Rev 14:14-20 & Matthew 24:29-31 is exactly the same event in the "Second Coming" Last Day resurrection, this takes place "Immediately after The Tribulation"
Consider the following:
--the word
"sickle / pruning hook" in Revelation 14:14,15,16,17,18 (2x), 19 --
7x total in that chapter,
is used only one other place:
Mark 4:26-29 -
The Seed Growing Secretly
26 And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is thus, as a man should cast the seed upon the earth, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow—he not knows how. 28 Of itself [
automatē],
the earth brings forth fruit—
first a plant,
then an ear,
then full
grain [G4621 - typcally referring to
'wheat'-- see its use in
*Matt3:12,
*13:25,29,30;
*Lk3:7] in the ear. 29 And when the fruit offers itself, he sends
the sickle immediately,
for the harvest has come.”
[
* none of these passages are in the context of "our Rapture [
in the air]"--the "My barn" is the promised and prophesied
earthly Millennial Kingdom, commencing upon His "RETURN"
to the earth Rev19,
following the tribulation period--
WHEAT is "harvested" by means of
a "tribulum" (harvesting implement)--I believe Scripture itself shows us that "the 144,000" are "firstfruit" of the
WHEAT harvest (compare
Rev14:4 with Lev23:
17 "
TWO loaves" and "baken
WITH LEAVEN"--this being the
SECOND use of "firstfruit" in Lev23); but see
a DISTINCT "harvest" altogether takes place by means of "tossing it
into the air" (this one being PRIOR TO the other, see [note again Lev23 and its
TWO DISTINCT "firstfruit" mentions])...]
See also where Rev14 refers back to Joel 3:13 and context:
12 Let the nations be roused
and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit down
to judge all the nations on every side.
13
Swing the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.
Come, trample the grapes,
for the winepress is full;
the wine vats overflow
because their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision!
For the Day of the LORD is
near
[ ^ Compare Ezek7:7 - "Doom
has come to you, O inhabitants of the land.
The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy."]
in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark,
and the stars will no longer shine.
16
The LORD will roar from Zion
and raise His voice from Jerusalem; [Compare Romans 11:26-27]
heaven and earth will tremble.
But the LORD will be a refuge for His people,
a stronghold for the people of Israel.
[see also the word
"thresh [H2251 'beat out']" in the Isaiah 27:12-13 passage I've been pointing out
as parallel to Matt24:29-31 (
context: NOT "our
Rapture [
in the air]" event
)]