Revelation 14 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion

1Then I looked, and this is what I saw: the Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had His name and His Father’s name inscribed on their foreheads.

2And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of great waters and like the rumbling of mighty thunder; and the voice that I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased (ransomed, redeemed) from the earth.

4These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are celibate. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased and redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb.

5No lie was found in their mouth, for they are blameless (spotless, untainted, beyond reproach).

The Angel with the Gospel

6Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to preach to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people;

7and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who created the heaven and the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Doom for Proud Babylon

8Then another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Doom for Worshipers of the Beast

9Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “Whoever worships the beast and his image and receives the mark on his forehead or on his hand,

10he too will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mixed undiluted into the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone (flaming sulfur) in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb (Christ).

11And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day and night—those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

12Here is the steadfast endurance of the saints (God’s people), those who habitually keep God’s commandments and their faith in Jesus.

13Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’ ” “Yes,,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest and have relief from their labors, for their deeds do follow them.”

The Reapers

14Again I looked, and this is what I saw: a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

15And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to Him who was sitting upon the cloud, “Put in Your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has arrived, because the earth’s harvest is fully ripened.”

16So He who was sitting on the cloud cast His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped (judged).

17Then another angel came out of the temple (sanctuary) in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

18And another angel came from the altar, the one who has power over fire; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Put in your sharp sickle and reap the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”

19So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and harvested the grapevine of the earth, and threw the grapes into the great wine press of the wrath and indignation of God.

20And the grapes in the wine press were trampled and crushed outside the city, and blood poured from the wine press, reaching up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of sixteen hundred stadia.