As kids, we would often ponder the formula for being just bad enough to avoid being supernaturally added to that tribe of mysterious 144,000 men in heaven confemned to eternal celebacy, though surrounded by the most gloriously perfect females since Mother Eve. That Ellen White cautioned against such speculation made the surmising 1,000 times sweeter—though our consciences in the midnight hour would smite us mightily as we pondered the sacrilige of our perfidiously forbidden peregrinations into the post-millennial unknown…..
As kids, we would often ponder the formula for being just bad enough to avoid being supernaturally added to that tribe of mysterious 144,000 men in heaven confemned to eternal celebacy, though surrounded by the most gloriously perfect females since Mother Eve. That Ellen White cautioned against such speculation made the surmising 1,000 times sweeter—though our consciences in the midnight hour would smite us mightily as we pondered the sacrilige of our perfidiously forbidden peregrinations into the post-millennial unknown…..