II: The Flood and the Fathers

The Great Multitude

the covenant people from every nation

Root
Gen 15:5 · hamon (H1995)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 12:3
  2. Gen 15:5
  3. Gen 32:12
  4. Isa 49:6
  5. Dan 7:14
  6. Zech 8:22-23
  7. Rev 7:9
New Testament
Rev 1:6; Rev 4:9-11; Rev 5:11-14; Rev 6:17; Rev 7:9; Rev 7:10-12; Rev 7:13-15; Gal 3:28-29; Eph 2:8-9

Abraham is told, "in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gen 12:3), and "tell the stars, if thou be able to number them... So shall thy seed be" (Gen 15:5; 32:12). Isaiah extends the light "unto the end of the earth" (Isa 49:6), and Zechariah sees ten men of every tongue take hold of a Jew's skirt (Zech 8:23). Rev 7:9 shows a multitude "which no man could number," Yahuah's covenant people from every nation, not one ethnic group. They are the same sealed people shown going into the tribulation, and their cry echoes "Salvation is of Yahuah" (Jonah 2:9). The dispensational split into raptured church and later tribulation saints divides one people.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 99, 103–104