Benjamin Rapture Ready

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means that they are God's property. This makes them untouchable by God's wrath and the evil one (cf. Ezekiel 9:4), The seer saw that the seventh sealing judgment was not to be broken until the 144,000 had been sealed on their foreheads, which is the proprietary mark of the Lamb and the Father (Revelation 14:1). No damage may be done to: the earth, the sea and the trees until they are sealed (verse 3; Revelation 8:7-8).

In this present dispensation of grace, born-again Christians are also sealed, but that is an inner sealing with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13). They are bought and paid for with Jesus' blood (1 Peter 1:18-19) and therefore free from judgment (Romans 5:9). We see the opposite happening to those who are Satan's property during the Great Tribulation. They are marked with: the mark, the name of the beast, or its number (Revelation 13:16-18).

The Gospel of the Kingdom

It may be possible that the 144,000 will be converted in the future through the testimony of 'the two witnesses. These will probably be Moses and Elijah (cf.

Matthew 17:3). They are tasked with prophesying in Jerusalem during the first half of the Tribulation (Revelation 11:3). The 144,000 still have an evangelizing task on earth during the Great Tribulation, after the sixth seal. They will call people to repentance, because His coming and Kingdom will then be at hand: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations..."(Matthew 24:14). Through the judgments of the Lamb and the

testimony of the two witnesses and the 144,000, an innumerable multitude from all nations will come to faith in the Lord Jesus in the end times.

The innumerable multitude in heaven

That the innumerable multitude is no longer on earth, but in the heavenly temple, appears to me from verse 11, where we read about the angels around the throne, the elders and the four creatures. Before the throne in heaven they worship Him "day and night" (verse 15).

There is no night in heaven, is there? That's right: "There shall be no more night" (Revelation 22:5). But the expression "day and night" is used five times in Revelation, not to distinguish between day and night, but in the sense of "perpetual." See Revelation 20:10 regarding hell. And in Revelation 4:8 as to heaven, it says: 'And the four beasts (four creatures) each of them had six wings, and were full of eyes all around and within, and they had no rest day or night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come. You could say: In heaven there is no night at all and in hell it is always night.

Revelation 7 - The 144,000 and the innumerable multitude

In Revelation 7 we read about the second and third visions of the sixth seal judgment. I covered the first of these in the previous Searchlight, which deals with a violent earthquake and the eclipse of the sun and moon (Revelation 6:12-17). Here it is about the 144,000 sealed on earth and an innumerable multitude in heaven. The question is, who are these redeemed ones of the end times? And should we distinguish these two groups from each other?

Many see in the 144,000 the Church militant on earth, and in the innumerable multitude the great triumphant Church in heaven. The traditional thought of the Church is that the number 144,000 is a symbolic number denoting her fullness (12) x 12,000). But why shouldn't we just take this number literally? The fact that there is symbolism in the numbers does not take away from the literalness. Why it cannot be about the Church in Revelation 7 is clear from the fact that she has already been taken up (Revelation 3:10; 5:9-10).

Replacement Theology

In replacement theology there is no insight into God's future plan of salvation with Israel. The prophecies in the Old Testament about the Kingdom of Peace are applied to the Church on earth, rather than to the believing remnant of Israel in the future Kingdom of Peace. If you have no insight into the Millennium and God's rescue plan with Israel, then you must also spiritualize the 144,000 from the twelve tribes. But John did hear that there are 144,000 from all the tribes of the children of Israel (verses 5-8). It is therefore really about Israel!

The 144,000 and the innumerable multitude

A "dispensationalist" is one who interprets the Word literally and discerns the dispensations. The term 'dispensation', incidentally, is simply a Biblical concept (cf. Ephesians 1:10, ESV). Someone like Johannes de Heer, the founder of The Searchlight, was also a 'dispensationalist, because he distinguished between Israel and the Church. In Revelation we must also rightly divide (divide) the Word, by distinguishing the 144,000 from Israel and the innumerable multitude from the

nations, because the Scripture clearly teaches this!

What are the differences?

Importantly, we note that in both the 144,000 and the innumerable multitude, the seer begins with the words, "Then I saw (verses 1 and 9). So he saw two different visions in chapter 7. In the first, the redeemed on earth, and in the second, the saved in heaven. Thus we see that the 144,000 come from all the tribes of Israel and are called firstfruits (Revelation 14:4). They are an advance on 'all Israel' who will be saved (Romans 11:26). But the innumerable multitude comes from all peoples, tribes and nations (verse 9) and has come to repentance after the rapture

of the Church: "These are they who come out of great tribulation... '(verse 14).

The tribes of Dan and Ephraim are missing

In Revelation 7:1-8 the tribes of Dan and Ephraim are missing, Joseph and Levi have replaced them. It is not strange that none of Dan and Ephraim are sealed. For example, Ephraim is known for his idolatry and apostasy (Hosea 7:8,11). And Dan is likened to a serpent, Church father Irenaeus therefore assumes that the antichrist comes from the tribe of Dan (Genesis 49:16-17; Jeremiah 8:16-17), However, we see that Dan and Ephraim are there again in the Kingdom

of Peace (Ezekiel 48). Then instead of Levi, because no Land promises were made to Levi. And Ephraim instead of Joseph his father, because of Joseph are Manasseh and Ephraim. So we see that Revelation 7 is about a literal sealing of those from the tribes who will be His servants during the Tribulation, but Ezekiel 48 is about the division of the Land,

Safe From God's Wrath

A selection of 144,000 from Israel will be sealed in the Tribulation. That sealing