Every nation, every tribe and and all peoples and languages.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

Revelation 7:9-10

The first time these verses really struck me was when I was in Ukraine on Palm Sunday. Visitors to the churches there are expected to offer a greeting from their home church. Their home church could be somewhere else in Ukraine, or somewhere else in the world. So, I shared these verses with the people in the church we were visiting as greetings from our home church in Omaha.

I told them, we will be together again and they will meet the people from my home church. Just as the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem with palm branches, we will be together before the throne. We will hold palm branches in our hands, together praising the Lamb for the salvation he brought to us. He deserves our eternal praise.

This salvation is for “every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.” We will all be standing before the throne, before the Lamb who was slain. We will be praising God and the Lamb.

In a recent study of Revelation, it was pointed out that we will be praising the Lamb eternally. We will never tire of praising him. It is because of his sacrifice that we can be in heaven there before him. Living in heaven will be so awesome that we will continually, for all eternity, praise the Lamb. He made heaven possible by giving his life. He took the punishment we deserved so we could be with him forever.