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As to Matt 25, why not just wait until after the thousand years to judge the goats and sentence them? Why do that at the beginning and not at the great white throne judgment after the thousand years instead? Or do you perhaps think they will be at that judgment also, which would mean they are judged and sentenced for the same things twice?
When our Lord Jesus returns, His separating the goats from His sheep is a type of judgment, but it is not the GWT Judgment. The purpose of the Matt.25 separation is for the same reason the dead are separated, like the Paradise account our Lord Jesus gave in Luke 16. In Rev.22:14-15, which is Millennial timing, we can clearly see that separation there also. So it's not our Lord Jesus didn't show us this; we just have to stop and think about it in conjunction with the various Scriptures He gave us for that future time, including what's written in the OT prophets.
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
As can be seen via the first two verses, there can't be the new Jerusalem without there also being the new heavens and new earth, and vise-versa. Revelation 22:2 indicates---In the midst of the street of it. In the midst of the street of where? In the midst of the city new Jerusalem, where one can't have the new Jerusalem existing apart from the new heavens and new earth.
I agree the order of events in Rev.21 & 22 can be confusing. But just the fact that our Lord Jesus gave the event of Rev.22:14-15 with the wicked being outside the gates of the holy city shows that section of Rev.22 is Millennial timing, and not new heavens and new earth timing. Likewise in Ezekiel 47, the River and tree of life is manifest, but it's Millennial timing because the waters flow out of a temple or sanctuary.
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