# 6~ Matt. 25: 31-46 STILL TO COME 7-27-13
Today we'll continue with our study to do with "THINGS THAT ARE STILL TO COME"
#1- is the rapture of the True Church, this is next on Gods Prophetic calendar, and it can happen at any time.
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#2- will be the Judgment seat of Christ, here is where all that were raptured are judged for their stewardship, that is, what we have done for Christ after we were saved.
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#3- the 3rd study we summarized the book of Rev.
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#4- we believe the battle in Ezek. 38: & 39: takes places at 3 ½ years into 7 year tribulation, the middle of the 7 year tribulation, there God is the One that destroys 5/6 of that coalition headed by Russia. ~ God has had enough of the way these nations have abused His people Israel, He's getting rid of sin and sinners.
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#5- we talked a little about the tribulation, but primarily about the 2nd coming of Christ.
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#6 -- Today -- "the judgment of the nations."
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* As we get into today's study of "the judgment of the nations"
~ This Judgment is actually not a judgment of nations as a whole but a judgment of individuals from every nation; these are people that managed to live through the horrible tribulation.
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Let us keep in mind that at this point of the end time events, the 7 year tribulation is over, Christ has defeated the armies of the world that come to do battle with Him at what is known as Armageddon.
~ This judgment is immediately after the tribulation but before His Kingdom reign begins, this Judgment will last for 30 days.
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LISTEN- We are told that the last half of the tribulation will be 1260 days, (3 ½ years) then at the end of 1260 days Jesus returns and Armageddon takes place.
~ How do we know the last 3 ½ years will last 1260 days?
>REV. 11: 3And I will give power unto my two witnesses, (Moses and Elijah) and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. ---1260---
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~We believe that the two witnesses of Rev.11: to be Moses and Elijah.
Listen- The second part of the Tribulation is 1260 days. -- When the two witnesses appear upon the earth, their ministry will last 1260 days. -- Then the Lord allows the Antichrist to kill them, they will have completed their mission.
Their dead bodies will lie in the street three and a half days. -- After the three and a half days, they shall stand upon their feet and ascend up to heaven. -- Combine the length of their ministry with the three and a half days and it equals 1263½ days.--
~ This seems to indicate that they will appear just prior to the midst of the Tribulation, they'll be raptured before Jesus returns at Armageddon.
* Read Rev.11:
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> Dan. 12:11- And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. ---1,290---
~ Notice, here are 30 more days, we believe this will be the time that Jesus judges the nations of Matt. 25: --this is just after the Tribulation, but prior to setting up His Kingdom, the sheep go into the kingdom in natural body's and repopulate the earth.--Goats into outer darkness, hell.
Dan. 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. ---- 1,335 days---
~ Here are 45 more days, a month and ½. This will be the time He takes to set His Kingdom in order, placing who ever He chooses over what ever He chooses.
These 45 days will be to set His Government in order.
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~ 30 days after the Tribulation to judge the nations, then 45 more days to put His Government in order.= 75 days altogether.
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~ Most of the world's population will be killed in various ways during the tribulation.
~ Remember there will be people that will be saved in the Tribulation that had never heard the truth before the rapture, these are the SHEEP that we're about to read about in Matt.25:
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~As we read our text in Matt.25:31-46, we'll see that there are 3 different groups of people here, there is the "sheep, the goats and the brethren" the sheep are the saved individuals from among the various nations, the goats are individuals from the various nations that did not receive and believe the message of the 144000 Jewish Missionaries, their not saved, they did not aid these distressed Jews, their called "goats", and then the "brethren" are the Jewish Missionaries, the Lord Jesus refers to them as His brethren.
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* Listen as I read;
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, "Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?"
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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~Let me say that these " my brethren" in verse 40 is talking about some of the Jews, "the 144000" Jewish Missionaries that we read about in the 7th chapter of the Rev.
There will evidently be some of them persecuted and put in jail and will be visited and aided by believers that have heard their message of the 'GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND".
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~These "sheep", these believers that come to the aid of these Jewish Missionaries are saved; they have believed and received their message about Jesus and His Kingdom that's soon to be.
Remember there will be people that will be saved in the Tribulation that had never heard the truth before the rapture, and these SHEEP are these people.
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~Evidently they must have some type of seal on them or they'd be persecuted and locked up themselves, we're not sure exactly when or how their visited, but we are sure that they are because that is what we read here.
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~Today we that are now saved have the seal of the Holy Spirit on us at this present time. Ephesians 4: 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
We know that the devil can't do any thing to a child of God unless God allows it.
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41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, {not hell} prepared for the devil and his angels:
~Let me say here that the devil is not in hell, he never has been in hell, we're told in
> 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: ~ he's on earth at this time.
* And the King continues to talk to the "goats" in Matt.25:
42 "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not."
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, "Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
45 Then shall He answer them, saying, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me."
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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AT THIS TIME Jesus has returned to the earth and has defeated His enemies at the battle of Armageddon. Rev. 19:11-26
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Let's not confuse the rapture of the Church, which takes place before the Tribulation begins, we meet the Lord in the air and we are with Him during the 7-year Tribulation.
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~ We that are saved will not go through one minute of the Tribulation. 1st Thess. 1: 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered** us from the wrath to come.
While the Tribulation is under way back down on earth, we that are saved are praising God and being judged for our stewardship, our works.
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The rapture & the 2nd coming are about 7 years apart.
Let me remind us that Israel is not judged at this judgment; this is the judgment of the Gentile nations, that is the individual people who befriended the Jews from among the Gentile nations during the Tribulation.
>Num. 23:9 --- the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
~Israel was judged in the Tribulation, and 2/3s of Israel will be destroyed .
Zec. 13: 8-9 8And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9And I will bring the third part through the fire,**{tribulation" and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
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~This 1/3 will be safe for the last half of the 7-year Tribulation, in a place called Petra there in Jordan, it's waiting even today, and I have read that it even has running water.
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* ~LISTEN- the people that will be determined to be "SHEEP" in this judgment will enter into the Lords Kingdom that is to last 1000 years on this earth, these people are in their natural bodies, these people will have children all during the 1000 year reign, their children will have children, and their children will have children. - God is repopulating the earth.
~Listen- every person that goes into His 1000 year reign is saved; no lost person enters His Kingdom.
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~LISTEN- the off spring of these sheep as their called are not saved, and their children are not saved, and these will rebel against King Jesus toward the end of the 1000 years as Satan will be loosed out of his prison for a short season, and he will cause these to make an all out attempt for the last time to destroy Jesus and His saints, but all this is foreknown to God, Jehovah God rains down fire from heaven and destroys the entire crowd, God has a great plan, He's getting rid of sin and sinners.
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>Rev. 20: 1-3 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. ---
-- 7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
