“After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.”
Revelation 7:9
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Connection with the table of nations
Genesis 10 lists the nations by their languages. God handed those languages back at Pentecost, when people from every nation heard the disciples "declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues" (Acts 2:11), and He gathers them home in this vision. Genesis 10 is where this crowd first appears.
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Genesis 10 lists the seventy nations by their languages. At Pentecost those languages stayed, and God spoke into all of them at once. John saw where it ends: "a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue," every language kept and gathered before the throne.
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