GOD speaks in many different ways, including as a "still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12-13);
also audibly (Acts 8:26) also through dreams and visions and then a message (Daniel 2:28, Numbers 12:6, Daniel 7:1, 2 Samuel 7:14.
Also open visions (Acts 9:3, Luke 1:11)
(Acts 18:9)
2 Peter 1:2
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Amos 3:7
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:”
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The 144,000 are descendant of the 12 tribes of Israel and are dispersed throughout the earth.
James 1:1
James, a servant of GOD and of the LORD Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Revelation 12 (below)
🔸️ Man child
(Barley Harvest: 144,000 firstfruits.)
This group of 144,000 is the first to be caught up to heaven and transformed to glorified life prior to the Great Tribulation.
They return to earth to minister and protect the left behind Christians during the 42 months of trials during the Great Tribulation.
Unlike the numberless multitude who will come out of the Great Tribulation, the 144,000 will be numbered. (Revelation 7:5-8, 9, 14)
◾️144,000 reference verses:
🔸️Revelation 7:1-4
🔸️Revelation 14:1-5
◾️Great multitude (could not number) verses:
🔹️ Revelation 14:12-13 KJV
12 Here is the patience of the saints: ....
🔹️Revelation 7:9
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, .
🔹️Revelation 7:13-17
Woman (Wheat Harvest: Church/Great Multitude)
- 5th Seal. Then those who are Alive and REMAIN will be caught up
1 Thessalonians..
