Revelation 7:1

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Summary

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Four angels

Holding

Matthew 24:31

The wind

Revelation 6:6

Revelation 9:4

Isaiah 27:3

Bible References

Four angels

and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land.

Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’”

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there were four horns.

Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains.

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His

elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

Holding

You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

‘I will bring upon Elam the four winds
From the four ends of heaven,
And will scatter them to all these winds;
And there will be no nation
To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

Daniel said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

He *said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His

elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

The wind

And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

“I, the Lord, am its keeper;

I water it every moment.

So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day.