The Hundred and Forty-four Thousand, or the Sealed Ones

• Revelation 7:4. There are 144,000 of the sealed ones. Many children of God are dying daily who have never had their attention called to this truth, and are saved among the innumerable company. Revelation 7:9.BHB 89.1

• Ezekiel 9:1-4. The seal is here spoken of as a mark, which is the same as a sign.BHB 89.2

• Revelation 7:3. The seal is placed in the forehead,-the mind, or seat of affections.BHB 89.3

• Ezekiel 9:4. Those who have a burden of soul for others and are grieved on account of sin, will receive the mark. Testimonies for the Church 7:144.BHB 89.4

• Revelation 14:1. They receive the name of the Father.BHB 89.5

• Exodus 34:5, 6. The name of God is His character. Those who are sealed will partake of His character.BHB 89.6

• 2 Timothy 2:19. All who have the seal depart from iniquity.BHB 89.7

• Revelation 14:3-5. They are to stand without fault, are to have no guile. They will follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth. Testimonies for the Church 5:214, 216.BHB 89.8

• Ephesians 4:30; 1:13. The Holy Spirit places the seal.BHB 89.9

• Revelation 14:9-12. They refuse the mark of the beast and his image. Prophets and Kings, 188.BHB 90.1

• Revelation 15:1-3. This company stands on Mount Zion triumphant over every foe. God, not man, does the numbering.BHB 90.2

• Numbers 3:39; 26:62; Matthew 14:21; 15:38; Acts 19:7. The way God numbers.BHB 90.3

• Ezekiel 9:11, margin. When every one who will accept the message is sealed, the angel reports that the work is finished.BHB 90.4

• Ezekiel 9:5-7. The judgments of God follow the sealing work.BHB 90.5

• Ezekiel 9:8, 9. So many that had been counted with Israel were slain that it looked as if all the people of God would be destroyed.BHB 90.6

• Romans 9:6. All who make a profession are not really Israel.BHB 90.7

• Ezekiel 9:6. Old and young stand on their own individual records.BHB 90.8

• Ezekiel 14:20. No one will be shielded or saved because of father’s or mother’s righteousness. Only an individual experience in the things of God will save any one.BHB 90.9