The document discusses the 144,000 witnesses described in Revelation 7 and 14. It describes how four angels hold back winds to prevent harm until the 144,000 servants of God are sealed. The 144,000 are 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel and are said to be redeemed from the earth and follow the Lamb without fault, having kept themselves chaste.

1. The 144,000 Witnesses
Revelation 7:1-8 & 14:1-5

2. • Revelation 6:17b and who is able to stand?"

3. • Revelation 7:9&14 After these things I looked, and
behold, a great multitude which no one could
count, from every nation and all tribes and
peoples and tongues, standing before the throne
and before the Lamb, … And he said to me, "These
are the ones who come out of the great
tribulation, and they have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

4. • (1) After this I saw four angels standing at the four
corners of the earth, holding back the four winds
of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the
earth or on the sea or on any tree. (2) And I saw
another angel ascending from the rising of the sun,
having the seal of the living God; and he cried out
with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it
was granted to harm the earth and the sea, (3)
saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the
trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of
our God on their foreheads."

5. • Revelation 6:17b and who is able to stand?"
• Revelation 8:6 And the seven angels who had the
seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound
them.

6. • Jeremiah 49:36 'I will bring upon Elam the four
winds From the four ends of heaven, And will
scatter them to all these winds; And there will be
no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not
go.

7. • Jeremiah 49:36 'I will bring upon Elam the four
winds From the four ends of heaven, And will
scatter them to all these winds; And there will be
no nation To which the outcasts of Elam will not
go.
• “There will be no wind, no breeze, no waves
breaking on the shore, no movement of clouds in
the sky, everything will be deathly still.”
• John MacArthur

8. • Ephesians 4:30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of
God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption.

9. • Ezekiel 9:4-5 The LORD said to him, "Go through
the midst of the city, even through the midst of
Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the
men who sigh and groan over all the abominations
which are being committed in its midst." (5) But
to the others He said in my hearing, "Go through
the city after him and strike; do not let your eye
have pity and do not spare.

10. • Revelation 9:4 They were told not to hurt the grass
of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but
only the men who do not have the seal of God on
their foreheads.

11. • Revelation 9:4 They were told not to hurt the grass
of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but
only the men who do not have the seal of God on
their foreheads.
• Revelation 14:4b These have been purchased from
among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

12. • 4) And I heard the number of those who were
sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand
sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: (5)
from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were
sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,
from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, (6) from
the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe
of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of
Manasseh twelve thousand,

13. • (7) from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,
from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the
tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, (8) from the
tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe
of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of
Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed.

14. • Micah 5:7 Then the remnant of Jacob Will be
among many peoples.

15. • Micah 5:7 Then the remnant of Jacob Will be
among many peoples.
• Matthew 24:14 "This gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached in the whole world as a testimony to
all the nations, and then the end will come.

16. • (14:1) Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was
standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one
hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name
and the name of His Father written on their
foreheads. (2) And I heard a voice from heaven,
like the sound of many waters and like the sound
of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was
like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.

17. • (3) And they *sang a new song before the throne
and before the four living creatures and the elders;
and no one could learn the song except the one
hundred and forty-four thousand who had been
purchased from the earth.

18. • (3) And they *sang a new song before the throne
and before the four living creatures and the elders;
and no one could learn the song except the one
hundred and forty-four thousand who had been
purchased from the earth.
• Zechariah 14:4 In that day His feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem
on the east;

19. • Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
according to the riches of His grace

20. • (4) These are the ones who have not been defiled
with women, for they have kept themselves
chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb
wherever He goes. These have been purchased
from among men as first fruits to God and to the
Lamb. (5) And no lie was found in their mouth;
they are blameless.

21. • Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor
among all, and the marriage bed is to be
undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will
judge.

22. • Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is to be held in honor
among all, and the marriage bed is to be
undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will
judge.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your
sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual
immorality;

23. • Romans 11:25-26 For I do not want you, brethren,
to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will
not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial
hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness
of the Gentiles has come in; (26) and so all Israel
will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER
WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE
UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."

24. • Zephaniah 3:13 "The remnant of Israel will do no
wrong And tell no lies, Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;

25. • Zephaniah 3:13 "The remnant of Israel will do no
wrong And tell no lies, Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
• Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we would be holy
and blameless before Him.