After the sixth seal and before the seventh seal, the power of evil is stopped by four angels so nothing bad happens while a small number of the Jews are sealed with a mark of God in their foreheads. The four winds are evil powers that make bad things happen in all four corners of the earth: north, south, east and west. Everyone on earth will be affected by the fearful judgments during the great tribulation. Some servants of God from each of the 12 tribes of Israel will be selected at this time to receive the seal of protection in their foreheads. This symbolic number of 144,000 Jews will survive to the end of the great tribulation and will go into the 1000-year reign of Christ. These servants will preach the gospel of the kingdom. The tribes of Dan and Ephraim are excluded, probably because they were the ones who first turned Israel away from God to worship idols.
A second group of people from all nations of the world will survive the seven years of trouble on the earth. These are ones who believed the gospel that was preached during the tribulation. They too will go into the Millennium. These believers from all nations will join in the worship of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. They are not the church. They will worship from the earth while the church will worship from heaven. After so many troubles and fears, these people will suffer no more. They will have peace and safety in the kingdom: no more hunger, no more thirst, and no more crying. God will wipe away the tears from their eyes.
1. What were the four angels that were standing on the four corners of the earth holding? __________ Revelation 7:___
2. Where were the angels going to put the seal on the servants of God? __________ Revelation 7:___
3. What did these people wash their clothes in to make them white? __________ Revelation 7:___
4. Where will these people serve God day and night? __________ Revelation 7:___
5. What will God wipe away from their eyes? __________ Revelation 7:___