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Persecutions Foretold
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come.
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The Judgment of the Nations
“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
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Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
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And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
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For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them.
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they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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The Coming of the Son of Man
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
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and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God thrust out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years.
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In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways;
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through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
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as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, “So shall your descendants be.”
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but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
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Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
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He who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him power over the nations,
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And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
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but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.
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For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
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The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
