📖 Biblical Definition
The winepress is the hewn pit where grapes were trodden underfoot to release juice for wine — a normal feature of every vineyard ("And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein", Isaiah 5:2). And it is Scripture’s most graphic figure for divine wrath. Isaiah 63:1-6 portrays the LORD with garments stained red from treading the winepress alone. Revelation 14:19-20 and 19:15 describe the great winepress of the wrath of God where Christ Himself treads the nations: "He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." Grapes; or nations under judgment. Same press.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
WINE'PRESS, n.
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A place where grapes are pressed for the manufacture of wine. Winepress — in scripture, often a figure of the wrath of God.
📖 Key Scripture
Isaiah 63:3 — "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me."
Revelation 14:19 — "The angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God."
Joel 3:13 — "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full."
Isaiah 5:2 — "He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Modern Christianity edits out the winepress of Revelation 14; the imagery is severe by design.
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The winepress is one of Scripture's sternest images for the wrath of God. Isaiah 63 pictures the Lord coming from Edom with garments dyed red — not from clothing dye, but from the blood of His enemies trodden in the press. Revelation 14 sees an angel thrusting in the sickle and casting the harvest into the great winepress of the wrath of God; the press is trodden outside the city, and blood comes out as far as the horse bridles for sixteen hundred furlongs.
Modern Christianity often edits these passages out as embarrassing or hyperbolic. The Spirit's Bible refuses the edit. The wrath of God is real, ultimate, and proportional to the rebellion that provokes it. The same Christ who treads the winepress is the One who absorbed the winepress at Calvary — bearing in His own body the wrath the redeemed deserved. Receive the redemption now; the alternative is the press without the Substitute.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Hebrew gat (H1660); Greek lenos (G3025).
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Usage
"The wrath of God is real, ultimate, and proportional to the rebellion that provokes it."
"Christ trod the winepress at Calvary so the redeemed would not have to face it alone."
"Modern Christianity edits Revelation 14; the Spirit's Bible refuses the edit."