Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand! Another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” So the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped. (Revelation 14:14-16, NRSV)
The earth was reaped…
What does that mean?
Sunday we heard the story of the weeds that grew up in the wheat, and here in the book that so often is taken as telling us the end times we read, “and the earth was reaped.”
Everything was reaped, weeds and wheat, all types of plants, it was all cut down…
One who appeared as the Son of Man came riding on a cloud with a crown on Hos head and a sharp sickle in His hand… Not really the way we picture the Grimm Reaper is it?
Not the ominous black cloaked figure that comes to bring death…
The harvest is ripe, and ready so harvest, and reap and bring the end…
For the time is now.
And the earth was reaped…
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