Sermon Tone Analysis

Review

A Strong Messenger

The Description of This Messenger Shows it is God the Son

Putting Claim to the Earth

Parenthesis

The Seventh Trumpet Sounds

The Final Judgment of God is Released

The Mystery of God

Eating the Small Scroll, Revelation 10:8-11

John is instructed to take the scroll from the hand of the Messenger, Revelation 10:8

Revelation 10:8

And the voice which I heard out from the heaven again spoke with me and said, “Go.

Take the small scroll, the one open in the hand of the Messenger, the One standing upon the sea and upon the earth.”

The Messenger instructs John to eat the scroll, Revelation 10:9

Revelation 10:9

And I went before the Messenger, while saying to Him, “Give to me the little scroll.”

And He said to me, “Take and devour it and it will make bitter your stomach, but in your mouth, it will be sweet as honey”.r

mouth.”

Sweet to the mouth, but bitter to the stomach, Revelation 10:10

Bitter

Sharp and harsh or unpleasant

Wormwood, Revelation 8:11

How the Message is Received, Ezekiel 3:1-3

Not the Same Book as John Ate

Not for the Same Purpose

John must continue the prophecy, Revelation 10:11

Revelation 10:11

And He said to me, “It is necessary for you to prophecy again over peoples and over nations and to languages and to many kingdoms.”

The Revelation is Not Over Yet

The Return of Christ (the Messiah) is the sweet part

The realization there is more to come before the events he was seeing

The Turning Over of the Scroll With Seven Seals, Revelation 5:1

It had to be opened before what is written on the outside could be read

We are now moving back in time to look at more details

The Times of the Gentiles, Revelation 11:1-2

The Holy City Will Be Trampled by Gentiles for Forty-Two Months, Revelation 11:1-2

The Temple is the Tribulation Temple

Going Back to the Middle of the Tribulation (42 months)

The Jews Leave Jerusalem, Luke 21: 24

Israel is scattered into the nations by Rome, 70 A.D. Luke 21:5

Not an indication that the Gentiles will continually rule over Jerusalem

Until the end of the times of the Gentiles

For the last 2000 years the city of Jerusalem has been primarily under the Gentiles

The Man of Lawlessness has been Resuscitated

He was killed in the war with Russia, mid-tribulation, Revelation 13:3

Revelation 13:3 (NKJV)

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, ...

He was resuscitated, Revelation 13:3

Revelation 13:3 (NKJV)

… and his deadly wound was healed.

And all the world marveled and followed the beast.

He has destroyed the harlot, Revelation 17:16

He claims He is God, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

The Two Witnesses, Revelation 11:3-10

They Will Prophecy, Revelation 11:3

Prophecy is Information Given by God

Relates to the Time Given, Acts 11:28

Not the Reading of Scripture

Prophecy was active before the completion of the Scriptures, Acts 11:28-29

In the Tribulation God will give Israel New Revelation, Joel 2:28-32

Two Olive Trees, Revelation 11:4

Of the Same Type as in Zechariah, Zechariah 4:3

They Stand with the Lord as Witnesses, Zechariah 4:5

These are not The Same Witnesses, but of the Same Type

They Stand to Testify Concerning God

Witnessing Is Not Just For Salvation

They are Jews

A Contemporary Jew

Elijah

He Comes Before Mid-Tribulation, Malachi 4:5

John the Baptist was not Elijah, John 1:21

They Will Not Be Harmed, Revelation 11:5

Anyone Even Desiring to Harm them

It is Necessary that they die in this manner

They Are Given Authority Over the Heaven, Revelation 11:6

The First Heaven

Three and a Half Years With No Rain

This is in the Roman Empire Area

The Rest of the World is Already in Drought, Revelation 7:1

Revelation 7:1 (NKJV)

And after these things I discerned four angels, standing upon the four corners of the earth while holding the four winds of the earth in order that wind should not blow upon the earth, neither upon the sea, neither upon any tree.

They Have Authority to Turn Water to Blood

During the Time of the Trumpet Judgments

The Second Trumpet will Turn a Third of the Sea into Blood, Revelation 8:8

Wormwood will also Fall During this time, Revelation 8:11

Little Water will be Left, but They will Have Authority to Turn it to Blood

They can Bring any Plague Upon the Earth

Not Limited to the Plagues Brought on Egypt

Every Manner of Plague

The Time of Reconciliation for the Gentiles is Over

Eating the Small Scroll

The Times of the Gentiles

The Two Witnesses