Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a great voice to the one sitting on the cloud, Send forth your sickle, and reap: because the hour of reaping has come; because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the one sitting on the cloud thrust in his sickle to the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Cross References
Matthew 13:39and the enemy sowing them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are the angels.
Mark 4:29And when the fruit may develop, immediately he thrusts in the sickle, because the harvest is at hand.
Revelation 6:10And they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell upon the earth?
Matthew Henry on Revelation 14:14-20
The Harvest and the Vintage. ( a. d. 95.) 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. 14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud,… Read the whole commentary →