keep the remnant from gaining entrance into the heavenly kingdom are doomed to failure. Revelation 20:4-6 assures us that these doers of God’s will who are yet needed to complete the full membership of 144,000 Kingdom joint heirs will endure in faithfulness to the death, that they may know the happiness of having a part in “the first resurrection.” God’s Messianic kingdom will not be lacking even one of its foreordained number of Christ’s joint heirs.

19. What fulfillment of God’s promise will the “great crowd” get, and because of what on their part?

¹⁹ As for the “great crowd” of the prospective earthly subjects of Christ’s kingdom, these give loyal cooperation and support to the Kingdom remnant in their endeavors to do the “will of God” to the finish. They courageously join the remnant in doing the divine will, down till the universal sovereignty of Jehovah God is vindicated. To this faithful, obedient “great crowd” God’s promise of a Paradise earthly home will without fail be fulfilled. Unspeakable joy will be theirs when they hear the reigning Son of God extend to them his loving invitation: “Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit [the earthly realm of] the kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.”​—Matt. 25:34.

Gain the Promised Eternal Life​—Exercise Faith!

1. In view of the Devil’s “short period of time,” why is it now more urgent for doers of God’s will to exercise faith?

THE “short period of time” during which Satan the Devil and his demon army are restrained here at the earth is now nearing its close. (Rev. 12:7-12) He may therefore be expected to intensify his warfare against the “remaining ones” of the “seed” of God’s heavenly “woman” and against the “great crowd” of fellow proclaimers of God’s Messianic kingdom. So it becomes all the more urgent for these doers of God’s will to exercise faith in order to endure faithfully under the fire of the enemy.

2, 3. Despite the shortness of the time left for Satan, what counsel of Paul to Hebrew Christians do we targets of Satan’s fire need to follow?

² All we who are now the target of Satan’s warfare are given much encouragement to remain faithful to the Sovereign Lord Jehovah until the enemy’s guns are silenced. This bringing of the warfare to a close should reasonably be near, especially since it is now more than fifty-six years since the symbolic Dragon and his demon army were hurled down from heaven to the neighborhood of our earth, to be left here on the loose for only “a short period of time.” In spite of the shortness of the time, we still must follow the