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Question

do you realize there are only 144,000 souls going to heaven, good book says so. thats not very many, where will the rest go ?

Answer 1

Starbucks

Answer 2

You are reading the wrong book because it is not in God's Holy Bible. Instead of reading "Watchtower" literature made up by men, get a Holy Bible and read about the 144,000 Jews in the end times that will preach the gospel to all the people in the Tribulation Period.

Listen to these 2 verses of Scripture:
Revelation 1:17 & 18
"When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last" (Rev. 1:17)

Who is the First and the Last? Jehovah God

"I am the Living One ;I WAS DEAD, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades"
(Rev. 1:18)

When was Jehovah God dead?

It was Jesus Christ who died on the cross and 3 days later arose from the dead.

Jesus said, "I and the Father are One."

Jesus Christ was 100 % God and 100 % man. The Father Jehovah God, the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are One and The Holy Trinity.

Rutherford prophesied in 1929 that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would show up and he built a mansion for them and when they didn't show up he moved into it in 1942. Rutherford was a false prophet.

Russell is the founding father of the theological errors of the Watchtower. Early in his ministry he calculated when Jesus Christ was going to return visibly to this earth and for many years he prophesied that Christ would return in 1874. Russell died in 1916 having been proven a false prophet.

Knorr took it over in 1942 and he rewrote the Bible to suit him, The New World Translation. Knorr began to prophecy in 1966 that 1975 would be the end of the age. Of course that didn't happen.

In 1976 and 1977 over a million Jehovah Witnesses left the Watchtower, deeply disillusioned with the organization that claimed to be the voice of God on earth, but had proven again and again to be a false prophet.

The Watchtower teaches false religion, i.e. Jesus is said to be Michael the Archangel, Jesus was not resurrected bodily but as a spirit b eing, Jesus returned invisible in 1914, Jesus was only a man and not the Word become flesh, the Holy Spirit is only an active force and not part of God, hell is simply the grave, heaven open to only 144,000 people, and salvation is found only through the Organization. This is false doctrine.

All believers will be in heaven, not just 144,000.
Hell is just as real as heaven and it is a Lake of Fire where gnashing of teeth and weaping are heard.
Salvation is a free gift from God to all who believe.
Jesus is God and not an angel.
Jesus was bodily resurrected and He told Thomas to put his finger into his side where he was pierced.
Jesus did not return in 1914.

The Bible tells us that we can tell a prophet by his word. If his word comes true he is a prophet.

The Jehovah Witness prophets were all false and they've led many good people astray.

We can't work hard enough to win Salvation. Salvation is a free gift from Jehovah God because we believe in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

Jesus said in Revelation 13:8 that He was slain from the foundation of the earth. Jesus was with Jehovah God and the Holy Spirit in the beginning. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are One.

"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the beast),
whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

Jesus Christ is the Lamb slain.

John the Baptist said, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world."

Read the Real Word of God, my friend. Get you a King James Version of the Holy Bible.

To answer your question, all the saved believers are going to heaven with Jesus and Jehovah God because the teaching of only 144,000 souls going to heaven is false.

Answer 3

Dawn,
That is not true. The Book of Revelation that you have taken this from was written by the Apostle John and it was written in the form that is not literal because of the Roman Guards on the Isle of Patmos. The 144,000 is a numerical illustration and is better understood by study outside of this forum. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
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Answer 4

Have you ever actually bothered to READ the Bible?

The book of Revelations says that 144,000 Jewish men, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, will preach the gospel during the tribulation period.

Nothing is said anywhere in the Bible about these 144,000 being the only one's to go to heaven!

(It's amazing how that the Bible sheds a lot of light on all these commentaries!)

Answer 5

This is the number from all the Jewish tribes, 12 tribes, 12000 people from each. ( Rev 7: 4-8 But the rest of the chapter talks about the unnumberable multitudes.
Knowledge is power.

Answer 6

Rev.7:9 after this I beheld & lo a great multitued, which no man could number of al;l nations & kindreds & people & tongues stood before the thron, & before the Lamb Clothed with white robes & palms in their hands. My freind who are these? And I believe you know where the nonbelievers will go. I just pray you get on the right side before it's too late. Peace!!

Answer 7

Rulers and armies of all nations will be assembled in opposition to God

Rev. 16:14: “They go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”

Rev. 19:19: “I saw the wild beast [human political rulership as a whole] and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage the war with the one seated on the horse and with his army.”
Jer. 25:33: “Those slain by Jehovah will certainly come to be in that day from one end of the earth clear to the other end of the earth.”

Ps. 37:9, 11, 29: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in GOD are the ones that will possess the earth . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”

Rev. 21:1-4: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth . . . I heard a loud voice from the throne say: ‘Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”

Mic. 4:3, 4: “They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.”


To how many does the Bible hold out hope of heavenly life?
144000
Luke 12:32: “Have no fear, little flock, because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom.”

Rev. 14:1-3: “I saw, and, look! the Lamb [Jesus Christ] standing upon the Mount Zion [in heaven; see Hebrews 12:22-24], and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. . . . And they are singing as if a new song . . . and no one was able to master that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth.”

Answer 8

If you are talking about reveleation then you had better read closer it is the Jews that are saved at the tribulation.

Revelations 7
4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
10And they cried out in a loud voice:
"Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=73&chapter=7&version=31

Answer 9

144,000 refers to the Jews who remain through the tribulation period. They will have that time to come to their spiritual senses and recognize that Jesus truly is the Messiah they've waited generations for. They are the remnant of Israel that will be saved. Every other Christian will have been raptured and already in heaven with God before the 7 year tribulation.

Answer 10

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