"Till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads./And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."
"I heard the number of them" is similar to God remembering Noah; similarly God proving the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah. "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"(Ge.8:1)
God is a Spirit and activities associated with mind and heart of man therefore sets him in terms of the Man who is the visible image of the invisible God. " That God did tempt Abraham" simply means that God set the Patriarch and his only son 'after our likeness' . Ishmael did not count, though was first born. Isaac was the heir of promise and not the son of a bonds-maid. The children of the kingdom to which Noah also belonged was in the book of remembrance. (Mal.3:15-16) In short these actions of hearing or remembering refer to the Spirit of Christ working in heirs of promise. John thus hears the number of 144,000 and it had nothing to do with Israel.
Fulness of Christ in a saint gives him a volume where the kingdom of Christ extends up and down as well as Across. Thus 12x12 x1000 sets him as part of the day. The day of salvation. He is secure and his salvation is assured. On the other hand the children of the wicked are the tares,"The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;/ The enemy that sowed them is the devil."(Matt.13:38-39). In rejecting the prince of Life they chose Caesars of this world. "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."(Re.17:13)
Jesus referred their position in the kingdom in terms of 'your hour of darkness.'.
"Till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads./And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."
"I heard the number of them" is similar to God remembering Noah; similarly God proving the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah. "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"(Ge.8:1)
God is a Spirit and activities associated with mind and heart of man therefore sets him in terms of the Man who is the visible image of the invisible God. " That God did tempt Abraham" simply means that God set the Patriarch and his only son 'after our likeness' . Ishmael did not count, though was first born. Isaac was the heir of promise and not the son of a bonds-maid. The children of the kingdom to which Noah also belonged was in the book of remembrance. (Mal.3:15-16) In short these actions of hearing or remembering refer to the Spirit of Christ working in heirs of promise. John thus hears the number of 144,000 and it had nothing to do with Israel.
Fulness of Christ in a saint gives him a volume where the kingdom of Christ extends up and down as well as Across. Thus 12x12 x1000 sets him as part of the day. The day of salvation. He is secure and his salvation is assured. On the other hand the children of the wicked are the tares,"The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;/ The enemy that sowed them is the devil."(Matt.13:38-39). In rejecting the prince of Life they chose Caesars of this world. "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."(Re.17:13)
Jesus referred their position in the kingdom in terms of 'your hour of darkness.'.
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