'Race' in the Bible
and formed us into a kingdom [as His subjects], priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the power and the majesty and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
“You have made them to be a kingdom [of royal subjects] and priests to our God; and they will reign on the earth.”
So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.
A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths.
These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed from the human race as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.
Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to preach to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people;