They
sang ... a new song ... and no one could learn that song
except the one hundred and forty-four thousand ...
Revelation 14: 3
In
the first part of the Bible we learn about twelve
children of Jacob. In the last part of the Bible we
learn about their grandchildren. Anyone who loves God
and does what He asks can be one of the grandchildren.
The Bible says there will be so many in Heaven that we cannot count them. There is a group that you can count. Can you count to ten? Well, you can count to ten a whole lot of times until it makes one hundred forty-four thousand. You have to count to ten, fourteen thousand times. That is a lot of people.
This group of people gets to do extra special things in Heaven. They get to go wherever Jesus goes. They sing a song that no one else can sing.
They
sing a song about what happened to them just before
Jesus came (Revelation 14: 3) No one else can sing
because no one else had seen what they saw just before
Jesus came. They saw volcanoes, earthquakes and
hurricanes. They saw floods washing away houses. They
saw people killing others for trying to follow what the
Bible teaches. They obeyed God anyway no matter how hard
it was.
This
group of people has the seal of God in their foreheads
and in their hands. Jesus' friend John talks about this
seal in Revelation 7: 2- 4. It had something to do with
the ten commandments. In Revelation 14: 12 John said
they keep the commandments. They have made up their
minds. No matter how hard it is to keep the
commandments, they will. Their hands have a seal because
they will only do as Jesus would do. The seal in their
foreheads means they will only think like Jesus would.
Have you made up your mind? Wouldn't you like to keep the commandments?