John saw four messengers had the power to injure the inhabitants of earth, sea and trees. These we have named as the four principal ones. Now in the slaying time the other powers beside the four principal ones will be engaged; then we have five hereSLG 43.5

2nd. Ezekiel saw one sealing or marking M A N clothed in linen, emblematical of the righteous in white robes.SLG 44.1

John saw a messenger having “a seal of the living God,” to seal God’s people with.SLG 44.2

3rd. Ezekiel’s slaughtering men were to slay the inhabitants of the earth.SLG 44.3

John’s were to do the same.SLG 44.4

4th. Ezekiel and John both saw that the marking and sealing was immediately preceding, and even in the time of the slaying and injuring of the inhabitants of earth and sea.SLG 44.5

Thus while the time of trouble is in one quarter the marking or sealing will be finished in another, just as Ezekiel’s slaughtering men was following directly on after the marking or sealing man. Just so John saw the trouble had began, or else why did he hear the sealing messengers cry out for them to hold on, (don’t begin yet,) we must keep a head of you, to mark, or seal, the servants of God, first.SLG 44.6

5th. Ezekiel saw that the mark was made on those that sigh and cry for the abomination in the land, 9th 5.SLG 44.7

John saw the seal was to be on the servants of God, and that these in the last days are, and will be the sighing and crying ones, there is abundant proof; see Jeremiah’s view of the time of Jacob’s trouble, 30:6-9, 17, 24; and the day and night cry, Luke 18:7, 8.SLG 44.8

6th. Ezekiel saw that the man in linen reported, or as, in the margin, returned the word, saying, I have done as thou has commanded, 11th verse.SLG 44.9

John’s sealing messenger cried with a loud voice. This of course shows that he, or they, was doing also what was commanded, or returning or fulfilling the word.SLG 44.10

7th. Ezekiel saw MEN doing this work. This therefore is another strong proof that John’s messengers were MEN. If they were invisible angels, as some believe, then it will be absolutely necessary to prove that Ezekiel’s slaughtering and marking men, are also invisible angels. This I think cannot be shown.SLG 44.11

These things prove that Ezekiel and John’s visions were of one order, and at the same time, viz: just prior to the deliverance of the sighing ones, by the voice of God; and before the pouring out of the seven last plagues on Babylon; by these, same sealed ones, [don’t start at this! it is so, for John’s visions as clearly prove this as it does the sealing message.] It is true Ezekiel did not state the number sealed, or marked, or what their peculiar mark was, as John has done; yet all the main features of the two visions agree.SLG 44.12

They are both a miniature view, similar to the transfiguration or views of the everlasting kingdom on the mount, and will as surely be fulfilled.SLG 45.1

As I have now given an exposition of John and Ezekiel’s visions, so far as relates to the sealing message; which makes the foundation sure. I will now try, with the help of God, to raise and finish the building, by showingSLG 45.2

“TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL”

THE TIME AND ORDER OF THE SEALING, WITH “THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD”