Who is the one on the cloud in Revelation 14:14?
The one seated on the white cloud is Christ, presented as the Son of Man with a golden crown and a sharp sickle. He is the reaper about to reap the harvest, while another angel cries from the temple for Him to thrust in His sickle.
Les explains that Revelation 14 presents a tremendous symbolic picture, not a beautiful one but an awful one beyond human comprehension. In verse 14, the scene shows a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. Les teaches that this is an allusion to Christ, the one about to reap the harvest. Another angel then comes out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to the one on the cloud, 'Thrust in thy sickle.' Les points out that a sickle always refers to a harvest, since it was used to harvest grain, so the sickle here is a symbolic word for harvesting.
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.