And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of
Israel.
Few Christians take the 144,000 number seriously, of
course. But the JWs do. Boy do they ever! They believe that
there are two distinct classes of believers: the 144,000 "Anointed" that are going to heaven and the "Great Crowd" that will
remain here on earth. The WatchTower teaches that heaven closed in 1935, and
that everyone else will either be killed at Armageddon (if they are not JWs) or
live forever on earth.