One thing I noticed from the list of 144,000 was the missing tribe of Dan. Joseph is listed, and Manasseh (who belongs to Joseph) is listed as well. So we have Manasseh counted twice essentially, and no Dan. I did a little research, and quickly discovered that leading scholars are divided on what's going on here. If the leading experts don't agree, chances are I won't figure it out definitively.
Regardless, after we see the 144,000 sealed from the different tribes of Israel, there appears a "great multitude that no one could count". Is this a future vision, or is this going on now? We see that these people "are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (v. 14). So it seems like this is a future thing. Am I part of that great multitude? Are you? It's quite an image. Read it again and imagine yourself there.
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