The
Remnant & The 144Thousand
‘But
upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their
possessions. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a
flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and
devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the
Lord hath spoken it…And saviors [deliverers] shall come up on Mount Zion to
judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s. (Obadiah 17, 18, 21)
These verses describe the Day of the Lord
victory over Edom by ‘The house of Jacob…and the house of Joseph’ at the
end of the age when ‘The kingdom shall be the Lord’s’ referring to the
time of the sounding of the seventh angel’s trumpet in (Revelation 11:15):
‘And
the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and
ever.’
At that time ‘The Redeemer shall come to
Zion’ (Isaiah 59:20; Romans 11:26; Revelation 14:1) to deliver the nation of
Israel fulfilling Obadiah 17 with (v.18) telling of the complete extermination
of the house of Esau by the Jewish remnant which is the 144 Thousand from the
twelve tribes seen in (Revelation 14:1-5) with the Redeemer the Lord Jesus
Christ on Mount Zion.
This prime group of Hebrew young men, the ‘Saviors’ or Deliverers of (Obadiah 21), of ‘The
sons of Israel’(Revelation 7:4) form the army of the Messiah ‘Your
troops shall be willing on your day of battle’ of (Psalm 110:3) and are active throughout the
end of age as ‘They follow the Lamb wherever He goes’(Revelation 14:4)
during the intensive warfare with Satan’s forces, both physically and spiritually,
who come against the faithful during this time when the persecution of God’s
people is at its zenith (Matthew 24:21).
Micah 5:1-9 contains a number of
references to this same victorious remnant beginning with (v.1) showing the
army of the Lord being called to ‘Muster yourselves in troops’ [NASV]
with (v.2) indicating the now well known birthplace of the Messiah and in (v.3)
after the dispersion of A.D. 70 the remnant of His [Messiah] brethren will
return to ‘The sons of Israel’ referring to the Jews gathering together
with the144 Thousand also prophesied by Jacob in Genesis 49:10 which occurs at
the end of the 70th Week of Daniel: ‘The scepter shall not depart
from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come, and unto
Him shall the gathering of the people be.’
(Micah 5:5) ‘And this Man [Messiah]
shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [Antichrist] shall come into our land:
and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven
shepherds, and eight principal men.’
Here, the Man, the Lord Jesus Christ is the peace during the time the
Assyrian [Antichrist] comes into Israel and defiles the temple which is the ‘Abomination
of desolation’ spoken of by Daniel and referred to by the Lord (Matthew
24:15). There will be stiff resistance to his actions by these fifteen leaders
of the remnant so much so that (v.6) says: ‘They shall waste the land of
Assyria [Syria/Turkey] with the sword, and the land of Nimrod [Iraq] in the
entrances thereof; thus shall He deliver us from the Assyrian [Antichrist] when
he comes into our land, and when he treads within our borders.’
‘And
the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as the dew from the
Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarries not for man, nor waits for
the sons of men.’(v.7).
The
remnant, the 144 Thousand, are referred to as ‘Dew from the Lord’ which
is also how they are referred to in (Psalm 110:3) ‘Thy youth are to Thee as
the dew’ indicating the great multitude of young men.
‘And
the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as
a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of
sheep: who, if he go through, both treads down, and tears in pieces, and none
can deliver. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all
thine enemies shall be cut off.’ (v.8, 9)
Their invincibility in warfare is focused
upon in these last verses telling of their great prowess in battle illustrated
by their mighty position as lions among the least of the warlike ‘The flocks
of sheep’ describing the power and quickness of the victory for ‘None
can deliver…all thine enemies shall be cut off.’ ‘The remnant of Israel shall
not do iniquity [blameless], nor speak lies, neither shall a deceitful tongue
[lies] be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none
shall make them afraid.’
(Zephaniah 3:13)
(Revelation 14:5) is describing the 144
Thousand: ‘And in their mouth was found no guile [lies] for they are without
fault [blameless] before the throne of God’ repeats and underlines the
character qualities of these same young men, the 144 Thousand, with the same
emphasis, showing their speech to be truthful in content and their actions and
attitudes to be blameless high-lighting their personal holiness. The word
remnant appears for the last time in the Scripture in Revelation 12:17 ‘And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant[rest]of her seed which keep the
commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.’
The 144 Thousand are included in this
group of faithful Jews for Revelation 12 occurs at the mid-point of the 70th Week of Daniel when the
Lord Jesus commands Believers in Judea to flee into the wilderness (Matthew
24:16ff) which also occurs here in Revelation 12:6 when the faithful in the
land called ‘The woman’ are shown fleeing and given nourishment (Revelation
12:14) for 3.5 years. But, in Revelation 12:17 the faithful Jewish remnant
worldwide becomes the dragon’s focus after he cannot persecute ‘The woman’ in
Judea. Within this Jewish remnant will be the 144 Thousand for they will be
called out of the worldwide Church of Jesus Christ.
At this present hour [2014] in the land
there are barely 144,000 born-again Jewish Believers, much less 144,000
believing young Jewish men age 20-40. However, since the Jews have been
scattered across the planet for over 2,700 years, it will be no problem for the
Lord to call out and redeem “From the
earth” these young men from the believing Church for it is possible that
they are within the Church as we speak! And, who is a Jew anyhoo? The answer
is, anyone who has a direct blood-line from Jacob’s sons, the twelve tribes of
Israel.
Recently my wife and I had our DNA
analyzed and the results show that I have Jewish blood coursing through my
veins. So, is it possible that the Wolf’s offspring could be a part of this
future generation of 144 Thousand? Only the Lord knows for sure! However, when our Wolf clan is analyzed, the Lord has been busy bringing many Wolfs into His
Kingdom during the last few decades which is a good sign.
Wolf is a surname that is found in
numerous countries in Europe where great numbers of Jews migrated and are known
as Ashkenazi Jews. But, Wolf is also found in present-day Israel, for the Wolf
is the symbol of the tribe of Benjamin which is based upon Jacob’s last-days
prophecy in Genesis 49:27. But, that is not the determining factor. The life of
the flesh is in the blood, and it is the blood-line that determines exactly who
is a Jew, who is one of the Sons of Israel, the Servants of God recorded in
Revelation 7:3-8, those who will be sealed for Day of the Lord service to the
King of kings and Lord of lords our Savior and Hebrew Messiah Jesus the Christ!
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