THEOLOGICAL PRIMER:THE 144,000

[Guest Kurt]

THEOLOGICAL PRIMER:THE 144,000

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The bottom line is that the number and the list and the order of the tribes are all stylized to depict the totality of God’s pure and perfectly redeemed servants from all time over all the earth. That’s what Revelation means by the 144,000.

 

[The Librarian]

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[Evacuated]

Hmmm..

One commentator says this on Rev 7:4:

"Various efforts have sought to determine the significance of the number 144,000.............No justification can be found for understanding the simple statement of fact in v.4 as a figure of speech. If it is taken symbolically, then no number in the book can be taken literally."  p473-4 Revelation 1-7 : An Exegetical Commentary.  Robert L. Thomas 1992.

Seems there is more room for discussion on their purpose than their number.