13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘aBlessed are the dead who bdie in the Lord from now on!’ ” “Yes,” csays the Spirit, “so that they may drest from their labors, for their edeeds follow with them.”

The Reapers

14 Then I looked, and behold, a awhite cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one blike 1a son of man, having a golden ccrown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

15 And another angel acame out of the 1temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “2bPut in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the charvest of the earth 3is ripe.”

16 Then He who sat on the cloud 1swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

17 And another angel acame out of the 1temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

18 Then another angel, athe one who has power over fire, came out from bthe altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “1cPut in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters 2from the vine of the earth, dbecause her grapes are ripe.”

19 So the angel 1swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into athe great wine press of the wrath of God.

20 And athe wine press was trodden boutside the city, and cblood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, 1for a distance of 2two hundred miles.