The Earth Is Harvested

^14 (A) I looked and saw a bright cloud, and someone who seemed to be the Son of Man^[a] was sitting on the cloud. He wore a gold crown on his head and held a sharp sickle^[b] in his hand. ^15 (B) An angel came out of the temple and shouted, “Start cutting with your sickle! Harvest season is here, and all crops on earth are ripe.” ¹⁶ The one on the cloud swung his sickle and harvested the crops.

¹⁹ The angel swung his sickle on earth and cut off its grapes. He threw them into a pit^[a] where they were trampled on as a sign of God's anger.

^20 (A) The pit was outside the city, and when the grapes were mashed, blood flowed out. The blood turned into a river that was about 300 kilometers long and almost deep enough to cover a horse.

^15 (A) From his mouth a sharp sword went out to attack the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod and will show the fierce anger of God All-Powerful by trampling the grapes in the pit where wine is made.