WeeKly BooK oF Revelation
paraphrased study
14 - Then I (John) looked, and I saw a - white - cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like the Son of man with a crown of gold 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, and the harvest is ripe.” 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and it was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Then I saw another angel who came out from the altar, an angel who has authority over fire. And he cried out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, telling him “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 earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. (Amageddon. Surely? Fiery, Is.24:20, the last of “seven thunders”?) 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood” (oil?) flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
[Note also a/the grape harvest that is “after the thousand years” and after GWT judgment ‘day’. This is revealed in 1Cor.15:22-24,28 wiTh Mt.13:33, key word 3, three harvests listed (it’s very obvious - barley, wheat and grape harvests) - the verses:
Matthew 13:33 - “The kingdom is like a woman working leaven into three batches of meal/three loaves, until the whole is leavened.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:22-28 - “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in their own order: (1)Christ the firstfruits (barley) then (2)at his coming (the wheat) those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end (overflowing grape harvest) (3)when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying - every rule, and every authority, and power. 25 For Christ must reign until he has put all enemies under him. [“Whoever is friends with the world is an enemy of God” (at enmity with) James 4:4.] 26 The last enemy to be abolished [katargeó - to render inoperative, abolish] is death. 27 For “God has put all [pas - every, the whole, all] under him.” But when it says, “all are put under him,” it is plain that he is excepted who put (“the”) all under him. 28 And then when all are (truly, manifestly and literally/spiritually) under him, then the Son will openly submit himself to he who put all under him [hypotássō - from hypó - under, and tássō - arranged] that God may be all in all. [All the all’s are from the Greek word pas - all, all were translated “all things” except - so that God will be all in all, as it wouldn’t sound right to say “that God may be all things in all things”.]
—> ONE - Christ/Messiah, “forever preeminent”, TWO - the “wheat at his return” and THREE - the grape harvest at “the end when Christ hands all, with aLL things subdued, to the Father” that “God may be all in all” Vs.24-28.] (Creation and humanity sealed and saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence age to age to age. God “is Perfect” - the best ‘end’ result is the only one possible. Had there been no option to stray in Eden, creation would have to be an ant farm. And if things are not allowed to run their course, what exactly would be the point? Mt.13:30 is, surely? Rev.16:13-16.)
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