seekeroftruth
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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[b] 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.
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.[c]
b. Revelation 14:14 See Daniel 7:13.
c. Revelation 14:20 That is, about 180 miles or about 300 kilometers
Imagine a huge bowl or valley.... 180 miles long and 180 miles wide..... about 4 or 5 feet deep.... full.... of Blood!
This is from the easy English site.
When people make wine, they put the ripe grapes in large buckets. Then they step on the grapes until all the juice comes out. They use the juice to make the wine that they drink.
The angel with his sharp tool harvested the grapes of the whole earth. He threw them into a large bucket. Then God squeezed the grapes as men step on natural grapes. But these grapes meant the people with whom God was angry. So, in fact, John was describing the deaths of these people. This is why John saw blood flow from the grapes instead of juice.
This was an awful thing. John tried to show us how terrible it was. A deep river of blood flowed from the people. It was about five feet deep and flowed for 200 miles. God was very angry. He punished and he killed all those wicked people.
It was outside the city where Jesus died. God punished this vast crowd of people outside the city. That city was Jerusalem.
I got no story this morning. The whole idea of a glass of wine 180 miles by 180 miles by 5 foot..... well that's just mind blowing on it's own.
I guess I'm like that turtle in the Geico commercial.... "that's no feather, that's a vulture!"..... only I would say.... "that's no wine glass.... that's Jesus keeping His word".
