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Is the sealing of the saints in Revelation 7 something to happen in future only?

Revelation
7:1 And 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.
7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
7:5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No harm in believing it if that's your choice, but we cannot know what the author really meant.

Its very exclusive, Israel-first message and colourful prose looks like a strange mixture of what we would call "nationalism", shamanism and its contemporary Judaic-tribal religion.

The inherent advantage of an undated "prophecy" is that it can recede into the future for ever-more! Those that are dated but fail, simply lapse into that section of History labelled "Errors and Eccentricities".

Remember the fuss and palaver about that Mayan calendar supposedly giving its own end time as early in the 21C? Or the imagined digital 1999/2000 apocalypse? Funny how their relevant years came and went without whatever was meant to happen, doing so!