Race Relations...continued

THE NATION AND THE NATIONS

It is significant to read in the book of Revelation (7) that the Redeemed who will be in God's presence will have come from every tribe and tongue and nation. Racial groupings will still be remembered then as they were at the beginning of the Church in the book of Acts. (8)

At this particular time known as the Gospel age, God is calling out His people - the ecclesia - from all over the world and bringing them into one Holy Nation as recorded in the first letter of Peter (9) and we are often asked what language will be spoken in the world to come. Maybe the book of Zephaniah (10) provides a clue. It states "I will turn to the people in a pure language, that they may all call upon the Name of the Lord".

This had an immediate relevance to those who came from distant places, but it may well pre-figure the greater and final ingathering, when, in a new and completely purified language, "praise shall our nobler powers employ", and in that Kingdom, the redeemed from all nations and races will love God, serve God and enjoy Him forever.