This is according to Revelations?
2007-01-25 01:49:44 · 29 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible is nothing more than a metaphoric adaptation of mans spiritual beliefs handed down through many generations. It is not the word of God but the word of man written more than 350 years after the life of someone named Jesus. Every passage in the bible can be interpreted in hundreds of ways.
2007-01-25 01:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
no i don't believe that is true. i think that is the number of the remnant who will be saved from the 12 tribes. lets remember that God has not forgotten His people. there is a remnant. and i believe that the 144,000 that revelation speaks of is this very group of people. why would he only make room for 144,000 when there are so many more people on earth. God's desire is for ALL to be saved and enter into His kingdom. But since God is omniscient he knows that is not going to happen and He also knows that there will be 144,000 Jews who will come to accept Christ. that is the remnant.
2007-01-25 03:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The 144,000 people mentioned in Revelations are end-time evangelists who go out to give mankind one last chance to accept the truth.
Aside to Wendy: Before you go out and bash the Bible you better get your facts straight! The manuscript authority of the New Testament is recognized by real scholars as being one of the highest of any ancient writing. There are surviving manuscripts containing large parts of the New Testament which date back to less than a hundred years after the life of Christ. They contain no fundamental differences to what we have today.
Even the ones which are 350 years after the fact were copied word for word from the earlier accounts, some of which are actually eye witness accounts containing details about the culture there which were unknown to archaeology untill recently.
The Old Testament is similar. The copying process was very disciplined and accurate.
Please dont be blinded by your prejuduce.
2007-01-25 02:04:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In The Book of the Revelation, chapter 7, you find listed 144,000 -- 12 thousand of each of the twelve tribes of Israel. AND THEN, verse 9 says "After this I looked: and there before me was a huge crowd, too large for anyone to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language. They were standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands ..."
2007-01-25 02:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is not crowded. What YHVH is doing is preparing people for the new earth, for after He cleans this earth by fire (called Hell by some) and then makes it over and very good. The 144,000 are a special sub class, and it isn't really clear exactly who they are. Not to worry. trust in the Savior YAHOSHUA ! He will do everything right, and all will say it is very good!
2007-01-25 01:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, as the soul dies with the body. 144,000 are resurrected as spirit beings. Everyone else, or the "other sheep not of this fold" have a chance for everlasting life on Earth, rebuilding it back into a Paradise, and perhaps heading off into the Universe to explore and terraform other planets.
Which would you want? To have no goals, no purpose, and future except a fairy existence, or to see all of God's Creation and making it into what it was always meant to be?
Isn't it funny how people say Revelations is symbolic as regards the 144,000, but literal as regards things such as the anti-Christ?
The number applies to the third, or in Bible terms, the perfect, emergence of God's People, or New Israelites.
2007-01-25 01:57:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
OK, supposedly there are only 144,000 that get to go to heaven and work beside Jesus. These special people are spoken to, and on passover they drink of the wine, and take of the bread. The rest of the people god chooses to resurrect stay on the earth for ever. They never get sick, never feel pain, and never die.
Oh and BTW my father is a JEHOVAH'S WITNESS they are all very good people. Who unlike most actually work for their religion. Besides that, I have read and compared over 5 different bibles from 5 different religions, and each of them basically say the same damn thing. Most people are unaware because they don't take the time to read their bibles. Their preacher or pastor or whatever the heck their called tells them, without ever cross referencing. I come form a mixed family, and have read a bit of all. and in every religion referring to Jehovah they all have reference to the 144,000. It is not just a Jehovah Witness thing!
2007-01-25 02:02:47 · answer #7 · answered by Beautiful_nightmare 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not at all. That number only applies to the Jews during the tribulation. If you are interested read the "Left Behind" series it will explain a lot and it will be easy to understand. Then match that with what Revelation says in the Bible.
2007-01-25 01:56:14 · answer #8 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No No No. Revelation is an apocolyptic book which people often forget. Everything is symbolic. 144000 = 12 x 12 x 10 x 10. The two twelves and the two tens are symbolic numbers with 10 representing earthy completeness and 12 standing for organized religion. Thus those who live their lives in accordance to God's will and obeying him will go to heaven.
2007-01-25 01:56:50 · answer #9 · answered by packerswes4 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Gee, where is that one at!
Strikes me, if God can give Noah plans to hold a pair of each animal, God can take all the souls that DESERVE to go to Heaven.
If that number is correct, then a LOT of people are going to get the Mark of the Beast!
2007-01-25 02:47:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole 144,000 souls in heaven is a Jehovah Witness thing. Don't worry there's room in heaven for all of us.
2007-01-25 01:56:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋