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    SEALING

    signifies to close, settle, confirm, ratify, make sure between two parties for ever. In this case the parties are God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, with 144,000 men and women on the earth, witnessed by all the holy angels in heaven. When the 144,000 on the earth, individually, keep God’s Holy Sabbath according to the commandment, see the example in Luke 23:56, and decalogue, Exodus 20:8-10, then the sign of that Sabbath is manifest, and this sign will be a seal of their righteous act and faith, as circumcision was to faithful Abraham, Romans 4:11, and the act ratified, by their being “sealed by the holy spirit of promise unto the day of redemption”.SLG 35.5

    That this is certain, see Revelation 14:1; here is the same number in their redeemed state. But stop, says one, these 144,000 in Revelation 14:1, are little children. There is not one passage in Revelations to sustain it; Oh well, says another, I know they are not children, but they are the 144,000 that came up out of their graves at the resurrection of Jesus. This, too, is without any foundation in the whole word of God: every argument from Revelation 7:1-9 contradicts it. John did not see but one company of 144,000 in his vision, and they were first to be sealed immediately preceding the letting go the four winds, or in plain language, on the four principal powers of earth becoming disorganized. This we see is now taking place in the east, and this identical 144,000 are now being sealed. See also Sabbath Vindication, pages 100, 101.SLG 36.1

    In Revelation we learn that none but Jesus has power to unseal the word, 5:1, 2, 5, 11, 12; 6:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12.SLG 36.2

    The book of this prophecy is not to be sealed, 22:10.SLG 36.3

    Again, some things were to be sealed. The seven thunders which John heard are never to be known here. The devil is to be sealed for 1000 years; some are teaching that he has been sealed a great while ago, others that we have past the 6000 years of the world, and entered on the seventh in 1844. If that be true, then he has been sealed a little more than four years. It is very certain that neither of these positions are true, for the chain is not made in the land yet (Ezekiel 7:23,) that can hold him. This sealing work when accomplished, will look more like the chain (or potent truth,) than any thing heretofore seen. Daniel’s prophecy or vision was to be sealed to the time of the end, viz: 1798; since then it has been unsealed. So we see that whatever is sealed is for a specified time, or forever and ever. Paul speaks of another sealing under the gospel, 2nd 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2nd 2 Timothy 2:19, but the seal in our text differs from them all; it is “the seal of the living God.”SLG 36.4

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