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 they 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] 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.
When Christ finishes His work as high priest in the heavenly sanctuary (Revelation 1:12-13), and takes the garments of king (Revelation 19:13-15), He will leave the heavenly sanctuary to deliver His people. If there is no priest in the sanctuary and all cases are decided, how does one who believes that God’s people will worship idols, murder, fornicate, break the sabbath, lie etc, after probation closes, propose that sin will be dealt with during this time?
The Bible is clear that Christ will no longer intercede in the sanctuary above when the investigative judgment closes and Christ leaves the sanctuary. The wages of sin will still be death (Rom. 6:23). Would the waiting righteous then murder, lie, break the Sabbath, worship idols, steal etc. — there would be no service to cleanse them.
The latter rain will bring forth the fruit of the character of Christ in His people. This is why Christ came, died, and ascended (Mt. 1:21; Is. 55:11).
Can sin be removed without a mediator after the investigative judgment closes? If so, how? Will the latter rain not perfect the fruit of the Spirit in the 144,000?
Sanctuary theology is Biblical. For further research, consult the Bible-based chapters, “The Time of Trouble” and “Facing Life’s Record” which clearly reveal these spiritual and practical truths.
[1] “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4).
“Where no law is, there is no transgression” (Rom. 4:15).
“I had not known sin, but by the law” (Rom. 7:7).
“So speak, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty” (James 2:12).
“Our only definition of sin is that given in the word of God; it is ‘the transgression of the law'” (GC 492).
“The only definition we find in the Bible for sin is that ‘sin is the transgression of the law’ (1 John 3:4)” (1SM 320).
“The only definition given in God’s word is, ‘Sin is the transgression of the law;’ and the apostle Paul declares, ‘Where no law is, there is no transgression'” (BEcho June 11, 1894).
