Vision
5: The Pillars
Vision: Very many stone pillars are seen. A man is
busy marking them with a hammer and chisel. Details of the mark are not seen.
Everyone that is marked is cleaned carefully on the inside.
144,000 (in 12 groups of 12,000 each) are cleaned
and marked. There are many more pillars standing around, not having been
marked. Subsequent to this, great storms erupt, strong winds and floods.
The marked pillars are immune to these storms, but
many of the rest do not remain standing and some even break in pieces. In the
aftermath of the storm the man returns and puts all the marked pillars together
in a great hall. He then carefully restores every one of the remaining pillars.
Those who have fallen down he re-erects, those who have broken in pieces he
mends and restores as new. Even in the case of those who remained standing he
restores all damage. Furthermore he thoroughly cleanses everyone on the inside.
When he has completed this work he puts all of these pillars into a second
hall, different from the one with the marked pillars, and he bestows a somewhat
greater glory onto these unmarked, restored pillars.
Interpretation notes:
• The marked pillars = 144, 000 sealed ones of
Israel (Rev. 7). They will be supernaturally protected during the coming
tribulations (the earthly woman of Rev.12).
• The rest of the pillars = all Israel in the flesh.
• Pillars that fell over = death.
• Cleaning on the inside = being given a new spirit
and a new heart.
• All Israel shall be restored, not only the living
remnant at His coming, but even those who have died. (Ez. 37:1-14; Ez.
35:16-28; Mark 13:26-27)