144000 Jews are Sealed (or protected) from God's Wrath when the seventh seal is opened. This will coincide with the Second Coming of Christ on the Day of the Lord. The dead in Christ will arise and the Church will be raptured at the same time and a Great Multitude will appear in heaven. This will all take place when the seven seal is opened and when the seventh trumpet is sounded. The Second coming of Christ is inseparably linked to the rapture, the resurrection of believers and the Day of the LORD. 1THES 4:13-17

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There are two groups of 144000.  (Rev Ch7 and Rev Ch 14)

  144000 Jews are sealed when the seventh seal is opened. 

They are protected from the Bowls of God’s wrath that are poured out on the Nations after the Church has been raptured.

 They repopulate Earth during the Millennium to full fill God’s promises to the Jew’s in the Old Testament (eg Zech Ch 14).

They are not the same as the 144000 Mature (firstfruit) Christians spared from the Great Tribulation in Revelation Ch 14 before the three angel messages.

These are the firstfruits of the Living Christians (Rev 14:4 James 1:18)

Christ was the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep (1Cor 15:20)

The second group of 144000 in Revelation Ch 14 are not the same as the 144000 Jews that are sealed when Christ returns at the opening of the seventh seal / sounding of the seventh trumpet in Revelation Ch 7.   

The 144000 Jews that are sealed remain on Earth and repopulate it during the Millennium to fulfill Old Testament promises. 

 There will be approximately 10 times this number of pagans who survive Armageddon (Zech 8:23).

The 144000 Christians that are raptured in Revelation Ch 14 before the three angle messages escape the Great Tribulation.  The majority of the Church have to go through the Great Tribulation and are raptured when Christ returns at the seventh Trumpet when the seventh seal is opened and the 144000 Jews are sealed.

Dr Nigel Hawkins

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Who are the 144000 and the Great Multitude mentioned between the sixth and the seventh seals in Revelations Ch 7?

The 144000 Jews are sealed after the sixth seal is opened and are most likely part of the seventh seal.  They are protected from the  wrath of God’s that follows.  They will be God’s people on Earth during the Millennium.

The Great Multitude appear in heaven at the same time.  This corresponds to the first resurrection and the rapture of the Church at the second coming of Christ when the Seven seal is opened and the Seventh Trumpet Sounds.

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144000 Jews are sealed

Before God pours out his Wrath

When the seventh seal is opened

The 144000 Jews are Sealed when the seventh seal is opened. The Church is raptured at the same time and sleeping believers are resurrected (first resurrection). The Jews are protected form God’s wrath by the seal of God. Once the Church has been redeemed from the Earth, God can pour out his wrath upon the Nations (Pagans) of the Earth. Those who survive God’s wrath will repopulate the Earth during the Millennium including the 144000 Jews that were sealed. At the End of the Millennium all Pagans will be resurrected to be Judged at the Great White Throne (second resurrection) . Those who are not in the Lambs Book of Life will be thrown into the Lake of Fire which is the Second Death.

The 144000 Jews are Sealed when the seventh seal is opened. The Church is raptured at the same time and sleeping believers are resurrected (first resurrection). The Jews are protected form God's wrath by the seal of God. Once the Church has been redeemed from the Earth, God can pour out his wrath upon the Nations (Pagans) of the Earth. Those who survive God's wrath will repopulate the Earth during the Millennium including the 144000 Jews that were sealed. At the End of the Millennium all Pagans will be resurrected to be Judged at the Great White Throne (second resurrection) . Those who are not in the Lambs Book of Life will be thrown into the Lake of Fire which is the Second Death.

Revelation 6:1-8:5

The Seals

• I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
• When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
• When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
• When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
• When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
• I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
• Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

144,000 Sealed

• After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
• From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
• from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
• from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
• from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
• from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
• from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
• from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
• from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
• from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
• from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
• from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
• from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

The Great Multitude in White Robes

• After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever.
• Amen!”
• Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?”
• I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, “they are before the throne of God
• and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
• Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.
• For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water.
• And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer

• When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
• And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
• Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

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The 144000 Jews are sealed between the sixth and the seventh seal

The rapture of the great multitude and the sealing of the 144000 Jews happens between the sixth and the seventh seal (Revelations 7)
The rapture corresponds to Christ coming in the clouds (Thessalonians 4:16-17)
The rapture occurs at the Last Trumpet (1Corinthians 15:52)

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