Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and
their abominations were according as they loved.
Isaiah 5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought
it forth wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and
the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but
behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Psalm 80:8 You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and planted it.
(v8 refers to Israel in Egyptian captivity under pharaoh, as Israel was removed from Egypt)
Yet the bible says in Revelation the grapevine was gathered and cast into the wine press of the WRATH of God (the wine press was used to make grapes into wine by treading on them i.e. walking on them as shown above in the illustration)
Revelation 14:19 And 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.
(A sickle, or bagging hook, is a hand-held agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting)
14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Revelation 16:16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
(Three verses later after v16 the place of Armageddon is called "Babylon the Great" in v19)
Revelation 16:19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
(The concept of widowhood was also used as a metaphor to describe God's relationship to Israel.)
Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
(Interestingly, some versions use the word "queen"in them)
NIV How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
NLT Jerusalem, once so full of people, is now deserted. She who was once great among the nations now sits alone like a widow. Once the queen of all the earth, she is now a slave.
Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
(In the same chapter, just a few verses later, after the great whore is judged, 5 verses later we are told about the marriage of the lamb, so once the whore is taken care of then the marriage can take place)
19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
(Yet the bible tells us that God had a wife that he divorced and it was Israel, and the reason he divorced Israel was because she was a whore)
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
(The bible says Israel whored herself out to the various pagan gods of the other nations)
Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
(The prophet Isaiah calls Israel children of witches, and offspring of adulterers and prostitutes)
57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
(Israel sacrificed their children to pagan deities, Israel's gods are the smooth stones of the valley, and they made offerings unto these idols, drink offerings and meat offerings)
Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
(The children of Israel in the streets of Jerusalem v17, worship the queen of heaven and other gods in v18. I find this rather odd how denominations use Jeremiah 7:18 to refer to Catholics and yet v17 says this is referring to the children of Israel in the streets of Jerusalem)
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