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The figure of the Grim Reaper is more popular today than it was years ago.
Does it appear in the Bible or is it only a feature of popular imagination?
In the following passage in Revelation, there are two angels with scythes, who deliver death. Both come out of a Temple in heaven. Why are there two? Perhaps one delivers the righteous into the next world and the other delivers judgment to the unrighteous.
I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated
on the cloud was one “like a son of man” with
a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a
loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your
sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the
harvest of the earth is ripe.”
So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the
earth, and the earth was harvested.
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too
had a sharp sickle.
Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the
altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp
sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of
grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.”
The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes
and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and
blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’
bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. [That is, about 180
miles (about 300 kilometres)]
Revelation 14: 14-20 NIV
Does it appear in the Bible or is it only a feature of popular imagination?
In the following passage in Revelation, there are two angels with scythes, who deliver death. Both come out of a Temple in heaven. Why are there two? Perhaps one delivers the righteous into the next world and the other delivers judgment to the unrighteous.
I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated
on the cloud was one “like a son of man” with
a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a
loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your
sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the
harvest of the earth is ripe.”
So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the
earth, and the earth was harvested.
Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too
had a sharp sickle.
Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the
altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp
sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of
grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.”
The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes
and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and
blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’
bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. [That is, about 180
miles (about 300 kilometres)]
Revelation 14: 14-20 NIV
