Romans 14:11

YLT 11 for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord—to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;'
        The Greek word γλῶσσα  is translated 'tongue' in the above verse 

Dodson:

the tongue, a language, a nation (usually distinguished by their speech).

Romans 14 was written to the church. As the different cultures and languages entered the first century church they were being wrongly judged for not keeping the Jewish dietary customs and religious holidays. All tongues (nations) were coming into the Jewish assembly and it was causing problems. Tongues identify the languages of the nations and are the root of the nation's religion and culture; Spaniards speak Spanish and Germans speak German.

At Pentecost the believing Jews heard the gospel in the birth language of their new diaspora nation. Unbelieving Jews said the believeing Jews were merely drunk. Only the tongues and knees belonging to the Jews who recieved the Holy Spirit were confessing and submitting to Christ at Pentecost. True Jews heard the gospel in their new native language. Learning Hebrew is no longer a requirement for a Holy Spirit Jew to hear God's word. The gospel was miraculously translated and taken to all the languages of the diaspora. God's word was being spoken by the Holy Spirit in all the languages listed in Acts 2. It was a substantial concession for 70 Jewish scholars when they gave the world the Torah in Greek. The Holy Spirit at Pentecost moved them forward with the international breakdown of gospel barriers. 

By the time Romans was written the Jews had taken the gospel back to the Gentiles. Some Jews assumed that the believing nations had to become old covenant Jews to be in their assembly. Confessing and submitting to Judaism or to the Hebrew language is not part of the gospel. Every tongue and knee must come to Christ to be in covenant with God; even angel tongues and knees.

Hebrews 1:6

LITV 6 And again, when He brought the First-born into the world, He said, "And let all the angels of God worship Him." LXX-Deut. 32:43, MT-No Equiv

When the fallen angels of God were cast out, they had destruction in there future. Satan will never worship God in spirit and truth. If he bowed his knee at the last minute to save his life, it was outward submission only. Worship in spirit and truth is what God desires. Satan ruled the fourth kingdom and he tried to get the only begotten Son of God to bend His knee to him. 

Deuteronomy 32:43

Brenton LXX 43 Rejoice, ye heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.

Yashua used His authority (symbolized in a rod of iron) to purge the old covenant of His enemies. In the new covenant every knee bows or is learning to bow to Christ. There are no fallen angels in heaven any more. There are no unbelievers in God's new covenant. There are no sheep and goats in Hades. The old covenant and the literal land was completely purged of the unbelievers after the second exodus. The presence of God is only for true believers in the new covenant land now. We enter the new covenant by being born again of the Holy Spirit. We have His presence within the temple of our bodies. Biological birth into the right family did not gaurantee belief. Spiritual birth does. Every person who gets born again from any tongue, worships in the one and only body of Christ now. No one has to learn Hebrew (or Greek) or go to Jeruslalem to truly worship God.

John 4:24

LITV 24 God is a spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth.

Forcing Satan to bend both knees would not be true worship. 

John 14:6

ECB 6 Yah Shua words to him, I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, except by me.

Isaiah 45:23

LITV 23 I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Only New Covenant people worship God today. There were unbelievers in the old covenant land who feigned worship to the one true God and there were fallen angels (gods) in heaven competing for that worship. No more! Every knee in covenant with God now bows to the image of the one true God through Christ. They may not do it perfectly at first but His image is being created in them by the Holy Spirit and by God's people in the church and by the messengers and by God's discipline of His children. As we grow spiritually we become self-ruled in the spirit by His true image. We don't take his name in vain when we become like Him. When we take the family name we represent the family.

Yahshua used His rod of iron on Herod who served the unbelieving Jews while the old covenant still existed. God destroyed that enemy. He did not force him to bow. Literally bending the knee of Herod means nothing to God.

Acts 12:23

LITV 23 And instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give the glory to God. And having been eaten by worms, his soul went out.

Yahwey teaches His people to worship Him; He destroyed arrogant Herod yet He taught arrogant Nebuchadnezzar.

Revelation 22:8-9

CLV 8 And I, John, am the one hearing and observing these things. And when I hear and observe, I fall to worship in front of the feet of the messenger who is showing me these things." 9 And he is saying to me, "See! No! a fellow slave of yours am I, and of your brethren, the prophets and those keeping the sayings of this scroll. Worship God!"

Daniel 3:28

LITV 28 {cf9 : Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and have changed the king's words, and have given their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.}

Daniel 4:30-32, 34-37

30 The king spoke and said, is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? 31 The word was still in the king's voice when a voice fell from the heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: The kingdom has been taken from you! 32 And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be fed with the grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and that He gives it to whomever He desires.

The king of kings (in the first of Daniel's five kingdoms) learns to worship the King of Heaven

34 And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High. And I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule from generation to generation. 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing. And He does according to His will among the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one is able to strike His hand or say to Him, What are You doing? 36 At that time my reason returned to me, and the glory of my kingdom, my majesty, and my brightness returned to me. And my advisers and my nobles sought to me. And I was reestablished in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me. 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of Heaven, for all His works are truth, and His ways are justice. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

The following verse in context: we should not consider ourselves better than others but rather be concerned about the image of Christ being developed in them. When we follow Yeshua we grow up to act like Him in character. He laid down His old covenant life so that all nations could worship Him in the new international covenant; the Jew first. 

Every knee who wants to worship God must submit to Christ now regardless of ethnicity. The kingdom of God has been given to Him. Satan kinda lied to Yeshua when he said he could give Him the kingdom. It was only Satan's kingdom for a short while. Yeshua rules the kingdom forever.


Philippians 2:7-11

YLT 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death—death even of a cross, 9 wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name, 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow—of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth— 11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 
γλῶσσα
the tongue
Dodson:
γλῶσσα
the tongue, a language, nation
the tongue, a language, a nation (usually distinguished by their speech).

Jesus did say he would make the unbelieving old covenant Jew bow to the truth telling new covenant Jew during the first century transition era. Jesus and John are truth telling new covenant Jews. 


Revelation 1:1

YLT 1 A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify it, having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

Revelation 1:5

YLT 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood

Revelation 2:9
YLT 9 I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty—yet thou art rich—and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.

Revelation 3:7

YLT 7 `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

Revelation 3:9 (External submission is not the same as worship)
LITV 9 Behold, I give out of the synagogue of Satan those saying themselves to be Jews, and they are not, but they lie. Behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they shall know that I loved you.

Their feet are not here anymore. They died and went to heaven 2000 years ago. They went through the new door that was opened by Christ. The old covenant door was shut because it did not lead anyone to heaven and no one can re-open it. The only way into covenant with God now is to bow to Yeshua. He is the head of the one and only everlasting family of Yahwey. Every knee that doesn't bow to Him will perish. 

Perish or live

John 3:16 
KJV 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

As a Jew himself, Peter wrote to the elect Jews of the diaspora. Peter was given the keys to the kingdom by the resurrected Jewish messiah. Peter informed the first century Jews that they were in the process of recieving their long awaited salvation. Eternal life was in the age that was about to be. Reunited in Jerusalem by the Holy Spirit, the newly betrothed body of Jews was awaiting the new marriage covenant, which brought with it eternal life. The married to Christ church will never end and all the members of the new covenant church have everlasting life in God's kingdom.

1 Peter 1

ALT 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the chosen [or, elect] sojourners of the dispersion [i.e. the scattering of Jews outside of Judea] of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to [the] foreknowledge of God [the] Father, in sanctification of [the] Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of [the] blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to youp! 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One according to His great mercy having regenerated us to a living hope [or, confident expectation], through [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ from [the] dead, 4 into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been reserved in the heavens for you(p), 5 the ones being guarded by [the] power of God through faith for [the] salvation ready to be revealed in [the] last time;

Peter left everything he had in Jerusalem to follow Yeshua. He wanted to know what he was getting out of it. Jesus assured Peter that he would get back more than he gave up. Peter died before the new covenant age completely arrived. Maybe only John lived to see it. And maybe John was the only one that did not run when Jesus was being crucified. 

The Jews spoke of two ages: the one they were in and the one that was about to be. The last day of the one they were in was in AD70.


Luke 18:28-30

CLV 28 Now Peter said, "Lo! we, leaving our own, follow Thee." 29 Now He said to them, "Verily, I am saying to you that there is no one who leaves house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children on account of the kingdom of God, 30 who may not by all means be getting back manyfold in this era, and in the coming eon, life eonian."

The coming age was the age of eternal life in God's kingdom. It is the age we are in. All scripture was written while the old covenant age still existed. The old covenant ended with the Roman kingdom. Peter left all he had in the old covenant age. He left Jerusalem with the message of the everlasting life in the kingdom of God that Jesus said had drawn near.

Matthew 19:27-28 

ALT 27 Then answering, Peter said to Him, "Listen! We left all and followed You! What then will we have? 28 So Jesus said to them, "Positively, I say to you(p), that you(p), the ones having followed Me, in the Regeneration, when the Son of Humanity sits on [the] throne of His glory, you(p) also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Peter was given authority to rule like Moses. He led the twelve tribes right up to the new covenant land.