**In Revelation is says that the 144,000 washed their robes clean. **
How? Through baptism and through repentance in the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation.
**(For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." II Maccabees 12**
Wonder about that myself. It doesn't say.
Parmy: **In Revelation is says that the 144,000 washed their robes clean. **
Salvation: “How? Through baptism and through repentance in the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation.”
Nonsense. Those 144,000 in the tribulation were sealed by GOD. It says NOTHING about penance or any Catholic sacrament.