REVELATION 21:10-13

 NEW JERUSALEM—12 GATES

12 GATES—12 SONS OF JACOBS

 NAMES—12 TRIBES OF
JACOB: REVELATION 7:1-4-8
Body Symbol Son Name Jacob's Blessing Moses' Blessing
Brothers praise him, bow God hears him, brings himto
Blood Lion Judah Praise the Lord
down. Lion with a scepter his people, fights enemies
Donkey, God has given me my Strong donkey bearing Rejoice in
Shoulder Iss achar Call people to the
wages wages burdens among the sheep your tents
mountain. Take
Rejoice in abundance of the
Dwell by the sea, a haven your going sea and treasures
Flank Ship Zebulun Good gift
for ships forth of the sand
(exodus)
God has seen my No preeminence or dignity, May he live and have many
Testicles Water Reuben
afflictio ns turbulent as waters children
God has heard that I Swords of violence. Angry.
Ham Simeon No blessing
amnot loved Rejected their assembly.
strung, Scattered
Husband attached to Scattered because of Survived trials, kept the
Skinned Levi
me violence covenant, teach the law
Cut up, Lion who tears the armand
Raider Gad Howfortunate Will be attacked by raiders
eat crown of the head
Horn, Sea A lion's whelp leaping from
Dan God has judged me He judge s his people
Heel Monster Bashan
Blessed. Foot in oil. Iron and
Bread Fat Bread Asher Happy amI His food will be rich, royal
bronze shoes
Words A doe set free with
Set Free Naphtali I have prevailed Possess the sea and south
(She ma) beautiful words
Arms, Reproach removed.
Joseph Fruitful, blessed Blessed, firstborn ox
breasts, Add another son
womb, Fruitful God has made me
head Ephraim Greater nation Tens of thousands
fruitful
God has made me
- Forget Manasseh Great nation Thousands
forget
Eats Son of Sorrow Ravenous wolf, devours
Wolf Benjamin Beloved who lives securely
Tamid Son of the right hand prey, shares spoil
 144, 000 SEALED—ISRAEL
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SEALED?
(Revelation 7:2.) Seal Is a Settling Into Truth.--Just as
soon as the people of God are sealed in their
foreheads--it is not any seal or mark that can be
seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually
and spiritually, so they cannot be moved--just as
soon as God's people are sealed and prepared for the
shaking, it will come. Indeed, it has begun already;
the judgments of God are now upon the land, to give
us warning, that we may know what is coming
(MS 173, 1902). {4BC 1161.6}
WHO ARE THOSE BEING
SEALED?

144, 000—12 TRIBES OF

ISRAEL [SPIRITUAL]
 WHEN WILL THE 144, 000 LIVE IN
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD?
 THEY WILL LIVE DURING THE GREAT
TRIBULATION—PRIOR TO THE COMING OF
JESUS
 THEY WILL BE THOSE WHO WITNESS THE
SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST IN ALL
HIS GLORY
 THEY WILL GO THROUGH THE GREAT
TRIBULATION [JACOB’S TIME OF TROUBLE]
 THEY WILL LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST

 REVELATION 6:15-17
 SO THEN, WHO WILL LIVE
THROUGH THE SEVEN LAST
PLAGUES [THE OUTPOURING
OF GOD’S WRATH]?

REVELATION 7:1-8
 ARE THEY LITERAL JEWS—
144, 000?

 IS THIS GOD’S FINAL PLAN FOR THE

LITERAL RESCUING OF THE JEWISH
NATION?

 RATHER, IS THIS REFERRING TO SPIRITUAL

ISRAELITES, WHO HAVE THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 12 TRIBES—
SONS OF JACOB. THESE ARE THOSE WHO
SHALL BE GLORIFIED.
WHAT IS THE NEW TESTAMENT
DEFINITION—ISRAEL?
 ROMANS 2:28, 29
 GALATIANS 3:16, 27, 29 [SEED—CHRIST]
 DOES THAT SEED EXCLUDE GENTILES—US?

HENCE—ISRAEL IS NOT DEFINED BY ITS:

 SURNAME
 PLACE
 BLOOD
 DRESS
 CULTURE
 IS IT NOT BY A SPIRITUAL
RELATIONSHIP OF WHICH
ISRAEL IS DEFINED?
HERETOFORE, WOULDN’T THE ABOVE DEFINITION
APPLY TO THE 144, 000—SEALED?
ROMANS 9:6-8

JOHN 8:31-41

RELATIONAL JEWS!
CHARACTERISTICS: PERSONAL
PROFILING VERIFICATION

 REVELATION 21:12

 ACCORDING TO REVELATION 21:12, WHO

WILL BE ALLOWED BY THE ANGELS INTO
THE CITY?

 REVELATION 22:14
 THE 12 TRIBES—SONS OF JACOB:
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES
 WHY WOULD GOD HAVE THE 12 TRIBES OF
ISRAEL—JACOB’S [12 SONS]
IMMORTALIZED ON EVERY GATE OF THAT
CITY?
 WEREN’T THEY SINNERS?
 HAS GOD BEEN FAIR IN HIS DEALINGS WITH
LUCIFER?
 WHY CAST OUT THE FATHER OF SIN
[LUCIFER] DOWN TO EARTH—AND YET
ADMIT SINNERS [12 TRIBES] IN?
DISSECTING —CHARACTERISTICS
& PERSONALITIES—12 TRIBES
 THEY WERE—COVETOUS
 THEY WERE ENVIOUS
 THEY WERE LIERS
 THEY WERE MURDERERS—COLD BLOODED
KILLERS [GENESIS 34:25-31]
 THEY WERE THIEVES
 REUBEN SLEPT WITH HIS FATHER’S WIFE
 THEY WERE MERCILESS SONS—THE TREATMENT
OF JOSEPH BY HIS BROTHERS
 JUDAH LAID WITH HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW—
THINKING SHE WAS A PROSTITUTE
 ALL FOUR MOTHERS
[GENESIS 29 & 30]
WERE EMBROILED IN
CHILD-BEARING FEUD

AND YET THEIR NAMES ARE

IMMORTALIZED ON THE GATES
OF THAT HEAVENLY CITY?

WHAT WENT WRONG?

IT’S ONLY FAIR THAT THOSE
ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE
CITY WOULD BE ASKING
QUESTIONS…

HOW COULD GOD ALLOW

MURDERERS, THIEVES, LIERS,
ETC, TO INHERIT THAT CITY,
WHEN THEIR SINFUL DEEDS
HAVE BEEN WORSE OFF THAN
OURS?
 REVELATION 21:7, 8
THOSE WITHIN THE CITY—REVELATION 2:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I
will be his God, and he shall be my son.
 WHAT THINGS DID THEY OVERCOME?

THOSE WITHOUT THE CITY VS.8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is
the second death.
 OVERCOMERS:
REVELATION 2 & 3
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH VS. 7
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH VS. 11
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH VS. 17
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH VS. 26
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH—CHAP. 3:5
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH—CHAP. 3:12
 TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH—CHAP. 3:21

 SEVEN TIMES: DOES THAT RING A BELL?

 WHAT IS GOD’S CONDITION FOR
EATING OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE
OF LIFE? REVELATION 22:14, 15
 NEW JERUSALEM—12  144, 000 ARE NOT
GATES LITERAL JEWS
 EACH GATE REPRESENTS  NEW TESTAMENT
ONE OF THOSE SONS OF DEFINITION—JEWS—
JACOB THOSE WHO HAVE
 144, 000 IS A COMPOSITE ACCEPTED JESUS
OF THE 12 TRIBES—JACOB CHRIST—SAVIOR
 144, 000 WILL BE ALIVE  ANGELS—GATES…
WHEN JESUS RETURNS GUIDING THE SAINTS
 144, 000 WILL HAVE THE  THOSE WHO ENTER
SEAL [SPIRITUAL MARK] THROUGH THE GATES
OF GOD ARE OVERCOMERS
 OVERCOMERS—MUST
OVERCOME SIN THROUGH
CHRIST

CARNAL TENDENCIES:

INHERITANCE
 CULTIVATION
COERCION
IS EVERYONE GOING TO ENTER
THROUGH THE SAME GATE?
REVELATION 15:2 & REVELATION 22:14

 THROUGH WHICH GATE WILL YOU ENTER?

GENESIS 49:1, 2
 ARE THE SONS OF JACOB [LITERAL] 12
TRIBES OF ISRAEL GOING TO BE ALIVE AT
THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH [SEVEN
LAST PLAGUES]?
 BUT THEIR PURIFIED INFLUENCE WILL BE
ALIVE!
 AND THE PORTRAIT OF THEIR PURIFIED
CHARACTERISTICS WILL BE ALIVE!
 12 SONS—JACOB
PERSONALITY PROFILE
 YOUR SPECIFIC PERSONALITY PROFILE
WILL DETERMINE WHICH GATE YOU GO
THROUGH

EXAMPLE: SIMEON/LEVI—SHORT-FUSED
PERSONALITY [BAD TEMPER/HYPER]

 THESE TWO [SIMEON/LEVI] WIPED OUT AN

ENTIRE NATION BECAUSE ONE MAN
VIOLATED THEIR SISTER [GENESIS 34:24-31]
 REUBEN—BACKBONE OF A JELLYFISH
 TWO SONS—12 TRIBES OF
ISRAEL—MISSING—WHY?

1. THE SON—TRIBE OF DAN—BACKBITER

 GENESIS 49:17 & PSALMS 104:26

2. THE SON—TRIBE OF EPHRAIM—IDOL

WORSHIPER
 HOSEA 4:17
 REVELATION 22:14 & 7:14
TWO TRANSLATIONS
1. REVELATION 7:14 “WASH THEIR ROBES”

2. REVELATION 22:14 “KEEP THE

COMMANDMENTS”

WHICH OF THE TWO TRANSLATIONS IS

CORRECT?

 BOTH
 HERE’S WHY…
 WHEN ANYONE ACCEPTS JESUS AS HIS/HER
PERSONAL SAVIOR, IMMEDIATELY, THE
PROCESS OF JUSTIFICATION BEGINS.
HIS/HER SINS ARE CLEANSED BY THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB.

 OBEDIENCE TO ALL OF GOD’S COMMANDS

LEADS TO THE PROCESS OF
SANCTIFICATION. ONLY THROUGH CHRIST’
BLOOD AND POWER IS THE SINNER NOW
ABLE TO OVERCOME.
 REVELATION 12:17 & REVELATION 14:12
WERE THE SINS OF JACOB’S 12—
SONS CLEANSED BY THE BLOOD
OF THE LAMB?

 DID THEIR LIVES ALSO CHANGED?

 WERE THEY ABLE TO OVERCOME?

 WERE THEIR NAMES IMMORTALIZED ON

THE GATES OF THE CITY?
 A STATE OF BEING VERSUS
ACTING
REVELATION 22:11—STATE OF BEING
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he
which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is
holy, let him be holy still.
REVELATION 22:11—ACTION
He that is unjust, let him continue to act unjustly
still: and he which is filthy, let him continue to act
filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him continue
to act righteous still: and he that is holy, let him
continue to act holy still.
TRANSITION TEXTS: A STATE OF
BEING—TO A STATE OF ACTING

 JEREMIAH 13:23

 COLOSSIANS 3:1, 2

 ISAIAH 26:1-3
 PSALMS 15:1-5
LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall
dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly,
and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart. [He that] backbiteth not with his
tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh
up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose
eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth
them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his
own] hurt, and changeth not. [He that] putteth
not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
against the innocent. He that doeth these [things]
shall never be moved.
 WHO ARE THOSE ABLE TO STAND—
JEWISH NATION OR SPIRITUAL JEWS—
144, 000?
REVELATION 14:1
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount
Sion, and with him an hundred forty [and] four
thousand, having his Father's name written in
their foreheads.
 ARE THESE PEOPLE [ABOVE] LITERAL OR
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL?
REVELATION 6:17
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?
 ISAIAH 60:18
REVELATION 19:1,2 &
REVELATION 21:21
WHY A PEARL ON EACH GATE—HOW IS A
PEARL FORMED?

The formation of a pearl begins when a foreign

substance such as a parasite …lodges itself in the
soft body of an oyster. In response to such
irritation, the oyster attempts to protect itself by
secreting pearl nacre, a smooth crystalline
substance. When found, they are usually heirloom
pieces commanding extraordinarily high prices.
WHAT DOES THE FORMATION OF A
PEARL HAVE TO DO WITH PEARLY
GATES?
 ACTS 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and]
exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that
we must through much tribulation enter into
the kingdom of God.

 WHO ARE THOSE GOING TO DWELL IN

THAT CITY? MATHEW 5:8
THOSE WITH IMPURE HEARTS,
WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO
DO?
REVELATION 6:15, 16
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and
the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb:
 GREAT MEN– STAND UP AND
FIGHT—NOW TAKE FLIGHT,
WHY?
THEY ARE AFRAID—LAMB—THRONE!
 WITHOUT HOLINESS—MAN IS UNABLE TO
STAND IN GOD’S PRESENCE—
HEBREWS 12:14
 WITHOUT HOPE [HEAVENLY] MAN IS
UNABLE TO SEE GOD’S FACE—1 JOHN 3:3
 WITHOUT HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS—HIS
CHURCH CANNOT BE SPOTLESS OR
WRINKLE-FREE—EPHESIANS 5:1-33
WITHOUT FAITH IN HIS
CLEANSING BLOOD AND
POWER—DIVINE
PERFECTION IS
UNATTAINABLE

PHILIPPIANS 4:13
 PASSENGERS TRAVELING TO
HEAVEN—FIRST CLASS—NO
BAGGAGE
HEBREWS 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had
translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.

GENESIS 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not;
for God took him.
A TRIP WITHOUT BAGGAGE—ENOCH
BY MANNER OF DRESS—HOLY
BY MANNER OF MUSIC—HOLY
BY MANNER OF WORSHIP—HOLY
BY MANNER OF ENTERTAINMENT—HOLY
BY MANNER OF SPEECH—HOLY
BY MANNER OF SPIRIT—HOLY
BY MANNER OF BEHAVIOUR—HOLY
BY MANNER OF THOUGHT—HOLY
BY MANNER OF PERCEPTION—HOLY
 BY MANNER OF TASTE—HOLY
BY MANNER OF LIFESTYLE—HOLY
 ENOCH—HOLY LIFE—SIN-
CURSED EARTH—YES!
QUESTION: IS THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
UNDER THE SAME OBLIGATION AS WAS
ENOCH?

“GOD WILL MAKE PERFECT ONLY THOSE

WHO WILL DIE TO SELF” (MS 16, 1900).

HERE’S THE QUESTION: ARE YOU WILLING

TO LET GO OF SELF AND LATCH ON TO THE
SAVIOR?