Only 144,000 people will go to heaven...will you be 1?
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Biblically speaking, 12 is a number representing the beginning of completion (think about the 12 tribes of Isreal as the foundation of the chosen people of God, or the 12 disciples as those chosen to evangelize the entire world).  The number 144 is the square of 12, completion times completion.  Multiplied by 1000 is the number you quote, from the book of Revelation.  It represents God's desire for all peoples of the earth to come to salvation in Jesus, and it tells us he will not rest and the world will not end until the gospel has been preached to the ends of the earth.
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You will go to heaven! The sooner the better!
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UGH!  Again, you ask a faith question and you get a bunch of answers from non-believers!  Why do they even bother?  My answer is that the people I am most close to believe and have accepted Jesus and I believe then we will all be saved.  So I will see them again in heaven.\n\nPS Did the chick above me actually say she would b*tch slap God?  That's incredibly mature.  UNBELIEVABLE!!!
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It depends, in my opinion.  If you have had a chance, and have rejected the chance... then you might.  Children and infants on the other hand, haven't had the chance, so more than likely they will go to Heaven.  I don't 100% believe that just because you're not baptized that you won't go to Heaven, I believe that it depends on what you have done during your life whether or not you go to heaven.
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Everyone that has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ will get into Heaven.\n\nI hope to see you there!\n\nIn His Service,\n...me :o)
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hm, it's kind of hard question.  They say that u will go to hell or heaven, but somebody beleives in it and others don't.  I don't know what to think.
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From the Biblical standpoint, the universe will actually cease to exist, so from the document that the majority of the West draws on for its concept of Heaven (either directly or indirectly), the universe is not actually never-ending...  However, there will be a new model, or so it appears.\n\nI think the reference would be 2 Peter 3:10-13\n\nThe main reference on the 144,000 mentioned in another note is in Revelation 7:4-8, and is followed by verses 9 & 10 describing an innumerable multitude there with this group of 144,000...
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The truth is there are at least 7. Haven't you ever heard the saying, "I'm in 7th heaven." :)
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You missed the boat. 130,000+ are already in heaven, just a remnant left on earth.
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Not in this lifetime. I don't really want to go to heaven anyway. I hear it's very crowded with those Jesus freaks.
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Of course not.  Race is not a factor to me now, so I know it won't be a factor in heaven.  I will be glad just to be there! :)
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Yes...so what is your question?  Jesus mentions many times that He is the only way to Heaven and those who believe on Him shall go to Heaven...
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you bet!\n\nid give up this whole heaven, helland earth thing. id remove all people from hell (except people like hitler, murderers and rapists) and just hang out....feed all the people....make heaven on earth.\n\nif the world today is the best the christian god can do....i vote for a coup.
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Good question, but everyone will not go to Heaven.\nDo you think for one minute a loving, almighty God would allow His only Son to go thru such misery if there were not a choice?\nDon't you think He would have chosen another way if there had been another way to redeem mankind?\nYahshua HAD to be the lamb that was slain.  Blood had to be shed.\nWithout the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
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First, I'm wondering how Jehovah's Witnesses resolve Revelation 14:4, which states that the 144,000 will be virgin (unmarried) males:\n\n"These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins."\n\nThis verse, taken with Revelation 7:4, tells us that the 144,000 will literally be:\n1. Jews\n2. Men\n3. Virgins (unmarried). \n\nA Jehovah's Witness once told me that these were "virgins" in the spiritual sense, since they did not defile themselves with the whore of Babylon. But John didn't say "woman" (singular) he said "women" (plural).\n\nSo if we shouldn't take what the book of Revelation says literally regarding the 144,000, why should the number itself be? It seems that the Watch Tower organization is applying a double standard here in its interpretation of the scriptures. \n\n------------------------\n\nSecondly, Wink Winkleman said: "The scriptures make it very clear that the Jews WERE, at one point, God's chosen people, but they were completely abandoned by God once they had his Son, Jesus, put to death."\n\nWink, I'm wondering how you resolve that statement (that the Jews have been completely abandoned by God) with what Paul wrote in Romans chapter 11. \n\nPaul, writing well after Jesus died and rose again, said this of the Jewish people:\n\nVerse 1:\n"I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!"\n\nVerse 2:\n"God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew."\n\nVerses 25-27:\n"For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:\n>  "The Deliverer will come out of Zion,\n>  And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;\n>  For this is My covenant with them,\n>  When I take away their sins.""\n\nVerses 28-31:\n"Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy."\n\nIf Paul is correct in saying that God will one day restore salvation to the nation of Israel, then why can't we take Revelation literally and simply believe what it says? The 144,000 will be Jewish, male virgins.
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Ask someone who has been there and back. Jesus, Paul, John. They all said heaven is real. So when I die, I will be in eternity. I do not know what that is like, but I know its going to be awesome. I'm just thrilled that my ticket to go there was bought and paid for in advance!!
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Revelation 14:3 says that there are 144,000 that have been bought from the earth.\n\nAdditional Details:\n\nThe little flock are the annointed ones who will rule as kings and priests over the earth; there are 144,000 of these as seen above. Compare Revelation 5:9, 10.\n\nThese are also the ones who stick with Jesus through thick and thin: “However, you are the ones that have stuck with me in my trials; and I make a covenant with you, just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom”—Luke 22:28, 29.\n\nThey are to rule over the meek ones who inherit the earth as explained in Matthew 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." See also Psalm 37:9-11, 29; Proverbs 2:21, 22.\nI think most people do not believe these last three passages.