Revelation 14:12-13

Just B.E.L.I.E.V.E. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead will raise us to meet Him in our final hours.

Only in the guidance and protection of Holy Spirit can we stand. He can do what we in ourselves cannot.

“Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder of it all.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Revelation 14:12-13

12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” The New King James Version

Those who patiently keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, even in very difficult times, will receive a special divine blessing. 

Blessed signals the second of seven beatitudes in Revelation. Six of the seven are clustered in the latter third of the Book of Revelation, perhaps as promises to encourage exemplary Christian response in the extremely difficult circumstances of the end times. From now on may mean from the point in the tribulation John is referring to, or from the time John was writing to his original readers. Spiritual rest is available to anyone who comes to Jesus Christ in faith. The martyrs under the fifth seal had been told by the Lord to rest “a little while longer” until God’s plan was complete. Here the believers who have died are also told to rest from their labors, in the knowledge that their good works will be remembered and rewarded. The NKJV Study Bible

Patient endurance of the saints refers to their perseverance in the pursuit of righteousness and faith.

This is an encouragement for believers but with a view toward eternal destiny: Those who persist in faith and do not take part in the worship of the beast will avoid the second death and receive divine blessing. This has been John’s command from the beginning of the book. John anticipates several martyrdoms in the near future. 

For their deeds follow after them describes a record of their service and faithfulness to Christ. This sectionis an exhortation to believers to avoid compromise with the world and the beast and to persevere until death. In the end, their deeds will testify to their faith. Faithlife Study Bible

The believer is to venture or suffer any thing in obeying the commandments of God, and professing the faith of Jesus. May God bestow this patience upon us. Observe the description of those that are and shall be blessed: such as die in the Lord; die in the cause of Christ, in a state of union with Christ; such as are found in Christ when death comes. They rest from all sin, temptation, sorrow, and persecution; for there the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest. Their works follow them: do not go before as their title, or purchase, but follow them as proofs of their having lived and died in the Lord: the remembrance of them will be pleasant, and the reward far above all their services and sufferings. This is made sure by the testimony of the Spirit, witnessing with their spirits, and the written word. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:1 Then I returned and considered all the oppression that is done under the sun: and look! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter—On the side of their oppressors there is power, but they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.

1 Corinthians 3:11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Revelation 13:10 He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.