Chapter Forty-Three/The Resplendent City - A Light for the Nations

This same prophecy also foretold: "And nations will go to your light, and kings to its brightness of your shining forth."  (Isaia 60:3) Revelation shows that these words would include New Jerusalem: "And the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. And its gates will not be closed at all by day, for night will not exist there. And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it." - REVELATION 21:24-26. 

Who are these "nations" walking by means of the light of New Jerusalem? They are people, once a part of the nations of this wicked world, who respond to the light shed through this glorious heavenly city. Foremost among them are the great crowd, who have already come out of "all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues" and who worship God day and night in company with the John class. (Revelation 7:9, 15) After New Jerusalem comes down from heaven and Jesus uses the keys of death and Hades to resurrect the dead, they will be joined millions more, originally from the "nations," who come to love Jehovah and his Son, the Lamblike Husband of New Jerusalem. -REVELATION 1:18. 

Next time: Chapter Forty-Three/The Resplendent City- A Light for the Nations - Conclusion

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