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What do we understand by the 144,000 mentioned in the seventh and fourteenth chapters of Revelation?

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What do we understand by the 144,000 mentioned in the seventh and fourteenth chapters of Revelation?

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–For more than sixteen centuries the Lord dealt exclusively with the Jewish nation. They were His specially chosen people and favored above every other nation in the earth. The Lord told them on one occasion that He recognized them only of all the families of the earth (`Amos 3:2`). The Israelites were informed that if faithful to the Lord, and obedient to His commands, they would be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and that His favor would never depart from them. But they became disobedient to the Lord’s instructions and consequently, the time came when they were cast aside and no longer recognized as His people. The Divine favor was then turned to the Gentiles and these were granted the opportunity to become members of the Royal Priesthood. This Priesthood would have been completely made up from the twelve tribes of Israel–twelve thousand from each tribe–had there been a sufficient number of faithful obedient ones to make up the predestinated number of 144,000. As