Revelation 14: The 144000 first fruits at Mt Zion Flashcards
What is the reality of Mt Zion ?
The 12 Tribes of NSI, Rv 7
What is the meaning of “Zion” (3 definitions) ? Give multiple references from the OT and NT.
1) Represents the chosen pastor (Is 60:14, Jn 2:19-21, Rv 3:12) and people (Zech 2:7).
2) The City of God in the Spiritual Realm (Gal 4:26)
3) The place where the wedding banquet opens (Mt 22, Ez 39)
Who are the sealed 144 000 first fruits ? Give 3 other references from Rev that describe them.
When do they appear ?
Those who have been harvested and sealed as the priests of NSI (Rv 1:5-6, Rv 5:9-10, Rv 7).
They appear at the time of harvest, after the sun, moon, stars darken and fall in Rv 6, after Rv 13.
What does it mean to have Jesus’ and God’s name of their foreheads ?
It represents that thay are sealed, and that they BELONG to God and Jesus.
What is the Heaven seen here ? What is the voice heard ? What is the new song (give references) ?
Heaven: God’s Kingdom that has come down to Mt Zion.
Sound heard: God’s voice
New song: gospel of the physical fulfillment of Rv (Dt 31:19-22,3,0 Ps 119:54)
Why can only the 144000 learn the new song ?
1) Because God’s throne was upon Mt Zion
2) Because the witness who saw the fulfillment and received the explanation from the angel is at Mt Zion.
Who are the women that the 144 000 didn’t defile themselves with ? What does it mean ?
Women: Jezebel (Rv 2:20), the Prostitute, Babylon (Rv 17:1-5).
“kept clean”: X receive lies of the false pastors, X worship with false doctrine, kept faith and X ordained as presbyterian pastors.
What does it mean that they follow the lamb wherever he goes ?
They follow the promised shepherd that the Spirit of Truth, who came in Jesus’ name, is together with (Jn 14:16-17).
What is the Eternal Gospel ?
The testimony of Revelations fulfillment (open Word of Rev) = New Song.
What is the city of Babylon ? What is the hour of judgment that has come upon her ?
Judgment against Babylon (the prostitute and her organization, the SEC), that falls in Rv 18.
Who are those who “die in the Lord” ? What does “from now on” mean ?
die: those who die to their sin (Rm 8:10-11, 1 Cor 15:31, Rom 6:11,18)
from now on: after the 42 months of destruction.
Who is the one “like a son of man” ? Why is he sitting on a cloud ? What is the sickle in his hand .
one like a son of man: the angel that comes in the same image as Jesus
seated on a cloud: commands many angels
sickle: God’s Word AND person with the Word (Is 2:4)
Who is the angel that comes from God’s temple and altar ?
People of duty who makes known the time of harvest.
What are the grapes of the Earth ? Why are they “thrown out” ? What does it mean that they are “trampled outside the city” ?
Grapes: the congregation of the TT that have been thrown out to the caves of the destroyers (Rv 2,3,6)
Why: they X keep God’s Word of promise and received the mark of the beast.
trampled outside the city: they are judged in caves of the gentiles (Rv 6,8,9)
What is the blood that reaches the horses bridle ? What does it mean that it spreads 1600 stadia in length ?
blood: the news of their judgment goes out and from the mouth of pastors (horses: Is 31:3)
1600 stadia in length: spreads to almost the entire country
