This episode from Revelation 13–16 explores how every person must choose between the Lamb and the beast, between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world. It emphasizes that the symbols—beast, mark, harvest, winepress—are not puzzles to decode chronologically but theological signposts warning that God’s just judgment will fall on every power that opposes Christ and persecutes His people. Drawing on the Exodus plagues, the fall of Babylon/Rome, and the parable of the wheat and weeds, it highlights how judgment and salvation are twin sides of one redemptive act: the saints who conquer the beast are gathered to sing the song of deliverance beside the glassy sea, while those who bear the beast’s mark face the final seven bowls of wrath. It reframes Armageddon not as a future world war but as a timeless call to readiness, showing that whether rescue comes through fiery furnace or martyrs’ graves, the faithful are safe in the Lamb’s book of life. The message ends with a challenge: stay awake, keep your garments on, and fix your devotion on the Lamb alone, for Christ may return like a thief at any moment and only those who choose Him now will stand unashamed then.