Outline: Seven Seals - 144,000
Passage: Revelation 7
Discussion audio (43 minutes)
The breaking of the seals is interrupted with a scene that takes place back in heaven, to the consternation of the audience. However, the answer to the question that ended the sixth seal, “Who can stand?” is revealed.
Last week we did not meet to discuss this passage. Thus the audio is an elaboration of the associated outline.
As we move along to investigate this chapter in the full context of the book of Revelation, it becomes clear that the 144,000 is not a literal number to be associated with some literal group of people, but a symbolic number that represents a function that is associated with the Great Multitude in the second half of chapter 7 as well as the “every creature” of 5:13.
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