Why don't you break Matthew 25:31-46 down to show me exactly how you interpret it. Less opinions and more scripture. Why should I believe anything you say unless you show the scripture itself and how exactly you interpret it? Who do you believe the sheep represent? Who do you believe the goats represent?
The only thing to break down is the Second Coming. The Trumpets in Revelation is the separation of the sheep and goats. The first sealing of the 144k Jews is the firstfruits of the sheep. That is all we know. They are living humans, though, not dead ones. Are the Trumpets and the way they are portrayed in Revelation supposed to mean something? The Trumpets sounding are about a third of life being destroyed. A third of angels follow Satan is historical. That the 5th Trumpet opens the pit and let them loose goes along with the one third theme. Do Jews themselves make up a third of humanity? If you were to divide humanity between the lost, the saved, and the Jews would humanity be evenly broken into 3 equal parts? If currently 25% of the world is the church and the church was taken out, what 3 equal groups would be left in the other 3 quarters? If you removed all the Jews would there still be half the world left? I do not think that Jesus specifies in Matthew what part of the discussion is the church. Nor do I think that the 25% in Revelation 6 is only the church.
Why is the Bible anywhere not specific about the church? I mean Paul says some will be alive, that is true, but not specific. Can some in the church fall out in apostasy so much, that none are left? Can Apostasy determine one's salvation? The other direction is a last minute revival and billions turn to Christ. Not just a social feel good carnel enlightenment. Full repentance in sackcloth and ashes. The rapture would skew any attempt to be just 25% death rate, and the rapture is not viewed as death by most here anyways. Paul calls it changed, not death and resurrection in midair. So the challenge is the rapture skews the numbers either way, and just leaves us with a lower population count to split up into a quarter, and a third and then what ever the Thunders take away and leave behind. The 4th seal is death, and if that relates to one taken and one left that is a 50% ratio. If there is a revival that would make sense, because more would be taken away in Christ. But the one taken and the other left could be about the Thunders and the wheat being separated from the tares. That would be your 50% ratio. That still leaves a quarter of humanity left. If there is revival, then very few will be left. If Apostasy leaves many behind, then billions could be left for Satan to have for 42 months. But I think the Trumpets are splitting the Jews into two groups, some Jews will be left as goats depending on their works. If you agree with Jesus that it is works, even though not part of a Law, that is just how God deals with the Jews. They manifest the works of God on earth and yet not part of the church. Many in the OT more than likely kept the Law, but like the rich young ruler rejected the Holy Spirit and were never sent to Abraham's bosom. So while the Law was an outward show of things, God still had a church that was of the heart, and not the Law.
Many Jews may die in the 4th Seal. Many Jews will leave in the rapture. Yet Jesus is addressing the Jews in Matthew 24 and 25 and they will be split between some will be sheep, and some will be goats. It is definitely not between lost and saved, nor is it between Gentile and Jews. Jesus was not addressing the church, nor Gentiles in Matthew 24 and 25. Many Jews will die, maybe 50%. Some will be raptured, perhaps a quarter of the remaining. Perhaps only a third will be sheep, or perhaps a third will be goats clarified in Revelation with the Trumpets, showing us the goats are a third of the Jews who will die and enter eternal damnation, Death. When the Thunders start, only Gentiles and the Nations will be left to harvest. The wheat and the tares, and we still cannot know how many are still left alive.
I know you did not want commentary. There is only two things in those verses. The Second Coming. Jews as sheep and goats being separated has nothing whatsoever to do with the church, because the reason is two fold. God chooses them, and neither the goats nor sheep were aware of why they were even chosen. They did not do "to the least of these" intentionally to be chosen. If some today try to preach that Gospel it would not work. For one the Gospel to preach is one of Atonement because of the Cross, and there is no plan b Gospel. Jews will just be doing what they naturally do. This separation is not based on the Atonement or that would be what Christ used to qualify the separation. Only works were used and not even intentional works based on an end days Gospel.
Now some may disagree and say teaching them would be a good thing. No plan b is a good thing. This is not a plan b scenario. Application of doing good to the least of these should just be the human moral decency of current times we live in. At least in modern democratic leaning nations, where people for the most part are allowed to govern themselves. In a dictatorship people still have to have human decency to even survive at least those who have not sold out to the leader and become part of the oppression.
I do not see how any can apply Matthew 24 and 25 to the church. Neither to the Gentiles. The only connection is the Second Coming and God and the Lamb are coming to earth and they will deal directly with the Jews alive and living on the earth. Paul says the church leaves at the Second Coming. He did not say the Jews or Israel. He was talking about those in Christ, not the Jews chosen by God as God's earthly Kingdom people. Jews exist in most every nation. Jews are the bridesmaids. Now a Jew can be a Christian and part of the church, but they are then in Paradise at the Second Coming, not part of the sheep and goat judgment. But either a third of those living (after the SecondComing) are Jews, or a third of the living Jews are goats. The other point is the rapture will effect the overall population count, not reduce the world's population by 25%. The 4th Seal is the tribulation of those days, and covers Matthew 24:4-29. A war that includes famine, a plague, and wild animals, will be a tribulation like nothing else up to that point. Especially when 25% of the population dies.
