Who Are The 144,000?

'For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?' — Revelation 6:17

After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. — Revelation 7:1

Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads." — Revelation 7:2-3

• God interrupts His own judgment to protect His own remnant.

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. — Ephesians 1:13-14

• Whatever God creates, Satan counterfeits.

And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: — Revelation 7:4

of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed. — Revelation 7:5-8

• Those who are standing in their own standing will not be standing.

Additional Scriptures Referenced: Zechariah 6:1-5; Isaiah 11:12; Ezekiel 7:2; Jeremiah 49:36; Ezekiel 37:9; Daniel 7:2; Ezekiel 9:4-6; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 2 Timothy 2:19