1. Then I saw another powerful angel coming down from heaven dressed in a cloud with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.
2. The angel was holding a small scroll open in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
3. Then he shouted loudly like the roaring of a lion. And when he shouted, the voices of seven thunders spoke.
4. When the seven thunders spoke, I started to write. But I heard a voice from heaven say, “Keep hidden what the seven thunders said, and do not write them down.”
5. Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven,
6. and he made a promise by the power of the One who lives forever and ever. He is the One who made the skies and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it. The angel promised, “There will be no more waiting!