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This article will reveal, through [INTERPRETATION], the 144,000 persons of Revelation as Messianic Jews of Israel who will be raptured to God’s holy mountain, Mount Zion, pre-tribulation, before the destruction of Babylon (America).

REVELATION 14:1-5 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb [YESHUA (JESUS)] standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand [ISRAELI MESSIANIC JEWS], having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 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 except the hundred and forty-four thousand [ISRAELI MESSIANIC JEWS] who were redeemed [RAPTURED] from the earth. These are the ones who were not defiled with women [THROUGH FORNICATION OR ADULTERY], for they are virgins [OF THE WICKED WAYS OF THE WORLD]. These are the ones who follow the Lamb [YESHUA (JESUS)] wherever He goes. These were redeemed [RAPTURED] from among men, being first fruits to God and to the Lamb [YESHUA (JESUS)]. And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault [BLAMELESS / RIGHTEOUS] before the throne of God.

JEREMIAH 50:3-5 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
For out of the north a nation [RUSSIA] comes up against her [AMERICA], which shall make her [AMERICA’S] land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, both man and beast. “IN THOSE DAYS AND IN THAT TIME [OF AMERICA’S DESTRUCTION],” says YHWH (the Lord), the [144,000] children [MESSIANIC JEWS] of Israel shall come, they and the children [MESSIANICS AND CHRISTIANS] of Judah [AMERICA] together; with continual weeping they shall come, and seek YHWH (the Lord) their God. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces toward it, saying, ‘Come and let us join ourselves to YHWH (the Lord) in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.’

The 144,000 persons of Revelation are Torah-obedient, Messianic Jews who accept Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ) as their Messiah and Savior. In Israel, Messianic Jews live righteously in religious communities, they marry virgins, are undefiled by sexual immorality, and they are separated from the sinful ways of the world. The 144,000 number represents 12,000 Messianic Jewish saints sealed and redeemed from the twelve tribes of Israel (Revelation 7:4-8).

There are an estimated 15,000 Messianic Jews living in Israel as of 2011 [1]. The population of Messianic Jews living in Israel will increase tenfold to reach the prophesied 144,000 through childbirth, immigration, and by the conversion of secular and Talmudic Jews to Messianic Judaism. There will be 144,000 Messianic Jews living in Israel at the time of the destruction of America (Babylon the great – Revelation 14:8, 18), who will be redeemed from Israel and will join the redeemed American saints at the Lord’s holy mountain (Isaiah 18:5-7) in the pre-tribulation rapture.

REVELATION 14:8 (NKJV) [WITH INTERPRETATION]:
And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon [AMERICA] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink [PARTAKE] of the wine [SIN] of the wrath [MADNESS] of her fornication [SEXUAL IMMORALITY].”

The 144,000 Israeli Messianic Jews are taken to God’s holy mountain (Revelation 14:1-5) before the destruction of Babylon (Revelation 14:8) and just before the rapture of the American saints (Isaiah 18:5-7). At the destruction of America (Babylon), the great tribulation begins. The Messiah- denying Jews will be left behind and live through the great tribulation, as they have not accepted Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah and Savior, the only way to the Father and the kingdom of heaven (John 14:6).

When the United States is destroyed, the merchants of the Earth, sea ship cargo traders, and America’s allies will lament and weep over America, because no nation will live luxuriously off of America anymore, nor be under American military protection, and America will not import anyone’s merchandise anymore (Revelation 18:9-19). Enemies of the nation of Israel will rejoice when the United States is destroyed. Many of the surrounding nations of Israel consider the United States the great Satan, and when America is destroyed they will attack Israel relentlessly with rockets and by other means of war.

Israel will be able to fend off the military attacks of its hostile neighbors during the great tribulation, but will grow weary of war. The Antimessiah (Antichrist) will then seize the opportunity and make a 7-year peace treaty between Israel and its hostile neighbors, and after break the treaty halfway through it (Daniel 9:27).

Righteous, Torah-obedient, Yeshua (Jesus) accepting Messianic Jews will be spared from the panic and great tribulation that will occur in Israel following the fall of America (Babylon the great). Messianic Jews of Israel will be raptured to the Lord’s holy mountain, Mount Zion, and will greet the American saints who will soon after join them on Mount Zion at the time of the American rapture (Isaiah 18:5-7), just before Babylon (America) is destroyed (Revelation 14:8, 18).

1. Maoz Israel, “Messianic Jews,” 2011,
<http://www.maozisrael.org/site/PageServer?pagename=messianic_jews>