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  • The King Shines Light on the Kingdom
    God’s Kingdom Rules!
    • 10. What have God’s people long understood about the 144,000?

      10 Decades before 1914, true Christians already understood that 144,000 faithful followers of Christ would rule with him in heaven.c Those Bible Students saw that the number was literal and that it began to be filled back in the first century C.E.

  • The King Shines Light on the Kingdom
    God’s Kingdom Rules!
    • c In June 1880, Zion’s Watch Tower suggested that the 144,000 would be fleshly Jews converted by 1914. However, later in 1880, an understanding was published that more closely corresponds to the one we have held consistently since then.

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