Foundation Laid!
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Let’s pull back for a moment and look at this from a grander perspective. While all of what you have seen is certainly an exciting prophecy, the true picture is even much bigger than we have yet seen.
A repentant Great Multitude from all nations (of course with the Israelite remnant) will bring a foundation—a starting point—from which the Law of God will spread throughout the world. (Isaiah 2:1-4 and Micah 4:1-4 show how this will happen from Jerusalem.) So, from the outset of the Millennium people in every nation—the “holdouts”—will be able to observe that some once around them reflect changed lives. They will see dramatically different attitudes and conduct—and that a new and different God is being worshipped by small enclaves of people under His protection in every corner of the globe!
How This Will Happen
You can know with certainty that millions around the world will be able to know what it means to repent and turn to the true God at the outset of His year of wrath. Here is why:
(1) The Two Witnesses will already have been at work for the two and a half years of the Tribulation, explaining God’s Plan, as well as the timing of the Day of the Lord soon to occur, and they will have certainly called the nations to repent before time has expired and it is too late to avoid punishment. Of course, many will see the power and magnitude of the miracles that these two prophets will perform and will recognize they are true servants of God. Not everyone should be expected to blaspheme God and be unwilling to repent in the face of punishment, as many are foretold to do (Rev. 16:9, 11, 21).
(2) Realize that the many millions constituting the remnant will have had extended daily contact with the Gentile “strangers” among whom they live. These Israelite slaves will surely have talked about what it was—the national sins and abominations—that brought the last two and a half years of punishment upon their lands and themselves. They will certainly also speak of the very Work of God that warned them of what lay ahead, and that they did not heed!
Similar to the “locals” of ancient Egypt, many will learn that they can escape the incredible one-year destruction about to come upon the rest of the nations of the world. Again, the Israelites will surely tell them of the prophecies described in the Bible—the things in this book. And they may have earlier heard them independently.
Recall that the word “peoples” within the Great Multitude description is one that can also refer to the Israelite tribes. Here is the point. Certainly a multitude involving ALL nations would necessarily have to include the Israelite nations coming as part of, and probably the largest percentage of, the overallmigration! But generally think of these groups as alongside each other.
After experiencing the Great Tribulation, the Great Multitude will come to recognize everything that God foretold would happen has come to pass. While presently consumed with “the cares of the world” (Mark 4:19), this segment of the world will remember what they learned and turn to God in full obedience!
But those who choose to listen and repent now will be part of a different, much smaller group…