Revelation 7:1-8

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance. -Matthew Henry

Last week we touched on the 5th and 6th seal judgements. We see God’s sovereignty over the sky and it’s hosts. We know there will be a number of martyrs crying out for the Lord to avenge the shedding of their blood. And he responds, he is stirred by this and it is manifested in his end time judgements. This week move along in this great end-time story line as we read about the 144,000 sealed jewish believers. In Revelation 7:1-8

The Passage

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,

12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,

12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

12,000 from the tribe of Asher,

12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,

12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh, 

12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,

12,000 from the tribe of Levi,

12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,

12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,

12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,

12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

The List:

1. You assign four angels to hold back the four winds and to harm the earth and sea You dispatch an angel with the seal of the living God from the sun to instruct the four angels holding back the four winds
2. There is a seal of the living God 
3. The angel with the seal has a loud voice
4. The angel with the seal instructs the four angels with power to not harm the earth or sea, or trees until God seals 144,000 jewish believers
5. He will put a seal on foreheads
6. God will seal and protect 144,000 jewish believers from each tribe of Israel

The Declarations:

You assign angels for your end time purposes

You will assign angels to bring harm to the earth and sea as part of your plan

You will send angels to hold back the wind from blowing on the earth

You are the living God, and you have a seal with that name on it that you give to jewish believers

You dispatch an angel from the sun to instruct the four angels

You make assignments and involve angels in the process

You give angels loud voices

You will seal and bring divine protection to 144,000 jewish believers from each historic tribe.

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