Lesson: IV.A.4: The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion - Part 4 (series: Lesson on Revelations)

by John Lowe
(Woodruff, S.C.)

Over against all the false worship in the tribulation, here is a group which maintains loyalty to God and the Lamb. It is not that they are perfectly sinless, but that they are true when everyone else is conforming to a lie. Well, might believers in our own dispensation follow the example of these saints of a far more difficult age that succeeded in remaining spiritually pure. Spiritual purity is not popular today, but God requires it of His followers. To remain spiritually pure means resisting the seductions and idolatries of the present world—power, wealth and sexual immorality. To do so requires a daily application of God’s Word, for it has a purifying effect on the mind and heart. It requires great resolution not to give in to these temptations. Stand strong and don’t give in.