1 Then I looked, and behold, onvPs. 2:6; Heb. 12:22 Mount ZionwSee ch. 5:6 stood the Lamb, and with himxch. 7:4 144,000 whoych. 3:12 had his name and his Father's name writtenzch. 7:3 on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heavenaSee ch. 1:15 like the roar of many waters andbch. 6:1; 19:6 like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound ofcch. 5:8; 15:2 harpists playing on their harps, 3 and they were singingdch. 5:9 a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.e[ch. 2:17; 19:12] No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, forf2 Cor. 11:2 they are virgins. It is theseg[ch. 3:4; 17:14] who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind ashJames 1:18 firstfruits for God and the Lamb, 5 andiZeph. 3:13; [Ps. 32:2; Isa. 63:8; John 1:47] in their mouth no lie was found, for they arejSee Jude 24 blameless.
6 Then I saw another angelkch. 8:13 flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim tol[ch. 3:10] those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. 7 And he said with a loud voice,mch. 15:4 “Fear God andnSee ch. 11:13 give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, andoNeh. 9:6; See ch. 4:11 worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and thepch. 8:10; 16:4 springs of water. ”
8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying,qch. 18:2; Isa. 21:9; Jer. 51:8 “Fallen, fallen isrch. 16:19; 17:5; 18:10; [Dan. 4:30] Babylon the great,sJer. 51:7 she who made all nations drinktch. 18:3 the wine of the passion1Or wrath of her sexual immorality. ”
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyoneuSee ch. 13:15 worships the beast and its image and receivesvch. 13:16 a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drinkwch. 16:19; See Job 21:20 the wine of God's wrath,x[ch. 18:6; Isa. 1:22] poured full strength into the cup of his anger, andych. 20:10 he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 AndzIsa. 34:10; [ch. 18:18; 19:3; Gen. 19:28] the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, andach. 4:8 they have no rest, day or night, theseu[See ver. 9 above] worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name. ”
12 bch. 13:10 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those whocch. 12:17 keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this:dch. 20:6; [Eccles. 4:2] Blessed are the deade1 Cor. 15:18; 1 Thess. 4:16 who die in the Lord from now on. ” “Blessed indeed, ” says the Spirit,fch. 6:11 “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them! ”
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud onegSee ch. 1:13 like a son of man,hch. 6:2 with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 And another angeli[ch. 15:6; 16:17] came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud,jver. 18; Joel 3:13; Mark 4:29; [Matt. 13:39] “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, forkJer. 51:33 the harvest of the earth is fully ripe. ” 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar,l[ch. 16:8] the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth,mJoel 3:13 for its grapes are ripe. ” 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the greatnch. 19:15 winepress of the wrath of God. 20 AndoIsa. 63:3; Lam. 1:15 the winepress was troddenp[Heb. 13:12] outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high asq[ch. 19:14] a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.