Are you really saved???

Question

Bible says that only 144,000 people will be saved on Judgement Day (Rev 14:3-4).

Answer 1

yes i am.

Answer 2

Here is a short and accurate answer. The number 144,000 is actually 12,000 from each tribe of Israel. In Jewish and Biblical culture the number 12 stands for completeness. So, saying 12,000 will be saved from the tribe of Benjamin, means the whole, or complete tribe will be saved. So, the 144,000 is really just the completeness of the twelve tribes (12 tribes X 12,000 (number of completeness) =144,000. Yea, there you go.

Answer 3

That is a misinterpreting of the passage in question.

There is evidence of [reincarnation] in Jewish thought, apart from Kabbalah, which dates to the time of Rome. According to the Antiquity of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 1, Number 3, "[The Pharisees] believed that souls have immortal vigor in them [and that the virtuous] shall have power to revive and live again...." (Head, Cranston, Reincarnation, p.26).

The bracketed statements are not necessarily in the original statement, and may be implied understanding of the editors of the text. If you drop the bracketed statements the statement reads something more general: "A sect of Jews from Antiquity, believed that souls have immortal vigor in them, and shall have power to revive and live again...."
This is Jewish understanding from the same era as Jesus Christ (Y'shua). According to Philo Judoeus (20 B.C.E to 54 C.E.), "The air is full of souls; those nearest to earth descending to tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them." Flavius Joshep (37 - 100 C.E.), Jewish historian, addressing Jewish troops during the final days of Israeli existence under Rome, says, "Do you not remember that all pure Spirits when they depart out of this life obtain a most holy place in heaven, from whence, in the revelation of ages, they are again sent into pure bodies" (Head, Cranston, Reincarnation, p. 27).

The Zohar, the Book of Splendor, says, "The souls must reenter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they acquire the condition which fits them for reunion with God" (Head, Cranston, Reincarnation, p. 29).

Answer 4

thats right,144,000 jews from israel (Revelation7 vs 4-8). As for me I am saved.

Answer 5

Thats true. A lot of jokers out here will be evangelising in hell.
I bet a lot agnostics will be among the 144,000.

Answer 6

Read your Bible stupit, its not what it says. Jesue says: Whosoever.Read the book of John.

Answer 7

Rev. is about symbolism, that number is symbolic.