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   That number is mentioned 3 times in Revelation.  Two of them taken together   
   has a clear answer of who they are.   
      
   They are virgin jewish men only.   
      
   The jw vatican asserts they alone will be in heaven as jw approved   
   "anointed" individuals alive before 1914.  They alone will rule the jw who   
   remain on earth in etrnal life.  All non-jw were murdered when Christ   
   returned "in the clouds".   
      
   Alas, Revelation describes others also in heven with the virgin jewish men.   
   One that refutes the jw Vatican's "theory of scripture" about the 144 k   
   "anointed" being there alone to rule:   
      
   7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could   
   number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before   
   the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in   
   their hands;   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)