Revelation 14:1-5 Sing a new Song

SLIDE 1 After my Mother lay non-responsive for a week, I prayed for God’s mercy to take her home and take her from her failing tent of flesh. After a lingering disease like cancer, it is such sweet release to be absent from the body.  Face to face with Jesus, what could be better! What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see!

SLIDE 2 Revelation 14¹Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. ²And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,³and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

SLIDE 3 We’ll discuss 144,000 after we discuss the New Song

Psalm 33:3 Sing unto Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. Psalms 40:3 - And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalms 96:1-4 - ¹Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!
²Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.³Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!⁴ For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

SLIDE 4 Psalms 98:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for He hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God; upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee.

Psalm 149:1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!

SLIDE 5 Isaiah 42:10 - Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Revelation 5:9 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Look at all the psalms that include the words New Song. Ladies anytime you are down or depressed turn to Psalms. You may want to highlight these because they are about praising the LORD. We must not look on our present situations but praise God for his promises.

SLIDE 6 The sound of roar of water and sound of thunder could be the intensity of the number that are singing. Psalm 33:3 says with a loud noise. No quiet sitting on clouds here.

Verse 2 says the sound of harpists playing on their harps, Psalm 144:9 quotes on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings

Wow! Can you imagine was that would be like? Better than any rock concert!

Revelation 7:3 saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."⁴ And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:

SLIDE 7 These are not the 144,000 spoken of in ch. 7 - the 12,000 from the 12 tribes of Judah. The qualifiers in the first few verses of ch. 14 show the difference.

Revelation14: 4-5 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,⁵and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.

•         SLIDE 8 V.1 Name of Lamb (not KJV) and the Father on their forehead LaHaye feels the 144,000 of are Christians "purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb." This indicates that their selection was not for the spreading of the gospel on the earth during the Tribulation, but for a special position at the throne of God before Him and the Lord Jesus Christ. The name on their forehead will show Yeshua will be foremost in their thought. Him on shall they serve.

•         SLIDE 9 Pure( Greek  for “virgin”) and faithful (not bowing to the beast)

The word virgin here means chaste and is applied to men. Although celibacy is not taught in the Bible, Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 7: The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. ³³ But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, ³⁴ and his interests are divided. Paul hinted in verse 7 that “I wish that all were as I myself am.”  not married so you can devote your life to Christ.

SLIDE 10 The raptured church with the 144,000 in Ch. 14 being martyred are in this scene before Mt. Zion is either taking place in Heavenly Mt. Zion or on Earthly Mt. Zion following the return of Christ at the end of tribulation. This multitude will be the fruit of the 144,000 who will also be killed.  The 144,000 will fulfill in the 70^th week the role that God had planned for Israel.

•         Follow the lamb everywhere (sold out to live only for Christ) Must be heaven since Christ is there before Tribulation

•         Redeemed from the earth (purchased from many nations not just the Jews)

•         SLIDE 11 Firstfruits of the Harvest of the earth (Jews have Festival of Weeks from Leviticus bringing the first of their harvest of the fields to the LORD. They also brought first born of their flocks.)

These were first born after the midpoint of Tribulation again by receiving Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. They have been faithful in completely abandoning their will to the will of Christ during their lifetimes. It appears they have earned their position because of their faithfulness in doing whatever the Lord commissioned them to do.

•         SLIDE 12 Blameless, not perfect -No lie in their mouth

Notice it does not say they are sinless. They have been purchased by the blood of the Lamb, saved the same way you and I are, yet there is something about their commitment to Christ that is special. There is no major blight on their record as believers.

1Thessalonians 2:10  You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.

•         Only ones to know the New Song

Each week Kim text me to tell her the songs I've chosen. Usually a song will enter my head as I do my study. Can you imagine the sound in heaven when the 144,000 are singing their new song? How hard is it for you to sing after suffering a loss?

SLIDE 13Horatio Spafford prominent American lawyer invested in real estate north of an expanding Chicago in the spring of 1871 when the Great Fire of Chicago reduced the city to ash and destroyed most of Spafford's sizable investment.  In 1873, Spafford decided his family should take a holiday in England knowing that his friend D. L. Moody would be preaching there. He was delayed because of business, so he sent his wife and their four daughters ahead.

While crossing the Atlantic on the steamship Ville du Havre, their ship collided with a British iron clipper Loch Earn and 226 people lost their lives, including all four of Spafford's daughters. Anna Spafford survived the tragedy. Upon arriving in England, she sent a telegram to her husband beginning "Saved alone." Spafford then sailed to England, passing over the location of his daughters' deaths. According to Bertha Spafford Vester, a daughter born after the tragedy, Spafford wrote the famous song "It Is Well with My Soul" on this journey. The hour of God’s judgment has come.

SLIDE 14 Throughout the gospels followers of Christ are told to spread God's story.  A command from Jesus to spread his gospel is known as the Great Commission in Matthew 28. Until now no angel has been given this task. By now most of the Christians have been martyred and are removed from the earth. However God is merciful and will give one last chance to anyone who has not taken the mark of the beast. This would have to be people hiding from the antichrist and his regime. Once they take the mark of the beast they cannot be redeemed from the earth.

SLIDE 15 Matthew 6:24"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

During the Tribulation, you can only have one mark. Man cannot serve God and the beast.