1. Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.
2. He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.
3. Then he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices.
4. When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.”
5. Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
6. and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will be no more delay!