What is the Little Book?
Revelation 10:8 - Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.
Revelation 10:9 - So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."
Revelation 10:10 - Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
Revelation 10:11 - And he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
After 100 A.D, the Old Testament (Hebrew) and New Testament (Greek) manuscripts were collected in Antioch, Syria, where Christians formed one Bible. Many hand-written copies were made in Antioch and were spread to the churches.
Satan countered by having philosophers in Alexandria, Egypt, such as a man named Origen (185–254 A.D), change the Syrian texts to fit their beliefs.
Jesus had a people group called the Waldensians or Vaudois (who lived in the Alps) translate the Bible. The translated Bible spread through the Roman empire and all the way to England. The Vaudois missionaries risked death to share the Gospel.
Satan responded by having the Roman Catholic Church commission Jerome to write their own version, the Latin Vulgate in 405 AD. Jerome followed Origen's teachings, so the same corruptions occurred in this Bible. The Catholic Church only allowed priests to read it and forbade lay people to read it.
The Catholic Church persecuted people groups such as the Waldensians and the Albigenses, who were used by God to preserve His Holy Word, preach the pure Gospel of Christ, and testify against the Antichrist Papal Church.
In 1229 at the Council of Toulouse, the Catholic church forbid reading or owning a Vaudois Bible. The council resolved that a search in each parish was to be made for heretics (Albigensian and Cathar) and that if found their houses should be destroyed and that non-Latin translations of the bible be destroyed and likewise for other unauthorised copies.
In 1234, at the Council of Tarragona, they declared that no Bible was permitted in one's native language, and that all of them must be burned. They stated that "No one may possess the books of the Old and New Testaments, and if anyone possesses them he must turn them over to the local bishop within eight days, so that they may be burned".
When God caused the Turks to cross the Euphrates to capture the fortress of Constantinople (Eastern Roman Empire) in 1453 A.D during the 6th Trumpet of Revelation, some of the priests escaped to Europe and took with them the original Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts.
This led to them being given to John Wycliffe, who God caused to write the Bible in English, in 1371 A.D.
In 1408, at the 3rd Synod of Oxford, the Catholic Church proclaimed that it is a heresy to have an unauthorized English Bible.
The supposedly Christian Catholic Church was actually forbidding and burning the Word of God. Without it, the true church was in darkness, and the only teaching was from the Papal Church, who were not preaching the pure Word of God.
There was a famine for the word of God.
Amos 8:11 - Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord.
The Satan-empowered Catholic Church had burned so many copies of scripture and killed so many Christians, that in 1514 A.D, at the Fifth Lateran Council, the Papal Church proclaimed that all the heretics (protestants) were dead.
You can see the battle Satan was waging over the Word of God, and that's the context of the Little Book of Revelation 10.
God responded by having William Tyndale print the Bible in English. The first complete edition of his New Testament was published in 1526. After his death in 1536 Tyndale's works were revised and reprinted numerous times.
The Papal Church hated him for his Bible translation and captured him to kill him. As he was being burned to death at the stake, he cried out Lord, open the King of England's eyes.
God responded by having King Henry VIII of England authorize the Great Bible in 1540, which was read aloud in church services of the Church of England. That may not seem like much now, but back then, it was unheard of.
Then in 1560, the Geneva Bible started to be printed. This was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism. This version of the Holy Bible is significant because, for the very first time, a mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public.
All of this coincided with the advent of the printing press, and much to the dismay of the Papal Church, the word of God was spread around the world.
Gutenberg Bible Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press
It allowed the Word of God to be read by millions, and it fueled the Protestant Reformation, where millions were saved. It led to the Great Awakening, where worldwide missions saved millions.
When the Apostle John write the book of Revelation. The word of God was on large hand-written scrolls. Now visualize him seeing the entire canon, all of the Old Testament, along with the Gospels, the Epistles, etc. all in one little book.
At the Council of Trent, the Papal Church declared that preserved Bibles are on the Index of Forbidden Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) (Rule III). The writings of William Wycliffe, Jan Hus, John Calvin and other reformers were condemned.
Then in 1604, King James commissioned a team of scholars to create the King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version (AV) for the Church of England, which was completed in 1611.
Much to the dismay of the Papacy, the true Church of Jesus read the Word of God, and spread the Gospel worldwide, causing millions to be saved by the pure Gospel of Jesus.
The Papal Church responded by persecuting Jesus Church with the Inquisition, which was Satan's excuse to murder millions of Christians and destroy their Bibles.
Revelation 10:9 - So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth."
Revelation 10:10 - Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.
Psalms 119:103 - How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Jeremiah 15:16 - Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
Ezekiel 3:1 - Moreover He said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:2 - So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.
Ezekiel 3:3 - And He said to me, Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you. So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.
The act of eating the book symbolizes reading, absorbing & assimilating God's Holy Word.
In order for God to raise up men during the Dark Ages, to fight against the enemy, they needed the Word of God, as it had been suppressed and nearly eliminated. They were starving for the Word of God. So they took the book and diligently pursued it, and with as much eagerness as a hungry man would eat a meal. Luther did this by candlelight, and then he became a shining light in a dark world.
God's Word is alive. When we eat the Bible, it gives us the strength to live victorious lives. Studying the Bible is more important to our life than our daily bread. The Word of God brought joy and rejoicing to their hearts, as they read the pure Gospel of Christ Jesus.
Revelation 10:11 - And he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
Prior to the written English Bible, they were starved and exposed to the deceptions of the Papal Church.
Today's church is starved because it does not diligently study the Bible, so it is exposed to the deceptions of the Papacy.
Bible reading makes us strong. We are miserable, wretched, naked, poor and blind, if we don't read the Word of God.
Prior to the printed Bible, they did not understand that the Roman Catholic Church is the Antichrist.
Today, because Christians don't make an effort to understand the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, they do not understand that the Papal Church is the Antichrist Beast, who seeks to destroy us.
You can't prophecy and testify about God's truth and identify false prophets without the Word of God.