Revelation 14: 14: And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Angel of the wheat harvest that John saw sitting upon a white cloud. It was the Lord Jesus who showed His face in the Cloud above Arizona on February 28, 1963, revealing Himself as the Supreme Judge and Warrior King. In verse one of Revelation 14 Jesus is seen standing as the Lamb, but in verse 14 Jesus is seated on the Cloud in His office as the Warrior King and Supreme Judge to execute judgment upon those who rejected His Word. This great Warrior King has a golden crown upon His head whilst seated on the cloud, for when the Cloud appeared in Arizona, It moved over Sunset Mountain in the Coronado National Forest. The word “coronado” means “crowned” in the Spanish language. The crown upon Christ’s head looks forward with anticipation to the time when He is crowned by His saints when we are all gathered before His Throne.
Jesus has a sickle in His hand to gather in the great wheat harvest of His Gentile Bride in the last days. The coming of this great One is described for us in 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 – 17: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. From this we learn that the ingathering of the wheat harvest would happen in three parts under the Shout, the Voice, and the Trumpet.
The Shout is the reaping of the harvest from the field of souls in this world. It is the cutting of the wheat stalks; in other words, a people are being called out in the last days by the message of God’s prophet (Malachi 4: 5; Revelation 10: 7). The Voice is the threshing of the wheat where the stalks are beaten off, followed by the winnowing of the wheat where the chaff is blown away. This is the part we are in now, whereby the character of Christ is being formed in us as more and more of the sinful flesh nature is made subject to the Word and we come more and more into Christ’s image and likeness, being His Voice to this final age under our church age messenger. Lastly is the Trumpet, which represents the garnering of the wheat (its ingathering into the barn after having been threshed and winnowed). This represents the perfecting of the Bride and the fulfilling of Her heavenly commission (Revelation 10: 8 – 11), after which She is taken into Glory in the great translation of seven ages of New Testament saints.