Revelation 7:1-3 ESV

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 7:1-8

Jewish Outcomers from the Great Tribulation Revelation 7:1-8 ; Revelation 14:1-5 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some people who see but one Rapture. For our part we see several. 1. There is the Rapture of the Body of Christ. This may take place at any time, but of course that time must be God's time. To us it is any time, to God it is at a definite moment, which He, in His omniscience, has already set. 2. There is a Rapture of the outcomers of the Great Tribulation. This will be discussed as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 7:1

THE THIRD VISION. Chapter Revelation 7:1-8 An Interlude. The Sealing of God’s People. ‘After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, in order that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.’ ‘After this’ signifies a new vision. The timing of this vision is before the seventh seal is opened. As the seventh seal runs parallel to the first six seals this means that its occurrence is seen as immediate. John is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 7:2-3

‘And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising having the seal of the living God, and he cried with a great voice to the angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying “Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads”.’ Nothing on earth can hurt the people of God without God’s permission, for all that would do so is restrained in one way or another by His power (compare 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7). The seal is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 7:1-8

Revelation 7:1-Ruth : . The Sealing of the Hundred and Forty Four Thousand. Revelation 7:1 . Four angels are here represented as holding the winds, which are to bring disaster upon the world, in leash, until the seal of protection has been placed upon the Christians. Revelation 7:2 . The object of the sealing may be to protect against ( a) physical dangers, or ( b) apostasy, or ( c) demoniac activity. Probably all are included, for all may be connected with the breaking of the last seal. ... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 7:1

The first sufferings of the church under the Roman emperors that were pagans, was foretold under the first six seals, as hath been showed; but they had yet more, if not greater, things to suffer, which are discovered to John, as we shall see when we come to the opening of the seventh and last seal in the next chapter; only it pleaseth God by a vision, in this chapter, to comfort his church: so as though this vision relateth to the sixth seal, and was before the opening of the seventh, yet it... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 7:2

By this other angel, some understand an angel by nature; some, a man, Elijah, or Constantine; others, Christ himself, called an Angel, Exodus 23:20. It is not much material whether we by this angel understand Christ, or some angel which he made his instrument. He gives a command to those four angels, whom God had made the ministers or executioners of his wrath and justice in the world. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 7:3

A manifest allusion to Ezekiel 9:4, and, as some think, to the usage of some eastern countries, for masters to set their names upon the forehead of their slaves, by which they were known to be theirs, as we mark our sheep or other beasts. Men as vainly dispute what this seal should be, as what the ת meant in Ezekiel 9:1-11, the mark set upon those that mourned for the abominations of Jerusalem. The place where they were to be sealed signified the end of their sealing to be not so much for... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 7:1-17

SEALING OF THE SERVANTS OF GODCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESTHIS chapter is in the nature of an episode. Before the enemies of the gospel are finally destroyed, St. John sees the admission of believers to their blessedness in heaven. The vision has certainly the appearance of being supplementary to the preceding, and seems to refer to the visitation described under various seals, especially the third and sixth, and to represent their universality (“four corners of the earth,” “four winds of the... read more

C.I. Scofield