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Apostolic Jews, Seeking The 144,000
Let me say at the get go, I do not accept the false doctrine that the 144,000 is symbolic of the Gentile Church bride.
The 144,000 are found in Revelation chapters 7 and 14. In chapter 7 we learn there are 12,000 sealed from 12 tribes. Why Dan is missing and Manasses is in his place we now know. In chapter 14 we see the same group at the beginning of the millennial with Jesus on Mount Zion. Jesus does not come to Mount Zion until his second return. Then the 144,000 will be with him throughout the millennial.
The 144,000 are Jews of course if they are of the 12 tribes. They are said to be "the tribes of the children of Israel." They are not tribes of some where else. A remnant of them are also the Jewish Church olive tree into which the Gentiles were grafted. Together these Jews and Gentiles are the Israel of God. Anything that has the 12 tribes is the Israel of God.
These 144,000 are sealed in their foreheads. The seal is the name of Jesus. This does not mean they have a stamp like the mark of the beast. "In their foreheads" is different than "on" their foreheads. I take this seal to be in their mind, a part of their faith in the name of Jesus Messieh, a vital part of why they are even chosen in the number of the 144,000. This seal activates the fact that they are then called servants. All servants in ancient days wore some seal of their master. Some servants who wanted to stay with their masters had their ears pierced with an awl and the sign of a hole in one's ear was a sign of a servant for life. This seal of God is not a hole in the ear because it is "in" their foreheads or in their mind.
After this 144,000 we get a picture then of the Gentiles who are added to this number of 144,000 and together, Jew and Gentile the Israel of God is identified. First there are the remnant Jews according to the election of grace who are saved and then come the Gentiles. These Gentiles become new-birth Jews by Choice who join with the remnant Jews in the Kingdom of God. This matches with the Scriptures where first Jews are saved and then Gentiles are added to this Israel of God in Acts 8 and Acts 10.
All of these in 7:9-10 begin to sing a salvation song to God who sits upon the throne. Who is this God on the throne? It is Jesus the Lamb! 7:14 tells us these 144,000 and all the Gentiles come into the Israel of God and came out of great tribulation and WASHED their robes in the blood of the Lamb. There is no salvation for Jew or Gentile except through the Blood of the New Covenant.
This concludes this revelation here of the 144,000. This is not a picture of the Gentile bride church as preterist and dispensationalist have deceived us.
Now in chapter 14 we learn a little more: the 144,000 sing a new song. That new song we found in 7:10 "Salvation, to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." In 14:3 no man could learn that song but the 144,000. In 7:12-13 we find them singing it there. These 144,000 were not defiled with spiritual whoredom and that is why the statement "not defiled with women." Spiritual whoredom would be with adulterous Israel, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. All of them a spiritual kind of whore. The text could say: "These are they which were not fornicators; for they are virgins (pure ones), These follow the Lamb.....etc. The word "virgin" here is never used for a male in the New Testament. The came Greek word is used for the ten virgins. The contrast is that they who follow the Lamb are considered "pure ones" whereas they among the Jews who did not follow the Lamb were defiled by spiritual fornication. In the endtime it is mystery Babylon that is the whore together with her daughters.
These 144,000 are redeemed by the Lamb as we saw in 7:14. Now we learn they are the firstfruits. Now firstfruits are usually the tithe of a larger number. The word firstfruits means the first of the harvest. The number 144,000 signifies an actual number of saved Jews. The harvest is brought in and the firstfruit is separated for the tithe. There could be other Jews who will be saved.
Paul said there was a remnant according to the election of grace that were saved in his day. If the number 144,000 is symbolic of the word remnant, then this means that at the time of the early Church a small portion of Jews would be saved and afterward the Gentiles would be brought in as converts to this Jewish Messianic Church and made joint heirs and fellowcitizens of the household of God. The 144,000 would come into the Church over the same period of time the Gentiles are harvested. These Gentile converts are called Jews by Choice because they are joining a Jewish religion. The 144,000 represent Jews who will be members of the New Testament Church. They had to be in the Church to be redeemed by the blood of the Lamb in 7:14. Anyone who says this 144,000 are Jews in the tribulation period after the Church is secretly raptured is wrong. This would remove the 144,000 out of the Church. How could they be redeemed by the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus ends at the coming of Jesus. And since the salvation of Gentiles from all nations 7:9 and 14:6 is after the 144,000 are sealed, to make this 144,000 exist in the tribulation means the Gentiles cannot have salvation until after the tribulation. That is false!
The firstfruits of the Jews began to come into the Church on the day of Pentecost. Then afterward Gentiles were grafted in. Together, Jews and Gentiles in the Church have suffered great persecution and tribulations. The Catholic church and its preterist false doctrine is to blame. Antisemitism was infused by the papacy of Rome into the preterist heresy. Interesting that all through the ages there have been Jews and Gentiles who followed the Apostles. But, the Catholic preterist heresy shut out the Jews after 70AD and claimed it was the spiritual 144,000. Jews who joined the Catholic church Gentile bride were idiots.
In the last days, there will come out again Jews who will be saved the Acts 2:38 New Covenant way. These will join with Apostolic Gentile converts and together we will close out the last days of the olive tree Church.
The 144,000 are a part of the New Covenant blood bought Church.
I am seeking all Apostolic Jews. We have a destiny to fulfill and it cannot be done within Catholicism, Protestantism, trinitarian Messianicism, or any other group that denies the endtime gathering of the balance of the 144,000 remnant.
Pastor Reckart
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