Revelation 14:15
And another, an angel, came out of the sanctuary, calling in a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, and saying, "Use your sickle and reap the harvest, for the hour for reaping it has come: the harvest of the earth is over-ripe."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
16Then He who sat on the cloud flung His sickle on the earth, and the earth had its harvest reaped.
Cross References
Matthew 13:39The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.
Mark 4:29But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."
Revelation 6:10And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking of vengeance upon the inhabitants of the earth for our blood?"
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 →