Revelation 14
14
The Lamb and the 144,000
1Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, # Is 18:7; 24:23; Mc 4:7 and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. # Dt 6:8; Ezk 9:4; Rv3:12; 7:3; 9:4; 13:16; 22:4 2I heard a sound # Or voice from heaven like the sound of cascading waters # Ezk 1:24; 43:2; Rv 1:15; 19:6 and like the rumbling of loud thunder. The sound I heard was also like harpists playing on their harps. # Rv 5:8 3They sang # Other mss add as it were a new song # Rv 5:9 before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, # Rv 4:4,6 but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed # Or purchased from the earth. 4These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. # 1Sm 21:4-5 These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed # Other mss add by Jesus # Or purchased from the human race as the firstfruits # Dt 21:17; Jr 2:3; Jms 1:18 for God and the Lamb. 5No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless. # Zph 3:13; Jn 1:47
The Proclamation of Three Angels
6Then I saw another angel # Rv 7:2; 8:3; 14:15,17-18; 18:1 flying high overhead, # Rv 8:13 having the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth — to every nation, tribe, language, and people. # Rv 5:9; 7:9; 11:9; 13:7 7He spoke with a loud voice: # Rv 1:10; 8:13; 10:3 “Fear God # Gn 22:12; 42:18; Ps 66:16; Ec 5:7; 12:13; Ac 13:16,26; 1Pt 2:17 and give Him glory, # Jos 7:19; 1Sm 6:5; Jr 13:16; Lk 17:18; Rv 4:9; 16:9; 19:7 because the hour of His judgment has come. # Rv 18:10 Worship the Maker of heaven and earth, # Ps 115:15; 121:2; 124:8; 134:3; 146:6 the sea and springs of water.”
8A second angel # Lit Another angel, a second followed, saying: “It has fallen, Babylon the Great # Dn 4:30; Rv 16:19; 17:5; 18:2 has fallen, # Other mss omit the second has fallen who made all nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, # Or wine of her passionate immorality which brings wrath.” # Is 21:9; Jr 51:7-8,49; Rv 17:2,4; 18:2-3
9And a third angel # Lit Another angel, a third followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is mixed full strength in the cup of His anger. # Ps 75:8; Is 51:17; Jr 25:15-17 Rv 17:2,4; 18:2-3 He will be tormented with fire and sulfur # Lk 17:29; Rv 20:10; 21:8 in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb, 11and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. # Is 1:31; 34:10; 66:24; Rv 19:3 There is no rest # Lit They have no rest # Ps 22:2; Is 23:12; 62:6; Jr 45:3; Lm 2:18 day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark # Gn 4:15; Ex 12:13; Ezk 9:4,6; Rv 13:16; 16:2; 19:20 of his name. 12This demands the perseverance # Lit Here is the perseverance of the saints, # Rv 13:10 who keep God’s commands and their faith in Jesus.” # Or and faith in Jesus, or and faithfulness to Jesus
13Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: The dead who die in the Lord from now on are blessed.” # Rv 1:3; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7,14
“Yes,” says the Spirit, “let them rest from their labors, for their works follow them! ”
Reaping the Earth’s Harvest
14Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and One like the Son of Man # Or like a son of man # Dn 7:13; Lk 21:27; Rv 1:13 was seated on the cloud, with a gold crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15Another angel came out of the sanctuary, crying out in a loud voice to the One who was seated on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come, since the harvest of the earth is ripe.” # Jl 3:13 16So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17Then another angel who also had a sharp sickle came out of the sanctuary in heaven. 18Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from earth’s vineyard, because its grapes have ripened.” 19So the angel swung his sickle toward earth and gathered the grapes from earth’s vineyard, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. # Rv 16:19; 19:15 20Then the press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press up to the horses’ bridles for about 180 miles. # Lit 1,600 stadia # Is 63:1-6
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Ḥazon (Revelation) 14
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1And I looked and saw a Lamb standing on Mount Tsiyon, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s Name#Some texts read: having His Name and His Father’s Name. written upon their foreheads.
2And I heard a voice out of the heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder, and I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps.
3And they sang a renewed song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one was able to learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.
4They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He leads them on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb.
5And in their mouth was found no falsehood, for they are blameless before the throne of Elohim.
6And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, holding the everlasting Good News to announce to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,
7saying with a loud voice, “Fear Elohim and give esteem to Him, because the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and sea, and fountains of water.”
8And another messenger followed, saying, “Baḇel is fallen, is fallen,#Isa. 21:9#See also Jer. 51:8 that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her whoring.”
9And a third messenger followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,
10he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Elohim, which is poured out undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he shall be tortured with fire and sulphur before the set-apart messengers and before the Lamb.
11“And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever. And they have no rest day or night, those worshipping the beast and his image, also if anyone receives the mark of his name.”
12Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones,#See also Rev. 12:17 here are those guarding the commands of Elohim and the belief of יהושע.
13And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “in order that they rest from their labours, and their works follow with them.”
14And I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of Aḏam,#Dan. 7:13 having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.
15And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud voice to the One sitting on the cloud, “Send Your sickle and reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
16And the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place which is in the heaven, and he too held a sharp sickle.
18And another messenger came out from the slaughter-place, having authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”
19And the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim.
20And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about one thousand six hundred stadia#Approx. 296 kilometres or 184 miles.
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