Subject: The Rapture in Revelation |
Bible Note: I do agree with your commentaries about the Second Advent in Rev 14:15-16. But I think from verse 17 until 20 it refers to the final destruction of the wicked. "This can hardly be applied at the time of the second advent, for events are here given in chronological order, and the destruction of the wicked would be contemporaneous with the gathering of the righteous. Again, the living wicked at Christ's coming drink of the "cup" of His indignation. But this passage brings to view the time when they perish in the "winepress" of His wrath, which is said to be trodden "without the city," answering completely to the description of Revelation 20: 9, this latter expression more naturally denoting their complete and final destruction." Urias Smith in "The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation" |