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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 1, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 38.

3868 — The 144,000

By Editor

As long as we believe that those who died under the third angel's message are included with the 144,000, is there any possibility of calculating how many are dead since that message was proclaimed? Probably that number is nearly summed up, and the end is near. T. A. Z.

In the first place, we do not know as there is any general belief that all who have died in the third angel's message are included in the 144,000. There are many who do not hold this. Nor do we know how it could be calculated how many have died since that message was proclaimed. Not a few hold that the 144,000 represent a special class, more in number than themselves. In all the numberings in the Scripture, the males only are numbered — it is the men, besides women and children — and the males only of a certain age. That may be the case with the 144,000; we do not know. It is not safe to speculate on any numbers of that kind.