Step still to come (one reading among others)
Sealing of the 144,000 and the winds held back
? Not yet happened, no date
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The announcement. John, in the book of Revelation, toward the end of the 1st century, sees four angels holding back the winds of the earth, and receives the order to harm nothing before 144,000 servants of God, from the tribes of Israel, are marked on their foreheads.
What happened. This has not happened yet. In the account, this sheltering comes in between the sixth and the seventh seal.
What is still debated. the place of this scene in time is not certain, because the order of the chapters of Revelation is not necessarily the order of events.
The text (World English Bible)
After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Don’t harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!” I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel: of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Reuben twelve t…
Rev 7:1-8