• Seals have been used for thousands of years to provide a permanent shutting, or closing, of something. For example, a sheet of paper containing a letter would be folded over upon itself, a bit of wax dropped to hold it shut, and then a signet ring would be impressed upon the wax. The sheet was now considered securely sealed; it could not be opened without tearing apart the molded wax.
  • When the seal of God is applied, those who receive it will be permanently identified as belonging to God. They already developed characters will be sealed in. The sealing will be a major event in the lives of the remnant who live at the end of time.
  • And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. Eze.9:4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     THE NATURE OF THE SEAL: 
  • 1 – The winds of strife, war, and manifold disasters are being held in check until the seal is placed. Everything in the world is in an unsettled state.The nations are angry, and great preparations for war are being made. Nation is plotting against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. The great day of God is hasting greatly. But although the nations are mustering their forces for war and bloodshed, the command to the angels is still in force, that they hold the four winds until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.

    7 BC968, Matt. 24: 6-7

  • After these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.Revelation 7:1.

    2 – The seal will be placed before the last great battle. As yet the four winds are held until the servants of God shall be sealed in their foreheads. Then the powers of earth will marshal their forces for the last great battle. How carefully we should improve the little remaining period of our probation. 7 BC968

  • Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. 2Peter1:10
  • 3 – It is now that we are to prepare for the sealing. The sealing time is very short and will soon be over. Now is the time, while the four angels are holding the four winds, to make our calling and election sure. EW 58:2
  • 4 – The seal is an invisible mark of loyalty and obedience to our Creator:What is the seal of the living God, which is placed in the foreheads of His people? It is a mark which angels, but not human eyes, can read; for the destroying angel must see this mark of redemption. The intelligent mind has seen the sign of the cross of Calvary in the Lord’s adopted sons and daughters. The sin of the transgression of the law of God is taken away. They have on the wedding garment and are obedient and faithful to all God’s commands.7 BC968, Rev.7:2
  • Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men.Eph 4:13-14

    5. The seal is a settling into the truth. Just as soon as the people of God are sealed in their foreheads it is not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved just as soon as God’s people are sealed and prepared for the shaking, it will come. Indeed, it has begun already. 4 BC1161

  • 6 The seal will be our passport through the heavenly gates. Only those who receive the seal of the living God will have the passport through the gates of the Holy City. 7 BC 970And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. Rev. 21:24
  • Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Phi. 2:5,The seal of the living God will be placed upon those only who bear a likeness to Christ in character.  BC970

    8 – They must reflect the image of Jesus. Those who receive the seal of the living God and are protected in the time of trouble must reflect the image of Jesus fully. EW 71:1.

    The seal will only be placed on those who are like Christ:

  • 9.The seal is only placed on those who are pure and without spot. The seal of God will never be placed upon the forehead of an impure man or woman. It will never be placed upon the forehead of the ambitious, world-loving man or woman. It will never be placed upon the forehead of men or women of false tongues or deceitful hearts. All who receive the seal must be without spot before God &candidates for heaven. 5 T 216:2.
  • There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1John 4:1810 – The seal is placed on those who love God and obey Him. Those who love God, have the seal of God in their foreheads, and work the works of God. S& D 51:3.

    Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man loves me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 14:23

  • 11 – It is placed on those who overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.Those that overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, will be the favored ones who shall receive the seal of the living God. TM 445:1.

    12 – Many are erroneously neglecting to become like Jesus and are instead waiting for the latter rain to change them. Those who receive the seal of the living God and are protected in the time of trouble must reflect the image of Jesus fully. I saw that many were neglecting the preparation so needful and were looking to the time of ‘refreshing’ and the ‘latter rain’ to fit them to stand in the day of the Lord and to live in His sight. Oh, how any I saw in the time of trouble without a shelter. EW71:1-2.

  • 13 – The seal is the property sign; it shows who belongs to God as His special possession. Every soul in our world is the Lord’s property, by creation and by redemption. Each individual soul is on trial for his life. All who cherish the Lord as their portion in this life will be under His control, and will receive the sign, the mark of God, which shows them to be God’s special possession. Christ’s righteousness will go before them, and the glory of the Lord will be their rearward. The Lord protects every human being who bears His sign.7 BC 969, 1Cor 6;19-20
  • 14 – The seal is placed on those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath. The seal of the living God is placed upon those who conscientiously keep the Sabbath of the Lord. 7 BC 980. Those who would have the seal of God in their foreheads must keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. 7BC 970. True observance of the Sabbath is the sign of loyalty to God. 7 BC 981
  • 15. The fourth commandment alone of all the ten contains the seal of the great Lawgiver, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.6 T350:3
  • 16.The observance of the Lord’s memorial, the Sabbath instituted in Eden, the seventh-day Sabbath, is the test of our loyalty to God. LD 220:5. A mark is placed upon every one of God’s people, just as verily as a mark was placed over the doors of the Hebrew dwellings, to preserve the people from the general ruin. God declares, ‘I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. Eze. 20:12,7 BC969
  • 17 – We should strive to be among the 144,000.   Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand. 7 BC 97018 – Through the enabling grace of Christ, we are to strive to put away sin and obey God’s will that we may become complete in Him. Are we seeking for His fullness, ever reaching higher and higher, trying to attain to the perfection of His character? When God’s servants reach this point, they will be sealed in their foreheads. The recording angel will declare, ‘It is done.’ They will be complete in Him whose they are by creation and by redemption. 3 SM 427