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Originally Posted by Sean
In His 2nd coming to all mankind?
Right here(kinda frightening to the unsaved world huh?).....
Matt 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matt 25:31 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:....
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world
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Sean, are you aware that there will exist a time period of 1,000 years that MUST elapse between verses #31 and #32? If not, then you're stating that immediately after the Lord returns and is seated upon His throne of glory as King of Israel and all of the earth, that the separation of the wheat from the tares (that is, the good from the wicked) must begin. And that, my friend, will not be the thing which occurs!
Verses 32-34 discloses those events which will transpire AFTER the coming 1,000 year reign of Christ Jesus upon the earth has ended; AND AFTER Satan & his band have been released from confinement in the bottomless pit & have gathered ALL of wicked mankind at Meddigo for the great battle of Almighty God, that is, the battle known as Armegeddon, during which ALL of these forces of evil shall be destroyed by the "sword of His mouth" (that is, a word from the Lord Himself).
When these things are accomplished, and there remains NO "living" human flesh, then it will be that the 2nd resurrection takes place, followed immediately by His judgment of ALL nations, and the separation of the wheat and the tares occurs (that is, the good from the wicked).
Many make the mistake you've made in the reading of these passages from Matthew, just as they do with the words of
Hebrews 9:27 wherein we read: "And it is appointed unto men once to die, and the judgment." There exists a significant period of time which MUST elapse between the moment of the death of one's flesh and that future moment when they must stand before the judgment seat of Christ (a period of time that varies from one person to the next in relation to the coming of the Lord and their resurrection). The statement of
Hebrews 9:27, although true, does NOT mean that one appears before the judgment seat of Christ immediately following the death of their flesh.
Such as this is what is known as "rightly dividing the word of truth," and its something that I fear many simply fail to do!
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