Do Not Harm The Servants Of God                                     -The Seven Seals (2)

Revelation 7

Key vs. 7:3  "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."

1. Read vs. 1-3. John sees the four angels holding back the four winds of the earth. (1,2)  How does it show that God is in control of the events? What does the number “four” show about the divine judgment?  How does another angel put a seal of the living God on his people? (3) What does the seal symbolize? (3,Eph1:13) 

2. Read vs.4-8. What does the number, 144,000 represent? (4)  How is the list of the tribes of Israel here different from the normal list?  Which tribes are unusually omitted or included?  What does it imply by “all the tribes of Israel”? (4)

3. Read vs. 9-10.  What does God show John in the heavenly scene? (9)  What do their clothes and palm branches show about them?  How do they praise God? (10)  Who do they represent? (14)

4. Read vs. 11-12.  Where are all the angels standing? (11)  How do they worship and praise God for the salvation of the believers? (12) 

5. Read vs. 13-17.  How does a great multitude come out of the great tribulation? (14)  How does God provide shelter from the judgment? (16,16:8)  How does God bless and comfort them? (17, 21:3,4)  How will this heavenly scene encourage the believers who go through the tribulation?