1 I was given another vision: The Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, surrounded by one hundred and forty-four thousand people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
2 A sound reverberated in heaven like the sound of the roaring of waves or deafening thunder; it was like a chorus of singers, accompanied by their harps.
3 They sing a new song before the throne, in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a song which no one can learn except the hundred and forty-four thousand who have been taken from the earth.
4 They are those who were not defiled with women but were chaste; these are given to follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They are the first taken from humankind who are already of God and the Lamb.
5 No deceit has been found in them; they are faultless.
6 Then I saw another angel, flying high in the sky, sent to proclaim the definitive good news to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, race, language and people.
7 He cried out with a loud voice, "Give God glory and honor, for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and all the waters."
8 Another angel followed him, crying out, "Fallen is Babylon the great, fallen the prostitute who has made all the nations drunk with her unleashed prostitution!"
9 A third angel then followed, shouting aloud, "If anyone worships the beast or its image or has his forehead or hand branded,
10 he will also drink the wine of God's anger which has been prepared, undiluted, in the cup of his fury: he will be tortured by fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb."
11 The smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; for there is no rest, day or night, for those who worshiped the beast and its image, and for those who were branded with the mark of its name.
12 This is the time for patient endurance among the holy ones, for those who keep the commandments of God and faith in Jesus.
13 I heard someone from heaven say, "Write this: Happy from now are the dead who have died in the Lord. The Spirit says: Let them rest from their labors; their good deeds go with them."
14 Then I had this vision. I saw a white cloud and the one sitting on it like a son of man, wearing a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 An angel came out of the sanctuary, calling loudly to the one sitting on the cloud, "Put in your sickle and reap, for harvest time has come and the harvest of the earth is ripe."
16 He who was sitting on the cloud swung his sickle at the earth and reaped the harvest.
17 Then another angel, who also had a sharp sickle, came out of the heavenly sanctuary.
18 Still another angel, the one who has charge of the altar fire, emerged and shouted to the first who held the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle and reap the bunches of the vine of the earth for they are fully ripe."
19 So the angel swung his sickle and gathered in the vintage, throwing all the grapes into the great winepress of the anger of God.
20 The grapes were trodden outside the city and blood flowed from the winepress, to the height of the horses' bridles and over an area of sixteen hundred furlongs.
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Revelation 14 presents a view of the Lamb and the 144,000 being seen in Mount Zion. Moreover, the message of the angel flying in the middle of the sky, the fall of Babylon, the judgment of the nations and the final harvest of the earth is described. To find verses related to these themes, we can seek in other parts of the Bible. Below are five selected verses:
Matthew 24:30: "Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the nations of the earth will regret and will summer the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory." This verse relates to the vision of the lamb and the 144,000 in Revelation 14, for both describe the coming of Jesus in great glory to judge the nations.
Isaiah 2:2-3: "In the last days it will happen that the mound of the house of the Lord will be established in the summit of the hills, and will rise upon the hills; and all the nations will compete. And many peoples will come, and will say, We climb to the Mount of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, to teach us their ways, and we walk in their paths. " This verse relates to the view of Mount Zion in Revelation 14, where the 144,000 are seen standing with the lamb.
Jeremiah 51:7: "Babylon was a glass of gold in the hand of the Lord, who drunk to the whole earth; from his vineyards drank the nations; so the nations are crazy." This verse relates to the fall of Babylon in Revelation 14, for both talk about the judgment God will make about this corrupted city.
Matthew 25:31-32: "When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall be based on the throne of his glory; and before him all nations will be gathered; and he shall separate from each other , as the pastor separates the sheep from goats. " This verse relates to the judgment of the nations in Revelation 14, for both describe the separation that God will do between the righteous and the unjust.
Joel 3:13: "Launch the scythe, because the ripe is already mature; come, I descended, because the plane is full, the vats overflow; for their malice is great." This verse relates to the final harvest of the earth in Revelation 14, for both talk about the end of time, when God will collect what was sown on earth.
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