Revelation talks about the 144,000 but there's a lot of debate as to exactly what it means. We know from other passages that it doesn't refer to the number of people who will be saved as the number of people saved is specifically described as being 'beyond numbering'. Also the 144000 is made up of 12000 from each tribe of Israel, some of which had already vanished when it was written. Basically it's symbolic but we don't know what of.
As for the four horsemen, and understand this is Adventist doctrine so scholars from other backgrounds may disagree, they represent stages in the church's history. Currently we're in the death phase because a lot of people have a dead faith. Again that's my own denomination's take on the 4 horsemen. We're big on end times study. -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:01 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Forget 2012. BP's gonna kill us all before Christmas! On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote: > > Funny thing about the Rapture...it's not mentioned anywhere in the > Bible. > It's not? I guess i'm not positive what you mean by Rapture, but doesn't Revelations talk about the 144,000 being saved on the day of reckoning...the 4 riders of the apocalypse, etc. etc.? That sounds kind of Rapturous. -- I've seen your flag on the marble arch Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323050 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
