THE REAL 144,000 THAT ARE SEALED BY GOD
BIBLICAL REFERENCE: REVELATION 7:4-17
FOR YEARS I HAVE LISTENED TO THIS CHURCH AND THAT CHURCH CLAIMING TO BE THEY ARE ONLY ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE RAPTURED OR GO TO HEAVEN. I AM HERE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AND IT WILL PROBABLY UPSET ALOT OF
PEOPLE; BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND IT IS BACKED UP IN THE WORD OF GOD. HOW WRONG THEY ARE! JUST WHERE DO THEY GET THAT NOTION FROM? THEY TOOK VERSE 4 OF REVELATION CHAPTER 7 AND USED IT TO VALIDATE THEIR
CLAIM. HAD THEY TAKEN THE COMPLETE VERSE IN IT’S ORIGINAL CONTEXT, THEY COULDN’T MAKE OR VALIDATE THAT CLAIM. LOOK AT THE VERSE IN IT’S ENTIRETY:
"AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM WHICH WERE SEALED: AND THERE WERE SEALED AN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND FOUR THOUSAND OF ALL THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL."
THESE ARE THE TRUE 144,000 THAT WILL BE SEALED DURING THE TRIBULATION:
(1) OF THE TRIBE OF JUDA WERE SEALED TWELVE THOUSAND.
(2) OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(3) OF THE TRIBE OF GAD WERE SEALED TWELVE THOUSAND.
(4) OF THE TRIBE OF ASER WERE SEALED TWELVE THOUSAND.
(5) OF THE TRIBE OF NEPHTHALIM WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(6) OF THE TRIBE OF MANASSES WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(7) OF THE TRIBE OF SIMEON WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(8) OF THE TRIBE OF LEVI WERE SEALED TWELVE THOUSAND.
(9) OF THE TRIBE OF ISSACHAR WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(10) OF THE TRIBE OF ZABULON WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(11) OF THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
(12) OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN WERE SEALED TWELVE
THOUSAND.
THE "CATCHING UP" OF GOD’S PEOPLE (HIS CHURCH) WILL OCCUR BEFORE THE TRIBULATION AND THEY WILL INCLUDE JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE. THESE 144,000 COME FROM THOSE WHO REFUSED TO BELIEVE IN THE MESSIAH UNTIL THE EVENT OF
TRIBULATION AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION. THEY WERE THE ONES WHO STAYED WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT AND REFUSED TO BELIEVE THAT THE MESSIAH HAD ALREADY COME.THESE ARE THE JEWS THAT ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.
THE RAPTURE OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH IS NOT ANY ONE CHURCH THAT EXISTS HERE AS WE KNOW IT. GOD’S CHURCH IS MADE UP OF HIS TRUE BELIEVERS AND FOLLOWERS AND THEY CAN COME FROM ANY DENOMINATION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. FOR A CHURCH TO PREACH THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES GOING TO
HEAVEN OR GOING TO BE CAUGHT UP BRINGS DEADLY CONSEQUENCES TO IT’S TEACHERS AND ITS FOLLOWERS. IT ALSO HAS DEADLY RESULTS TO THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS. IT CAN CAUSE THE BELIEVER TO BE EASILY
SWAYED AND TURN FROM GOD BECAUSE THEY FIGURE "WHAT’S THE POINT OF BEING A CHRISTIAN IF THIS CHURCH OR THAT CHURCH SAY THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES GOING TO HEAVEN OR WILL BE RAPTURED UP?" THE NON-BELIEVER THINKS ON
THE SAME TRAIN OF THOUGHT IN THAT THEY THINK, "WHAT IS THE POINT OF BECOMING A BELIEVER IN CHRIST IF IT IS ALL TO NO AVAIL AND I AM GOING TO HELL ANYWAY?"
REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT CAUSING ONE TO STUMBLE AND FALL? LET’S LOOK AT MATTHEW 28:6: "BUT WHOSO SHALL OFFEND ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES WHICH BELIEVE IN ME, IT
WOULD BE BETTER FOR HIM THAT A MILLSTONE WERE HANGED ABOUT HIS NECK, AND THAT HE WERE DROWNED IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEA."
LOOK AGAIN AT MALACHI 2:7-9, WHERE EVEN MALACHI WARNS US ABOUT CAUSING ONE TO STUMBLE AND FALL: "FOR THE PRIEST’S LIPS SHOULD KEEP KNOWLEDGE, AND THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LAW AT HIS MOUTH; FOR HE IS THE MESSENGER OF THE LORD OF HOSTS.BUT YE ARE DEPARTED OUT OF THE WAY; YE HAVE CAUSED MANY TO STUMBLE AT THE LAW; YE HAVE CORRUPTED THE COVENANT OF LEVI; SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. THEREFORE I HAVE ALSO MADE YOU CONTEMPTABLE AND BASE BEFORE ALL PEOPLE, ACCORDING AS YE HAVE NOT KEPT MY WAYS, BUT HAVE BEEN PARTIAL IN THE LAW."
THE WRATH OF GOD WILL BE UPON THOSE THAT TWIST AND MANIPULATE THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD TO THEIR OWN SATISFACTION AND PURPOSE. IT IS DECEPTIVE AND WRONG TO PREACH SUCH A FALSEHOOD. THE TRUTH CAN FURTHER BE BACKED UP WITH THE NEXT FEW VERSES FROM REVELATION CHAPTER 7. LET’S LOOK AT THEM.
"AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND, LO, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, AND KINDREDS, AND PEOPLE, AND TONGUES, STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE, AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, AND PALMS IN THEIR HANDS; AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, SALVATION TO OUR GOD WHICH SITTETH UPON THE THRONE, AND UNTO THE LAMB. AND ALL THE ANGELS STOOD ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE, AND ABOUT THE ELDERS AND THE FOUR BEASTS, AND FELL BEFORE THE THRONE ON THEIR FACES, AND WORSHIPPED GOD, SAYING, AMEN: BLESSING, AND GLORY, AND WISDOM, AND THANKSGIVING, AND HONOUR, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, BE UNTO OUR GOD FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
AND ONE OF THE ELDERS ANSWERED, SAYING UNTO ME, WHAT ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES? AND WHENCE CAME THEY? AND I SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, THOU KNOWEST. AND HE SAID TO ME, THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF GREAT
TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THEREFORE ARE THEY BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, AND SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE: AND HE THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE
SHALL DWELL AMONG THEM. THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE, NEITHER THIRST ANY MORE; NEITHER SHALL THE SUN LIGHT ON THEM, NOR ANY HEAT. FOR THE LAMB WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE SHALL FEED THEM, AND SHALL LEAD THEM UNTO LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATERS: AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES."
THESE ARE ALL THE MARTYRS OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION THAT REFUSED TO RENOUNCE THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND DIED FOR IT. THEY ENDURED TO THE END AND SUFFERED MUCH FOR THEIR FAITH IN GOD. REMEMBER CHRIST HAS ALREADY "CAUGHT UP HIS TRUE CHURCH" AND THEY ENJOYED THE WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB WHILE THE SEVEN YEAR REIGN OF THE ANTICHRIST WAS TAKING PLACE. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORD OF GOD THAT SAYS, THAT ONLY 144,000 PEOPLE OUT OF THE MILLIONS ON THIS PLANET HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND THE RAPTURE WHILE ALL THE REST OF US ARE FOREVER DOOMED TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND THE LAKE OF FIRE. IF THIS WERE THE CASE, THEN WHY DID JESUS COMMAND THAT HIS DISCIPLES PREACH OF THE REPENTANCE AND REMISSION OF SINS IN HIS NAME AMONG ALL NATIONS? (LUKE 24:47) WHY DID HESUS SAY, "GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY GHOST (SPIRIT)?(MATTHEW 28:29)
WHY DID JESUS DO THIS IF WE WERE ALL CONDEMNED TO AN ETERNAL TORMENT? THE FACT IS THAT HE WOULDN’T AND THAT FOR ALL THE DEMONINATIONS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH THERE ARE, THERE ISN’T ONE EXCLUSIVE CHURCH THAT HAS THE
TITLE "HIS TRUE CHURCH". AS I HAVE SAID EARLIER, JESUS’S TRUE CHRUCH ARE THOSE THAT ARE TRUE BELIEVERS AND FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST THAT TRY TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES THAT ARE LAID DOWN IN HIS WORD.
NOT EVEN THOSE OF HIS TRUE CHURCH ARE TOTALLY SINLESS. EVEN AS CHRISTIANS WE WILL MAKE MISTAKES,FALL AND HAVE OUR WEAKNESSES. ONE THING THE LORD MADE PERFECTLY CLEAR TO ME WAS THAT TRY AS WE MAY, WE SHALL NEVER BE TOTALLY SINLESS OR PERFECT UNTIL WE COME INTO HIS KINGDOM. AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THOSE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES LAID DOWN IN HIS WORD AND WHEN WE MAKE A MISTAKE OR FALL, WE SHOULD SEEK HIS FORGIVENESS. HE WILL FORGIVE. THAT IS HIS MERCY - THAT IS HIS GRACE ! WHAT HE WILL NOT TOLERATE IS THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN SIN SIX DAYS A WEEK AND GET FORGIVEN ON THE SEVENTH AND THE GO OUT AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN. IT JUST DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY AND THE LORD WILL NOT TOLERATE THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR FROM ONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE A "CHRISTIAN". THEY ARE THE ONES WHO WALK THAT FINE LINE BETWEEN BEING HOT OR COLD, SORRY, THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND HERE! YOU HAVE TO CHOSE TO WALK WITH GOD ALL THE WAY OR CHOSE TO WALK WITH SATAN ALL THE WAY. WALKING THAT FINE LINE BETWEEN THE TWO WILL NOT GET YOU INTO HEAVEN!
FOR ALL THOSE WHO THINK THAT THEIR CHURCH IS THE ONLY ONE THAT WILL BE RAPTURED UP OR FOR THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE THE 144,000 SPOKEN OF IN THE BIBLE...THINK AGAIN! YOU ARE NOT! THEY ARE FROM THE TWELVE TRIBES OF
ISRAEL. FOR THOSE WHO THINK I AM WRONG..CHECK IT OUT IN THE BIBLE YOURSELF! WHEN YOU FIND OUT THAT WHAT I HAVE SPOKEN THE TRUTH..THEN PERHAPS IT WOULD BE WISE TO RE-CONSIDER THE CHURCH YOU ARE GOING TO? IT IS A CHURCH OF DECEPTION. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO STILL REFUSE TO LISTEN, ALL I CAN SAY IS: "I WILL PRAY THAT GOD WILL OPEN YOUR EYES BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE."
