Verse 19
The earth had yielded a crop of unbelievers that now, at the end of the Tribulation, would come into judgment. The angel took them from the earth to undergo judgment in God’s great grape press (cf. Isaiah 63:1-6; Lamentations 1:15; Joel 3:13).
"In Biblical days grapes were trampled by foot in a trough which had a duct leading to a lower basin where the juice collected. The treading of grapes was a familiar figure for the execution of divine wrath upon the enemies of God." [Note: Mounce, p. 282. Cf. Robertson, 6:416; and J. P. M. Sweet, Revelation, p. 232.]
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