Revelation 10:1-11, the mighty angel and the little scroll

Jewish literature pictured giant, sun-bright angels, meant to awe hearers with the God greater than any angel (Keener; the cultural backgrounds notes). Heiser's chapter episode argues for "the second person of the Trinity appearing as a man", the Old Testament angel of the Lord, whose oath by God suits the Son serving the Father; his question-and-answer episodes call Christ a real option. A raised hand was an oath gesture in Greek practice as in the Old Testament (Keener; the cultural backgrounds notes). The angel echoes Daniel 12:7, where an angel swears that three and a half years remain; here he swears the waiting is over (Keener; the cultural backgrounds notes). Sealing up the thunders recalls Daniel 12:4, and some mysteries stay hidden until the end (Deuteronomy 29:29) (Keener; the cultural backgrounds notes). Eating the scroll follows Ezekiel 2:8-3:3, sweet as God's word and bitter as the judgment John must announce (Keener; the cultural backgrounds notes); Heiser, reporting Aune in his Revelation 5 episode, calls this open scroll not likely the sealed one of chapter 5, though some link them. John's commission to many nations recalls Jeremiah's, where Ezekiel was sent to Israel alone (the cultural backgrounds notes).