Matthew 25
SUMMARY.--The Ten Virgins. The Foolish Who Took No Oil. The Bridegroom Comes. The Doors Shut on the Foolish Virgins. Watch Therefore. The Parable of the Talents. The Manner of Using. The Reckoning When the Lord Comes. The Day of Judgment Portrayed. The Gathering of the Nations. The Great Separation. The Blessedness of Those on the Right Hand. The Awful Fate of Those on the Left. The Ground of the Separation. The Everlasting Punishment and Life Eternal.
Mat 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all his angels are with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
Mat 25:32 The people of every nation will be gathered in front of him. He will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Mat 25:33 He will put the sheep on his right but the goats on his left.
Mat 25:34 "Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, my Father has blessed you! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
Mat 25:35 I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took me into your home.
Mat 25:36 I needed clothes, and you gave me something to wear. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.'
Mat 25:37 "Then the people who have God's approval will reply to him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or see you thirsty and give you something to drink?
Mat 25:38 When did we see you as a stranger and take you into our homes or see you in need of clothes and give you something to wear?
Mat 25:39 When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
Mat 25:40 "The king will answer them, 'I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you did for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did for me.'
Mat 25:41 "Then the king will say to those on his left, 'Get away from me! God has cursed you! Go into everlasting fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels!
Mat 25:42 I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.
Mat 25:43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me into your homes. I needed clothes, and you didn't give me anything to wear. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't take care of me.'
Mat 25:44 "They, too, will ask, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or as a stranger or in need of clothes or sick or in prison and didn't help you?'
Mat 25:45 "He will answer them, 'I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you failed to do for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you failed to do for me.'
Mat 25:46 "These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God's approval will go into eternal life."
Note the False Views of this Judgment.
- That this ‘sheep and goats’ judgment is the same as the GREAT WHITE THRONE judgment of Rev 20 :11-15. They are not the same for one takes place at the end of the Great Tribulation but the Great White Throne takes place at the end of the Millenium.
- That the ‘Sheep and Goats’ Judgment deals only with entire nations. Some have imagined the nations of the world lined up before God. At God’s command Russia steps up then South Africa. No, God is dealing with the Gentiles..
b. The Basis for this Judgment
The test: How those gentiles who have survived the tribulation have treated faithful Israel. (Here referred to by Christ Himself as “My Brethren”)
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| Bert and Anne Bochove, who hid 37 Jews in their pharmacy in Huizen, an Amsterdam suburb, pose here with their children. The two were named "Righteous Among the Nations." The Netherlands, 1944 or 1945. |
In Nazi Germany, during World War II escaping Jews were on a Number of Occasions befriended and protected by German Families who, in spite of their nationality, did not agree with Hitler and his ‘final solution’.Apparently the same thing will take place during the Tribulation. believing gentiles will , at the risk of their lives, protect and the Messengers.
German-occupied Denmark was the site of the most famous and complete rescue operation in Axis-controlled Europe. In late summer 1943, German occupation authorities imposed martial law on Denmark in response to increasing acts of resistance and sabotage. German Security Police officials planned to deport the Danish Jews while martial law was in place. On September 28, 1943, a German businessman warned Danish authorities of the impending operation, scheduled for the night of October 1–2, 1943. With the help of their non-Jewish neighbors and friends, virtually all the Danish Jews went into hiding. During the following days, the Danish resistance organized a rescue operation, in which Danish fishermen clandestinely ferried some 7,200 Jews (of the country's total Jewish population of 7,800) in small fishing boats, to safety in neutral Sweden.
Irena Sendler changed the fate of over 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. She and her colleagues falsified over 3,000 documents to help Jewish families escape. In 1943, Sendler was arrested and was sentenced to execution by firing squad. After a final torture session, where they broke her arms and legs, Irena regained consciousness to find that a Guard had been bribed by her friends within Zegota. The guard marked her off as executed and left her in the woods to be resc
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