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so God's own definition of destruction is "a condition of conscious and awful torment." · 5. But there is a bright side to the results of our Lord's coming even in regard to the nations. It is clearly taught that EVERY ONE THAT IS LEFT OF THE NATIONS AND KINGS AND PRINCES SHALL WORSHIP AND SERVE JESUS CHRIST. We read in Zech. 14:16, "And it •hall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that come against J erusa \em shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.'' And in Is. 49 :7 we read, ''Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, and His Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers; Kings shall see and arise; ·princes, and they shall worship ; be cause of Jehovah that is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who bath chosen thee." That this refers to the kings and princes of the Gentiles is evident from the verse that immediately precedes, "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." Along the same line in Rev. 15 :4 we read, "Who shall not fear, 0 Lord, and glorify thy name T for thou only art holy; for all the
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