WHO ARE THE 144,000?

• Revelation 7:1-4 And after these things I saw four angels

standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the
four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on
the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw
another angel ascending from the east, having the seal
of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the
four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and
the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor
the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in
their foreheads.
• 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.
THEY ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE SEALED-
THAT IS APPARENT
• But what is a seal, in the Bible?
• Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he
might be the father of all them that believe, though
they be not circumcised; that righteousness might
be imputed unto them also:
 THEY HAVE A SEAL IN THEIR FOREHEADS
WITH THE NAME OF GOD, NEW JERUSALEM AND THE NEW NAME THAT
GOD WILL GIVE THEM REV. 3:12
 ABRAHAM RECEIVED THE SEAL OF
CIRCUMCISION
• In both Hebrew and Greek, the word seal is
synonymous with sign. Here is another example of a
sign, or seal, in the Bible.
• Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children
of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:
for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout
your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am]
the LORD that doth sanctify you.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT? ISN’T THIS AN
EVERLASTING SEAL? REV. 14: 6-12
 THE THREE ANGEL’S MESSAGES ARE
THE SEALING MESSAGE
• I asked the angel if there were none left. He bade me look in an
opposite direction, and I saw a little company traveling a narrow
pathway. All seemed to be firmly united, bound together by the
truth, in bundles, or companies. Said the angel, "The third angel is
binding, or sealing, them in bundles for the heavenly garner." This little
company looked careworn, as if they had passed through severe
trials and conflicts. And it appeared as if the sun had just risen from
behind a cloud and shone upon their countenances, causing them to
look triumphant, as if their victories were nearly won. {EW 88.3}
• I saw that the Lord has given the world opportunity to discover the
snare. This one thing is evidence enough for the Christian, if there
were no other; namely, that there is no difference made between
the precious and the vile. Thomas Paine, whose body has now
moldered to dust and who is to be called forth at the end of the one
thousand years, at the second resurrection, to receive his reward and
suffer the second death, is represented by Satan as being in heaven,
and highly exalted there.
 CONTINUED
• . Satan used him on earth as long as he could, and now he is carrying on
the same work through pretensions of having Thomas Paine so much
exalted and honored in heaven; as he taught here, Satan would make it
appear that he is teaching in heaven. There are some who have looked
with horror at his life and death, and his corrupt teachings while living, but
who now submit to be taught by him, one of the vilest and most corrupt
of men, one who despised God and His law. [TO APPRECIATE THE FORCE
OF THESE REMARKS THE READER NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT A WORK
WAS PUBLISHED THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF "REV. C. HAMMOND,"
ENTITLED PILGRIMAGE OF THOMAS PAINE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD, IN WHICH
PAINE IS REPRESENTED AS AN EXALTED SPIRIT IN THE SEVENTH SPHERE. AND
IN THE "INVESTIGATING CLASS IN NEW YORK," IT WAS SAID THAT CHRIST
HIMSELF HAD CONVERSED WITH A MEDIUM AND REVEALED THAT HE WAS IN
THE SIXTH SPHERE. THE DISPARITY WILL BE UNDERSTOOD WHEN IT IS
REMEMBERED THAT THEY REPRESENT THE SPIRITS AS PROGRESSING IN THE
SPIRIT WORLD, AND THAT CHRIST, AFTER MORE THAN 1800 YEARS OF
PROGRESS, HAS REACHED THE SIXTH SPHERE, WHILE PAINE, IN ABOUT 100
YEARS, HAS REACHED THE SEVENTH! A FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THIS MAY
BE FOUND IN THE STATEMENT OF DOCTOR HARE, THAT HIS SPIRIT SISTER SAID
HER PROGRESS HAD BEEN RETARDED BY HER BELIEF IN THE ATONEMENT OF
CHRIST. EW 90
Speak thou also unto
the children of Israel,
saying, Verily my
sabbaths ye shall keep:
for it [is] a sign between
me and you throughout
your generations; that
[ye] may know that I
[am] the LORD that
doth sanctify you.
Exodus 31: 13

ANOTHER TEXT
SHOWING THE
SABBATH TO BE
THE SEAL OF GOD
 • God’s standards are very
high, yet He was willing to
live out those standards
Himself in a human frame
WHAT DO WE through Jesus Christ.
BEHOLD IN THIS (Examples from the
DOCTRINE, MORE Bible?) Adam and Eve
THAN ANYTHING given a simple test that
ELSE? they should have passed,
WELL, SEVERAL but failed miserably, and
THINGS, REALLY- because of this, we are in
the problem that we are
in today; Abraham’s faith
tested so much; Moses
(Though it can be a very kept out of the promised
controversial topic- let’s land for one sin.
not focus on the number,
but just what God’s grace
can do.)
 • God sees the end of all
things from the very
beginning
• The products of the 3
What do we
Angel’s Messages, (the
understand sealing message) will
by means of produce this number
this doctrine? • At this stage of the Earth’s
history, this is really a
miracle, that God can find
this many people who will
be completely sold out to
His love and truth, to put
the lie to Satan’s
accusations against the
government of God.
 • For this [is] good
and acceptable
in the sight of
HOW MANY God our Saviour;
PEOPLE DOES
GOD WANT TO
Who will have all
SAVE? 1 TIM. 2: men to be saved,
3,4 and to come
unto the
knowledge of the
truth.
GOD IS
LOVE
But He is
beyond our
own reasoning
powers, or else
He wouldn’t be
God
 • For there is no respect of persons with
God.
• For as many as have sinned without
law shall also perish without law: and
as many as have sinned in the law
IS THERE shall be judged by the law; (For not
REALLY the hearers of the law [are] just
before God, but the doers of the law
ANYONE WHO shall be justified. For when the
DOESN’T KNOW Gentiles, which have not the law, do
ABOUT THE by nature the things contained in the
law, these, having not the law, are a
LOVE OF GOD?
law unto themselves: Which show
LUKE 3:6; the work of the law written in their
ROMANS 2:11-15 hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and [their] thoughts the
mean while accusing or else
excusing one another;) In the
And all flesh shall see day when God shall judge the
the salvation of God. secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.
YET FEW SHALL
BE SAVED-
WHY? LUKE
13:23,24
HOW MANY ARE
THERE THAT
REALLY WANT TO
TRUST IN GOD?
Most people today,
don’t even want to
believe in God, for
fear that He may
require something
of them?
FOR MANY ARE
CALLED, BUT FEW
[ARE] CHOSEN.

Who said
this?
WHAT HAVE
GOD’S PEOPLE
IN THE EARTH
ALWAYS BEEN
CALLED?

Can anyone go
there that would
endanger
heaven’s peace?
 GOD’S PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
CALLED A REMNANT
• 1 Kings 19: 9,10
• And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged
there; and, behold, the word of the LORD [came] to
him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here,
Elijah?
• And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD
God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain
thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am
left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
HOW WAS IT WITH ELIJAH ?
 ELIJAH THOUGHT HE WAS THE ONLY
ONE LEFT- BUT WHAT DID GOD SAY TO
HIM?

• Vs. 18 Yet I have left [me] seven

thousand in Israel, all the knees which
have not bowed unto Baal, and every
mouth which hath not kissed him.
 WHAT DOES GOD’S GRACE ALWAYS
LEAVE?

• Ezra 9:8 And now for a little space grace hath been
[showed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a
remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy
place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give
us a little reviving in our bondage.
DID GOD FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT?
• Romans 11:1-5
• I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For
I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe
of Benjamin.
• God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh
intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have
killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am
left alone, and they seek my life.
• But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have
reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not
bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal. Even so then at
this present time also there is a remnant according to the
election of grace.
SO TODAY, ALSO, GOD STILL HAS HIS
PEOPLE
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE IDENTIFYING
CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE PEOPLE?
• Rev. 12:17 And the • Rev. 19:10 And I fell at
dragon was wroth his feet to worship
with the woman, and him. And he said unto
went to make war me, See [thou do it]
with the remnant of not: I am thy
her seed, which keep fellowservant, and of
the commandments thy brethren that
of God, and have the have the testimony of
testimony of Jesus Jesus: worship God:
Christ. for the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.
 THERE MUST BE SOME SPECIAL
MANIFESTATION OF THE PROPHETIC
GIFT AMONGST THEM
• And they are kept
from the ways of
the dragon and
darkness through
the light and life of
God.
 HOW DO THEY OVERCOME? (BY THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND THE WORD
OF THEIR TESTIMONY) REV. 12:10,11
WHAT ESPECIALLY ARE WE WARNED
ABOUT AS A PROBLEM IN THE LAST
DAYS?
 WE HAVE A CHOICE- THE WAYS OF
MAN, OR GOD
• 2 Timothy 3:13 • Matt. 24:24
• But evil men and • For there shall arise
seducers shall wax false Christs, and
worse and worse, false prophets, and
deceiving, and shall show great
being deceived. signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if [it
were] possible, they
shall deceive the
very elect.
WHAT DID JESUS SAY WOULD BE RARE
IN THE LAST DAYS?
• Luke 18: 1,7, 8
• And he spake a parable unto them [to this end],
that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry
day and night unto him, though he bear long with
them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he
find faith on the earth?
THE 144,000 IDENTIFIED

• Revelation 7: 3,4
• Saying, Hurt not the
earth, neither the sea,
nor the trees, till we
have sealed the
servants of our God in
their foreheads.
• 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.
 WHAT ARE THE ANGELS SAID TO BE
HOLDING BACK?
• Revelation 7: 1,2
• You know what winds symbolize in Bible prophecy?

• And after these things I saw four • The Winds of all

angels standing on the four corners of – out War
the earth, holding the four winds of
the earth, that the wind should not
blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor
on any tree.
• And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the
living God: and he cried with a loud
voice to the four angels, to whom it
was given to hurt the earth and the
sea
 Rev. 14:1 (What is
the significance of
the Father’s
name?

7TH DAY SABBATH

WHERE BOTH THE
FATHER’S NAME AND
AUTHORITY ARE GIVEN
 THEY ARE TO
HAVE A SPECIAL
BLESSING

And I heard a voice from

heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed [are] the
dead which die in the
Lord from henceforth:
Yea, saith the Spirit, that
they may rest from their
labours; and their works
do follow them.
Revelation 14:13
WHAT IS
THIS SPECIAL
BLESSING
SAID TO BE
THEIRS?
 • Graves are opened, and "many of
them that sleep in the dust of the
earth. . . awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt." Daniel 12:2. All
WHAT THE who have died in the faith of the third
SPIRIT OF angel's message come forth from the
PROPHECY tomb glorified, to hear God's
HAS TO SAY covenant of peace with those who
ABOUT THIS- have kept His law. "They also which
pierced Him" (Revelation 1:7), those
that mocked and derided Christ's
dying agonies, and the most violent
opposers of His truth and His people,
are raised to behold Him in His glory
and to see the honor placed upon the
loyal and obedient. {GC 637.1}
 JESUS SAID TO
THE HIGH
PRIEST,
CAIAPHAS, “YE
SHALL NOT SEE
ME AGAIN,
UNTIL I COME
IN THE CLOUDS
OF GLORY.”

What a day that

will be
WHAT SPECIAL SONG DO THEY SING?
OF MOSES AND THE LAMB

The Song of Deliverance The Song of Redemption

REV. 14:4
These are
they which
were not
defiled with
women; for
they are
virgins.
YOU NOTICE
WHAT IS NOT
FOUND IN THEIR
MOUTHS?
Guile- deception, or lies
WHAT KIND OF
TESTS WILL
THEY HAVE TO
ENDURE?

The Mark of the

Beast and the time
of the 7 Last
Plagues
WHAT WILL
SUSTAIN THEM
AT THIS TIME?

Isaiah 33:16
 WHO WENT THROUGH SOMETHING
SIMILAR IN ANCIENT TIMES?
This will be the only kind of experience
Jacob’s trouble- but the righteous will be
spiritually that will sustain the righteous at this
saved out of it
most difficult of times
 VICTORY WILL BE THEIRS

Rev., 14: 1-4 They will have passed through the

• And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the most trying time, but God has
mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty
[and] four thousand, having his Father's
been with them
name written in their foreheads.
• And I heard a voice from heaven, as the
voice of many waters, and as the voice of
a great thunder: and I heard the voice of
harpers harping with their harps:
• And they sung as it were a new song
before the throne, and before the four
beasts, and the elders: and no man could
learn that song but the hundred [and] forty
[and] four thousand, which were
redeemed from the earth.
• These are they which were not defiled with
women; for they are virgins. These are they
which follow the Lamb whithersoever he
goeth. These were redeemed from among
men, [being] the firstfruits unto God and to
the Lamb.
 THEY HAVE FOUND THAT HAVING
GOD WAS ENOUGH
Know Jesus, know peace This has always been the
No Jesus, no peace experience of true
Christians
THEY WILL BE THE ONES ALIVE WHEN
JESUS COMES AGAIN
Jesus has already gone through
1 Thess. 4:17, 18 whatever we have to face

• Then we which are

alive [and] remain shall
be caught up together
with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the
air: and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
• Wherefore comfort one
another with these
words.
 SUMMARY/CONCLUSION
• 1. Can you name any • 6. What should be our
aspects of the focus in this message?
144,000? • 7. In the time of the
• 2. What experiences end, what is their final
have they made? crucible called?
• 8. Will they be alive
• 3. What is the sealing
when Jesus comes?
message?
• 9. Whose name is in
• 4. God’s grace their foreheads?
always leaves a ____? • 10. Is there a special
• 5. Why is the number prophetic gift amongst
not important for us? them? Why or why
not?