REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty - Treading the Vine of the Earth - Continue

Judgment must be executed! "And  the angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and  he hurled it into the great vinepress of the anger of God.  And the winepress  was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as high up as  the bridles of the horses,  for a distance of a thousand six hundred furlongs."(Revelation 14:19, 20) Jehovah's indignation against this vine has long since been announced. (Zephaniah 3:8) A prophecy in the book of Isaiah leaves no doubt that whole nations will be destroyed when the winepress is trampled.(Isaiah 63:3-6) Joel too prophesied that huge "crowds," whole nations would be trampled to destruction in "the winepress," in the low plain of the decision." (Joel 3:12-14)   Truly, a stupendous harvest the like of which will never occur! According to John's  vision, not only are the grapes harvested but the whole symbolic vine  is cut down and thrown into the winepress to be trampled. So the vine of the earth will be stamped out and will never be able to grow again. 

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