Sharp Sickle: God's Word in the mouth of the Babylon in Judgment? Let's examine.

SOWER: CHRIST AND THE CHURCH?

Mr 4:14 The SOWER soweth the word.

Mt 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a SOWER went forth to SOW;

Ho 10:12 SOW to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Mt 13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that SOWETH the **good seed** is the Son of man;

Mt 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the ^tares^ are the children of the wicked one;

Mt 13:39 The enemy that SOWED them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Mt 13:40 As therefore the ^tares^ are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Mt 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth ^his angels^, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

GATHERING THE TARES: THE CHURCH DESTROYING THE CHURCH?

Ho 9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall **gather** them up, Memphis shall **bury them**: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and **men gather them**, and cast {} into the fire, and they are burned.

Lu 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the ^chaff^ he will burn with fire unquenchable.

Jer 5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in ^thy mouth^ fire, and ^this people^ wood, and it shall devour them.

Mt 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

WICKED SOWER: UNSAVED CHURCH THAT IS BABYLON?

Mic 6:15 Thou shalt SOW, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

Le 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their FRUITS.

De 28:38 Thou shalt carry much SEED out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Joe 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the HARVEST of the field is perished.

Pr 22:8 He that SOWETH iniquity shall **reap vanity**: and the rod of his anger shall fail

Jer 12:13 They have SOWN wheat, but shall **reap thorns**: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Ho 8:7 For they have SOWN the wind, and they shall **reap the whirlwind**: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Hag 1:6 Ye have SOWN much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

SHARP SICKLE: GOD’S WORD IN THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED?

Re 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp <3691> sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp <3691> sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

Re 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp <3691> sword with two edges;

Ro 3:15 Their feet are swift <3691> to shed blood:

Re 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp <3691> sickle.

Re 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp <3691> sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

REAPING IN HARVEST: THE CHURCH DESTROYING THE CHURCH?

Mt 13:39 The enemy that SOWED them is the devil; the *harvest* is the end of the world; and the reapers are the ANGELS.

Mt 13:40 As therefore the ^tares^ are **gathered** and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Mt 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

Mt 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Joe 3:13 Put ye in the SICKLE, for the *harvest* is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great

Jer 50:16 Cut off the SOWER from Babylon, and ^him^ that handleth the SICKLE in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Re 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp SICKLE.

Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the ^WICKED^.

Re 14:19 And the angel thrust in his SICKLE into the earth, and **gathered** the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

Mr 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the SICKLE, because the harvest is come.

De 23:25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt NOT move a SICKLE unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.

For Consideration:

Am 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that SOWETH seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

God appears to be associating reaping with a sickle in harvest to the judgment He brings on the Church at the revelation of Christ. The enemy sows tares among the wheat and at the time of harvest (the end) God sends the sickle (unsaved church) to gather the wicked for the burning.