Tribe, Language, People, Nation
Revelation 5:9 – And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation
Revelation 7:9 – After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Revelation 11:9 – For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
I found it interesting how thoroughly God has stirred the pot of humanity. Today when we think about people from a certain part of the world or who speak a certain language, we make assumptions about their religion. But by the end times, none of this will make a difference. Jesus, the Lamb of God, has paid the price of sin for all mankind, regardless of race, language, nationality, or family and tribe.
However, as amazing as that is, it is even more troubling that there will be people from every tribe, language, people and nation who not only reject Jesus, but do so to the degree that they dance in the streets and exchange gifts celebrating the death of God’s own witnesses. How sad that no group, however big or small, is “all in”. Every group has members who will be part of these who reject the Lord.
The challenge in this is to think about the prejudices we hold. Are we more or less likely to witness to one tribe or nationality than another? Do we make an assumption that we should or should not make talk about Jesus to someone who speaks a certain language?
We will truly all be brothers and sisters in unity with our Lord.
My Answers
9.
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attack, overpower and kill them. God preserved them in death for 3 1/2 days and then brought them back to life and raised them up, in the body, to heaven in a cloud
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Earthquake and 1/10th of the city collapsed. 7000 people killed in the earthquake
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a.
John 11: Jesus is the resurrection. Whoever believes will live even though they die and then never die
John 14: Jesus has prepared a place for His believers in God’s house, He will come back to take us there
1 Cor: Christ is the first fruits over death, it will be destroyed as all else is under Jesus
Phil: We are citizens of heaven, waiting to be transformed into His glorious body
1 Thes: dead raised first, after those still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds
1 John: We don’t know our transformed bodies yet but will when we see Jesus again, like Him
b.
Kids
The Notes are Good 