CHAD - I am an active member who is having some difficulty trying to find a verse that my Mom wants to read. Where is it in the scriptures that talks about Christ meeting with the virgin high priests in anticipation of the second coming?

JOEL - I assume you are refering to the following scriptures:

1 AND I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
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.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. (Revelation 14:1-5)

D&C 77:11 identifies who the 144,000 are:

"Q. What are we to understand by sealing the one hundred and forty-four thousand, out of all the tribes of Israel--twelve thousand out of every tribe?
A. We are to understand that those who are sealed are high priests, ordained unto the holy order of God, to administer the everlasting gospel; for they are they who are ordained out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom is given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as will come to the church of the Firstborn."

It is not certain what the scripture means by calling them "virgins". Whether this should be taken literally or not is a subject of Bible scholarly debate. Chances are these 144,000 are not necessarily men who have never been married but men who have never been guilty of adultery. They have not been "defiled" with women. There is no defiling act in marriage. In Hebrews we are told "marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." (Heb. 13:4) So a man who has known only his wife has not been "defiled with women".

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