My kids have dared each other to eat a Warheads sour candy! I didn’t join in the “fun.” I tried one about 30 years ago and never want another one! Sarah can withstand the extreme sour taste long enough to eventually get to the sweet taste, but other kids can’t (and me neither!).
Similar to the Warheads, John ate a sweet and sour scroll.
Revelation 10:8-11 8 Then the
voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the
scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea
and on the land.”
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He
said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your
mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’” 10 I took the little
scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my
mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then
I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations,
languages and kings.”
In reverse of the Warheads, John’s tasty scroll was first sweet and then
sour. It may mean that the prophecy he was given to share includes sweet
victory for Jesus’s followers, but bitter judgment for those who reject Jesus.
The book of Revelation certainly includes both! Jesus gives John the good and
bad news together. Which are you confident you will ultimately experience? Sweet
victory in Jesus or sour separation from Him for all eternity?