anyone can help? There are only around 9,000 or so still here.
The 144,000 saints (they are called "virgin" 2 Cor. 11:2, twelve tribes and firstfruits James 1:1, 2, 18, Rev 14:3, 4) include the apostles and other first century anointed ones so they could NOT all be on earth now.
There is a direct quote.
Questions:
If the Apostles is part of now 9000 JWS who will make up 144,000 total and the are all to be VIRGINS
How could the Apostles be Virgins, when they, everyone of them had a wife and Children, except Paul ?
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, HE SAW HIS * WIFE'S * MOTHER laid, and sick of a fever.
John 19:25
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, MARY THE * WIFE * OF CLEOPHAS
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we not power to lead about a SISTER, a WIFE, as well AS OTHER APOSTLES, and as the brethren of the Lord, AND CEPHAS?
Acts 1:20
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his BISHOPRICK let another take.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the HUSBAND of one WIFE
having his * CHILDREN * in subjection with all gravity;
Is not a VIRGIN and UNMARRIED women or man to begin with ?
Is not Cleophas and Peter ONE an the same ?
Did not Paul describe them all as having a WIFE ?
Was Judias an Apostles and described as being a BISHOP ?
Was a BISHOP described as MUST having ONE WIFE, and CHILDREN ?
For JEO:
Revelation 14:4
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.
The 144,000 saints (they are called "virgin" 2 Cor. 11:2, twelve tribes and firstfruits James 1:1, 2, 18, Rev 14:3, 4) include the apostles and other first century anointed ones so they could NOT all be on earth now.
There is a direct quote.
Questions:
If the Apostles is part of now 9000 JWS who will make up 144,000 total and the are all to be VIRGINS
How could the Apostles be Virgins, when they, everyone of them had a wife and Children, except Paul ?
Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, HE SAW HIS * WIFE'S * MOTHER laid, and sick of a fever.
John 19:25
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, MARY THE * WIFE * OF CLEOPHAS
1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we not power to lead about a SISTER, a WIFE, as well AS OTHER APOSTLES, and as the brethren of the Lord, AND CEPHAS?
Acts 1:20
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his BISHOPRICK let another take.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the HUSBAND of one WIFE
having his * CHILDREN * in subjection with all gravity;
Is not a VIRGIN and UNMARRIED women or man to begin with ?
Is not Cleophas and Peter ONE an the same ?
Did not Paul describe them all as having a WIFE ?
Was Judias an Apostles and described as being a BISHOP ?
Was a BISHOP described as MUST having ONE WIFE, and CHILDREN ?
For JEO:
Revelation 14:4
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.