We're studying all the parables in the Bible. And during this session, we're going to study the judgments, the judgments, the several judgments. We're in Matthew, the 25th chapter, Matthew chapter 25 and verse number 31. We'll read the rest of the chapter. But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, all the angels with him, then he'll sit on his glorious throne. This is right here. Right at the end of the tribulation period, there is a judgment here, there is a judgment here, and there is a final judgment here. A judgment here, a judgment here, and a final judgment here. And all the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate them from one another and as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will put the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, come you who are blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For 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 invited me in. Naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me. Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you, or thirsty, and gave you something to drink? And when did we see you a stranger and invite you in or naked and we closed you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you? And the king will answer and say to them, truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of mine, even the least of them, you did it to me. Then he will also say to those on his left, depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger and you did not invite me in. I was naked and you did not clothe me. I was sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they themselves also will answer saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison that did not take care of you? Then he will answer them saying, truly I say to you to the extent that you did not do it to the one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous unto eternal life. Now let's go to our other textbook, All the Parables in the Bible by Herbert Lockyer. We're on page 246, and I hope that God gives me the life and the strength to finish All the Parables in the Bible. Several expositors not accepting this narrative as a parable failed to deal with it in the collection of parables We feel, however, that it should be included among them because of its description of the same events and the figurative language linking it with the parable of the shepherd. While what we have here is the portrayal of an actual scene, the language used is parabolic. As a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. That is a parable in work and in teaching. Among the many judgments of the Bible, there are three, often confused, which must be kept completely distinctive from one another. There is a judgment seat of Christ, which will take place when the Lord returns in the air, right here at the rapture, on your mats, right there. This judgment is related to the true family of God and God's church. the saved only being present for the review and reward of the faithful service in Romans 14, 10 and 11 and 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 10. Now there is the judgment of the living nations. the parable that is set before us which will take place at Christ's return to earth to usher in his millennial reign. That's at the end of the tribulation. We have a judgment here, the judgment seat of Christ. We have here the judgment of the nations. Now these nations will go into the millennium and they will populate the earth. There will not be one lost person, not one lost person, Gentile or Jew, that will go into the millennial reign and that reign will be upon, epiteskes, upon this earth. Eil ha'aretz, upon the earth, literally. Now the earth will be greatly changed during that millennium. All the curse will be taken away from the animals and the land and it will grow fruitfully and we'll see this for 1,000 years. They will have no excuse among the, in the world because Satan and all of his imbeciles and demon spirits will be, and angels will be put away in a bottomless pit for 1,000 years. Then jail. There's a judgment of the living nations in a parable before us which will take place at Christ's return to earth to usher in his reign. At this, all righteous and unrighteous nations will be assembled and both rewards and rejections will be announced. There is a judgment of the great white throne taking place at the end of time. The end of time. Time begins over here when God reconstructed the earth and placed man upon it. Time will end at the end of the millennial reign and at the great white throne judgment and eternity will begin again. Time is a marked off peace or place in eternity. Eternity will begin here again and that eternity is for God's children and his church. and Israel as an obedient people and what will happen forever and eternity in hell will begin for those that have rejected Jesus Christ. After the millennial reign of Christ and the last judgment of Satan in Revelation 20 in verse 11, all lost souls will be arraigned at this dreadful judgment and hear the pronouncement of their doom. Number one, you only get here if you reject Jesus Christ. That's how you get there. Jesus Christ died for all man's sins, but those that will not believe in him will suffer eternal judgment and separation in hellfire forever. Thus it will be seen that the Bible knows nothing about a general resurrection and a general judgment. at which the saved and lost will appear, and when the judge will separate them, parting them from right to the left. If we are at the first judgment, we shall not be at the third. If we are at the first judgment, we shall not be at the third judgment, the great white throne. If missing from the first, we shall must appear before the second. If missing at the first, we must appear before the second judgment right here. Revelation the 19th chapter. That's the end of the tribulation. These people will be judged for what they did during the tribulation period, whether they suffered and died for Christ or whatever. If alive when Christ returns to the earth, but most certainly at the third, for the ratification of our condemnation. Our coming judgment depends upon our relationship to Jesus Christ. If we are in him, we shall never hear the terrible pronouncement, depart from me, ye cursed, for I never knew you. The judgment of all nations we are now about to consider is almost incredible in its consolation and awful in its terror. The opening word, but, we, that, but, that is a adversity of conjunction. But, which is an original distinguishes and contrast is seen to follow from those preceding it. But, strong adversity of conjunction, Allah. The judge is our blessed Lord and Savior. the august judge at his great international judgment. Since his ascension, he had been sitting upon the throne of his glory. Now, since the nations judge Jesus, Jesus shall judge the nations. Pontius Pilate judged Jesus, but I'll tell you what, he pronounced him innocent. Five times he pronounced him innocent. But he shall, Jesus shall judge the nations. at the right hand of majesty on high in Hebrews 111, waiting till his enemies be made his footstall in Psalm 110. Here he comes with clouds ascending as the true Solomon in all his glory to judge the earth and to establish this millennial reign in righteousness and peace. The tabernacle is a type of the churches in the church age. The temple of Solomon is a type of the church in her glory. Think of the usual and almost parabactilous he uses of himself. First of all, when he appears, it will be as the son of man. Some 80 times, he designated himself as the son of man. It was a familiar title, representing that he was a son of woman. A son of woman. He was one of us. He was blood flowing through his veins. That blood was innocent blood, not as we have. We have an infected blood from our fathers. His blood was not from his mother, but from the father above. No child's blood comes from his mother. It comes from his father. That's where life and death and the curse come from, is through the blood of your father. Jesus' father was God. He brought Himself into space and time. Kaihologo sarsagenito. And the Word, the Jehovah Flesh became and He dwelt among us and we behold the glory of the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. And John 1 18 says, No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten God, the One being in the bosom of the Father, that One has led Himself out. He was our representative, our Goel in Hebrew, our kinsman, redeemer. First Corinthians 15, 45 through 47, it was a son of man that he was soon to stand at the bar of Pilate's and be condemned by the Jewish nation, but set free as far as Pilate was concerned. Now under the Old Testament, and this is beautiful, The Sanhedrin that Jethro, Moses' father, wanted to design and draw up said, Moses, pick out from among you men that cannot be bought, men that are righteous, men that are moral, men that love God. And what happened to the Sanhedrin when Jesus was trying? Nearly every one of them was nahash, serpents, deceiving serpents. Here, as the same son of man who is judged and killed, he appears to pass judgment on all living men. That is not a judgment of the quick and the dead. No resurrections associated with this judgment. There are no resurrections associated with this judgment. This expressive title speaks of his humanity, Goel, his kinsman redeemer. and of his degradation when men treated him as a worm, and no man reproaching men and despised the people in Psalm 22 and verse six. During this war, during this judgment, there will be no war criminals that will slip away. The sheep nations will populate the world. But once rejected, the Son of Man will appear in power and glory and surrounded by heaven's angelic host to administer righteous judgment among all mankind. Oh, how man longs for true righteousness and judgment! And let me tell you this, according to the law that God set up in human government, every government, every political party owes allegiance to its constituents to give them justice. That is the purpose, justice and protection from the criminals. As the Son of Man, all authority to judge was committed to Him by His Father, who judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son. That's one thing the Father can't do. The Father cannot do this. Because the Son became one of us, He can judge us. He feels all of our weaknesses. And we got them. God gave him 32 acts to get judgment also because he is the son of woman or the son of man. John 5, 22 to 27. In the narrative, his just judgment in John 5 and 30 is related to those in the grave who hear his voice, but the judgment in the parable before us is to the living nations. It will be noted that the future tense is not employed here. Jesus did not say the father will commit. but the Father has committed. Assuming humanity's flesh, Jesus was invested with a judging power, and because of all that was in himself, and by his words and his works and looks, men were conscious of being judged by him. Cajologo sarxigenito, and the word, the Jehovah, flesh he became. Sarx, he became. Carne, flesh he became. And dwelt among us. There was something about him that made those who surrounded him conscious of their sins. That among men there was a constant division because of him. We speak of the last judgment, but for the first judgment we go back to his life among men only to discover that his last judgment is but the consummation of the first judgment. Christ had already definitely told His disciples that as the Son of Man He would come in glory of His Father with angels and that the Son of Man He would sit on the throne of His glory, Matthew 16, 27 and 19, 28. And the judgment of the sheep and the goats is the opening incident in the great prophesied administration. This will be the appointed day for Him. as that man will judge the world in righteousness. I want to enter by parenthesis at this. The radical left in our nation always upholds those that are being abused, the poor. But in all reality, they are only using them to gain authority and power. Islam goes into nations and always tries to build up and defend the minorities. But when they become the majority, the minority don't matter anymore. It's deceit. It is using, it is unjust. In all systems and all over the world, there is what we might call an unjust recognition of its citizens. Yes, there is. And under court systems in America, the biggest dollar, the biggest paycheck gets the judgment, not guilty. or in your favor. It won't happen that way here. We have a righteous judge. He is a shepherd. Now God never moves in judgment before He extends mercy and grace and He is doing that right now. God never moves in judgment except that He extends grace first. Exercising His knowledge and insight in this capacity, Christ is to separate the sheep from the goats. In David, we have an illustration of a shepherd who reigns, yet shepherds at the same time. It is a chief shepherd that Jesus is to appear, and as in this way, he will function in his royal place, position. While on earth he saw men as sheep, having no shepherd. But when he returns as a shepherd, his sheep will be eternally cared for. Eternally cared for David wrote the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd. He was a shepherd But Jesus was his shepherd Jehovah was his shepherd and as he risked his life for his sheep our Savior gave his life for us His sheep will be eternally cared for because of of the many points of similarity between sheep and goats of Assyrian flock, it takes the practice eye of the shepherd to distinguish one from the other. The divine shepherd whose eyes are in every place keeping watch upon evil and good in Proverbs 15 and 3 and will make no mistake when he comes to judge the doings of the nations. We look upon the outward appearance and too often mistake the form of godliness for its reality and the profession of faith for true loyalty. But he who ever looks upon the heart is never deceived. Jesus knows me. Jesus knows you and your every intent. The King, Mausoleus, Malak. The King, Melchizedek, the King of Righteousness. Twice over Jesus referred to himself as King. The judged ones call him Lord, while in veiled parabolic form he has spoken of himself as King. This is the first and only time in which he directly assumed a title. In Revelation, the 19th chapter is Adonai Ha'adonaiim, or King of King and Lord of Lords. That is a messianic title for Jesus and Jehovah of the Old Testament. King of King and Lord of Lords. in which he directly assumed the title, and how marvelous it is that three days before the men crucified him as criminal, he speaks of himself as a king of all men, whose judgment was to decide the everlasting destinies of each individual in the world and the nations. Addressing errors of his kingdom, Jesus assured them, that he would return in all his regal majestic glory as a king and he must have a throne. So he refers to the throne of his glory and is the throne of his judicial glory as king. He will be seen in his own glory, which is his personal and moral eternal glory. Then the government shall be upon his Royal shoulder in Isaiah nine and six. As the king, he will have the right and power to tell the sheep to inherit the king prepared for them from eternity past. It is somewhat significant that this judge is spoken of as the king of the nations in Revelation 15 and verse three, which competent authorities affirm is how it should be read and not king of saints. He is described as a king of Israel, the king of the earth, the king of kings, Adonai, Adonaiim. And here, king of nations, but never as king of the saints. Although in the truest sense, he is our king, seeing that we are translated, or we have been translated into his kingdom in Colossians 1. His saints in the present dispensation have kingly rule and authority conferred upon them in 1 Corinthians 4 and 8, 6 and 2 through 3, and Matthew 28, 18 through 20, Matthew 16 and 18. His churches, true New Testament visible, physical churches in this world are His administrators in this kingdom. His kingdom, not ours. His talents, not ours. His merchandise, not ours. That's the gospel. 1 Corinthians 4 and 8, 6, 2 through 3 in Revelation 1 and 6, it is to exercise its yet future, we shall reign with him in 2 Timothy 2 and 12. The nations about to come under his judgment reveal the appropriateness of his title king of nations in Jeremiah 10 and verse 7. Exercising his power as such, he will break the iron will of the peoples and they will be made to bow before him and acknowledge his supreme sovereignty. There will not be one atheist, not one agnostic. One second after they die, they will be believers. But too late. Grace has been given. Turning from his manifold titles and his throne, we think of his train of attendance, train of attendance. The angelic train filling his temple will accompany him to earth, and all the holy angels with him, and all the angels are to assist him in his judgment of all nations. Deuteronomy 32, 33 in verse 2, and Daniel 7, 9, and 10, and Jude 14, and Hebrews 1 and 6, and 1 Peter 3, 22, and Revelation 19, 11 through 16. All heaven attends as all earth stands to be judged. All heaven attends as an audience. The angels who are to be present as witnesses of the Lord's righteous judgment are likewise administrators of His decrees. The writer of Hebrews says of the general festal assembly of the myriads of angels in Hebrews 12, 22, and 23, such a glorious retinue are to gather the elect, bundle the tares, witness the glory of the saints, and look upon the misery of sinners. Matthew 13, 39 through 42, 24, 31, and Luke 12 and 8, and Revelation 14, 10 through 13. It would seem as if the church's Christ double-blooded bride, double-blooded bride, twice-blooded bride, Jesus Christ died for all men, Jesus Christ died for all the saints, and he died especially for that church. And don't mistake the church for the family of God or all the saints. It's an entity that is separate. The bride will join the angels, although she is not introduced into this parable, as a glorified redeemed in order to share with him in his kingdom. It can be safely assumed that they will present, will be present with the angels to witness and to judge. The church will help Jesus judge the angels. to administration of judgment of the nations by the Redeemer as He takes unto Himself His power to reign as the King of Kings, Adonai Ha'Adonaiim. The judgment, on page 249, while the scene of this judgment is in its earth, particularly the part known as the Holy Land, Palestine, because when Christ returns to this earth His feet are to stand upon the Mount of Olives, Zechariah, 14 and 4. Now, all the nations will probably gather, they will come from all the earth and they will gather there in Palestine to be judged. What's left of them? Five out of six people will be killed. Almost one-sixth of the population of the world left. The recipients of the judgment are internationally in character. Before him shall be gathered all the nations of all the Gentiles When the plural is used in the Bible, it represents all heathen and all Gentile nations of the world as distinguished from the Jewish nation, Romans 15 and 11 and 12 and Ephesians 2 and 11. Joel describes judgment. I will set to judge all the nations round about, Joel 3, 1, 2, 11, 12, Zechariah 14 and verse 2. It would seem as if the nations will not be so populous then, well, five out of every six people are going to be killed of them as they are now and will be when God's rule and judge return to intervene in the desperate condition of the international affairs. Universal desolation and death are pictured by the prophets. Psalm 46, 6 and 9, Ezekiel 38 and 39. John describes how the vast population of the earth will be reduced to a minimum as a result of divine visitations and when he turns Islam loose on the world. You remember in the book of Revelation how the people are going to be executed by beheading? Remember there were five empires The last one was the Roman Empire, when Jesus was there. The next empire to rule the Middle East was the Ottoman, the Islamic Empire. And the seventh nation, mountain, government to rule, to be the resurrected government, shall be, again, the Islamic Empire. The revised ISIS, so to speak. It's happening, people. It's happening in your country, wherever you are. It's happening, it's happening, it's happening over and over and over again. They go in and they start crying and bawling over majorities, over the minorities until they become the minority. You read what's happening in all the European governments. It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. All of you nations that have rejected Jesus Christ, It's a fearful thing for a nation to fall into the hands of a living God. He'll turn the devil's loose on you. Revelation 6 and 8, 8, 9, 11, and 15 and 8 of Israel herself, there will be a left at that time, a very small remnant, one third, two thirds will be dead. Isaiah 1 and 9, Zechariah 13, 8 and 9. The sheep nations judge righteous will enter the millennial age with the king. Not one lost people will go into the millennial reign. Not one. Not one person in a nation will go in there lost. They will all know Jesus Christ. But some people have to see it for themselves. He will stand as the king of glory and the judge of glory. This gathering of the nations then will form the earthly counterpart of the heavenly myriad surrounding the judge. I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne and all the hosts of heaven standing by him and on his right hand and on his left." 1 Kings 22, 19. That's a long time ago, people. There now comes the separating of the nations by the shepherd judge on page 249 into two groups. The sheep nations are set on his right hand the position of favor and honor, and the goat nations are placed on his left hand, and the position of shame and dishonor. Then as now, there are only two classes, two groups. Into one or the other, all men go. Judgment is according to character. And the twofold differing character and disposition is cited under the similes of goats and sheep, sheep and goats. Sheep are ever considered an emblem of mildness, simplicity, innocence, patience, and usefulness. The peoples chosen as sheep nations will be those who will benefit and capable of conscious, unconscious, and unaffected goodness. Innate, kind, and outwardly practical because of the inward faith, these peoples are regarded or rewarded by the king. Goats are naturally quarrelsome. lascivious, excessively ill-scented, they stink. They are therefore considered a symbol of riotous profane and impure men. Innately and unconsciously selfish, they will represent those nations giving up to their own passions and lusts, who consequently fail to see the needs of others. Nations owe justice to their constituents. All society owes justice to its constituents. They have no heart of compassion constraining them to alleviate the need of others. Our Lord mentions another group, the treatment of which decides the respective future of the above two groups, namely my brethren, my brethren. Who did Jesus have in mind when he described these people, my brethren? Was he referring to the Jewish nation of which he formed a part? Several writers affirmed that these are the believing remnant of Israel who will preach the gospel of the kingdom for a witness to all nations during the last dread crisis, Micah 5 and 3. Matthew 24 and 14, the great tribulation will be a time of severe trial for the Jewish brethren. It'll be a washing machine with bleach in it, people. That's what it's gonna be, that tribulation period right here. And that God's map of the ages. Sharing the possessions and caring for those made destitute by the Antichrist, they are now honored and being named as Christ's brethren. But surely the designation has a wider application than this, did the Lord not say to all, whether Jews or Gentiles, who obeyed his will and word, were his brethren, in Matthew 12, 46 through 49? Did he not say, one is my master, and ye are all brethren, Matthew 23, 8? When he uttered this parable, he was looking down his whole Gentile age, which is culminating with his return to the earth and was thinking of his own regenerated Jews and Gentiles from the standpoint of their responsibility as his spiritual brethren, acting as he would in the world in need because he was acting through them. What is to be the basis of just judgment? What is to determine the national division with the sheep and the righteous people? A saved soul is a lost life during the tribulation period. A saved soul is a lost life during the tribulation period. Many will die, but who in among those nations that was supporting these dying sheep? A saved soul is a lost life. And as God's people, when God saves our soul, we're not our own ever, ever, ever, ever again. When we try to claim that little, I want to, I want to, I'm selfish, I'm selfish, it takes us, it hurts us, it hampers us, it lames us. What is to determine the national division with the sheep of the righteous people entering upon an age of abiding life and the goats or wicked people going into an age abiding fire? Pilate's question is to be asked over and over and over again from the national standpoint, what shall I do with Jesus? What shall I do with Jesus? This is to be the question for the nations. What are they doing with Jesus? What are they going to do with Jesus? What are they going to do with these message? What are they going to do with these messengers? What are they going to do with all the spiritual forces and moral powers that he has set at liberty, which are to work through his people in that age? Upon the basis of that, his judgment will be found for or against them. The underlying principle of our Lord in us he hates is that he is coming to gather all the kings of all things that cause stumbling and them that do iniquity and inaugurate in a new era in which righteousness shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of his father. What terrible doom is pronounced upon those who fail to Christ. Everlasting fire prepared for the devil and the angels he seduced because they were first in transgression. the angels and spirits that Satan seduced. And how many times has Satan seduced you? In all types of deception. Going about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Seduced, they were first in the transgression, but the unrighteous are to share the same doom, because with the devil and his souls, they represent an unholy nation, an unholy character, an unholy entity. You're either on God's side or Satan's side, one or the other. There are no two other places. There are no other place. There's no rail. Those departing from Christ were negative and selfish in their lives. If the righteous knew not their good, the wicked knew not their evil. Their sins against the brethren had been against the master himself." Acts 9 and 4. And despair is theirs as they go from Christ into eternity of woe. When people suffer, when people are suffering in great tribulation, they love company. Visit the poor, visit the sick, they love company. As they go away from Christ into an eternity of woe, is it not solemn to realize that the last word of his public ministry before the cross was, there shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous unto eternal life, life eternal in Matthew 26, 46. Men must reap as they have sown. Galatians. And the consequences of evil deeds and the failure to perform good deeds must be in the nature of the case. Work out their reputations so far as we can see with no assignable limit. How impressive is the sequel to our Lord's parabolic discourse on the Mount of Olives. And it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these things, he said to his disciples, you know that after two days is the Passover and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified. Matthew 26, one and two. Was it not wonderful for him with calm dignity to step down from glory from the throne of his glory, from glory to the cross, and proceed to Gethsemane and Calvary. There to finish the work of his father had given him to do. Every sin in your life was nailed to Jesus on that cross. Every sin in my life, every failure was nailed to Jesus on that cross. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross. During those days of anguish and shame, he turned his back upon the glory and majesty of his coming kingdom, which he had described on the Mount of Olives, and went on to die a terrible death for our salvation. Hallelujah. What a Savior we have. What a Savior we have. And the Bible, with the old Roman road, the old Roman road of salvation, has it written, there is no not righteous, not one. For all have gone astray and fallen short, missed the mark of the glory of God. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. For God demonstrates His own love toward us while we were yet sinners. He died for us. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The ones believing in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That if you confess with your mouth The Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. For the heart, one believes unto salvation, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Our Heavenly Father, we send this message out through the world. I pray that you see fit to use it for your kingdom. I pray, I preach the gospel this day, and I thank you, my Lord and my Savior, for enduring the cross for me. We send this message out for your honor, for your glory, for your sake, and for your kingdom. In Jesus' name we pray.