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I'm pretty sure the text says that 144,000 Jews will be saved, which was an absurdly high number at the time and if you told John of Patmos that there are ≈2,400,000 Jews living in the United States alone, he'd bawk and ask "There's HOW MANY Jews WHERE??"
Edit: it's been a while since I've read Revelations, and it's a buck wild fever dream of a text, but I think the 144k are only the batch of people initially saved and the rest face judgement after a 7 eyed and 7 horned ram takes the right of a gold and gem encrusted throne at which seats descendant-from-Heaven Jesus with a flaming sword protruding from his mouth.
Revelations was written by John, his accounts of everything differ from the other big 3 in multiple places, he liked metaphors
Metaphors and healthy doses of mind-shattering hallucinogens.