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An image of Jesus coming on a cloud and an angel with a great sickle in the act of reaping the Earth.

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The BOOK of REVELATION

Its Astounding Relevance for the 21st Century

Section 2, Part 2, CHAINS 3 and 4 of Seven Chains of Prophecies in the Book of REVELATION that lead to the END of the material EARTH and TIME Itself.

“Thrust in your sickle and REAP; for the TIME has come for you to REAP.”

 CHAIN 3 

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The Third Chain of Prophecies and Visions is found in Revelation 14:14-20.

1. The Earth is reaped twice, and not just once. The entire earth is reaped, not just a part; for example, Palestine, at the time of earthly Israel and the Roman Empire.

2. First the righteous are reaped. Immediately afterward, the “clusters” of the unrighteous are harvested and trampled in “the winepress outside the city.” These events occur one after the other, and not the first, then the second more than a thousand years later.

Following is the text of Revelation 14:14-20.

14 “And I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and upon the cloud sat one like unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, 'Thrust in your sickle and reap; for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.' 16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, 'Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.' 19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. 20 And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even unto the horse bridles, for the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”

This text surely transports us once more, for a third time, to the END of the human race on planet Earth and the END of TIME ITSELF. Let us consider.

An angel comes out of the temple of God the Father with a message for the “Son of Man,” Jesus Christ: “THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO REAP.” Prior to this moment, Jesus did not know “THE TIME” for his return on “a white cloud” to reap the earth twice, first the righteous, then the unrighteous. So said Jesus himself during his earthly ministry. “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32. The “TIME… TO REAP” is the time he “will appear a SECOND TIME, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” Hebrews 9:28. After this “SECOND TIME” to reap the righteous, followed immediately by that of the unrighteous, there will be no “third time.” There will be “NO MORE TIME.”

Note also the statements “for the harvest of the earth is RIPE,” and, in the case of the unrighteous, “her grapes are FULLY RIPE.” They are RIPE, and they will be picked! Harvested! By inference, there will be NO more growing of “good wheat” and “sour grapes” on planet Earth. There will be no more harvesting of the good and the bad. For here will be “NO MORE TIME.”

​By the way, the Great Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, made that statement about not knowing the TIME of his Second Coming to his apostles, on the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem, some 66 years before the apostle John received, on the island of Patmos, this vision on “Reaping the Earth,” wherein an angel comes out of the temple of God the Father in heaven to inform Jesus that"THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO REAP,” thus confirming Jesus’ statement that he did not know “the TIME.” This impressive harmony of testimony and revelation, across markedly different timeframes and settings, is one of the powerful reasons to believe in the divine inspiration of their authors. Do you believe them? To really and truly believe is to act in accordance with that belief.

The Fourth Chain of Prophecies and Visions terminating with the END of the MATERIAL EARTH and MATERIAL TIME is found in Revelation 15:1, 5-8 and Revelation 16:1-21 and takes us for a FOURTH TIME in the Book of Revelation to the END of the material world, and, by inference, to the END of TIME. Particularly, Revelation 16:17-21, which begins with a “great voice out of the temple of Heaven from the throne,

saying: 'IT IS DONE!’” Surely, in context, it's the same as saying: The Creator God’s plan (“Mystery”) for the world and humanity has come to an END. The END of material time is NOW!

 CHAIN 4 

“IT IS DONE!”

“The CITIES of the NATIONS FELL.”

​That very loud declaration “IT IS DONE!” is, indeed, followed immediately by the catastrophic end of the material world, with a “great… mighty… earthquake” more powerful than any ever experienced. “…every island” flees “away.” “…the mountains were not found.” A “plague” of “great hail out of heaven,” with stones weighing a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) falls on the unrepentant, blaspheming humans of that day. The destruction of the “CITIES of the NATIONS” takes place, as does the “GREAT BABYLON” of corrupt, idolatrous, politicized, worldly religions.

This Fourth Chain begins with the scenarios portrayed in Revelation 15:1, 5-8. "The seven bowls of the wrath of God" are poured out. These bowls are also identified as "the seven last plagues." “…LAST” means “FINAL,” and this indisputably means that there will be NO MORE after these LAST SEVEN. To be sure, it is very simply stated that by means of them "God’s wrath is COMPLETED." Revelation 15:1. Different translations define the meaning and significance of “COMPLETED.” For example: “…is finished,” “completely expressed,” “reaches its climax and is ended,” and “brought to an end.”

Then, we move along Chain Four to Revelation 16:17-21, and here is what it says for you, me, and the whole world.

17 “And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and 

there came a great voice out of the temple of Heaven from the throne, saying, 'IT IS DONE!’18 And there were voices and thunders and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the CITIES of the NATIONS FELL, and GREAT BABYLON came to remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” Revelation 16:17-21

Dear Reader, are you PROUD of the “CITIES” of your NATION? They will FALL! No matter their areas of worldly splendor and riches, nor how

many and how
high their skyscrapers. They are destined to FALL! No matter how beautiful they appear to you or me in drone views of them at night, when illuminated by millions of lights. When the “mighty… EARTHQUAKE…so GREAT” strikes, they will FALL! And why should they not, for their mantle of bewitching “BEAUTY” deceptively disguises a multitude of vices
(drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual immorality, gambling, gluttony, habitual lying, cursing, blaspheming, etc.); crimes from petty, to white collar, to endemic fraud, to organized mafia operations; widespread abuse of children, women, the elderly, the poor, the afflicted, minorities, etc., all occurring in a noxious atmosphere, though invisible, of foggy vapors, swirling, dense mists, and the shadowy darkness of pervasive, popular secularism, materialism, hedonism, and bold atheism.

Miami and Miami Beach, Florida, USA

So then, it is written in the Sacred Scriptures that the manmade “CITIES of the NATIONS” of earth will FALL. Such a projection strikes great multitudes of Earth’s inhabitants as preposterous in extreme, and they derisively dismiss it outright as the senseless, superstitious belief of the gullible religious. Countering that assessment is the undeniable fact that, for duly informed, calmer, objective minds, so many, many of the prophecies of those Sacred Scriptures have already been fulfilled to the letter of the law.

In mind-boggling contrast, the massive, “FOURSQUARE… CITY of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem… the holy city,” will come “down of heaven from God… having the glory of God” and “light like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal.” It will come down to rest forever, not in Israel, nor any place on the present planet Earth, but on the “NEW EARTH” with its “NEW HEAVEN.” Read all about it in the following texts. Hebrews 11:16; 12:22; Revelation 3:12; 21:1, 9-27; 22:1-5, 19.

In the image, having received a new, glorified, spiritual body, a human, perfected in spirit, ascends wide stairs, a welcoming angel to the left, to then proceed through one of the twelve Pearl Gates of the enormous new “City of the Living God.” An artistic projection by Ted Larson using elements of a material nature to project what will be celestial and heavenly.

An artistic painting of a glorified human being ascending the wide stairs leading to one of the twelve Pearl Gates of the enormous new City of the Living God, welcomed by an angel.

Content of Section 2 of this Commentary on Revelation.

Text and layout by the author Homer Dewayne Shappley. All rights reserved. Not to be sold in any format. The source should be properly identified in any published citation of the content.

A LIST of the CONTENT, with links, of the commentary "Revelation: Its Astounding Relevance for the 20th and 21st Centuries."

This is the title image for the 21st century Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Dewayne Shappley, composed of a horizon background in shades of blue with an explosion of red and white celestial forms on the horizon.
A light brown flat map of the world on a gold-tinted background with the words of the Great Commission in black, blue, and red.

Steps to take to be saved eternally according to the New Testament of Jesus Christ. And be blessed with the imperishable reward of living forever on "the New Earth with New Heavens." "Approaching God in Search of Pardon, Honor, and Eternal Life." Hear the true gospel. Believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah. Repent of sins. Publicly confess that Jesus is the Son of God. Be baptized (immersed in water) "for the forgiveness of sins." Concise text. 33 Bible texts cited. 2 video clips. 6 images. 4-minute read. Este mensaje en ESPAÑOL

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