[George Varnum]

I’ll have to look it up, but I seem to recall a passage in the Old Testament where the Prophet is handed a “little book” or “Scroll” (check relative meanings in Concordance) by an Angel, and instructed to eat it. It would be “sweet on (his) tongue but bitter in his stomach” - and sure enough it was.

Now in the olden days lead oxide was known as “sugar of lead”, and kids eat lead paint chips because they taste like candy... so a lead “book” might indeed taste sweet, but since it is also toxic would likely make anyone who swallowed it sick - bitter in the belly. I wonder if there might be any connection?

I have concerns about these going back to Jordan; you know what will happen to them if they fall into the hands of Muslims, don’t you?

Look what they did to the relics in the Museum at Cairo, which they took to be symbols of a non-Muslim religion, and thus they were obligated to desecrate or destroy. When they pull an Egypt in Jordan and know where these relics are, they will probably be in dire peril unless someone spirits them to safety somewhere very well concealed from Islam.

[Shelayne]

I’ll have to look it up, but I seem to recall a passage in the Old Testament where the Prophet is handed a “little book” or “Scroll” (check relative meanings in Concordance) by an Angel, and instructed to eat it. It would be “sweet on (his) tongue but bitter in his stomach” - and sure enough it was.

That is from Revelation. It is John that is instructed to eat the scroll.