Verses 1-8

• Who is involved in these verses?
• What would be the consequences of holding the wind back across all of the earth?
• What kind of power would be required to hold back wind from all over the earth?
• How many angles were required to hold back the wind over all the earth?
• What does it mean to have the “seal of the living God”?
• What does it mean to “seal the servants of our God on their foreheads”?
• Who are to be marked?
• What significance is there to 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel?
• Based on these passages, describe what you know about the timing of marking the 144,000?

Verses 9-12

• Are the 144,000 the only ones in heaven? What verse proves this?
• What is it that belongs to their God and to the Lamb?
• Review and try to understand the various offerings the angels give to God in verse 12. How does this describe God?

Verse 13-17

• Does John ask about those in white robes?
• Has there been a reference to any other beings in heaven besides elders, angels, God, the Lamb and the four creatures before this? What does this mean to you?
• What does it mean to you to come “out of the great tribulation”?
• What light does this shed on verse 9 and when this might be happening?
• In the beginning of this chapter, we have angles poised to wreck havoc on the earth but are stopped in time to mark the 144,000. Then we see heaven with a great multitude from every nation worshiping God and Jesus who came “out of the great tribulation”. What does this timing indicate to you?
• What do the ones in white robes do?
• What reward is offered from their worship? How does this compare to our lives here on earth today?
• What other benefits can we expect in heaven?
• From whom do these blessings flow?
• What does it mean to: 1) be our sheherd, 2) guide us to living water?
• Who will wipe tears away from our eyes?
• What does this passage attribute to God and what to the Lamb? Pray and think about this?