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“If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

The 144,000

“Fear God” the cry of the 144000

The 144000 appear not only before the tribulation but before the fall of Babylon the Great. Who are they, are they to come, or are they already here? Revelations says they are Israelites.  The Israelites were scattered over much of the world, so it could be anyone. But let us have a brief look at what happened to them. They were taken into exile around 800 BC by the Assyrian’s. The bible says they went to the northern regions of the Assyrian Empire. The records of the Assyrian's say the majority were sent to a northern region that was unpopulated. The mountainous area around where Georgia is today. A bit farther north than what the bible says. At this stage, people were just settling into Italy, as Rome was founded at the same time.  They had not spread far. There were probably 60 million people total at that time, and around 4 million were Israelites. As the nations spread out, this 6 odd percent of the world's population was a reasonable number and would have led to large areas of the world population today tracing their heritage back to Israel. They were still God's people and would have been blessed beyond others. There could easily be 20% or more of the world's population with Israelite heritage. Using old records and linguistics, they have been able to give us some idea as to concentration areas. Ephraim and England, Manasseh and the USA, Nathalie and Scandinavia. There are stories handed down through generations how Ruben went east and ended up in the China/ Korea/Japan area. The twist is there is no one from the tribe of Dan. Dan has been replaced by Manasseh, while Ephraim comes under Joseph. Why that is does that not fit into the criteria of this essay. However, there is plenty of information on the net.  In conclusion, you can see that the whole world has the potential to provide saints for the 144000. They appear in Revelations 7 and 14, and we can glean some information. I cannot find any other reference to the 144000 except in Revelations.

The Great calm happens, in Revelations 7-1. What is the great calm?  Is this to do with the weather? Rev 7\1 says After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. The weather is partly from the rotation of the earth, but mainly caused by the sun's energy hitting the Earth. If you hear the sun's activity has never been as quiet as this in some news report, that will be an event that could fit into the great calm. But it just doesn't seem possible. It is most likely to have some spiritual meaning. This calm is the signal that the 144000 are to appear. These saints are to receive a seal on their foreheads.

 The Lord and the 144000 stand on Mount Zion. Mount Zion can be seen as Jerusalem or the temple mount. In reality, Mount Zion is a concept and because it is a concept, it is not necessarily in Israel. They are to be blameless and have not defiled themselves with women. You do not defile yourselves in marriage. The blood of Christ makes you blameless. These are requirements that must be met. Now these saints are walking among us at this very time. You may be one, but how do you know? Have you met the above requirements? Lastly, there is a song that only you can learn. This is the test that you can apply that finds out false witnesses. What is the song? Only the 144000 will know it because it will be on their hearts. In fact, the 144000 are walking around right now.

What will they preach?

Rev 6. Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Rev 14 is about the 144000 and the message of the angel must also be their message.  The desire to start preaching the message that the first angel declares. That is three things. Fear God, this is a fundamental problem of the world today. We have lost the fear of God. There is the fear in the sense of awe and wonder, and there is a fear of God because he is a judge who will punish you for wicked behaviour. This has happened because of the new Gospel that is preached. A Gospel that only looks at the good things of the Christian walk and avoids at all cost there are consequences for what we do. Do you fit the criteria and have this desire to preach “Fear God” and “give glory to God and Judgment is here”? The cry fear God is here to keep us safe from being deceived. Secondly, we are to give glory to God and worshipping him keeps us close to him. Thirdly, they are to preach the hour of judgment has come. This is something we can place a time for. In the 1970s, we had a shape increase in the preaching and books on the second coming of Jesus is about to happen. Hal Lindsay’s The Late Great Planet Earth was a bestseller. Hal still preaches much the same things. Most of it wrong, but that is not relevant as all he had to was preach Jesus's return, which he has done diligently. Hal is one of the 144000 as is the likes of Rick Wiles and his team at Tru News. Furthermore, many others preaching the second coming of Christ.

The change in what is being preached.

Rev 14/8. Now we do have an event to align the 144000 with.  Revelations 14-8 says, “fallen fallen is Babylon the Great”. You will see that this is the economic change of the USA. It does not have to be an economic collapse but a change in its relationship with the rest of the world financially. A change in its wickedness. If Donald Trump is successful at cleaning up the swamp and paedophilia rings. The US dollar has already lost it status as the reserve currency at only 47% of trade in dollars. The vast amount of military equipment is useless now they can turn off all modern electronics. It will no longer be dominant but just a smaller player. If you go to Revelations the repeated story concept in the blog and look at Revelations 17, this is explained. First we get the financial collapse and then the physical attack, they are two different events. The physical attack is done when there are ten horns or ten leaders on the heads of the beast. Rev 17-16. So the destruction happens before the Antichrist has arisen. When the beast first appears, it is just a loose seven nation group. The Great Red Dragon has ten horns, seven heads and seven crowns on the heads, showing this is before the beast is fully established because there are only SEVEN crowns.  The Rev 13 picture is slightly different, there are seven heads, ten horns and TEN crowns. It looks like the initial agreement will be among these seven nations will not have a strong leadership.  When the Antichrist arises, three of these horns will fall. Now the Antichrist is here, the mark of the beast will be placed on people. I speculate that the fall of Babylon will cause the Antichrist to arise. So the cities destroyed in an hour are many years away. Fallen Fallen is Babylon the Great is at hand.

Now the third angel cries out. “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshippers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” Once the Babylon falls, the preaching will change from repent, do not receive the mark of the beast. This will be preached until the day of the Lord or Jesus's return. That preaching will be from the fall of Babylon or the USA (strictly speaking it is not Babylon but the seventh head the woman rides on). Through the rise of the beast until it turns into the fully blown Beast and during the reign of the Antichrist.

This is a very hard thing they have to do, and the Lord well be training them. Does injustice seem to be following you, or do you feel that you are receiving an unnatural number of problems? You are being turned into men of steel to have victory in a seemingly impossible task. You will be rejected by the established church, who preach the new gospel and have rejected the concept of repenting. On the bright side, you likely will get to speak face to face with Jesus. On the harder side, fellow saints will help you at the cost of their lives. If you think your spirit is calling you need to put it before the lord. Your time could be as little as one year away, or even sooner.