Separation of the Sheep from the Goats

Many people will physically survive the Day of the Lord. God Almighty says He’ll cut the days of His wrath short to save His elect, otherwise no flesh would survive.

https://www.biblehub.com/matthew/24-22.htm

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Who will make it through when God’s Wrath is cut short?

Immediately before the Millennial Kingdom begins, a unique type of ‘judgment’ event will take place for those who remain alive on Earth. Those being judged are referred to as being from ‘the nations,’ which would normally mean ‘not Israel,’ but after 722 BC the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel became distributed among them. That seems to mean that the ‘sheep’ will also include many Sons of Jacob, especially those from the tribe of Ephraim.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A31-46&version=NIV;KJV

What happens immediately before ‘the separation of the sheep and the goats’?

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THE FINAL WAR – ARMAGEDDON

After Jesus Christ’s spectacular and righteous victory at Armageddon, He’ll throw the Beast and false-prophet into the lake of fire that’s been prepared for Satan and His fallen angels. (Rev. 20:10)

SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT & GOATS ON HIS LEFT

Then He’ll call all the remaining people of the nations to Him and separate them into two groups: the sheep on His right and goats on His left. Only the sheep will be allowed to live on into the Millennial Kingdom. Eternal punishment is the wage of the goats.

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.'”

Matt. 24:34

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THE SHEEP

“YOU WHO ARE BLESSED OF MY FATHER.” I find that to be quite remarkable! They’re the mortals who’ll populate Jesus Christ’s Millennial Kingdom, and they’ll be given greatly extended life spans. Sometimes, I call the sheep the ‘select’ to differentiate them from the other ‘elect,’ especially the ones who made the journey to heaven. The amazing thing is that the Book of Matthew doesn’t say that these sheep ever came to faith in Jesus Christ, even through their experiences during the Wrath of God! It only says . . .

. . . in order to be selected, they must have been merciful to Jesus’ brothers and have not taken the Mark of the Beast.

(Modern translations say ‘brothers and sisters’ or ‘brethren.’)

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-12-3/

For important notes on Jesus Christ’s Selection Process, see:

21. Who are Jesus’ Brothers?

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/12/21-jesusbrothers/

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Regarding gender, females are included:

Galatians 3:28, There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. So, being Jesus’ brother must really mean being in Him, of His spiritual family, part of His body.

Compare this to the fact that the bride-of-Christ is made up of all mature, repentant believers in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, regardless of whether they’re male or female.

I hope no one will allow Satan to make ‘gender’ a false stumbling block to their salvation.

It’s may also be useful to take into account that Hebrew words have no capital letters, and the Hebrew word ‘adam’ meant ‘humankind or mankind’ even before God gave the name ‘Adam’ to the individual male who He set apart into the Garden of Eden.

If gender is a big issue for any reader, just know that most languages have historically used the masculine gender as the default when talking about people groups that contain both genders. It’s not Bible specific.

Take heart, God said this in the general ‘sixth day’ creation passages:

“So God created mankind in His own likeness, in the likeness of God He created them; male and female He created them. God blessed them ….”

Genesis 1: 27-28

Gender details would be too distracting to get into . . .

. . . such as the fall of Adam and its effects on all his descendants, including us, because of God’s subsequent curse on satan and both genders. HAVE FAITH that we’ll witness the true beauty of God’s plan for marriage, and the meaning of gender roles when He returns.

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The 10 Lost Tribes and Kingdom Sheep

I mentioned above that they’d been scattered among the nations, but who are they?

They’re the tribes of the House of Israel, the Northern Kingdom after King David’s cruel grandson caused the kingdom to be divided.

The Bible frequently refers to them as Ephraim, the name of the dominant tribe.

But. one of the tribes, Dan, seems to have ceased to exist. Dan is the tribe that’s left out of the 144,000 individual sons of Jacob who were sealed on their foreheads with the names of God the Father and the Son, after Jesus broke the sixth seal of the scroll of the Deed to the Earth. (Rev. 7:4-8) From the beginning, Dan didn’t hold on to the land inheritance that God Almighty gave them. They were drawn to a place called the ‘gates of hell’ at the foot of Mt. Hermon. The fallen angels had once descended onto the top of that mountain. It’s only speculation, but they may have sacrificed all their children to Baal and/or corrupted their own DNA with something nonhuman.

Ephraim was the younger of the two sons of Joseph:

Genesis 48:19, “… his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”

Hosea 7:8, “Ephraim mixes with the nations”

Hosea 9:17, “My God will reject them (Ephraim) because they’ve not obeyed him – they will be wanderers among the nations.”

Joseph’s only wife was Egyptian:

Joseph’s only sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, ended up being adopted by Jacob, elevating their status to heads of ‘the tribes of Israel.’ (If we include Levi, who’s the ‘set apart’ priestly tribe, there were 13 tribes until Dan disappeared.) Ephraim and Manasseh replaced Joseph, in name only, for a long while. It was a blessing to Joseph in posterity, because he fathered a double tribe. But, in Rev. 7:8, Joseph’s name returns. It replaces Ephraim’s tribe in name!

Since ‘Joseph’ was the foreshadow of the suffering Messiah, and His gentile bride. And Ephraim is the main tribe that mixed with the gentile nations – from whom many individuals were later redeemed by the grace of Jesus Christ, it’s beyond very interesting! Goose bumps! But, even from among those of ‘Ephraim’ who never followed Jesus, there will be many included among the sheep. To the best of my understanding, they’re a special category of sheep who will enter Jesus Christ’s kingdom in shame, because they were the ones who were accountable – They should have known better.

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It’s my understanding that they, and perhaps all the sheep, will have to follow the Old Covenant Law since they were not saved by faith, but only by God’s Almighty’s great mercy and His fidelity to the promises He made to Abraham.

It’s not necessary to be descended from Ephraim to be one of the ‘select,’

a sheep.

In order to be selected as a sheep, one must have been merciful to Jesus’ brothers and not have taken the Mark of the Beast.

Jeremiah 31

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031&version=NIV

That’s is a very long Bible chapter, but it’s beautiful. It contains all or at least many of the promises of God to restore Ephraim.

Will there be any from the Southern Kingdom the House of Judah among the sheep?

I think so, because even though there would’ve already been a Good Grape Harvest of Jews, in which many saved Jews will have been taken to heaven with Jesus Christ’s to meet YHWH! Hallelujah! I think what happens after the good grape harvest is completed, is that there will be a diehard group of Jews who thought they could fight the abomination of desolation on their own; These won’t flee to the mountains or be martyred. But, somehow they’ll resist taking the Mark of the Beast. At the last instant, before sure defeat and assimilation into the Beast, they’ll call on the name of Jesus Christ!

Instantly, their Savior appears to them overhead, the sky is filled with His Greatest Glory! He’s accompanied by millions of faithful saints who love Him and myriads of holy angels!

Mighty to Save!

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Next

21.Jesus’ Brothers

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/12/21-jesusbrothers/

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