In what way is the sealing and the marking the same?
Is the sealing and the marking the same? Let's begin with 5 references, 1SR:46.3; 1Tr:19.4-20.1; 8Tr:23.3-24.2; 8SC1-12:14.7, 8; 12SC2:10.1-12.2. After those references are clearly acknowledged then we are going to address a popular objection. After resolving the objection we are going to examine the weight of evidence from the SRod itself. 1. [1930] 1SR:46.3 We read in Testimonies to Ministers, page 445: "This sealing of the servants of God [the 144,000: Rev. 7] is the same that was shown to Ezekiel in vision." Then the sealing of the 144,000 is the same as Ezekiel 9, and the marking by the man with the writer's inkhorn is the seal . As soon as the marking is done, "the five men with the slaughter weapons go after him and slay both old and young, both maids and little children, and women. And they began at the ancient men which were before the house." It is AT this time the 144,000 are marked, or sealed.—1SR:46.3,...