A Multitudinous Great Crowd - Confirming 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 own to our God, who is seated on the throne  and to te Lamb."' ( Revelation 7:10)   Although they have been separated out of all ethnic groups, the great crowd cry out with just that one  "loud voice."  How can they do this, despite their diversity of nations and languages?

This great crowd is part of the only truly multinational  organization on earth today.  They do not have diffferent 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 mutally 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 they they own 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 comes from Jehovah, the God of 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 400 languages, since no other group is interested in  reaching all peoples of earth with one united message.  As a further aid in this, under the supervision of the anointed Governing Body of  Jehovah's Witnesses, a Multilanugage Electronic Phototypesetting System (MEPS) was developed.  At the time of this printing, various forms of MEPS are used in more than 125 locations around the earth, and this has helped  to make possible publications of the semimonthly journal, The Watchtwower, in over 130 languages simultaneously. Jehovah's people also 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 voices of the great crowd. - ISAIAH42:10, 12.

Next time: A Multitudinous Great  Crowd - In Heaven  or on Earth?

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