By David Kimler
www.globalworship.ws

Rev 5:9 and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation

Rev 7:9-10   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 in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰ And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

   In Revelation chapters 5 and 7, we see a glimpse of  glorious worship, falling before the throne with  singing, shouting, and crying unto the Lamb, Jesus and to our Father God.  Allow your imagination to picture this and you will begin to feel your heart being totally captivated over and over with this throne-room scene. I believe many great saints of God have lived for the ultimate fulfillment of this grand and glorious event where the Lamb and God the Father receive the worship coming from every nation, tribe, people, and language.

   As we meditate on this great scene, we begin to understand what God the Father's ultimate and final goal is - that of receiving glory and worship from every ethnic people group on the face of the earth. God reveals His glory TO the nations in order that He can receive glory FROM the nations.  Or more specifically; God will reveal His glory to every ethnic people group of the earth in order that He may receive glory from that people around His throne. God desires Global Worship—that every people worship and adore HIM. He wants each space filled around His throne with worshipping disciples from every ethnic group on earth.  Let's make sure, as we fill our space around the throne that passionate white-hot worship will come from each of us.

   A question that comes as we meditate on this awesome worship scenario is - where did all the nations come from?  To answer this we must look back to Genesis - the book of beginnings to see where the nations began. We see what God created in His first six days, and then we see that Satan and man created sin. In Genesis 11, we see how and why God created the nations - all speaking different tongues. Then in Genesis 12, God reveals to Abraham, His divine plan to have all the nations worship Him. He would bless Abraham and he and his descendents would bless all the families of the earth. (Gen. 12:2,3) We should boldly pray these verses as well. Lord, bless me greatly in order that I might be a blessing to all the families of the earth. This is our prayer for you and for us as well at Global Worship, that we would be blessed in such a way as to be a blessing to the unreached ethnic people groups of the world.  We want to help people grow in their relationship with the Lord to the point where they are worshipping disciples.

   Another question that arises is how many spaces around God's throne are yet to be filled with worshipping disciples from every ethnic people group in the world. Just as the United States has many diverse ethnic groups, even among Native American (first nations) tribes, each political country of the world is composed of many ethnic people groups within the boundaries of that country.  One friend from the Amazon recently told me that this mighty river has about four thousand islands, and that each island has a different ethnic people group living on that island.  Missiologists tell us that 97% of the unreached peoples of the world live in the area of the world known as "the 10/40 Window" (between the 10^th and 40^th parallel).     

   The people groups in this area of the world have as a religion Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Tribal folk religions and practices. The total in this area of the world is somewhere between 8 to 10 thousand unreached ethnic people groups representing over 2 Billion people.  This tells us that there are still many spaces that are yet to be filled around the throne of God. Many of these groups are just waiting for the Gospel, and missionaries have seen entire group conversions when the good news has reached them. There are elements in these cultures that are open doors for sharing about Christ's redemptive plan for mankind. Many are waiting and when the Gospel is shared with them readily accept Christ. They even ask why it took so long to get the message to them.

   What are the resources that we have in order to reach these ethnic people groups?  God has given the United States such great anointings throughout its history - in economics, in transportation, in communications, and in many other areas - all to get the gospel to these unreached ethnic people groups. Cars, planes, radios, telephones, satellite and Internet communication and many other U.S. inventions have all been gifts of God to our country in order to reach the world for Jesus. A survey reported that Christians in the United States have a collective total of $900 Billion after taxes are taken out. We are presently giving about $2 Billion into world missions, - less than 1/4 of 1% !!  Very little of this amount is  focused on the unreached ethnic peoples groups of the world! We also have about 600 churches for every unreached ethnic people group. We have incredible resources available to use for the Father's great goal of filling His throne with worshipping disciples!! 

We must not be guilty of the Great Omission  We must utilize every means possible and even sacrifice as much as possible in order to see completion of the Great Commission in our day! 

   Collectively and cooperatively we can network together in our lifetime to see the Gospel reach every person who has never heard.  We as the U.S. church have more resources than any church has had in the history of Christendom! We are in a crucial place in history where we are capable of literally becoming a blessing to every unreached ethnic people group around the earth. We must rise to the occasion,  put off our complacent slumber and preoccupation with convenience and pleasure, seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit and His power, become passionate worshippers and lovers of God, and sacrificially give ourselves to filling our Father's throne-room with worshipping disciples!

   If we will be a nation that will bless all the world with the Gospel, we will be joining with God's purposes for Israel to bless all the "ta ethne" (Greek N.T.) - ethnic people groups of the earth (Gen.12:2, 3) God’s plan for Israel was to have a nation of priests who would literally carry His glory to the nations.  He gave them a strategic land where the trade routes passed through. The goal was that merchants from every nation that were passing through the land of Israel would see and experience the glory of God in and upon the Jewish nation, and then "take it back" to his own people.  Five times God reveals His plan in His book of beginnings (Genesis) in order to ensure that these foundational fathers would clearly understand what He wanted. (Gen 12:2, 3; 18:18; 22:15-18; 26: 4; 29:14)  The Lord's desire was for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Isa. 11:9; Hab 2:14)  If Israel would not voluntarily cooperate, He would use them even against their will (involuntarily). God is committed to fulfilling His promises and goals, whether we cooperate with Him or not.  Clearly the best  course in life is to yield to His ways and desires to be fulfilled through our worship and service to Him. 

   Let's examine some familiar Bible stories to see how God revealed His glory and might in order to receive worldwide worship.  We must ask ourselves what God receives from these passages.

   God used little David against Goliath to bring great fame to His name worldwide. David knew this as he spoke to Goliath saying, "Today the Lord will conquer you …and the whole world will know there is a God in Israel." (1 Sam 17:46)  The implication here is that God would get worldwide recognition and worship through these events.

   God forcibly used the Hebrew racist missionary, Jonah to bring the Ninevites to a place of repenting and worshipping before Him. Maybe Jonah will have a spot around the throne of God right in the middle of all the Ninevite worshippers!

   God used Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to challenge King Nebudcanezzar's system of worship through the fiery furnace. After coming out, the king issued a worldwide edict commanding all the peoples to worship this God (Daniel 3).  Later God used Daniel to challenge the king's proclamation to pray only to him. After Daniel's trial of the lion's den, King Darius issues a worldwide edict for all the peoples of the earth to worship the Hebrew god (Daniel 6).  From these two accounts, we could conclude that God got worship from all around the world because of these edicts.  These are just a few places that as we examine, we can begin to understand what God is desiring to receive.

   God's Holy Spirit is moving across the earth to promote worship.  Acts 15 states that God will restore the Tabernacle of David in the last days in order that all men would seek the Lord.  Paul Cain has had repeated visions of the stadiums of the earth being filled with worshipping disciples. The Scripture clearly states that this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached to all peoples and then the end will come. I Believe that at the point in time when the last ethnic group is reached for Christ, and the last place around the throne is filled with the final worshipping disciple, then the end will come.  Let us pursue this goal with all that is in us.

   Will you join together with Global Worship in the goal of being a blessing to the unreached ethnic peoples of the world in order to bring completion to the Great Commission and fill God's throne room with worshipping disciples?