The book of Rev. Is not a stand alone prophetic book, for only the far future. It speaks of past, present and future events, which is how God lives and speaks from the realm of His Eternity.They were not given white robes. You are selling the glorification mentioned by Paul as future and calling it the work of the Cross, as already completed. 75% of the entire church had not even been physically born yet.
The OT redeemed were given physical bodies and allowed to enjoy Paradise physically along with Jesus Christ. Yes, they had to wait, just like we will have to wait after the Second Coming, for the final harvest.
The 144k are a future final harvest when humanity's population was hundreds of times larger than at the time of the Cross.
You are selling the church short and not seeing the future at all.
You deny a physical body, but claim glorification, and that is the total opposite of what Paul taught. Paul taught a physical body was already available upon physical death, 2 Corinthians 5:1, and that bring glorified was in the future. Putting on a robe of white is not a new body. Putting on a robe of white is being glorified. Even John pointed that out in 1 John 3:2
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
We are sons of God now, but we will appear as sons of God, that is putting on the robe of white.
Don't you know that the Holy Spirit of God could NOT BE permanently GIVEN to anyone, until AFTER the SHEDDING of Christ's Blood?
The figurative 144,000 are DEFINITELY of the OC. of Israel, that lived and died in faith of "the Promise to come", who was Jesus. The 144,000 ARE THE FIRSTFRUITS unto God, and are now written in the Book of Life, who is Jesus. Rev. 14:1-5.
Rev. 7:4-8 clearly describes them as they who were of the tribes of Israel, and not Gentiles. These are they who were "under the altar" of the OC. whose names were written in the "book of Remembrance". Malachi 3:16.
As shown in Rev. 6:9-11, God DID NOT forget them.
However, since the death and resurrection of Christ, all Jews MUST NOW come to God through faith in Jesus!! For all that do, they also shall be of the Great Multitude.
Ever since 70AD., Israel as a nation has NO future with God, apart from Jesus.
As I had posted in #259, you also should consider the meaning of Jesus in
John 5
[25] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, AND NOW IS, when the dead [in sin] shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live [be born again of His Spirit].
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