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Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Revelation 14:1-20

CHAPTER 14 Grace ancient 1. The Lamb and the 144,000 (Revelation 14:1-5 ) 2. The everlasting gospel (Revelation 14:6-7 ) 3. Fall of Babylon anticipated (Revelation 14:8 ) 4. Wrath for the worshippers of the beast (Revelation 14:9-11 ) 5. The blessed dead (Revelation 14:12-13 ) 6. The harvest and the vintage (Revelation 14:14-20 ) Revelation 14:1-5 . A series of visions follow the dark scenes in chapter 13. The conditions under the domineering power of the two beasts are going to be... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Revelation 14:17

14:17 {14} And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.(14) The other type (as I said in) see Geneva "Revelation 14:14" is the vintage: the manner of which is the same as that which went before, except for this, that the grape gathering is more exact in seeking out everything, then is the harvest labour. This is therefore a more grievous judgment, both because it succeeds the other, and because it is executed with great diligence. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:1-20

The Lamb and 144,000 on Mount Zion In the first five verses of this chapter we find another striking preview of the blessing of the godly remnant in Israel. This preview is given at the time when the nation is involved in the most brazen idolatry in its history. The Lamb standing on Mount Zion (v. 1) indicates His eventual complete triumph over idolatry. The 144,000 with Him remind us of Revelation 7:2-8 where all twelve tribes are represented and seen as sealed in their foreheads. In this... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:1-20

THE SEVEN PERSONAGES INTRODUCTION: THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON (Revelation 12:0 ) The seven personages of this division as identified by Erdman, include the woman, the child, the dragon, the archangel, the remnant (of Israel), the ten-horned beast, and the two-horned beast or false prophet, the first four being found in this chapter. The woman represents Israel it is believed, and the man-child to whom she gave birth, the Messiah. The dragon is Satan, whose ten horns represent the 10 kingdoms... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

(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, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. (16) And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. (17) And another angel came... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Revelation 14:14-20

Like to the Son of man. That is, to our Saviour Christ, sitting on a white cloud, with a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another Angel, desiring of him to do justice, by putting in his sickle, because the harvest of the earth was ripe, dry, and withered; i.e. the wicked, ripe for punishment. The like is again represented by the sickle, which is said to be put to the clusters of the vineyard: and they were cast into the great wine-press, or lake of the wrath of God, into hell,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 14:14-20

14-20 Warnings and judgments not having produced reformation, the sins of the nations are filled up, and they become ripe for judgments, represented by a harvest, an emblem which is used to signify the gathering of the righteous, when ripe for heaven, by the mercy of God. The harvest time is when the corn is ripe; when the believers are ripe for heaven, then the wheat of the earth shall be gathered into Christ's garner. And by a vintage. The enemies of Christ and his church are not destroyed,... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Revelation 14:1-99

Revelation 14 CHAPTER 14 GIVES US a series of visions, all of which set before us in various ways God’s thoughts and actions from heaven during the period when the two beasts are dominating the earth, persecuting and even slaying the saints. In the first of these visions we see how God will preserve for Himself faithful souls who will be true to the Lamb and free from the corruptions that the beast is enforcing on all under his power. The number given is symbolic. Twelve is the number of... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Revelation 14:17-20

The wine-press of God's wrath: v. 17. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. v. 18. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. v. 19. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Revelation 14:1-20

SPECIAL DOCTRINO-ETHICAL AND HOMILETICAL NOTES (ADDENDUM)Section TwelfthHeavenly World-picture of the Seven Vials of Anger, or the Judgment of Anger in its General Form (embracing the Three Special Judgments upon Babylon, the Beast and Satan.) (Chs. 14, 15)General.—The peculiar sublimity of this section is thoroughly manifest only when it is regarded as representative of the heavenly celebration of God’s anger-judgments on earth, and when its relation to these is recognized in the treatment of... read more

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