Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

He is called Faithful. He is called True.

The significance here is a positional comparative. If you recall Jesus declared Himself to be the Way, the Truth and the Life. When He said that in John 14:6 He had not as yet gone to His Cross, He had not died, was yet to be resurrected and most assuredly had not taken His place at the right hand throne of God.

Here in Revelation 19:1 the only thing that remains consistent and unchanged in this before and after picture is Truth. He no longer sits on the right hand throne, He is no longer our intercessor, He is no longer our priest, and now has come as King. He has already collected His church age bride.

Does the name change indicate anything? What does it mean that He had not been declared to be Faithful until He mounts up to return? It is simply this, He isn’t finished being faithful. He does not take on the name until He is finished doing all that He has promised to do. The fact that He will take that name should be reassuring to you and me. Reassuring because if we have not yet seen those promises come to pass for us yet, they are waiting on us with the only assurance we can ever trust. God Himself made those promises and God is not a liar.

I’ve seen enough of His promises come true in my life to rest assured that I will not be disappointed for the rest. I may be impatient, but He is not. His patience is part of His faithfulness. If He were not, then I should have cause to worry because I do not deserve the grace and mercy extended to me thus far. Since I am not through making mistakes, then His patience with me is still required.

John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Yesterday we asked “What is it?” and today we ask, “Why is it?” Why is it important where the chaff is separated from the wheat? Because the wind blowing symbolic of the Holy Spirit at work to separate our old dead dried up crusty worthless husk away from the new creation we are having been born in the spirit.

Without the Holy Spirit there is not separation, no sanctification process, the removal of worthlessness. In terms used by King David when he purchased Temple Mount from Onan, the plague remains. The whole purpose behind the Temple Mount was and is removal of the plague. (2 Samuel 24:21)

Another aspect seen in where and why is that the Temple Mount is where the Ark of the Covenant was located. What was atop the Ark? The mercy seat. What was spilled there? The blood of the lamb. Who is the Lamb of God? Jesus Christ.

Now can you see how God pulled all this together in one simple prophetic question? What is the chaff to the wheat? A worthless binding of the fruit that must be separated for the fruit to have any value to the Lord.

“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.”

Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1

You can shuffle of this mortal coil by natural death or by being born again.

Show respect to the sacrifice.