9  Q. What are we to understand by the angel ascending from the east, Revelation 7th chapter and 2nd verse?

A. We are to understand that the angel ascending from the east is he to whom is given the seal of the living God over the twelve tribes of Israel; wherefore, he crieth unto the four angels having the everlasting gospel, saying: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And, if you will receive it, this is ^dElias which was to come to gather together the tribes of Israel and restore all things.

  8  And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

  58  And as I said unto Abraham concerning the kindreds of the earth, even so I say unto my servant Joseph: In thee and in thy ^bseed shall the kindred of the earth be blessed.

  18  Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be ^cblessed in him?