Revelation of John 14:19-20

19So the angel moved his sharp knife over the earth. He cut off the grapes which grew in the earth’s field of vines. He threw the grapes into a great hole in the ground. That is where God shows that he is very angry with bad people. It is the winepress where he makes the grapes into wine. 20The winepress was outside the city. When the grapes were walked on, the juice that came out of the winepress was blood. The river of blood was very deep. It rose as high as horses’ necks and it went as far as 300 kilometres.
14:20 God is showing how angry he is. He is angry with everyone who will not obey him. The grapes are like a picture of bad people. At the time when John was writing Revelation, this is how people made wine. They put the grapes in a big hole that they had cut in the rock. This was called a winepress. Then they walked on the grapes, to squeeze them. Pipes went out of the winepress. The juice from the grapes went out through the pipes. It was red like blood. This is a picture of how God will punish his enemies. See also Revelation 19:15 and Isaiah 63:3.

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