Hurt not grass, green thing, tree: “ And it commanded them not to hurt the grass, or the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads” --9:4. In chapter 8:7 the signal of the first trumpet was in the judgment against the land, symbolized by that which was in nature of it. But this first woe of chapter 9 does not have the destruction of the physical powers as its object, but the spiritual. But only those who have not the seal: The “ sealed of God” were the true disciples whom the scorpion power was commanded not to hurt; and it corresponds with Luke 21:25-28, “ Look up, lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.” Matthew describes in chapter 24:15- 30, the escape of the disciples; and so does Luke in chapter 21:18.