It's Harvest Time
Revelation - Staying Faithful to the End • Sermon • Submitted
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· 6 viewsThe outpouring of God's wrath is a certain event. It is portrayed as a harvest. Believers can take comfort that it will occur and justice dispensed. Unbelievers should be warned and repent to escape this judgment.
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Introduction
Introduction
Review from the 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and the spiritual warfare of
The 7 seals - 4 horsemen, saints under the altar, the signs in heaven and earth w/people hiding from the wrath of the Lamb, (the sealing of the 144,000 & the multitude of the nations - God’s people), the silence in heaven with God’s appearance.
The 7 trumpets - ecological, industrial/economical, pathological, ecological, judgment on unbelievers, 4 angels from the Euphrates released & unrepentant people, (the little angel, the scroll, and the two witnesses), the kingdoms of the world announced as the kingdom of the Lord and his Christ
The Spiritual warfare between the Devil and God’s People (including Israel), and the descriptions of the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth, 144,000 sing a new song.
The messages of the three angels.
Rev 14Time to Harvest the Grain - 14:14-16
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
Time to Harvest the Grain - 14:14-16
Time to Harvest the Grain - 14:14-16
Time to Harvest the Grain - 14:14-16
Time to Harvest the Grain - 14:14-16
Rev 14:14-16
The one like a son of man who = Jesus (cf. ) =
sits on the white cloud = purity and/or victory (14:14)
wears a gold crown = royal authority and divine glory
holds a sharp sickle = God’s final judgment (cf. + 7x in :14-19)
The angel (#4 of chapter 14 - first 3 in 14:6-12, all of whom proclaimed a message on earth) (14:15)
came out of the temple
calling out a message to him who sat on the throne
The angel’s message:
“Put in the sickle and reap
because it’s time to harvest,
because the harvest is ripe”
The one like the son of man’s action - swing the sickle and reap the earth (14:16)
Time to Harvest the Grapes - 14:17-20
Time to Harvest the Grapes - 14:17-20
Joel 3:13
13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
The angel (#5) (14:17)
came out of the temple
holding a sharp sickle
The angel (#6) (14:18)
who had authority over the fire
Jewish tradition had angels in charge of the elements of wind, water, earth, and fire (1 Enoch 60:11-21; Jub. 2.2.)
has an angel hurling a censer of fire that contain the prayers of the saints - it starts the trumpet judgments
Suggests that this angel had charge of God’s fiery judgment on the unbelieving nations.
called with a loud voice
to the angel with the sharp sickle
“Put in your sickle and gather from the earth’s vine
because the grapes are ripe”
The angel’s (#5) action - swing the sickle, gather the grape harvest, throw the grapes into “the great winepress of the wrath of God.” (14:19-20)
The winepress (14:20)
was treaded heavily with feet with implied destructive intent
outside the city (probably Jerusalem)
resulting in blood flowing about 184 miles and about 5’-5’6” deep
184 miles is the length of Palestine from the Syrian border (north) to Egyptian border (south)
184 is 4x4 x 10x10 - symbolic of God’s complete judgment
184 40x40 - symbolic of God’s divine judgment
The emphasis is on the finality and terrible scope of God’s judgment on those who have rejected the Gospel and mistreated God’s people!
Truth - You’ll be part of the final harvest
Truth - You’ll be part of the final harvest
Choice - accept Jesus or reject Jesus
Choice - accept Jesus or reject Jesus
Truth - Others who around us will be part of the final harvest
Truth - Others who around us will be part of the final harvest
Choice - engage in harvest work - (Luke 10:1-20)
Choice - engage in harvest work - (Luke 10:1-20)