And lest there be any doubt, the book of Revelation seals the deal. Jesus (Revelation 14:14–16) will appear on a white cloud “with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.” An angel will urge the crowned cloud dweller to use the sickle and reap, “for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” So “the one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.”
