启示录 14:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

有另一位天使從聖所出來，對那坐在雲上的大聲呼喊：“伸出你的鐮刀來收割吧！因為收割的時候已經到了，地上的莊稼已經熟透了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 有 一 位 天 使 从 殿 中 出 来 ， 向 那 坐 在 云 上 的 大 声 喊 着 说 ： 伸 出 你 的 镰 刀 来 收 割 ； 因 为 收 割 的 时 候 已 经 到 了 ， 地 上 的 庄 稼 已 经 熟 透 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die from now on in the Lord." The Spirit says, "Yes, they will rest from their hard work, and the reward of all they have done stays with them." ¹⁴ Then I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and sitting on the white cloud was One who looked like a Son of Man. He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ Then another angel came out of the temple and called out in a loud voice to the One who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and harvest from the earth, because the time to harvest has come, and the fruit of the earth is ripe." ¹⁶ So the One who was sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested. ¹⁷ Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And then another angel, who has power over the fire, came from the altar. This angel called to the angel with the sharp sickle, saying, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the bunches of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." ¹⁹ Then the angel swung his sickle over the earth. He gathered the earth's grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's anger. ²⁰ They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the winepress as high as horses' bridles for a distance of about one hundred eighty miles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: Revelation 16:17

crying: Revelation 6:10, Isaiah 62:1, Isaiah 62:6, Isaiah 62:7

Thrust: Revelation 14:14

harvest: Revelation 13:12, Jeremiah 51:33, Joel 3:13, Matthew 13:30, Matthew 13:39

ripe: or, dried, Revelation 14:18, Genesis 15:6, Zechariah 5:6-11, Matthew 23:32, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

Reciprocal: Isaiah 17:5 - as when Isaiah 34:2 - the indignation Jeremiah 27:7 - until Daniel 11:35 - even Hosea 6:11 - he hath Revelation 10:1 - another Revelation 11:19 - the temple Revelation 14:17 - came Revelation 18:2 - cried

Cross-References

Genesis 14:2
All these kings went to war against several other kings: Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)

Genesis 14:3
These kings who were attacked united their armies in the Valley of Siddim (now the Dead Sea).

Deuteronomy 15:2
This is how you must do it: Everyone who has loaned money must cancel the loan and not make a neighbor or relative pay it back. This is the Lord 's time for canceling what people owe.

1 Kings 15:18
Asa took the rest of the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord and his own palace and gave it to his officers. Then he sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, who was the son of Hezion. Ben-Hadad was the king of Aram and ruled in the city of Damascus. Asa said,

Psalms 112:5
It is good to be merciful and generous. Those who are fair in their business

Acts 9:2
and asked him to write letters to the synagogues in the city of Damascus. Then if Saul found any followers of Christ's Way, men or women, he would arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And another angel came out of the temple,.... Not the Holy Spirit, who, being God omniscient, knows the day and hour of judgment, which is a secret to men and angels, as Napier thinks; since though he dwells in the church as his temple, yet is never called an angel; nor does this angel represent the souls under the altar, who come out from thence, and importunately desire vengeance on the inhabitants of the earth, the worshippers of the beast, who had shed their blood; but rather the mighty angels who shall descend from heaven with Christ, and who shall be employed by him as reapers, to gather in his elect from the four winds, as well as to bind up the tares in bundles, and burn them; unless a set of Gospel ministers, as before, should be intended, who either by divine revelation, or by the signs of the time being come, and observed by them, will know that the harvest, or end of the world, is come; since this angel is said to come out of the temple, the church, which had been measured, and was now opened in heaven, and from whence angels are said to come, Revelation 11:1

crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud: as the first and third angels did, Revelation 14:7 denoting great vehemence and importunity: thrust in thy sickle, and reap: which being spoken by an inferior angel, whether this designs the ministering spirits, or preachers of the word, must be understood not as commanding, nor even directing what should be done, but as beseeching and entreating: see Psalms 132:8. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, and not without reason, that there is here some allusion to the putting in of the sickle, and reaping the first corn in Judea, at the feast of the passover, by the order of the sanhedrim, which sat in the temple; nor did any reap till they had the word given them, "reap", by the messengers of the court, called שלוחי בית דין, "the angels", or messengers "of the sanhedrim": to whom the reaper said, shall I reap? and they say to him, קצור a, "reap": the reasons follow:

for the time is come for thee to reap; the time of the end of the world, and of the judgment of it, which is fixed by God; and of Christ's coming to judge both quick and dead, and of the first resurrection, or the resurrection of the saints:

for the harvest of the earth is ripe: the measure of the sins of wicked men will now be filled up, and the afflictions of the saints will be accomplished in them, and the number of God's elect will be completed in the effectual calling; they will be all called, and so things will be ripe for the second coming of Christ. There seems to be some reference to Joel 3:13 "put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe": the Jewish doctors ask b, to whom is this said? R. Phineas, in the name of R. Hilkiah, says, למלאכים, "to the angels"; so the mighty ones, in Revelation 14:11 are by Kimchi interpreted of the angels.

a Misn. Menachot, c. 10. sect. 3. b Yalkut Simeoni, par. 2. fol. 92. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And another angel - The fourth in order, Revelation 14:6, Revelation 14:8-9.

Came out of the temple - See the notes on Revelation 11:19. Came, as it were, from the immediate presence of God; for the temple was regarded as his unique dwelling-place.

Crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud - To the Messiah, Revelation 14:14. That is, the command was borne directly from God by the angel to the Messiah, to go forth and reap the great harvest of the world. It is not a command of the angel, but a command from God the Father to the Son. This is in accordance with all the representations in the New Testament, that the Son, as Messiah or Redeemer, is subordinate to the Father, and performs the work which has been given him to do. See John 3:16-17; John 5:19; John 10:18; John 12:49; John 14:31. Compare the notes on Revelation 1:1.

Thrust in thy sickle, and reap - Into the great harvest of the world.

For the time is come for thee to reap - That is, “the harvest which thou art to reap is ripe; the seed which thou hast sown has grown up; the earth which thou hast cultivated has produced this golden grain, and it is fit that thou shouldst now gather it in.” This language is appropriately addressed to the Son of God, for all the fruits of righteousness on the earth may be regarded as the result of his culture.

For the harvest of the earth is ripe - The “harvest” in reference to the righteous - fruit of the good seed sown by the Saviour and his apostles and ministers. The time alluded to here is the end of the world, when the affairs of earth shall be about to he wound up. The design is to state that the Redeemer will then gather in a great and glorious harvest, and by this assurance to sustain the hearts of his people in times of trial and persecution.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 14:15. Thrust in thy sickle — Execute the judgments which God has decreed.

For the harvest of the earth is ripe. — The cup of the people's iniquity is full.