In this life, in this world, yes, I am waiting for things to happen. It is a perception of circumstances. However, the Lord is eternal, and eternity is a NOW circumstance. It is finished for Him, complete and He isn't waiting for anything, it is done.
Taking His perspective into account;
I know He reigns right now, He is Lord right now, He has made us a kingdom of priests right now, I reign with Him now on earth, a day to the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day right now, and when the thousand years are over the beast you saw who once was and now is not will come up out of the Abyss as the anti-Christ to make war against the saints and he will gather the kings of the earth together to make war against the Lamb but the Lamb has already overcome him and the anti-Christ gets destroyed by the Lamb, Lords second coming;
THE END.
It's not rocket science to me. It's common sense, and it's the only way all the verses can fit together properly.
Blessed are the DEAD who die in the Lord from now on.
Who are the dead who die in the Lord? We who are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, those who have taken part in the first resurrection. Is not the Lord the resurrection and the Life? Are we not co-heirs with Christ?
He who tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for my Names sake will find it.
Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
"These in white robes-who are they, and where did they come from?"
"These are those who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."
If you are waiting to wash your robe you are yet to be saved. If you are truly born again, have you not already washed your robe?
"Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and shamefully exposed."
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates of the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood."
"The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
This is why I speak to them in parables"