Revelation 7:9-10
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, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
In the name of God, Amen. Those words began the 1620 Mayflower Compact, the hastily agreed on contract to honor the Lord and the king of England. It was the first law of the Plymouth CAColony. Little would they know that there were already people who were native to that land. Little did they know also that they would be the first of many Europeans, as well as those all over the world who would come to these shores. They could not have envisioned what was coming but John could. Here in his vision was all nations and peoples gathered together in worship.
Come to Cape Community Church tomorrow and learn that the 11 o’clock hour on Sunday remains the most segregated hour of the week, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, but that will not always be the case. The time is coming when we will stop worshiping our own individuality, our ethnicity, and our style of clothing, and worship the Lamb. we will all be wearing the wedding garments of white and we will be waving identical palm branches. Indeed, there will be nothing that differentiates us. Far from losing our identity, we will have a new one, a child of God.
O Heavenly Father, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world will one day rule this world. May we rehearse for eternity in worship. In Jesus’ name. Amen.