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Revelation 12:11 is one of the most provocative and challenging Scriptures in the Word. In it we see how the very survival of the end time Church will take place. In it we see the Church having grown beyond what Jesus warned the seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3 about. We see the Church having grown into our ultimate calling of being and becoming the overcomers He promises will inherit His greatest blessings. We see the Church victorious over the gates of Hell itself. And, we see the Church without shadow of compromise, even unto death. Is there a greater Church you can imagine, a greater obedience or trust in God?

 

 

 

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,

and by the word of their testimony;

and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Revelation 12:11

 

 

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Many see the most amazing part of Revelation 12:11 rests in the word “and” – especially the 2nd of its three uses. The reality of it pointing to our need to co-labor with the sacrifice of His Blood to accomplish our God given destiny of becoming overcomers is simply overwhelming.

 

 

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The truth is that the word “and” not only points to the importance of our testimony, it points directly to the focus of it. The testimony of Christ is our obedience in publishing of His Glory, above and beyond our trials or experiences. We truly become “living epistles read of all men” as we focus upon what Christ has accomplished. My testimony is Christ, and Christ is my testimony. There is nothing I can radiate of His Glory outside of this simple and profound truth.  

 

There is an important truth in front of us. The strong in Him will radiate in a way that the weak never will. Yet, being strong in Him comes through our understanding that His strength is found in our weakness. The honest and transparent souls who understand this are not ashamed of their “weakness” and are the most likely to offer up transparent Alabaster Box testimonies that deeply impact others. We all know the reality of His strength keeping us through our failures and weakness. The issue is to what degree we will humbly publicize such out of willingness to testify of Him as a living epistle.

 

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