Revelation 14 is another confusing and visionary chapter, with the Lamb and 144,000 featuring in its first few verses, then three angels and finally the image of the son of man coming with a sickle to harvest the earth and tread the winepress. All this imagery has its...

In the first part of Revelation 14, we see a vision of God’s people (the 144,000 we met earlier in Revelation 7:4) in heaven and hear a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder or like harpists playing their harp. We are told...

When I was a young, sleep-deprived mother, rudely awakened to the early hours of the morning by a baby, I learned that the key to survival was preparation at a time when I was not sleep-deprived. I developed the habit of laying out my son's clothes and nappy the night...