7 billion bodies!!!!!

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Revelation 14:14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.​

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17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.​

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Here's a link to the commentary I read.

On the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle: Some find it difficult to see Jesus as the One gathering the harvest here. They have a hard time with Jesus responding to another angel who came out of the temple. But it is unlikely that anyone called the Son of Man, and wearing a golden crown is anyone but Jesus.​

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Having on His head a golden crown: “How different it will be to see him with a crown of gold upon his head from what it was to see him wearing that terrible crown of thorns which the cruel soldiers plaited, and thrust upon his brow! The word used here does not usually refer to the diadem of power, but to the crown won in conflict; and it is very remarkable that it should be said that, when Christ comes to judge the world, he will wear the garland of victory, the crown which he has won in the great battle which he has fought. How significant of his final triumph will that crown of gold be about those brows that were once covered with bloody sweat when he was fighting the battle for our salvation!” (Spurgeon)​

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For the harvest of the earth is ripe: This ancient Greek word for ripe has a negative sense, “to become dry or withered.” The idea is of something that is over-ripe. This means that God will judge the earth only when it is over-ripe for judgment. He doesn’t rush into judgment.​

“It must be remembered that evil has its harvest as well as good. There is a harvest of misery and woe, — a harvest for the gathering, binding, and burning of the tares, — as well as for the gathering of the wheat into the garner of heaven.” (Seiss)​

Another angel who came out from the altar, who had power over fire: “These allusions seem to indicate that the angel is acting in response to the prayers of the saints for divine judgment on wickedness.” (Walvoord)​

The great winepress of the wrath of God: This vivid picture of judgment was the inspiration for The Battle Hymn of the Republic.​

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,​

He is trampling out the vineyard where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on!​

Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe: The image of the Second Coming of Jesus as a harvest is also communicated in Matthew 13:24-30 and 13:36-43, with the parable of the wheat and the tares. The implication is that true believers will not be separated from those who merely go to church until the final harvest.​

Fully ripe “pictures grapes fully grown in the prime almost bursting with juice… The spurting of the grape juice from under the bare feet of those treading the grapes in the winepress is compared to the spurting of blood and speaks of the awful human carnage.” (Walvoord)​

“What strength have grapes against the weight and power of a man when he comes to set his feet upon them? And the riper they are, the more helpless… The heel of Omnipotence is upon them, and they can only break and sink beneath it.” (Seiss)​

Blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs: This probably describes blood splattering up to the horses’ bridles, a picture of tremendous carnage in the battle of Armageddon described in Revelation 16:16 and 19:11-19. It is not likely a description of a river of blood running the length of the Promised Land and as high as a horse’s bridle is. This would be an almost incomprehensible river of blood.​

In ancient times, a battle area extending one thousand six hundred furlongs (approximately 200 miles) was beyond all known conflict — but not in modern warfare. “The area covered, 1,600 furlongs, is approximately 200 miles, and specifies that the area within a 200-mile radius from Jerusalem will be gathered at the time of the second coming of Christ.” (Walvoord)​

But this vivid, powerful description shows how complete the judgment of God is. Revelation 14 is the perfect answer to Revelation 13. At the end of Revelation 13, it almost seemed like Satan and the Antichrist might win. But Revelation 14 shows who is really triumphant, powerful, and in control: God, His Messiah, and His people; not Satan, his messiah (the Antichrist) and his followers.​

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The first couple of times I read these verses, I thought of the theme "putting God in a box". The commentary highlighted in color leads people to think this is hard to believe.... blood as high as a horse's bridle. I believe the scene will indeed be bloody for as far as the eye can see, if that's what John says he saw in his Vision. After all, would Jesus' best friend be a liar who keeps trying to shove God into an ill-fitting box. John wrote what John saw in the Vision and then men translated it to make it palatable.

According to the latest google search, there are over 18 billion people on earth now. If half of them were wiped out by the four horsemen and the seven horns, that would still leave 9 billion people. Only a couple billion claim to be Christians now. If every one of those two billion people who claim to be Christians are indeed Christians, that leaves about 7 billion people who are un-believers or non-believers. That's a lot of blood!

Since I started posting this, I've been thinking about a mass grave. They seem to have a lot of mass graves after mass destruction in war. People are always taken aback by the number of skeletal remains.

If someone had a drone that survived the shapeshifting of earth, and the battery would still work after the major shapeshifting and magnetic field shifts, and they got it in the air, the earth would look like Mars! It would be blood red. It would be pocked with skeletal remains in a sea of blood.... and yes... After such a battle, the horses probably got some blood on their bridles as well as in their eyes and nostrils during the slaughter.

Earth will be a bloody mass grave!

Can you imagine a pile of bodies squishing against each other, and from the weight of the bodies thrown on top of bodies.... the blood would spirt out of the dead bodies until the pit they are thrown in is covered by the blood of popping bodies.

Get a really plump red grape and pop it.... see the spatter? The skeletons will make a nice crunch!

Can you imagine 7 billion bodies??????

The first recorded miracle of Jesus the Messiah was making fine wine!

Now Jesus the Messiah is the winepress!

Think about it 7 billion bodies make a massive bloody mess!!!!

7 billion bodies!!!!!