REVELATION 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.

The ‘city’ is the church of God. When John was invited to see the ‘bride, the Lamb’s wife’, she was shown to him in the sign of a city: “And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,” (Revelation 21:10) The ‘winepress’, therefore, being mentioned to be ‘trodden without the city’ reveals that only those outside of the church of God will be afflicted with the wrath of God. The ‘blood that came out of the winepress’ being described to reach ‘unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs’ reveals the sufferings of the wicked to be immeasurable. Such was previously revealed in the warning: “The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” (Revelation 14:10,11)