My Sheep Hear My Voice- Rev. 14:20

My Sheep Hear My Voice- Rev. 14:20

Before Jesus was crucified He told the disciples to watch and pray, something so simple, but they let their physical bodies take over and they fell back asleep. In these last hours of time you need to hear His voice. When He tells you something, it is very important, but most ignore my voice or just discuss it and go on with what they were doing. You will see many things start to happen shortly and if you do not hear and obey His voice,... it will mean death for some of you....Jesus has only your best interest in mind. Christ knows you heart, and if you are truly His you will hear His voice. He awakes many of you at 3am on the dot, but most will roll over and go back to sleep. There are a few who will get up and pray. Your day is filled with so many things and Jesus is the last thing many of you give your time to. But Christ needs to talk to you,... to fellowship with you and only when you are still and quite (3am) can you hear Him,... the rest of your day is so busy you do not have time for Him,... but you need to make time, for time is short and the Lord has instructions for you.

The Vintage of the Earth: Armageddon

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs” Rev. 14:20

without the city... God will determine that this bloodbath will occur outside Jerusalem, as if God wants to protect the city from the carnage all around. (Zechariah 14:1-5), makes clear that Jerusalem will be attacked, but will not be destroyed in the end, but spared for the glory of the kingdom. And the believing remnant will be saved as the Lord defends them and the city against the nations. They will escape through a newly created valley as the Lord finishes judgment and sets up His kingdom.

and blood came... This blood may be referenced as the red juice of the grapes but literal human blood resulting from the final battle will flow. The amount of "blood" that results from the winepress emphasizes the severity of the judgment. A thousand and six hundred furlongs are 200 miles, the full length of Israel. The average height of a horse's bridle is about four to five feet. The winepress is in anticipation of the vial or bowl judgments (of chapter 16).

even unto the... The severity of the slaughter is indicated in the imagery of the blood of those killed in the Battle of Armageddon splattering as high (about 4 feet), of the bridles of the horses involved. Equally likely, if the battle occurs near the central valley of Israel, the tremendous volume and flow of blood could easily form troughs 4 feet deep in some places. This event clearly is described (in 19:11-21).

(Ezekiel 39:8-16), may be describing the cleanup.

a thousand and... The approximate distance from Armageddon in the north of Israel to Edom in the south. The great battle will rage across that entire area and even slightly beyond.

There is only one valley in Israel that fits the mile description. It is the Jordan Valley, which extends from just north of the Sea of Galilee to Eilat at the Red Sea.

This just shows the terribleness of the punishment of the still living unsaved. This could be by a tremendous war or just like Sodom and Gomorrah, as it was directly from God. At any rate, it is terrible.

Taken as a whole, Rev. 14:1-20 on the one hand refers to the preservation of the 144,000 through the Great Tribulation. And on the other hand it graphically declares some of the terrible judgments that will be inflicted on the world which rejects Christ and follows Satan’s substitute for the Lord.

Here regards this chapter as an outline of major events at the end of the Age: (1) the appearance of the godly remnant of Israel; (2) a testimony to Gentiles; (3) the fall of Babylon; (4) the doom of the worshipers of the beast; (5) the blessedness of saints who are martyred; (6) the harvest; (7) the wrath of God on the world.

The vision of “the vine of the earth” is the same in theme as “the harvest of the earth” above. The “harvest” and the “vintage” are both judicial and are anticipative of the future Battle of Armageddon. In the vision “another angel” is the one to reap, thus showing that the angels will have a part in the Battle of Armageddon, 2 Thes. 1:7-10.

The vine of the earth will be cast into the “great winepress of the wrath of God.” The winepress will be trodden “without the city,” referring to the place just outside of Jerusalem where Armageddon will be fought. Blood will flow or splatter out of the winepress even up to the horses' bridles as far as 1,600 furlongs, or nearly 200 miles. This is definite proof that the gathering of the vintage refers to the gathering of the nations to Armageddon by the ministry of the three unclean spirits (Rev. 16:13-16) to fight against Christ at His coming. The winepress with the blood flowing out of it refers to the destruction of these nations when blood will flow as pictured in the above parenthetical verses.