Revelation 14:14–20

The Harvest of the Earth

^14*Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was what looked like a human being, with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ^15*Then another angel came out from the temple and cried out in a loud voice to the one who was sitting on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap the harvest, because the time has come; the earth is ripe for the harvest!” ¹⁶Then the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth’s harvest was reaped.

¹⁷Then I saw another angel come out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

¹⁸Then another angel, who is in charge of the fire, came from the altar. He shouted in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sickle, and cut the grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes are ripe!” ¹⁹So the angel swung his sickle on the earth, cut the grapes from the vine, and threw them into the winepress of God’s furious anger. ^20*The grapes were squeezed out in the winepress outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress in a flood three hundred kilometres long and nearly two metres deep.