Chapter 7

 1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” 

In Daniel 7:2 the four winds are used by God to churn up the great sea.  Here you see that God is holding back the winds, a time of peace.  The Edict of Milan in 313 AD turned the persecutions into a time of peace by allowing Christians to be free from persecution.  Here we see God sealing the 12 tribes.  Sealing them means that their time for prophetic fulfillment will wait until later.

4 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:  5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

9 after this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 

11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” 13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.

The Jews were severely struck down with Constantine.  From Wikipedia “Constantine the Great and Judaism:” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Judaism

"It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. ... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ... Let us ... studiously avoiding all contact with that evil way. ... For how can they entertain right views on any point who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. ... lest your pure minds should appear to share in the customs of a people so utterly depraved. ... Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. ... no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews."

Constantine and the Council of Nicaea made Christianity the religion of Rome.  In doing so they forced Christianity into the confines of their pagan worship and proceeded to change the times and seasons, from the prophecy in Daniel.  Passover was changed to Easter and Jesus was now given the birthday that was held for Tammuz, the god-son of the pagan Babylonian trinity.  No longer were followers of the Most High God allowed to celebrate his feasts.  The Old Testament teaches about a sabbath, held on the seventh day following the new moon, and even this was changed to a perpetual Sunday worship.  The establishment of a Roman religion meant that churches could now take over the Roman temples.  They took the statue of Jupiter in Rome and turned it into the statue of Peter, and named him the first pope of the Roman Church.  Jesus was now a god-man, just like their former deities in the Roman empire.  The Council of Nicaea took the church on a trajectory muddied with paganism which evolved into the Roman Catholic Church.  The commands and festivals of God would have to wait until the unsealing of the Jews in chapter 14.