GRADUATION MATT 25: THE KINGDOM TRILOGY, PART 3b

06-28-20 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

God is Thought. The brightness of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid one upon another, ascending into the mind of Christ.

SEPARATION (HAPPENING NOW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD)

(Matt 25:31-33)  When the Son of man [Jesus Christ] shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels [the original innocent angels plus the resurrected saints (now fully endowed angels once again)] with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory [the ark (Heb: {treasure} chest) of the testimony (Heb: witness /// contract)] [i.e., us)]: And before him shall be gathered all nations [Gk: people]: and he shall separate [Gk: divide] them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the [obedient] sheep on his right hand, but the [disobedient] goats on the left. [1]

1.    (1 Sam 15:22) And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken [Heb: to prick up the ears: hear] than the fat of rams.

ADDRESSING THE OBEDIENT SHEEP (BELIEVERS) ON HIS RIGHT HAND

(Matt 25:34-36) Then shall the King [“the KING OF KINGS” Rev 19:16] say unto them [the sheep] on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe]: For I was [1] 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.

1.    Commentary: “I was…” = Jesus is here speaking as if He were inside all His children. Refer: “the kingdom of God is within [Gk: inside] you” (Luke 17:21), and so He was and is in you.

(Matt 25:37-40) Then shall the righteous [Gk: innocent, holy] [the sheep] answer him, saying, Lord [Gk: kurios; supreme in authority], when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or 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 [Gk: small (in size, amount, dignity, etc.): very little, smallest] [most humble] of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

ADDRESSING THE DISOBEDIENT GOATS (UNBELIEVERS) ON THE LEFT HAND

(Matt 25:41-43) Then shall he say also unto them [the goats] on the left hand, Depart from me [Gk: remove (fig. die)] [the command for all professing Christians to “remove” from the flock], ye cursed [Gk: doomed], into everlasting fire, prepared [Gk: made ready] for the devil and his angels [What does that make all goat unbelievers who are cast into the lake of fire? Answer: Fallen Angels] [1]: For I was an hungred, 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 in prison, and ye visited me not.

1.    (Rev 20:15) And whosoever [Gk: (any) man] [who] was not found [i.e., was blotted out] written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

(Matt 25:44,45) Then shall they [the goats] also answer him, saying, Lord [Gk: kurios; supreme in authority], when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister [Gk: wait upon: serve] unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least [Gk: small (in size, amount, dignity, etc.): very little, smallest] of these [please note the omission here of “my brethren”], ye did it not to me.

(Matt 25:46) And these [the goats] shall go away into everlasting [Gk: perpetual: for ever, everlasting] punishment [Gk: torment]: but the righteous [Gk: innocent, holy] [the sheep] into life eternal [Gk: perpetual: for ever, everlasting] [with God: “God is love” 1 John 4:8,16].

HOW THIS WILL HAPPEN (FIRE DOES NOT BURN FIRE)

(2 Pet 3:10-13) But the day of the Lord [the second advent of Christ beginning the Millennium] will come as a thief in the night [i.e., surprise, suddenly, at an unknown time]; in the which the heavens [the atmospheric heavens] shall pass away [Gk: perish] with a great noise, and the elements shall melt [Gk: #3089; dissolve] with fervent heat [Gk: to set on fire /// burning /// be consumed], the earth [Gk: ground] also and the works [acts of men] that are therein shall be burned up [Gk: consumed wholly]. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved [Gk: #3089; melted], what manner [kind] of persons ought ye to be in all holy [Gk: pure, blameless] conversation [Gk: behavior] and godliness, Looking for [Gk: anticipating in hope] and hasting [Gk: speed, “study,” urge on (diligently or earnestly)] [1] unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved [Gk: #3089; melted], and the elements shall melt with fervent heat [Gk: to set on fire /// be consumed]? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

1.    (2 Tim 2:15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word [the seed] of truth.

a.     (James 4:8) Draw nigh [near] to God, and he will draw nigh [near] to you [Luke 15:20]. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR (FIRE DOES NOT BURN FIRE)

(Zech 14:11-13) And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. And this shall be the plague [Heb: defeat: slaughter] wherewith the LORD will smite [Heb: slay] all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away [Heb: melt: dissolve] while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away [Heb: melt: dissolve] in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away [Heb: melt: dissolve] in their mouth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult [Heb: confusion or uproar: destruction] from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold [grasp aggressively] every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour [1].

1.    (Judg 7:22)  And the three hundred [saved Israelites] blew the trumpets [proclaimed the word of God], and the LORD set every [unsaved Midianite = Heb: brawling, contentious, discord, strife] man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host [of 15,000 Midianites] fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.

2.    (Ezek 38:21) And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

(Zech 14:14-21) And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. And so shall be the plague [radiation, fallout, contamination] of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague [radiation, fallout, contamination]. And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles [the feast of ingathering, the feast of thanksgiving]. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain [no blessings]. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague [radiation, fallout, contamination], wherewith the LORD will smite [Heb: slay] the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day [the 1,000 year Millennium: 2 Pet 3:8] shall there be upon the bells [Heb: tinkling] of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe [Heb: boil] therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite [Heb: peddler: merchant, trafficker /// humiliated] in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Amen