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12 This means that God's people must go on being patient and strong. They must continue to obey God's rules. They must continue to trust Jesus.

13 Then I heard a voice that spoke from heaven. It said, ‘Write this: From this time, people who continue to believe in the Lord and then they die will be very happy.’ God's Spirit says, ‘Yes, they will rest from their work. God will not forget the good things that they have done.’

The earth's harvest

14 Then I looked, and I saw a white cloud in front of me. I saw someone who was like a son of man.[a] He was sitting on the cloud. He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp knife in his hand.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 14:14 ‘a son of man’ or ‘a human’. This person seems to be the Lord Jesus. Jesus often called himself the Son of Man. See Daniel 7:13.
  2. 14:14 The sharp knife had a round shape to cut crops.