Ed aren't the people who receive the mark killed by the demons who race over the earth? I post text.
3 Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions.4 They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.5 They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.6 In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
This is the passage I was thinking of but after looking at it they don't kill the people but torture them. I have never heard those with the mark are still around thought.
These lifeforms will pop out from the Abyss with smoke and ashes (probably a vulcano) like "bats out of hell".
They are clearly an artificial genetically modified life form, ... or a prototype of a sort.
These "locusts" would be small in size (Joel referred to these as climbing in the windows, small).
No wonder the Legion of demons that possessed the man in the Gospel begged Jesus to be sent into the pigs and not the Abyss. These demons, size of a fly (their leader is Beelzebub, Lord of Flies) hated Abyss.
Apollyon (angel of the Abyss) apparently used them to created these artificial life forms we will see as locust/scorpions. Grab a spirit/demon (size of a fly), plug it into a locust/scorpion and you have "life".
I can name probably 3 other artificial life forms in the Revelation ...
It is interesting they were torturing the non-believers ... probably because the sages would be sending demons into Abyss as a money making scheme. Witchcraft would be a common occurrence in the future.
Jesus never sent them to the Abyss, so they would not touch Christians ... I'm putting too much in a short post.
It is my understanding the point of the thousand years rule is Jesus fulfilling His promise to the Jews to rule for a time with them at His side. this is the age of the Jew and the age of the Gentile has past away.
Thank you Ed that is what i was trying to do is learn and I did, thank you. ...
Yes, but not only Jews, also anyone else who would be a believer.
Besides, the 144,000 are literal individuals from literal 12 tribes. However, their blood would probably be so intermixed by that time, they could be a Russian, Chinese, African, Welch ... as long as they carry the lineage to the 12 tribes. They do not need to be all "Jewish".
Thanks,
Ed