God’s Last Generation

Everyone has a theology of God’s last generation. One either believes His last generation will continue to transgress His law after they are eternally sealed, or one believes the last generation will keep God’s law after they are eternally sealed. There is another final generation: the wicked are sealed in their rebellious wickedness while the righteous are sealed in obedient righteousness.

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still” (Rev. 22:11).

God’s Word plainly says that His final generation, by the power of the Holy Spirit and faith in Christ, will keep His law. 

“The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 12:17).

“Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12).

These are the “first fruits” of God, who have His Name (character) sealed in them and they are without fault.

“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes . . . and in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God” (Rev. 14:4, 5).

“If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body” (James 3:2). 

The Apostle Peter says that believers are called to follow Christ who had no guile in His mouth and who did no sin.

“For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth” (1 Peter 2:21, 22).

God’s last generation before Christ comes to harvest them as first fruits (Rev. 14:4-5, 15-16) “follow in His steps who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.”

The Bible’s only definition of sin is the transgression of God’s law (1 Jn. 3:4). God’s last generation in Revelation “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (Rev. 14:12) and therefore do not sin by the power of the Holy Spirit which has sealed them with God’s Name, which is His character. 

John the Apostle says, “I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel” (Revelation 7:4).

“Behold, 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 (Revelation 14:1).

“These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb” (Revelation 14:4).

“Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped” (Revelation 14:15-16).

The messenger of the Lord truthfully says, “‘When the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.’ Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own” (COL 69).

The Apostle James says, “Whoever will keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).

It could not be said of God’s final generation that, “here are they that keep the commandments of God” if one commandment is broken, for whoever “offends in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).

God’s final generation are sealed with His name, His character, and keep the commandments of God by faith in Jesus. They follow Christ whereever he goes, and have no guile in their mouths as Christ did. Their characters are perfected by the latter rain of the Holy Spirit which makes the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the character of Christ, manifest in their lives, so that He harvests them as first fruits.

There is another harvest and final generation in Revelation. It is those who receive the mark of the Beast.

“The angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs” (Revelation 14:19, 20).

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still” (Rev. 22:11).

So there are two final generations: the wicked who are sealed in their rebellious wickedness, and the righteous who are sealed in obedient righteousness.

A religion that keeps the commandments through faith in Christ is the religion of Christ. No dichotomy exists between keeping God’s commandments and believing in Christ. By His power through the Holy Spirit He will seal a faithful people.