From: alarm@yabbs
To: Pele@yabbs
Subject: 144,000
Date: Tue Aug  2 13:05:14 1994
I think we need to look at the 144,000 bit again. The Bible does not say 
that, all told, only 144,000 people will get into heaven. It says that 
144,000 Jews will be sealed of those who are living at the time of the 
end. That means than any number of people who are not Jewish at that time 
could get into heaven and any number of Jews or Gentiles could get into 
heaven before that time. Besides, numbers in the book of Revelation rarely 
represent a mathematical count. Apocalyptic writing uses many images, 
including numbers, to convey other things besides epistemologically 
verifiable events.

sounding like an
  alarm