Revelation 7:9-10 ESV
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!”
This great multitude without number comes out of the great tribulation. The nation of Israel has been numbered in the previous verses.
The Bride of Christ has been numbered in the twenty-four elders who do not go through the great tribulation. They are wearing the crown of life. There were twenty-four divisions of the priesthood and we in the body of Christ have been made a royal priesthood in the kingdom of heaven.
There will be a righteous people outside the gates of the New Jerusalem. They will make up the nations of the earth who will come to the city to worship
Revelation 21:22-27
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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