SHEEP OR GOATS?

SHEEP OR GOATS?

Matt 25:31-33

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.

          The time period for this event is the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ on earth; the thousand years. Both the rapture and the tribulation is over, Satan is bound and the Savior is seated. Now the King of Kings begins to deal with the living nations at that time. They are of two characters.

THE SHEEP which have always been viewed as the emblems of mildness, simplicity, patience, and usefulness, represent the genuine disciples of Christ.

Ps 100:3

3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

THE GOATS which are naturally quarrelsome, lewd, and smelly, were considered as the symbols of riotous, profane, and impure men. They here represent all who have lived and died in their sins.

Ezek 34:17

17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

THE RIGHT AND LEFT HANDS

Here in two ample roads the way divides,

The right direct, our destined journey guides,

By Pluto's palace, to the Elysian plains;

The left to Tartarus, where bound in chains

Loud howl the damn'd in everlasting pains.

Matt 25:41

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Lord, set me on thy right hand and not thy left. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. AMEN