We have enough despair in this life. It is time to hope. For our future is going to be one of peace and righteousness. For all nations. The nations will not converge. They will remain, and we will rejoice in this.
There will not be inclusion. There will be discrimination. Those who preach evil or do evil will not be there.
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
(Revelation 21:22-27 ESV)
In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
(Luke 1:39-45 ESV)
To those who want to interfere with the gospel, who do not see the Christ as a saviour but a prophet or a good man, there is one word: repent.
For unless you are of Christ you will not be in the book of life. If you do not believe the word of God you will not be in the same book.
And that is not the Koran or book of Mormon or the Talmud or the Hindu and Buddhist writings. Nor the writings of the Stoics. Some of these are valuable, for they reflect truth, and all truth is of God. But that which denies Jesus Christ is Lord is not of the truth.
May we never deny Christ, or join with those who do, in a false sense of virtue.