Soar Like and Eagle
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Is a lamb of God a baby goat that eats grass? Or how about God's fire is it physical fire or something very spiritual like cloven tongues of fire on the first day of Pentecost.
So what? The example in Matthew 25 is a goat are also clean as a sheep and both acceptable unto God. Jesus was speaking of goat believers not the law of Moses as a legal law. he was using them as a sample as say it. because of their stubborn nature (most everyone knows that goats are stubborn creature, indicative of pride (which God hates) this is true but they are clean. A pig would be an UNclean animal that would be the loss. If Jesus was going to separate the sheep his true believers from the loss it would of been a PIG. Ask any Jew. This is spiritual language you do not have eyes to see.So what? The significance of the goat being "clean" was that it was "legal" for the Jews of the Old Testament to eat it (clean animals were for food, unclean was not to be eaten). The word "goat" is used to represent people by Jesus (true believers were referred to by Jesus as "sheep") because of their stubborn nature (most everyone knows that goats are stubborn creature, indicative of pride (which God hates) in human beings) and thus would be allowed into heaven. Why do they need to be "separated" if they all are going in?
There you go again, accusing others of doing the exact same thing that you are doing. Did you not
damn" me (use Peter 2:11) in your previous post. That is just unsubstantiated non-biblical interpretation. Jesus gives us the correct interpretation His "parable of the sheep and the goats" and gives us a full explanation:
Matthew 25:33-45(KJV) And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
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:
35 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:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
They didn't understand what He meant and didn't realize that they had did these things but Jesus answered:
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Who are these on the left? They are the ones who are described as"goats"
42 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
The goats did the exact opposite of the sheep, they did nothing to help their fellow man (believers) who were in need.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Now the goats are concerned and ask if they had ministered to Him, but what Jesus is concerned with, did they help their fellow man? And the answer is no.
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
God expects us as believers to help other believers and not just sing praises to Him.
The Bible is also the bread of life and the Bible is the Water of the word which cleanses us. Jesus, the Word (Logos) made flesh is the bread of life (6:35, 6:48-51).
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