4/9/2008 - CHRISTIAN STOP DAMNING. part 3

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 divideth his sheep from the goats.

And He shall set the sheep on His right hand but the goats on the left. 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. For I was an hungered 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 to Me."

Then the righteous shall anwer Him saying, "Lord when saw we Thee an 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? Or when saw we Thee sick or in prison and came to Thee."
And the King shall answer and say unto them, " verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these My brethren ye did it unto Me." Matthews gospel chapter 25 and verses 31-40

We have here set before us the scene of judgement day, we have the Lord and His holy angels or saints, which has the same meaning in the original language of the scripture.
We know from scripture that when the Lord comes to judge the world with equity He will bring us with Him, those who have joined Him in the regeneration during this gospel age do not come into judgement because they have already accepted God's righteous judgement of sin, that it deserves death and have trusted themselves to the Saviour in that He has been judged and put to death for them in their place, how then can they be judged when Jesus has already been judged for them.
That poses a serious problem of interpretation for this scripture namely who are then the righteous sheep?
We have the Lord, the King and His saints "these My brethren" and the sheep on His right hand and the goats at the left who are both judged according to how they have treated God's people "these my brethren" the sheep are judged favourably and the goats unfavourably.
Notice that Jesus in addressing the righteous sheep says "come blest of MY Father" it is not your Father, notice also the lack of any recognition or kinship between them and the Lord or the saints "these MY brethren.
As in the parable of the wise and unwise virgins there are three distinct groups of people, the church, the wise/righteous and the foolish/unrighteous.

WHAT I BELIEVE.
I believe in the millenial age, the thousand year reign of Christ with His saints who are His co-heirs in the kingdom of heaven on earth. This thousand year reign will take place after the tribulation and the coming of anti-christ, his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent destruction, the rapture having taken place sometime during or after the tribulation, Satan will be chained and imprisoned during the millenium, then after the thousand year reign of Christ in His triumph as opposed to His reign now in His humiliation, Satan will be loosed for a short period  to attempt to decieve the nations once more culminating in the great and final battle between good and evil.
After Satan has been defeated and consigned to his place of eternal abode will come the last and final judgement after the second resurrection.

WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?

That there is another world age to come after this gospel age, the millenium or the thousand year reign of  Christ with His saints on earth 
The saints of all the ages will join Christ as co-heirs of the kingdom of heaven on earth. The righteous sheep and the wise virgins of the parables are I believe the meek whom Jesus said would inherit the earth. It will be an earth released from the bondage of decay and death which was brought upon it by sin.