Subject: rev.7:4 |
Bible Note: hi searcher, You will note that it does not say that 'he saw' the 144,000, only that he heard their number. Thus the number was important depicting 12 x 12, the patriarchs and the Apostles (Rev 21). Then he looked, and what did he see? That what he had heard numbered was a multitude which no man could number. Thus they were the chosen of God, numbered by Him and yet innumerable. But the New Testament makes clear that the true Israel is the Israel who believed in the Messiah. They were the believing remnant. They WERE Israel and as Israel had always done they accepted Gentiles into their number. They were the olive tree which is Israel (Jer 11.16). It would be very strange if God took up the position of discounting those large number of Jews who believed in the Messiah, in order to favour the unbelieving who were accursed from Christ. Best wishes |