Who is the one sitting on the cloud in Revelation 14:14?
The one sitting on the cloud is Christ, presented as the Son of Man with a golden crown and a sharp sickle. He is the reaper about to bring in the harvest. The sickle in His hand marks this as a harvest scene, and the passage points to Christ as the reaper.
Les explains that Revelation 14:14's white cloud and the one seated on it like the Son of Man is an allusion to Christ. He has a golden crown and a sharp sickle, and He is the one about to reap the harvest. In the next verse, another angel comes out of the temple and cries with a loud voice to the one on the cloud, 'Thrust in thy sickle.' Les notes that anyone with agrarian knowledge knows a sickle always refers to a harvest; it was used to harvest grain. So the sickle is a symbolic word for harvesting. This symbolic picture is awful and beyond human comprehension, tied to the sovereign God bringing them into the Valley of Megiddo.
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.