Of Stomping and Sin

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So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth, and he threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.(Revelation 14:19, NRSVCE)

Wine making was not for the weak at the time the Book of Revelation was being written. The grapes would be placed in some sort of basin and stomped—and stomped and stomped. Th...