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Actually, it's both the Mormons and the JW, and of course the rest of Christendom. The number 144,000 is a number that shows up everywhere when
dealing with calendars, geometry, astronomy, well, the whole base-60 world. For instance, in ancient Egypt, one of their calendars was based on 10-day
weeks, that's 144,000 minutes, and the Great Pyramid was covered with 144,000 white stones. This system was also used in Babylonia where the Zodiac
was divided into ten day weeks or decans (Gr. Deca: ten.). This gives 36 (36th triangle number is 666) 10-day weeks (ten horns) per year and a leap
decan/week every second year (two horns).
Before you leap to claim the ancients didn't have clocks that could handle minutes, well, they had, for the clock is nothing but a way to read the
position of the Sun in the sky, and they used accurate clocks and knew how to accurately calculate astronomically and geographically-- the solar clock
(as precise as they come), water and sand clocks, astronomical knowledge allowing them to accurately predict planetary phenomena, solar ecclipses and
so on, quite accurately using a sea of tables spanning centuries and millennia of observations. Our system of seconds, minutes and hours is actually
geographical units based on the base-60 system and unites of sixes invented by the Sumerians and the mystical link between Heaven and Earth. As above,
so below.
Below is the quotes from the Apocalypse of John (Book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible chapters 7 and 14) where the 144,000 are mentioned:
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might
blow on earth or sea or against any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he
called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the
trees, until we have sealed the servantsa 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: [U: and it goes on to list a select twelve tribes of Israel with 12,000 in each tribe being sealed on their foreheads, note how
Dan is excluded and Levi included, and instead of Ephraim, Joseph is listed, it's a bloody mess, obviously this list has been severely tampered
with].
Reelation 14:1 Then 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. 2 And 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, 3 and 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. 4 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.
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