‘O King of the nations!

    Who will not fear, O Lord,
    and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
    All nations will come
    and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.’ 

(Revelation 15:4)

This is the heavenly song of the faithful ‘overcomers.’  They declare the Biblical truth that everyone will worship God in the eternal, even those that rejected and denied His existence.  So, are all the worshippers of one mind?  Are all willing?

The word translated here as ‘worship’ is the Greek verb προσκυνέω proskuneó from pros ‘towards’ and kyneo ‘kiss’.  This describes obeisance, the action of kneeling before or even lying at the feet of another to kiss the ground, not daring to kiss the object of supreme reverence.  

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