I am not sure I believe it will be only 144,000 Raptured.  In Revelation 7:4 "And I heard the number of those who were sealed.  One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:"  Verses 5-8 lists the 12 tribes and states 12,000 from each tribe were sealed.  These are the sealed of Israel.  I am not of Israel.
 
When I came to the Lord as a child, my faith in Him and His blood sealed a covenant for me.  I am His.  Now over the years, I, like everyone else who has ever lived, have sinned.  I have disobeyed my heavenly Father just as I disobeyed my earthly Father.  That does not mean I won't be in Heaven with my Lord.  It means I missed the mark, several times.  But my God is a just and a merciful God.  When I return to Him, He forgives me.  I have that assurance in so many stories of the Bible.
 
I don't believe God intends for me to fret over how many are going to be Raptured or if I will be among them.  He expects me to worship Him and trust Him.  If it is His will that I be here for the Tribulation, or part of it. I submit to that will.  Of course my hope is I will be raptured.  I have had dreams about it, dreams about the tribulation, dreams about Heaven.  I prefer Rapture and Heaven..Tribulation was just plain awful.
 
What I plan to do is wait and watch, just like He told us to.  I will continue to do whatever my hand finds to do for Him and for others.  I will strive to be Christ-like.  I will worship Him in my church with my family and in my car as I drive to and from work.  I will study my Bible.  There is so much to learn!!
 
And if He chooses to take me home before, during or after the Rapture of the Saints, I plan to be ready.  I am not going to worry about which date.  I am not going to be worried about 144,000.  I don't think my Lord intends for me to do that.
 
Just as I accepted Him as Lord and Savior in 1950, I accept whatever He desires of me now.  Maybe some of us will be left to warn others of the Great Deception, I don't know.  I just know He does not want me to worry about that and let it cloud my vision here and now.
 
Watch and Wait.  Occupy.
 
Dawn