Do you think the 144,000 could be raptured in 2007?

Question

Revelation 14: suggest to us that Jesus will make his first stop of the Rapture in the mountains of Israel to take the 144,000 who are being protected by God during the Tribulation. Jesus does not set foot on the Mount of Olives or any other part of the earth during His first return visit. The sole purpose of His first trip will be to remove all of those who belong to Him from the earth so that sinners may be punished.
2007 Rapture - Shocking Evidence for the Timing of the Christian 'Rapture' found in Revelation 14 ........
The 'Pre-Tribulation' rapture represents God taking some of his people from the Earth before the Great Tribulation; these are Christians in HIGH STANDING with God who do not have to suffer through his judgements of wrath that come on the world.
Thoughts?

Answer 1

no I dont think that the 144,000 will be raptured this year. the 144,000 arent necessarilly going to be christians niether. Only because it has been said in the bible that a person can attain righteousness without knowing God. Those 144,000 people could be just about anybody.
Revelations 21:10 talks about John being carried away in "spirit" to the great city, the holy Jerusalem.
When John talks about the cities the way he does in the bible, especially in revelations. He is having visions. Visions are soley images. The earth is considered as image only. Not spiritual.
that is what throws a lot of people off. Image and spiritul are not the same. not here on earth they are not.
that is whole concept behind satan is to get into Gods home and take over, in the spirit (his spiritual home).
when people were to look at the middle east. all the fighting and violence that goes on there, that is image. yes that is satan battling there because God put His Holy Home there here on earth, but it is just an image.
that is what it (satan) worked of off. image.
when John talks about Gods home in spirit. It is peaceful, no fighting, violence, and no wars.
one thing that I know for sure, and a lot of people have no doubt in is that satan is good with images. it uses images to trick people and mislead them. but I will add, he is not all that good with them because it will be images that will ultimately destroy it.
I say that it isnt all that great with imagary after all because he hit the image of earth, not the spirit. spirit and image are not the same. here on earth.
when taking this knowledge into consideration, it isnt necassarily going to be from the middle east on earth. that is why God is called God "The Powerful One', because satan works off of image, and God knows image and spirit.
satan doesnt. that is why it is stated in the bible that he is ruler of this earthly world because he knows earth well. and all that inhabit.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as the Rapture. That was invented by Darby in England circa 1834 based on his theory of Dispensationalism where he tried and failed to predict the exact time of the second coming of Christ, who by the way said, "No one knows when the Son of Man will return, only the Father knows". Darby predicted the end, had followers who sold off all their possessions and waited...and waited. Then Darby said, "Whoops, made a mistake in my calculations" so the sheep followed again and here we are now still believing Darby's crap.The Rapture theory is just that, a theory. Example is the passage which states that at the end time "Two women will be working in the field, one will be taken and the other left". Hello, no hint of "Rapture". What happens if the passage means one of the women will simply die while in the field??? By the way, don't forget Christ also said that when he returns, "Every eye will see Him even those who crusified Him" making it impossible for anyone living or dead to see Him before the second coming. Even Paul did not see Him, he only heard a voice and was blinded by an intense light. Exit the rapture and everything with it. All the books like Lindsey's "Late Great Planet Earth" are based on pure speculation and Darby's mis-direction. Nothing more, nothing less.

Answer 3

The 144,000 are not the number of people that will be raptured. Every born again Christian will be taken in the rapture. The 144,000 are from the 12 tribes of Israel, men who will be witnesses on earth AFTER the church has been taken out of the world, during the tribulation period.

Answer 4

The Bible clearly states (in several places) that "the end" will come either during Christ's own lifetime, in during that of his twelve disciples.

So the rapture must have already taken place, the 144,000 Jews (for it clearly states "members of the tribes of Israel", not "followers of Christ") have already been taken, & the 1000 years of tribulation must then also have passed.

We aren't really here!

Answer 5

The 144000 are Jewish male virgins who will preach the gospel amongst the Jews and the entire world. Every tribe of Israel (Rueben, Levi, Benjamin, Simon, Judah, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Zebulon, Joseph, Isaachar, Manasseh) will have 12000 representatives amongst these 144000 Jewish virgin males.

Answer 6

no such thing as a pre-tribulation fly away and the 144,000 are here on the earth when the fake jesus/antichrist shows up which is why it says they are "virgins" and havne't slept with a "woman" rather the ho of babylon....they are spiritual virgins and dont' take his mark as many christians will....so no and no.

uglytexaswoman..thanks for showing your hatred...cause you're so enlightened and all knowing that you had to share with us! thanks for showing your true black heart! do you run over cats in your neighborhood too? think you need to up the meds and check back into the hospital.

nora: so glad you can talk about us stop "parroting" this nonsense...cause you just parrot what the atheists say over and over and over and over! but you're better than us right???! see your hypocrisy you ditz? oh wait...it doesn't involve an abortion or sexual degenercy so i know you don't! but thanks!

Answer 7

the number of the redeemed is not limited to 144,000

the 144,000 were male celibate Jews BUT
there was a very much larger multitude before the throne from eavery tribe and toung and nation

Answer 8

I think you got that backwards. Christian will be long gone by the Tribulation. Read matthew 24

Answer 9

Which 144,000? The 144,000 Century 21 Realtors in North America?

Answer 10

The rapture could happen any time, but hopefully there will be many more than 144'000. That is a Jehovah witness belief.