Revelation 7:3 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 7:3

“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

KJV

Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Mt 24:34; "this generation (the Jewish nation) shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled," which implies that Israel can no more pass away before Christ's advent, than Christ's own words can pass away (the same Greek), Mt 24:35.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
ἀδικήσητε	adikēsēte	may harm	G91 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
γῆν	gēn	earth	G1093 →
μήτε	mēte	nor	G3383 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
θάλασσαν	thalassan	sea	G2281 →
μήτε	mēte	nor	G3383 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
δένδρα	dendra	trees	G1186 →
ἄχρι	achri	until	G891 →
σφραγίσωμεν	sphragisōmen	we may have sealed	G4972 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
δούλους	doulous	servants	G1401 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
μετώπων	metōpōn	foreheads	G3359 →
αὐτῶν.¶	autōn	of them.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 9:4
“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
leads to
- Revelation 14:1
  Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 20:4
  Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 9:4
  They 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.
- 2 Corinthians 1:22
  placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
- Revelation 7:2–3
  And 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…
Through
Revelation 14:1
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
leads to
- Revelation 3:12
  The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Revelation 9:4
They 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.
leads to
- Ezekiel 9:4
  “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Revelation 22:4
They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
leads to
- Matthew 5:8
  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

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Taw — The Mark of God

The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet — drawn in the Sinaitic script as a cross — appears at the decisive moments of judgment and rescue: the doorposts of Goshen, the foreheads in Jerusalem, the sealing of the 144,000, and the cross at Golgotha.

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