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Links
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-The Book of Revelation, Apocalyptic Literature, and Millennial Movements Felix Just, S.J.
-Mano Singham's Web Journal: The Book of Revelations and the Rapture

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Rev.7:4

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.