Mr. Bruce,

Your interpretation is incorrect. Notice that the 144,000 are SEALED "before" the earth is allowed to become desolated in chapter 7! This is telling us that the 144,000 are sealed BEFORE Gods Wrath! Chapter 6 of Revelation is a summary, so to speak, of what is to come, THUS, the angels being told NOT to hurt the earth UNTIL the 144,000 are S E A L E D ! From chapter 7 all the way through chapter 14, up to and including the harvest of the earth, is the TRIBULATION PERIOD! Chapter 16 tells us the time has come for Gods Wrath to be poured out. It is THEN and ONLY THEN, that Gods Wrath is poured out upon mankind and this is AFTER the Wheat harvest in chapter 14. NO ONE is raptured in chapter 6, or 5, or 4, or any other chapter. The earth is NOT harvested until chapter 14 of Revelation.

Yes the kings of the earth hide themselves among the rocks but that happens during the WRATH OF GOD! For they would not repent and did do EVIL in the face of our Father!

And as for the sealing of the 144,000, it is by OIL, anointing with oil, baptized into Jesus Christ death, to suffer as he did. And he chooses whom he will. It is not a luxury or to be something special. It is sacrifice of self, completely! They WILL lay down their lives for Jesus Christ! These ones carry a love of the Father in their MINDS, thus his name is WRITTEN in their minds! I tell you the TRUTH as I have experienced it! I do NOT lie about this. These 144,000, are divided into 12,000 in each tribe. Two tribes are Jewish and 10 are NOT. The Jewish tribes are of the Southern Kingdom and the other lost 10 tribes are of the Northern Kingdom. The Levites lived among the Jews and were of the Southern Kingdom. These are the TWO Kingdoms and are in reality, the two Witnesses....144,000 strong! They are the first fruits as spoken of in Revelation 11. And being the first fruits, they are the first to be taken, thus, they are the BRIDE of CHRIST!

The TRUTH IS that the entire WORLD has been deceived and refuses to believe it! The 144,000 are to tell the TRUTH to an unbelieving populous that worships satan.......most unknowingly and ignorant of the truth. BUT SOME just like the way things are, the holidays, customs, rituals, lies about why they keep the days they do, and on and on! The time is coming when the two witness, OR the 144,000 will be hunted down like animals and the world will rejoice because they were sorely troubled by the preaching of this TRUTH to the world. The system is being set up as we speak, to begin the WAR on the TWO WITNESSES or the 144,000. The beast system is almost in place and the man of lawlessness and the false prophet HATE these TWO houses of Israel, or these TWO witnesses, or these 144,000 first fruits of God, the true Bride of Christ!

So Bruce, I pray for you.

YBIC

MICHAEL