The identification of the image of the “one like a son of man” sitting on a white cloud and harvesting the earth in Rev 14:14-16 is debated in modern scholarship. Some scholars (for example, David Aune) view the image as representing an angel administering God’s final judgment on the earth. Others (for example George Ladd and Ernst Lohmeyer), understand the image to represent the Parousia of Christ and the gathering of the elect. This paper argues that the image is indeed an image of the Parousia ingathering of the elect and is dependent on John’s appropriation of the Olivet Discourse tradition. It argues (1) that contextual indications in Revelation make it much more likely that the one like a son of man sitting on a white cloud and harvesting the earth in Rev 14 is an image of the Parousia and the gathering of the elect, (2) that the image and its function are part of certain other imagery and structural features of Revelation that are dependent on the Olivet Discourse tradition (especially in Revelation 6-8 and 14-16), and (3) that Rev 14:6-20 is a recapitulation of the timeline of Rev 6:12-8:5, placing the Parousia and gathering of the elect immediately before the pouring out of God’s wrath on the earth. The argument not only serves to solidify the understanding of the image of the one like son of man in Rev 14 as representing the gathering of the saints at the Parousia but also to suggest a consistent depiction in Revelation of a pre-wrath rapture of the church.