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From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race is unavailable, but you can change that!

“After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language.…” (Revelation 7:9). The visions in the book of Revelation give a glimpse of the people of God at the consummation of history—a multiethnic congregation gathered together in worship around God’s throne. Its racial diversity is expressed in a four-fold formula that...

Throughout this book we will primarily focus on what the Scriptures say or imply regarding race and our attitude towards racial differences. However, in this section it is necessary to cover what the Bible doesn’t say: that is, it is necessary to correct one of the most serious and most damaging misinterpretations of Scripture on this subject. Indeed, as early as 1808, David Burrow, writing against slavery, bemoans, ‘I am persuaded that no passage in