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Revelation 14:10 · World English Bible

Revelation 14:10 Meaning He Also Will Drink of the Wine

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

What does Revelation 14:10 mean?

The wine is the divine love at full strength, undiluted, and the one who has spent his life in the craving to accumulate must drink it neat with nothing to soften it. The wrath is no punishment sent down.

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The wine is the divine love at full strength, undiluted, and the one who has spent his life in the craving to accumulate must drink it neat with nothing to soften it. The wrath is no punishment sent down. It is love met without any answering love in oneself, and that bare exposure is the torment. Fire is spirit, the photon, and it burns because the lower nature has no likeness to it.

The brimstone is the sulphur of that base nature, smoking against the pure light in the presence of the Lamb, the pineal gland. So the accumulating self faces full love inside its own head and finds it unbearable, which is simply life lived absent from love.

Wine: the divine love poured out at full spiritual strength, no dilution Fire: spirit, the photon, the pure energy of the higher life Brimstone: the sulphur of the lower nature, smoking where it meets the light Lamb: the pineal gland, the seat of the light in the head

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Live Revelation 14:10 today

  1. Let someone's kindness in today without deflecting it. Watch the urge to joke it away or repay it immediately, and just say thank you and let it land.
  2. Give a person more warmth than the moment strictly needs, with no return expected: the barista, your kid, the coworker you find difficult. Giving it is how you build the capacity to receive it.
  3. When you are stretched thin and someone offers help, take it. Refusing help under pressure feels strong and is actually the cheapest way to stay alone.

Can I receive love at full strength, or do I keep watering it down?

The same truth in other traditions

Sufism · Rumi

The same sun that ripens the fruit hardens the clay. Love is one strength. What it does in you depends on what you have become.

Zen

To meet great kindness with a closed heart is its own suffering, and nobody sent it. The pain is the shape of the refusal.

Bhagavad Gita 18

What begins as poison and ends as nectar belongs to clarity, and what begins as nectar and ends as poison belongs to craving. The same cup, different drinkers.

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