What does the Bible say about the number 12000 and 144000?

Answer 1

Answer:

These numbers are found in the 7th chapter of Revelation.

The numbers represent the actual surviving "blood descendants" of the sons (tribes) of Jacob (the Israelites) who will emerge on the other side of the Great Tribulation in the last days, whom God will seal with His Holy Spirit just before His wrath is poured out on the earth prior to His return.

"...I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 FROM ALL THE TRIBES OF Israel." (Rev.7:4 NIV)

The number in each of the twelve tribes is 12,000.

All of the tribes are accounted for except Dan. The tribe of Joseph is counted "twice" which maintains the number twelve. "Manasseh" is Joseph's son, and replaces the missing "Dan."

Dan will be saved later: ('I look for your deliverance, O LORD' - Gen.49:18 NIV).

Jesus promised His disciples that they would each sit on a throne in the Kingdom judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matt.19:28). That requires that those tribes are extant on the earth. The Lord shall identify them in the sealing of them.

God shall preserve and save 144,000 out of the Tribulation for the preservation of Abraham's descendants... besides the GREAT MULTITUDE OF THE GENTILE NATIONS that shall also come out of it.

"...I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb... they cried... 'Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.'" (Rev.7:9-10)

"...These are they WHO HAVE COME OUT OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION; they have washed their robes and made them white IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB." (Rev.7:14 NIV)