Trodden the Winepress Alone
Isaiah wrote this about the second coming: “Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me” (Isaiah 63:1-3). This idea of the Savior having trodden the winepress alone was repeated three times in modern revelation. Again speaking of a future day, we read this in Joseph and Sidney’s vision: “Christ shall have subdued all enemies under his feet, and shall have perfected his work; When he shall deliver up the kingdom, and present it unto the Father, spotless, saying: I have overcome and have trodden the wine-press alone, even the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God” (Doctrine and Covenants 76:106-107). In the olive leaf revelation, we learn of a fut...