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| − | + | The very fact that the harvested vines with their fruit are cast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"into the great winepress of the wrath of God"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(14:19) indicates that the harvest does not expect to produce the excellency of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"wine of Lebanon"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Hosea 14:7); but instead, it knows that it will yield the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(14:10). This is also known as the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"wine of astonishment"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Psalm 60:3), the</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"wine of violence"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Proverbs 4:17), and the</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"wine of the condemned"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Amos 2:8). Asaph the Psalmist declared that the dregs of the winepress would be consumed by the wicked (as well as themselves being pressed for the yield).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the Earth shall wring them out, and drink them"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Psalm 75:8). The close of chapter 14 of the Apocalypse is the definitive picture of the Judgment of the Lamb as viewed from the winepress of His Wrath.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Psalm 2:12).</font></p> | |
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Chapter 14 The 144,000 and the Victorious Judgment of the Lamb
The very fact that the harvested vines with their fruit are cast </font>"into the great winepress of the wrath of God" (14:19) indicates that the harvest does not expect to produce the excellency of the "wine of Lebanon" (Hosea 14:7); but instead, it knows that it will yield the "wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation" (14:10). This is also known as the "wine of astonishment" (Psalm 60:3), the "wine of violence" (Proverbs 4:17), and the"wine of the condemned" (Amos 2:8). Asaph the Psalmist declared that the dregs of the winepress would be consumed by the wicked (as well as themselves being pressed for the yield). "For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the Earth shall wring them out, and drink them" (Psalm 75:8). The close of chapter 14 of the Apocalypse is the definitive picture of the Judgment of the Lamb as viewed from the winepress of His Wrath. "Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him" (Psalm 2:12).</p>
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- "20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
The "city" (14:20) undoubtedly refers to Jerusalem, for it and its Godly inhabitants will again make it the "apple of [Jehovah's] eye" (Lamentations 2:18). "And give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the Earth" (Isaiah 62:7). The "blood of the grapes" (Genesis 49:11) has figuratively described the pressed juice of the grapes, but here it actually describes the blood of formerly living human beings, who have been slain in the judgments surrounding the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ. "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with Me: for I will tread them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment" (Isaiah 63:3). The LORD God has never taken pleasure in the death of the wicked. "Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" (Ezekiel 33:11).
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