YOU MUST BE AN OVERCOMER!

REVELATION CHAPTERS TWO AND THREE

ARE WRITTEN TO THE CHURCHES!

REVELATION CHAPTER TWO:  

[7] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;  To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
[11] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
[17] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.  
[26-29] And he that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations . . . . He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

REVELATION CHAPTER THREE:

[5-6] He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.  
[12-13] Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
[21-22] To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Note:  Notice John wrote to churches, not to the Church; the Church is 100% born again believers; the churches contain "leaven," "tares," and "fowls of the air" (see Matthew Thirteen).

THOSE OVERCOME DURING THE
TRIBULATION ARE NOT PART OF THE CHURCH!

REVELATION CHAPTER ELEVEN:

[3-7] And I will give power unto my two witnesses (one is Elijah and the other is probably Enoch, since they are the only two who didn't die - see Hebrews 9:27, and neither lived during the Church Age), and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. . . . And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

REVELATION CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

[5-8] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints (those saved during the Tribulation:  they are not a part of the Church, as the Church will no longer be on earth), and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

SO HOW DO WE BECOME OVERCOMERS?

FIRST JOHN CHAPTER FIVE:

[4-5] For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world:  and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?