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THE MESSAGE

Revelation 14:17

Then another Angel came out of the Temple in Heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. Yet another Angel, the one in charge of tending the fire, came from the Altar. He thundered to the Angel who held the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle. Harvest earth's vineyard. The grapes are bursting with ripeness."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sickle;   Temple;   Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Harvest;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Fruit;   Harvest ;   Sickle ;   Tares ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Harvest;   Temple, the;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Retribution;   Revelation of John:;   Sickle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then another angel who also had a sharp sickle came out of the temple in heaven.
King James Version (1611)
And another Angel came out of the Temple which is in heauen, he also hauing a sharpe sickle.
King James Version
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New American Standard Bible
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
New Century Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
English Standard Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
Berean Standard Bible
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Contemporary English Version
Another angel with a sharp sickle then came out of the temple in heaven.
Complete Jewish Bible
Another angel came out of the Temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Darby Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which [is] in the heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. This angel also had a sharp sickle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then an other Angel came out of the Temple, which is in heauen, hauing also a sharpe sickle.
George Lamsa Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven; and he also had a sharp sickle.
Good News Translation
Then I saw another angel come out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
Lexham English Bible
And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven; he also had a sharp sickle.
Literal Translation
And another angel went forth out of the temple in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Amplified Bible
Then another angel came out of the temple (sanctuary) in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
American Standard Version
And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Bible in Basic English
And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade.
Hebrew Names Version
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
International Standard Version
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven. He, too, had a sharp sickle.
Etheridge Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, having also a sharp sickle.
Murdock Translation
And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven, having also a sharp sickle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And another angell came out of the temple which is in heauen, hauyng also a sharpe sickle.
English Revised Version
And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
World English Bible
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven; and he also had a sharp sickle.
Weymouth's New Testament
And another angel came out from the sanctuary in Heaven, and he too carried a sharp sickle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And another aungel wente out of the temple, that is in heuene, and he also hadde a scharp sikile.
Update Bible Version
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Webster's Bible Translation
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New English Translation
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
New King James Version
Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
New Living Translation
After that, another angel came from the Temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.
New Life Bible
Then another angel came out from the house of God in heaven. He had a sharp knife for cutting grain also.
New Revised Standard
Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, another messenger, came forth out of the sanctuary that is in heaven, - he also, having a sharp sickle.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revised Standard Version
And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And another angell came oute of the temple which is in heven havynge also a sharpe sycle.
Young's Literal Translation
And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that [is] in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And another angell came out of the temple, which is in heauen, hauinge also a sharpe sykle.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then another angel appeared with his own sharp sickle.

Contextual Overview

13 I heard a voice out of Heaven, "Write this: Blessed are those who die in the Master from now on; how blessed to die that way!" "Yes," says the Spirit, "and blessed rest from their hard, hard work. None of what they've done is wasted; God blesses them for it all in the end." 14I looked up, I caught my breath!—a white cloud and one like the Son of Man sitting on it. He wore a gold crown and held a sharp sickle. Another Angel came out of the Temple, shouting to the Cloud-Enthroned, "Swing your sickle and reap. It's harvest time. Earth's harvest is ripe for reaping." The Cloud-Enthroned gave a mighty sweep of his sickle, began harvesting earth in a stroke. 17Then another Angel came out of the Temple in Heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. Yet another Angel, the one in charge of tending the fire, came from the Altar. He thundered to the Angel who held the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle. Harvest earth's vineyard. The grapes are bursting with ripeness." 19The Angel swung his sickle, harvested earth's vintage, and heaved it into the winepress, the giant winepress of God's wrath. The winepress was outside the City. As the vintage was trodden, blood poured from the winepress as high as a horse's bridle, a river of blood for two hundred miles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Revelation 14:14, Revelation 14:15, Revelation 14:18, Revelation 15:5, Revelation 15:6, Revelation 16:1

Reciprocal: Joel 3:13 - for the press Revelation 16:17 - there Revelation 19:15 - and he treadeth

Cross-References

Judges 11:34
Jephthah came home to Mizpah. His daughter ran from the house to welcome him home—dancing to tambourines! She was his only child. He had no son or daughter except her. When he realized who it was, he ripped his clothes, saying, "Ah, dearest daughter—I'm dirt. I'm despicable. My heart is torn to shreds. I made a vow to God and I can't take it back!"
1 Samuel 18:6
As they returned home, after David had killed the Philistine, the women poured out of all the villages of Israel singing and dancing, welcoming King Saul with tambourines, festive songs, and lutes. In playful frolic the women sang, Saul kills by the thousand, David by the ten thousand! This made Saul angry—very angry. He took it as a personal insult. He said, "They credit David with ‘ten thousands' and me with only ‘thousands.' Before you know it they'll be giving him the kingdom!" From that moment on, Saul kept his eye on David.
2 Samuel 18:18
While alive, Absalom had erected for himself a pillar in the Valley of the King, "because," he said, "I have no son to carry on my name." He inscribed the pillar with his own name. To this day it is called "The Absalom Memorial."
Proverbs 14:20
An unlucky loser is shunned by all, but everyone loves a winner.
Proverbs 19:4
Wealth attracts friends as honey draws flies, but poor people are avoided like a plague.
Hebrews 7:1
Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of the Highest God. He met Abraham, who was returning from "the royal massacre," and gave him his blessing. Abraham in turn gave him a tenth of the spoils. "Melchizedek" means "King of Righteousness." "Salem" means "Peace." So, he is also "King of Peace." Melchizedek towers out of the past—without record of family ties, no account of beginning or end. In this way he is like the Son of God, one huge priestly presence dominating the landscape always.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,.... It is a strange conceit of Mr. Brightman's, that this angel is Thomas Lord Cromwell, in the days of King Henry the Eighth, a sincere favourer of pure religion; and that the following angel is Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, a martyr, that had power over fire; and that the vintage, here spoken of, refers to the destroying of religious houses, and disposing of abbey lands to other uses; which was done under the king's authority, by the former of these, at the instigation of the latter, when those who were set over that business made such havoc of the goods of the Papists, that their houses seemed to swim in their spoils, as in a river of pressed grapes. Dr. Goodwin much better interprets it of God's vengeance upon the carnal Protestants and professors of religion; since it is an angel out of the temple that will execute it, and another from the altar, zealous of God's worship, that will provoke to it; and since the winepress will be trodden without the city, the church; and which began in the wars in Germany, in the last age, and will have its full accomplishment when the whole outward court is given to the Gentiles; but how these, who are but a few, when compared with the wicked of the world, should be called the vine of the earth, I see not. Mr. Daubuz thinks this vision of the vintage has had, at least in part, its fulfilment in the late wars in the times of Queen Anne, the Popish countries being then made the seat of war, in which they suffered much; rather they come nearest to the truth of the matter, who take this to be the battle of the great God Almighty, under the sixth vial, Revelation 16:14 fought by the word of God, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, who will tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, Revelation 19:15 when the beast and false prophet will both be destroyed: but inasmuch as Babylon is before declared to be fallen, Revelation 14:8 and since the gathering in of the Lord's wheat at the first resurrection is designed by the harvest, it is best to understand this vintage of the perdition of ungodly men by fire, at the conflagration of the world, which will be at the beginning of the thousand years' reign, and of the gathering of them in at the second resurrection, at the end of it, for the destruction of them in hell, soul and body. And by this "angel" is meant, not the saints of the most High; for though they may be said to come out of the temple, the church, and shall judge the world, yet they will not be employed in gathering together the wicked, and casting them into the lake of fire, or winepress of God's wrath: rather the ministering spirits are intended, who are the reapers at the end of the world, and who will gather the wicked, and bind them like tares in bundles, and cast them into the furnace of fire; though it is best to interpret this of Christ himself, who is often called an Angel in Scripture, as the Angel of God's presence; and the Angel of the covenant; and frequently in this book, as in Revelation 7:2 because, as Mediator, he is God's messenger; and he may be said to do that, which he does by others, as instruments, as to gather the vine of the earth, and cast it into the winepress; and he may be said to "come out of the temple which is in heaven": whether this be understood of heaven itself, which the temple, and especially the most holy place in it, was a figure of; here Christ is, and from hence he is expected to come, and will come at the last day, as Judge of all the earth; or of the church of God, for here Christ dwells, and grants his gracious and spiritual presence until his second and personal coming, with all his saints: and now he will have them all with him, both quick and dead, and will be personally in his temple, the church, in the great congregation of the righteous, and out from among them will he display his power in the destruction of the wicked; and the rather he may be thought to be intended, since none but a divine person ever trod the winepress of God's wrath; see Isaiah 63:1 to which may be added what follows,

he also having a sharp sickle; the same who is described as like to the son of man, on a white cloud, with a golden crown on his head, and such a sickle in his hand, Revelation 14:14 which is expressive of the same judiciary power and authority.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And another angel - The fifth in order. This angel came for a different purpose - with reference to the cutting off of the enemies of God, represented by the gathering of a vintage. Compare Matthew 13:41; Matthew 24:31.

Came out of the temple which is in heaven - Sent or commissioned by God. See the notes on Revelation 14:15.

He also having a sharp sickle - On the word “sickle,” see the notes on Revelation 14:14.


 
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