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144,000 huh? Any meaning behind that?
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It's an allegory for Revelation 14:1, which goes: "Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads."
It's usually inferred to mean something to the effect of "believers during the end times".