Revelation
14 : 14 - 16
Reaping the Earth's Harvest
14 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.
15 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."
16 So He who sat on the cloud
thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
v14 - I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the
cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head
and a sharp sickle in his hand. –
I looked
John often hears first and later
sees, thus the 'I looked' of this verse can be connected with the 'I heard' of
verse 13, thus John hears about the dead who die in the Lord in verse 13 and
now he sees them harvested.
Judging
authority given to Christ
John 5:27 and has given Him authority
to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.
Mat. 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
What is
means of white cloud?
The white cloud once again
indicates the Second Coming.
What is
means of sickle?
The sickle is a reference to the
Second Coming and the harvest of the age (Mat 13:37, Mark 4:26, and also Joel
3:12-13).
'One like a son of man'
The 'one like a son of man' is
Christ, 1:13, this is taken from Daniel's vision of 'one like the son of man coming
with the clouds of heaven', Dan 7:13, see also Rev 1:7, Mark 12:26, Mat 24:30.
What is mean by crown?
The Greek word for crown used
here is stephanos not diadema used in 19:12, stephanos is also used of the gold crown
worn by the rider on the white horse in 6:2.
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v15 - 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." –
Came out of
the temple
The end of the age has arrived,
Mat 13:39, the angel comes out of the temple meaning God’s presence because
only God can decide the time of the end of the age,
No One Knows
the Day or Hour
Mat 24:36,
36 "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the
angels of heaven, but My Father only.
Acts 1:7. And He said to them, "It is not for you
to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
The angel acts as God’s messenger.
He got the message from the God Yahuwah and informing to Christ Jesus
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v16 - So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and
the earth was harvested.
– Osborne points out that swing (Gk: ebalen) is
better translated cast or throwing his sickle to earth, a strong
metaphor and pictures a decisive act. Compare with the angel casting the sickle to harvest the wicked
in 14:19, which parallels the great white throne judgement of the saints in 20:12
and sinners in 20:13-14.
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