Revelation 14:15

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. THRUST IN - `Send.' The angel does not command the "Son of man" (), but, as messenger, announces to the Son the will of God the Father, in whose hands are the times and the seasons. THY SICKLE - (, where also He 'sendeth the sickle.') The Son sends His sickle-bearing angel to reap the righteous. HARVEST. By the harvest-reaping the elect righteous are gathered; by the vintage, the anti-Christian offenders are removed out of the earth-the scene of Christ's coming kingdom ...

14-20 Warnings and judgments not having produced reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up, and they become ripe for judgments, represented by a harvest, an emblem which is used to signify the gathering of the righteous, when ripe for heaven, by the mercy of God. The harvest time is when the corn is ripe; when the believers are ripe for heaven, then the wheat of the earth shall be gathered into Christ's garner. And by a vintage. The enemies of Christ and his church are not destroyed, till by their sin they are ripe for ruin, and then he will spare them no longer. The wine-press is the wrath of God, some terrible calamity, probably the sword, shedding the blood of the wicked. The patience of God towards sinners, is the greatest miracle in the world; but, though lasting, it will not be everlasting; and ripeness in sin is a sure proof of judgment at hand....

Verse Revelation 14:15. _THRUST IN THY SICKLE_] Execute the judgments which God has decreed. _FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE._] The cup of the people's iniquity is full....

AND ANOTHER ANGEL - The fourth in order, Revelation 14:6, Revelation 14:8. CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE - See the notes on Revelation 11:19. Came, as it were, from the immediate presence of God; for the temple was regarded as his unique dwelling-place. CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE TO HIM THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD - To the Messiah, Revelation 14:14. That is, the command was borne directly from God by the angel to the Messiah, to go forth and reap the great harvest of the world. It is not a command of the angel

EXPOSITION REVELATION 14:1 AND I LOOKED; _and I saw, _indicating a fresh phase of the vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). Having described (Revelation 12:1. and 13.) the trinity of enemies with which Christ and his people contend, the vision now passes on to depict the blessedness in store for the faithful Christian, and, on the other hand, the final fate of the dragon and his adherents. We are thus once more led to the final judgment. And just as in the former vision, after the assurance of the salvation of the faithful (Revelation 7:1.), came the denuncia

AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE,.... Not the Holy Spirit, who, being God omniscient, knows the day and hour of judgment, which is a secret to men and angels, as Napier thinks; since though he dwells in the church as his temple, yet is never called an angel; nor does this angel represent the souls under the altar, who come out from thence, and importunately desire vengeance on the inhabitants of the earth, the worshippers of the beast, who had shed their blood; but rather the mighty angels who shall descend from heaven with Christ, and who shall be employed by him as reapers, to gather in his elect from the four winds, as well as to bind up the tares in bundles, and burn them; unless a set of Gospel ministers, as before, should be intended, who either by divine revelation, or by the signs of the time being come, and observed by them, will know that the harvest, or end of the worl...

Revelation 14:1. _And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb_ John always writes of Jesus as the «Lamb.» His Lord is to him in his sacrificial character always «the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world» by the shedding of his blood. «I looked, and, lo, a Lamb» Revelation 14:1. _Stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. The Revised Version has it, «having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.» Now they are known to be the Lord's; on earth that fact was questioned, but his name is written on their foreheads now. Sometimes they themselves had to question it, but now it is apparent to all, the distinguishing mark is stamped upon their brow:_ «havi

ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

CHAPTER 14 Grace ancient _ 1. The Lamb and the 144,000 (Revelation 14:1)_ 2. The everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6) 3. Fall of Babylon anticipated (Revelation 14:8) 4. Wrath for the worshippers of the beast (Revelation 14:9) 5. The blessed dead (Revelation 14:12) 6. The harvest and the vintage (Revelation 14:14)...

THE HARVEST AND THE VINTAGE OF THE WORLD. The scene culminates in a vision of the Parousia, and an ingathering of the spiritual harvest. REVELATION 14:14. The coming of the Son of Man on the clouds, which was first suggested by a misinterpretation of Daniel 7:13, is one of the most familiar ideas in Christian eschatology (_cf._ Mark 14:62; Matthew 24:30). LIKE UNTO A SON OF MAN: Daniel 7:13 *. The phrase originally denoted the advent of a new kingdom with human qualities and characteristics in contrast to earlier empires, which