1 And I saw, and, look! the Lamb standing upon
the Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 having his name and the name of his Father
written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a sound out of heaven as the sound of
many waters and as the sound of loud thunder; and the sound that I heard was as
of harpers harping in the harps of them
3 And they are singing as if a new song before the
throne and before the 4 living creatures and the elders; and no one was able to
master that song but the 144,000, the [ones] having been bought from the earth.
4 These are [the ones] who did not defile
themselves with women; because, they are virgins.
These are the ones that keep following the Lamb no matter where he goes.
These were bought from mankind as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
5 And in the mouth of them not was found lie. They are unblemished (Revelation 14).
The JWs have the event symbolic meaning of this to some extent. They have correctly recognised that there are only 144,000 1NC saints who make it to heaven. The earth could mean the planet or it could mean God's earthly organisation, i.e. the true religions, in this case FDS1 and FDS3 for the sanctification of the 1NC saints. Since the word 'earth' appears only once then it must take the same meaning in the word symbolism as well. Likewise the word 'heaven' appears only once, so it takes the same meaning in all accounts, namely the heaven where God lives.
The phrase 'the 144,000, the [ones] having been bought from the earth' is not a double designation, because the participle acts as a participle not as an adjective.
So we have two word symbolic meanings to add to the event symbolic meaning.
If the word 'lamb' appears 3 times, then we have 3 different lambs, one for each meaning. But it also appears in verse 10 which looks like a part of this account since it refers to 'another angel', which presupposes that there must be a first angel in verses 1 to 5 which is in fact the lamb. Since we only know of two lambs whose name one can be baptised into, we assume that the 4th incidence is in the account. So then we are free to take as many lambs as we want and we take two of them. The phrase 144,000 appears twice so there are only two groups of 144,000. We know that these are the 1NC and the 2NC saints. The lambs who are sacrificed for Christians are Jesus, John, Michael and Gordon. Gordon is the lamb as though slaughtered of Revelation 5.
The word symbolic accounts split as follows: This first word symbolism splits both double designations to include 'the 144,000' and 'firstfruits to God', and exclude 'the [ones] having been bought from the earth', and 'firstfruits to the lamb'. The second word symbolism splits them the other way round. The ones bought from the earth are the great crowd of Revelation 7:9. So we split verse 3 in the two word symbolic account to include the 144,000 and exclude the [ones] bought from the earth in the first word symbolism and to exclude the 144,000 and to include the [ones] bought from the earth in the second word symbolism.
The first word symbolic meaning relates to the 144,000 Nethinim under Rachel. The phrase 'the [ones] having been bought from the earth' is excluded in this first word symbolism. This is fine because the Nethinim are bought from the world and from the fallen FDS3, not from the earth, of the true religion of FDS4 during their sanctification from 1994Elul to 1999Elul..
The second word symbolic meaning relating to 'the [ones] having been bought from the earth' relates to the great crowd who go to heaven for 8 months at the rapture on 2008Ab1. They are all sanctified from within FDS4
Event Symbolism
| Lamb | Greater Jacob (Jesus) |
| Mount Zion | Kingship |
| 144,000 | All the 1NC saints who are sealed |
| Having his name on their foreheads | Baptised into Jesus' name |
| Having his father's name on their foreheads | Baptised into the name of the holy spirit, which name is God's name because the holy spirit is God's wife. |
| Heard a voice out of heaven, no one could master except the 144,000 | The 144,000 are in heaven with the Lamb (Jesus). |
| No one could master the song but them | This is their particular praise to Jehovah and to Jesus, their unique service etc. |
| The [ones] having been bought from the earth | All chosen when or after they joined FDS1 or FDS3 |
| They are virgins | They never exercised priestly authority in a false church, the woman is an entire congregation. |
| They keep following the lamb no matter where he goes | He goes from FDS1 to FDS2 in the first presence and from FDS3 to FDS4 in the second presence. |
The First Word Symbolism
| Lamb | Greater Joseph (Gordon) |
| Mount Zion | Kingship |
| 144,000 | All the 2NC saints who are sealed |
| Having his name on their foreheads | Baptised into Gordon's name |
| Having his father's name on their foreheads | Baptised into Abraham's name in the case of the 1AC,
and Isaac's name in the case of the ICC and the 2AC and Jacob's name in the case of the JAC and the 3AC. And baptised into Michael's name, the everlasting father, through the ARC. So not sure which father it is! |
| Heard a voice out of heaven, no one could master except the 144,000 | The 144,000 are in heaven with the Lamb (Gordon). This occurs from 2008Tammuz1 until 2009Nisan26. |
| No one could master the song but them | This is their particular praise to Jehovah and to Jesus, their grasp of the code etc. |
| Not said to be bought from the earth | The 2NC king/priests are bought from the fallen FDS3 and the world |
| They are virgins | They never exercised priestly authority in a false church, the woman is an entire congregation. |
| They keep following the lamb no matter where he goes | from FDS3 to FDS4 |
| Firstfruits to God | The first of the earth bound humans to be resurrected |
The Second Word Symbolism - check this
| Lamb | Greater Joseph (Gordon) |
| Mount Zion | Kingship |
| 144,000 | All the 2NC saints who are sealed |
| Having his name on their foreheads | Baptised into Gordon's name |
| Having his father's name on their foreheads | Baptised into Abraham's name in the case of the 1AC,
and Isaac's name in the case of the ICC and the 2AC and Jacob's name in the case of the JAC and the 3AC. And baptised into Michael's name, the everlasting father, through the ARC. So not sure which father it is! |
| Heard a voice out of heaven, no one could master the song except the [ones] bought from the earth | The Great Crowd are in heaven with the Lamb (Gordon). This occurs from 2008Ab1 until 2009Nisan26. The 2NC king/saints are not bought from the earth. |
| No one could master the song but them | This is their particular praise to Jehovah and to Jesus, their unique praise to them. |
| The [ones] bought from the earth | The Great crowd are all sanctified whilst in FDS4. |
| They (the 144,000 of verse 1) are virgins | They never exercised priestly authority in a false church, the woman is an entire congregation. |
| They (the 144,000 of verse 1) keep following the lamb no matter where he goes | from FDS3 to FDS4 |
| Firstfruits to the lamb | The first of the earth bound humans who do not die to be resurrected. Not sure why they are firstfruits to Gordon. |
So the administrative structure of the Kingdom of God appears to be:
| God, the King |
| Jesus, the heavenly vassal king |
| 24 Apostles of the first and second presences, the 24 elders, on 24 thrones |
| 144,000 New covenant saints in heaven |
| Great crowd of priest in heaven (Zilpah) |
| Vassal king on earth |
| 24 Head ones on earth |
| 144,000 Second new covenant saints on earth |
| Great Crowd of priests on earth (includes those of Bilhah from FDS2) |
| Subjects |
King David arranged his Kingdom as follows:
1 As for the sons of Israel by their number, the
heads of the paternal houses and the chiefs of the thousands and of the hundreds
and their officers that were ministering to the king in every matter of the
divisions of those that came in and that went out month by month for all the
months of the year, each division was 24,000.
2 Over the first division of the first month there
was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel, and in his division there were 24,000 (1
Chronicles 27:1,2)
12 divisions of 24,000 men making a total of 288,000. This then is the archetype for the total number of administrators in the Kingdom of God run by the root of David.