Isaiah 60:12

The nation. “Those nations that rejected the worship and service of the true God were to be dispossessed. ... As the numbers of Israel increased they were to enlarge their borders, until their kingdom should embrace the world” (COL 290; see pp. 28-30). The failure of Israel to cooperate with God’s plan for them as a nation made impossible the fulfillment of this picture. In principle, however, it will be realized by the church today, in the glorious triumph of the gospel and the return of Jesus to this earth (see pp. 35, 36). Eventually the God of heaven will “set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed” and which will “break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms” (Dan. 2:44; cf. Dan. 7:27; Rev. 11:15).