Luk 21:20
"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed.
Luk 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
OK, that happened already.
Sealed Firstfruits before the wrath of God on the Jews
Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men,
being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Firstfruits i.e. the first of something
Rom 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
1Co 15:20 But
now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1Co 16:15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know
the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
The Seal
Eph 4:30 And grieve not
the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
2Co 1:22
Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
And after the sealing of the Jews with the Holy Spirit, the wrath of God on the Jews who weren't
Rev 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth (Land), and cast it into
the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Rev 14:20
And the winepress was trodden without the city (Jerusalem), and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Jews were sealed with the Holy Spirit, then the wrath of God (destruction of Jerusalem). All done, 1st century, just like Jesus said.
Destruction of Jerusalem according to Jospehus (1st century eyewitness, Jewish historian)
http://www.bible.ca/pre-flavius-josephu ... filled.htm
Modern day groups that believe they are the 144,000
Jehovah's Witnesses distinctly believe that only 144,000 people will be raised to heaven,
The Christian Skoptsy sect in Russia believed that the Messiah would come when the Skoptsy numbered 144,000
The Church Universal and Triumphant teaches that Sanat Kummara and the Lords of the Flame also brought 144,000 souls with them from Venus.
The new age religion called Raëlism also states that there are 144,000 chosen people to continue humanity in case of an upcoming disaster.[16]
The Church of the Subgenius believes that somewhere between 144 000 and 144 people will be taken with the Xists aboard the pleasure saucers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/144000_(number)
