Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.” v.4
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Did you know that the Greek word for book is biblion? Looks like our word bible. Well our word Bible in English is just transliterated (made English sounding rather than translated) and means book. The Bible is more than just any book, it is thee book, the book of God's words. John is told to get the little book from the angel and eat it. He describes it sweet to taste but bitter in his stomach. Now I don't fully understand what eating the book describes, but how true are God's words, His truth, so good and sweet but hard to digest sometimes when they're things against our sin or what we think ought to be instead?
Well John here says he's about to write until a voice from heaven says not to write them. We can tell therefor that John is writing things as he sees them therefore in this book of Revelation, whereas most books we have in the Bible are written afterwards. Another interesting thing to note is that we don't get to know what John saw and what will be happening at this time in the future. This shows that God hasn't revealed everything to us. That there are some things that He has not shared for us to know yet. The Bible has answers for all things, but there will still be things that will be revealed that we wont know till a later time. What is something you cant wait to know from God?
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