All Nations Shall Believe

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. Psalm 22:27

God is destroying the unbelieving nations.

Daniel 2:35 • And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.1
Daniel 2:44 • And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Jeremiah 1:10 • See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.2
Isaiah 60:12 • For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly ruined.3
Isaiah 60:13 • The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious.
Isaiah 27:6 • Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 54:3 • For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.
Isaiah 66:1 • Thus says the Lord:  "Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool."4

1 This stone gradually becomes a mountain.
2 Just as Jeremiah, in his prophetic office, was placed over the nations, so Christ and his church are also destroying the nations through priesthood, prayer, and preaching.  Only His kingdom will be left.
3 God is here speaking to Israel, the church of God.
4 If the earth is His footstool and He will make the place of His feet glorious, then He will make the earth glorious.

Believers shall inherit the earth.

Daniel 7:18 • But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
Daniel 7:22 • Until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.
Daniel 7:27 • Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High.  His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.
Psalm 2:8 • Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession.
Psalm 37:11 • But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Romans 4:13 • For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Psalm 37:29 • The righteous shall inherit the land (earth), and dwell in it forever.
Psalm 37:34 • Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Psalm 82:8 • Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all the nations.
Psalm 111:6 • He has declared to His people the power of His works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

All nations shall serve Him

Psalm 102:22 • When the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
Psalm 110:1 • The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool."
Psalm 110:2 • The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.  Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
Psalm 102:15 • So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
Psalm 86:9 • All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.
Psalm 72:8 • He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 72:11 • Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall serve Him.
Psalm 72:17 • His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun.  And men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.
Psalm 67:7 • God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
Psalm 68:31 • Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
Psalm 65:2 • O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come.
Jeremiah 16:19 • O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthlessness and unprofitable things."
Isaiah 19:21 • Then the Lord will be known to Egypt, and the Etyptians1 will know the Lord in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the Lord and perform it.
Isaiah 19:22 • And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.
Isaiah 19:23 • And in that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians.
Isaiah 19:24 • In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land,
Isaiah 19:25 • whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.
Psalm 138:4 • All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O Lord, when they hear the words of Your mouth.
Isaiah 40:5 • the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 60:3 • The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isaiah 66:18 • "For I know their works and their thoughts.  It shall be that I will gather nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory."
Habakkuk 2:14 • For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Daniel 7:14 • Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.  His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.

1 This passage deals with the conversion of Egypt and Assyria.  They will be God's people along with the Israel of God (the Church).  Egypt is a type of the world.  The world will be converted by the striking and healing hand of God.  There will be an altar of God in the middle of Egypt (the world).  Assyria represents nations that once worshipped God and broke the covenant.

The future volunteers

Psalm 22:30 • A posterity shall serve Him.  It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation.
Psalm 22:31 • They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born, that He has done this.
Psalm 110:3 • Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.
Psalm 102:13 • You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yes, the sit time, has come.
Psalm 102:14 • For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust.
Psalm 102:15 • So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
Psalm 102:16 • For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.
Psalm 102:17 • He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer.
Psalm 102:18 • This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
Psalm 102:19 • For He looked down form the height of His sanctuary; from heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
Psalm 102:20 • To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,
Psalm 102:21 • To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem,
Psalm 102:22 • When the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

This will happen before death is destroyed

1 Corinthians 15:24 • Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.1
1 Corinthians 15:25 • For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.
1 Corinthians 15:26 • The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
Isaiah 65:20 • There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die one hundred years old; but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

1 The end will not come until He has destroyed His enemies.  After He destroys the lesser ones, He will destroy death at His return to earth.

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Jesus shall reign where ere the sun
Doth his successive journeys run.
His Kingdom spread from shore to shore.
Then earth shall wane and wax no more.

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