Conclusion of The Elevating of Pure Worship

During this time of harvest, Jehovah has progressively helped the anointed remnant to understand and apply his Word, the Bible.  This too has contributed to the elevating of pure worship.  Though 'darkness itself covers the earth,and thick the national groups,' the anointed are "shining as illuminators" among humankind, having been cleansed and refined by Jehovah.  (Isaiah 60:2; Philippians 2:15)  "Filled with accurate knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension," these spirit-anointed ones "shine as brightly as he sun in the kingdom of their Father." -Colossians 1:9; Matthew 13:43.

Moreover, others have streamed to "the mountain of the house of Jehovah."  Called by Jesus his "other sheep," These have the hope of living forever on a paradise earth. (John 10:16; Revelation 21:3, 4) Starting  in the 1030's, they appeared by the thousands, then by the hundreds of thousands, and now by the millions!   In a vision given to the apostle John, they are described as "a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues." -Revelation 7:9.

The prophet Haggai foretold the appearance of this great crowd.  He wrote: "This is what Jehovah of armies has said.  'Yet once -it is a little while- and I am rocking the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry ground.  And I will rock all the nations [those  who} join anointed Christians in pure worship] must come in; and I will fill this house with glory,'  Jehovah of armies has said."  (Haggai 2:6, 7) The existence of this still-growing "great crowd" and their anointed companions elevates, yes glorifies, pure worship in Jehovah's house.  Never before have so many been recorded as united in the worship of the true God, and this brings glory to Jehovah and his enthroned King, Jesus Christ.  King Solomon wrote:  "In the multitude of people there is an adornment of a king." -Proverbs 14:28.

Next time: Worship Exalted in the Lives of People

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind, 2000