Two Groups of 144000!

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?

There are two groups of 144000. The first are Jews who are sealed by God. The second are the first fruits of the Christians who are raptured prior to the great multitude of believers.

 

Is the 144000 in Rev Ch 7 the same group as the 144000 in Rev Ch 14?

The first group are Jews who are sealed and protected duriing the Great Tribribulation. They become God’s peeple on Earth during the Millennium.

The second group are ripe mature Christians who are redeemed from the Earth – they are the firstfruits of the Harvest. The Great Multitude are the majority of Christians who will have top go through the great tribulation and will be raptured after 1260 days but before God pours out his wrath on the Nations who are left behind. The Nations who survive God’s wrath will be the Nations who surround God’s people on earth during the Millennium. This will be a fuillfillment of old testament prophesy.

 At the the end of the Millennium, Old and New Testament believers will be combined in to one New Jerusalem. During the Millennium, all born again Christians will reign with Christ in Heaven.

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