chapter (Rev. 20) until the present article.  Psalm 72 is the prayer of David

for his son Solomon, and in a fuller prophetic sense for His greater Son, the

Lord Jesus Christ.  Among other features that David foresaw concerning this

kingdom some refer to the nations, as distinct from his own people Israel.

His dominion is to be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the

earth.  The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring their presents,

the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.  Yea all kings shall fall down

before Him: All Nations shall serve Him; All Nations shall call Him blessed.

As we have said already we can only include such a prophetic foreview

in the Millennium by inference, but as it is directly connected with the

kingdom of David's Son, the inference appears to be justified.  At some time

God is to inherit All Nations (Psa. 82:8), and at some time All Nations shall

come and worship before the Lord (Psa. 86:9).  All Nations will one day 'flow

unto' the house of the Lord, and He shall judge among the nations, so that

nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor learn war any more (Isa.

2:1 -4).  In the day when the 'lion shall eat straw like the ox' an ensign

shall be set up for the nations (Isa. 11:7 -12).  When the Lord of hosts

shall Reign in mount Zion, the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed,

for He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all

people, and the vail spread over all nations, at the time when He will

swallow up death in victory, and wipe away tears from off all faces (Isa.

24:23; 25:7,8).  Similarly when the Redeemer comes to Zion, the words follow

'Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is

risen upon thee.  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and

gross darkness the people ... the Gentiles shall come to thy light ...

for the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish' (Isa.

60:1 -12).

When Israel can be likened to a Bridegroom and a Bride, the Lord will

cause His praise to spring forth before All the Nations (Isa. 61:11).  This

will coincide with Israel becoming 'Priests of the Lord' (Isa. 61:6) and when

Jerusalem shall be called Hephzi -bah, 'My delight is in her' (Isa. 62:4).

All Nations and tongues shall come and see the glory of the Lord and the

chapter that contains the promise, leads up to the 'new heavens and the new

earth' (Isa. 66:22), which must be read together with Revelation 20 and 21.

At the close of the Revelation we read that the nations of them that are

saved shall walk in the light of the heavenly Jerusalem and the kings of the

earth shall bring their glory and honour into it, while the leaves of the

tree of life shall be for the healing of the nations.  'The nations' are

mentioned but twice in Revelation 20, and in both references are associated

with the deception of Satan.

Nations are most evidently on the earth during the Millennium, but it

is not the purpose of Revelation 20 to develop this aspect of the subject,

the Only specific passage dealing with the Millennium does not enlarge upon

their place in that kingdom.  On the contrary, it reserves All references to

'nations' to the climax act of rebellion at the close, which discrimination

must be accepted as a divine direction to our thought if we accept the

inspiration of all Scripture.

When we read in Revelation 20:9 of 'the camp of the saints' most of us

have conjured up a vision of peaceful, idyllic bliss, an extended 'feast of