Revelation 7:1

Four angels at the earth's corners hold back the four winds so no harm comes yet. God restrains coming judgment until His people are secured.

Cross-references · 19

• Matt 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
• Dan 7:2Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
• Jer 49:36I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
• Mark 13:27And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
• Dan 8:8Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.
• Ezek 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
• Ezek 37:9Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
• Isa 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
• Rev 9:14saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
• Isa 11:12He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
• Rev 7:3“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
• Matt 8:26–27“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
• Zech 1:18–20Then I looked up and saw four horns.
• Jonah 1:4Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
• Rev 9:4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
• Zech 6:1And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
• Isa 27:3I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
• Rev 6:6And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”
• Rev 4:1–6After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

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