“For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.”
YHWH announces knowing their works and thoughts and coming to gather all nations and tongues, with the faithful from all nations seeing divine glory. The gathering of nations indicates universal eschatological pilgrimage. The emphasis that YHWH knows works and thoughts indicates divine omniscience justifying judgment. The vision of nations witnessing divine glory echoes earlier universalist eschatology. This verse establishes that eschatological judgment and salvation are public and cosmic: all peoples witness YHWH's vindication. The verse's universalism suggests that the God of Israel becomes God of all nations through eschatological manifestation.
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