The restless, discontented masses of mankind are represented in the Scriptures as the “sea.” (Luke 21:25; Isa. 57:20) In Isaiah 60:5 we read concerning these: “Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear [reverence], and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.”

Certainly the “abundance of the sea” has not yet been converted to the Lord, nor have the “forces of the Gentiles” come unto him. “Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name,” but nothing more than this has yet been accomplished by the Lord. (Acts 15:14) However, as James explains, after the people for the Lord’s name have been taken out from the Gentiles, an opportunity will be given for the “residue of men,” i.e., the remainder of the world of mankind, to “seek after the Lord.”