This morning, because of the nature of the passage, this is going to be more teaching than preaching. We'll look at several verses, but I'm going to explain the passage of Scripture to you this morning. It's not a typical Sunday morning passage, but we're going through the Gospel of Matthew on Sunday mornings. This is the passage that we're at. Now, next Sunday will be in chapter 26. Chapter 26 through chapter 28. It's all about the crucifixion, the resurrection, the betrayal, all of that. So we're getting a lot more preaching material. It won't be as heavy as chapter 24 and chapter 25. But this morning, Matthew chapter 25, listen on purpose, verse 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. And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, As a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats, and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall a king say unto him on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, and inherit the kings and prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 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. Naked, and ye clothed me. I was sick, and ye visited me. I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee and hungered and fed thee, or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in, or naked and clothed thee? When saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 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. Then shall ye say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed and everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in, naked, and ye clothed me not, sick and imprisoned, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, It is much as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And thee shall go away unto everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. The passage that I've read for you is the last section of the Olivet Discourse. The Olivet Discourse takes up Matthew 24, and chapter 25 is one conversation. The Lord Jesus giving his disciples some final teachings on the end times. And the subject of these two chapters is the second coming, and what would be the signs of his coming again? If you can remember back about eight weeks ago, at the beginning of chapter 24, He talks about the signs of what I believe are the beginning stages or the beginning period of the tribulation, earthquakes, wars, famines, pestilences, false Christ. Then in verse 15 of chapter 24, he talks about the abomination of desolation that marks the halfway point of the tribulation when the Antichrist comes into the temple in Jerusalem and sets himself up as God. Then there comes a description of the great day of wrath, that three-and-a-half-year period of chaotic, cataclysmic judgment that this earth has ever seen. The tribulation is seven years, but that last three-and-a-half years is called the great day of wrath. Then there is the declaration of His coming again in the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory. And to all of this, the point that the Lord has made repeatedly is that the generation that is alive that will see the beginning of these things will see the end of these things, but no man will know the day, nor the hour, no less than five times as you make a statement to that effect. Then he gives three parables to illustrate the watchfulness that you and I are to live with. At the end of chapter 24, there is the parable of the unfaithful servant. Chapter 25, there is the parable of the ten virgins, five wise, five foolish. Last week, the parable of the talents. And because the Lord has just told three parables, many commentators come to this last passage and they assume that it is a parable as well. I'm amazed at how many commentators I looked at that called it a parable, though there's nothing to indicate that it is. A parable is a story that Jesus told you illustrates a truth. That story may or may not necessarily be a true story, kind of like a fable, but the truth that it represents certainly is true. To put what I have read to you in the category of a parable is to say that the events won't actually happen. It is an illustration of some spiritual truth. But what I have read to you this morning will one day actually take place. And what Jesus is talking about in this final part of the discourse is judgment. If you'll notice in verse number 31, he talks about when the Son of Man shall come in His glory, all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory. That throne is a throne of judgment, and what proceeds from that throne is the Son of Man judging the earth. Now, when you survey what theologians believe about judgment, One of the things that you will run across over and over are many who believe in what is called a general judgment. The Catholic Church, for example, they believe that the Church will usher in the millennium, that after the millennium there is one great big general resurrection of all the dead and is followed by a general judgment. So the one judgment at the end of the millennium, it includes all human beings, saved, lost, demons, angels. It includes everybody. One final judgment. If you are a post-millennialist this morning, you would believe in a general judgment. You also would be very wrong. There is no great general judgment at the end of the world. In fact, if you look through the Bible, you'll find that there are actually seven different judgments in the Bible. I'll give them to you quickly, and again, stay with me this morning. There are seven judgments. There is, first of all, what we would call the judgment of sin. When Jesus went to the cross, He bore the judgment for the sins of mankind. God reached down to the history of humanity and took every sin and placed them on His Son on the cross. He had made Him who knew no sin to be sin, for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. The holiness of God demands that sin be judged, but that judgment has already been borne for you and me by Jesus Christ on the cross. That's the judgment of sin. The second judgment is the judgment of believers. That is where you and I are to daily judge ourselves by saying no to the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. The judgment of believers. Paul said, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. The judgment of believers. The third judgment is the judgment of service. We would call that the judgment seat of Christ. It takes place in heaven immediately after the resurrection. Paul again in 2 Corinthians 5 says we almost appear before the judgment seat of Christ that everyone may receive of the things done in his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. The issue of the judgment seat of Christ has not saved or lost. The issue is reward. The issue here is not punishment, it is, it is, it, only the Saved will be there, but it is for you and I to receive reward for the service that we have given back to the Lord since being saved. There is, fourthly, a judgment of Israel. Jeremiah 30 and verse 7 describes the tribulation as a time of Jacob's trouble. It's the only time in the Bible that you find that phrase, and it spells out that the purpose of the tribulation is to punish Israel, the nation of Israel, for the rejection of God. They rejected God the Father in the days of Sancho. They rejected God the Son in the days of the Gospels. They rejected God the Holy Spirit in the days of Stephen, and they had been scattered until the time of the Gentiles' ark was filled. And during the tribulation, Ezekiel said that they would be made to pass under the rod and cast into God's melting pot. The seven-year tribulation is a judgment upon the nation of Israel. The fifth judgment is the judgment of nations. At the second coming, Christ is going to gather the nations before his throne. He's going to judge the nations, and he's going to divide them into sheep nations and goat nations. That's what our passage talks about. I'll preach on that in just a minute. There is then a judgment of angels. at the second coming of Satan and his demons are bound and cast into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. For a thousand years he'll not be able to deceive the nation, he'll not be able to wreak havoc on the earth. At the end of the millennial reign he is loose, he's able to gather an army and launch one final rebellion against God. There's a host of people that are born during the millennium that will not worship God. And as hard as it is to imagine, after a thousand years of a perfect kingdom. They're going to align themselves with Satan. Revelation 20 and verse 9 spells their doom. Fire comes down from God out of heaven and devours them. In the very next verse, Satan is cast into the lake of fire and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. It becomes clear with other passages that this final judgment of fallen angels of Satan, they're cast into hell forever, a judgment of Satan and his angels. The last judgment is the great white throne judgment. That is where every man, every woman, every child who has ever rejected Jesus Christ and died of sin. Revelation 20 describes the dead standing before God being judged according to the words. It is not to determine their eternal fate that has already been determined. It is to determine the degree of punishment in hell. The judgment is called the second death from which there is no resurrection. So I say to you this morning, there is no general judgment of those seven judgments. Four of them are future and they play prominently in end time events. The passage that I've read to you this morning describes the judgment of the nation. What is significant about this is that what Jesus reveals in this chapter is not found in any other gospel passage. There is a parallel to the Olivet Discourse in Luke chapter 21. But if you look at verse 31 of our text, where it talks about when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, that is where Luke ends the Olivet Discourse. He ends right there. So Jesus is going to tell his disciples something about the final days. And you find it all right here in Matthew 25. Now, before I get into the passage, I need to clarify a couple of misconceptions. As we have talked about in the past, depending on your theological bent, if you're post or pre or all the limits, that colors how you approach this chapter. So when you come to this particular event, there are some misconceptions about it. I want to clarify three of them for you this morning. Are you still with me? Say amen. The first thing I want to say is that this judgment is not the great white throne This judgment takes place at the beginning of the millennial reign. The Great White Throne Judgment takes place at the end of the millennial reign. This is a judgment of nations. The Great White Throne Judgment is a judgment of individuals. At the Great White Throne Judgment, men are judged according to their names, are written in the Book of Life. There is no Book of Life at this judgment. It's not the great rightful intent. And it is not the judgment seat of Christ. The judgment seat of Christ takes place in heaven during the tribulation. This judgment takes place on earth at the end of the tribulation. The judgment seat of Christ is a judgment of Christian believers. There are no believers at this judgment. The third thing, and this is very critical, This judgment has nothing to do with the salvation of individuals. The typical translation of this passage is that it is describing specific people, whether they are granted eternal life or not. And according to their interpretation, the sheep are safe people who are granted eternal life. The goats are unsafe people who are condemned to eternal punishment. But if that is true, So in the conditions of salvation is how you treat other people. That is salvation by good works. The sheep have fed the hungry, they've clothed the naked, they've visited those in prison, they've helped those that are sick. Those are wonderful things to do. But good works are never the condition for eternal life. Salvation is granted to those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing more, nothing less. Whatever you get out of this passage, it is not telling you how to be saved. I want you to look this morning at the judgment of nations. And after I finish this message, it will be a long time before I come back to prophecy. So I want to take my time. I'm going to give you three things about the judgment of nations. First of all, simple questions. Who is the judge? If you were to go on trial, some serious charge, and your fate rested in the hands of a judge, you would want to know how fair and honest that judge is. There are thousands of cases where some rogue judge, some corrupt judge, has been blown off the pride, or made decisions based on some personal bias, not the law. There have been stories of judges who have been overzealous in their prosecution of an innocent man, or been too lenient to a violent criminal. That's why we have an appellate court system in our land. That if you don't get justice under a judge, you have the option to appeal the decision of that judge. Here's the judge in verse 31. When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and the holy angels with him, then shall he sit, upon the throne of his glory. At the second coming, Jesus Christ is going to descend from the clouds. He's coming with his army of angels and he's coming with his army of saints. He's going to set up his throne on the earth and he will be the sole judge of the universe. No other judges, no other courts, no other tribunal. In the United States alone, we have a federal court system. We have 94 district courts. We have 13 appellate courts. We have a Supreme Court, all disbanded at the second coming. We have international tribunals. The United Nations falls under what is called an international court of justice, disbanded during the millennium. One throne, one judge, one ruler, Jesus Christ is His name. Jesus said in John 5 and verse 22, For the Father judges no man but hath committed all judgment unto his Son. Matthew 28 and verse 18, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. The Judge is Jesus Christ. Now notice the title that the Lord uses for Himself in verse 31. When the Son of Man That is his title of humiliation or his title of incarnation. It was the most common title that Jesus used for himself. It was simply a way for him to say that he was completely man. He became as we are. It emphasizes his humanity, the son of man. But there's a shift that takes place in the passage. Look at verse 34. Then shall the king, he's talking about himself, Look at verse 40, and the king shall answer and say, he had never called himself king up to this point. He has told parables about a king and a son, but now he takes the title and he very clearly applies that to himself. He will be the king. It's a great contrast there. You think about his status before men at that very moment in just a matter of a few days. He's going to be arrested. He's going to be falsely accused before the Sanhedrin came to the court. He's going to be crucified. And the Bible says that he was crucified in weakness. You know what the charge was? He claimed to be the king of the Jews. Do you know what they mocked Him from the cross? The Roman soldiers mocked Him. They mocked Him for claiming to be a king. He doesn't look like a king. But Jesus said, the next time that I come, I will come in glory and in power, and it will be His throne and He alone who will determine who enters into the kingdom and who is cast into hell. He will be the king. Jude said that Enoch, Now think about Enoch. Do you know how far back Enoch was? Enoch was the seventh from Adam. That's going way back there. And Enoch said, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints. Why? To execute judgment upon all. He's the king. Second Thessalonians 1. You who are troubled, rest with us. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty The flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all building that believe in that day. Who is the judge? Make no mistake about it, it is Jesus Christ. Here's the second question. Who are the judged? Who are the ones that are going to be judged at this judgment? It's very critical. Look at verse 32. And before him should be gathered all nations. Nations. You know, the common misinterpretation of this passage has to do with that word, nations. Now, you would think it would be clear what nations are. You would think. But when you're a Bible denier, you've got to confuse things. So most modern translations, they do a little, little, little hanky panky right here. And here's the little shift that you'll find in most modern English versions. Before him, she began with all nations and he shall separate them. Is that what your Bible says? Them, that is a pronoun. Every pronoun has an antecedent, goes back before, to nations. So they change that, he shall separate the people from one another. Now see, you can read that in a little shift, and you just change the pronouns all you need. But you just threw out the doctrine. By identifying nations as people, with that you make it a judgment of individuals, not a judgment of nations. Say, wait a minute, since nations consist of people, what's the harm? And some people think that this is a judgment of individuals and from that they conclude that it is the Great White Throne Judgment because that will be a judgment of individuals. But in a sense, you want to know that this judgment takes place at the beginning of the millennium. The Great White Throne takes place at the end of the millennium. This includes both believers and non-believers. The Great White Throne includes only the unsaved. If this judgment is individual, then individuals are judged based on how they treat other people. Because that's the criteria for this judgment. So I say to you, it is a great mistake to change nations to people. It is a judgment of nations. In fact, this judgment is based on actions. You'll notice that there are three types of people in this passage. Stay with me, look at verse 32. And before Him should be gathered all nations, He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from his goats, He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left hand. Now we understand it's not literal sheep and not literal goats. He's using an allegory here. Some nations are designated sheep. Some nations are designated goats. So you have group one sheep. You have group two. You have goats. But look at verse 40. The king Philanthus said to them, verily I say unto you, get as much as you've done it unto one of the least of these my brethren. Here's the third group. If you make these individuals, you know there's only two types of people, the saved and the unsaved. If the sheep represent believers and if the goats represent unbelievers, then who is left to go on to the these my brethren group? It is clear that the nations are Gentile nations. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag. I'm trying to hold it. They're going to be judged based on their treatment of Israel during the tribulation. These, my brethren, are His Jewish brethren. Jesus was a Jew. Go back to His genealogy in Matthew chapter 1. It traces His human ancestry. Back to David. Back to Abraham. Some think that His brethren are the apostles or those who are suffering. Very important distinction that these brethren are not Jesus' brethren because they're suffering. They're suffering because they are Jesus' brethren. talking about Jewish brethren. So I say to you this morning, there is a future judgment that takes place at the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ. It is a judgment of nations, separating them between sheep nations and goat nations. It is not a judgment of individuals. It is not a judgment for salvation. It is a judgment of nations. Third question. What is the judgment? What's in that? During the last half of the tribulation of the Antichrist, is going to launch an all-out assault against the Jewish nation. It will be a genocide like this world has never seen. Millions of Jews will be slaughtered. Jesus warns in Matthew 24 that when you see the abomination of desolation, flee. Flee, because there is coming a wave of persecution that is unparalleled. During that time, there are some nations that will align themselves with Antichrist, that some nations will oppose. At a good time, as Jesus said, one nation will rise against nation. When a war rips a nation apart, it leaves a lot of people as refugees without a home or shelter. That's exactly what's going to happen. And evidently, there's going to be some countries that's going to take them in. Israel's going to be running. They're going to be fleeing, trying to find somebody to take them in, someplace to hide, someplace to preserve life. And they're going to be hopeless, and they'll not be able to conduct business without the mark of the beast, and they'll be hated by godless nations, and they'll most likely be blamed for the world's woes at that time. Evidently, there will be some nations that will take those Jewish refugees in and give them shelter. It's indicated by the words of the Lord in verse 35. I was in a hundred, and He gave me meat. I was thirsty, and He gave me drink. I was a stranger. You took me in naked. You clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison. You came to me. The nations are going to ask, when did we do that? Jesus replies that you did it to me when you did it to my brethren. He takes it personally that how you treat the Jews, he equates that to how you treat him. There's no way that you can read this passage and think that an individual is being saved by charity and getting into heaven for that. It is a nation, not an individual. It's assisting Israel during the tribulations, not just feeding the poor. It's an entrance into an earthly kingdom, not heaven. And then the Lord is going to turn to the nations on the left that are designated goat nations. And everything in the previous script is flipped, if you look in verse 42. He said, I was hungry, you gave me no meat. I was thirsty, you gave me no drink. I was a stranger, you took me down here naked, you clothed me up, sick and in prison, and you visited me tonight. And then he said that you didn't do it to my brethren, you didn't do it to me. And now those nations are cast into eternal punishment. The nation of Israel is redeemed. The Antichrist has been defeated. The final score to settle is to reward or to punish those nations based on how they treated Israel. And how they treated Israel will determine if those nations go into the kingdom or if they disappear and are no more. Now that's a very clear prophecy. That's the judgment of nations. And what Jesus describes in this passage is actually described in several Old Testament I want you to take a minute with me. Stay with me just a minute. And I want to show you just a couple of Old Testament, but not all of them, just a couple of them. Would you take your Bible with you? Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12. Stay with me. Say Amen. I know it's teaching, but it's teaching truth. Look at Genesis chapter 12. Look at verse number one. Now the Lord has said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country from that country and from thy kingdom. and to my father's house into a land that I was chosen. And I will make of thee a great nation. I will bless thee and make thy name great. And thou shalt be a blessing. I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curses thee. And in these all families of the earth be blessed. It is the Abrahamic covenant. What I want you to notice is the promise of blessing and the promise of cursing to those who bless and to those who curse Abraham and his descendants. By the way, that promise has held true for a long time, for the duration of the history of the nation of Israel. I believe, by the way, one of the reasons why America has prospered so great is because of our friendship with Israel. And the ultimate fulfillment of that promise is going to be in the day when God judges those nations based on how they treated Israel. See if you can find the book of Joel in your Bible. The book of Joel. all the way in the Old Testament, the book of Joel. It's easy to find that. And if you get to Amos, you went too far. Look at Joel, chapter 3. Joel, chapter 3, describing the same judgment, same judgment as in Matthew 25. I'll read just a couple of verses here. Joel 3, look at verse number 1, heaven-bounded, just like you have. Joel 3, verse 1, For behold, in these days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations. will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people, and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and parted My land, and they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink." The Lord is describing gathering His nation who have been taken captive and scattered among the nations, and He describes they've undergone a great tribulation at the hands of nations. They've been oppressed. But now He's going to vindicate them. Beginning in verse 9, he calls the nations to the valley's decision to do war. Look at verse 19. Egypt should be a desolation. Egypt should be a desolate wilderness, full of violence against the children of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall dwell forever and Jerusalem from generation to generation. Notice the desolation is because of the violence against the children of Look at Psalm 83. Psalm 83. Psalm 83 is what's called an imprecatory psalm. Well, the psalmist is praying for God to punish His enemies and vindicate His servants. Psalm 83. Look at verse number 1. Keep not thou silent, O God. Hide not thy, hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God, for lo! Thine enemies make thee throng too long, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head. They have taken Crafty counseled against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have said, Tom, let us cut them off from being a nation, that the nation of Israel may be no more in remembrance." Boy, that's happened a lot, hasn't it? All that anti-Semitism. Now, the psalmist is praying for God to punish those nations that have oppressed Israel. By the way, they won't read this in verse 5, down to verse number 11. There's a coalition. A lot of Bible students believe that this particular coalition has never come up against Israel, that it's describing a future world. I'll let you think about that. But look at verse number 13. Oh my God, make them like a wheel, as the stubble before the wind, as the fire burneth the wood, as the flame setteth the mountains on fire. So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yea, let them be put to shame and perish, that men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah at the most time over all the earth, You know what he's praying? He's praying that those nations that aligned themselves against Israel, that God would punish those nations. And the ultimate fulfillment of that prayer comes to pass in the judgment of nations. I don't have time this morning to show you a microphone. You can turn to a microphone. Zephaniah 2 talks about it, Zechariah 1, Zechariah 14 both talk about it, the judgment of nations. I want to answer two questions this morning because it will be a long time. The first question is, is if this is a judgment of nations and it is. And how is it not a judgment of people? Because nations consist of people. Somebody gets cast into everlasting punishment at the end. But how do you cast an entire nation into hell? I sat in a motel room this week in Mississippi. And I've pondered that question for a long time. And I researched every verse that I could find. I've got a preacher friend in Corpus Christi, Texas. His name is Devon Weld. Very, very knowledgeable in scripture. And I called Little Welder, and we were talking about this, and boy, he gave me some verses. And he helped me. Little Welder said, I believe, he said, I believe that it refers to the king or the leaders of those nations. Oftentimes in the Bible, God would spare a nation based on what their king, the Admin of them, Jonah chapter 3. Sometimes he would punish an entire nation based on what their king did, the treachery of their king. So it's not an entire nation that is cast into hell. It is a judgment of nations. It's most likely that the leaders of those nations who have aligned themselves with Antichrist will share in the punishment of Antichrist. After the world or second question, I said, All right, here's the second question. Will there be lost people to go into the kingdom? When Jesus comes back, it doesn't mean that that's day one of the millennial reign. There's a window of time. Daniel seems to say 75 days. You study it. But between the second coming and And the wars and cleaning up the dead, there's an interval of time before the millennium officially begins, the administration of the king begins. And when the kingdom begins, will there be unsaved people who have survived the tribulation to go into the kingdom, or does it just start with just safety? And I ponder that question, Jacob and I. Jacob, now we've talked about that. We disagree. I believe that when the kingdom begins, that there will be lost people that will go into that kingdom. Let me show you one verse, maybe two. Isaiah 26. Since I'm teaching, I might as well just teach for just a minute. Isaiah 26. Somebody asked me the other day, he said, how do you preach that on Sunday morning? I said, I don't know. I don't know. Isaiah 26, verse 8, Millennial passage. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee. The desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired in the night, yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness, Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of all. There will be unrighteous there whose heart will not be converted, they'll enjoy all the blessings of living in a perfect kingdom. Won't take the opportunity to worship God in true worship. One other verse, one other verse, Isaiah 65 verse 20. There should be no more infant and infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For the child that should die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old, should be accursed. I believe there's law people that go into the kingdom and they'll conform to the laws of the kingdom. We know that there will be people born during the tribulation. And at the end of a thousand years, those who have not worshipped God, given their hearts to Him, are going to fall. They're going to fall under Satan in that final rebellion, and sin will be cast into the lake of fire for eternal punishment. This is my final word on prophecy for a while. Jesus is going to judge the nations. It is just one of several judgments. It is based on their treatment of His brethren, Israel, during the Tribulation. That's one part of His promise. to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12. It's appropriate, by the way, that the passage in Matthew is a gospel to the Jews. Israel is going to be punished, a remnant is going to be saved, and then God will judge the enemies of Israel. I don't have time to give you the other verses for another time. There's a preacher out in Arizona, I think he's a heretic, had a big YouTube following. One of his teachings is an anti-Israel stance. It doesn't believe that they're a favored nation any longer. I'm going to tell you, Israel has not been replaced. Israel has not been forgotten. I believe one of the reasons why America's been blessed because of our friendship with Israel. I think one of the greatest things that President Trump did is move that embassy to Jerusalem and recognize that. I appreciate So I said will America survive the tribulation? Depends on what we do with Israel. Depends on our treatment of them. To serve his brethren is to serve him. That's the judgment of nations.