Does anyone think its strange that if those faithful ones i.e. Mary Magdalene, Mary, mother of Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, etc. were to die following Jesus' death, that they should have been included in the emblem taking since his death opened up the way for those" members of the 144,000" and they were his closest associates, next to the 12 - one of whom was a traitor? Why was it only the twelve? Because of the 12 tribes...
I must have missed something in my studies