Hang on a second - you think I don't believe that Christs Kingdom will be on earth? I do believe this, I believe that Jesus Christ will Rule and Reign of 1000 years on the Literal earth we are on now.
So you have misunderstood me on that.
Revelation 14 view is on earth.
The Rev 7 & Rev 14 scenes are YEARS PRIOR to the start of the Millennium. The MULTITUDE that appears in Heaven (that come out of the Great Tribulation) this is the RAPTURE.
Rev 7:9
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
This is the Rapture - the rapture occurs PRIOR to God's Wrath. Believers are removed out of the World and then God's Wrath is poured out. The 144,000 come down to earth at the same time as believers depart (rapture) to minister to the wicked with the 2 witnesses for the last half of Daniels 70th week. This is near the MID POINT of Daniels 70th week (shortly after).
That's a pre-trib rapture, because to say a rapture even happens at near the MID POINT of Daniel's symbolic "one week" is to say the rapture happens PRIOR to the tribulation. That just isn't true per God's Holy Writ though.
In Matthew 24 and Mark 13, our Lord Jesus showed His coming and gathering of the Church is after the tribulation He warned us about. And He is teaching there what Paul taught in 1 Thess.4 about the "caught up" event and the resurrection, so it cannot be denied by some erroneous idea that He was only speaking to 1st century disciples (a stupid idea anyway, because Christ's 2nd coming never happened in their day, and still hasn't happened yet today!)
The so-called rapture event of the Church occurs on the 7th Trumpet (Paul's "last trump") and on the 7th Vial, and on the latter part of the 6th Seal. On the last day of this world is when God's cup of wrath is poured out upon the earth and the wicked. Those of us still on earth will be protected from that like how Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were protected by Christ while in the hot fiery furnace. When they came out, their clothes didn't even smell of smoke (Daniel 3).
All this happens on the "day of the Lord" per the OT prophets. God's consuming fire will burn man's works off this earth (2 Pet.3:10). That is what His cup of wrath poured out on the last day of this world is (see end of Hebrews 12 also, and 2 Peter 3:10-12). On that day is when the Church still alive on earth will be 'changed' on the "last trump", at the "twinkling of an eye" to our "spiritual body" (1 Cor.15). That is how the Church will be "caught up" to Jesus coming in the clouds on that day.
The 144,000 represent believing seed of Israel that are part of Christ's Church today. You're preaching a false split of Christ's Church, which shows you're on the false pre-tribe rapture theory that is part of Darby's Dispensationalism. The reason the 144,000 are being shown sealed is because they are believers on Christ, because God's sealing is by The Holy Spirit in the last days.
So what Revelation 7 is showing, is that before the end of the tribulation with the four winds blowing on the earth, God's chosen of 144,000 of Israel are to be sealed with His seal, in prep for the tribulaton. The sealing is so God's servants won't be subject to the 'stinging' of the locusts in Rev.9. The 144,000 involve a portion of believing Jews in Christ's Church, and then the rest are ten lost tribe believers in Christ's Church.
The "great multitude" is about the Gentiles in Christ's Church that were sealed also and went through the tribulation, and could also include any of Christ's earlier Church that suffered tribulation. The view John is shown of them is for after... Christ's return when they are with Him upon mount Zion in the holy lands. It is the same timing view in Rev.14.
