What They Do, What They Don’t, and Why It Matters
I thought I was done writing about the 144,000.
The first scroll laid it out: who they are, where they might be, what Scripture says about them. It felt complete.
But while I was looking again at the Shema — the “Hear, O Israel” passage from Deuteronomy that Jesus repeated in Mark 12 — I saw something I hadn’t made the connection to before.
The 144,000 are sealed in the same places the Shema talks about — the forehead and the hand.
That’s not symbolic. That’s covenant-level obedience. It’s the opposite of the beast’s mark.
And once I saw that, I realized I didn’t cover everything in the first scroll.
So this is Part Two.
Not about who they are — but what they do, what they don’t, and why it matters.
No guessing. No hype. Just Scripture.
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