REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Nine - Singing as if a New Song -Conclusion

 At this point we might also ask:  Why is it that these anointed overcomers ae referred to as the symbolic 24 elders as well as the 144,000?  It is because Revelation views this one group from two different standpoints.  The 24 elders are always shown  in their ultimate position around Jehovah's throne, installed as kings and priests  in the heavens.  They smbolize the entire group of 144,000 in their heavenly position, although at present a small remnant of these is on earth.  (Revelation 4:4, 10' 5:5-14; 7:11-13; 11:16-18) Revelation chapter 7 , however, focuses on  the 144,000 as brought forth from humankind, and it stresses Jehovah's grand purpose to seal the complete nu,ber of individual Israelites  and to grant salvation to an unnumbered great crowd.  Revelation chapter 14 provides a picture confirming tha the complete Kingdom class of 144,000 individual overcomers will be assembled with  the Lamb on Mount Zion.  The qualifications to be met in order to be numbered with the 144,000 are also made known, as we shall now see.

Next time: REVELATIO ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty  Nine - Followers of the Lamb

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