1. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.
2. Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to harm the earth and the sea:
3. “Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads. ”
4. And I heard the number of those who were sealed:144,000 sealed from every tribe of the Israelites: