What will the first group of 144,000 be doing in heaven?
EXCERPT FROM SHERRY'S RADIO SHOW: Sherry Talk Radio 12-10-2007
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Everyone is kind of antsy about December. There are always antsy months. The Lord hasn't told me anything direct, folks. We know that one of their major things was to attack American cities on Christmas Day. It could happen. The Lord hasn't told me anything direct. If you want to watch the end time events and try to get a timeline, just watch the Middle East. When Maitreya arrives in Iran - their Mahdi.
An interesting thing about that tonight is that most of us won't even be here to see it. The bulk of the world will be here. That's what He was pointing out to me. He was taking me back to the articles that I was going over last week. My articles on sherrytalkradio.com, "Yahweh's Warriors, The Two Armies of 144,000" and "The Second Coming of Christ and The Battle of Armageddon." These articles have a wealth of information in them.
I want to get back into Matthew 24. It's a chapter that was exciting me this week.
Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matthew 24:37-42 But as the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
A couple of things that were jumping out at me here, I went over last week. In verse 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. If you look in Strong's Concordance, the word for "heaven" is "the universe." It's outer space, above the clouds, the stars. So, His Elect, His first group of 144,000 that is called the Elect in Revelation 14. There are 2 groups, the Elect and the Bride. At the time when He comes, at the Second Coming of Christ, the Elect are not on the Earth. They are in space. That is so exciting. I love Enoch. I've always told the Lord, "Enoch and his tours of Heaven...why did he get to do all of this stuff?"
Here's our time. The Elect, the first group of `144,000 get to do things in space that we can't even imagine here on Earth. It goes along with something He showed me a long time ago, and I'll talk about that too, but I wanted to mention this also. If you look in Matthew 24 verse 38-41 these people were living normally. You are looking at a time on Earth where the anti-Christ has already risen to power, we've already gone through the trumpet and the bowl judgments. The seals are long gone. We've gone through Satan's wrath on Earth for 3 1/2 years, then The Lords wrath on Earth for 3 1/2 years. At the end of all this time, there are still people here totally ignorant of the Second Coming of Christ. Totally not expecting it, living normal lives and not expecting His return. That's why He said He comes as a thief, because people aren't expecting Him.
You think ahead...the world's been through a famine, about 4 1/2 billion people are dead by then, and they still aren't conscious of The Lords Second Coming? Have they wiped out every person off the Earth that would have had a consciousness of His coming? That's pretty amazing. When your eyes get opened to what is going on at the time that He returns. Of course at that time, Satan is gathering armies in Jerusalem to battle against The Lord. There are still armies and nations alive on Earth. They're still capable and ready...or course there is no fuel. There has to be a way to get all the armies over to Jerusalem. If you read the Bible, it says that they are on horses. Of course, the chariots could be tanks. They will be on horses and in chariots to battle against The Lord at His second coming. I really don't think they are expecting it to be The Lord. I think that Satan will rally the Earth, telling them there is another UFO invasion and to go to Jerusalem to fight it. Then BOOM here comes The Lord on a white horse, leading His people to Earth. What is really cool is that before He actually descends to Earth, the sign of the Son of Man flashes throughout the Earth. Everybody sees it. Then He starts to arrive with the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. The clouds of heaven...I know that a lot of people teach that those are the Saints returning. Zechariah refers to the Saints as clouds. Angels are the hosts of heaven. It's a pretty good argument that these clouds aren't just angels, but Saints too. Maybe all the Saints that have died in the tribulation period as martyrs. He stops at that point. Almost like frozen in time for a few seconds while His angels go throughout the universe, throughout space and gather The Elect. That's the 144,000 and they're out in space.
Last week I talked about how the one group the Elect operates in the power and spirit of Enoch and the other in the spirit of Elijah. The two groups of 144,000...in Revelation 14, the name of the Father is written in the foreheads of the Elect. When you look in Revelation chapter 7, it talks about 12,000 from each tribe being sealed, placed in their forehead on Earth. They're not raptured, they're sealed here on Earth by angels. A seal is a marking or inscription. Like the seal of the scroll and no one was found worthy to open it except for The Lord Himself. It's a seal, a mark, a stamping of some kind. It is different than having His name written on your forehead. Even in heaven, these two groups will always be distinguished, and these two groups have different roles. One group, The Bride, worships The Lord in the temple day and night for ever and ever. The second group The Elect follows The Lord wherever He goes, because they are His warriors, like His security force. That's what we get to do for eternity. For those who make the first group of 144,000, The Elect. I can't think of a greater honor than the warriors that we are already than to be His security force every time He goes somewhere. Of course, He doesn't need us, folks. We like being thought of as needed. We want to be needed by Him.
People need a break, they need to hear about something that is coming that's fun. Something to strengthen and uphold you. There's not much time left. Some of us are barely hanging on by a thread because we are so tired. I know every time The Lord talks to me He says, "I know you are tired."
There are so many of us, I don't know of anyone who isn't ready to fall over. Been working so hard and just waiting and waiting for the show to get on the road; for this tribulation period to start. That's why He says, "I am coming soon." We all laugh because our "soon" and His are two different things. There was something that He pointed out to me last night..I don't believe in a literal rapture of the church where millions are raptured, because it is so unbiblical. There is nowhere in the Bible that talks about a rapture of a church. When you take what Paul said and twist and manipulate them, then you can come up with a rapture. When you hold them up with the scriptures from The Lord and His Apostles, it doesn't hold water. So you throw out Paul and you don't even see a pre-trib rapture.
Now, what you will see is the church of Philadelphia being protected during the hour of temptation. Protected, not raptured off of the Earth. Noah was protected, not raptured. He built an ark. The Lord will protect them on Earth. We know that there are pockets of believers in pockets of protection, in safety when The Lord returns at the Second Coming of Christ, because He talks about the Jews at the rose red city of Petra in Jordan, which is a safe haven for the Israelites to run to. I am not talking about the serpent seed over there, I am talking about those that believe in The Most High God and His Son and follow Him. They will know to go to Petra from the Old Testament prophets during the tribulation for safety. That's where they will be when The Lord comes. There will be other pockets of believers around the world that He would have moved them into in these times. I am not talking about church goers, I am talking about those that truly seek Him and know Him. He says when My Sheep hear my voice they know Me and I know them. How many people in the church today know The Lords voice or even care to hear it?
I hear from people all the time who are frustrated because they aren't sure if they're hearing The Lords voice. You know what? It just shows that they are seeking to and they want to. The Lord knows the intent of your heart. It just takes some time. At least they are taking the steps of seeking Him and building a relationship with Him. He isn't just a Sunday god and the other 6 days of the week out of sight, out of mind. There is a big difference in believers; how they have a relationship with The Lord and they are seeking to build one, or they couldn't care less.
Something that He pointed out to me - If you read Revelation chapter 14 you'll notice something. The first fruits group (The Elect, the 144,000) are in heaven and they are getting the Name of The Lord written on their foreheads - there are 3 angels.
One proclaims the hour of God's judgment has come.
The second proclaims that Babylon is fallen.
The third gives a warning against those who receive the mark of the beast.
You can see in this time frame, the first fruits group is in heaven before Babylon falls and right before the mark of the beast is enforced on the world. They are taken up and redeemed off of the Earth before the second half of the tribulation period begins, before the destruction of America and before the mark of the beast is enforced. A lot of us are always waiting for the economy to fall, the Russians and Iranians to bomb us into oblivion, Maitreya's going to come and have world war 3 Islam against Christians.
You know what?
We don't even have to worry about that. We need to prepare for the things that happen before that. But before even America, the last days Babylon is utterly destroyed, before the hour of temptation is upon the world, (when people are forced to take the mark of the beast) this first fruits group is taken. I believe that this group is taken somewhere around the 5th or 6th seal. I believe that the first 6 seals take place in the first half of the tribulation, and then the bowl, trumpet and the lightening and thunder judgments happen in the second half. This is a little encouragement for all of the Elect out there that are His warriors, followers and believers and really do love and seek Him. We will be gone before our country is completely and utterly annihilated. Kind of a time frame for you.
What do we do? This is the fun part.
We're taken to heaven, get His name written in our forehead, get all this power bestowed upon us by Him - and we are sent back to Earth. At that time, the second group of 144,000 is sealed (right at the beginning of the second half of the tribulation period) The Bible talks about 12,000 from each tribe of Israel being sealed. At that time, the 2 witnesses are here ( I believe the witnesses to be Enoch and Elijah) I have given my reasons for that. Both of these men were men of God. Enoch is said to have walked with God, never saw death and was taken to heaven in a chariot. Elijah never saw death and was taken to heaven in a chariot. I believe that these men will return and lead this second group of 144,000. When they die, and their bodies are laying in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 days...the world is celebrating their deaths. When they arise and go back to heaven, what is left of the second group will also rise and go with them. Most of them will already be dead. It's this second group that The Lord refers to as nations taking care of them; feeding them, clothing them and keeping them safe.
Something I had written in my article...that the first group would return with them, I have to take that out because it isn't right. The first group at that time doesn't return with the second group who are raptured with the 2 witnesses. The first group is still in space. The first group has this ability to travel between Earth and space. I've seen how they do it..its something that The Lord brings back to me over and over and over again - so I know that it was Him who showed it to me years ago. He just reinforces it to me over and over again, as crazy as it sounds.
There is some kind of a moon or planet that the first group will have as a home base. It's not heaven directly, kind of in-between Earth and Heaven. It'll be a home base for this Elect group. We will go to Heaven and get all of our ranks and positions. The first group is very rank oriented; you have your Generals, warriors and whole military thing going. This first group are gladiators and warriors- He is going to use them to help the second group that is anointed here on Earth. To get around, to travel or take the witnesses wherever they need to be. I've seen how we are going to do it. I've seen them, but don't know how to describe them. They're like pods, like airplanes - not like the round UFOs that we see today. If anything they would mimic a one seater airplane type pod craft. They are like one seater fighter planes - if you are transporting a group of people around they are bigger. Certainly nothing like airplanes today or round or cigar shaped UFO's.
We each get one of those. We're going to be up there fighting. We are going to be able to transport people to where The Lord wants someone to be or help them with something. Our biggest job will be fighting the forces of Satan. We know that they are all over the universe, all over space. We know that they inhabit Mars, Venus, all of the planets and all though moons of these planets. In our solar system, there are hundreds of moons and planets that these fallen angels inhabit. Part of our job as the Elect is going to war against all of them. Not just against Satan and his forces here on Earth, we're also going to be annihilating them in space. Every time I think about it, it gives me a lot of peace; in knowing that fun is coming.
One of the things in the Bible Codes in regards to this group is "enjoyment." They are having so much fun in just being together; the camaraderie - finally being with like minded people who love The Lord and just want to kick Satan's butt. That's going to be so much fun. I always see the terms "enjoyment" and "camaraderie" because we are going to have so much fun together. This is a mixed group. One of the reasons I put my website over on myspace.com was to reach the various crowds I need to reach; the kids. I've definitely been reaching them though myspace. This 144,000 is teenagers, women and men. I don't know how young of a teenager we are going to go...maybe 15, 16, 17. A lot of these kids are going to lead and outrank adults, folks. The Lord doesn't go by your age, He goes by your growth in Him.
When you grow in the Lord, and begin to be able to do the things that He asks; when you are able to be a "go to" person, and you have built your faith and your foundation on Him - He marks that; He knows all of that. He knows how many hairs are on your head. How you are rewarded in the last days is determined and based on everything that you are doing here on Earth. Your rank later determines what kind of a warrior/believer/follower that you are now. If you want to be a squadron leader later, then you better be doing everything that He leads you to do now. No matter how little, how simple. Just doing the little things He asks you to do. He will never just ask you to do something big if you can't do something little for Him. So many people want that big assignment..."Okay, Lord tell me what to do. I'll start a radio show or head to the West Coast with my Orgone."
He's not going to lead you to do something big if you can't do the little things He asks. If He tells you to read something or to spend time with Him. No matter how small it is. If He leads you to send the lady across the street $20, or buy someone's groceries. It shows that you hear His voice in your spirit and you are obeying. He leads you up to the big things. It's the heart of the warrior, the heart of the person. He knows how much you love Him, how trustworthy you are and if you are one of His go to people. It's the "go to" people that will lead this army of 144,000.They'll be His Generals- the ones He can depend on. It is a breath of fresh air to be able to look ahead to the future and see some of the things that we will be able to do for Him - and have this access to heaven and Earth.
I have seen this place. I don't know whether it is a moon or a planet. It's someplace we have to go to where we can park our pods/airplanes at; like a huge airforce base. You can go there to get off of Earth for a while to rest and then head back out. I've been there, I just can't describe it. There is nothing there except for a couple of buildings that aren't like our buildings here on Earth. I can always remember sitting and talking to this old man who is there. Every time I landed my craft and got out, he would be sitting there and I would talk to him. I was very close to him, although I don't know who he was....Okay, Lord who was that? Was that Enoch? I have these visions of things, I can see ahead. I didn't know at the time if it was ahead or something in the past. Was it from the past when we were fighting against Lucifer's first rebellion? The more He leads me to it, I am believing that it is in the future, a future event.
We have the same sort of things as in the first rebellion. I have seen myself flying this craft/pod thing. I wasn't even on the Earth during Satan's rebellion the first time around. I was off in space and when I came back he had implemented his rebellion and the angels on the Earth at that time were making their escape off of the Earth and the planets because The Lord was going to destroy them. You can read all that in my article, "Angels in The Flesh." We will have the same technology as then, like we never lost a beat - we'll take back our airplanes and probably our positions and ranks and come back again. We won't have to literally be on the Earth this time when Satan is ruling on Earth - we'll be able to fight and war against the fallen angles who have taken up residence in other parts of the universe. The Lord is going to get rid of all of them. He's not just eliminating Satan and his fallen angels here on Earth, he is going to eliminate all of them around the universe that are hidden. He is going to use us as his arm to do that. We're going to be out there destroying all of these "friendly aliens".
When He arrives on Earth with the clouds, the angels and his believers - He stops at that point and the angels go out and gather all of the Elect and bring them back to Earth at this point. When The Lord finishes his descent on Earth, ALL of His warriors, angels and bride are with Him. This will be a spectacular sight. You have the clouds of heaven with Him. You have them riding horses and you have His elite 144,000, His angels and His Bride. We aren't going to have to war here on Earth because His angels go forth at this time.
This is where in Matthew 24 comes about - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Right before He descends to Earth, He sends His angels out with sickles ready for the harvest. These angels go out and remove the wicked off the Earth. This isn't a rapture where one woman was good, raptured and went to Heaven - the angels destroy these people! That's why there are 2 women, one is destroyed and one is left. Two men in the field, one is destroyed and one left. This is exactly what Enoch says. First thing he says is that the wicked will be removed off of the Earth...and they are. Not the Bride - the wicked.
After He descends with all His Elect, angels and Bride - you see the Battle of Armageddon. He destroys all of those armies with the breath of His mouth. With the words of His lips, they are all destroyed. It talks about their destruction; about how their sins melting off of their skin and their eyes melting into their sinkholes. Sounds like a huge atomic destruction, something you would see on TV where a nuclear bomb goes off and those standing around become skeletons in 2 seconds. All He does is speak it, and it comes forth. Man can only mimic and try to do with technology what The Lord can do. They spend billions on nuclear bombs and nerve gasses. All those involved in Satan's second rebellion against The Lord will be destroyed. The angels have gone though and removed the wicked off the Earth,
The Lord gathers all His people that are left alive on the Earth. Can you imagine what a sight that will be? He gathers all his people then has the judgment of the nations - the sheep and goats. The nations that were good to His people are allowed to enter into the millennial reign. The ones who were evil and wicked are destroyed.
Then you go into the Thousand Year Millennial Reign of Christ on Earth and David is set up as King in Israel to reign as king once again. We go for 1000 years here on Earth under theocratic rule with King David as our leader. Everybody (all those with Christ at His Second Coming) by this time having already appeared at the Judgment Seat and been given their positions, jobs and assignments for this time in the Millennial Reign of Christ. When you stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, you will be rewarded or not rewarded at all. Maybe you'll just be one of those who dwell on the Earth and not given a ranking position. It will be your own fault.
I hear people say, "Oh, I'd be happy as a janitor in heaven, as long as I get in." Well yeah, we all feel that way, but if you are a janitor in Heaven, then it means that you weren't really focused on The Lord in your life here on Earth. You weren't building rewards or any confidence in Him of who you are, who you were in Him. His leaders will be His "go to" people. The ones who sought Him, followed Him and loved Him. Basically, it all comes down to love. If you love Him, you will seek Him. It's all in a persons actions, not necessarily what you accomplish. During the Thousand Years we will given different jobs to do...some will be rulers of 7 cities and some will be rulers of 70 times 7. He puts His people in charge of cities and towns on Earth. They're the judges and rulers on Earth. King David is their boss, our boss. At that time the 144,000 are still The Lords security force and get to go with Him everywhere He goes. We won't be stuck in a quagmire of living on Earth - I can't even imagine the thought and I don't want to imagine living on the Earth for 1000 years and not being with Him. I just want to be with Him, I want to fight. I want to be in my pod destroying, but there won't be anything to destroy at that time.
During that Thousand Years, nobody dies. There is no death, no sickness. The kings of the Earth will be required to follow the feasts and make an annual trip to Jerusalem - if they don't, rain will be withheld from their nation for a year. All these kings and their nations during the thousand year reign will be under the authority of The Lord. They won't be able to do what they want. They will be required to keep all of the Feasts. It is during this time that The Lord gathers His people true Israel to Israel. He isn't gathering them now, or in 1948 when the U.N. established Israel. He will gather His people (in the future) from the four corners of the Earth and establish them in Israel. So, Israel will be there, and these other nations will be in their own places. They will all be ruled over by King David and The Lord will be in His Temple at that time.
His people will have jobs to do at that time. One believer may be the governor of a city, mayor of a town. There is going to be structure. For a thousand years you have millions and millions and millions of people because there is no death and everyone is having babies. I have a feeling that a lot of the ancient technology and the technology that we have today will come back at that time. We will be able to travel to different planets and I don't doubt that we will be able to populate them too. Earth will be very populated at that time, you can imagine that without death there will be billions.
At the end of this Thousand Year Reign, Satan will be loosed from the Abyss. He will be allowed for his third and final attempt to come up against the authority of The Lord. What he is going to do is go around to these nations (as he does today) and whisper in these peoples ears to rebel against The Lord. They do that today by not following Him, worshipping Him or seeking Him. They care about their cares of the world more than about Him. Satan will be allowed a space of time to gather up an army. This is the army mentioned in Revelation chapter 20 or 21. The same army in Ezekiel 37 and 38 that comes up against The Lord. Some preachers put that war in the beginning or middle of the tribulation period, when Gog and Magog advance against Jerusalem, but I think it is at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ. When you read these two accounts in Scripture, you will see how similar they are. So here we go again. Satan gets the nations to rebel against The Lord. When these goat (turn into roque) nations go against Him, they are destroyed in the mountains of Israel. No one has to even do anything to them. The Lord annihilates them. There goes Satan's final attempt to overthrow The Lord.
I thought I would just give a little analysis of what we are heading into, folks. This is something that He wanted me to see and I'm going to stay in this. I'll probably talk about it some more next week, because I don't feel He is releasing me from talking about it now. Just as He revealed the four horsemen to me; who and what they are, now I am heading into another area.
I think this is comforting to a lot of people who do worry. I'm not saying, take the easy ride out and don't do anything because we are going to be removed from the Earth (The Lords Elect, His first fruits) before the destruction of America. There could be famine or an economic collapse first, you could lose your job or electricity. There's nothing here that says we'll be living in comfort until we are taken off the Earth. Prepare, prepare. A lot of the preparations that He has been leading me and others to do over the years would also be left here for those who are left when you are gone. He will lead people to it that need it to survive during the time when you are gone and hell is breaking loose on the Earth. It won't be for naught. It's all part of obedience...obeying. Don't rationalize what He tells you. If He tells you to stock up and prepare, then do it. Don't rationalize, just do what He asks! He says to obey, not question and analyze everything He asks you to do. That's why you have your Generals and your foot soldiers...foot soldiers are not leaders....they need to be led. You are going to mark your own fate whether you are in this group or not. It's in your hands.
The Lord has always led certain people to my websites and my radio show. I am not here for everybody. I'm not here to build an army, I'm here to wake one up. I'm here for those who need to hear what I am saying. I'm not here for the majority of the world or to gain acceptance by the majority of churchdumb. I'm not here for the majority of anything. The Lords true warriors have always been the minority. A distinct minority. I know that it gets frustrating for you because you are surrounded by the majority who think you're crazy! I hear from everybody, it's the same stuff and they get frustrated by it. That's the way it is; we're the minority - get used to it. Stand your ground. Stand your ground.
That's what I tell the kids that I talk to on myspace, "Stand your ground in The Lord." That's what you have to do no matter what the world wants you to do or think, you just have to stand your ground. Plant your feet and keep them there. One the things that The Lord is telling us is that His coming is soon. Of course we laugh because He always says soon. He doesn't live in our linear time, His soon is a lot different than our soon. That's why he gives us markers to watch for. One of my biggest ones is watching for the arrival of Maitreya. If he says I'm not going to be here for that, then I won't be here. We'll all be gone....Well, I could be killed but I don't think so - I've been shot at and run off the road...you name it (I'm still here).
Another interesting aspect about the first fruits group. When is the first fruits feast? We do have one, you know. Do they coincide? Yes, they could. In Revelation 14, it refers to them as the first fruits. And in May there is the Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of the First Fruits. There's a time marker...May 2008 or May 2009. The Lord says no one will know the day or the hour. Is He talking about when He returns or when He redeems the first fruits group? It doesn't say anything about knowing the month, week or year. It just says day or hour. We'll be gone in May of 2008 or 2009. I don't know what year. I know it will be hell on Earth in 2009, so you have to be expecting some things to happen in 2008 that will prepare us for 2009. So many things ghastly things will be coming about in 2009 and after.
