"This brings us to a statement over which multitudes have stumbled: concerning the blood flowing out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, for a distance of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. This is a scary scene for those who think this is literal or that there is a literal battle of Armageddon with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, horses, and rivers of blood flowing. Men who persist in teaching that this is a literal scene should stop to consider all the facts involved in what the prophet saw. We have a description of the harvest and vintage of the earth. No man can maintain other than that these are a figurative harvest and vintage of the earth, to be followed by the great spiritual feast of Tabernacles. Even the so-called “literalists” are not literal in this respect, for they don’t view it as a natural harvest or vintage of grain and grapes! We also find the reapers with sickles, gathering the clusters of the vine, whose grapes are fully ripe. No man can maintain that these are literal sickles, literal vines, and literal grapes! The grapes were cast into the winepress of the passion of God. However one interprets the scene, that winepress is not a literal winepress. No sane man can dispute these statements. Neither is the treading a literal treading. And yet in view of all these facts unspiritual men maintain that the balance of the prophecy has to be fulfilled literally, they doggedly persist in alleging, against all reason, that the predictions concerning blood, and horses, and bridles, and the sixteen hundred furlongs, must be fulfilled literally! In their folly they refuse to believe that this scripture is fulfilled unless it can be shown that such an impossible event has actually been seen by man!"
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Yes, we are all born dead in our sins and born again/ made alive in the Lord Jesus Christ. We have been made adopted sons of God. We accomplished this Joyous Rebirth by believing that Jesus Christ died for our sins.
Some people do not believe as we do. They have the Words of God, the same as we do, but they let pride, the world, money, etc lead them astray. They have no excuses. They will stand before God in Judgement. If they had knowledge of God but rejected Him, they will be rejected. And cast into the fire. This is the purification of the wheat and of the gold. Believers are the purified wheat and gold, without blemish before God.
Rev 14 is the judgement of nations, that is why the whole vine is thrown the press and trodden down. Those nations who bless Israel do not go into the press. Those who cursed Israel do go into the press. And it's not grape juice coming out of the press.
Adam and Eve ate grapes in the garden temptation and the blood of the grape defiled their blood. Christ was crushed as a grape and His Blood, perfectly sinless, paid the debt for our sins. If someone does not believe on this, their blood is the payment for their sins.
It's not literal nations, nations signify something outside of Jesus Christ's domain in the individual. Revelation is not written to warn the world of God’s furry, it is written to the church, that is captivated by Babylon(confusion), the beast of the sea, and the second beast of the earth(fleashly or carnal Christians). The second beast has two horns "like the lamb", it looks like the Lamb......sectarian Christianity, but has "the voice of the dragon", all It's teaching, wrong doctrines enslave the beloved of God, God’s passion is to unenslave the people of God, the world has practically nothing to do with Jesus Christ being revealed in His people. It's a spiritual book, a spiritual work, and it is happening all about us, in those being instructed by our Lord. Stay tuned, the plegues are next, and they are to fully rid the carnal Christian of his carnality. The unbelieving world would benefit nothing from plagues. It's a very exciting chapter comming up.
Revelation 20:4 KJV And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Jesus Christ sitting on a throne (individuals) where before He was sitting on a cloud (nations.)
John 15 KJV 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
The fruit is the individual, the vine beareth the fruit.
Psalm 80:8 KJV Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
The nation of Israel, planted.