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The Mystery of the 144,002 Witnesses | Bill Salus · The Week in Bible Prophecy

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  Speaker 1: The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the podcast, Mondo here with Bill Solace. Welcome Bill,
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  Speaker 2: Hey Mino.
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  Speaker 2: stuff like this is fun and what we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about today, hopefully you have your Bibles, is turned
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  Speaker 2: to Revelation chapter seven, because there's a little mystery connected
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  Speaker 2: here in Revelation seven, kind of behind the scenes, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe this is a good opportunity to remind you of
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  Speaker 2: something that Chuck Missler brought up years ago. I remember
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  Speaker 2: this from in the mid nineties where if you go
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  Speaker 2: to Genesis five as an example, you have these genealogies,
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  Speaker 2: these list of names families right from Adam all the
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  Speaker 2: way to Noah, and when you look at the Hebrew
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  Speaker 2: names we know Adam means man, and we know that
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the names, like Seth means appointed. It's
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  Speaker 2: very clear if you read the text, Noah means rest. Noah,
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  Speaker 2: you see that in Hebrew it's a verb. But if
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  Speaker 2: you take those ten names, the way that it's the
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  Speaker 2: meaning is man is appointed, mortal sorrow, but the blessed
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  Speaker 2: God shall come down, teaching that his death shall bring
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  Speaker 2: the despairing rest. So you're like, what they hit the gospel?
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  Speaker 2: You know, they hit the gospel right in this genealogy.
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  Speaker 2: But names have meaning. And this also applies to the
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  Speaker 2: tribes of Israel that the sons of Jacob. And you
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  Speaker 2: see Genesis thirty two really through thirty five, and you
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  Speaker 2: see this girl has this and she names him Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Why because God is my judge. Dan means judge. So
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  Speaker 2: the names have meaning. But what we also know is
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  Speaker 2: there a handful of different lists of the twelve tribes,
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  Speaker 2: but most of them are in different order. And if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the meanings of the names and you
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  Speaker 2: compare it in the context, it reveals something.
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  Speaker 3: It does I believe inherent in the misordering of the names,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't have you read them in a moment. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: who they are, But is the mission statement of the
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  Speaker 3: ministry of one hundred and forty four thousand. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to know what their ministry is all about, just inherent
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  Speaker 3: in the way that their names are ordered in Revelation
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  Speaker 3: chapter seven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want me to read that right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, read the first part of it too, not just
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  Speaker 3: who the tribal names are.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So just the first part, first.
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  Speaker 3: One through four. Let's start with that, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So this is chapter seven of Revelation. It says, after
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  Speaker 2: these things, I saw four angels standing at the four
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  Speaker 2: corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the Earth,
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  Speaker 2: that the wind should not blow on the earth, on
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  Speaker 2: the sea, or on any tree. Then I saw another
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  Speaker 2: angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the
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  Speaker 2: Living God. And he cried with a loud voice to
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  Speaker 2: the four angels to whom it was granted to harm
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  Speaker 2: the earth and the sea, saying, do not harm the earth,
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  Speaker 2: the sea, or the trees until we have sealed the
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  Speaker 2: servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard
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  Speaker 2: the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty four thousand, of all the tribes of the children
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  Speaker 2: of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're going to get into the tribes in
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  Speaker 3: just a minute. I want to take a pause here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I find it fascinating that it says not harm the
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  Speaker 3: grass and the trees and the sea until we seal
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  Speaker 3: these servants for service, these one hundred and forty four thousand,
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  Speaker 3: because interestingly shortly thereafter and this is how we would
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  Speaker 3: know that this is a pre trumpet judgment event. The
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  Speaker 3: ceiling of the servants one hundred forty four thousand is
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  Speaker 3: because those very things that they're not to harm get harmed.
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  Speaker 3: Through the first trumpet, you have fire mixed with blood,
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  Speaker 3: and a third of the trees and the green grasses
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  Speaker 3: is devoured. The second trumpet, a great burning mountain is
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  Speaker 3: thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea
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  Speaker 3: is harmed, and then it goes on in the rivers,
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  Speaker 3: and the third trumpet, et cetera. Which is interesting because
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  Speaker 3: then after that you fifth trumpet, and here come these locus.
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  Speaker 3: Apollion comes down of heaven and.
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  Speaker 2: Comes out of the abyss. We apoon comes out of
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  Speaker 2: the abyss, and.
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  Speaker 3: All these locus come out, and they are the torment
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  Speaker 3: men who don't have the seal of God. For five months.
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  Speaker 3: But they're told, do not harm the grass of the earth,
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  Speaker 3: or any green thing or any tree, but only those
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  Speaker 3: men who do not have the seal of God. So,
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  Speaker 3: in other words, the one hundred and forty four thousand
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  Speaker 3: are going to be sealed, but before their seal, do
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  Speaker 3: not harm any other vegitation. Then of a sudden, the
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  Speaker 3: trumpet judgements. The harm is coming. Now a sudden, Napoleon says,
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  Speaker 3: stop the harm, even selling locus and the locus eat
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  Speaker 3: green things, right, and we believe they're probably the dramonic beings,
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  Speaker 3: not real locus for various other reasons. The point is, then,
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, don't harm anymore. We've got enough
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  Speaker 3: damage done. We need this place to be said for
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  Speaker 3: a utopian society with the anti Christ, stop it right.
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  Speaker 3: So I find that fascinating, But that's a little parenthesis.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go back to.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is, and then I'll just say this before
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  Speaker 2: I jump into the names. Is that we've got to
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  Speaker 2: remember that during the tribulation that the bold judgments and
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  Speaker 2: the trumpet jubbets, these are God's judgments. God is judging
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  Speaker 2: the earth. God is the one destroying the grass. He's
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  Speaker 2: the one of violating the sea and turning the rivers
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  Speaker 2: into blood, et cetera. And so when I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a great point you made in that when the demons come,
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  Speaker 2: they're instructed to not do that, right, and so God's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing it, and they're like, well, well again. I
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  Speaker 2: like the idea that the end of Christ with Satan
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  Speaker 2: that as his lead, has promised some level of utopia.
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  Speaker 2: But we also know that he doesn't. He wants man's destruction,
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  Speaker 2: even though he wants their worship at the end. He
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  Speaker 2: would you rather have I think you'd rather have all
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  Speaker 2: of humanity destroyed than have them exist. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you want them to exist with their worship. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: if we see the sovereignty of God here, God is
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  Speaker 2: allowing these things. But let me jump in here. We
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  Speaker 2: have twelve thousand sealed all from the various tribes of
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  Speaker 2: Israel specifically, and this is spiritual. These are Jewish people,
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  Speaker 2: ethnic Israel, from their physical tribes, which God knows. There's
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  Speaker 2: like some well, how are they going to know? How
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  Speaker 2: they know who's sealed that all of the records were
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  Speaker 2: destroyed in eighty seventy. This is God doing this. I
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  Speaker 2: think God can handle it. But it says here this
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  Speaker 2: is important. So we have twelve thousand ver mea tribe.
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  Speaker 2: In verse five, we have Judah, we have Reuben, we
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  Speaker 2: have God, we have Asher, we have Naphtali, we have Manassa,
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  Speaker 2: Simeon Levi. It'sakar, Zebulin, Joseph, and Benjamin.
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  Speaker 3: And no Dan, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So we have no Dad and no Ephrams specifically mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: But we do have Joseph mentioned, which is the equivalent
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  Speaker 2: because Joseph was Ephraim's dad.
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  Speaker 3: But what's interesting when we go back, like your Genesis
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  Speaker 3: five study, why are the names they're not? This is
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  Speaker 3: not the chronological birth order of the twelve fact. So
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  Speaker 3: Judah was the fourth son born, Reuben was the first,
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  Speaker 3: God was the seventh, Asher was the eighth. I won't
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  Speaker 3: go through everyone in their birth order, but I will
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  Speaker 3: go through with the meaning of their new aims are
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  Speaker 3: and tell you how inside of the misordering of their
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  Speaker 3: names is their mysterious mission statement of So Judah, praise God, Reuben,
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  Speaker 3: beholdest son, God, good fortune, ashure happiness. Now talling my
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  Speaker 3: wrestling Vanessa, God has caused me to forget Simeon is
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  Speaker 3: hearing Levi is joining Issachar. God has given me higher.
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  Speaker 3: Zebulin is elevated, Joseph is increasing, Benjamin, Son of the
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  Speaker 3: right Hand. So when you put those all together, what
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  Speaker 3: do you have If you put that into the mission statement,
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  Speaker 3: Praise God for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Behold, the
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  Speaker 3: Son of good fortune and happiness. My struggle with sin
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  Speaker 3: and the mosaic law, God has caused me to forget
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  Speaker 3: hearing of the mystery of our grafting in with the gentiles.
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  Speaker 3: God has reinstated me into an elevated position of ministry
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  Speaker 3: once again, and it's increasing those being saved through Christ,
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  Speaker 3: the Son of the Right Hand. See, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: realize it's no longer the mosaic law. It is the
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  Speaker 3: grace of Jesus Christ, the Son of the most size,
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  Speaker 3: Son of the right Hand.
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  Speaker 2: And what I mean here we are we know that
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  Speaker 2: they're how active God is going to be in the
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  Speaker 2: tribulation in the sense of prophetically, we often talk about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty four thousand witnesses, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: just one hundred and forty four thousand.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred and forty five thousand and two and two. Right, Well,
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  Speaker 3: you got to see the one hundred and forty four thousand.
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  Speaker 3: They never really call witnesses, but they're evangelists, right. They're
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  Speaker 3: probably like a lot of Paul the apostles, who, in
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  Speaker 3: other words, know so much about the Old Testament and
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  Speaker 3: the Law and all that stuff. They could know that.
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  Speaker 3: They could be Greek, they could be Jewish tour guides
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  Speaker 3: that know the New Testament better than a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the tourists, right, yep. But they're not believers. They would
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  Speaker 3: be part of the rapture until after the rapture, and
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  Speaker 3: they get sealed for service at that point. But these
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  Speaker 3: people are very effective because if you as we go
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  Speaker 3: through Revelation seven, all the way through, we find there's
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  Speaker 3: a worldwide revival, a great multitude from all nations, tribes
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  Speaker 3: and people standing before the Lamb. It says Christ clothed
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  Speaker 3: with white robes out sow vation belongs to God, to
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  Speaker 3: our God, and to the Lamb. And these are the
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  Speaker 3: ones we're told to come out of the great Tribulation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the fruitful gospelizing of the one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 3: four thousand fields a lot of fruit. All these people
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  Speaker 3: are becoming believers after the tribulation, after the rapture in
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  Speaker 3: the tribulation, and thank you for the one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: forty four thousand gospel that they're given out there.
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  Speaker 2: And sadly again, when you look at the Revelation seven,
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  Speaker 2: the second part of it is these people are they're
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  Speaker 2: coming out, they're in heaven and they now they no
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  Speaker 2: longer there's a description they no longer have the sun
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  Speaker 2: shining a heat on them, which you know, we know
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  Speaker 2: that's a judgment of the tribulation that the sun gets hot.
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  Speaker 2: They no longer have that, They no longer weep. So
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  Speaker 2: it's very clear that these are post rapture saints that
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  Speaker 2: have become saved. You have died, they've been martyred, and
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  Speaker 2: you you know, there's a lot of martyrdom. We see
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  Speaker 2: Revelation thirteen seven the Antichrist gives has been given authority
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  Speaker 2: to martyr and go after the church. We see that
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  Speaker 2: in chep or twelve as well.
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  Speaker 3: That's the point is, you know, we're still here. The
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  Speaker 3: rapture hasn't happened yet. Fortunately, these hundred and forty four
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  Speaker 3: thousand evangelists are gonna have an incredible effect. We just
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  Speaker 3: read the multitudes are going to be saved, absolutely but listen,
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  Speaker 3: and you can say that these guys have been martyred,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we go Revelation thirteen, Revelation seventeen six.
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  Speaker 3: Listen right now, while we're still here, before the church
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  Speaker 3: is raptured, you have an opportunity to get saved if
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  Speaker 3: you're not already. Fortunately, there will be some who will
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  Speaker 3: get saved afterwards. We're reading about the effectiveness of one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and forty four thousand. But the problem is those
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  Speaker 3: people it's not gonna be a popular choice because of
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  Speaker 3: the inception, and second it will probably cost them their lives.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so.
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  Speaker 3: Don't we And then we just had to type that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Bill to me, you couldn't say any better
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  Speaker 2: than that. I mean, the goal is to be saved
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  Speaker 2: now because we know that period of time coming is
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  Speaker 2: more tremendous, and and I would say what Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: it's worse than any times in the history of creation.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Absolutely, So today's the day of your salvation. No,
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  Speaker 3: don't put it off any longer. If you're not a believer,
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  Speaker 3: Dear believers, tell your loved ones make that decision out
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  Speaker 3: before it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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