Psalm 117:1
King James Version
117 O praise the Lord, all ye nations:
praise him, all ye people.
When you've become born again, and child-like before the LORD, His laws are stunningly simple.
There is no debate around it.
There is only a delight in knowing His laws, and eagerness to obey whatever pleases the LORD.
That's what differentiates the unbeliever, the occasional Christian, from the true born again.
That's what differentiates those who have bought into the world, from the true believer in JESUS.
But man refuses to listen, his ego does the thinking, he shuts out GOD's invitation, thus, the world is the way it is.
But listen to what Scripture says about GOD and nations:
Genesis 17:1-9
King James Version
17 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,
the Lord appeared to Abram,
and said unto him,
I am the Almighty God;
walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,
and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face:
and God talked with him, saying,
4 As for me,
behold, my covenant is with thee,
and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,
but thy name shall be Abraham;
for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful,
and I will make nations of thee,
and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant
between me and thee
and thy seed after thee in their generations
for an everlasting covenant,
to be a God unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee,
the land wherein thou art a stranger,
all the land of Canaan,
for an everlasting possession;
and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham,
Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,
thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
Deuteronomy 32:7-9
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7 Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will shew thee;
thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam,
he set the bounds of the people
according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the Lord's portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
2 Kings 17:18
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18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel,
and removed them out of his sight:
there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Chronicles 36:11-17
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11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old
when he began to reign,
and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil
in the sight of the Lord his God,
and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet
speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar,
who had made him swear by God:
but he stiffened his neck,
and hardened his heart
from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests,
and the people,
transgressed very much
after all the abominations of the heathen;
and polluted the house of the Lord
which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers
sent to them by his messengers,
rising up betimes, and sending;
because he had compassion on his people,
and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God,
and despised his words,
and misused his prophets,
until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people,
till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees,
who slew their young men with the sword
in the house of their sanctuary,
and had no compassion upon young man or maiden,
old man, or him that stooped for age:
he gave them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version
14 If my people,
which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray,
and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 36:22-23
King James Version
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the word of the Lord
spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia,
All the kingdoms of the earth
hath the Lord God of heaven given me;
and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem,
which is in Judah.
Who is there among you of all his people?
The Lord his God be with him,
and let him go up.
Job 12:21
King James Version
21 He poureth contempt upon princes,
and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job 12:23
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23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them:
he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
Job 12:24-25
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24 He taketh away the heart
of the chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness
where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light,
and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Psalm 22:28
King James Version
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's:
and he is the governor among the nations.
Psalm 33:12
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12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord;
and the people whom he hath chosen
for his own inheritance.
Psalm 46:8-10
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8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,
what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow,
and cutteth the spear in sunder;
he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still,
and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 66:5-7
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5 Come and see the works of God:
he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land:
they went through the flood on foot:
there did we rejoice in him.
7 He ruleth by his power for ever;
his eyes behold the nations:
let not the rebellious exalt themselves.
Selah.
Psalm 145:21
King James Version
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord:
and let all flesh bless his holy name
for ever and ever.
Isaiah 9:6
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6 For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 40:21-25
King James Version
21 Have ye not known?
have ye not heard?
hath it not been told you from the beginning?
have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing;
he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted;
yea, they shall not be sown:
yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also blow upon them,
and they shall wither,
and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me,
or shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 41:1-4
King James Version
41 Keep silence before me, O islands;
and let the people renew their strength:
let them come near;
then let them speak:
let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east,
called him to his foot,
gave the nations before him,
and made him rule over kings?
he gave them as the dust to his sword,
and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely;
even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done it,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I the Lord,
the first, and with the last;
I am he.
Matthew 28:18-19
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18 And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost:
Acts 17:24-28
King James Version
24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands,
as though he needed any thing,
seeing he giveth to all life,
and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord,
if haply they might feel after him,
and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live,
and move,
and have our being;
as certain also of your own poets have said,
For we are also his offspring.
Philippians 2:9-11
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9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him,
and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven,
and things in earth,
and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Revelation 1:7
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7 Behold,
he cometh with clouds;
and every eye shall see him,
and they also which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen.
Revelation 22:2
King James Version
2 In the midst of the street of it,
and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month:
and the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations.
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