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THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the darnel are the sons of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the darnel are gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be in the end of this world. The Son of Man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” In Joel 3:9-17 we have a description of this "Harvest and Vintage." Let the nations be awakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, come down; for the press is full; the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision! (Joe 3:12-14) The "Harvest and Vintage" are judicial since grapes are selected before being put in the winepress. That is, they are collected for the purpose of Judgment. The pouring out the "Vials" which we have discussed as a telescopic procedure of trumpets is to be seen as a part of the reaping. Harvest is completed only with the final "Battle of Armageddon." Which here is associated with the pressing of harvest to bring out the juice. The harvesting of wine grapes (Vintage) is one of the most crucial steps in the process of wine making. The time of harvest is determined primarily by the ripeness of the grape as measured by sugar, acid and tannin levels with winemakers basing their decision to pick based on the style of wine they wish to produce. Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. In the ancient middle eastern wine making, the grapes were pressed by people dancing over the grapes in a trough. Wine treading was a seasonal festival in which men and women of the village part took. "Harvesting was done by cutting clusters of grapes from the vine with pruning knives. Then the grapes were placed in baskets and carried o the winepress, ordinarily situated within the vineyard but sometimes in the city. Winepresses were hewn from bedrock to form a flat surface for treading. They consisted of a pair of square or circular vats (called gat and yeqeb in Hebrew) arranged at different levels and connected by a channel. The grapes were trodden by bare feet in the treading platform (gat), which was higher and larger than the deeper yeqeb, the receptacle into which the new wine flowed from the press. . . . After the grapes were treaded, the expressed juice ran into vats carved in the bedrock or constructed and lined with plaster. 210
THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN The juice collected in these vats was then set in a cool place for fermentation" (Life in Biblical Israel, 100- 101). A 1st century AD wine pressing trough from the Old City of Jerusalem. The "winepress" is the winepress of the "fierceness and wrath of almighty God." This is described in (Isa. 63:1-6) Isa 63:1-6 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending down in His great power? I who speak in righteousness, great to save. Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 211
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