In this week’s study, I begin in Chapter 14.

The Fifth Vision "In Heaven"

14:1-5.
 The Lamb and the 144,000.

 The Fifth Vision in heaven is very brief. It is another Episode, telling us of those who will have come through the great Tribulation, and have been caught up to Heaven.

It is part of the larger Episode, and is parenthetical. The previous vision on Earth has told us of those who were slain because they refused to worship the Beast or receive his mark. Those who were for death, had been killed; and those who were to be kept alive, have been kept alive (13:10). The worshippers of the Beast received his mark; and those who refused to take the mark of the beast, BUT received the mark of the Lamb (Yahshua Messiah) and of His Father in their foreheads. This seems to point to the 144,000 sealed ones, of whose sealing we read in chapter 7. They had passed unharmed through the judgments of Yahweh, and through the persecutions of the Beast.

Remember as we start this Chapter that as Christians, we have that Seal of Yahweh within us (Rev. 9:4). So keep your utmost faith in Yahweh and know His Word. Don’t listen to man’s tradition, but Yahweh’s true Word! “Know His Word personally on the earth”

In our text this morning the Lord reintroduces to us the most godly, Yahshua Messiah honoring the saints the world will ever know, 144,000 faithful victorious saints, saints who will endure unprecedented and unparalleled hardships as they live out their lives in the harshest living conditions that the world will ever see. We cannot even imagine how difficult life will be during the time of Daniel’s 70th week, the time of the tribulation judgments, yet their lives, as we will see, exceed the pain. Somehow their lives rise above the heartache. You never see them giving up. They are never beat down. They never allow Satan’s temptation as well as their own natural bent towards sin to defeat them.  And we want to ask the question: Well, how does this happen?  And we have a bit of an understanding here in this text. We have an understanding of how we, too, can live victorious lives.

 We are going to see, first of all, that they had a confident faith and we must have a confident faith; secondly, a celebratory song; thirdly, a committed life and, as we will see, their lives will be committed to sexual purity, to the Messiah, to truth and to holiness.

Now, before we examine this text, let’s be reminded afresh of who these saints are. You will recall back in Revelation chapter 7 and the first 8 verses we were introduced to them. They are “bond servants of Yahweh,” the text tells us, whom Yahweh has sealed on their foreheads. They are from every tribe of the sons of Israel. And then he offers an extensive list of those particular tribes. So these will be a select group of Jewish believers that Yahweh will mark out for his own protection and possession. This will be the purpose of the seal that he places upon them, 144,000 converted Jewish evangelists.

1.      And I looked = My attention was drawn to a new vision. The eye was turned away from the beast and his image to the heavenly world - the Mount Zion above.
his Father’s name = What is His Father’s name? Yah! Yahweh as having “Become” our “salvation”. He who “Is” and “Was” and “is to come”
Yahweh = 3068 “Yahweh from 1961 ‘self existent or eternal
Strongs #1961 “Hayah” (Haw-yaw) to exist, i.e. “Be or Become, Come to Pass

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