Rev. 7

A theologian I ain’t. However, when I read about the 144,000 in the Revelation, I think about years ago when TCS (me, I hired him) hired a young man to teach. In his Bible class, I very quickly became aware that he was teaching a form of ultra Calvinism that said that the 144,000 jews in the book of Revelation were already predetermined and predestined. His students went right home and began questioning their parents about this point. I was contacted quickly. Needless to say, the young teacher had a very short tenure at TCS. A positive was that his students really began digging in about their faith and what they believed about God’s control over the future.

The ultra Calvinism position renders evangelism unnecessary. Unnecessary it ain’t.