Christians: Read this and tell me what it means?

Question

Rev 7:9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10And they cried out in a loud voice:
"Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb."

Since no denomination, be it Catholic, SDA, Baptist, Pentacostal or otherwise has more followers than any man can number in every tribe nation and language, dont you think this means it is not as hard to be saved as many would like to believe?

Seems many of you intentionally miss the point *sigh*

Answer 1

Exactly, its not the "religion" that saves us, the coulda, shoulda, woulda's but our hearts that we believe Jesus died for sins and that He is the Son of God.

Answer 2

If you think about it, all the people that are/will be saved since the beginning of time would be quite numerous. If you compare it to everyone since the beginning of time that were not/will not be saved it would be a few just like Jesus said.

And no, I don't think it's easier to be saved than what Jesus said.

Matthew 7:14 - "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. "

You want to know what is not as hard as what, apparantley, you and some others here believe?

Matthew 7:13- "for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat"

Answer 3

GREAT QUESTION.

Multitudes in Revelation. Well, all I can say is it looks as though something here in our world is going to happen that is going to spark evangelism in a huge way.
Denominations don't really matter for salvation. It's the individual persons act of repentance and faith in Jesus that saves them.
There will be people of every nation, race, color, and many but not all religions there.

The other side of it would be, a great multitude that no one could count doesn't have to be as many as you think. If we got 2000 people together and had someone try to count them, how accurate would they be? This crowd is not likely going to wait in one spot until you are done. Then think, maybe it's only 5000. In the same example, that is surely uncountable by someone.

Answer 4

I get that you're saying that all denominations will be saved, but I think you have to balance that with the other scriptures.

I agree with posts so far that have said that when all the saints of every generation are gathered, they will be a great multitude that no one could count and they will be of every nation, tribe, people, and language.

Answer 5

no its a open acknowledgement that God words are everywhere on satelite and in print and this crowd has been selected through about 7 or 8 thousand years so theres cave guys and ismaelis and chinese and the dude that has the revalation on patmos doesnt know about the round earth or the languages of 120 countries and the 60 common languages and the time factor take ten million and look down at them theres alot of folks theres now gather ten million more and they are praiseing God in every language -- theres a prophecy that the end will come when all the earth has heard the word of God and you can attend sunday school in the antartic now and in the north pole so its close

Answer 6

the great multitude includes all the peoples of this world who are standing in front of God's throne. They are the 144,000 who are the elect who will rule this earth with Jesus Christ. The lamb is Jesus Christ. They are wearing white and holding palm branches to show purity. Salvation belongs to our God (Jesus Christ) (he granted them salvation or in other words they have been saved a terrible death) and who sits on the throne is God the father and to the lamb Jesus Christ who was sacrificed for us to give us salvation and everlasting life.

Answer 7

God gave John a peep into the future and he saw the redeemed from Adam and Eve until
the very last person on earth that was and will be saved even the ones in Tribulation up to the end.
the saved of every nation and every language. The White robes they had on is the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ our Lord we receive when we put our Faith in Jesus and are Born of God [2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. ] The only reason that anyone will be there is because of God's Gift to mankind.Joh 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
The Bible says what would it profit a man if he gained the world (riches)and lost his soul
or what would a man pay for his soul ?
The ONLY choice is believe in Jesus to save your soul or reject Jesus and be dammed ! There won't be any denominations in
heaven... The choice is yours.
In Christ in Love,
TJ57

Answer 8

We will all be surprised when we get there, but salvation is by grace and when someone believes they believe. I do get your point that it is only by faith and we can't really judge who is saved and who not as God knows their heart.
These seem to be the people that get saved during the great tribulation and were martyred for their faith, I would say that the tribulation punishment on the earth brought results.
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Answer 9

do you not know what (great multitude) is,there is not limit of who gets saved .If you accept Jesus as your Savior then that's where you'll be God doesn't put a limit on who accepts Him. And its NOT hard to be saved . For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son ,that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life,JOHN 3:16 .how hard is that to believe .It is so simple Just accept Jesus and your saved. and people are getting it wrong when they say only 144,000 people are saved that's wrong .only after the 7 years tribulation that's how many people are saved ....after. People that are saved when Jesus comes back for the second time the people that are saved will be taken up. Then the tribulation ,then 144,000 people are saved.

Answer 10

Read verse 14 it says " These are those who came out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white IN THE BLOOD of the LAMB" Meaning that they believed in Jesus (the lamb) and yes there are lots of people who have come to Jesus and they do not come from only one religion or one tribe but out of EVERY tribe and nation. These are those who BELIEVED and RECEIVED Jesus

Answer 11

It means this: Freud diagnosed religion and "God" as a "universal neurosis", a mental disorder. You don't need any more proof of that assessment than to read this question and all of the answers that follow.

As The Beatles sang in "Eleanor Rigby", "No one was saved". Nobody is EVER "saved". When you die, you close your eyes, go to sleep forever and never wake up. Eternal peace at last.

Final words from another Beatle, John Lennon, in his immortal "Imagine":

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

Try imagining that yourself. You already know how to imagine things like gods and angels and saints and saviors and all kinds of other ridiculous stuff, it's just one more step to finally imagine the truth.