What is the wine vat analogy used to describe in Revelation 18?
The wine vat analogy describes God’s destruction of the gathered nations’ armies, pictured as grapes in a wine vat, with blood running deeply. It is tied to Armageddon and the valley of Megiddo, while Revelation 18 then gives the full view of the entire world system finally coming to its end.
Les explains that Revelation 18 comes after the previous program’s discussion of Armageddon, where Scripture used the wine-vat analogy. He notes that the analogy is like bringing grapes into a wine vat: as a person walking in the vat is splattered with grape juice, so God will bring all the nations’ armies to the Middle East, pack them primarily into the valley of Megiddo, and destroy them by the final judgment of hundred-pound hailstones. A river of blood and water will run as deep as bridles and horses’ bits. Revelation 18 then gives the full view of how the whole world system as we know it will finally come to its end.