[GiovannaNicoletta]

What part of the Scriptural text in Revelation gives you any indication that the specific description of 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel is not to be taken literally but allegorized?

I'd like to see the passage that tells the reader that the literal description is not to be taken literally.

Where else in the Bible are we to take it upon ourselves to take a literal passage and allegorize it into meaninglessness?

[ReverendJames]

Ok, well what tribe are you from? The 144,000 come from the twelve tribes of Israel. That's the church. But then, what of us? Are we left out? Read Revelation 7:1-9

And no, I am not a Jehovah's Witness. I'm a Charismatic Evangelical. The Jehovah's Witnesses love that book and they're always talking about the 144,000.

Here's v-4:

"Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel

- He heard their number, 144,000 which is clearly a symbolic number, later he sees them as a great multitude which no one could count. In the NT the church it is described as the Israel of God, Gal 6:16, and as Abraham's seed in Gal 3:29, in Rom 4:16 Abraham is the father of those who believe.