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The Lamb and the 144,000

1 Then I looked, and behold,1 a aLamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him bone hundred and forty-four thousand,2 having His Father’s name cwritten on their foreheads.  
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, alike the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of bharpists playing their harps.  
3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song aexcept the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.  
4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, afor they are virgins. These are the ones bwho follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These cwere redeemed from among men, dbeing firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.  
5 And ain their mouth was found no deceit, for bthey are without fault before the throne of God.  

The Proclamations of Three Angels

6 Then I saw another angel aflying in the midst of heaven, bhaving the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—cto every nation, tribe, tongue, and people—  
7 saying with a loud voice, a“Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; band worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”  
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Revelation 14:1

And I looked - My attention was drawn to a new vision. The eye was turned away from the beast and his image to the heavenly world - the Mount Zion above.

And, lo, a Lamb - See the notes on Revelation 5:6.

Stood on the mount Zion - That is, in heaven. See the notes on Hebrews 12:22. Zion, literally the southern hill in the city of Jerusalem, was a name also given to the whole city; and, as that was the seat of the divine worship on earth, it became an emblem of heaven - the dwelling-place of God. The scene of the vision here is laid in heaven, for it is a vision of the ultimate triumph of the redeemed, designed to sustain the church in view of the trials that had already come upon it, and of those which were yet to come.

And with him an hundred forty and four thousand - These are evidently the same persons that were seen in the vision recorded in Revelation 7:3-8, and the representation is made for the same purpose - to sustain the church in trial, with the certainty of its future glory. See the notes on Revelation 7:4.

Having his Father' s name written in their foreheads - Showing that they were his. See the notes on Revelation 7:3; Revelation 13:16. In Revelation 7:3, it is merely said that they were "sealed in their foreheads" ; the passage here shows how they were sealed. They had the name of God so stamped or marked on their foreheads as to show that they belonged to him. Compare the notes on Revelation 7:3-8.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Revelation 14:1:

Joel 3:21
Revelation 14:14
Revelation 15:1
Revelation 17:5
Revelation 19:12

 

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