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Search 1: "harvest earth grain sickle Revelation 14"

  • CFF1 224.7 (Froom): Quotes Rev 14:14-19 in full.
  • EW 31.2 (White): Quotes Rev 14:14-19 in full in context of end-time events.
  • BHB 58.9 (Haskell): "Revelation 14:14-16. When finished Christ gathers the harvest of the earth."
  • MWV1 238.1 (William Miller): Quotes Rev 14:15-19 as proof text for end of world.
  • 6T 15.1 (White): Quotes Rev 14:12-19 — the harvest follows the three angels' messages.
  • 22LtMs, Lt 391, 1907, par. 10 (White): Quotes Rev 14:14-16 — "He that sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."

Search 2: "winepress wrath God treading grapes"

  • CLARKE 130159 (Adam Clarke): "he treadeth the winepress" — brief note on Rev 19:15.
  • CLARKE 130169 (Adam Clarke): "He treadeth the winepress — As the grapes are trodden to express the juice, so his enemies shall be bruised and beaten, so that their life's blood shall be poured out."
  • GUINNESS 433 (H. Grattan Guinness): "He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Who can He be, but the glorious One, mighty to save, who says 'I will tread down the people in mine anger' (Isa. lxiii.)? His vesture dipped in blood identifies Him with this red-apparelled Conqueror."
  • HENRY 64567 (Matthew Henry): "What was the wine-press; it was the wrath of God, the fire of his indignation."
  • HENRY 31846 (Matthew Henry): "He does indeed tread the wine-press, but it is the great wine-press of the wrath of God (Rev. xiv. 19.) in which we sinners deserved to have been cast; but Christ was pleased to cast our enemies into it."

Search 3: "angel altar fire harvest judgment"

  • DAR 636.3 (Uriah Smith): "The angel comes out of the temple, where the records are kept and the punishment is determined. The other angel has power over fire. This may have some connection with the fact that fire is the element by which the wicked are at last to be destroyed, although, to carry out the figure, the wicked, having been likened to the clusters of the vine of the earth, are said to be cast into the great winepress, which is trodden without the city. And blood comes out of the winepress, even to the horses' bridles."
  • DAR1909 679.4 (Uriah Smith): Same content as DAR 636.3.
  • BALLENGER2 336 (Ballenger): "The fire used by the ministering angels is taken from an altar."

Search 4: "1600 furlongs blood horses bridles"

  • ELLIOTT4 6011 (E.B. Elliott): "Furlongs, the 1600" — index entry for discussion.
  • No detailed commentary found in EGW corpus on the specific number 1600.

Search 5: "Isaiah 63 winepress alone trodden"

  • SD 145.1 (White): "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me. Isaiah 63:3."
  • SJ 141.6 (White): "The Saviour made no murmur of complaint; His face remained pale and serene, but great drops of sweat stood on His brow. His disciples had fled from the dreadful scene. He was treading the winepress alone; and of the people there were none with Him. (Isaiah 63:3.)"
  • 3TC 448.2 (White): "Having made the decision, He fell dying to the ground. Where now were His disciples, to place their hands beneath the head of their fainting Master? The Savior trod the winepress alone, and from the people there was none with Him."
  • Note: EGW applies Isa 63:3 primarily to Christ's Gethsemane experience (suffering alone) rather than to the final judgment winepress.

Search 6: "Son of Man white cloud crown sickle"

  • ExV 42.2 (White): "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle."
  • KPC 37.4 (Uriah Smith): Quotes Rev 14:14-16. "And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle."

Search 7: "wheat tares harvest end of world angels"

  • MWV1 237.1 (William Miller): Quotes Mat 13:37-42 — "the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."
  • COL 75.1 (White): "The Saviour does not point forward to a time when all the tares become wheat. The wheat and tares grow together until the harvest, the end of the world. Then the tares are bound in bundles to be burned, and the wheat is gathered into the garner of God."
  • 2SP 250.1 (White): "These words of Christ are meaningless to those who are looking for a temporal millennium, when all the world will be converted. He expressly states that the wheat and tares shall grow together till the harvest, which is the end of the world."

Search 8: "feast harvest barley firstfruits wheat pentecost grape tabernacles"

  • ELLIOTT4 140 (E.B. Elliott): "The barley harvest was finished at the Passover, when the sanctifying wave-sheaf was presented; the wheat harvest at Pentecost, when the first-fruits were offered."
  • PP 539.6 (White): "On the second day of the feast, the first fruits of the year's harvest were presented before God. Barley was the earliest grain in Palestine, and at the opening of the feast it was beginning to ripen."
  • BOE 271.7 / 1TC 374.6 (White): "Pentecost, the feast of harvest, came fifty days after the offering of firstfruits. As an expression of gratitude for grain, two loaves baked with yeast were presented before God."

Search 9: "Revelation 14 close probation intercession cease"

  • CFL 72.2 (White): "When the people of God have accomplished their work of declaring the messages of the three angels of Revelation 14 to the whole world, and they have received the seal of God, then Jesus will cease His intercession in the sanctuary of heaven."
  • SSP 267.2 (Haskell): "Christ casts to the earth the censer which He holds in His hand. He lays aside the garments of His priesthood, and passes from the temple. Probation is closed."
  • BR-ASI9 212.7 (White): "Revelation 15:8 reveals that no man can enter the temple in heaven while the plagues are being poured out. All mediation for sin ceases."

Search 10: "two harvests grain harvest righteous grape harvest wicked"

  • CFF1 225.2 (Froom): Discussion of two harvests in Revelation 14.
  • No explicit EGW statement found distinguishing the grain harvest as righteous and grape as wicked in those terms.