QUESTION:
Will the 144,000 of Rev. 7:4, 14:1-5 be all Jewish males from the Tribulation ?
ANSWER:
“And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.” [Revelation 7:4]
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” [Revelation 14:1-5]
“There's your 144,000 (Israel) that's waiting for the coming of the Lord and cannot go in until first the Gentiles are finished: got to be finished. Now, I might say just a little personal something. I'll trust that you'll understand it. When Lewi Pethrus of Stockholm, Sweden, the general overseer, head of the Filadelfian churches, he sent down a million Bibles to these Jews, little Testaments. I got one of them up there, a little souvenir from him. The Jew always reads from the back to the front, and so you know how they--their language is. And they would read these books, and they said, "Well, if this Jesus is the Messiah, and He's dead and His Spirit is back in the form of the Spirit, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, then we'll believe Him." What a perfect setup; I thought, "Lord, here's the time now. now's the time; here it is." So on a airplane I go, Billy and I and Loyce, and took off.” [The Ten Virgins And The 144,000 Jews, Jeffersonville IN 60-1211m]
“That's the Seal of God. We know that. And now, remember, There's only 144,000 of the Jews sealed, which was the remnant of the Jews left over.” [The Ten Virgins And The 144,000 Jews, Jeffersonville IN 60-1211m]
“The ark is a type of the Jews, the 144,000 that's carried over, which is Noah and his bunch; but Enoch went home just a little bit before the flood. You know that.” [The Ten Virgins And The 144,000 Jews, Jeffersonville IN 60-1211m]
“If the first tree was holy, its branches holy, the original tree, and because they disbelieved the Pentecostal Message that Paul was preaching (is that so?), God cut them off and took a wild olive tree, which was the Gentiles, us, and grafted us in that we might live off the bra--the substance of that tree...Now, how much more in this day when we are rejecting the Pentecostal message that's come down through the church ages, how much more is God able to take that old wild tree off of it anyhow, and let the other one come in? Because He will reject it because of unbelief. Now, dovetail that with the lesson this morning. You know where we're standing now, don't you? We're at the end time for the taking away of the Gentile church, the rapture for it; and the issuing in of the Holy Ghost to come upon the Jews, and Jesus to make Hisself known, to seal the 144,000. There you are. Bring back the original tree back into--the blessing into Israel again.” [The Laodicean Church Age, Jeffersonville IN 60-1211e]
“The 144,000 eunuchs of the temple ministering to Him. Where He gets up, His Wife goes with Him. Oh, oh, my. Through that great age that's coming, when all the sin and the resemblance of sin is.” [Revelation, Chapter Four, Jeffersonville IN 61-0101]
“Will never put foot on this earth until the Church is gone. How many knows that? "We which are alive and remain shall not prevent or hinder them which are asleep. trumpet of God shall sound; we'll rise and be caught up to meet Him in the air." That's right. Then He returns back to make Hisself known to--to--like Joseph did to his brethren, the 144,000. But the Church is raptured, and gone in. remember, when Joseph made hisself known to his brethren, his wife and all of them was in the palace, no Gentiles around. he dismissed them all.” [The Messiah, Shreveport LA 61-0117]
“Then we know the great Holy Spirit will come to the Jews then. when we seen the 144,000 standing on Mount Sinai, standing with the Lamb, but the Bride was already in Heaven. She'd already been took up, and the Lamb had come back, Joseph to make Hisself known to His people. And the Bible said that there'll be a breaking up among them when they'll look and see Him standing there. When He makes Hisself known, they say "Where'd You get them scars?" He said, "In the house of My friends." And then they'll say, "It was Him that we crucified." And He'll say as Joseph did, "Don't worry, because God did this to save the life of the Gentiles. It wasn't your fault." Then they said they would separate, one family from the other; they would mourn like the only son would've been taken from the home.” [Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness, Jeffersonville IN 61-1119]
“During the Tribulation period. Here's what I want you to notice now, a little thing I dropped in here. During this tribulation period, after the Bride has been called out, and the church goes through the tribulation period, the 144,000 is called by the two witnesses of Revelations 11. Now, look, they'll prophesy one thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth.” [The First Seal, Jeffersonville IN 63-0318]
“He said, "No, don't be angry with yourself; you only done it to preserve life. That's why God sent me down here." and when He makes Hisself known, the Bible says (as we come to it), when He makes Hisself known to that 144,000 there, the little Benjamin of today and the remnant of those Jews left there; when He makes Himself known, they'll say, "Where did You get those scars? What are they doing in Your hands?" He'll say, "Oh, i got them in the house of My friends.” [The First Seal, Jeffersonville IN 63-0318]
“Watch him, what he did to little Benjamin, which is the type of the 144,000 as we'll get later. See what he did? He just run right quick to Benjamin, fell on his neck and started hugging him. His little brother that had been born into the family, after he'd been gone, by his mother, the first church, the orthodox church. The 144,000 were born in His absence, while He was away to get His Gentile Bride. Oh, my. Don't that just do something to you? There, so you see who they are? There you are.” [The Fifth Seal, Jeffersonville IN 63-0322]Bible References : Revelation 7:4; 14:1-5
[Answer provided by Bro. Ken Andes, Minister, Lynden, Washington, USA]