Chapter Twenty - The Multitudinous Great Crowd

Conclusion of the Identity of the Great Crowd

It is fitting, then, that the great crowd, though no part of spiritual Israel, should wave palm branches, since they joyfully and gratefully ascribe the victory and salvation to God and to the Lamb, as John here observes:  "And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying:  'Salvation we ow to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.' "  ( Revelation 7:10)  Although they have been separated out of all ethnic groups, the great crowd cry out with just one "loud voice."  How can they do this, despite their diversity of nations and languages?

This great crowd is part of the only truly united multinational organization on earth today.  They do not have different standards for different countries but apply the Bible's right principles consistently wherever they live.  They are not involved  in nationalistic, revolutionary movements but have truly  'beaten swords into plowshares.'  (Isaiah 2:4)  They are not divided into sects or denominations, so that they shout confused or mutually contradictory messages as do the religions of Christendom, nor do they leave it to a professional  clergy class to do their praising for them.  They do not cry out that they owe salvation to the holy spirit, for they are not servants of a trinitarian god. In some 200 geographical territories around the earth they are at one in calling upon the name of Jehovah as they speak the one pure language of truth.  (Zephaniah 3:9)  Properly, they publicly acknowledge  that their salvation, through Jesus Christ, His Chief Agent of salvation. -Psalm 3:8; Hebrews 2:10. 

Modern technology has helped to make the loud voice of the united great crowd sound even louder.  No other religious group on earth has need of publishing Bible study aids in  more than 200 languages, since no other group is interested in reaching all peoples of the earth with one united message. As a further aid in this, under the supervision of the anointed Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, a Multilanguage Electronic Phototypesetting System (MEPS) was developed.  At the time of this writing, various forms  of MEPS are used in more than 60 of the Watchtower Society's branches around the earth, and this has helped  to make possible publication of their principal semi-monthly journal.  The Watchtower in 39 languages simultaneously publish books, such as this one, in a number of languages. Thus Jehovah's Witnesses of whom the great crowd make up the vast majority, are able yearly to distribute hundreds of millions of publications in all the better known languages, enabling additional throngs out of all tribes and tongues to study God's Word and join their voices to the loud voice of the great crowd.  -Isaiah 42:10, 12. 

Next time: Chapter Twenty - The Multitudinous Great Crowd - In Heaven or on Earth? 

From the book of Revelation