The 144,000
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📚✭And after these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds✭ of the earth, so that wind would not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2 📚✭And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, who had been given power to harm the earth and the sea, 3 📚saying, “Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees, until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God”. 4 📚✭And I heard the number of those who were sealed, and a hundred and forty-four thousand from all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed.5 📚Of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed.
6 📚Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed.
7 📚Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed.
8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Joseph✭ twelve thousand were sealed.
Of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
A great multitude of saved people
9 📚✭After this I looked and saw a great crowd, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and people, and languages✭, standing before the throne✭ and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes✭ with palm branches✭ in their hands.
What they say
10 📚And they cried out with a loud voice, saying,
“Salvation✭ belongs to our God
who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb✭”.
What the angel says about them
11 📚And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living beings✭, and they prostrated✭ themselves before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 12 📚✭saying,
“Amen. Praise, and glory, and wisdom,
and thanksgiving✭, and honour,
and power and might be to our God
forever and ever. Amen”.
What an elder said about them
13 📚And one of the elders responded and said to me, “Who are these who are dressed in white robes? From where did they come?”
14 📚And I said to him, “Sir, you know”. And he said to me, “These are those who have come out of the great tribulation✭, and who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb✭. 15 📚Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him✭ day and night✭ in his temple✭. And he who sits on the throne will dwell among them✭. 16 📚They will hunger no more and thirst no more✭; nor will the sun beat down on them, or any excessive heat✭. 17 📚For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne✭ will shepherd✭ them, and will lead them✭ to springs of living waters✭, and God will wipe away all tears✭ from their eyes”.