I [John] heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: From now on those who die believing in the Lord are blessed.”

    “Yes,” says the Spirit. “Let them rest from their hard work. What they have done goes with them.”

        Then I looked, and there was a white cloud, and on the cloud sat someone who was like the Son of Man. He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Another angel came out of the temple. He cried out in a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, “Swing your sickle, and gather the harvest. The time has come to gather it, because the harvest on the earth is overripe.” The one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the harvesting of the earth was completed.