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Publishing Committee · Saratoga Springs, N. Y. · Dec 23, 1851

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 2, No. 9.

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By Editor

The "Harbinger" of Dec. 6, contains the following statement of "C." which we wish to correct.
"Some who are preaching the Sabbath, think they are the 'angel' of Rev. vii, 2, sealing the servants of God in their foreheads.
We know of none, who are preaching the Sabbath, who hold this view. Bro. Joseph Bates advanced views concerning the sealing, about three years since, which many of those then observing the Sabbath objected to. But those wrong views he corrected in a small tract entitled "Synopsis of the Seal," &c. published in May, 1849. We give his correction as follows:
"Since writing the Sealing Message, I have been satisfactorily convinced that the exposition which I then gave of the four messengers standing on the four quarters of the earth, and the ascending sealing messenger, was incorrect. The difficulties which then prevented me from seeing the clear light on this subject (as I stated on pages 65, 66, of the Seal,) have since been removed, and I now praise the Lord for the clear light that shines, viz: that the four messengers instead of being the four principal governments of earth, are FOUR LITERAL ANGELS commissioned by God to execute his purpose in the destruction of the wicked, by his four sore judgments (or winds,) viz: sword, famine, noisome beasts and pestilence."
"ANOTHER MESSENGER.—Literal, like the four in the 1st verse, having charge of the sealing of the 144,000, and also power to prevent the four angels from letting a wind blow; until the servants of God are all sealed."