Who are the sheep in Matthew 25 and what role do they have in the Kingdom?
The Matthew 25 sheep are the believers among the few who survive the tribulation. They enter the Kingdom and become the parents of the children described in Isaiah 11, populating the earth during Christ's perfect rule, where there is no death, sickness, curse, or Satan.
Les teaches that during the tribulation most people lose their lives, but a few survive. Of those survivors, Matthew 25 separates the sheep and goats. The sheep are the believers among that few. They come into the Kingdom and become the parents of the children seen in Isaiah chapter 11. In that Kingdom there will be no death, no sickness, no curse, and no Satan; Christ will be in total control, a perfectly perfect rule and government, so there will be a tremendous population explosion. Les also points out that a mountain in the Old Testament especially means a Kingdom, so Isaiah 11:9's holy mountain will have no hurting or destroying and no death to speak of, because the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the water covers the sea.
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Why were the goats condemned in the Matthew 25 sheep-and-goats judgment?
The goats' real problem in Matthew 25 was that they did not believe the message; because they rejected it, they had no concern for the messengers' physical needs.