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The Church on Earth

After this I saw four angels, who stood at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth so that the wind could not blow on the earth, the sea, or any tree.

And I saw another angel coming up from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He called out with a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to harm the earth and the sea. He said, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of God’s servants.”

And I heard the number of those sealed:

144,000 sealed from all the tribes of the people of Israel:

from the tribe of Judah,12,000, who were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben,12,000,
from the tribe of Gad,12,000,
from the tribe of Asher,12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali,12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh,12,000,
from the tribe of Simeon,12,000,
from the tribe of Levi,12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar,12,000,
from the tribe of Zebulun,12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph,12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin,12,000, who were sealed.
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