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 Yes, those "outer garments" refer to a person's righteous identity as a Christian.  (Compare Revelation 16:15; 19:8) It must be heartwarming for Jesus  to see that, despite the apathy of the great majority, "a few names," a few anointed Christians in Sardis, still manage to keep this identity.  Likewise, when professed Christians were absorbed into Babylon the Great, the world empire of false religion, during the long centuries of the great apostasy, there must always have been a few individuals who tried, against great odds, to do Jehovah's will.  These were the righteous like wheat hidden amid a profusion of sectarian weeds. - REVELATION 1:24-29. 

Jesus promised that he would be with these wheatlike Christians "all the days until the conclusion of the system of things." He knows who they are and what good names they made for themselves.  (Matthew 28:20; Ecclesiastes 7:1) Imagine the joy of those faithful "few"  who were still alive at the start of the Lord's day!  They were finally separated from spiritually dead Christendom and were gathered into a righteous congregation more like the congregation in Smyrna. -  MATTHEW13:40-43.

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