However figurative this language may be, it certainly teaches something, and it certainly does not teach the universal reception of the gospel, nor the conversion of the nations. The eyes looking like a flame of fire, the vesture dipped in blood, the smiting with a sword, the ruling with a rod of iron, the treading the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, the summons to all birds of prey to gorge themselves with the flesh of kings and captains and mighty men, the casting alive