@aqwsed12345 - no, I haven't read your links yet, I was just addressing what you had posted here, but I can if you want me to. I will check them out a little later. If I checked them out now and responded to both those links and what you just posted, this comment would be too longš...
The 144,000 thing in Revelation is about healing the family.
Sometimes in the family, the head of the family will assign chores to various members for the sake of the household. One kid might be assigned to take out the trash. Another might be asked to bring up the laundry or put away the dishes. It's not about rank or redemption - it's just about getting a job done.
I told you I'd check out your links, and I will later today, but for now do you mind if I just address the five points you posted in the comment just above?
1. As regards the resurrection, Jesus was resurrected as a spirit creature. He materialized a human-looking body so as to be able to eat with and hug and walk around with the disciples. There were witnesses to these things. He did all that prior to his ascension to heaven so that we'd know a spirit creature can materialize a human looking body and eat with people, hang out with them, etc. The 144,000 mentioned in Revelation will also be resurrected in the same way. None of the 144,000 who have died have been resurrected yet. When they're resurrected, there will be witnesses just like in Jesus' day. They will all be resurrected at the same time at the end of the tribulation foretold in Revelation and just before going into their assignments in the kingdom.
2. The way of "rulership" that has been taught by Christendom (including Watchtower) has twisted the view of "the kingdom of God." The use of the word "kingdom" is illustrative for people who have always lived in a world of human governments; but such things were not originally intended. There was no "kingdom" in the garden. It was a family arrangement, where Jehovah and the angels materialized and hung out with people. The illustrative "kingdom" descriptions came later. To understand what the "kingdom" means it needs to be framed from the point of view of returning to the original way of life in Eden, which was family, not like some worldly way of governing.
3. "Glory" means love. The worldly idea of glory is some funky glowing power-trip thing, but Jesus showed us what "glory" really was. He was lowly. He was warm. He was kind. His power was in his self-control and wisdom and being approachable despite having immense ability and knowledge. Both the angels and the humans are made in God's image. Having a third kind of creature that also reflects God's image, namely the "new creations" spoken of that are Jesus and the 144,000, does not negate the fact that humans reflect God's glory.
4. All humans redeemed by Christ's blood are "for God and the Lamb." Such ones figuratively become "Israel" since Jesus represents Israel and anyone joining him gains his name. Jesus came as a human and was part of Israel. All those looking to him as "father" in Adam's place inherit that name "Israel" as Jesus' figurative "kids." The 144,000 are a subset taken from that group "Israel." It's for a purpose. The reason they're called firstfruits isn't because all humans become the 144,000 - it's because the 144,000 are made "perfect" first and will interact with Jehovah first to get the rest of humankind ready for when Jehovah comes back to earth in a materialized body to hang out at the end of the 1000 year reign. The 144,000 will be working in their priestly assignments and in order to do that (go back and forth between heaven and earth just as the priests of old went back and forth between the temple and the courtyard) they need to be a new creation. Humans can't physically go to heaven. The 144,000 will never be allowed to procreate. They will lose their "human" inheritance, but God is giving them something else. They are firstfruits because humans will also hang out with God and see Him here on earth.
5. The scriptures are very clear that God in the past has taken a representative sample out of Israel for the purpose of ministering, and those ones did not get the same inheritance as the others. God is fair. Both types of inheritance are awesome. A bird can fly and a fish can swim. Each type of bird has a different gift, some sing better than others, some have prettier feathers. Each type of fish has a different gift. Some can swim faster, others can dive deeper. They have different gifts. No one bird or one fish has a monopoly on everything. Jehovah is fair.
Anthropology is the study of humans. Jesus is called in scripture "the son of man" and he became a spirit creature.
"All things are possible with God."
