Doug Batchelor - 144,000 and the Seal of God (Part 1)

March 16, 2025 | S25:E36

Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.

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  • Doug batchelor: each branch of the us armed services
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  • Has one or more elite teams of commandos.
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  • They fight using sophisticated guerrilla warfare tactics.
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  • To serve in one of these select units,
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  • A soldier must be highly disciplined,
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  • And they pass through incredibly difficult physical
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  • And mental training.
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  • Even a small team of these commandos,
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  • Because of their intense training,
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  • Can achieve great victories in a short time.
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  • During the gulf war, a team of us navy seals
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  • Created a convincing diversion
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  • By storming the beaches of kuwait.
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  • And they created such havoc that the iraqi generals
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  • Were completely fooled into thinking the us-led attack
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  • Was coming from the sea.
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  • Within a couple of days, the whole war was over.
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  • And it all started with less than 20 soldiers.
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  • The book of revelation tells about
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  • Another special forces unit,
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  • An army of 144,000 that have the greatest mission
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  • In the last days, to prepare the world for jesus' return.
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  • Let's explore together what the bible facts are,
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  • About the 144,000, and learn how you can receive
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  • The seal of the living god.
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  • Doug: tonight, our presentation is going to be dealing
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  • With the subject of the 144,000,
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  • Which you find in chapter 7
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  • And 14 of revelation, and the seal of god.
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  • And it pictures a time when angels are holding
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  • Back winds of strife.
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  • And i remember hearing a story about...
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  • I think it was in 2012, in march,
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  • Paul walden had his wife and daughter call.
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  • They were at work and they said,
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  • "have you seen the news?
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  • There's a terrible stream of tornadoes
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  • That are coming through."
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  • And he never paid much attention to storm warnings,
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  • But he thought he ought to step outside
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  • And look at the sky.
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  • And, right when he went out to look up at the sky,
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  • He saw this great big gray wall that was moving towards him,
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  • That was churning up his neighbor's house.
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  • He thought, "oh, this is the real thing."
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  • He ran inside, he grabbed a couple of dogs,
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  • And he jumped in the closet right by their staircase.
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  • And then it hit.
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  • You've heard the expression "it sounds like a freight train
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  • Is going by when you have a tornado go by"?
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  • And the whole house began to shake
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  • And he had both hands on the door,
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  • With all of his strength he was hanging on
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  • And trying to keep the door shut
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  • As the suction of the storm
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  • Was trying to pull the door open
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  • And suck out him and his dogs.
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  • And it wasn't very long before it stopped,
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  • The noise settled, it moved down and passed away,
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  • And he finally got the courage to open the door,
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  • And this is a picture of what he saw
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  • When he stepped outside.
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  • The house was gone, he walked out of the closet
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  • And he saw blue sky, everything was gone
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  • Except the closet and some of the stairs.
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  • And he said it wasn't long after he walked outside
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  • And the closet fell over and then hail began to fall
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  • And he felt like he was getting beaten up
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  • By a baseball bat.
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  • And he found a container that held vacuum cleaning
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  • Supplies he put it on his head, he said,
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  • Or he would have died from the hail.
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  • And his wife always teases him about walking around
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  • With a vacuum cleaner accessory box
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  • On his head to save his life.
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  • But he was trying to hold back the storm.
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  • Well, humans aren't very good at that, angels do a good job.
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  • Revelation pictures this happening.
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  • Let's start with the 144,000 in chapter 7 of revelation
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  • And you can begin with verse 1, chapter 7, verse 1,
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  • "after these things, i saw four angels standing
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  • At the four corners of the earth..."
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  • Now what do the four angels represent?
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  • The divisions of the compass.
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  • It's talking about simply north, south, east, and west,
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  • It's a universal problem.
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  • It's a universal sealing that's going to take place.
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  • "holding the four winds of the earth,
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  • That the wind should not blow on the earth, or the sea,
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  • Or any tree."
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  • That's talking about everything on the planet, the earth,
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  • The sea, the trees until something happens,
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  • It's going to blow eventually.
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  • Those winds of strife are really...
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  • They're kind of summarized in the seven last plagues.
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  • "then i saw another angel ascending from the east,
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  • Having the seal of the living god.
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  • And he cried with a loud voice...
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  • Saying, 'do not harm the earth, or the sea,
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  • Or the trees till we have sealed
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  • The servants of our god on their foreheads.'"
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  • And it goes on to say, "i heard the number of those
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  • That were sealed and it was 144,000,
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  • 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel."
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  • And it's an interesting list that is given.
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  • Then you'll also read in chapter 14 of revelation,
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  • You find the second reference to the 144,000,
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  • And it gives us a little more information about them.
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  • "i looked, and behold, a lamb,"
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  • This is verse 1 of chapter 14 revelation,
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  • "a lamb standing on mount zion,
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  • And with him 144,000 having his father's name
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  • Written on their foreheads."
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  • Well, 7 said it was the seal of god,
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  • Here it says his father's name. they must be similar.
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  • "and i heard a voice from heaven,
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  • Like the voice of many waters,
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  • And like the voice of loud thunder.
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  • And i heard the sound of harps
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  • And harpists playing their harps.
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  • And they sang as it were a new song before the throne,
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  • Before the four living creatures,
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  • And before the elders, and no one could learn
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  • That song except the 144,000
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  • Who were redeemed from the earth.
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  • These are the ones
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  • Who were not defiled with women,
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  • For they are virgins."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • "these are the ones who follow the lamb wherever he goes.
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  • They were redeemed from among men
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  • Being the firstfruits to god and to the lamb.
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  • And in their mouth was found no deceit for they are
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  • Without fault before the throne of god."
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  • And then it goes on to another passage
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  • That is related, but we'll pause right there.
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  • So you've got the 144,000 are obviously
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  • A very important group.
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  • You've got chapter 7 addresses them,
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  • Chapter 14 addresses them.
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  • They're very close to the lord.
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  • They receive a special seal.
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  • Now, typically, if you talk to somebody about revelation
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  • And something in the forehead, what do you think about?
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  • Everybody automatically thinks about,
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  • "oh, you don't want anything in your forehead
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  • In the last days."
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  • Someone tries to put anything in your forehead,
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  • Run the other way.
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  • But if you study the bible, you'll find out, in revelation,
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  • Everybody's got something in their foreheads
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  • In the last days.
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  • You've either got the mark of the beast
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  • Or you have the seal of god.
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  • You just want to make sure you've got the right mark.
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  • Amen.
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  • And, sort of, with that as an introduction,
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  • Let's go through some of our questions now
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  • That talk about the 144,000 and the seal of god.
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  • First question, what clues does revelation provide
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  • To help us identify who are the 144,000?
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  • Well, there's several things, first of all,
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  • It says there's 12,000 from the 12 tribes of israel.
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  • Now the list of tribes that are given in revelation
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  • Is different from any other list in the bible.
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  • The twelve tribes are listed many times in the bible.
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  • They usually start with the firstborn
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  • Who was judah...
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  • I'm sorry, reuben.
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  • But, in revelation, it starts with judah.
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  • It's different. it's a different list.
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  • You'll find that it talks about joseph,
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  • But ephraim is left out.
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  • And so it's a unique list and you need to just say,
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  • "what's going on here?
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  • Are these real, literal jews it's talking about?"
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  • In the last days, he's going to get 12,000
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  • From each of the tribes.
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  • If you know your jewish history,
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  • You'll know that some of the tribes
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  • Had very few people, and judah had lots of people,
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  • Hundreds of thousands.
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  • And so the idea of getting an even number
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  • From each of the tribes, that would be interesting,
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  • But i believe they're actually talking about spiritual jews.
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  • That means it can include literal jews
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  • And it can include people who have been adopted
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  • Into the seed of abraham by accepting christ.
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  • Let me tell you why.
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  • You read in the bible in the old testament,
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  • For instance, go to 2 kings 17, verse 6.
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  • Ten of the tribes were conquered
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  • By the assyrians way back hundreds of years
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  • Before jesus was born.
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  • You read there,
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  • "in the ninth year of king hoshea,
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  • The king of assyria took samaria"
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  • That's the capital of israel, the northern kingdom.
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  • "and carried israel," those are the ten tribes,
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  • "away to assyria."
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  • Now, later, the southern kingdom of judah,
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  • They were carried to babylon, but they came back.
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  • Those carried off to assyria largely intermarried
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  • And disappeared as a distinct people.
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  • And so when revelation says
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  • 12,000 from the tribe of manasseh,
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  • Can you please show me somebody
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  • From the tribe of manasseh today?
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  • Or issachar or zebulun?
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  • When you talk about jews, you're typically talking
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  • About people who are from levi, judah, and benjamin.
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  • You read the bible, long before jesus was born,
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  • It tells exactly what happened to the tribes.
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  • Some of them came back down and joined judah.
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  • They intermarried with the tribe of judah.
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  • You're not going to find people who are purebred people
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  • From zebulun, manasseh, issachar, and so forth.
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  • So what does it mean when it says that?
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  • Galatians 3:29, "and if you are christ's,
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  • Then you are abraham's seed,
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  • And heirs according to the promise."
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  • All the promises god made to the jews in the bible,
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  • New and old testament,
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  • You can claim through christ, amen?
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  • That's a wonderful promise, paul said that,
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  • This is new testament.
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  • Paul said, in romans 2:28 and 29,
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  • "for he is not a jew which is one outwardly,
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  • Neither is that circumcision, that is outward in the flesh,
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  • But he is a jew, which is one inwardly,
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  • And circumcision is that of the heart..."
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  • This was the message of jesus and john the baptist,
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  • They said to their jewish brethren,
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  • "do not think to say within yourself
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  • 'god must save us, we are children of abraham.'
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  • God is able to raise up
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  • From the stones children unto abraham."
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  • And jesus said, "many will come from the east
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  • And the west and sit down in the kingdom
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  • With abraham, isaac, and jacob,"
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  • Meaning the gentiles coming from the east and the west,
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  • And the natural children, some of them who don't believe,
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  • Will be in outer darkness.
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  • And so the new testament is really clear that
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  • Now the gospel goes to everybody whosoever will.
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  • God is no respecter of persons.
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  • So the idea that to be 1 of the 144,000
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  • You must have a dna test is not taught in the bible.
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  • God does not discriminate that way.
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  • If you are abraham's seed, you are heirs
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  • According to the promise, okay?
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  • Doug: don't go anywhere, friends, we'll be back
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  • In just a moment with the rest of today's presentation.
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  • Was meant to be lived?
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  • Or is there something better out there waiting for you?
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  • Well, what if i told you that god had originally designed
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  • Mankind to take a regular refreshing weekly break,
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  • Doug: so why does it give this list and why is the list unique
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  • In revelation chapter 7?
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  • I'm going to read something to you.
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  • You know, in hebrew, when they name someone,
  • 00:12:29.298 --> 00:12:31.200
  • Every name had a meaning.
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  • You read the story about when, you know,
  • 00:12:33.369 --> 00:12:35.070
  • Jacob ended up with four wives, he only wanted rachel.
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  • He ended up with rachel and leah and bilhah and zilpah,
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  • Their handmaids,
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  • And every time they're all fighting
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  • Over his attention, every time they got pregnant,
  • 00:12:44.246 --> 00:12:45.981
  • They had a child, the mothers would name the child
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  • And make a statement because the names
  • 00:12:49.018 --> 00:12:51.153
  • All mean something in hebrew.
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  • The name judah means "i will praise the lord."
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  • And we're putting this up for you on the screen.
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  • Reuben means "he has looked on me,"
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  • Gad "given good fortune," asher means "happy am i,"
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  • Naphtali means "my wrestling,"
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  • Manasseh means "making me to forget."
  • 00:13:05.835 --> 00:13:08.504
  • It says, simeon means "god hears me,"
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  • Levi "attached to me," issachar, "purchased me,"
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  • "dwelling" is zebulun,
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  • Joseph, "god will add to me,"
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  • Benjamin, "son of his right hand."
  • 00:13:19.148 --> 00:13:21.483
  • Now what's fascinating is, if you take these twelve names,
  • 00:13:21.483 --> 00:13:26.856
  • Line their meanings up the way they're given there
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  • In revelation, this is what it says,
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  • Look at this paragraph,
  • 00:13:30.726 --> 00:13:32.361
  • "i will praise the lord for he has looked on me
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  • And granted good fortune,
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  • I am happy because my wrestling,
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  • God is making me to forget.
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  • God hears me and is attached or joined to me."
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  • It's like a marriage,
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  • "he has purchased me a dwelling"
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  • I've gone to prepare a place for you
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  • "and he will add to me the son of his right hand,"
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  • Meaning christ.
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  • The whole story of salvation is told in the names,
  • 00:13:54.817 --> 00:13:58.988
  • The way they're arranged there in revelation.
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  • It's the story of redemption, isn't that beautiful?
  • 00:14:01.223 --> 00:14:04.126
  • That's why the bible is such an incredible book.
  • 00:14:04.126 --> 00:14:06.061
  • It tells us the 144,000 have special robes.
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  • The bible tells us they have washed their robes
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  • And made them white in the blood of the lamb,
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  • Symbolizing they are covered
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  • With the righteousness of christ.
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  • It tells us they sing a unique song.
  • 00:14:19.909 --> 00:14:21.911
  • That doesn't mean that you can't read off their music
  • 00:14:21.911 --> 00:14:24.480
  • Because it's their song, it means they've gone
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  • Through an experience.
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  • It's like when the children of israel went through egypt,
  • 00:14:28.918 --> 00:14:32.054
  • They sang this song of deliverance led by miriam.
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  • And, at the end of their 40 years,
  • 00:14:35.791 --> 00:14:37.526
  • Moses wrote a song that talked about those
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  • Who had survived their wanderings
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  • And how god would be first.
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  • Sometimes a song, you have to have the experience
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  • To know how to sing the song.
  • 00:14:46.135 --> 00:14:48.570
  • It's like sometimes you'll hear a choir,
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  • You might hear a choir in ireland
  • 00:14:51.674 --> 00:14:53.676
  • Singing a negro spiritual.
  • 00:14:53.676 --> 00:14:56.312
  • They may not know how to sing it the way
  • 00:14:56.312 --> 00:14:59.348
  • It was written because they have not had
  • 00:14:59.348 --> 00:15:02.017
  • The experience that gave birth to the song.
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  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:15:06.255 --> 00:15:07.589
  • And so those who are the 144,000,
  • 00:15:07.589 --> 00:15:10.059
  • They're singing a song nobody else can sing. why?
  • 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:13.162
  • Because it says there in revelation,
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  • These are those who--
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  • They've come out of a great tribulation.
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  • They followed the lamb in a close way,
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  • Unlike anyone else.
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  • It says they sang, as it were, a new song.
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  • Something else it tells us,
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  • They follow the lamb wherever he goes.
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  • By the way, if you want to follow the lamb there,
  • 00:15:30.346 --> 00:15:33.816
  • Then, you must first follow the lamb here now.
  • 00:15:33.816 --> 00:15:39.421
  • And you can't say, "well, i can't wait to get to heaven
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  • And start following the lamb."
  • 00:15:41.757 --> 00:15:43.192
  • You won't be in heaven unless you start following him now.
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  • A christian is a follower of christ.
  • 00:15:47.329 --> 00:15:50.065
  • And it says they are virgins,
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  • And this has always thrown people.
  • 00:15:51.700 --> 00:15:53.202
  • Does that mean all the 144,000 are women?
  • 00:15:53.202 --> 00:15:56.271
  • Because the term there, in greek,
  • 00:15:56.271 --> 00:15:57.606
  • It does seem to imply the feminine side.
  • 00:15:57.606 --> 00:16:00.542
  • Keep in mind, in revelation, it talks about babylon
  • 00:16:00.542 --> 00:16:03.579
  • Has daughters that are harlots, unfaithful.
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  • The 144,000, it's saying they are virgins
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  • For they are not defiled.
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  • It's talking about they are a part of the truth,
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  • They've not been defiled by the wine of babylon.
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  • It's simply saying, they're not talking about
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  • Sex at all, it's talking about they are a pure group
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  • Because they believed the teachings of jesus.
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  • They are undefiled by the false teachings.
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  • Everything that we've been telling you
  • 00:16:28.037 --> 00:16:29.705
  • About the 144,000, you know what the key is
  • 00:16:29.705 --> 00:16:31.774
  • To understanding it?
  • 00:16:31.774 --> 00:16:33.776
  • They represent modern-day apostles.
  • 00:16:33.776 --> 00:16:37.513
  • See, in the old testament, i'm sorry,
  • 00:16:37.513 --> 00:16:38.914
  • In the new testament, rather, jesus picked
  • 00:16:38.914 --> 00:16:41.050
  • Twelve apostles and he said,
  • 00:16:41.050 --> 00:16:43.385
  • "i want you to be my advocates
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  • To take this message to the world."
  • 00:16:46.021 --> 00:16:47.890
  • But they were not the only ones saved,
  • 00:16:47.890 --> 00:16:49.625
  • They were a special group of leaders.
  • 00:16:49.625 --> 00:16:51.994
  • Before the holy spirit is poured out
  • 00:16:51.994 --> 00:16:53.629
  • In acts chapter 2, judas has killed himself,
  • 00:16:53.629 --> 00:16:57.433
  • Peter said, "there's only 11 of us now,
  • 00:16:57.433 --> 00:16:59.635
  • We need to replace judas and get back to the number 12."
  • 00:16:59.635 --> 00:17:02.438
  • When they replaced judas,
  • 00:17:02.438 --> 00:17:03.772
  • The holy spirit falls out in the next verse.
  • 00:17:03.772 --> 00:17:06.408
  • But there's not just 12 that receive the holy spirit,
  • 00:17:06.408 --> 00:17:09.211
  • There's a 120 in the upper room,
  • 00:17:09.211 --> 00:17:11.713
  • And then 3,000 are converted as a result of what they do
  • 00:17:11.713 --> 00:17:16.018
  • Which leads to the next question,
  • 00:17:16.018 --> 00:17:18.220
  • Are the 144,000 the only ones saved when jesus comes?
  • 00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:22.691
  • Well, if you do the math, that would be pretty sad
  • 00:17:22.691 --> 00:17:24.626
  • Because there are about 7 billion people
  • 00:17:24.626 --> 00:17:27.896
  • In the world today, there's more than 7 billion.
  • 00:17:27.896 --> 00:17:30.199
  • And if only 144,000 are going to be saved,
  • 00:17:30.199 --> 00:17:34.837
  • That means your chance is about 1 out of 50,000.
  • 00:17:34.837 --> 00:17:40.075
  • It's still better than the lottery in florida,
  • 00:17:40.075 --> 00:17:41.844
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:17:41.844 --> 00:17:43.912
  • But it's not good.
  • 00:17:43.912 --> 00:17:47.182
  • No, they're not the only ones saved,
  • 00:17:47.182 --> 00:17:49.718
  • They are a special group of leaders.
  • 00:17:49.718 --> 00:17:51.553
  • In the same way, let me make the 144,000 really easy for you
  • 00:17:51.553 --> 00:17:54.923
  • In the same way that jesus had 12 apostles
  • 00:17:54.923 --> 00:17:57.659
  • That followed him wherever he went,
  • 00:17:57.659 --> 00:17:59.728
  • That had a special relationship with him that sang...
  • 00:17:59.728 --> 00:18:02.664
  • You know, the bible says that jesus,
  • 00:18:02.664 --> 00:18:04.333
  • The only time he sang, he sang with the 12,
  • 00:18:04.333 --> 00:18:07.302
  • He sang other times, but the only time recorded,
  • 00:18:07.302 --> 00:18:09.505
  • In the bible, when jesus sang, he sang with the 12 apostles
  • 00:18:09.505 --> 00:18:12.708
  • Just before he went to the cross.
  • 00:18:12.708 --> 00:18:14.743
  • They sang with the lord a special song.
  • 00:18:14.743 --> 00:18:17.379
  • And so, all the things about the 144,000, by the way,
  • 00:18:17.379 --> 00:18:21.316
  • This was written by an apostle, isn't it?
  • 00:18:21.316 --> 00:18:24.086
  • He's talking about their relationship with jesus
  • 00:18:24.086 --> 00:18:26.688
  • During the first coming.
  • 00:18:26.688 --> 00:18:28.190
  • There's going to be an army of apostles
  • 00:18:28.190 --> 00:18:30.526
  • Getting the world ready for the second coming.
  • 00:18:30.526 --> 00:18:33.529
  • Amen. does that make sense?
  • 00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:35.130
  • That's the 144,000.
  • 00:18:35.130 --> 00:18:37.065
  • But now we've learned a little bit about them,
  • 00:18:37.065 --> 00:18:39.735
  • What's the special name in their foreheads?
  • 00:18:39.735 --> 00:18:42.571
  • It talks about a name, a seal.
  • 00:18:42.571 --> 00:18:45.407
  • Keep in mind, it's not talking about a tattoo.
  • 00:18:45.407 --> 00:18:49.211
  • You're going to find out all through the bible
  • 00:18:49.211 --> 00:18:51.380
  • In the old testament, it talks about
  • 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:52.781
  • In the hand and in the forehead,
  • 00:18:52.781 --> 00:18:54.883
  • That means in your actions and in your thoughts.
  • 00:18:54.883 --> 00:18:58.453
  • In deuteronomy 5, moses repeats the ten commandments,
  • 00:18:58.453 --> 00:19:01.356
  • In deuteronomy 6, he says, "you'll bind them as a sign
  • 00:19:01.356 --> 00:19:03.692
  • On your hand, and they'll be as frontlets
  • 00:19:03.692 --> 00:19:05.761
  • Between your eyes," what's that?
  • 00:19:05.761 --> 00:19:07.963
  • Forehead, that the lord's law might be in your heart,
  • 00:19:07.963 --> 00:19:11.934
  • Another symbol.
  • 00:19:11.934 --> 00:19:13.268
  • In the hand means in the actions,
  • 00:19:13.268 --> 00:19:15.103
  • In the forehead means in the worship,
  • 00:19:15.103 --> 00:19:17.005
  • In the thoughts.
  • 00:19:17.005 --> 00:19:18.574
  • I'll make something really clear.
  • 00:19:18.574 --> 00:19:21.643
  • In the last days, if you've got the law of the lord
  • 00:19:21.643 --> 00:19:24.046
  • In your heart and your actions and your mind,
  • 00:19:24.046 --> 00:19:26.748
  • You will not have the mark of the beast.
  • 00:19:26.748 --> 00:19:29.251
  • If you don't have the law of god
  • 00:19:29.251 --> 00:19:31.553
  • In your heart and your hand and your head,
  • 00:19:31.553 --> 00:19:33.355
  • You will have the mark of the beast.
  • 00:19:33.355 --> 00:19:35.057
  • It's just one way or the other.
  • 00:19:35.057 --> 00:19:38.560
  • Now, you notice in ezekiel 9, we always think
  • 00:19:38.560 --> 00:19:40.896
  • The mark is the bad thing, if you read ezekiel 9,
  • 00:19:40.896 --> 00:19:43.131
  • There's another vision there.
  • 00:19:43.131 --> 00:19:44.633
  • By the way, revelation is referring back to ezekiel,
  • 00:19:44.633 --> 00:19:48.704
  • That everybody in jerusalem was to be destroyed
  • 00:19:48.704 --> 00:19:51.573
  • Except those that had this mark placed on them by the angel.
  • 00:19:51.573 --> 00:19:55.010
  • Everybody in ezekiel 9 who gets the mark is saved
  • 00:19:55.010 --> 00:19:59.147
  • Because they are sighing and crying
  • 00:19:59.147 --> 00:20:01.016
  • For the abominations that are done in israel
  • 00:20:01.016 --> 00:20:03.118
  • Because there was false worship that was happening
  • 00:20:03.118 --> 00:20:06.121
  • Among the people of israel.
  • 00:20:06.121 --> 00:20:08.523
  • And you read that chapter and you'll understand that.
  • 00:20:08.523 --> 00:20:12.160
  • So what is the seal of god?
  • 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.630
  • All right, we talked about the 144,000,
  • 00:20:14.630 --> 00:20:16.598
  • We're going to spend the rest of our time talking about this
  • 00:20:16.598 --> 00:20:19.134
  • Very important subject, and you pray for me
  • 00:20:19.134 --> 00:20:21.103
  • As i proceed because i really want you
  • 00:20:21.103 --> 00:20:23.038
  • To get this, friends, it is very important.
  • 00:20:23.038 --> 00:20:25.974
  • All right, first of all, seal of god is the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:25.974 --> 00:20:31.079
  • You already sort of knew that.
  • 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:32.948
  • Those that have the mark of the beast,
  • 00:20:32.948 --> 00:20:34.483
  • Whose spirit do they have?
  • 00:20:34.483 --> 00:20:36.418
  • Satan. the devil.
  • 00:20:36.418 --> 00:20:37.919
  • Those that have seal of god, whose spirit do they have?
  • 00:20:37.919 --> 00:20:41.556
  • It says there in ephesians 4:30,
  • 00:20:41.556 --> 00:20:43.358
  • "do not grieve the holy spirit of god,
  • 00:20:43.358 --> 00:20:45.394
  • Where with you are sealed for the day of redemption."
  • 00:20:45.394 --> 00:20:49.665
  • There's a seal of the holy spirit
  • 00:20:49.665 --> 00:20:51.133
  • That happens inside.
  • 00:20:51.133 --> 00:20:52.734
  • But there's something that is more tangible than that
  • 00:20:52.734 --> 00:20:55.871
  • That can be seen in the life,
  • 00:20:55.871 --> 00:20:57.439
  • And you'll find that in this verse,
  • 00:20:57.439 --> 00:20:58.840
  • Isaiah 8:16, "bind up the testimony,
  • 00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:03.445
  • Seal the law among my disciples."
  • 00:21:03.445 --> 00:21:07.582
  • Can the law be sealed in the heart?
  • 00:21:07.582 --> 00:21:11.053
  • So the law of god, in a sense, is the seal.
  • 00:21:11.053 --> 00:21:13.055
  • What's the new covenant?
  • 00:21:13.055 --> 00:21:14.389
  • "i'll take my law and write it in their hearts."
  • 00:21:14.389 --> 00:21:18.160
  • But we're going to go a step deeper
  • 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:19.961
  • To find out what is that seal in the law.
  • 00:21:19.961 --> 00:21:23.899
  • I could... now, typically, a seal,
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  • In bible times, you know,
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  • When you would make a document official,
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  • They'd pour wax on the seal like you do
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  • With an envelope, they'd stamp it
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  • With the government seal and the seal always contained
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  • Three characteristics.
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  • It would have the name of the official, the title,
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  • And the territory.
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  • For example, i've got a copy here of queen elizabeth
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  • And in canada, it says, "queen of canada, elizabeth"
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  • And that's the name,
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  • Queen, the office; elizabeth, canada.
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  • And so you would have three characteristics.
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  • When pontius pilate put a seal on the tomb of jesus,
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  • What did it say?
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  • Pontius pilate, his name, governor,
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  • His office, judea, his territory.
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  • When king darius put a seal, the bible says
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  • He put a seal on the stone placed on the lion's den,
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  • What did it say?
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  • "darius, king, medo-persia," you've got those three things
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  • Were always in a seal.
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  • You ever see the presidential seal?
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  • It's going to say the president's name,
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  • President, united states of america.
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  • And so you're going to have those three characteristics.
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  • Do you find the seal of god in the law of god?
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  • You do.
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  • It's in the middle of god's law,
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  • In the longest of the ten commandments,
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  • And here's what it reads
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  • And you read in exodus chapter 20, verse 8,
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  • "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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  • Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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  • But the seventh day is the sabbath
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  • Of the lord your god.
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  • In it you shall not do any work, you or your son,
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  • Or your daughter, your male servant,
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  • Or your female servant.
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  • Nor your cattle, or your stranger
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  • Who is within your gates."
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  • Now here, watch carefully, "for in six days the lord"
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  • Jehovah, his name, created "made",
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  • His office he's the creator and sustainer
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  • "the heavens and the earth, and the sea..."
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  • There you have the name of god, the title of god,
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  • The territory of god,
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  • In the middle of the law of god is this seal.
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  • And what we're going to be talking about now
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  • Is the sabbath commandment and why it is
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  • An important issue in the last days
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  • Because it talks about resting in the lord.
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  • It talks about having a relationship.
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  • It talks about having the father's name.
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  • Is the father's name in that commandment?
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  • Jehovah, "the lord made heavens and the earth,
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  • The sea and all this is in them,
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  • And rested the seventh day.
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  • Therefore the lord blessed the sabbath day
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  • And he hallowed it."
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  • That means he made it holy.
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  • So here you've got those three characteristics,
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  • You've got his title, you've got his territory,
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  • You've got his name, all in the middle of the law.
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  • Now i want you to just see, from the perspective
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  • Of the bible and heaven, why this would be so important.
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  • Is there a place in the world today
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  • If i was going to say, "i'm going to the holy land.
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  • I'm going on a holy land tour," where am i going?
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  • Israel. israel.
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  • Not too many people dispute that.
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  • And, if i'm in israel, i'm going to say,
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  • "i'm going to the holy city," where am i going?
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  • Jerusalem. jerusalem.
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  • And then, if i say, i'm in jerusalem,
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  • I'm going to go visit the holy mount, mount moriah,
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  • Sometimes called mount zion, it's where the temple was.
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  • And, in ancient times, if you went to the temple,
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  • You'd go to the holy temple.
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  • And, in the holy temple, they had a place called
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  • The holy place, but the holy place
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  • Had an inner sanctum called the holy of holies,
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  • And there was only one thing in the holy of holies.
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  • What was it?
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  • An ark, golden box, we've all heard about
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  • This sacred golden box that's still missing today.
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  • What made the golden box such a national treasure?
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  • What did it have in there? ten commandments.
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  • And, in the ten commandments, do you find the word holy?
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  • Yes. how many times?
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  • One time. where is it?
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  • It's in the sabbath commandment.
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  • Because god wants to make us holy.
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  • And life is composed of time.
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  • God is love. you with me?
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  • You cannot love without time.
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  • Wives usually get that better than husbands.
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  • They say, "oh you never do anything with me."
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  • "i've been home all day."
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  • "but, yeah, you've been on your computer."
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  • Now this conversation never happened in our home.
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  • But i said, "i was here." "that's not quality time."
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  • So we live all week long, but do we have quality time?
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  • Because love is nourished in quality time.
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