REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Forty - Judges for a Thousand Years - Continue

 Were all these 144,000 royal judges physically "executed with the ax"?  Likely, relatively few of them were in a literal sense. This expression, though, doubtless is intended to embrace all those  anointed Christians who endure mardyrdom in one way or another" (Matthew 10:22, 28)  Certainly, Satan would like to have executed all of them with the ax, but, in fact, not all of Jesus' anointed brothers die as martyrs.  Many  of them die because of disease or old age. Such ones, however, also belong to the group that John now sees.  The death of all of them is, in a sense, sacrificial.  (Romans 6:3-5) Additionally, none of them were part of the world. Hence, all of them have been hated by the world and, in effect, become dead in its eyes. (John15:19; 1 Corinthians 4:13)   None of them worshiped the wildl beast or its image, and when they died, none of them carried the mark of the beast. All of them died as conquerors. - JOHN5:4; REVELATION 2:7; 3:12; 12:11. 

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