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Chapter 14 The 144,000 and the Victorious Judgment of the Lamb
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- "3 And they sung as it were a New Song before the Throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that Song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the Earth."
Jehovah Jesus, Who is the Lamb (14:1) before the Throne, will teach His people their New Song, because He personally will serenade us after we come into His presence. "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing" (Zephaniah 3:17). Likewise, the 144,000 will sing a "New Song before the Throne" (14:3) of God. The Creator alone is truly the Author of "all things new" (Revelation 21:5). "And have put on the New Man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him" (Colossians 3:10). In Salvation, Jehovah "hath put a New Song in my mouth" (Psalm 40:3). "No man could learn" (14:3) the song of the 144,000, because God has covenanted His secret personally and only to those that fear Him. "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear Him; and He will shew them His covenant" (Psalm 25:14). The 144,000 "were redeemed [Greek, agorazo] from the Earth" (14:3) by a miraculous Rapture. The Father, Who purchased us "with the precious Blood of Christ" (1Peter 1:19), will simply take delivery on His purchased possessions, i.e., the Tribulation Week Saints at that Rapture. "Ye are bought [Greek, agorazo] with a price; be not ye the servants of men" (1Corinthians 7:23).
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- "4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb."
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul speaks of the entire Body of Believers as a "chaste virgin", i.e., "For I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to One Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin [Greek, parthenos] to Christ" (2Corinthians 11:2). The Apostle John also uses the Greek word parthenos, in describing the 144,000 as "virgins" (14:4). Virginity, though it most often describes a woman who has not known a man sexually, was also used to identify both the men and women of Israel, i.e., "This is the Word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him [Sennacherib king of Assyria]; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee" (Isaiah 37:22). However, the"virgins" (14:4) here described, "were not defiled with women" (14:4), seems to indicate that the 144,000 are unmarried and chaste men, who will abstain from marriage during the difficult days of the Tribulation Week. Even the married Saints of these Last Days, as much as possible, should dedicate themselves more to the LORD than their devotion to their cherished spouses. "But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none" (1Corinthians 7:29).
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