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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive....
And this is of course verified after the nations get the zap and LOF immersion, with reference to NJ (that's the New Jerusalem, not New Joisy):
The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. (21:24)
And just so we don't start to backslide into partiality, the HS adds:
The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Rev 22:2b)...
This paints a rosy picture but let us add some very relevant context.
Revelation 22:2
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Reading this vs. alone one might get the idea that every person living or dead in every nation will be healed. Let us read 9 vss. later where John says,2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
"Him that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." Revelation 22:11
Quite evidently every person living and dead in every nation was not healed, vs. 2, since some remained unjust and filthy, vs. 11. Revelation 22:14-15
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Note there is a condition in vs. 14 only those who "do his commandments" "have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Those who do not do His commandments do not have this right.14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
And vs. 15 shows us once again the every person in every nation were not healed there are still "dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, and liars outside."
Revelation 22:18-19
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Although, according to some, in vs.2 every person, living and dead, in every nation are healed in vs. 18-19, people are being punished and their part in the book of life taken away.18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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