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Chapter 14 The 144,000 and the Victorious Judgment of the Lamb
This angel </font>"from the altar" (14:18) instructs the angel previously described in verse 17, "that had the sharp sickle" (14:18), saying, "Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the Earth; for her grapes are fully ripe" (14:18). The Almighty must be instructing the angel as to the appropriateness of the timing of this Judgment, for it would take a Mind of Omniscience to know how to deal with the ungodly and wicked, without destroying the Godly, at the same time. "27 So the servants of the Householder came and said unto Him, Sir, didst not Thou sow good seed in Thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto Him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares [i.e., the ungodly], ye root up also the wheat [i.e., the Godly] with them. 30 Let both grow together until the Harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My barn" (Matthew 13:27-30). For the comfort of the Godly in these Last Days, the "LORD knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished" (2Peter 2:9).</p>
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- "19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth, and gathered the vine of the Earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God."
It may be viewed by the modern reader as very poetic or figurative that the Apostle John records that the "angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth, and gathered the vine of the Earth" (14:19), but it is most certainly a more accurate description than any attempt by an uninspired writer of a humanly unimaginable event. "8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). Negatively, the "vine of the Earth" (14:19) describes the world with its interconnected groupings of wicked man together with his evil fruit. "31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter" (Deuteronomy 32:31-32). Even the righteous are described as part of the Living Vine of the LORD Jesus Christ, but have no part in this "vine of the Earth" (14:19). "I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5).
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