And I saw another angel--7:2. Here is the symbol of the heavenly messenger who suspended the restraining order of the four angels--Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in the foreheads. This angel was seen ascending from the east, from the eastern horizon, from the direction of the rising sun, a symbol consistent with his mission of suspending, or preventing, the mandate of the four angels to put out the light of God’ s word over all the world. By the authority of God the angel of the east said to the four angels hurt not the earth. It had been “ given” to the four angels to “ hurt” the earth, by the war on Jerusalem, and to enforce the mandate that “ the wind should not blow,” that is, to restrain the word of God.