Revelation Chapter 14
IN THIS LESSON
Previously, God’s people were warned against worshipping the beast, and later, they worshipped God. In this passage, an angel gathers the fruit from the vine of the earth with his sickle and throws it into “the great winepress of God’s anger” (v. 19). The imagery becomes increasingly gory: “The winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as high as a horse’s bridle, for about two hundred miles” (v. 20). Whose blood is this? Who or what is being trodden? And why does this happen outside the city, rather than inside?
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N.T. Wright, Revelation For Everyone (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2011), 131-135.