What does 'the earth was reaped' in Revelation 14 mean?

Les explains that Revelation 14:15-16 records communication between an angel and Christ. The angel tells Christ, 'Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, for the time is come.' Christ, who sat on the cloud, thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. Les connects this reaping to Revelation 16, where the call goes to all the nations of the world to bring their armies and air forces to the Middle East. He says that this is the reaping the sovereign God is bringing about. Then another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and cried to him who had the sharp sickle to gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. Les points out that 'fully' in the Greek means overripe, really past harvest time. The symbolism is that the grapes were gathered and put into the vat where they could be crushed, and the juice taken out, then fermented for wine.