Can't remeber exactly what thread I was looking at, but I saw something about only 144,000 people being allowed into the New Jersalem (ie "The Kingdom of Heaven," the spot on Earth where all the people that weren't annihalated during Judgement Day go). I looked a little further to find that that figure refers to 144,000 virgin men, as mentioned here:
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Originally Posted by Revelation 14:1-5
1Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
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I have seen it variously interpretted as meaning that they are
among the inhabitants of New Jerusalem, and that they are
the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The information I've looked at thus far is a little sketchy and doesn't seem completely reliable, so I thought I'd ask here and hopefully get a straight answer.
When I did a search on this board for this figure, it did bring up
this:
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"The Church venerates the Holy Innocents, or Martyrs, the children
massacred by Herod, estimated in various Liturgies as 14,000, 64,000,
[or] 144,000 boys. The Church of Paul�s Outside the Walls is believed to
possess the bodies of several of the Holy Innocents. A portion of these
relics was transferred by Sixtus V to Santa Maria Maggiore. The Church of
St. Justina at Padua, the cathedrals of Lisbon and Milan, and other
Churches also preserve bodies which they claim to be those of some of the
Holy Innocents. It is impossible to determine the day or the year of the
death of the Holy Innocents, since the chronology of the birth of Christ
and the subsequent Biblical events is most uncertain." (CE. vii, 419.)
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Whether or not the 144,000 in the Bible refers to them or not, I'm not entirely sure.
Anyone have any further information about this?
12-31-2005, 07:28 AM
Only 144,000 Virgin Males make it into New Jerusalem?
