Peace in Christ.
The 144,000 are the “elect”…the “few”….the “house of Jacob”….the “vessels of His mercy.”
What are some of the attributes (for lack of a better word) of the 144,000?
The 144,000 do not defile themselves with (amid)“women”…that is, wives. They will not be part of the man-based churches. They will come out from among them and be separate…being “virgins”.
A man-based church is as a “wife” that many are “married” to so-to-speak. But these “wives” that many are “married” to are not being faithful to God as they are keeping and serving the commandments of men (their handwriting of ordinances) rather than keep His commandments. Our God is a jealous God.
They are actively teaching for doctrines the commandments of men that turn us from the Truth. Titus 1:14 . We defile our mortal bodies when we sit together with them.
The 144,000 are separated from them though…being “virgins.” They are redeemed from among men. They hear the Word of Truth and believe. They come out from among the man-based churches and are separate. They follow the Lamb out of them. They hear the Holy (to be separate for sanctification) Command of Him and do it. They will not turn from the Holy Commandment that is delivered unto them to keep. This is the Way of righteousness…to come out from the man-based churches and be separate from them. We then put of a “wedding garment” by doing so....being clean.
Rev 14:
(4) These are they which were not defiled with women (WIVES); 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.
A man-based church is as a “strange woman” that teaches many strange doctrines which are contrary to the teaching of the true Christ.
They teach for doctrines the commandments of men as codified in their handwritings of ordinances/dogmas…their “images”. Their teachings are “dead” though. There is no life in them. They eat things sacrificed unto “idols”…that is, to their images. Many “eat” their dead teachings of which there is no life in them. The teachings of fleshly-minded men profit nothing.
The words of the true Christ though are spirit and they are life. They are the true sayings of God….the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Joh 6:63 KJV
(63) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Except we eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, we have no life in us. He is our living sacrifice. His words are the true Bread from heaven. The words of earthly-minded men are death.
Joh 6:53-56
(53) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
(54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life (AGE-LASTING); and I will raise him up at (TO) the last day.
(55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(56) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
If we eat of that Bread (the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ) which comes down from Heaven, we shall live INTO THE AGE….this age we are currently living in. We shall not mortally perish. When we eat man’s earthly teachings, we mortally perish. We don’t have an age-lasting life in them.
Joh 6:57-58 KJV
(57) As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
(58) This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever (INTO THE AGE).
Those that go to the man-based churches (the "strange woman"...or strange wife) do not attain the paths of life in them. MANY have gone down the broad way unto destruction….being led astray by false prophets. MANY have attended their churches. Their “house” inclines unto death…our mortal death. Their path is unto the dead.
This is whey we must come out from among them and be separate…no longer defiling our mortal bodies with them. Whoever is attending a man-based church is sinning against their own mortal body. 1st Corinthians 6:18 . Don't be flattered with the words of the false prophets who lead them. They speak "good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple". "And I see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding," who gets swayed by the flattery. Proverbs 7:7 - 21 .
Pro 2:16-19 KJV
(16) To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
(17) Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
(18) For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
(19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Do not go astray in her paths for she has cast down MANY wounded and MANY strong men have been slain by her. Her “house” is the way to the grave….
Pro 7:24-27
(24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
(25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
(26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
(27) Her house is the way to hell (SHEOL…the grave), going down to the chambers of death.
The 144,000 follow the Lamb where ever He goes. They keep the daily sacrifice of the Lamb in their mortal bodies as they follow Him out of the man-based churches (the strange “wives”).
It is “expedient” that we follow Him out. If we depart, He will send the Spirit of Truth unto us.
Joh 16:7-11 KJV
(7) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
(8) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
(9) Of sin, because they believe not on me;
(10) Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
(11) Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
We must follow Him out of the man-based churches. We go to the Father by doing so. We are then His sons and daughters.
Joh 14:28-31 KJV
(28) Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
(29) And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
(30) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
We show that we love the Father when we follow Him out of them. The Father has given us a commandment…the Holy Commandment…to “arise, and let us go from here.”
(31) But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
We are called unto His kingdom (government) and glory.
1Th 2:11-14
(11) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
(12) That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
The 144,000 receive the Word of God spoken in truth and sincerity in Christ. This is in contrast to the “word of men” that we all heard being preached in the man-based churches and many receive them.
(13) For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
The man-based churches that we once attended will persecute us for believing in the Word of Truth rather than believing their “private interpretations” of their “word.” Our own “countrymen”…our own church families that we once were a part of… will persecute us. But we are not to return evil for their evil but be faithful unto His death…dying to sin. We are to follow the Lamb …keeping His daily sacrifice.
(14) For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
We who believe in the Word of Truth must not keep company any longer with the unbelievers (who will hear the Word of Truth and will not believe) in the man-based churches.
2Co 6:14-18
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
What part do we that believe have with the unbeliever? The man-based churches will not believe the Word of Truth when they will hear it. They will not believe and be saved.
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever?
What agreement has the temple of God (of which we are) have with “idols”…that is, images?
They are keeping and serving their images…their external church handwritings of ordinances…rather than keeping and serving God’s commandments which are written internally upon our hearts.
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols (IMAGES)? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
We must come out from among them….among the dead man-based churches…and be separate and touch (that is, be attached) not to the unclean. The man-based churches are unclean ….and when we sit together with them, we are unclean as well. We are “one flesh” and “one body” with them when we sit together with them.
This is the Holy (to be separate for our sanctification) Commandment we are not to turn away from. This is the way of righteousness that leads to life….an age-lasting life to be had now in this mortal body. We are to go out from among them and go to the Father and be His sons and daughters.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Let us not be seduced back to the man-based churches when we have just escaped from them.
The “pollutions of the world” are found in them….their church handwritings of ordinances…which defile their places of worship.
They self-govern and self-judge themselves by their governing documents (statements of faith, church constitutions, church by-laws, creeds, statutes, etc, etc, etc). They are patterned after the outside world’s governing documents….such as “constitutions.” They have brought these handwritings and have them established into their places of worship . These things are “abominations” that are brought into the place where His name is named.
2Pe 2:20-22
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge (epignosis = FULL KNOWLEDGE) of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
This is the Way of righteousness….to come out from among them and be separate. This is the narrow way that leads to life. This is the Holy Commandment that is delivered unto us. Let us not turn away from it.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Abraham was “called out” as well. He OBEYED and WENT OUT. We must follow his example and do the same.
Heb 11:8 KJV
(8) By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Abram was called out of his country and from his kindred and from his father’s house. We also are called out from the man-based churches…from our man-based church families…from the church fathers’ houses. We shall then inherit the blessings of Abraham. “Then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.” Galatians 3:9 .
We are called out to a "land"…that is, an EARTH…that He will show us. He will manifest the presence of Jesus through us to the people of the outside world….a great multitude…who will “see” Him and believe and will gather together around us.
Gen 12:1-3 KJV
(1) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
(2) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
In us shall all families of the “earth”….that is, the ADAMAH…be blessed. The “adamah” are the people of the outside world who do not currently have His Spirit within them.
(3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth (ADAMAH) be blessed.
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The 144,000 are the “elect”…the “few”….the “house of Jacob”….the “vessels of His mercy.”
What are some of the attributes (for lack of a better word) of the 144,000?
The 144,000 do not defile themselves with (amid)“women”…that is, wives. They will not be part of the man-based churches. They will come out from among them and be separate…being “virgins”.
A man-based church is as a “wife” that many are “married” to so-to-speak. But these “wives” that many are “married” to are not being faithful to God as they are keeping and serving the commandments of men (their handwriting of ordinances) rather than keep His commandments. Our God is a jealous God.
They are actively teaching for doctrines the commandments of men that turn us from the Truth. Titus 1:14 . We defile our mortal bodies when we sit together with them.
The 144,000 are separated from them though…being “virgins.” They are redeemed from among men. They hear the Word of Truth and believe. They come out from among the man-based churches and are separate. They follow the Lamb out of them. They hear the Holy (to be separate for sanctification) Command of Him and do it. They will not turn from the Holy Commandment that is delivered unto them to keep. This is the Way of righteousness…to come out from the man-based churches and be separate from them. We then put of a “wedding garment” by doing so....being clean.
Rev 14:
(4) These are they which were not defiled with women (WIVES); 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.
A man-based church is as a “strange woman” that teaches many strange doctrines which are contrary to the teaching of the true Christ.
They teach for doctrines the commandments of men as codified in their handwritings of ordinances/dogmas…their “images”. Their teachings are “dead” though. There is no life in them. They eat things sacrificed unto “idols”…that is, to their images. Many “eat” their dead teachings of which there is no life in them. The teachings of fleshly-minded men profit nothing.
The words of the true Christ though are spirit and they are life. They are the true sayings of God….the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Joh 6:63 KJV
(63) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Except we eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, we have no life in us. He is our living sacrifice. His words are the true Bread from heaven. The words of earthly-minded men are death.
Joh 6:53-56
(53) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
(54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life (AGE-LASTING); and I will raise him up at (TO) the last day.
(55) For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(56) He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
If we eat of that Bread (the full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ) which comes down from Heaven, we shall live INTO THE AGE….this age we are currently living in. We shall not mortally perish. When we eat man’s earthly teachings, we mortally perish. We don’t have an age-lasting life in them.
Joh 6:57-58 KJV
(57) As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
(58) This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever (INTO THE AGE).
Those that go to the man-based churches (the "strange woman"...or strange wife) do not attain the paths of life in them. MANY have gone down the broad way unto destruction….being led astray by false prophets. MANY have attended their churches. Their “house” inclines unto death…our mortal death. Their path is unto the dead.
This is whey we must come out from among them and be separate…no longer defiling our mortal bodies with them. Whoever is attending a man-based church is sinning against their own mortal body. 1st Corinthians 6:18 . Don't be flattered with the words of the false prophets who lead them. They speak "good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple". "And I see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding," who gets swayed by the flattery. Proverbs 7:7 - 21 .
Pro 2:16-19 KJV
(16) To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
(17) Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
(18) For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
(19) None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Do not go astray in her paths for she has cast down MANY wounded and MANY strong men have been slain by her. Her “house” is the way to the grave….
Pro 7:24-27
(24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
(25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
(26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
(27) Her house is the way to hell (SHEOL…the grave), going down to the chambers of death.
The 144,000 follow the Lamb where ever He goes. They keep the daily sacrifice of the Lamb in their mortal bodies as they follow Him out of the man-based churches (the strange “wives”).
It is “expedient” that we follow Him out. If we depart, He will send the Spirit of Truth unto us.
Joh 16:7-11 KJV
(7) Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
(8) And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
(9) Of sin, because they believe not on me;
(10) Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
(11) Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
We must follow Him out of the man-based churches. We go to the Father by doing so. We are then His sons and daughters.
Joh 14:28-31 KJV
(28) Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
(29) And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
(30) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
We show that we love the Father when we follow Him out of them. The Father has given us a commandment…the Holy Commandment…to “arise, and let us go from here.”
(31) But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
We are called unto His kingdom (government) and glory.
1Th 2:11-14
(11) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
(12) That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
The 144,000 receive the Word of God spoken in truth and sincerity in Christ. This is in contrast to the “word of men” that we all heard being preached in the man-based churches and many receive them.
(13) For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
The man-based churches that we once attended will persecute us for believing in the Word of Truth rather than believing their “private interpretations” of their “word.” Our own “countrymen”…our own church families that we once were a part of… will persecute us. But we are not to return evil for their evil but be faithful unto His death…dying to sin. We are to follow the Lamb …keeping His daily sacrifice.
(14) For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
We who believe in the Word of Truth must not keep company any longer with the unbelievers (who will hear the Word of Truth and will not believe) in the man-based churches.
2Co 6:14-18
(14) Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
What part do we that believe have with the unbeliever? The man-based churches will not believe the Word of Truth when they will hear it. They will not believe and be saved.
(15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever?
What agreement has the temple of God (of which we are) have with “idols”…that is, images?
They are keeping and serving their images…their external church handwritings of ordinances…rather than keeping and serving God’s commandments which are written internally upon our hearts.
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols (IMAGES)? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
We must come out from among them….among the dead man-based churches…and be separate and touch (that is, be attached) not to the unclean. The man-based churches are unclean ….and when we sit together with them, we are unclean as well. We are “one flesh” and “one body” with them when we sit together with them.
This is the Holy (to be separate for our sanctification) Commandment we are not to turn away from. This is the way of righteousness that leads to life….an age-lasting life to be had now in this mortal body. We are to go out from among them and go to the Father and be His sons and daughters.
(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Let us not be seduced back to the man-based churches when we have just escaped from them.
The “pollutions of the world” are found in them….their church handwritings of ordinances…which defile their places of worship.
They self-govern and self-judge themselves by their governing documents (statements of faith, church constitutions, church by-laws, creeds, statutes, etc, etc, etc). They are patterned after the outside world’s governing documents….such as “constitutions.” They have brought these handwritings and have them established into their places of worship . These things are “abominations” that are brought into the place where His name is named.
2Pe 2:20-22
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge (epignosis = FULL KNOWLEDGE) of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
This is the Way of righteousness….to come out from among them and be separate. This is the narrow way that leads to life. This is the Holy Commandment that is delivered unto us. Let us not turn away from it.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Abraham was “called out” as well. He OBEYED and WENT OUT. We must follow his example and do the same.
Heb 11:8 KJV
(8) By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Abram was called out of his country and from his kindred and from his father’s house. We also are called out from the man-based churches…from our man-based church families…from the church fathers’ houses. We shall then inherit the blessings of Abraham. “Then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.” Galatians 3:9 .
We are called out to a "land"…that is, an EARTH…that He will show us. He will manifest the presence of Jesus through us to the people of the outside world….a great multitude…who will “see” Him and believe and will gather together around us.
Gen 12:1-3 KJV
(1) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
(2) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
In us shall all families of the “earth”….that is, the ADAMAH…be blessed. The “adamah” are the people of the outside world who do not currently have His Spirit within them.
(3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth (ADAMAH) be blessed.
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