A Great Multitude

       Hello everybody, my name is Dean Davis and this is “Multiply,” the podcast that

provides a word of encouragement for Village Church Planters.

A great day is coming. A wonderful day is before us. It’s a day that was

foreseen more than 1,900 years ago. It’s a day of great rejoicing! Listen to the

words that the apostle John used to describe this coming great day:

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one

could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before

the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were

holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,

who sits on the throne,

and to the Lamb.”

All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the

four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and

worshiped God, saying:

“Amen!

Praise and glory

and wisdom and thanks and honor

and power and strength

be to our God for ever and ever.

Amen!”

(Revelation 7:9-12)

What a great day! A multitude. A huge multitude. The crowd of people is so big

no one can count it. And it’s not just any crowd; it’s an enormous crowd of

people who have found forgiveness in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who by his

shed blood and resurrection victory over death grants pardon for sin and

salvation to all who trust Him.

The people of this enormous crowd are not just speaking one or two languages;

they are speaking every language from the whole world. They represent nations

and tribes: every nation and every tribe.

Where did they come from and what are they doing? They come from

everywhere. But, more importantly, they come to Christ and they stand before

his throne praising him because Jesus’ disciples in every generation went out

and proclaimed the Good News. The multitude is before the throne of God for

two reasons:

1) Because Jesus paid it all so that they could be saved.

2) Because his followers multiplied evangelists and disciple-makers and

cross-cultural workers to carry the Good News to every nation, tribe,

people and language.

This scene of the multitude before the throne is a future event. It was revealed

to John in a vision about 1,930 years ago. This scene cannot yet take place, in reality,  today because there are still some tribes and peoples without a single

person who has a white robe cleansed in the blood of the Lamb. Our job is to

multiply disciple makers so that the Revelation 7 scene before the throne

becomes a reality as soon as possible.

So, my brothers and sister, keep making disciples who make disciples; keep

crossing cultural barriers to make Christ known.

This has been Multiply! And I’m Dean Davis asking, “Who will you share this

encouraging word with today?

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