[PeterG]

Reward... not easy. And I think the Bible does not put it in the foreground for good reason.

Certainly for everything that Jesus has overcome, we will not receive the reward. And that encloses everything we mean by “sanctification”.

Therefore „overcoming“ in Revelation seems not to be overcoming “the world, the flesh and Satan”. Not in the sense like in the Gospels and Paul, where the gospel enters the world. It is the overcoming of things that try to destroy what already has overcome in Christ. It’s the overcoming of spiritual degeneration.

And that’s why John adresses it at the church, which is the spiritual goal of this era. God wants His church, for which Christ already died, not to lose its standing, not to give up what it posseses. And where this does happen, God looks out for at least some individuals who do not fall over, but faithfully hold on to His work until the end. They might be worthy for some more tasks.

Sheep PeterG