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Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. Today, to who belongs all the nations of the earth, or as the Bible calls him, the desire

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of the nations? In a tumultuous world where conflict exists over possession of the earth,

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for example, Islam asserts the earth belongs to Allah, communists and socialists claim it is the

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peoples through the state, and of course the plutocrats, who are presently attempting to

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seize it, assume that they are entitled, since it is theirs bought and paid for. Who can we

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confidently say, however, as Bible-believing Christians, in reality does possess the earth

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and all that is in it? This is an important question since the answer will determine how

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we live in the future. That for which we labor, the form of government we fashion to live under,

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and those we choose to lead us. It will have ultimate consequences also, since the possessor

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of the earth is the one we end up worshiping. The Bible records for us this solemn expression

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of the consequence for choosing the wrong being to worship. If anyone's name was not found written

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in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire, from Revelation chapter 20. Now, over the

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last few weeks, we have been examining the way things are in America. That is, we see secularism ruling

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our spiritual lives, statism tyrannizing our political lives, and socialism running our economic

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lives. With the way we've been comparing this with the way we were designed by our founding fathers.

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That is, we were designed to have Christ for our spiritual lives, the constitution for our political

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lives, and capitalism for our economic lives. Yet, throughout this careful comparison, we have been

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insistent that the overarching point is that of Christ for all. Christ must be the center of our worship

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as a people. Christ must be at the heart of our constitution, and Christ must guide our capitalistic

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economy. If not, all is lost. And what I want to examine today in some detail is why Christ is central

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to all that we do as a nation. He is the desire of the nations. That is, the one to whom all of our

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labors and our aspirations culminate. The Bible is insistent on this. And how can we maintain, though?

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How can we put Christ so centrally in our understanding? Well, we establish this from the

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authority of the Word of God. Three points I want to make with you today. Number one,

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Christ is the desire of the nations because they are His by right of creation. The Bible documents that

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the Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity, made the heavens and the earth. Secondly, we also

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maintain that Christ is the desire of the nations because they are His by right of redemption. Not

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only did He make and fashion the earth and the men who inhabit it, but also He redeemed them when

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they were lost. And then thirdly, I also want to assert for you, Christ is the desire of the nations

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because they are His by right of inheritance. The one follows upon the other. Since He redeemed it by

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His own blood, they are His by inheritance too. So let's take these one at a time. Number one,

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Christ is the desire of the nations because it is His by right of creation. God made it. He owns it.

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He possesses it, therefore. The Bible documents, for example, that the Son, the second person of the

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Holy Trinity, made the heavens and the earth. And since He made them, He owns them. As Paul notes in

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Romans chapter 9, has not the potter a right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel

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for honorable use and another for dishonorable use, from Romans chapter 9? Well, indeed, he does, of

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course. And Paul extols the preeminence of Christ owing to His making all things. He says of Christ

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through Him and for Him. He is before all things. In Him, all things hold together. All things were

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created through Him and for Him. Just as the desire of a child is for his mother, for she has made him,

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so the desire of the nations is for their Maker, for He has made them. This is the sense of what the

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prophet Haggai declares when he says, Yet once in a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the

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earth and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations will

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come. The church has traditionally seen this text as pointing to the coming of Christ, who is the

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maker and the shaper and the disposer of all nations. As Paul declares in Acts chapter 17,

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He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined

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allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place. Unquote. Oh, He made from man every nation of

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mankind. This is why we can confidently, boldly, in great assurance call Jesus Christ the desire of

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all nations. It is for Him for whom they long. When the human heart yearns for peace, they desire the one of

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all nations. It is the living Christ for whom the nations cry out when calling for justice. It is Jesus of

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Nazareth for whom the nations reach when they long for salvation and deliverance. But pastor, you may say, and I

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thought of this too, how can you say this categorically when it is so obvious that very few, if any, of the

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nations seem to desire Him at present. In fact, we see evidence all around us that most of the nations

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now of the earth actually seem to hate Christ and to persecute His followers. And to all of this, I must

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acknowledge, yes, yes, alas, this is the condition of the human heart at present, isn't it? It is the human

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condition. But this brings me to my second point, and that is number two, Christ is the desire of the

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nations because they are His by right of redemption. They are lost, they are fallen, but they are redeemed

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back now. Not only did Christ make and fashion the earth and the men who inhabit it, but Christ also

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redeemed them when they were lost. Herein lies the key as to why the nations do not yet acknowledge

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Christ as their desire and recognize Him as their King. That is, the nations are lost and fallen and

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estranged from Christ and actually hate Him at this present moment. In fact, the Bible tells us, the

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Psalms tell us, the Psalm number two says, why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings

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of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His

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anointed saying, let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us, unquote. So the Bible,

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this Psalm in particular, speaks directly of Christ. From the very earliest account of mankind, we know

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that the nations do exactly this, do they not? They rage, they plot, they set themselves, and that Hebrew word

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means to obstinately block the way. They obstinately block the way against Christ and against the

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Father and His anointed, that is, the Christ. So when humanity was one nation after the flood,

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for example, at the Tower of Babel, there was a period where all of humanity was one nation.

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Well, they conspired against God, did they not? They said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower

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with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of

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the whole earth, unquote, from Genesis chapter 11, when mankind was one nation. This was in direct

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contravention, however, of the dominion mandate at creation, when God blessed them and God said to them,

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that is to Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion

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over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves

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on the earth. So the dominion mandate then was to go out, be fruitful, disperse over the face of the earth

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and fill it. But instead, at the Tower of Babel, they concentrated themselves into a city and built

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vertically, that is, to reach into heaven and unseat God, instead of building horizontally, that is, to spread

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abroad in the dominion God had granted them, that is, in the earth. So make no mistake about this,

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dear listener. God was not the desire of the one nation of man at the Tower of Babel, because they

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were true children of their first parents, Adam and Eve. They hated this God. They raged, they plotted,

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they set themselves and took counsel against God to disobey Him. Because of this, God made many nations.

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That's why we have so many nations and so many tongues and languages, because God, in His punishment,

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made many nations of the one family of man at this place called Babel by forcing them to go hither and

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yon over the earth. Genesis chapter 11 again, therefore its name was called Babel, because there

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the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of

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all the earth. So then, ever since, the nations have hated God. They have not welcomed Christ as the

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desire of all the nations, even though He is, though they know it not. The one nation of mankind was

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smashed and dispersed into all the earth, isolated by having its language confused, that is, broken up

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into many languages, one unintelligible to the other, versus this one universal language. So, this is a part

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of the miracle of the gospel of Christ, and the beauty of the unity of His church, parenthetically,

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in that what happened at the Tower of Babel is reversed now in Christ and His church. We see in

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Revelation, for example, they sang a new song, the saints sang, worthy are you to take the scroll and

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to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe

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and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priest to our God, and they

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shall reign on the earth, unquote, from the book of Revelation. But the trend among the nations has

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consistently been opposite to this, and to see Christ, then, as the despised of all nations, rather

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than the desire of all nations. This is so true, is it not? Dear listener, Egypt, for example, found Him

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to be the despised of the nations, even though shown to be utterly superior to all of their gods by means

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of the ten plagues, right? The Moabites and the Amalekites found Him to be the despised of the nations,

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as Israel passed through the wilderness. All of the subsequent nations of the earth ended up treating

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the Christ, Israel, my son, that is, the type of Christ, Israel, my son, began to treat Him as the

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despised rather than the desire of the nations. We see this throughout the Bible with Assyria and

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Babylon and Rome, to name but three of the most egregious of these nations. All through history,

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with some notable exceptions, the United States of America being one, this is the story of mankind

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as He has gathered Himself into nations. And as I make clear in other places, all nations have a

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God. All nations have a God or gods, including the supposed atheistic nations of communism. We all live

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simultaneously in a physical and spiritual realm as individuals, as families, as regions and states,

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and as nations. There is a spiritual community in a nation, as well as a culture and a society.

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Every nation has a spiritual community. It is part of what makes us human. So, unless a nation is

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conscientiously, consciously, overtly, and explicitly Christian in its religious faith, it will revert to

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its default setting that it had at the fall. That is, it will worship one of the many faces of the

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serpent, that is, the devil. But does this make those nations, that is, the nations we see arrayed

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before us in the world today, does it make them any less the possession of the Christ, the desire of

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the nations? And to this, we must give an emphatic note. They are still His, even though they do not

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recognize Him. In fact, God at every juncture of history reminds us that the nations of the earth

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belong to His Christ. Once again, from chapter 2, from Psalm number 2, He says, I will tell of the

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decree. The Lord said to me, You are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the

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nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of

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iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. They are His, they are Christ's, because the

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Father made them, as we have observed, but also because He redeemed them. He bought them back. He

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saved them. Paul talks about this redemption as the obedience of faith, and it is required of a nation,

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the obedience of faith to this redemption. It acknowledges Christ. Paul says in Romans chapter 1,

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we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of His name

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among all the nations, unquote, from the apostle Paul. And then later in Romans, Paul also speaks in

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this same fashion. He speaks of the Christ having been disclosed, Christ in His gospel having been

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disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations according to the command of

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the eternal God to bring about the obedience of faith. Oh, dear listener, one of the most beautiful

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passages in the Bible talks of the profound impact of the gospel upon the nations in the age to come

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when the labors of Christ will finally bring about genuine peace that is so elusive today, isn't it,

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as we look around a tumultuous world. And we see in Revelation chapter 2, in the new Jerusalem,

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in that place of bliss, we see on either side of the river, that is the river of life in Revelation 22,

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on either side of the river, the tree of life with its 12 kinds of fruit yielding its fruit each month.

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The leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations, unquote. There will be a healing of the

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nations, brothers and sisters, but it will not be by man's devices. It will not be by the United

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Nations. No, it will not be by Islam. It will not be by any other religion. It will be by Christ and

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His gospel. The leaves of the tree of life, that is the new Jerusalem of Christ, will be for the healing

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of the nations. Nations will not be healed until then. Because Christ and His gospel is the only way

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that these things will transpire. He is truly the desire of the nations, including our nation. He

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should be the desire of the United States of America, because only through Christ will the healing of

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the nations come. But sadly, it is true that as we speak, most nations of the world do not know

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that He is their desire. But does that mean that they will never know Him as such? No, dear listener.

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That means that it will transpire, but not in the near future. That brings me to point number three.

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Christ is the desire of the nations, because they are His by right of inheritance. They are His. The

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nations are Christ's by right of inheritance. Christ has ownership of the nations, because His Father

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has bequeathed them to Him. There is no escape from this reality, dear listener. The sooner the nations

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realize this, the sooner their desire will be satisfied. We have already observed how the nations are Christ's

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inheritance. That is a thing to come to Him by a will of the Father. For example, Psalm number two says,

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I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten you. Ask of me,

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and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. The book of

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Revelation then becomes less of a mystery to us when we realize that it is in large part, the book of

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Revelation, the story of Christ claiming in conquest the nations of the earth as His inheritance, and this

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inheritance ensconced in a will and testament. For example, when John sees the Father seated on the

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throne with a fulsome scroll sealed with seven seals, John weeps because apparently there is no one

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worthy to open it and claim its contents. Oh, something profoundly significant for heaven and

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earth is contained therein such that it brings John deep sorrow to think that it might go unclaimed.

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But many have pondered the nature of that scroll. But it is in reality quite simple. Ancient last wills

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and testaments. This is what this was, an ancient last will and testament. These are all, especially for

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those with great lands and great holdings. These were composed in detail on a scroll. Ergo, both sides

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are full. And then that scroll was read and attested to by reliable witnesses who then closed the document

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and sealed it with their own individual seal. Seven witnesses were customary for these last wills and

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testaments. So what we have before us in Revelation, in the seven sealed scroll, is a last will and

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testament of the Father. And then at the death of the testator, that is the one whose inheritance it was

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to give, only one person was authorized to break the seals and open the scroll, and that is the son by

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inheritance. And ideally it would be this son who would do this in the presence of the witnesses who

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sealed the document in the first place, breaking the seven seals. It would then be read and acted upon.

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So what you see in the book of Revelation is Christ laying claim to the nations, a thing he is doing

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now, I submit to you, even as we speak, not someday in the future as dispensationalists say,

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no, but Christ is doing this now. Heaven sings a new song now, and they sang a new song, the Bible says,

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saying, worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you are slain,

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and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

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Christ is now making the nations his own. Christ is about that business throughout history, dear

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listener. Gradually, over the millennia, those nations will come to see that he is their desire,

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that Christ is the desire of the nations of their nation. He is the desire of the United States of

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America, I submit to you, dear listener, though we are fast losing that realization. We are fast

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sinking into a sea of historical forgetfulness. But Christ, nevertheless, is the desire of our

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nation too. Can you not see this happening? The gospel began in a dusty, remote corner of the Roman

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Empire that is Palestine, far from the grandeur of the center of the universe that is Rome. And the

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gospel spread from 12 weak, fallible apostles to now. Today, look about you. The gospel has now reached

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the furthest corners of the earth. What continent, what island, what nation has not yet heard the

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gospel and does not have at least a church of believers within it? In fact, Revelation 14,

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verse 6 is being fulfilled. Revelation 14, 6 says,

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Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who

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dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people, unquote. What John saw as

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future, this gospel going to every nation, we now see as fulfilled. What remains now is for the

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nations to acknowledge this Christ as their desire. How stubborn, how obstinate we are as nations,

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are we not? Even the one founded as an explicitly Christian nation, that is the United States of

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America. What's happened to us, dear listener? It is inevitable that all nations will recognize and

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worship Christ. Why have we forfeited that realization and that lead over the other nations that we had

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by denying him now in a supposed secular society? Really not secular at all, really, but pagan,

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worshiping the many-faced serpent. Oh, dear listener, make no mistake. He will conquer all

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nations and make them his inheritance. He will smash them with a rod of iron, like a potter's

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vessel, as the Bible says. Well, the only question is, will we do this willingly and gladly, or will we

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have to be broken with a rod of iron, like a potter's vessel? The Bible predicts and indeed foresees

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in Revelation chapter 15. Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy.

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All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed. Oh, dear listener,

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did you hear that? The Bible says that all nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts

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have been revealed. He is indeed the desire of the nations. The nations will fear, because those

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who do not, he will break in pieces with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

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Oh, dear listener, as you consider what we teach here, that we desperately need to return to Christ

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and constitution and capitalism instead of secularism and statism and socialism, go forward

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in the certainty that the Christ of the Bible is indeed the one for whom the nations search when

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they yearn for peace. Christ is the one they utterly require when they cry in righteousness

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for justice. And Christ is the only one who can save and deliver when the nations desperately plead

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for salvation. He, Jesus Christ, crucified, raised, ascended now to heaven to claim his inheritance,

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Christ is the one the nations long for, the desire of the nations. Go and tell those nations this.

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Go and proclaim it to the nations. Reveal it to the nations, the unknown God, their unknown God.

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This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy

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worship at 10 a.m. on Sunday at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. You can call us at

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523-0196. We encourage you to come and visit us. Once again, Pastor David Bass at New Geneva

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Orthodox Presbyterian Church. And we meet for holy worship. Join us. Visit us on Sunday at 10 a.m.

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at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.