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Revelation Deep Dive: Revelation 14:19-20, The Winepress of God's Wrath
June 05, 2026
Welcome to Revelation Deep Dive, a bi-weekly meditation on a single passage from the book of Revelation. Each issue takes one passage seriously: what it says, what it means, where the Old Testament roots run, and how it lands for readers today. Chapter 14 has already shown us the Lamb standing on Mount Zion with His sealed people, three angels' announcements crossing the sky, and the Son of Man swinging a sickle into a ripe earth to gather the righteous. Then a second angel appears with a second sickle. What he reaps is not gathered to a barn but thrown into a winepress. "The great winepress of the wrath of God." Blood up to the bridles. Sixteen hundred furlongs. A press trampled outside the city. And every detail of it points back to Joel. Let's take it apart.
Revelation 14:19-20
So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
Old Testament connections:
Joel 3:13 · Daniel 7:13-14 · Psalm 2:6 · Isaiah 44:5 · Exodus 19:6
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