The Lamb, Babylon and the Sickles (6): The Son of Man and His Sickle (Revelation 14:14-16) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Reaping Imagery
II. The Eschatological Reality
Leon Morris on Revelation 14:15: “Is ripe (exēranthē) points to the drying off of plants when crop is fully ripe. The time for the intervention of him who bore the sickle is not chosen arbitrarily. He puts in the sickle at exactly the right moment. Persecuted believers may know that if God’s intervention is delayed this is only because it is not yet the right moment to reap. Reaping is certain as soon as the harvest of the earth is ripe.”