saying, Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we may seal the servants of our God in their foreheads.

And the first sounded, and there were hail and fire mingled with blood, and cast to the earth: and the third of the earth was burnt up, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

These are the two olive-trees, and the two candlesticks which are standing before the Lord of the earth.