Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Parallel translations
- WEB He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
- KJV And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
- BSB So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
- NKJV So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
- NLT So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the whole earth was harvested.
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Quick answer
The one on the cloud swings his sickle and the earth is reaped. Christ's word brings history's harvest to completion.
Overview
At the appointed word, the Son of Man reaps the earth, depicting the decisive end-time ingathering. The act flows from his sovereign authority as the reigning Lord. Whether read primarily as the gathering of the saints or the harvest of judgment, it portrays the certain consummation of God's purposes through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
- Rev 14:19The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.
- Rev 14:14I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
- Rev 16:1–21I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”
- John 5:22–23For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
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