Identity of The 144,000

Firstfruits

a) It is now used today in the sense of offering a tithe. The firstfruits is the offering we make to the treasury from the product of our labor. Google provides a wealth of information here.

b) Firstfruits of the Lamb

Revelation14:4

"These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb."

c) The law speak to firstfruits as well

Leviticus 19:23-25And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal.  And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.

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Who are the firstfruits in Rev 14? Most all agree they are 144,000 Jewish men. They are actually virgin men. They are firstfruits, they are not to be touched, that is they "were not defiled with women" in intercourse.

They were not the spouse Paul spoke of in 1 Cor 7 who was more interested in pleasing their spouse and less occupied with the things of God, rather than virgins who are not concerned for the cares of their husbands but rather the things of God.

These 144,000 are virgins and not Jewish. What Jewish are they?

The tribe of Judah makes up 12,000 of the ranks of these men. The other tribes are presumably unknown but many have speculated that early Europeans were settlers emerging from the Middle East, thus making many whites biblical Jews. There are also Africans which are Jewish. Linguists understand Amharic, a language of Ethiopians, to be a Semitic language and so presumably there could be a Semitic heritage in Ethiopia and other African regions. I think the 144,000 will be a blend of races but will they be Jewish in the sense we understand in the case of someone being of the tribe of Judah, ethnically Jewish? No.