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By Ramona Cook
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I don’t assume to interpret what the Angel meant by the information given to John; but I have meditated upon the thought and I have realized that we experience these particular phenomena in the living of our regular lives.
There is much to which we have committed ourselves, having taken it into the very core of our life because we thought of it as a sweet thing, one that would be enjoyable, only to find that the living out of the commitment is very grievous.
Interestingly, this experience may occur for us from either an unrighteous commitment or a righteous commitment.
There are times when we make a promise to a righteous cause, knowing it to be one of great need and therefore necessary; yet the sticking to it and seeing it to the finish requires such work of us that we could wish we’d never begun. It becomes a bitter task, albeit one of ultimate reward and eventual pleasure.
There are times when we may commit our allegiance to a thing of no value in God’s eyes, or even a thing of abomination in His eyes. Certainly it promised us a sweet pleasure and a promising outcome, but after having taken it into our lives we find it to be bitter in that part of us that the Scriptures call “the belly;” the soul, the thoughts, the feelings, the core of our being.
In referring to *Strong’s Concordance, I found that the word “honey” is used in the KJV 56 times. In the First Testament it is always the same word, H1706, and the root word means “gummy.”
In the New Testament the word is always the same word, and is G3192, and translates simply, “honey.”
Honey is a substance sweet to the taste. I have been told by physicians that honey does not harbor bacteria. It is a good food for our bodies. I like honey. I’m glad that the thing which was sweet to John’s taste but bitter in his stomach was a little book and not actually “honey.”
However,the answer seeking mania inherent in my nature can’t let go; “What was the Angel communicating to John?”
Ref: *The Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible: by James Strong, S.T.D., LL. D.: Hendrickson Publishers,
ISBN 0-917006-01-1
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Nicely done. God bless~