Shepherds Bible Rev CHAPTER 14 # This chapter is broken up into six segments.

It is the harvest time and the angels of God, not the children of the wicked one, are reaping the harvest. The chapter is broken up into six angelic appearances, occurring over a vast amount of time. 1. And I looked, and, lo a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having His Fathers name written in their foreheads. # Notice it does not say in this verse that the Lamb has horns, as did the false lamb in Rev. 13:11. It is talking about The Lamb, Jesus Christ. By teaching and sharing the truth, the very elect are being used by Yahveh to help place that name in their foreheads, simply by removing the deception and placing the truth within them. 2. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. # Who can sing the new song? Only the 144,000. If God has caused the rest to be deaf, they will not know the song. You cannot teach them. Refer to Romans 11:8 and II Thessalonians 2:11 4. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. #The elect are called out of the body of Israel. They will remain virgins until their husband arrives, who is Jesus, the true Christ. The ones who are not virgins are those who shall become impregnated in their minds, and take another husband, the false christ, and will be with child when the true Christ does return. A woman who is found to be with child when her husband returns from a long trip has been with another husband. This is what this verse means. Christ, the true Christ, is Israels husband. He divorced Israel for her iniquities. When Christ died on the cross, He made Israel (symbolically His wife) a widow. By His own law, He could, upon His second coming, remarry His widow. This is the marriage feast talked about in other areas of Revelation. Refer to Mark 13:17 where it says. woe to those that are with child and give suck It is talking about the same thing. those who have been deceived into thinking the false christ is Jesus. 5. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. 6. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. #The word nation here is ethnos, or ethnic groups. You shall teach all, with Christ leading you, while Lucifer is locked in the bottomless pit during the millennium. Through you, the elect, they will be brought to a total understanding of the Word, which in turn will give them total love and grace with which they too will overcome Lucifer and his powers when he is loosed out of his prison in Revelation 20:7. 7. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him: for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

8. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9. And the third angel followed them, saving with a loud voice. If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture unto the cup of His indignation: and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: # The final judgment will come at the end of the millennium. There wouldnt be any sense in judging people before they have had an opportunity to learn the truth, especially since it is Yahveh who sends this confusion upon them in the first place. Through your teachings during the millennium, confusion will leave the earth and they shall all learn the truth. 11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. # The way this is translated could be very confusing. If this took place before the millennium, then there would be no need for a millennium, because the 144,000 are all that would make it. The rest, who are on earth, would be gone. This refers to those who, after being taught in the millennium, would again bear the mark of Satans name, and who will be judged and found wanting. (Revelation 20:8). 12. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. # These saints are the overcomers. 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 labors; 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 come 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. #In these last five verses, we see the final harvest. 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 out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 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.

# Lets look at the vine of the earth for just a moment. Deuteronomy 32: 3133 tells us that, their rock (Satan), is not as our Rock (Yahveh), and their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: their vine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 19. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. # What is the winepress? Joel 3:12-13 says, Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshphat, (Yahveh has judged): for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down: for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 20. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. # Christ states in Matthew l3:3840, The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As, therefore, the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of this world, We see in this why the angel of verse 18 had power over fire. This harvest is at the end of the millennium. Everyone not in the books of Yahveh (Revelation 20:12) shall taste His wrath. A thousand and six hundred furlongs is a metaphorical way of expressing the exceeding great torments of those who taste it.