The 144,000 and Revelation 20

                                                      The 144,000 and Revelation 20 

What does the 144,000 and the Beloved City in Revelation 20 and 21 have in common?


The last appearance of the 144,000 is their going up to Mt. Zion (Mountains in Pella as a symbol of refuge). See Revelation 14.


 They are in the "air" - the top of the mountain-meeting place between Heaven and Earth. See Exodus 19, 24, 1 Thessalonians 4. 


While the Dead from Hades went straight to Heaven. See Revelation 15. The imagery of living and dead at Mt Zion is to emphasize that both groups have the same Moses-like access to God in the New Covenant.


I propose that in Revelation 21 that the New Jerusalem/NH&NE is actually the 144,000. They are coming down from Mt Zion back to the ruins of Jerusalem. Now, they have received a greater glory than Moses. They have been transfigured. See Exodus 34:29, 2 Corinthians 3:7-8, 18, Matthew 5:14, 17:1-2, Ezekiel 43:12, Zechariah 8:23, 9:16, and Isaiah 1:26, 60:14.


Once they return to the ruins of Jerusalem in Revelation 20, (this fulfills Isaiah 62:4-5, Psalm 87, Ezekiel 47-48), the 144,000 rebuild/repair the city similar to how they were rebuilding in the Book of Esther. This is very insulting to  Old Covenant supporters. The mixed group of 144,000 Jews and non- Jews are now living in their Promised Land.


Time passes by, which then sparks the events of the Bar Kochba Revolt. Here, we see inverted imagery of Gog of Magog/Haman, the Christians are the New Covenant Jews and the Nations are the remaining Apostate Old Covenant Jews. But God promised that his  New Covenant people would never be uprooted ever again and lose their identity.

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