Before The Seventh Seal could be broken, Revelation 7: 9 tells us of a “number” A hard question: How big is this number? An amazing answer!
“. . I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of The Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands.”
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Many think the “number” referred to Catholic Martyrs between Jesus and 313 AD. That was the year Constantine protected most Catholics with The Edict of Milan.
There was a limited “number” of Catholic Martyrs. They were killed during the approximately 300 years between what seems to be the opening of The Sixth and Seventh Seals.
We know that St. John did not find it “impossible” to count the 100,000,000 million angels and their “thousands and thousands”.
And, in Revelation 9:16, St. John did not find it impossible to count: “twice ten thousand times ten thousand mounted men”.
St. John could “count” up to two hundred million soldiers, and another two hundred million horses!
So, St. John could “count” up to four hundred million! And, he could count the “thousands and thousands” of additional beings.
It seems reasonable to assume St. John could “count” up to 500,000,000 (five hundred million).
There were not that many Catholic Martyrs!
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But, the “huge number” of souls described in Revelation 7: 9 was “impossible to count”!
How do we get from a few thousand or tens of thousands of early Catholic martyrs all the way up to a number of souls “impossible to count.” in no more than 300 years?
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Catholics see the power of God! If the faithful Catholic martyrs had not been killed by Catholic-hating fiends, many would have had children.
Their children would have had children. Over the coming centuries their descendants would have added up to “a number impossible to count”.
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Even Protestants may be staggered to realize God’s Power. The souls of every descendant His martyrs could not have on earth are known to God.
Every one of them and all their descendants may have been given Eternal Life by The Power of our All-Knowing, All-Powerful God in Heaven!
That “amazing answer” does explain how “a number of souls impossible to count” could have been seen in Heaven by St. John!
Any other suggestions would be welcome.
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