[h=2]Is it true that only 144,000 people are going to heaven (Revelation 7:4)?[/h]
No, the whole bride of Christ, the church is going to heaven.
Without parables Christ the word of God spoke not. The metaphor 144,000 represents a "number no man could count". It speaks of the chaste virgin bride of Christ made up of all nations, as saints, sanctified by the word of God .
They are all clothed with the righteousness of Christ typified as white robes, Jew and gentile alike. God puts no difference between them purifying the hearts of His chaste virgin, bride the church, by a work of His faith..
Rev 7:9 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;
She is seen clothed with the righteousness of Christ .She travailed as in birth pains until Christ was formed in those she held out the gospel to.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman "clothed with the sun", and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. Rev 12:1
The bride of Christ is typified as a city of Christ the new heavenly Jerusalem not of this world.She is the mother of us all .
Paul is shown as a segregated mother who bring the gospel, the incorruptible seed (Christ) by which all believers are given a new birth..
Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Paul as a segregate mother is shown according to the goal of His faith that she in reference to Timothy might be espoused to Christ our husband , a one of the 1444,000 chaste virgins.
It has nothing to do with men not having a sexual relations with a woman.
2Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a “chaste virgin” to Christ.
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: