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Revelation 14:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
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Quick Meaning
This verse depicts city-outside trampling and a vast blood flow in symbolic judgment language.
Read It With
- Revelation 14:14-20
Read Revelation 14:20 with 14:14-20. This verse depicts city-outside trampling and a vast blood flow in symbolic judgment language. The complete unit's controlling movement is: A crowned humanlike figure reaps earth's ripe harvest; angels then gather grapes into God's winepress, producing an enormous city-outside blood image.
Why This Verse Appears Here
At Revelation 14:20, depicts city-outside trampling and a vast blood flow in symbolic judgment language; this advances Revelation 14:14-20 after the preceding action and toward the unit's stated conclusion.
Follow the Context
- The cloud reaping and grape-winepress sequence share sickle commands and together complete the chapter's paired harvest vision.
- A crowned humanlike figure reaps earth's ripe harvest; angels then gather grapes into God's winepress, producing an enormous city-outside blood image.
- The first harvest may be salvation, judgment, or a neutral grain image before the explicit grape judgment. Joel, Isaiah, and Daniel shape the scene; distances and blood depth are symbolic and not battle coordinates.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The blood image does not authorize war, massacre, weapons speculation, or violent entertainment.
What Remains True
Revelation 14:20 shows that depicts city-outside trampling and a vast blood flow in symbolic judgment language; its faithful force remains governed by creator worship, the slain Lamb, truthful witness, patient endurance, justice, and new creation.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Revelation 14:20, explain this exact role inside Revelation 14:14-20, state the unit's uncertainty or first-century control, and refuse unsupported modern mapping or coercive imitation.
Teach It Back
Explain Revelation 14:20's specific contribution to Revelation 14:14-20: depicts city-outside trampling and a vast blood flow in symbolic judgment language. Include the surrounding movement, one material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Revelation 14:14-20 — Two Harvests Picture Climactic JudgmentSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The package keeps the leading alternatives visible and weights them by textual, historical, literary, and reception evidence rather than pretending every proposal is equally strong. The first harvest may be salvation, judgment, or a neutral grain image before the explicit grape judgment. Joel, Isaiah, and Daniel shape the scene; distances and blood depth are symbolic and not battle coordinates.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage.
Exact location: Revelation 14:14-20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Revelation.txt, 14:14-20
Open the Revelation Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Revelation with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual variants, imagery, cross-references, and stated alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Revelation PDF, printed pp. 2408–2447, 14:14-20 and attached translator/textual notes
Open the official NET Revelation PDF ↗