Use your sickle. This is Christ's harvest. Those symbolized by this are the first-fruits [the 144,000 mentioned in the first section of this chapter] of earth. Swung his sickle on the earth. The first harvest is all the redeemed, that is, all who have reached out through faith to seize the sacrifice of Christ and make themselves part of it. [See notes on Acts 2:37-38.] Compare Matthew 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. The Church Militant becomes the Church Triumphant! See notes on Revelation 7:9.

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