The Sealed of Israel

7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth,^(A) restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ² Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered^[a] to harm the earth and the sea: ³ “Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”