If the translation takes place after the tribulation, the question facing the posttribulationists is a very obvious one: Who is going to populate the earth during the millennium? The Scriptures are specific that, during the millennium, saints will build houses and bear children and have normal, mortal lives on earth. If all believers are translated and all unbelievers are put to death, there will be no one left to populate the earth and fulfill these Scriptures.
The separation of Matthew 25 is similar to that of Ezekiel 20. The unbelievers, described as the goats, are cast into everlasting fire by means of physical death, whereas the sheep enter the kingdom prepared for themthe millennial kingdom. While the judgment in Matthew 25, as in Ezekiel 20, is based on outward works, it is true here as elsewhere in Scripture that works are taken as evidence of salvation. The good works of the sheep in befriending the brethren (the Jewish people) is an act of kindness which no one but a believer in Christ would perform during the tribulation when Christian as well as Jew is hated by all the world.
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I am definitely going have to get his books.
Wm,
I suggest that with each article you post, you also include a running list of previous article links. It would be a great resource...
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AMPU
Right On!
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