Please note carefully from this verse that the ones singing around the throne are indeed the 144,000:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
*That song* which is sung by the 144,000 is also *a new song BEFORE THE THRONE*. That makes it crystal clear as to (1) who is before the throne and (2) who is singing that unique new song which *no man could learn* other than these 144,000.
You don't have to agree with me, but I'm pointing out that
"THEY" points back to the [already-mentioned] "A VOICE OUT FROM HEAVEN, as the voice of MANY WATERS" that John "heard" when he's [now] standing on the earth and beholding the "a Lamb standing"
in a different place than He was back in Revelation 5 (which was in Heaven, back in chpt 5), and now (in this setting) "accompanying [G3326 -
meta] Him" was the 144,000. [this Grk word distinct, by the way, from the "G4862 -
syn - "with," denoting "union" and/or "identification" with, used of US/"the Church which is His body"--not especially pertinent to the point of this convo/post]
You are wanting to read what happens involving the 144,000, here, BACK INTO the "a voice out from heaven" (who "are singing") and identifying the two as being "ONE and the SAME ENTITY". I'm saying that the text itself DOES
NOT STATE that "the 144,000
are around the throne singing"... it says that they are the only ones who "could learn that song" (a completely distinct thing). I believe that to suggest that they [the 144,000] "
are around the throne singing" is to READ INTO what the text
actually states. [v.3a "they" are not the v.3b "144,000" who "LEARN that song" (no one else "could
learn that song" but the 144,000)]
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It'd be kinda like my saying, "dcon, KJV1611, and TDW 'are singing' a trio in church this Sunday [today]; no one 'can learn that song' but Nehemiah6"