Dear John and Doves,
 
For what it's worth, I would like to interject my view of the 144,000, as I feel my entire life has been a calling to this purpose! I don't completely understand exactly what I am to do, but have felt for a long time that I am to become some type of warrior for Christ. I feel strongly that the Holy Ghost is moving people into position for the final days! More and more, I get stronger feelings & intense emotions to GET PREPARED, and be ready to move quickly, if needed! The trap is set and ready to go off. Things are becoming supernatural and the world is being caught unaware.
 
My life has been one of deep self analysis ever since I was saved at 15 years old. I grew up without a dad, but have always had my father in heaven, whom I talk to daily. Mostly personal thoughts back and forth type communication. My mother had a very hard time with my youth but managed to have me Christened at 8 years old and led me to the Lord. When I was 18 years old, my best friend and I were out drinking one night. I left a party we were at and went home to bed, drunk. My friend hit a telephone pole on the way to his home and died 7 days later. His mother asked me to go into his room with one of our friends and pray for Jerry, as she was worried about his not being prepared to die. Upon walking up to his bed, a demon came out of his face toward me to scare me away and the Lord told me to keep going. As it pulled back into his face, I grabbed Jerrys hand and I saw the Lord standing before Jerry and the words came from my being, Jerry, reach out and take the Lords hand! I fell apart as my friend and I left the room. He died the next day. My fiance, his sister, was given the job of unplugging his life support system. I lost my best friend and my wife to be, she blamed it all on me.
 
A few months after this, I was to be baptized. I went forward at my mothers church and I was crying. The preacher said,"Mike Plunkett has come forward to be baptized.....or whatever! I did not attend regularly. I was humiliated. This was a very emotional experience to me because I had been studying my bible for 6 months straight after my friend died and to me, I was being excepted into Jesus death and suffering, as well as his resurrection, and I did not feel worthy but felt called to go forward to become a cross bearer. I ended up not going back to that church, or any other church. Around that time, I was reading my bible in my room and crying and praying to the Lord with fear over everything. I was in constant fear of the Lord. I was a broken young man.
 
Then he told me to go into the kitchen and anointest thyself with oil! This was one of those times when you open your bible and it is a verse of the Lord talking directly to you! I did as told, poured a bottle of oil on my head and the Holy Ghost washed over my entire being. I fell to the ground, face first in a heap of tears and praising of God. My life began a slow turn around and I met my wife of 24 years, had 2 children and grew in Christ over the years, with many trials and tribulations. He led me on a journey of education of the scriptures, a deep, profound, teaching over many years. I would not attend a church because of my convictions that none of them taught the TRUTH! Or wanted to hear anything about the things that I had learned from Jesus Christ....Galatians 1:11&12....But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12.....For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
 
I don't claim to be special or know it all by any means. Actually, it has taken me along time to quit running from this and put it on paper. This is a first. I can only tell you all that when Jesus speaks to you, you know it. I had a dream a week or so ago. I was walking with someone like angels up to a grassy field. I felt happyness like I have not felt in a long, long, long, time. My friend was walking up to meet me. It was Jerry. We shook right hands and embraced and patted each other on the back. No words were spoken, just smiles, and the feeling like it was meant to be. This was the first time I have had a dream with that much impact on me other than about my dad. I had prayed a day or so before that and asked the Lord to please send me a dream or a sign that I was OK and on the right track. Because I have been very upset with everything that is going on in the world and my wife has been worried about me reading and spending so much time in the bible....gloom and doom she calls it. But I love the Lord and his word more than anything and am always wanting to make sure I haven't missed anything or just wanting to know everything.  
 
Because I have never been baptized with water, I was worried that I was not prepared. This has been worrying me. But I have abstained from religious systems and buildings because I want to be sure before I join a church, it has to be Gods true church. I haven't been able to find it except in the hearts and minds of a few people that are scattered about. I could not find anyone who keeps the commandments and teachs them. Or keeps the Sabbath on the 7th day of the week as commanded by God, Or the feasts of the Lord! Everyone seems to keep the traditions of man! So I have been chaste when it comes to religion, keeping to my Bible and the Word of God, my Father in Heaven! I no longer keep Christmas, Easter, birthdays, or any other holidays of man, except Thanksgiving! So I never got baptized with water. Acts 11:16....Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
 
The 144,000 will know who they are when they are sealed by the Holy Ghost. Although, I think that this has already happened to me, I can only say that I have felt compelled to learn as much as I can about the scriptures to have the knowledge with me when the time comes or for someone to find my bible after I am gone, because of all the notations in it from my studies. I feel that I am being prepared to face hell on earth, but Jesus Christ my Lord will be with me. Although I am a quiet person socially, I can feel the emotion building in me to go to battle for the Lord to save my brothers and sisters from the filth of Satan and his perversions. The Holy Ghost is going to be upon us and we are going to be using all of the knowledge that the word has stored in our minds, it will be coming straight from the Lord. I have been at ease, but anxious too. I don't know exactly how all this is going to play out but I am not worried about it. I trust in my predestination by Jesus for my life and except it with faith. I was attacked by Satans demons one night and the Lord protected me, after I asked him to take care of it because I was scared to death. I woke up the next day, got in my truck and the odometer was on 666. This was part of my training to rely on Jesus with total faith. That is all we need, it is so easy. But we must STAND UP for him against all evil. Even in fear, but with faith we have no reason to worry.
 
We are not all Jewish as most people think. Study Genesis and follow the migration of the lost 10 tribes of Israel. They are not Jewish. Only Judah, Benjamin, and the Levites were called Jews. You have 36,000 Jewish people that are of the 144,000. The rest are of the other 10 tribes listed in Revelations. Read II Kings chapter 16....Israel is at WAR with the "JEWS". Kings of Israel were at war with Ahaz, the king of Jerusalem. (All Israelites are NOT all Jewish!) Read Genesis 48, the blessings bestowed on Manasseh and Ephraim by Jacob. Ephraim was to become a multitude of nations and Manasseh was to become great. The birthright went to these 2 grandsons, which is all Jacobs wealth and future blessings of prosperity. Judah was blessed with the seed of the messiah or from him Shiloh would come. Ephraim became the British Commonwealth countrys and Manasseh became the United States of America. Only God knows his chosen people as there has been so much mingling of bloodlines over the centuries. But that doesn't really matter because people who are not Jews are grafted in.
 
The main thing is we can die at any minute! Being ready means NOW! Having had heart attacks, surgery, and angioplasties, I have came close to death. I no longer am afraid to die, but I don't envy the process of a heart attack. Losing ones head would be easier. The process of life ebbing away, slowly, is no fun. Whatever, I am not going to worry about it any more. I know how I feel and so does Jesus. I still pray to be able to stand before the Son of man. But I will not hesitate to lay down my life for Christ, if that is my destiny.
 
Whether I am right or not doesn't matter. I don't love my life and I am ready to die.
 
YBIC
 
Michael