The 1440,000

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.