Revelation 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion

Rev 14:1Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

Rev 14:2

Rev 14:2And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps,

Rev 14:3

Rev 14:3and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

Rev 14:4

Rev 14:4It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,

Rev 14:5

Rev 14:5and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.

Vision of the Angel with the Gospel

Rev 14:6

Rev 14:6Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

Rev 14:7

Rev 14:7and he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."

Rev 14:8

Rev 14:8Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion."

Doom for Worshipers of the Beast

Rev 14:9

Rev 14:9And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If any one worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

Rev 14:10

Rev 14:10he also shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Rev 14:11

Rev 14:11And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name."

Rev 14:12

Rev 14:12Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 14:13

Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!"

The Reapers

Rev 14:14

Rev 14:14Then I looked, and lo, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Rev 14:15

Rev 14:15And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat upon the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."

Rev 14:16

Rev 14:16So he who sat upon the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Rev 14:17

Rev 14:17And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

Rev 14:18

Rev 14:18Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe."

Rev 14:19

Rev 14:19So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God;

Rev 14:20

Rev 14:20and the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press, as high as a horse's bridle, for one thousand six hundred stadia.

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