First Resurrected with Christ were Last to Receive the Seal of God

by Brad Baker

September 08th 2022

1 I never have heard of before, how the Latter Rain or second outpouring happened in AD66 when the 144,000 were sealed just before the Great Tribulation began. 2 Here is an interesting comment from Josephus about what happened at the Feast of Pentecost in AD66 that was similar to the Pentecost in AD33:

“Moreover at that feast which we call Pentecost [June 66 AD], as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the] temple, as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, ‘Let us remove hence.’”[Wars 6.299 (6.5.3)]

Acts 2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 There was a debate I had with a Preterist friend of mine on whether or not the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 & 14 were the ones who were resurrected with Jesus in Matthew 27:51-53. 4 When the connection is seen between those who were resurrected with Christ on the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits to the Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23, I believe they were. 5 I also see them as being the lasted sealed with the Seal of God on their foreheads though they were the first ones resurrected in the first part of two phases of the first resurrection. 6 My last article based on the three scriptures below was about identifying who the first fruits of the 144,000 were that sat on thrones along with those who were martyred for having the testimony of Christ during the first century. 7 I’m sure it would be something that would make Jehovah’s Witnesses give themselves a second thought thinking the 144,000 is going to be them in the future.

Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness to the Lord,
The first-fruits of His increase.

Hosea 6:2 After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.

Matthew 27:51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.8 In this article I will mainly dealing with the 144,000 being sealed with the Seal of God on their foreheads who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.. 9 The timing of a few events in the Book of Revelation is the key that will reveal an end conclusion to whether Matthew 27:51-53 was part of the first resurrection or not. 10 Those in Matthew 27:51-53 were part of the first resurrection of disembodies souls that were the fulfillment of the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits in Leviticus 23, and were the first in order to be resurrected. 11 Then the fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost follows as being last the part of the first resurrection of those who were alive and were the first fruits who had the Spirit. 12 I believe that it is worth you time to read this article because it narrows down all of the things that can only point to the 144,000 in Revelation 7 & 14 as being the ones from Matthew 27:51-53 that went into the holy city and appeared to many. 13 Then they followed Jesus wherever He went as He lead them out of captivity from the grave and Ascended into Heaven with Him to reign for what John called the thousand years in:


 Revelation 20: 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

14 I saw the importance of the those who were resurrected from the dead after Christ on the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits from Matthew 27:51-53 had to be tied in with the 144,000 that were sealed last with the Seal of God from the tribes of the children of Israel. 15 Why were they last to be sealed just before the Great Tribulation in Revelation 7:3 during the sixth Seal, when those who were being sealed through the baptism of the Holy Spirit during the first century were being sealed first before the sixth Seal started.


Revelation 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

Ephesians 1:13In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,


16 The connection has to do with the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Jesus taught about the last shall be first and the first shall be last in Matthew 20:1-16. 17 This is also seen in the first fruits grain offering in the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits that had to wait until they entered into the promised land until after the first harvest came in when manna would stop being provided:


Joshua 5:11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. 12Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.

18 At first I knew there was a connection with the word “Wind” from Ezekiel 37:9, Acts 2 and Revelation 7:1. 19 I knew there was something here that seemed to be revealing the mystery of the 144,000 from the Old Covenant first fruits as well as the New Covenant first fruits.

Ezekiel 37:9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”

Acts 2:2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Revelation 7:1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

Josephus “Moreover at that feast which we call Pentecost [June 66 AD], as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the] temple, as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, ‘Let us remove hence.’”[Wars 6.299 (6.5.3)]



20 Within the Feasts of the Lord which was God’s blueprint pattern of typology of the first and second coming of the Lord and plan of redemption for mankind 21 A lot of things can be seen that foreshadowed the events in the last days and leading up to the end of the Age in AD70.


22 Then I saw how the wind in Acts 2 was for the outpouring of the former rain with the Holy Spirit where the believers in Christ were being sealed with the Holy Spirit and had gifts given to them.


23 Usually before it rains there is a lot of wind just before it comes as the former rain in Acts 2 and latter rain and so we see wind again in Revelation 7:1 which was for the outpouring of the Latter rain with Fire in AD66. 24 That was the second part of being baptized with the Holy Spirit and Fire which took from Pentecost AD30 to AD66 to be fulfilled. 25 The Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire that John the Baptist warning the Pharisees of what was coming to them which was speaking of the gathering of wheat and burning up the chaff happened between AD66 to AD70 to Tenfold Grand Ultimate Jubilee when the Day of Atonement was fulfilled.


Matthew 3:11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”


26 The Baptism with Fire in the outpouring of the Latter rain was used illustrate the Spiritual destruction of the Age of Corruption and made way for the New Glorious Spiritual Creation in the New Heaven & Earth.

First of the First Fruits Resurrected but Last to be Sealed:

27 What we should be able to see here with the 144,000 First Fruits being sealed last is a case of the first shall be last. 28 Those who were raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53 had to wait to be sealed while those from Pentecost to the end of the Age are being sealed first with the Holy Spirit with a promise as a guarantee for for the day of redemption.


Matthew 19:28So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Matthew 20:16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”

First Resurrection seen in the Feasts of The Lord:

29 The first century was the thousand years reign with Christ for those on the Earth and those in Heaven that John mentioned in Revelation 20. 30 There was a delay in between Pentecost to the start of the Great Tribulation where the 144,000 First Fruits waited to be sealed by the Holy Spirit. 31 That is seen as a antitype to when in the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits where they had to wait about 40 years to begin that event. 32 This is all connected to each other in typology.


33 Although barley has been used in preparation of various types of bread since prehistoric times, barley flour alone is not sufficient to achieve acceptable quality in modern-style leavened bread, which demands a continuous gluten network to trap gases during fermentation, a large loaf volume, and sponge-crumb structure.

34 Barley was better for un-leaven bread which speaks of non active which is a type for the saints from the Old Covenant of First Fruits who were raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53, were disembodied souls who were non active, that were redeemed from the Earth where their physical bodies had decayed.


35 The Fruits Firsts from Pentecost on through during the first century were active and they were the fulfillment of the Feast of Pentecost. 36 The Feast of Pentecost had the first fruits wheat offering and wheat is more suitable for leaven bread which speaks of figuratively being active and they were active preaching the Gospel while alive on the Earth reigning with Christ.


37 There were no restrictions placed to wait until they came into the promised land for bring in the first-fruits of the wheat harvest for the Feast of Pentecost or the the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end which was the fruit offerings for the Feast of Tabernacles like the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits had.


38 The Feast of Tabernacles does not mention first fruits in their fruit and grain offering at all. 39 All the other events within the Feasts of the Lord which were Passover, Un-leaven Bread, Blowing of Trumpets and Day of Atonement did not have grain offerings, they had offering of fire instead. 40 This is important to realize because it reveals the differences of who the first fruits were in the 144,000 coming from Matthew 27:51-53 from the Tribes of Israel of disembodied souls, compared to those who were the first fruits of the Spirit who were from Pentecost to the end of the Age. 41 The latter were Spiritual resurrected through baptism in the first resurrection as well as some of them changed into Spiritual bodies just before the final resurrection that Daniel 12 and Matthew 25:30 spoke of for the just and unjust. 42 It reveals who were the first fruits from two groups as part of the first resurrection from who those were not first fruits in the AD70 resurrection. 43 Blowing of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and The Feast of Tabernacles all had a fire offering which was a type for the refining fire of the Holy Spirit which was fulfilled between AD66 to AD70.


44 Take note that the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end was for the Feast of Tabernacles in Leviticus 23:33-44 and it does not mention first fruits at all for that Feast yet is was a harvest time which a type to the antitype in AD70 resurrection of the just and the unjust. 45 This was not the first resurrection or for the first fruits as some claim it to be. 46 The grain offering in the Feast of tabernacles represents all this in the world who were not first fruits but they were the just 47 The resurrection of AD70 had the second death in it for the unjust seen in the fire offering. 48 The first resurrection was only for the just of the first fruits and blessed were those who were part of the first resurrection as Revelation 20:6 claims.

Revelation 20: 6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

49 Those who were not part of the first fruits though they may have been just had to wait until the resurrection in AD70. 50 Daniel never mentioned the first resurrection in chapter 12 because God did not reveal it to him, God revealed it to Paul with his vision of how the dead are resurrected according to the seed to plant analogy in 1 Cor. 15 and 2 Cor. 5.


51 There were three harvest times in three Feasts from the Feasts of the Lord mentioned in Leviticus 23 which were Un-leaven Bread with the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits within it, Pentecost and Tabernacles. 52 The three harvest times were in type for the antitype there being three phases of resurrection for the dead. 53 This all boils down to Matthew 27:51-53 being the very first of the first fruits resurrected and tied into the Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits but not sealed yet with the Holy Spirit into the New Covenant until just before the Great Tribulation and the Latter Rain outpouring with Fire in AD66. 54 Then there were those last of the first fruits being baptized and sealed by the Holy Spirit in the former rain outpouring that are tied into the Feast of Pentecost which were the first century Christians that were first to be sealed into the New Covenant. 55 The 144,000 were sealed right before the Great Tribulation started can be no other than those who were raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53. 56 All the others during the first century who were alive were already sealed which were the ones who received Christ and were baptized in the Holy Spirit, which happened after those in Matthew 27:51-53 Ascended into Heaven following Jesus to reign with Him there.

Acts 2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Revelation 7:1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” 4And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

The Seal of God:

57 The seal of God was associated with the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath Day was a sign or seal that God set them apart in the Old Covenant. 58 The Baptism of the Holy Spirit was the Seal of God for the New Covenant that believers in Christ were sealed with. 59 The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost is where we see these things fulfilled as the antitype to the Old Covenant Laws. 60 Pentecost means 50 days that counted down from after Sabbath that the Feast of Un-leaven Bread had that Holy Convocation Day of First Fruits was on. 61 Which was seven Weeks and during that time when it was fulfilled they witnessed three things, the death, resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ with those who were resurrected from Matthew 27:51-53.

62 The Feast of Pentecost represented the day Moses presented the Ten Commandments to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt and were in the wilderness for 40 years. 63 When Moses came down from the mountain with them he saw that while he was gone the people had made a golden calf to worship and after that 3000 people died as a results. 64 The Ten Commandments marked the beginning of the Old Covenant. 65 When the fulfillment of Pentecost came at the Upper Room the New Covenant begin with God filling them with His Holy Spirit and wrote His laws in the hearts and minds instead of the hand and forehead where the Ten Commandments were to be written. 66 The Day of Pentecost resulted in a great harvest for the early church and 3000 souls were brought to life on that day in the Upper Room in comparison to what happened when the Ten Commandments were given and 3000 people died for breaking the law.


67 Before the Feast of Pentecost was fulfilled in the Upper Room that day Jesus promised that He would send them a helper to get through their times without Him until He would return in the clouds of His glory and meet them in the air. 68 The Holy Spirit would help them get through their trails of faith that would come their way and not only would they be filled with the Holy Spirit but with the refining Fire.


John 14: 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

1 Peter 1: 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honour, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Luke 12:49 “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!


Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels He says: “Who makes His angels spirits And His ministers a flame of fire.”

69 The description of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and Fire by John the Baptist does not look like what happened in Act 2 at all.  70 The description Joel 2 of the Former rain was a blessing, which happened in the Acts 2 71 But John the Baptist view included a warning to the Pharisees with the Latter Rain of unquenchable fire of God’s wrath with a description of the end of the Age with gathering His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff. 72 That did not happen ten days after Jesus Ascended into Heaven with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 in the Former Rain.


73 During this time of the Former Rain’s Outpouring of the Holy Spirit they were being sealed with the Seal of God. 74 They were not yet redeemed from the Earth yet but they were reigning on the Earth with Christ until they were taken up in a Spiritual body to meet the Lord in the air at His coming then taken to Heaven. 75 Those who were resurrected with Jesus and followed Him into Heaven at His Ascension reigned with Christ in Heaven but were the last to be sealed just before the Great Tribulation in AD66. 76 They were the resurrected first, but last to be sealed therefore identified as the 144,000 in Revelation 7 & 14 by connecting the dots by applying hermeneutics.

Analyses of Revelation 7 & 14 of the 144,000 with the The First Fruits:

77 Some believe that the 144,000 were the ones that came out from the Great Tribulation in Revelation 7:14. 78 I do not believe that to be true because John describes the 144,000 as those who came from the twelve tribes of Israel in Revelation 7:4. 79 Then jumping ahead to Revelation 7:14 again he describes those who come out from the Great Tribulation from all nations of the world after the Gospel had been proclaimed in all creation under heaven. 80 Then in Revelation 14:1-5 after John describes the 144,000 he see the Gospel being preached to all nations of the world right after in Revelation 14:6-7.


Colossians 1:23if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister..


81 Here is how I think John saw the 144,000 who were to be sealed with the seal of God. Keep in mind that John plays hop scotch in Revelation 14 using this method from:

Rev. 1:19 Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.


82 Though this has caused so much confusion for us today because most of us have always viewed the Book of Revelation as things still yet to come or were to come at the time John wrote it, it includes things John had already seen. 83 They would have understood it better back when it was written to them in the first century because they thought things were at hand that would shortly take place. 84 John saw the Gospel that went out to every nation starting ten days after those from Matthew 27:51-53 Ascended into Heaven following Jesus wherever He went. 85 Then the Gospel began going out into every nation after those who were alive in Christ on Earth were filled and sealed with the Holy Spirit as seen in Revelation 14:6.

The Messages of the Three Angels

The First Angels Message of the everlasting gospel:


Revelation 14:6Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people

86 Most believe that the 144,000 were from the first century who followed Jesus were those who reigned with Christ on the Earth after Pentecost during the first century. 87 I don’t believe that is who they are because the 144,000 were redeemed from the Earth. 88 Jesus said to those left on the Earth that they couldn’t not follow Him during the first century after He Ascended into Heaven. 89 Sure they were to deny themselves take up the cross and follow Him like when Jesus said “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” in a Spiritual sense. 90 But they could not follow Him everywhere He went as He Ascended into Heaven which is what Jesus meant. 91 The only ones who were raised from the dead in such great numbers as a 144,000 after Jesus rose from the dead could follow Jesus into Heaven were from Matthew 27:51-53 92 I believe it is important to notice the difference between them being brought out of captivity from Hades with Christ when He was resurrected, to hades being cast into the Lake of Fire in AD70. 93 They appeared to many and as much as 500 people saw Jesus before they follow Him into Heaven and did not see them again until they would meet them later on in the air at Christ coming in the clouds of Glory.

John 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.”


Revelation 14:4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.

1 Corinthians 15:6After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.


Ephesians 4:8Therefore He says:

“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,

The Hour of His Judgment & Babylon is Fallen:


94 The hour of His judgment in Revelation 14:7 can be taken two ways and most would see it as at the end of the Age for the Great White Throne Judgment. 95 I saw it that way until just recently when a friend of mine put my view of Matthew 27:51-53 being the first resurrection through the fire. 96 His view was that the first resurrection were only the Church of the first century that were part of the first resurrection and that those from Matthew 27:51-53 died again and were resurrected again in AD70. 97 That does not add up in the light of heremanutics:

Hebrews 9:27And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

98 Here is another way of looking at for His hour of Judgment could be and fits into the view of the first resurrection being from Matthew 27:51-53.

Revelation 14:7And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

99 Here is what the hour of His Judgment could have been, as Jesus dying on the cross. 100 Like when Jerusalem’s judgment and Temple came it was in their destruction in AD70. 101 Jesus was the Temple of God that was destroyed and then rebuilt on the third day. 102 Judgement came to Jerusalem in AD70 but not the whole material world, only the dead. 103 He saved the whole world from the Age of Corruption of Adam’s sin and death which no one would ever go to Hades again in the hereafter but either into the Kingdom of Heaven or the Lake of Fire.


John 2:18So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”19Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” 21But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.


John 12:47And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

104 Jesus before Caiaphas and the Council in the Hour of His Judgment Against Him:

Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death. 60 but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward 61 and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” 62 And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” 63 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 65 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. 66 What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” 67 Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, 68 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”


105 Now read Revelation 14:7 again in the light of the hour of His Judgment like this: the hour of his judgment HAS come, as in past tense. 106 If it was future tense why would John have said has come instead of SHALL come. 107 He wrote that before the Great White Throne Judgment took place. 

Revelation 14:7And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come

108 The hour of His Judgment is not, will come, or is here at the time John wrote it, but HAS come as in past tense.


109 People were to Fear God and give him glory at the time John wrote it and not wait until AD66 to do that.

The Second Angels Message Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great:

110 Here again are two ways to interpret Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. 111 It says Fallen is Babylon, not will fall as in the future, or was falling at the time John wrote it, but is fallen as in something that already happened like in:


 Matthew 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Revelation 14:8Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great,


112 I know that 99.9% of the Preterist and I was one of them who thought “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, means the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70. 113 Jerusalem was not in good standing with God and had fallen especially after Christ was crucified, therefore is fallen states a fact that she had already fallen though not yet destroyed. 114 Even if John meant Revelation 14:8 to be a future event of Jerusalem’s destruction in AD70, it still would cancel out the 144,000 coming from Matthew 27:51-53 resurrection with Christ, as some would try to make it do to make the 144,000 be the first century Church instead.

The Third Angels Warning of Worshipping the Beast and the Mark of the Beast:

115 After Pentecost when they were being sealed with the Holy Spirit, those who rejected that we’re not knowingly, receiving the Mark of the Beast instead. 116 So here again the warning was not just for the time of Great Tribulation AD66 to AD70 as if it was something just starting to happen when John wrote it in AD61, it could have been something that he already saw. 117 It spanned throughout the first century generation and started when the chief priests rejected Christ as King and answered back to Pilate, “We have no king but Caesar.”


John 19:14Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 15They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.

Revelation 14:9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

118 Then John wraps up Revelation 14 with the final harvest of the earth for AD70

The Harvest of the Earth

Revelation 14:14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.” 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

God wiping every tear from their eyes Rev. 7:14 Vs. Nor sorrow, nor crying Rev.21:4


119 Some see a connection in Revelation 7:14 where God will wipe away every tear from their eyes from those who came out of the Great Tribulation to Revelation 21:4 nor sorrow, nor crying but I don’t. 120 I’m assuming that those who came out of the Great Tribulation in Revelation 7:14 had died and were in the hereafter where neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat. 121 They were before the throne of God so it was not while they were alive on the Earth, it was in the hereafter. 122 The hard times they went through came to an end and they were in a place where they would never hunger and thirst and have the hot sun burning down on them.


123 Revelation 21:4 is not necessarily just speaking of just the hereafter in Heaven but a new Age for both Heaven and Earth. 124 John draws the New Heaven & Earth from Isaiah 65 & 66 which was speaking of after the Babylon captivity and drawing from Isaiah 65 & 66 for Revelation 21 & 22. 125 All of Isaiah 65 & 66 was describing life on the Earth after Israel had their temple rebuilt which meant a New Heaven and Earth for them after they came out of the Babylon captivity. 126 In Isaiah 65 & 66 it mentions people still dying and sinners within it. 127 In Isaiah 66:17 it show how it is Old Covenant related to food restrictions and in verse 23 for keeping the Sabbath which means it was meant for after the Babylonian captivity.


128 Revelation 21:4 where in mentions there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying and no more pain. 129 This about the Old Covenant sacrifices and former things passing away when the end of the Age came to an end with the AD70 temple being destroyed. 130 All throughout the Old Covenant the had to obey all 613 laws and many were ceremonial laws with keeping the Feasts of the Lord. 131 The Holy Convocation Day of Atonement was the most solemn Feast and during that day fasting and weeping was required of all those in Israel. 132 More animals were sacrificed on that day than any other because it was the day of Atonement for all the sins of Israel to be forgiven. 133 That all came to an end at the end of the Age and all former things passed away with All Things Made New like it was in the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve sinned which is what Revelation 21:4 is talking about, not necessarily just for the hereafter.

Revelation 21:4And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.


Revelation 7:1 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” 4And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

Revelation 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Revelation 7:13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” 14 And I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. 16 They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Conclusion:

Was King David Resurrected in Matthew 27:51-53…?

134 Here is an interesting story that Peter told about King David and some might use this story to prove David was not part of those raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53. 135 Therefore King David would not have forty days later Ascend into Heaven following Jesus. 136 So then David could not have been one of the 144,000 or sitting on a throne for the Great White Throne Judgment which is not necessarily true.

137 Here is what Peter said in Acts 2.

Acts 2:25 For David says concerning Him:

‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

26 

Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope.

27 

For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

28 

You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’

29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:

‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,

35 

Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’


138 Here is something that I agree with coming from what Robert E Cruickshank Jr. said about this passages of scripture: “Quote”

139 Peter states in Acts 2:29 that David is currently still dead and buried in his tomb even still today.” 140 Not quite, in my opinion. 141 What is the thrust of Peter’s argument and what did he actually say?

142 His sole point is that someone was promised that his flesh would not undergo decay (Acts 2:28, 31). 143 Paul makes the same point in Acts 13:35. 144 Their argument is that David’s body underwent decay and his tomb is the very evidence that this happened a thousand years ago (Acts 2:29). 145 So, David couldn’t be the one of whom Psalm 16:10 is speaking. 146 Paul says it very clearly: “David…feel asleep…and underwent decay,” but Jesus didn’t (Acts 13:36). That’s it. 147 That’s all that’s going on in the passage with respect to David.

148 Whether or not David’s body was physically raised, a thousand years later, in Matthew 27:52, is moot to the point of the passages in Acts. 149 The bodies of every, single one of those Saints, in Matthew 27:52 underwent decay. 150 The promise was unique to Jesus and Jesus alone.

151 So that is my take on it, for what it’s worth. 152 Neither Peter nor Paul state that David’s body was still in the tomb, nor that David’s soul was still in Hades. 153 Their only point is that the presence of his tomb is proof that David’s body underwent decay. 154 So that is my take on it, for what it’s worth.  “End Quote”

155 For king David to have been part of the first resurrection in Matthew 27:51-53, I point out that David did not Ascend into Heaven at the time he said it a thousands years before Peter mentioned it in Acts 2:34-35 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.” ’


156 David said that a thousand years before Peter said that in Acts 2. 157 Beside what Peter was talking about was that Christ’s body would not see decay after He died like everyone else bodies had decayed. 158 So Peter would not have gone into any details about whether David was raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53 or whether He Ascended then following Christ, that was not the topic or the thoughts in his mind at the time that Peter was talking about.


159 David said in verse: For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 160 Although that does not prove anything on whether David would be resurrected in AD70 or Matthew 27 after Christ was resurrected.

161 I’m sure King David would have been resurrected in Matthew 27:51-53 but one of the qualification for being part of the 144,000 was being virgin. 162 That was most likely to have been something that was signified by John’s writings. 163 But let’s just say the 144,000 were literally virgins in Revelation 14:4. 164 So if King David and Solomon did not make the list they would have had to wait until AD70 and would not be part of the first fruits because they were not literal virgins. 165 I think I would have rather have King David wait until then as well if that was the case, those 40 years waiting would have been worth it because without it Jesus would not have been the Offspring of David. 166 Even then it would not cancel out the 144,000 being from those resurrected as first fruits in Matthew 27:51-53. 167 When Jesus rose from the dead along with those in Matthew 27:51-53, that would have been something John would have saw because he was there at the time or would have heard a lot about it for his story to tell in Revelation 7 & 14.

Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

168 I see the qualification of the 144,000 as being virgins as signified as Spiritual virgins. 169 That would mean that they did not worship other gods like so many Priests did as they worshiped other gods in the high places which angered God greatly because God is a jealous God. 170 King David was a man after God’s own heart so King David was a pure and true Spiritual virgin in the eyes of God who never did adulterate his relationship with God by worshipping other gods.


Was Daniel to be raised on the last day in AD70 or at the end of the days…?

171 Daniel was told he would rise to his inheritance at the end of days. 172 Some might think he would rise on the last day, but at the end of days leaves the timeframe open to more than just the last day in AD70. 173 I believe that Daniel was also raised from the dead it Matthew 27:51-53. 174 Daniel would have got his inheritance along with the other 144,000 just before the Great Tribulation with being sealed into the New Covenant with the Holy Spirit and Fire in the latter rain of AD66. 175 Daniel’s three friends sure got baptized in the Fire back in Babylon with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego when they got thrown into the fiery furnace but did not get burned up. 176 Here is why I believe Daniel was one of the first fruits raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51-53 after Christ.


177 In Daniel’s timeframe prophecy of Seventy Weeks a week represented 7 years. 178 So it was 70 X7 = 490 years which ended in AD70. 179 Because of this some would think Daniel had to wait until AD70 to be raised out of Hades on the very last day, but at the end of the days leaves it open to being days before the end of the Age. 180 And so it was in Matthew 27:51-53 that many were raised as the first fruits from the nation of Israel that was in those same last days that Jesus spoke of as well as Peter in Acts 2:17, or end of the days that the Father spoke that Daniel would arise in to his inheritance.

Daniel 12:13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;

Hebrews 1:2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.


181 I wonder why Daniel didn’t say anything about the three phases to the resurrection and especially the first resurrection and explain it through the Feasts of the Lord. 182 But then I’d have to wonder why Jesus didn’t say anything about it either, but only John does in just one chapter in Revelation 20 and Paul defines an order in 1 Cor. 15.

183 I way I see Revelation 14 chronology is, it starts with the redeemed from the Earth who were resurrected after Christ in Matthew 27:51-53. 184 Then they Ascend into a cloud following Christ in the unseen realm into Heaven. 185 Ten days later the First Angel’s message of the Everlasting Gospel begins to be preached to all nations of the world after Christ was judged and put to death for the sins of the world so that they could be saved.


186 The Second Angel’s announcement Babylon is fallen and the Heavenly Jerusalem is seen in Heaven before the end of the Age:


 Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 

187 Then the Third Angel’s message goes out as a warning to those who worship the Beast and take the Mark of the Beast instead of worshipping and fearing God and to be Sealed with the Holy Spirit beginning at Pentecost and going through to the of the Age.


The 144,000 Were Redeemed from the Earth and Followed the Lamb Everywhere He Went

188 The 144,000 were redeemed from the Earth which means resurrected and they had a Spiritual body that were disembodied souls from Hades. 189 At the time John wrote this before AD70’s resurrection which was just before the Great Tribulation the only ones redeemed from the Earth as many, were from Matthew 27:51-53. 190 We got the majority of Christians believing the 144,000 were the first century saints or people at the coming of the Lord in the future, and then we got JW’s believing they are the 144,000. 191 I believe this seriously needs to be addressed because it opens the mystery to many other things which I mentioned in my article concerning the Feasts of the Lord which revealed God’s Redemptive Plan.

192 The 144,000 followed the Lamb everywhere He went. 193 The Disciples of Jesus followed Christ but not everywhere He went, but yes they did follow Him to some degree. 194 Peter denied Jesus three times. Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver so they did not follow Him in that sense.

Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

John 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.”

John 14:14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

195 The Disciples of Jesus were not born again until the Holy Spirit indwell them at Pentecost because they were left behind to where Jesus was going. 196 The only ones who at that time could follow Jesus everywhere He went were those who were resurrected from the dead in Mathew 27:51-53. 197 They were not sealed yet at the time like those who had been filled with the Holy Spirit from Pentecost up to the end of the Age when Christ appeared in the clouds of Glory.

198 Then Revelation 14 ends with the great winepress of the wrath of God. John uses the frame story technic.



199 Frame stories within the Book of Revelation is where John seems to start a chapter at the beginning of when things happen and takes it to the end at the end of the chapter to their final event. 200 Sometimes John uses two or three chapters to bring it to a conclusion then starts the next chapter at the beginning again and repeats this as if John wrote these chapters at different times then complied them into one book.


201 I have divided them into series in order to see the chapters in several series that may overlap each other within the same timeframe. 202 I listed them as either things that John saw in the past, or presently going on, or things shortly to come in the future or a combination of any one of those things.

Series 1:

Chapter 1 was present tense

Chapter 2 was present tense and things to shortly take place

Chapter 3 was present tense and things to shortly take place

Chapter 4 was present tense and things to shortly take place

Chapter 5 things to shortly take place    Preparation for the great day of His wrath 

Series 2:

Chapter 6 things to shortly take place    Starting of the great day of His wrath

Chapter 7 things to shortly take place      Sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads and A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

Series 3:

Chapter 8 things to shortly take place   Seven Trumpets begin

Chapter 9 things to shortly take place   Seven Trumpets continue

Chapter 10 things to shortly take place  John Eats the Little Book

Chapter 11 things to shortly take place     The Two Witnesses & Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed

Series 4:

Chapter 12 Starts before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden…? Satan Thrown Out of Heaven “ Temple as a type”, Starts second fruits Overcomer’s in Christ and ends in the New Heaven & Earth post AD70

Series 5:

Chapter 13 was present tense and things to shortly take place

Series 6:

Chapter 14 Starts with the past with those resurrected with Christ and ends with things to shortly take place at the Harvest of the world

Series 7:

Chapter 15 things to shortly take place The seven last plagues of Bowls, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

Chapter 16 Continuation of chapter 15

Chapter 17 things to shortly take place the judgment of the great harlot.

Chapter 18 things to shortly take place The Fall of Babylon the Great coming from chapter 14 Babylon is  fallen.

Series 8:

Chapter 19 Heaven Exults over Babylon, The Beast and His Armies Defeated

Chapter 20 Starts with the past with Jesus in the wilderness where Satan Bound 1,000 Years and ends at The Great White Throne Judgment

Series 9:

Chapter 21 & 22 things to shortly take place all in the NH&E