Revelation 14

“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on” (14:13). John’s vision reassured persecuted believers that death was not the end for the Lamb’s followers. Worldly empires are ultimately powerless (Babylon has fallen, v4, 8) against Jesus’ resurrection life. The symbolic 144,000 (ch 7; 14:3) are redeemed and safe with the Lord on Mt Zion, God’s city (14:1). Those who worshiped the beast are marked by evil, but those who follow the Lamb have “his Father’s name written on their foreheads” (14:1).

“They will rest from their labor” (14:13). No matter what dark powers are shaking our world, in Christ we are secure. Faith in Him carries us through this life and all the way to His resurrection kingdom.