Psalm 35:18
18 I will give thee thanks [yadah] in the great [rab]
congregation [qahal]: I will praise [halal] thee among much [`atsuwm]
people [`am].
KJV-Interlinear
18
I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise
you. ESV
There are five great
congregations that will occur in history.
Two have already occurred, and three will occur in the future.
The first congregation or
assembly, if you will, was when the angels were created. That happened a long time ago.
The second assembly is
when Jesus recovered the Old Testament believers in Paradise, after the Cross,
and took them all to heaven in a huge victory parade.
The third assembly will occur
at the Rapture.
The fourth assembly will occur
at the Second Advent of Christ.
And the fifth and final
assembly will be the greatest of them all, and that is in view here, and that
will occur at the very end of all of human history at the end of the Millennium.
By then there will be
perhaps trillions of saved believers from all of human history, together with
all of the saved angels.
And, when all of the human
events have finally taken place, when the Great White Throne has occurred and
all who have rejected Christ have been sent away to the Lake of Fire, when the
old universe has been destroyed and when the new universe has been created,
then there will be a celebration such as history has never seen and probably
will never see again.
That will be the party of
parties.
