“Yes,” says the spirit, “so they will rest from their work, because the record of their activities will follow with them.”

14 Then I looked and wow, there was a white cloud, and someone who looked like a human was sitting on the cloud[ref] with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle (harvesting tool) in his hand. 15 Another messenger came out of the temple, calling out in a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud: “Extend your sickle and cut the grain because it’s harvest time—the harvest of the earth is ripe now.”[ref] 16 So the one sitting on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was harvested.

17 Then another messenger came out from the temple in heaven, also holding a sharp sickle.

18 And another messenger came from the altar, the one who had authority over the fire, and he shouted in a loud voice to the one with the sharp sickle, saying, “Extend your sharp sickle out and gather the clusters of the grapevine of the earth, because their grapes are ripe.” 19 So the messenger swung his sickle across the earth and harvested the grapevine of the earth, and he threw the grapes into the great wine-pressing pit which is God’s anger. 20 Then the grapes were trampled in the wine-pressing pit outside the city,[ref] and blood came out of it and flowed up to the height of a horse’s bridle for 300 kilometres.