Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great." That passage, however, does not exclude Christ from sitting on the cloud, but rather implies it. 14. — "In His hand a sharp sickle." f. The reapers of earth's harvest, Revelation 14:14-20 i. In the vintage these latter, i.e., the tares, are alone in the prophetic scene, and form the subjects of the Lord's righteous vengeance. As mentioned in the comments on this verse in chapter 1, the passages had reference to the destruction of Jerusalem and the mourning of all Jewish tribes and families all over the world, because of that calamity which had befallen their city and their state in the destruction and desolation of Jerusalem. Revelation 14:14-20. This brings now the coming of the Son of Man with judgment power into view. And He that sat on the cloud put His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped." We come again to the Final Judgment. (14) And I looked . The ripeness of the harvest, the fulness of the vats, indicates the fulness of the guilt. He went out to conquer (chap. Revelation 14:14, KJV : "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." Revelation 1:13; Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:64; John 5:27). The white cloud of this chapter was the same symbol as was mentioned by the Lord himself in Matthew 24:30 : "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." The whole address in Joel 3:13 is directed to the mighty ones, the angels, with the angel of the Lord at their head. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." Flying - Going on swiftly. The "son of man" and the harvest, Revelation 14:14-16 ii. Who looked like a man. In this way, they force the juice out. [Note: Lenski, p445.] Revelation 14:8,9These three denote great messengers of God with their assistants; three men who bring messages from God to men. 14. This is a vision of the Lord Jesus coming in power and great glory. It is not the execution of judgment either moral (Hebrews 4:12) or physical(Revelation 19:15), else a sword would have been named.But the sickle is needed to reap the harvest. That He receives and follows the instructions of an angel ( Revelation 14:15) does not imply His inferiority to an angel. Christ was the Rider of the white horse vision of chapter 6, and He was the Reaper of the white cloud vision of chapter 14--both visions being the scenes of triumphant procedure, picturing the conquering of the imperial persecutor and his minions. Saddam Hussein said that he was fighting the war to end all wars in the Gulf conflict. In Revelation 14:15 there is a literal allusion to Isaiah 27:11. From the beatitude of the blessed dead in verse 13, the apocalypse turns to symbols of reward and retribution respectively for the living in the earth. And another Angel, desiring of him to do justice, by putting in his sickle, because the harvest of the earth was ripe, dry, and withered; i.e. If it was not Christ who sat upon the cloud, he would be altogether excluded from the judgment— He, to whom, even according to John, the Father has committed all judgment, and whose presence was the more indispensable here, as the judgment to be executed is against the enemies of the Lamb. { Isaiah 19:1; Matthew 17:5} It was, as King of Saints, { Revelation 15:3} King of Sion, { Psalm 149:1-2} and King of Nations. Since the sickle is sharp the reaper can do His work swiftly and completely. The pouring out of the seven bowls, Revelation 15:1-16:21 a. 14:14-20 (a) Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat (b) One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. Revelation 14:14. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Six hundred furlongs is about 200 miles, the length of Palestine. Man has been at-bat, but this judgment is the time when God comes to bat. We have before called attention to the absence of the definite article in this title as used in the Apocalypse and in Daniel 7:13. John 5:27 and Daniel 7:13), the “crown,” the general resemblance to the vision in Revelation 1 (see Revelation 1:7-13), indicate as much. we may understand the means and instruments that our Lord Jesus Christ will use to cut down mystery Babylon, the beast, the false prophet, the great whore, and the whole Roman papal kingdom. Hanserd Knollys' Commentary on Revelation. The proper fundamental passage is Joel 3:12-13, where, in the description given of the judgment on the heathen, in which all judgments on the enemies of the church are combined into one grand image, it is said, "Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all heathen round about. Then, it signifies "the end of the world," the final decision on the fates of the righteous and the wicked, when both parties shall be gathered to their proper portion, and housed, as it were, in their own dwelling (Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:39; Mark 4:29). By the harvest a great multitude of the righteous, by the vintage a great multitude of the wicked are taken from this world." A contrast, such as Bengel supposes between the harvest and the vintage, is not indicated in a single trait. Revelation 6:1-17. Revelation 15. The Son of man had in his hand a golden crown--the symbol of the highest royalty, identifying him as the King of heaven, above all potentates of the earth, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. 14:14. This judgment comes to fulfillment in chapter 19. Hi Grant, I am struggling with the reaping of the harvest in this chapter. This is Jesus. This is the judgment of, This judgment comes to fulfillment in chapter 19. Compare also Revelation 16:20-21; Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:11-15. Like unto the Son of man— The expression implies, not doubt of the identity, but the visionary aspect of the object to the eye. (See Matthew 25:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Thessalonians 1:7.). Revelation 19:12. by Grant Richison | Jan 3, 1999 | Revelation | 3 comments, “Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. Your email address will not be published. The 7 *seals: Revelation 6:1-8:1: The first 6 *seals. Theirassumption of royal authority was spurious. Man has been at-bat, but this judgment is the time when God comes to bat. And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs. The harvest and the vintage are the familiar figures employed to express God's closing dealings. In summary fashion, John highlights God’s judgment against the living earth-dwellers (Revelation 14) prior to a detailed description of God’s judgment against the beast, his kingdom and … This cry was simply an indication to the angel representing the Son that the harvest was ripe. It is a calm, deliberative judgment; no hurry, no haste. Indulging here in repetition, it is necessary to keep in perspective the fact that this fourteenth chapter is a prolepsis--an interposition between the parts of the apocalypse, relating events out of sequence, on the order of reading the last chapter of a novel first to see how the story ends. He has the right to this harvest. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 So he who was seated on the cloud … This is the, This is not a repetition of the previous verses. 14:14-20 give messages from a second group of three angels. By the. They reject their own Scriptures. The heavenly preparation for the final judgments, Revelation 15:1-16:1 i. Happy are they who make the right use of these divine messages! He will first taken away his believers and then punished who did not obeyed him. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. Revelation 14:14. Revelation 14 is a preview of the destruction God has planned for the beast/king. . Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! Daniel 7:13. True Israel will flee to the wilderness. For there, too, the Son of man appears as presiding in the judgment, while the angels are only his servants. In the midst of heaven— Breadthways. Revelation 14 The Lamb and the 144,000 people. John now sees Jesus seated on a white cloud with a golden victory crown upon his head. He wears a crown of gold, not thorns. So this latter part of chapter fourteen envisioned scenes at the end of the apocalypse of the compensations of reward for the faithfulness of the saints in symbols of reaping the harvest of grain; then the retribution of wrath for the oppressors of the church represented by casting the vintage of grapes into the winepress. Crown, [ stefanon (Greek #4735)] - garland of victory; not His diadem as King. In chapter 7 this same group of 144,000 received the seal of God in their foreheads. stephanon) and holding a sharp sickle (Gr. Some commentators get mixed up here by paying too much attention to the various angels, who with regard to the judgment (all of them) are but the instruments of Christ ( Matthew 13:41,49 ) and are merely part of the scenery of the vision. (Revelation 14:14-16 NIV) We must ask, who is this one seated on the cloud "like a son of man," wearing a victor's crown and holding a sickle in his hand? The International Critical Commentary… The Lamb and the 144,000. it must be he also, who appears with the sharp harvest-sickle. Revelation 14 answers two questions. And I saw another angel — A second is mentioned, verse 8; a third, verse 9. This expression is only employed in the introduction of subjects of unusual interest. Ezekiel 2:1. The day of vengeance has come. . Apostate Israel will enter, “Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. Revelation 14:14-15. — "And I saw, and behold, a white cloud,and on the cloud one sitting like (the) Son of Man, having upon His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. How is it exactly that you conclude a double negative here? Having an everlasting gospel— Not the gospel, … Revelation 14:12-16. Here, as there, allusion is made more immediately to Matthew 24:30. Sharp sickle is an instrument for gathering the fruits of a harvest. Revelation 6:2): He now returns as a conqueror. The first exhorts to the fear and worship of God; he second proclaims the fall of Babylon; the third gives warning concerning the beast. The former is discriminating judgment, the latter unsparing wrath. 638–640, etc. Parables should not be made to stand on every nuance but on the central idea of the parable. The angel with the sickle commanded by another angel, who had power over fire, to gather the clusters of the vines of the earth, Revelation 14:17 , Revelation 14:18 . {*See remarks on Revelation 1:13.} Son of Man. The crowns upon the heads of the locusts were "like gold" (Revelation 9:7). .—Better, And I saw, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one seated like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. On the expression, "get you down," comp. Previously the Son of Man had been the sower of the good seed (Matthew 13:37), now He has become the reaper (Matthew 13:39-41). The reapers used will be angels (Matthew 13:41). There can be no doubt that here also the figure denotes the harvest of punishment, and that we are to reject the interpretation of Bengel, who remarks, "the vintage is expressive only of wrath and punishment, the harvest is entirely of a gracious character. She said she was unworthy to wear a crown and only her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was worthy of … Mark 4:29). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 14:14-20 Warnings and judgments not having produced reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up, and they become ripe for judgments, represented by a harvest, an emblem which is used to signify the gathering … Revelation 1:7). Many expositors have supposed that it is not Christ who appears on the cloud, but an ordinary angel. Especially is this true of the work to be performed at his second coming. At the end of Revelation 13, it almost seemed like Satan and the Antichrist might win. The Lord Jesus at the head of his faithful followers ( … The man on the white cloud, with a sickle, reaping the earth, Revelation 14:14-16 . People in the first century tramped the grapes so that the juice would flow to a lower vat. It is the centre of the whole chapter, and its very position thus prepares us for the transition that we make in it from angels to the Lord Himself. —A fresh movement of the panorama reveals a new wonder in the sky. 14. — "A white cloud" is peculiar to this action, so also is the white throne in the judgment of the dead (Revelation 20:11). The cloud brings a judgment in view; (comp. Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. He Who previously came to save is now here to judge (compare John 3:17; John 12:47 and contrast John 5:27). But the marks of Christ are too plain—the form of a Son of man (a word which, from the original passage in Daniel, has been, as it were, set apart for Christ), the sitting on the cloud, the golden crown (the elders might fitly bear a crown, ch. It is under this title that Christ deals with the state of things on the earth, and judges the ungodly (Matthew 25:31; John 5:27). (4) The harvest of grain and vintage--14:14-20. There will be a. Here it is real, divinely conferred. He will win the victory by a sharp, severe sickle of judgment. Revelation 13. 1, 14). As Son of Man He comes and claims universal dominion. Finally, it denotes the harvest of wrath, the one-half, in a manner, of that more comprehensive application of the image, "when the sin and wickedness of men shall have grown till it has become ripe for visitation and just punishment." Christ bears it as the King of kings and the Lord of lords, to whom, consequently, all judgment is committed, comp. We come again to the Final Judgment. What is first seen is a white cloud, the cloud upon which Jesus is elsewhere represented as coming in order to wind up the history of the world (Matthew 24:30; Matthew 26:64). And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. The remainder of this chapter presents the judgment of the Son of Man. Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. Revelation 3:7-13. The time for mercy is past. Revelation 14:14-20. The sickle is for reaping. The sickle shows that the harvest has come. The person sitting on the cloud is like the Son of man because he is but a symbol. Mark 4:38). The mention of the cloud also points to a work of judgment; wherever Christ appears on a cloud the work immediately in hand is always a judgment. He Himself treads the, People in the first century tramped the grapes so that the juice would flow to a lower vat. Jesus is king in his own right, but he is generally represented as accomplishing the work of His kingdom in cooperation with the angels. He himself had given (this to) his disciples in Matthew 13, in the parable of the wheat and the weeds (Matthew 13:24-30, 13:36-43). The cloud probably represents the glory of God, the Shekinah. Daniel 7:13-14). white cloud (upon which one sat like the Son of man), we may understand a glorious appearance of Jesus Christ. Chapter 14. (1-3) The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion. Christ holds the right to all judgment (John 5:27). A glance at the white cloud is as consolatory to the church, as it is terrible to the world, for which it is the herald of destruction. Revelation 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Prayer of Manasseh, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. White cloud ... one like to a son of man ... and upon the cloud one sat like unto the son of man, stephanon},” “garland” of victory; not His, The Final Judgment of the Earth Dwellers Portrayed (. 14:6-12 deal with a message from three angels each with his own announcement. But the angel of the wine-press is certainly Christ; and because he is so. This is the time when armies of the world swarm over Israel. This royal, judicial figure is evidently the messiah (drawn from Daniel 7:13, which had been already inter preted thus in En. 14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[ a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. See Matthew 8:20 and App-98. The second angel of the second group cries out to the angel representing the Son is not the same as crying out to the Son. Revelation 14:14 Context. Daily Inspirational - Crossways Ministries, Grant's Verse-by-Verse Logos Bible Software. Read Isaiah 63:1-6; Joel 3:1-21; Zechariah 12:1-14; Zechariah 13:1-9; Zechariah 14:1-21. Like to the Son of man. The article would make it definite and personal. "Son of Man" is a messianic title of Jesus Christ in Scripture (cf. Revelation 14:14-16 thus constitute the fourth or leading passage of the seven. Note the stress on the sharpness of the sickle. Intro: I just want to remind you that the Book of Revelation is not written in chronological order.The first three chapters tell of our Lord’s letters to seven actual churches that existed in John’s day. He alone is called by that title in Revelation--and in one other place only, in the vision of the golden candlesticks of chapter 1:13. This seems clear since John saw Him wearing a victor"s crown (Gr. See. The first angel in the second group of three was “like a son of man.” The word “son” is anarthrous making the “son” indefinite, however, this angel probably represents what the Son of Man will do. God will force out judgment in the battle of Armageddon. Previously: A second angel followed – Revelation 14:8. 14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[ a] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Chapter 14: The 144,000 and the Victorious Judgment of the Lamb "1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father's Name written in their foreheads." Having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. The one sitting on the white cloud had come to reap the harvest of the earth--meaning Jerusalem and Judea. God will force out judgment in the battle of Armageddon. As Son of God He quickensnow the spiritually dead (John 5:25), as in the future the physically dead (v. 28). The sharp sickle in his hand symbolizes harvest. The cloud symbolises the divine presence(Revelation 10:1; Matthew 17:5; Ezekiel 10:4), "white" the purity and absolute righteousness characterising and governing the action. If any opens the door to Jesus, He will come into them. { Joel 3:13; Jeremiah 51:33}. After an account of the great trials and sufferings which the servants of God had endured, we have now a more pleasant scene opening; the day begins now to dawn, and here we have represented, I. And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.” So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. In like manner the Apocalypse expressly teaches, that the Son has nothing which he has not received from the Father—comp. Revelation 1:1. See Psalms 8:4. —The token of his lordship over the land. Six hundred furlongs is about 200 miles, the length of Palestine. White cloud—A nebulous image of “the great white throne” of Revelation 20:11. Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. Revelation 14. The crown (omitted in Revelation 1:13 f.) was a familiar appurtenance of deity in Phrygia (e.g., of Apollo); for the cloud as the seat of deity, cf. In Luke 21:27, and Matthew 24:30, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory," this latter expression, "with power and great glory," corresponds to the white cloud in the passage before us. Literally, it means to become dry, withered. on ch. The sickle is put in. They are both instruments swung by hand in the mowing of ripened grain. By the description of his appearance satisfaction is done to the identity of nature, which is brought out with equal distinctness in the Apocalypse and in the Gospel. A golden crown—The token of his lordship over the land. 14.And I looked, and behold—A fresh movement of the panorama reveals a new wonder in the sky. "And I looked" (Gr. True Israel will flee to the wilderness. We have not seen the last war yet. ch. But to pretend from hence to give the just dimensions of hell, is a groundless conjecture; of which see Cornelius a Lapide. And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.”. This is yet another occasion for judgment, the judgment of “the clusters of the vine.” Scriptures often use the vine as a figure for Israel (Isaiah 5; Psalm 80). This takes us to the end of the Church age, and the end of this present world via the judgment of God upon the world, as described beginning in verse 7. The Lamb's name and his Father's name were written on the front of those people's heads.. 2 Then I heard a loud sound which came from heaven.The noise was like many rivers that were moving very fast. It is urged that Christ cannot receive a command from an angel (more correctly, through an angel). Here He has already received His authority and dominion, for He sits (on His throne) and wears a golden crown (Psalms 21:3), and is now poised to reveal Himself so as to exercise that dominion over the earth. As you probably know, apocalyptic literature must be interpreted apocalyptically. He had in his hand a sharp sickle --the symbol of reaping. He will harvest His fields thoroughly. By the image of the harvest in Scripture is denoted primarily the spiritual harvest, or the gathering of souls into the church of Christ (Matthew 9:38; John 4:35). And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the cloud, Send Thy sickle and reap; for the hour of reaping is come, for the harvest of the earth is dried. The victory, is described, Revelation 19:11-21. 14. — "Upon His head a golden crown," the sign of royal dignity (Revelation 4:4; Revelation 6:2). Revelation 12 & 13 makes clear to us that the church is the target of the dragon. When the Lord's people find sorrow and tribulation in the world, when every thing appears to be lost to them, when they are apt to become faint through the temptations of the world, let them but direct their view to the white cloud, and they will be comforted and strengthened. His judgment is clean and sure. Back To The Future – Sermon #37 . 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