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NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Rev_14:14-16
14Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. 15And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Rev_14:14-16 There are two different harvests (cf. IV Ezra 13:10-11) described in Rev_14:14-19. The first is a grain harvest and the second a grape harvest. If this distinction can be maintained (in Joe_3:13 the two crops are viewed as one judgment), the first refers to the harvest of the righteous (cf. Mat_9:37-38; Mat_13:30; Mat_13:38; Mar_4:26-29; Luk_10:2; Joh_4:35-38), while the second grape harvest mentioned in Isa_63:2-6; Jer_51:33; Lam_1:15; Joe_3:13 and Rev_19:15 refers to the wicked.
Rev_14:14 "a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head" The same identity problems in chapters 6 and 10 apply to these verses. Is this a description of the divine Messiah (cf. Dan_7:13) or just another angel serving on His behalf? I think it is another powerful angel, because
1. this is in a series of angels (cf. Rev_14:15; Rev_14:17-18)
2. Mat_13:39; Mat_13:41-42; Mat_13:49-50 says that angels will gather and separate people at the end-time (some for blessing and some for judgment)
3. an angel commands him (cf. Rev_14:15)
Rev_14:15 This is an allusion to Joe_3:13.