Power! Protection! Provision!

I want to share an eye-opener I experienced the other day while reading Revelation 7. (I have been in the book of Revelation a LOT lately and I think that is a normal response to what is going on on the earth today!)

Revelation 7, verse 2: "And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."

And what came to me was this: "This is not a physical army. That is, it has nothing to do with physical blood lines. It has nothing to do with the physical children of Israel. It has everything to do with those who are born again in the spirit of Christ. Even Jews who receive Jesus will NOT remain a part of their natural blood ties regarding this sealing. Even if they could possibly know which son of Israel they hailed from, it doesn't matter.

(The Jews have now been thoroughly intermingled with other races to the point that a Jew could have two or three sons of Israel as a forefather. Am I right? I mean, how could you even trace your bloodline back all that way?)

So, now, what happened is this (I believe): when we receive Jesus, we are grafted into the tree, just like Paul said in Romans 11. We become connected to the faith of Abraham and Israel and part of their fruit!

Romans 11:24 "For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?"

So, although it is more natural for a Jew to receive and believe in Jesus, especially since Jesus came to the Jews first as their prophesied Messiah, I believe they still need to be grafted in!

In other words, what I'm saying is that I believe the 144,000 will be born-again believers like YOU and ME! We are already sons of Israel of what tribe, maybe God can show us if we ask Him!

Wow!

So, there you go. Take it or leave it. It's up to you. You don't have to believe it.

Personally, I do not believe for one second that the 144,000 will be all Jews. Nope. The 144,000 are Spirit-filled, Christ-believing, on-fire, full-of-faith, full-of-the-Word, Warriors of the Faith who are already out there fighting for Jesus and lost souls!

THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD!

Those who are already out there serving God, winning souls, testifying and preaching the Gospel who are serving God will be sealed to protect them so they can CONTINUE winning souls, preaching the Gospel and teaching others how to survive WITHOUT RECEIVING THE MARK OF THE BEAST!

So, what are you doing for Jesus TODAY?

Are we getting ourselves positioned to receive the SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD? So that we can continue to be a witness and a blessing to others who are new believers?