From every tribe, tongue, and nation

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I wanted to make the title in Latin...but I don't speak Latin. Anyway, I noticed something...the lack of a single Italian Pope during my life time (I was born in 1988). Not that there won't be one again, just that we're trending away from that.
Anyway, watching the Vatican when a new Pope was announced, I noticed something; flags from everywhere. Irish tricolours, French tricolours, Stars and Stripes (my country)!, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, Ukraine, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, and many others. And a Pope who is American by birth and a naturalized Peruvian citizen. And it made me think of the Book of Revelation, “specifically these verses, “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the lamb, clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hand; and crying out, “salvation belongs to who sites on the throne, and to the lamb”, and all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and before the throne and worshipped God saying, “Amen”. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever; Amen. (Revelation 7:9-12)
I don't want to get heavily into what this has to do with the new Pope, but, think about it for a minute. Heaven is going to be you with very different people. And watching the Vatican during that time, that's what I saw. And for those curious, those birds were yellow-legged gulls, Yellow-legged Gull. I don't see any symbolism there, they were probably just hungry, since people have food.

Adam Charles Hovey is the host of the weekly Bible Study,  Coffee and Christianity, and is the founder of the Catholicism, News, and Whatever community on Locals. 

*All verses from ESV Catholic Edition with Deuterocanonical Books, Copyright 2017 by Crossway.