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December 16, 2023 at 12:19 pm
The whole Bible teaches that God cares about people from every nation. For example, God chose Abraham and his future family (called the Jewish people) so that people in every nation could know his kindness (Genesis 12:3). Psalm 117 urges people in every nation to praise God for his goodness. God told Jonah that he cared greatly about foreigners (Jonah 4:11). Jesus told his disciples (special students) to declare God’s good news to people from every nation (Matthew 28:19).
John had just heard about 144,000 Jewish people who would put their trust in Christ. Next, God showed him the people from every nation who would trust in Christ. John saw in heaven a vast crowd which nobody could count. He emphasises strongly that they were from many different nations. They spoke different languages, but they all joined to praise Christ. Although they were from so many different countries, they did not oppose each other. Together, they had become the new holy nation of God’s people (Ephesians 2:11-13; 1 Peter 2:9). We call that nation: the kingdom of God. It will last always because no enemy can ever defeat it (Daniel 2:44).
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
~ Revelation 7:9
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