Sermon Tone Analysis

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

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

Joel 3:13

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

Choice - accept Jesus or reject Jesus

Truth - Others who around us will be part of the final harvest

Choice - engage in harvest work - (Luke 10:1-20)