“Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
Saying, 'Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants of God with a seal on their foreheads' — the angel's prohibition frames the sealing as preventive protection; those bearing God's seal on the forehead (metōpon) will be protected from the judgments about to fall. The forehead-marking echoes Ezekiel 9:4, where the righteous are marked for protection.
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