the end-time church, that lives before the close of probation. Six trumpets have already sounded. The vision of Rev. 10 thus moves forward to the appointed “time of the end,” foretold in Dan. 8–12. The important question rises, What is the meaning of the heavenly initiative to bring the open scroll to the church of the end-time? Two Old Testament examples, the calling of Jeremiah and of Ezekiel, show that their symbolic act of “eating” the scroll of God’s word imparted to them the heavenly commission