The Resurrection and Rapture (Revelation 14:1-5).
‘And I saw and behold the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred and forty four thousand having His name and His Father's name written on their foreheads.'
That this is the heavenly Mount Zion comes out in the following verses, for they sing before the throne. It can be said of them literally that they have ‘come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels' (Hebrews 12:22). The promise that they would have His name and His Father's name written on them was given to overcomers in Revelation 3:12. The one hundred and forty four thousand of chapter 7 were sealed on their foreheads (Revelation 7:3). There is thus no reason to doubt that these one hundred and forty four thousand are overcomers from the churches and are the one hundred and forty four thousand of chapter 7, which confirms our interpretation there. As such they represent the whole church of God. This is the fulfilment of Matthew 24:31 prior to the judgment of the wicked (Revelation 14:14-20).