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To: Arthur McGowan

The goats and sheep were already separated.


13 posted on 11/18/2014 12:33:10 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa; Arthur McGowan
The goats and sheep were already separated.

I was going to point that out also.

Disappointing that someone who claims to be a priest would not make this distinction clear.

More cherry picking from Rome I guess.

15 posted on 11/18/2014 5:27:54 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Raycpa
The goats and sheep were already separated.

The text does not say that. The sheep and goats are the nations (goyim/Gentiles), all gathered before him, and He shall separate them and explain why each is being separated. Works of righteousness or unrighteousness are first and foremost in this text.

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:

    Look at the other teaching in Matthew 25
  1. The ten virgins are all supposed to meet the bridegroom. Five were foolish and took no oil with them. It seems to me many misread this text to equate oil with the Holy Spirit. I would focus more on Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. in light of this warning.
    And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

    The LORD Jesus warns us over and over and over again in so many portions of scripture.
  2. The parable of the talents is also about works of righteousness, and one servant of the Master refused to work, or submit his talent to a broker who could have invested it and given that servant interest.
  3. The sheep and goats are about works of righteousness or unrighteousness. Faith is not even mentioned. James walked with, and learned from Messiah. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

19 posted on 11/18/2014 8:23:43 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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