A. “J. P.” I reply to your question without citing your letter. Revelation 21:9-22:5, gives us a description of the Millennial glory of the Bride — the Lamb’s wife. No doubt all in that day will “know the Lord,” that is, “Jehovah.” But this knowledge of Jehovah does not at all amount to what we now understand by “knowing the Lord”— Jesus Christ. The former may be external and by sight, and without life being possessed; the latter can only be by faith while He is unseen, and therefore the possessor has life in his soul.
When the Church is displayed in her heavenly glory to and over the earth, she is owned by these nations about whom you inquire, as the channel of Christ’s blessing to the earth. These nations, and kings of the earth, who have be n saved through the great tribulation, or during the time of it, own this, therefore, and bring their glory and honor to it. (We are told by competent persons that we should read this word, verses 24, 26, “to,” and not “unto.”) They could go into the earthly Jerusalem, but not into the Heavenly; rather, therefore “they bring the glory and honor of the nations to it.”
During the Millennium there are Jews (or Israel), Gentiles, Kings, Priests, &c. — all the time distinctions which we now know. In the eternal state which follows, all these time distinctions are gone away forever.
Words of Truth, New Series 1:235-236.