(Revelation) Book of the Great Revealing 7

THE FOUR WINDS ARE HELD BACK

1After this I saw four spirit-messengers standing at the four corners of the land.#7:1 Ezekiel 7:2 They were holding back the four winds of the earth to keep them from blowing on the land, on the sea, or against any tree.

2Then I saw another spirit-messenger rising from the place where the sun rises, holding the branding iron#7:2 Lit. seal of the living Creator. With a loud voice the messenger called out to the four spirit-messengers who were permitted to harm the land and the sea.

THE SEALING OF THE SERVANTS OF CREATOR

3“Bring no harm to the land, sea, or trees,” the messenger instructed them, “until we have sealed the mark of the Great Spirit on the foreheads of the ones who serve him.”#7:3 Ezekiel 9:4

4I then heard the number that would be sealed—one hundred forty-four thousand—from all of the tribes of children of Wrestles with Creator (Israel).

5-8Twelve thousand were sealed from each of the tribes named and represented here:

Give Him Praise (Judah), Son of My Vision (Reuben), Counting Many Coups (Gad), Walks with a Glad Heart (Asher), He Will Wrestle (Naphtali), He Made Them Forget (Manasseh), Creator Hears (Simeon), He Brings Together (Levi), He Is My Reward (Issachar), Honored Dwelling (Zebulun), Creator Gives More (Joseph), Son of My Right Hand (Benjamin).

EVERY TRIBE AND LANGUAGE

9After this I saw a great crowd of people, too many to count, from every nation, tribe, clan, and language. They were standing before the seat of honor and before the Lamb, dressed in pure white regalia, holding palm tree branches in their hands.

10They lifted their voices and shouted, “The power to set us free and make us whole belongs to the Great Spirit who sits upon the seat of honor, and to the Lamb!”

11All the spirit-messengers who encircled the seat of honor, along with the elders and the four living spirit animals, humbled themselves and fell face down on the ground before the Great Spirit to give him the honor that he deserves.

12“Aho! It is so!” they said with one voice. “Praise and honor and wisdom and respect and power and strength belong to the Great Spirit to the time beyond the end of all days! Aho! It is so!”

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

13Then one of the elders spoke to me, “Who are these people who are dressed in white regalia? And from where did they come?”

14“Honored one,” I said to him, “you must know.”

Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come through the time of great trouble and suffering. They have washed their regalia in the lifeblood shed by the Lamb, making their regalia pure white.

15“Because of this they stand before the seat of honor, and they serve the Great Spirit day and night in the inner court of his sacred lodge. The one who sits on the seat of honor will spread his sacred tent over them and cover them in the shadow of his wings. 16Never again will they hunger or thirst or suffer under the heat of the desert sun.

17“The Lamb at the center of the seat of honor will watch over them like a shepherd watches over his sheep. He will guide them to springs of life-giving water, and there the Great Spirit will perform the wiping of tears ceremony for each of them.”

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