Bouan Philippe
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Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and with palms in their hands.
The aforementioned diversity doesn't imply that people in the new heaven and earth will be equal in any fundamental sense at all.
Why?
Nowhere, does the Bible actually say that the different groups of people will be identical in terms of their numerical size.
For since the dawn of civilisation there had always been marked disparities in the comparative size of different groups, and there is no reason to expect the future world to detract from such a reality:-
Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Consequently, the purported diversity of the new heaven and earth should not be confused with the alleged 'equality' of different groups of people who will inhabit in the future world.
Because some groups will always be numerically superior to others, but we know that the numerical size will always have significant correlation with the overall geopolitical power of different groups.
Ultimately, such a realisation should have the most profound and far reaching implications in terms of the future geopolitical developments and the strategic balance of power between nations.
Last but not least, it is God who actually decides the comparative size of the different groups in the new heaven and earth in order to determine the strategic balance of power between the different groups of people. (Romans 9:21-23)
Please comment.
The aforementioned diversity doesn't imply that people in the new heaven and earth will be equal in any fundamental sense at all.
Why?
Nowhere, does the Bible actually say that the different groups of people will be identical in terms of their numerical size.
For since the dawn of civilisation there had always been marked disparities in the comparative size of different groups, and there is no reason to expect the future world to detract from such a reality:-
Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Consequently, the purported diversity of the new heaven and earth should not be confused with the alleged 'equality' of different groups of people who will inhabit in the future world.
Because some groups will always be numerically superior to others, but we know that the numerical size will always have significant correlation with the overall geopolitical power of different groups.
Ultimately, such a realisation should have the most profound and far reaching implications in terms of the future geopolitical developments and the strategic balance of power between nations.
Last but not least, it is God who actually decides the comparative size of the different groups in the new heaven and earth in order to determine the strategic balance of power between the different groups of people. (Romans 9:21-23)
Please comment.
