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Amazing Facts

Prophecy Encounter

Doug Batchelor

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 1

Signs of the Coming King, Pt. 2

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Hero of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 1

The Villain of Revelation, Pt. 2

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 1

The Law of the Lamb, Pt. 2

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 1

A Woman Rides a Beast, Pt. 2

144,000 & The Seal of God, Pt. 1

The Woman of Light

A Prophet in the River

The Mark of the Beast

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 1

The Great Judgment Day Pt. 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

Armed Services has 1 or more elite teams of commandos.

They fight using sophisticated guerrilla warfare tactics.

To serve in 1 of these select units, a soldier must be highly disciplined and they pass through incredibly difficult physical and mental training.

Even a small team of these commandos, because of their intense training, can achieve great victories in a short time.

Navy SEALs created a convincing diversion by storming the beaches of Kuwait, and they created such havoc that the Iraqi generals were completely fooled into thinking the U.S.-led attack was coming from the sea.

Within a couple of days, the whole war was over, and it all started with less than 20 soldiers.

The book of Revelation tells about another special forces unit, an army of 144, 000 that have the greatest mission in the last days, to prepare the world for Jesus' return.

Let's explore together what the Bible facts are about the 144, 000 and learn how you can receive the seal of the living God.

Tonight our presentation is going to be dealing with the subject of the 144, 000 which you find in chapters 7 and 14 of Revelation and the seal of God.

And it pictures a time when angels are holding back winds of strife.

And I remember hearing a story about, I think it was in 2012 in March, Paul Walden had his wife and daughter call, they were at work and they said, have you seen the news?

There's a terrible stream of tornadoes that are coming through, and he never paid much attention to storm warnings, but he thought he ought to step outside and look at the sky, and right when he went outside to look up at the sky, he saw this great big gray wall that was moving towards him that was churning up his neighbor's house.

He ran inside, he grabbed a couple of dogs and he jumped in the closet right by their staircase.

You've heard the expression, it sounds like a freight train is going by when you have a tornado go by.

And the whole house began to shake, and he had both hands on the door.

With all of his strength, he was hanging on and trying to keep the door shut as the suction of the storm was trying to pull the door open and suck out him and his dogs.

And it wasn't very long before it stopped, the noise settled, it moved down, it passed away, and he finally got the courage to open the door.

And this is a picture of what he saw when he stepped outside.

The house was gone, he walked out of the closet and he saw blue sky, everything was gone except the closet and some of the stairs.

And he said it wasn't long after he walked outside and closet fell over and then the hail began to fall and he felt like he was getting beaten up by a baseball bat.

And he found a container that held vacuum cleaning supplies, he put it on his head, he said, he would have died from the hail.

And his wife always teases him about walking around with a vacuum cleaner accessory box on his head to save his life.

But he was trying to hold back the storm.

Let's start with 144, 000 in chapter 7 of Revelation and you can begin with verse 1, chapter 7, verse 1.

After these things, I saw 4 angels standing at the 4 corners of the earth.

It's talking about simply north, south, east and west.

It's a universal ceiling that's going to take place.

Holding the 4 winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth or the sea or any tree.

That's talking about everything on the planet, the earth, the sea, the trees, until something happens, it's going to blow eventually.

Those winds of strife are really, they're kind of summarized in the 7 last plagues.

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

And he cried with a loud voice saying, Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their forehead.

And it goes on to say, I heard the number of those that were sealed and it was 144, 000, 12, 000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.

And it's an interesting list that is given.

Then you'll also read in chapter 14 of Revelation, you find the second reference to the 144, 000, and it gives us a little more information about them.

I looked and behold, a lamb, this is verse 1 of chapter 14 Revelation, a lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144, 000 having His Father's name written on their forehead.

Well, 7 said it was the seal of God, here it says His Father's name, that must be similar.

And I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters and like a voice of loud thunder, and I heard the sound of harps and harpists playing their harps, and they sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the 4 living creatures and before the elders, and no 1 could learn that song except the 144, 000 who were redeemed from the earth.

These are the ones who are not defiled with women for their virgins." What does that mean?

These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

They were redeemed from among men being the first fruits to God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God." And then it goes on to another passage that is related, but we'll pause right there.

So you've got the 144, 000 are obviously a very important group.

You've got, you know, Chapter 7 addresses them, Chapter 14 addresses them.

Now, typically, if you talk to somebody about Revelation and something in the forehead, what do you think about?

Everybody automatically thinks about, oh, you don't want anything in your forehead in the last days.

Someone tries to put anything in your forehead, run the other way.

But if you study the Bible, you'll find out in Revelation, everybody's got something in their forehead in the last days.

You've either got the mark of the beast or you have the seal of God.

You just want to make sure you've got the right mark.

And sort of with that as an introduction, let's go through some of our questions now that talk about the 144, 000 and the seal of God.

First question, what clues does Revelation provide to help us identify who are the 144, 000?

First of all, it says there's 12, 000 from the 12 tribes of Israel.

Now the list of tribes that are given in Revelation is different from any other list in the Bible.

The 12 tribes are listed many times in the Bible.

They usually start with the first born who is Judah, I'm sorry, Reuben.

You'll find that it talks about Joseph, but Ephraim is left out.

And so it's a unique list and you need to just say, what's going on here?

Are these real, literal Jews it's talking about?

In the last days, he's going to get 12, 000 from each of the tribes.

If you know your Jewish history, you'll know that some of the tribes had very few people, and Judah had lots of people, hundreds of thousands.

And so the idea of getting an even number from each of the tribes that would be interesting, but I believe they're actually talking about spiritual Jews.

That means it could include literal Jews and it can include people who have been adopted into the seat of Abraham by accepting Christ.

You read in the Bible in the Old Testament, for instance, go to 2 Kings 17, verse 6, 10 of the tribes were conquered by the Assyrians way back hundreds of years before Jesus was born.

You read there, in the ninth year of King Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, that's the capital of Israel, the northern kingdom, and carried Israel, those are the 10 tribes, away to Assyria.

Now later, the southern kingdom of Judah, they were carried to Babylon, but they came back.

Those carried off to Assyria largely intermarried and disappeared as a distinct people.

And so when Revelation says 12, 000 from the tribe of Manasseh, can you please show me somebody from the tribe of Manasseh today?

When you talk about Jews, you're typically talking about people who are from Levi, Judah and Benjamin.

You read the Bible long before Jesus was born, it tells exactly what happened to the tribes.

Some of them came back down and joined Judah.

They intermarried with the tribe of Judah.

You're not going to find people who are purebred people from Zebulun, Manasseh, Issachar and so forth.

Galatians 3.29, If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise, all the promises God made to the Jews in the Bible, New and Old Testament, you can claim through Christ.

Paul said in Romans 2, 28 and 29, for He is not a Jew which is 1 outwardly, neither is it circumcision that is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is 1 inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart this was the message of Jesus and John the Baptist they said to their Jewish brethren, do not think to say within yourself, God must save us, we are children of Abraham God is able to raise up from the stones children unto Abraham, and Jesus said many will come from the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, meaning the Gentiles coming from the east and the west, and the natural children, some of them who don't believe, will be in outer darkness.

And so the New Testament is really clear that now the gospel goes to everybody, whosoever will.

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