In his message to the spirit - begotten elders in the first - century congregation of Philadelphia in Asia Minor, the risen Christ said: “Because you kept the word about my endurance, I will also keep you from the hour of test, which is to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to put a test upon those dwelling on the earth.
शेवटपर्यंत विश्‍वासू राहणाऱ्‍या निवडलेल्यांना “गौरवाचा न कोमेजणारा हार ” किंवा“ मुगूट ” मिळणार आहे; पण, एक अभिषिक्‍त ख्रिस्ती अविश्‍वासू ठरला तर त्याला तो मुगूट मिळणार नाही. — १ पेत्र ५: ४; प्रकटी.