Revelation 7

144,000 Sealed

¹After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree. ²And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: ³“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

• REV 7:1[PROPHECY]144,000 sealed from the 12 tribes of Israel (12,000 from each tribe) → STILL TO COME
• REV 7:3[FULFILLS]God's faithful marked on the forehead before judgment fell ← EZK 9:4MEDIUM

⁴And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:

• REV 7:4[NOTE]144,000. See Who Are the 144,000?

⁵From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,

from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,

from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

• REV 7:5[NOTE]THE TRIBES. Dan and Ephraim are missing, and Joseph and Levi are added. Irenaeus thought Dan was left out because the Antichrist would come from it; see What Irenaeus Wrote.

⁶from the tribe of Asher 12,000,

from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,

from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

⁷from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,

from the tribe of Levi 12,000,

from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

⁸from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,

from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,

and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

Praise from the Great Multitude

⁹After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice:

• REV 7:9[PROPHECY]A great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne... these are the ones who come out of the great tribulation → STILL TO COME

“Salvation to our God,

who sits on the throne,

and to the Lamb!”

¹¹And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God, ¹²saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

¹³Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”

¹⁴“Sir,” I answered, “you know.”

So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵For this reason,

• REV 7:14[PROPHECY]Those who come out of the great tribulation will never hunger again and God will wipe away every tear → STILL TO COME

they are before the throne of God

and serve Him day and night in His temple;

and the One seated on the throne

will spread His tabernacle over them.

¹⁶‘Never again will they hunger,

and never will they thirst;

nor will the sun beat down upon them,

nor any scorching heat.’

• REV 7:16[ALLUDES TO]Refers to ← IS 49:10; 25:8

¹⁷For the Lamb in the center of the throne

will be their shepherd.

‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’

and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”