Revelation 7:2: “And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he” [The angel] “cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,”

Revelation 7:3: “Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we” [The angel ascending from the east, and the four angels] “have sealed the servants of our God” [The 144,000] “in their foreheads.”

Revelation 7:4: “And I” [John] “heard the number of them" [The Servants of God] "which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”