Chapter 7

Wow, I'm here again so soon!!!!

144,000 Servants of God!

Luke 18:8 ... When the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?

What a question!!!

At this time, there will be such a revival as the world has never known. Until the Rapture of the Church, there will constantly be falling away from the Church.

Rev 7 is very clear who the 144,000 people are. They are Jews from the 12 tribes. There is no question about this group of people.

Picture your worship. How do you do it? Is there a certain time, posture or whatever when you worship? I really hope not because we should be able to truly worship any time, any place and in any season of our lives.

In these verses it is the first time scripture in Revelation tells us that God will wipe away tears from their eyes! What a sweet picture.

When the scripture refers to the angels and creatures bowing to worship the One on the throne, it literally means to press the forehead to the ground - lift the head and blow kisses repeatedly!

Angels in Revelation are special ministers of God. They administer His plans for the earth.

In Chapters 2 and 3 they were messengers assigned to the churches
In 8 they are presenting the trumpet judgments

Here we find that they control the forces of nature and they supervise 2 things:

1. The wind from the four corners of the earth
2. They seal the servants of God (the 144,000)

There is complete stillness as the angels hold back the four winds.

These angels will ultimately have the power to change the wind patterns of the earth.

The wind will have two purposes: to cause catastrophe (hurricanes, etc) and to scatter the witnesses (144,000)

The sixth seal takes place toward the end of the first quarter of the tribulation.

The destroying angel is ordered to wait until the 144,000 servants have been sealed and begin their ministry of preaching the Gospel.

This will be a time of persecution for all believers which will be inspired by the Antichrist.

The 144,000 are obviously Jews from around the world.

Whenever you hear someone say that they are part of the 144,000 or their religion is part of that number ... ask them which tribe they are from!

There is no group today that is part of that 144,000 unless the rapture occurs today! These people have not been sealed.

Look back at the names of the tribes. One is missing! The tribe of Dan has been replaced by Manasseh.

Genesis 49:17 ...

Judges 18:30

The 144,000 have a job and that is to communicate the Gospel no matter what their occupation or work is at the present time.

Jeremiah 49:36

I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of the heavens; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam's exiles do not go.

Acts 8:1

God scatters people in order to bring His word to ALL people.

The advantage that this group of people will have over any of us is that they will know exactly how long they have to win people to Christ.

The purpose of the mark for these is to seal their security and deliver over safely the one who has been sealed.

Exodus 39:27-30

REMEMBER THAT SATAN NEVER HAS AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT! HE ONLY COPIES WHAT CHRIST AND GOD HAVE ALREADY THOUGHT OF AND DONE.

His ways are always counterfeit.

144,000 will be empowered by the Holy Spirit; they will not have to learn new languages because they will evangelize in the nation where they live. They will come from all over the earth.

It will be like having 144,000 Billy Grahams or Apostle Pauls!

There will probably be more people converted during the first part of the tribulation than at any time during the history of the Church.

Rapture = chaos!

People from every walk of life have disappeared and the Antichrist is trying to make people believe that there is some reasonable explanation.

How could one not listen and accept? I will never understand that part of all of this.

Verse 9 gives us a small picture of the vast crowd ... a number so great that no man could number!


The fact that the multitude stands befor e the throne clothed in white shows that they are redeemed ones from the earth.

The palm branches indicate their victory in Christ.

Another reason we know they accepted Christ later is that John did not know who they were. They came after his death.

If they had been saints of old, John would have reocgnized them.