Revelation 7:9 “After this, I saw a vast crowd, too great to count from every nation and tribe and people and language standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb”. What a beautiful sight, what a beautiful sound that must be!! Nations of every language surrounding the throne of God worshipping in their own tongue. Hebrews 8:5 reminds us “We serve in a system of worship that is a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven”. So, we should have at least a foretaste of worship in heaven here yet we often find we do not.
Ephesians 3:5-13 Paul is writing about God’s mysterious plan to bring in the Gentiles along with the Jews into relationship through the blood of Jesus shed for all peoples. This passage tells us we “share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children and that we are all part of the same body. The purpose for this is that as that body, the church is to display God’s wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. “THIS is the eternal plan carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord”. “BECAUSE OF THIS, we can come boldly into God’s presence” and according to Hebrews 4:16 “Come boldly unto the throne of Grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need”.
It is rare to find a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic gathering of people today in the body of Christ. Most churches are still very divided along these lines but God’s heart and His design is to break down these barriers of tribe and tongue and gather all His children together in one place, in one accord and when we do, we shall shake the rulers and authorities in unseen places according to Ephesians 3. Maybe the dose of mercy and grace the earth needs today is found in this truth; every nation every tribe TOGETHER in unity in the Holy Spirit around the throne in one accord, in worship, in prayer, in tears together! if this is the heart of the Father, this should be the heart of His children, every nation and tribe, all of us desiring to become the ONE people, ONE race we were designed to be in the first place. #MyGodisYahweh