These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with Him, called and chosen and faithful.
Faithful is the saying:
For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him:
If we endure, we shall also reign with Him:
If we shall deny Him, He also will deny us:
If we are faithless, He abideth faithful; for He cannot deny Himself.
It is of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him.
Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, our hearts are full of joy and thanksgiving because, such as we are, yet Thou hast called us unto Thyself. We are Thy children, and we have the right and the privilege to come to Thee, to call Thee our Father, and to worship Thee.
O our Father, how we do thank Thee for all Thy mercy, lovingkindness, and grace. And Father, as we continue in Thy presence, we do ask Thee that Thou wilt quicken Thy Word to our hearts. Do speak to us and draw us unto Thyself, that we may give Thee the glory. In the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
We have been considering together this verse in Revelation 17:14. That verse tells us that there is a war going on—a war in the spiritual realm that has been going on through the ages and centuries. But that war will one day come to an end, and Revelation 17:14 tells us that here is the last battle.
This war is between God and Satan. In this last battle, we find that the Lamb of God, with His army—those who are called and chosen and faithful—will go out and fight against the beast and his followers, and these will be completely destroyed.
If you go on to Revelation 19, you will find that the beast will be thrown into the lake of fire, and Satan will be bound and put into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Then the kingdom of God shall come upon this earth. Not only shall our Lord Jesus reign, but those who are called, chosen, and faithful will reign with Him during that millennium time.
We are looking into these three qualifications: those who are qualified to follow the Lamb into the last battle and into the glory of the kingdom. These are the people who are called, chosen, and faithful.
We have considered together the call. Thank God, we are called by glory and virtue. We are not just called to satisfy our little needs; we are called to satisfy God’s own glory. We are called by grace. None of us is worthy, but His grace comes upon us freely, and we are called according to purpose.
When God calls us, He has a purpose behind it, and that purpose is the consummation of our calling. You know, we are called out of many, many things—more than probably we think—and we are continuously being called out. We are being called out of all that is not of God.
Now, brothers and sisters, anything that is not of God has to pass away. Only that which is of God will remain to eternity. So we are called out from all that is not of God, whether it be sin, the world, the flesh, our self-life, or the kingdom of darkness. God is calling us out of all these things in order to call us into His very purpose.
We are called not only to have Christ as our righteousness, but to know His life, His resurrection life—how real it is—and to know the law of that life that is guiding us every day. We are called to be God’s children. We are called into the fellowship of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. We are called to be the Body of Christ. We are called to be part of that eternal purpose of God: even Christ and His bride, the church.
So, brothers and sisters, we do thank God. It is not because we are better than anybody else. It is because God looked upon us and, by His grace, He called us. We are the called of God.
But here you find that we are not only the called; we need to be the chosen. That is, if we respond to what we are called into, then we will be chosen to fulfill that function, that purpose, that God has called us into.
We remember the story of Moses. When he was forty years old, he chose God. He chose the reproach of Christ rather than the riches of Egypt. Because he made that right choice, he became the vessel of God in leading the children of Israel into God’s purpose.
So, brothers and sisters, we who are called need to prove ourselves to be the chosen. It is true that God has chosen us even before the foundation of the world, and that choosing is for a purpose. But we will not be able to really fulfill what God has ordained for us until one day we make a choice. We choose Christ rather than the world, and by that choice we will be the chosen—those whom God can use to fulfill His purpose.
This morning we come to the third qualification: the faithful. Not only the called, not only the chosen, but the faithful.
You know, faithfulness is God’s character. Our God is a faithful God. That is His very character. He cannot deny Himself. He is faithful to what He is.
We may deny, but He will never deny Himself. We may be unfaithful, and unfortunately oftentimes we are, but He remains faithful. Why is it? Because faithfulness is God’s character. That is what God is. He just cannot help but be faithful; otherwise, He would deny what He is.
Our God is so faithful. He is faithful to His promise. You remember in the garden of Eden, when man fell, God in His mercy came to man and offered to man the promise of redemption, of salvation. He said that the seed of the woman should come, and when the seed of the woman should come, He would crush the serpent’s head, even though the serpent would bruise His heel.
This is God’s promise to mankind from the very beginning of human history. Probably it was over six thousand years ago that God made that promise. But God was faithful to His promise. Four thousand years passed. It was as if God had forgotten, but God had not forgotten. He was faithful to His promise. So two thousand years ago, the seed of the woman came into this world, even our Lord Jesus Christ.
God is faithful to His Word. He spoke to Noah, saying that the world was so corrupted, violence was everywhere, and God repented of creating mankind. But Noah found favor in God’s sight. So God told Noah that there would be another hundred and twenty years, and then He would destroy the world.
Sure enough, after a hundred and twenty years, the flood came and destroyed the whole world. We may think a hundred and twenty years is a long period. If we can live a hundred and twenty years, that will be a very long life. But to God, a hundred and twenty years is nothing, and yet He kept His Word.
You know, this world is not what we thought. It was destroyed once, covered by water. But God saved Noah and his family. After Noah and his family came out from the ark, Noah offered sacrifice to God. The sweet savor ascended to God, and God smelled it.
God said, “I will never again destroy the world. I will never again destroy mankind altogether.” And God said, “As long as the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
God put a rainbow in the cloud to remind Him, as it were, that He would keep His promise and never destroy this earth with water again. Brothers and sisters, do you know that today mankind is still under the Noahic covenant?
Here we find seedtime and harvest continuing on, winter and summer continuing on. You may not like winter, but winter and summer continue on. Heat and cold continue on, and day and night continue on. God is always faithful to His promise.
Then you find God made the covenant with Abraham. Even four hundred and thirty years later came the law, but the law did not annul the promise that God had made to Abraham. God is always faithful to His covenant.
Again, you find God is faithful to what He promised David. He was pleased with David, so He promised that his house and kingdom should be made sure forever, and his throne should be established forever. We find how this is fulfilled in the Son of David, even the Lord of David, our Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, His kingdom never ends, and His throne is established forever.
The faithfulness of God is not only seen in past history. We find the faithfulness of God sung by the psalmists. In the book of Psalms, you find the psalmists singing of the faithfulness of God: “Great is Thy faithfulness. Thy lovingkindness endureth forever, and Thy faithfulness remaineth from generation to generation.”
Even the prophets prophesied concerning the faithfulness of God. In Lamentations 3, the children of Israel were in a very, very bad condition. Actually, they were destroyed; they were taken into captivity. But thank God, when they looked up, they found that great is His faithfulness.
It is because of the lovingkindness of God that we are not consumed, and how true it is. We are what we are today not because of what we are, but because of what He is—because of His faithfulness to Himself.
Brothers and sisters, you come to the New Testament, and who do you find as the faithful One? Our Lord Jesus Christ. In all the world, there is none so faithful as our Lord Jesus. He is faithful to His Father, even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
So in the book of Revelation, you find again and again that He is called the faithful witness. In Revelation 1, He is the faithful witness. In Revelation 3, Christ is the Amen, the faithful and true witness. In Revelation 19, when He shall come, He is called Faithful and True. Our Lord Jesus is the faithful One; He is faithful to His Father.
Thank God, not only is our Lord Jesus Himself faithful, but He is the One who brings faithfulness to us. Do you think that naturally we are faithful? You may find in this world that some people are more faithful than other people, and that is true. But when you come to the will of God, you will find that, no matter who you are, the natural man is never faithful to God’s will.
So naturally, we are unfaithful. That is what we were. But thank God, our Lord Jesus is not only faithful, but He imparts faithfulness into us. Why? Because the life that we receive from Him is a faithful life. In other words, in that life of Christ which we receive, there is the nature of faithfulness.
It is on that basis that He expects us to be faithful. You know, He never demands what He has not given. If He should demand faithfulness from us and it is not in us, then we are under the law, and it will bring death to us.
But thank God, what is grace? Grace is that He always gives first before He demands. He demands on Himself; He does not really demand on us. So here you find the Lord is looking today for people who are faithful to Him.
We are not only to be the called. We are not only to be the chosen. After we are chosen, it requires faithfulness to Him, that we may be faithful to Him to the very end. This is what God is looking for among His people.
We may go to the Bible to find some faithful people who really satisfied God’s heart. First of all, of course, we like to think of Moses. In Hebrews 3, we are told that Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken.
Moses was faithful in all God’s house. We know that Moses was called, and Moses was chosen. He was chosen to be the leader of the children of Israel. When we read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, we find that when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt on the way to the promised land, during those forty years, how faithful he was in the house of God.
His faithfulness was such that, when the children of Israel worshiped the golden calf and God wanted to destroy that nation, God said, “I will destroy that nation, and I will raise you up as a great nation.”
Now think of the faithfulness of Moses. Moses was so faithful to God that not only did he refuse to be blessed by God as a substitute for the children of Israel, but on the contrary, he pleaded with God. He interceded for the children of Israel, even to the extent of saying, “God, if Thou wilt not forgive them, blot my name out of the book of life.”
Now, brothers and sisters, that is a tremendous thing. Only those whose names are written in the book of life will be able to enter into what we call heaven. That is the blessed hope of everybody; that is the final thing.
Yet Moses, as a servant of God, was so faithful to that which God had entrusted to him that he would rather see himself destroyed than see the people of God destroyed. Now that is faithfulness.
Afterwards, if you go to Numbers 11, they began that wandering journey. How difficult the children of Israel were! They were very, very difficult. They wanted everything to satisfy them, and if something happened, they murmured. They not only murmured against God; Moses was the target. They murmured against him, blamed him for everything, and wanted to kill him and stone him to death.
Oftentimes, you find that in the controversy between God and the people, Moses was in the middle. God was angry, the people were angry, and Moses was in the middle of the whole thing. You would think, what would a person do in that situation?
One day Moses really complained. He said, “God, why dost Thou allow these things to happen to me? Why dost Thou say that I have to take the children of Israel in my bosom and carry them as a nursing father carrieth the suckling child? I have not begotten them. I have not formed them. Why dost Thou put this burden upon me?”
You see the point. Moses felt that God had entrusted him with the house of Israel, and he was a nursing father to them. He wondered why God should do such a thing to him. He said it was too much for him. Yet he was faithful. He remained faithful.
Even though the children of Israel provoked his spirit and he lost his temper—and because of that he was unable to enter into the promised land—you find that he was not one who said, “Well, if I cannot enter, nobody should enter.” Instead, even before he died, he pleaded with the children of Israel to be faithful to God, that they might enter and possess the land. Brothers and sisters, that is faithfulness.
Not only that, but he was faithful in all God’s house. God’s house, representatively, was the tabernacle. God commanded Moses to build a tabernacle, and God gave instruction to the very last detail.
Now, it was almost like God was insulting Moses. Moses was a great man. He had all the learning of Egypt, and Egypt was famous for its architecture. Even today, people go to Egypt to see the pyramids. If you study the pyramids, you find they were built with such precision.
We are told that in the great pyramid there is a hole that points to the North Pole. Because of all these thousands of years, it has shifted a little bit, but it shows how accurate it was when it was first built. Architecture was one of the glories of Egypt, and Moses was a builder.
Yet God asked him to build a little tabernacle. What was that? God told him to the very last detail—not only the material and the measurement, but even a nail and even the color of it. God told him everything, and Moses was faithful.
What is faithfulness? Faithfulness is being faithful to God’s Word, to the last detail. Moses did not stand there and say, “Well, I will improve it.” You find that his faithfulness was in doing God’s will. That is faithfulness. Moses was faithful in God’s house.
That has much to do with it. Why? Because what he did was a testimony of the things to come. This tabernacle was only a shadow; it was the shadow of a reality, and the reality is the New Jerusalem. So it is a big thing, not a small thing.
Even though the tabernacle was a small thing, it was a shadow of the reality. You cannot change the shadow. If you change the shadow, you will not see the reality anymore. So it is a tremendous thing. Brothers and sisters, we often think a small thing does not matter, but it is a testimony of the things to come. It does matter. Moses was faithful in God’s house.
Think of David. In Acts 13, it says that God chose David because God saw in David a heart. He was a man after God’s own heart, who would do all God’s will. There was in the heart of David a desire to do God’s will, and this is faithfulness.
When David was a shepherd in the wilderness, what a faithful shepherd he was. Why? Because the lion came and the bear came upon the sheep entrusted to him. Of course, he was just tending a few sheep, as his brother said, but how faithful he was to his sheep. He was willing to sacrifice his very life. He would fight with the lion; he would take hold of the bear and tear it apart in order to save the sheep. He was faithful to his sheep.
And how faithful he was to Saul. Saul so ill-treated him and wanted to kill him, but there was no one as faithful among Saul’s servants as David. Ahimelech the priest said of David, “No one is so faithful in thy house as David thy son-in-law.”
David was so faithful to Saul, and he was faithful to God’s Word because Saul was God’s anointed. So he would not help himself by killing Saul. It was as if God tested him and put Saul into his hand twice. His people said, “Kill him, and all your trouble will be over.” But David said, “No, I cannot touch God’s anointed.” He was faithful.
How faithful he was to God. When he ascended to the throne, the first thing he did was to take Jerusalem, because Jerusalem was the appointed place of God. Even in Deuteronomy, God said that one day He would choose a place to put His name there. But all those hundreds of years passed, and that place was still not there.
David knew by revelation that Jerusalem was the place. So the first thing he did as king was to take Jerusalem, that God might have a name on earth. He brought the ark into the city, and he intended to build God a house. Now that is his faithfulness.
He was not allowed to build the temple because he was a man of war; he had shed too much blood. Yet, because he was not allowed to build it, he did not have nothing to do with it. You find that he prepared all the materials for the temple because he loved God and His house. Now that is faithfulness.
Think of Daniel. How faithful Daniel was to God. As a teenager, he was taken as a hostage to Babylon. Ironically, it seemed as if luck came to him, because even though he was taken out of his country and family and transplanted into a foreign country, he was chosen to be educated and instructed to stand before the great king.
Yet he was given the king’s food and the king’s wine. Here you find a young man determined not to defile himself with the king’s food and the king’s wine, in order to keep himself pure for God.
What was wrong with enjoying the king’s food and wine? The king’s food and wine were usually first sacrificed to idols before they were given to be eaten. So Daniel wanted to keep himself pure for God. He would not let himself be polluted because his life was for God, not for anybody else.
God honored his faithfulness. God opened a way for him. He was able not to eat the king’s food or drink the king’s wine, and yet he was fatter than the other young men who had the king’s food and wine. God gave him wisdom, understanding, and discernment in interpreting dreams and visions.
How faithful was Daniel? He was put in the first place in the government, next to the king. Not only in the Babylonian Empire under its kings, but even after Babylon was destroyed by Medo-Persia, he was almost like a prime minister in Medo-Persia.
Of course, the other people were very jealous of him, so they wanted to find fault or pretext to accuse him. But they could not find anything. He was the prime minister, managing thousands of things throughout the whole country and the whole empire, and yet his enemies could not find a fault in all that he did. Why? Because he was faithful.
Finally they said, “If we want to find anything in that man, we have to find it in his relationship with God.” So they persuaded King Darius, trying to boost up his ego, that during those thirty days nobody could ask anything from any god or man except from him. Well, that really boosted his ego, so he fell into that trap and signed the decree.
Then Daniel went to his room as usual, knelt down, prayed, and opened the window toward Jerusalem. He could have closed the window and prayed so nobody would see it, but he opened the window toward Jerusalem and prayed—faithful to God, even to the point of death.
God honored him. God shut the mouths of the lions and delivered him. Brothers and sisters, that is faithfulness.
We can think of Paul. Paul is another one who represents the faithful. God not only called him and chose him, but God gave him strength because He counted him faithful, putting him into the ministry as an apostle.
How faithful he was to God. You remember on his last trip to Jerusalem, he called the elders of the church in Ephesus to come to Miletus, and he shared his heart with them in Acts 20.
He said, “During the three years and a half that I was with you, how I ministered to you with lowliness, with tears, with tribulations; that I had not withheld anything profitable from you; that I shared with you the whole counsel of God; that I helped you day and night, not only in public, but from house to house.” Brothers and sisters, how faithful that servant was to God.
When he was tried before King Agrippa, his testimony was, “O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.” That is why he was there. He was faithful to that heavenly vision that God had given to him, and he was faithful even unto death.
So, brothers and sisters, we do know that because God is faithful, because our Lord Jesus is faithful, and because the life that He has given to us is faithful, He expects us who are called and chosen to be faithful to Him to the very end.
In the seven letters to the churches, His letter to the church in Smyrna says, “You are in tribulation, but do not lose heart. Do not be afraid. There will be ten more days of tribulation.”
In Scripture, ten days means a very short time. You remember when Abraham’s servant was sent to get Rebekah. The next day, the servant said, “Since you have already given Rebekah to Isaac, my mission is fulfilled, so we go.” But the brother and mother said, “No, no, no. Let her stay a little longer—ten days, or at least a few days.”
But the servant said, “Do not delay me, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way.” And Rebekah said, “I will go.” So ten days means a very short time. Brothers and sisters, in this world we have tribulation, but remember, it is only ten days.
The Lord Jesus said, “In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” And the Lord said, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.”
In the third letter, the letter to the church in Pergamum, He says, “You are faithful to Me. You still keep My Word; you have not denied My name, even in the days of Antipas My faithful witness.” As long as the faithful Antipas was living, they were faithful. But after Antipas was dead, they became unfaithful.
Who was this Antipas? In church history, we do not find a person named Antipas. As a matter of fact, in all the seven letters, you find these names are symbolic. Antipas means “against all.” Here is a man who is against all.
This is such a world that he was a man of the other world. So he seemed to the people to be a man against all. Because he was so faithful to God, he was Antipas, and he suffered, probably martyrdom, for that reason. But his faithfulness sustained the church in Pergamum as long as he lived.
Faithfulness is not just a personal thing. If one is faithful, he is able to affect other people to be faithful.
In the letter to the church in Philadelphia, He said, “Hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.” In other words, be faithful to the very end. What God requires is faithfulness.
One thing is very interesting: in the New Testament, the word faithfulness and the word faith are one word: pistis. You have to know by the context whether it refers to faithfulness or to faith. It is the same word.
Why? Because faith in Greek means three things. First, it means a firm conviction and acknowledgment of God’s revelation or truth. Now that is faith: a firm conviction and acknowledgment of God’s revelation or truth.
Second, based upon that conviction, you make an absolute surrender to God. Now that is faith. Faith is a full surrender. If you believe in God, then you have to surrender yourself to God. If you do not surrender to God, what is your faith?
Third, because you surrender to God, faithfulness is produced within you. You are faithful to God. So faithfulness and faith actually cannot be separated.
Dr. Lightfoot was an Anglican bishop and a most learned person. He wrote some commentaries which almost cannot be surpassed. When he interpreted the word faithful, he said that Scripture calls believers “the faithful.”
What does that mean? Does it mean that they have faith, that they believe? Or does it mean that they are trustworthy, that they are faithful? He said you cannot be rigid about it. You have to let the two things come together.
In other words, those who have faith will be faithful. Those who are trustworthy are so because they are trusting. So, brothers and sisters, how can we be faithful? We can be faithful if we have faith. Faith is the secret to faithfulness.
If we believe in God, our faith will give us that faithfulness. This is something that God is looking for from His own people.
Here you find the apostle Paul encouraging Timothy to be faithful. Second Timothy is a very special letter. Every book in the Bible is special, of course, and every book in the Bible speaks to us. But 2 Timothy is most relevant to our days.
There is a great difference between 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, even though there were only a few years between them. Paul wrote 1 Timothy after he was released from Roman imprisonment and revisited Ephesus. He was in such a hurry that he could not stay there long enough, so he left Timothy there to help build the church.
The church is the house of God, of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. In other words, even though the church was very weak, it was still church in God’s eyes. God left Timothy there to help build up the church, that it might truly fulfill its testimony as the pillar and ground of truth.
That is why in 1 Timothy, Paul instructed Timothy as to how to build the church. But in 2 Timothy, after only a few years, the situation in the Roman Empire had completely changed.
In AD 64, Nero burned Rome, and the people were murmuring. So he tried to find a scapegoat, and he said that the Christians did it. From that time onward, to be a Christian became a crime.
When Paul was first taken to Rome as a prisoner, to be a Christian was not a crime. At that time, the Roman Empire considered Christianity a sect of Judaism, and Judaism was a recognized religion in the Roman Empire. So the Roman Empire did not persecute Christianity.
But then Christianity and Judaism were completely separated, and to be a Christian became a criminal offense. Think of that. Under that kind of atmosphere, how it affected the church at that time.
When Paul wrote 2 Timothy, the situation had completely changed. Paul said, “All that are in Asia turned away from me.” They had not forsaken God, but they had forsaken Paul. Why? Because they wanted to protect themselves, keeping a distance between themselves and Paul because Paul was considered a criminal.
Brothers and sisters, it was during a time of great tribulation and great trouble. The church was shaking, and many of God’s people became unfaithful. When you are put into that kind of situation, are you able to remain faithful to God, faithful to your brothers and sisters, faithful to the vision that God has given to you?
Some people may not deny God, but they deny their brothers and sisters. We find this happening everywhere under Communist rule. Some people even go to the extent of denying Christ. Why? It is so difficult. When you lose faith in God, you lose your faithfulness.
There you find Paul in a declining situation. He knew Timothy was a timid brother. Timothy was a shy person, naturally timid. So Paul was encouraging him.
Paul said, “Faithful is the saying: if we endure, we shall also reign with Christ. If we are unfaithful, if we deny, God will deny us; but God will not deny Himself.” In other words, be faithful.
Paul said, by the grace of God, “Look at me. I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness—not only for me, but for all those who wait for the coming of the Lord.”
Brothers and sisters, in our days, this is a day of unfaithfulness. This is a day when people are losing faith. Especially in such a time, how we need to be faithful. The only way to be faithful is to have faith in God.
When you look around, it is full of unfaithfulness. The world is unfaithful. Even your brothers and sisters may prove to be unfaithful. What will you do?
There is only One to whom you can look, and that is God. You find that He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is always faithful to Himself, and because He is faithful to Himself, He is faithful to you.
He expects you to have faith in Him and to be faithful to Him to the end. Not only that, but in 2 Timothy Paul says:
Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
We are in a time when the testimony of God is severely contested. We are living in a dangerous time. We are even living in a time of apostasy. We find falling away on all sides. We find that the church is not what it ought to be.
When we are living in that kind of situation, what should we do? Is it because others are unfaithful that we can be unfaithful? Is it because others lose faith in God that we should lose our faith too?
Or should we, under that kind of situation, by the grace of God be strong in the grace of God, keep all that God has entrusted to us, and entrust it to faithful men?
In Proverbs it says, “A faithful man who can find?” The Gospel says, “When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” Brothers and sisters, we are severely tested today in this matter of faith and faithfulness.
But God is faithful, and He wants us to be faithful—not only that we ourselves may be faithful, but that we may entrust all that He has given to us to faithful men, that His testimony may continue.
Brothers and sisters, thank God, He is faithful. Therefore, have faith in God. The called, the chosen, and the faithful—they will be following the Lamb today whithersoever He goeth.
So in the last battle, when the Lamb comes to the last battle, they will be there with Him. And they will enter into glory with Him. May God bless us. Shall we pray?
Dear Heavenly Father, we do realize that we are living in an unfaithful world. We do realize that faith is falling away all around. We do realize that even among Thy people, faithfulness is rare.
But Lord, we do look to Thee. Thou hast given us that life of Thy beloved Son that is faithful to the very end. So we cannot trust ourselves, but we do trust in Thy life.
Lord, we look to Thee. We know that Thou art God, and Thou art ever faithful. So, Lord, keep us faithful to the very end.
Lord, raise up faithful men and women among Thy people throughout the world, that they may maintain Thy testimony in this age of unfaithfulness. In the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.