John's eating up the scroll pictured that Jesus' brothers accepted this assignment. It became a part of them to the extent that they were now identified with this portion of God's inspired Word, drawing nourishment from it. But what they had to preach contained expressions of Jehovah's judgments that were unpalatable to many of mankind. Indeed, it included the plague foretold in Revelation chapter 8. It was sweet, however, to these sincere Christians to know those ingredients and to realize that they were again being used by Jehovah in proclaiming them. - PSALM 19:9, 10.
In time, the message of this scroll also became sweet to the "great crowd . . . out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues" who were found to be sighing on account of the desirable things they saw being done in Christendom. (Revelation 7:9; Ezekiel 9:4) These too, vigorously proclaim the good news, using sweet, gracious words to describe Jehovah's marvelous position for sheeplike Christians. (Psalm 37:11, 29; Colossians 4:6) But to goatlike people, this is bad news. Why? It means that the system in which they trust-and which may even have brought them transitory satisfaction-must go. For them, the good news spells doom. - MATTHEW 25:31-34,41, 46; compare DEUTERONOMY 28:15; 2 Corinthians 2:15, 16.
Next time: Chapter Twenty-Five/Reviving Two Witnesses
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