I always wonder if GOD has certain spirits quota on this earth before announcing the judgment day.
Since there is no marriage in Heavens then it’s impossible to have new spirits over there, even if GOD has a plan for a different way of forming those spirits, they will not be tested for “good and evil” scenarios as current and past spirits did, so I think all the spirits have to be tested on earth first.
So what could be that quota number? and why that number?
I’m not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if God has a certain number of people (souls) He is planning to have with Him in heaven?
The group Jehovah’s Witnesses do believe that there is a specific number which is 144,000. They believe that exactly that number will be resurrected up into heaven to be immortal spirits existing with Christ and the Father for eternity.
[The Unification Church and the Skoptzists (A small sect of Russian Christians) also see this number as the final total, although they have different beliefs about how this number of persons is selected.]
The 144,000 are counted from Pentecost in 33CE until the end. They are said to include 12,000 each from the twelve tribes of Israel. This is based on their reading of Revelations where this number appears 3 times. An alternative interpretation of the number relies on the symbolic meaning of the number 12. It stands for “totality”. It is multiplied by 1000 for greater emphasis.
Revelation 7:3–8 (ESV)
saying: “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until after we have sealed the servants of God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
Revelation 14:1 (ESV)
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:3–5 (ESV)
And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. For it is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
Catholics do not believe in this literal reading of the Bible and certainly not of Revelations. In fact, we believe that Revelations is actually based upon events which have already occurred:
FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO REVELATIONS, NEW AMERICAN BIBLE, REVISED:
The Book of Revelation cannot be adequately understood except against the historical background that occasioned its writing. Like Daniel and other apocalypses, it was composed as resistance literature to meet a crisis. The book itself suggests that the crisis was ruthless persecution of the early church by the Roman authorities; the harlot Babylon symbolizes pagan Rome, the city on seven hills (17:9).** The book is, then, an exhortation and admonition to Christians of the first century to stand firm in the faith and to avoid compromise with paganism, despite the threat of adversity and martyrdom**; they are to await patiently the fulfillment of God’s mighty promises.
I hope this helps!
