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Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"
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A Joyful Harvest of Believers
Multiple commentators, including Spurgeon and Ellicott, distinguish this 'harvest' from the 'vintage' of judgment that follows. They interpret this scene as the joyful and personal gathering of believers by Jesus Christ himself. The Son of Man, with his own sickle, reaps the 'wheat'—the righteous whom He has saved—to bring them into His heavenly storehouse.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And another angel. The fourth in order, Revelation 14:6, 8-9.
Came out of the temple. See Barnes on Revelation …
Send forth (πεμψον). First aorist (urgency) active imperative of πεμπω. "Thrust in thy sickle now," this angel urges Christ.
19th Century
Anglican
And another angel ...—Translate, And another angel came forth out of the temple, etc. It has been asked, “What harvest is…
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Baptist
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and wh…
After a brief pause to encourage the faithfulness of the saints, John returns to the theme of divine judgment on the world. He does this by first d…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And another angel came out of the temple
Not the Holy Spirit, who, being God omniscient, knows the day and hour of judgment,…
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When warnings and judgments fail to produce reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up. They then become ripe for judgment, which is repres…
