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Benjamin Ng

The 144,000

Father in heaven, thank you for this time again together.

Thank you Lord for being with us throughout this past week.

Thank you for your many blessings, some that I think sometimes we even overlook.

Help us to remember and to write these blessings down so that we can be reminded of how good you are to us, O Lord.

And thank you, Father, for now the opportunity we have to study together.

May you please be with us, guide us, lead us, we pray in Jesus' name.

Today we are going to be looking at the 144, 000.

You know, it's a very special study that we have here and there is much to study about it.

I don't know if we can get it through, get through all of the details we need to get through in 1 short hour, but we'll do our very best and we'll see where our study leads us.

But we really get this first look at the 144, 000 in the book of Revelation.

We really don't see it mentioned anywhere else.

However, we do see allusions and illustrations of them throughout Scripture.

They are really there and replete from Genesis all the way to Revelation.

But it is in Revelation that this special group is mentioned.

Let's turn our Bibles to Revelation chapter 7 starting in verse 1.

The Bible says this, the 4 corners of the earth, holding the 4 winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

And he cried with a loud voice to the 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea Saying hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads And the number and I heard the number of them which was sealed and there was sealed 140 and 4000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel Now we have studied actually all the way up to Revelation 7 verse 3 before when we looked in 1 of my sermons that I shared a few weeks prior.

I'll have the link there at the end of the message, but who shall be able to stand?

We studied Revelation 7 verse 1, verse 2, and verse 3, And we've looked at the seal of God briefly.

We've looked at what these winds represent, and really it is coming up to the time of the close of probation, where the winds of strife are about to be blown upon the earth, and the work of probation is closing.

Jesus is still in the heavenly sanctuary interceding for his people, but when those winds will blow upon the earth, then this number will be made up.

And this is the time of trouble spoken of the 7 last plagues and the hundred and 44000 are the ones that are able to stand through this time look We see them again in Revelation chapter 14.

The Bible says, And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the Mount Zion.

And with him an hundred and 40 and 4000 having his father's name written in their foreheads.

The hundred and 44000 are standing with Jesus on Mount Zion.

The question always arises is are they literal or are they spiritual?

That's really the main question that many people ask.

But I find that sometimes when people say 1 answer, it's because they misunderstand really the background of the 144, 000.

But let me give you my opinion Because really it doesn't really matter.

I don't really call this Truth that really needs to be understood.

You know, we don't need a conjecture about who will make up the hundred and 44000 We leave that in the hands of God alone, but are they literal Or are they spiritual?

Let me show you a quote taken from early writings, page 14, paragraph 1.

This is what she says, The living saints, a hundred and forty-four thousand in number, knew and understood the voice while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake.

Friends, when you see there the 144, 000 in number, look, when I tell you I have 30 kids in number, you don't think, is that literal or is that spiritual?

So I believe that this number to be literal, it is literally 144, 000.

Now look, this is not referring to only 144, 000 will be saved.

The 144, 000 is a very special group of people, alright?

But they are not the only group that is saved.

And we'll get into this, we'll look into this, but look, that number that is sealed is a hundred and 44000 It's 12000 from every of the 12 tribes that are mentioned in Revelation chapter 7 But you got to come back there Revelation 7.

Because at the end of the numbering of the 12 tribes, which is 12, 000 times 12 is 144, 000, you know, people say, of course, it must be spiritual because these aren't literal 12 tribes.

But Ellen White says she saw 144, 000 in number.

But what I want you to see is the picture that we see right after this.

Let's turn our Bibles back to Revelation chapter 7 and let's look at verse 9.

The Bible says, 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." Friends, What is this group?

This is a great multitude which no man could number.

But this great multitude here, no 1 can number it.

The great multitude are those that have from ages past lived and they perished.

Yes, Enoch is part of this group even though he walked straight into heaven.

And this is of all people's nations, languages, they all say they're up in heaven, just like the 144, 000.

They are like God's special elite forces that will be alive at the end of time.

Just like Gideon's army, when God said, look, 30, 000 is too much.

And he cut it down and he cut it down all the way down to what?

And he went to war with only 300 men and God will also have a special little elite group at the end of time it's called the remnant of the remnant and there will be martyrs there will be martyrs during this time at the end there, but the 144, 000, they are very special.

But there is a great multitude who also will be saved.

Many people think that when you think of the 144, 000 as a literal number, you're thinking, many people think that I think that only 144, 000 will be saved.

It's just your misunderstanding of what you think the 144, 000 is.

144, 000 in Revelation 7 and also great multitude.

1 is a number, 1 cannot be numbered, okay?

So look, what is so special about this group of this 144, 000?

Let's turn our Bibles back to Revelation chapter 14.

Revelation chapter 14 and now we're reading verse 4.

These are they which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins.

These are they which follow the Lamb, whithersoever he goeth.

These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb." So the 144, 000 is called the first fruit unto God and to the Lamb.

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