Revelation 14: Believers' Guide:

Then John looks and sees Jesus Christ standing at Mt. Zion with 144,000 people who had internalized the knowledge of the Word of God which is Christ our Lord and our Father, The Lord God Almighty.

Then there is a sound, a voice like a roaring waterfall, like thunder, like an orchestra of harps.

The 144,000 people stand before Jerusalem, before the four living creatures and the 24 elders singing a new song only they know of. Of the whole human race they are the only ones who have been redeemed.

They are the ones who kept themselves pure by not worshiping other gods. They follow Jesus wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from the rest of the human race and are the first ones to be offered to God and Christ.

They have never been known to preach lies, they are faultless.

Then I saw another messenger exalted, with an eternal message of Good News to announce to the peoples of the earth, to every race, tribe , language and nation.

He said in a loud voice ‘Honor, God and praise his greatness! For the time has come for him to judge all people. Worship him who made heaven, earth, sea, and the springs of water!

A second messenger/ preacher followed the first one saying “ she has fallen, great Babylon has fallen! She made all peoples drink her wine – the strong wine of her immoral lust!’

A third messenger/preacher followed saying ‘Those who follow the beast and its image and agree in its way of thinking or on their way of working.

Will themselves drink God’s wine, the wine of his fury, which he poured out at full strength in the cup of his anger. All who do this will be tormented in fire and sulphur before the holy messengers and the Lamb.

The smoke of fire that torments them goes up forever and ever. They work continuously without resting to enjoy the fruits of their labour for all those who follow Russia’s way of doing things.

This calls for endurance in the part of God’s people – hard times ahead for Israel and believer’s in Christ.

John hears a voice from heaven saying ‘happy are those who from now on die in the service in the Lord! ‘Yes indeed!’ answers the Spirit. ‘They will enjoy rest from their hard work, because the results of their service go with them.’

John looked up and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was what looked like a human being, with a crown of gold on his head (meaning pure/ righteousness and authority) and a sharp sickle on his hand.

Then another messenger came out of from the temple and cried in loud voice to the one on the cloud ‘use your sickle to harvest because time has come; the earth is ripe for the harvest!’

Then the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle on earth and the earth’s harvest was reaped.

Then I saw another messenger come out of the temple in heaven (Jerusalem), he also had a sharp sickle.

Then another messenger who is in charge of fire came from the altar. He shouted in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle ‘use your sickle and cut the grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes are ripe.’

So God’s messenger swung his sickle on the earth, cut the grapes from the vine, and threw them into the wine press of God’s furious anger.

The populace was killed outside of Jerusalem (the throne of God) and blood poured out in a flood two hundred miles long and five feet deep.