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THE END TIMES – Sermon #35
Revelation 14:14-20
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.
Those chapters also paint a clear portrait of the church all the way from Pentecost to the Rapture.
Chapters 4-11 tell us about the chronology of the Tribulation Period.
They take us all the way from the beginning to the end of that terrible seven year period of time.
In chapters 12-14, we are taken back to the beginning.
These chapters give us the same time period from a different perspective.
We are no longer talking about the chronology of the book, now we are confronted with the characters of the book.
Through a series of seven visions, John takes us once again through the days of the Tribulation.
In our study of this book, we have arrived at the seventh of these visions.
These verses close out the pause in the action we have been in since chapter 12 verse 1.
When this chapter ends, we are going to be thrown back into the heat and the horrors of the final days of the Tribulation.
Before we deal with those things, John gives us a vision of our Lord when He comes again in power and glory.
When Jesus came the first time, He came as a Savior.
He came to give His life on the cross so that sin might be paid for and sinners might be set free.
When He comes the second time, He is coming as a Judge.
He is coming to destroy sin, Satan and all those who stand in defiance to God.
When Jesus returns, He will come in power, glory and judgment and none will be able to withstand Him!
There will be no cross for Jesus the next time He comes.
There will be a crown!
There will be no tree for Him to hang upon; but there will be a throne for Him to sit upon.
Let’s move through these verses and catch the vision John shares of the Lord Jesus Christ and the coming days of His terrible judgment.
I want to preach on the subject: When The Judge Calls His Court To Order.
As I do, I want to show you the parts of John’s vision.
I. THE LORD AND HIS RETURNING-VS.
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The first image we are given is of the Lord Himself, sitting upon a cloud, wearing a crown with a sickle in His hand.
Let’s examine this image in more detail.)
A. His Person – There is no doubt about Whom John is writing.
He is writing about “The Son of Man”.
As you may remember, this was one of the titles given to the Lord Jesus when He came to this earth the first time.
Jesus used this title to refer to Himself some 84 times in the Gospels.
It was the way He most often referred to Himself.
This title identifies Jesus with mankind.
It is His human title.
It speaks to His sufferings, His service and His sacrifice.
When John sees the Son of Man in the clouds, he is seeing the One Who came to this earth and gave His life as a ransom for sin.
John is seeing Jesus Christ.
Of course, we are promised that Jesus Christ will come in this fashion, Rev. 1:7; Luke 21:27.
John is giving us a preview of that glorious day when Jesus Christ will return in glory and power!
B. His Position – When John sees Jesus, he sees Him wearing a “golden crown”.
The word “crown” translates the word for “a victor’s crown”.
It refers to the laurel wreaths that were given out to victors in the ancient Olympic Games.
The fact that this crown is “golden” identifies the wearer as a King.
When John sees Jesus Christ this time, he does not see a carpenter.
He does not see a humble Jewish rabbi.
He does not see Jesus of Nazareth.
He does not see the son of Mary.
When John sees Jesus here, He sees the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
He sees the One Who invaded Satan’s territory and carries off a great victory, he sees the One Who walked valiantly into the jaws of death, shedding His blood on the cross to defeat sin and Satan and liberate sinners.
He sees the One Who walked victoriously out of that tomb on the third day.
John sees the King Who has dome to take possession of His domain.
When Jesus comes back, there will be no debate.
The United Nations will not convene to see whether He can reign or not.
When He comes, He will be wearing the golden crown of the victor.
This just means that all the battles have already been fought and He is the winner!
Jesus will not rule by the leave of men.
He will rule by His right at Creator, Lord, Savior and King!
C. His Power – When John sees the King, He has “a sharp sickle in his hand”.
A sickle is an instrument used to harvest wheat.
When Jesus returns, He is coming to both gather His people into His barn as a farmer gathers his wheat; and He is coming to cut down the wicked like a farmer cuts down his wheat.
We will see this truth unfold in the next few verses.
For now, it needs to be said that Jesus can either be your Savior or He can be your Judge.
If you will receive Him in these days of grace, He will save you and take you to Heaven.
If you reject Him, He will stand in judgment of your life one day.
He will either be your Savior, or He will be your Judge.
The choice is yours!
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THE LORD AND HIS REAPING-VS.
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These next four verses unfold our Lord’s plan to bring judgment to this earth.
When He came the first time, He came as the Sower.
He moved through this world sowing the seeds of the Gospel of grace.
When He returns, He will come as the Reaper.
He will separate the saint from the sinner.
He will take the saints home to Heaven and the sinner will be cast into hell.
There are two harvests described in these verses.
Harvest time in the Bible is often used as a picture of souls coming to God for salvation, John 4:34-35.
In these verses, the harvest is used as a picture of judgment.
Let’s see what these verses have to say about the harvests the Lord is going to reap someday.)
A. v. 15-16 The Reaping Of The Grain – These two verses describe the Lord Jesus is shown thrusting in His sickle to reap the earth.
The world is pictured as a field of wheat that is ready to be harvested.
The Lord takes His sickle and He reaps the field.
What we are seeing in these verses share the fulfillment of a parable Jesus told in the Gospels.
In Matthew 13:24-30, Jesus told the parable of “The Wheat and the Tares”.
It is a story of a farmer who sowed a wheat field expecting to reap a bountiful harvest.
But, his enemy came and sowed tares among his wheat.
The servants wanted to pull up the tares, but the farmer knew that doing so would destroy the wheat.
His council was for both to grow together until the time of the harvest, then the tares could be gathered and burned and the wheat could be gathered and placed in the farmer’s barn.
In the same chapter, Matthew 13:36-43, Jesus told His disciples what this parable meant.
The good seed represented genuine believers while the tares represented false believers.
The good seed represents the saved and the tares represent the lost.
The problem with the wheat and the tares is that the two cannot be told apart while they are growing.
The tares, which is a plant called the Bearded Darnel, look just like wheat as it matures.
The difference between the two plants becomes clear when they near harvest time.
The head, or top, of the tare turns black and stands up straight.
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