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Revelation 10:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky "
Revelation 10:5
Verse in Context
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3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”
5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky
6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,
7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the prophets.
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Revelation 10:1
"I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire."
Revelation 10:2
"He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land."
Revelation 10:3
"He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices."
Revelation 10:4
"When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”"
Revelation 10:6
"and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,"
Revelation 10:7
"but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants the prophets."
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