ⁵ Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and the earth raised his right hand to heaven

⁶ things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience.

⁹ For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried;

⁶ Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with an eternal gospel for the inhabitants of the earth, for every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

¹⁵ He also told me, "The waters you saw, on which the woman is seated, are peoples and hosts, nations and tongues.