Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² Here^[a] is the endurance of the saints, the ones keeping the commandments of God and the faith of ^[b] Jesus. ¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write— ‘Blessed^[c] are the dead dying in the Lord from-now-on! Yes, says the Spirit, so that they will rest from their labors, for their works are following with them”.

The Reaping of Mankind

¹⁴ And I saw and behold— there was a white cloud, and one sitting on the cloud resembling a son^[d] of man, having a golden crown^[e] upon his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. ¹⁵ And another angel came out of the temple, crying-out with a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud, “Send your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap came, because the harvest of the earth was dried-up^[f]”. ¹⁶ And the one sitting on the cloud cast his sickle over^[g] the earth, and the earth was reaped. ¹⁷ And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ And another angel came-out from the altar— the one having^[h] authority over the fire. And he called-out with a loud voice to the one having the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the grapevine of the earth, because its grapes became ripe”. ¹⁹ And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the grapevine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the fury of God. ²⁰ And the winepress was trodden outside the city. And blood came out of the winepress up to the bridles of the horses, one-thousand six-hundred stades^[i] away.