This is the third post on The Theology of the Book of Revelation by Richard Bauckham. Revelation teaches that the elect people of God bear witness to the truth, and that means that they must be prepared to die:
It will be useful to sum up the first two stages of Christ's work of establishing God's rule. In the first stage, by his faithful witness to death as the Passover Lamb of the new exodus, he won the comprehensive victory over all evil. The immediate result was the creation of a people, drawn from all the nations, who are already God's kingdom in the midst of opposition in this rebellious world. But this elect people is called to a role in the achievement of God's universal kingdom which is revealed by the opening of the sealed scroll and which it is the central purpose of John's prophecy to communicate to the churches. The people called from all nations are to participate in Christ's victory by bearing witness, as he did, as far as death, in a great conflict ....
Bauckham, Richard. 1993. The Theology of the Book of Revelation, Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
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Previous posts on this subject:
God is Sovereign - http://oculatafide.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-of-revelation-god-is-sovereign.html
Throne Room in Heaven - http://oculatafide.blogspot.com/2013/09/richard-bauckham-in-his-book-theology
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