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`He that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I
give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as
the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received
of My Father' (Rev. 2:26,27).
Those thus addressed were to `hold fast till I come' (verse 25) and
there is no possible interval (let alone a kingdom lasting centuries),
indicated between the time when this overcomer is enduring, and the time of
his reward, namely in the Millennium. This passage obviously links up with
Revelation 19:15.
`He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I
will not blot out his name out of the book of life' (Rev. 3:5).
Again an obvious link with Revelation 20:15.
`Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and
he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God,
and the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, which
cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new
name' (Rev. 3:12).
Here the link with the heavenly Jerusalem of Revelation 19:7 -9 and
21:2 is apparent.
`To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even
as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne' (Rev.
3:21).
This points to the Millennial thrones of Revelation 20:4.
`He that overcometh shall inherit all things (or these things)'
(Rev. 21:7),
which takes us to the same Millennial day and city.
We believe there is an unbroken link between chapter and chapter, not
necessarily in strict historical sequence, for John retraces his steps, as
may be seen comparing Revelation 6:17 and 7:1, but admitting no interval of
centuries for any administration of God on the earth, no Pre -Millennial
kingdom, except the kingdom of the Beast, as we have already indicated. We
ask the question, what warrant is there to introduce a period of some 500
years in Daniel 2:45? The Stone strikes the feet of the image that
symbolizes Gentile dominion, and shatters it to pieces, and immediately
supplants it and fills the earth, setting up a kingdom that shall never be
destroyed. Again we ask, where is there room for a Pre -Millennial kingdom
in Daniel 7?
`I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and
given to the burning flame' (Dan. 7:11).
This chapter brings before us four beasts, the first like a lion, the
second like a bear, the third like a leopard, and the fourth `dreadful and
terrible' with a `mouth speaking great things' (Dan. 7:1 -8). This fourth
beast appears at the time of the end in Revelation 13:1,2. It is composed of
the three first named in Daniel 7. It is like a `leopard', it had feet like
a `bear', it had the mouth of a `lion' and it had a `mouth speaking great