What does it mean of Revelation 14:17-20 “the grape threw into the winepress”?
What does it mean of Revelation 14:17-20 “gathered the grape threw into the great winepress… and blood flowed as high as a horse’s bridle…”?
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, 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, 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 great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
– Revelation 14:14-20
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Maybe the “grape” refers to the product /source which producing wine by Babylon the Great – mother of prostitutes, maybe it symbolises the “mind” of the abominations and sexual immorality.
“…the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk” – Revelation 17:1,2
“The woman (Babylon the great – mother of prostitutes)… holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.” – Revelation 17:4
“For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality…” – Revelation 18:3
Mankind are drunk of her wine. What does it mean? Maybe it refers to mankind are drunk on the wine of Babylon the Great, their mind are “full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality”.
The terms “grapes are ripe” may refers to “the fullness or high peak” of the abominations and sexual immorality produced by Babylon the Great.
“for her sins are “heaped high” as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.” – Revelation 18:5
“the winepress was trodden outside the city… “, the city probaby refers to the city of Babylon the Great, for the source materials – “grapes” comes from this city.
“Then one of the seven angels… said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 … and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” – Revelation 17:1,2
“Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”” Rev. 14:8
So maybe when the 7th Trumpet – the 7 Bowls finished, angels would destroy Babylon the Great, the mind of mankind – the symbolic “grapes” would threw into the God’s great winepress, to press out the mind of abominations and sexual immorality, like pressing the red juice (blood) from grape, they would be squeezed until the last drop. Mankind will be purified and clean, no abominations and sexual immorality mind any more, for the Babylon the Great will be found no more.
This may compares with Isaiah 63:1-7 about God’s Salvation.
1 Who is this who comes from Edom,
in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
2 Why is your apparel red,
and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
3 “I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help;
I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
and my wrath upheld me.
6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
I made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
7 I will recount the steadfast love of YHWH,
the praises of YHWH,
according to all that YHWH has granted us,
and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
For more please read <Judgment has come>, <Babylon the Great>.
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