Where does it say the 144k are evangelists or preach?
Do you remember what I'd put about
"the WISE [of Israel]" in Dan12:1-4,10? how that this is not referring to a "bodily/physical resurrection [from the dead]" (like 12:13 is), but about Israel coming "up out of the graveyard of nations,
where scattered" (like the parallel passages of: Ezekiel 37:12-14,20-23 (the "dry bones" prophecy); Hosea 5:15-6:3 ("after two days... in the third day"); Isaiah 26:16-21 (note the "birth pangs"); Romans 11:15[25] ("what shall the receiving of them [Israel] be, but LIFE FROM THE DEAD"); John 6:39 [distinct from v.40]; Romans 9:26/Hosea 1:10 [distinct from Rom9:25/Hos2:23b which is re: the Gentiles]; Micah 5:3 esp. pt. b [distinct from 5:2]; etc...). I believe these 144,000 ("servants of our God" 7:3) correlate with the "
THEN SAITH HE to his servants" of Matt22:
8 (necessarily FOLLOWING the
v.7's "70ad events" [see also Lk21:23,20 in the "70ad events" section of the Olivet Discourse--vv.12-24]), so that these 144,000 are AMONG those (of Israel) who will carry forth the "INVITATION"
to/for "the wedding
FEAST/SUPPER" (the
earthly MK).
Notice how Dan12:4 tells of what they ("the WISE [of Israel]")
go on TO DO (and then
vv.6-7 ask and tell "
how long to the end of THESE WONDERS" and gives
a very specific time period, which at that time [and per the specific wording/phrasing noted there], will be
"understood" especially by those [faithful remnant]
of Israel [having come to faith AFTER our Rapture/DURING the trib years])…
And do you recall my saying that I believe the 144,000 are the "firstfruit" of the "WHEAT harvest" (per what I see of the TWO distinct "firstfruit" of Lev23; theirs being connected with the v.17 "
TWO loaves" and "baken
WITH LEAVEN", etc, and the correlation I see of the wording in Rev14:4 "unto God and to the Lamb" with the wording in Lev23:17 also, "firstfruits
unto the Lord"), and which "WHEAT harvest" is harvested by means of a "tribulum".... This is
not referring to "the Church WHICH IS HIS BODY" (us / believers of "this present age [singular]").
Here's a portion of what I'd written about that, in past posts:
[quoting]
So, in view of that, I believe the 144,000 are "firstfruit" of the WHEAT harvest (the TWO LOAVES; and "baken with leaven" [these are not "the Church which is His body"], per Lev23:17-18, where it similarly states they are "unto the Lord" [like Rev14:4 does],
... and that the "a great multitude... of all the nations [/Gentiles]" & the WHEAT of Matt13 [still-living persons at end of trib] & the Sheep of the nations [/Gentiles] of Matt25 [still-living persons at end of trib]... are the rest of THAT harvest: WHEAT.
"Gather[-ed] into My barn" refers to the
earthly MK time period, as "wheat" is harvested by means of a "tribulum"
[Daniel 12:12 "BLESSED is he that waiteth and cometh to the 1335 days!" are those who survive to the end of the trib, and enter in mortal bodies capable of reproducing/bearing children--Any believer/saint who died during the trib will be "resurrected" for that [the MK], per Rev20:4, and these will not be capable of reproducing/bearing children but will be like the angels (who don't reproduce)])
And whereas "WHEAT" is harvested by means of a "tribulum," the earlier harvest is NOT, but instead is harvested by means of "tossing into the air" which separates that which [is not OF the harvest (or "chaff"), for lack of a better way of putting it, at the moment]
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