Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen" - Harvest of the Earth

 Others are also to benefit in this day of judgment, as John goes on to tell us: "And I saw, and, look! a white cloud, and upon the white cloud some seated like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head and sharp sickle in his hand. And another angel [the fourth] emerged from the temple sanctuary, crying with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud: 'Put your sickle in and reap, because the hour has come to reap, for the harvest of the earth is thoroughly ripe.' And the one seated on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped." -REVELATION 14:14-16.

The identity of the one seated on the white cloud is not in doubt. Seated on a white cloud, resembling son of man and with a golden crown, his is clearly Jesus, the Messianic King that Daniel saw in his vision. (Daniel 7:13, 14; Mark 14:61, 62) But what is the harvest prophesied? While on earth, Jesus likened the discipling work to the harvesting of the world field of humanity. (Matthew 9:37, 38; John 4:35, 36) The climax of this harvesting comes into the Lord's day, when Jesus is crowned as King and executes judgment on behalf of his Father. Thus, his time of ruling, since 1914, is also the joyful time for bringing in the harvest. - Compare DEUTERONOMY 16:13-15. 

Next time: Chapter Thirty/"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - Harvest of the Earth - Conclusion 

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