Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man over eighty times in the Gospels. The Lord has a sharp sickle in his hand . An angel came from the Temple and called to the Lord sitting on the cloud. The angel told Jesus to send in his sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come . To understand the meaning of the harvest of the earth, we look at the symbols.
Revelation uses many pictures and symbols that point to spiritual truths.
We see two separate images in these final verses of chapter 14. Some Christians describe these verses as the rapture of the Church and the judgment by Jesus Christ. Yet, like so many other illustrations in the Book of Revelation, this picture has more than one meaning. The angel told the Son of Man to reap with his sickle for the harvest of the earth is ripe . Jesus explained the Kingdom of God to his disciples.