Only believing survivors of the tribulation—both Gentile and Jewish—will enter the earthly kingdom.
According to Les Feldick, survivors from every nation will be gathered before Christ at His second coming. Those who believed the message of the 144,000 will enter the kingdom as believing seed stock; those who rejected it will be removed. No unbeliever can enter, because the kingdom begins with a generation of believers.
Zechariah 14:4 — Shows the Lord's physical return to the Mount of Olives, which begins the events surrounding His kingdom on earth.
Matthew 25:31 — Jesus describes His second coming and His throne of glory, immediately before the sheep and goat separation.
Zechariah 14:3–4 says the LORD will go forth and fight against the nations that are gathered against Jerusalem, and His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives. This is the context of the Lord's literal, physical return. In Matthew 25:31–34, Jesus says that when He comes in His glory with all His holy angels, He will sit on the throne of His glory, gather all nations before Him, and separate them as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. The King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Matthew 24:15 speaks of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, a sign that Jesus gives for the tribulation period. John 3:3 states plainly that unless a person is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Les Feldick teaches that after the final bowl judgment of the tribulation, survivors will remain in every nation under heaven—some saved, some lost. Those who heard the gospel proclaimed by the 144,000 and believed will be ready for the kingdom; those who rejected it will be removed. He connects this to the sheep and goat judgment of Matthew 25, where the believing survivors are invited to enter the kingdom and the unbelieving survivors are taken away. Les emphasizes that no unbeliever will go into the kingdom, because Satan will be locked up and the kingdom starts with a generation of believing parents.
Les Feldick explains that tribulation believers who are martyred are not members of the Body of Christ, because the church has already been raptured. He places them with Old Testament believers in a resurrection that takes place after the tribulation. They are not the same group as the survivors who enter the earthly kingdom in living bodies.
No. Les Feldick is careful to say that the sheep and goat judgment in Matthew 25 is all about Gentiles; there are no Jews involved. Jewish survivors are the remnant of Israel that fled to the mountains southeast of Jerusalem at the midpoint of the tribulation, and they become the nation of Israel in the kingdom.
Les teaches that the 144,000 preach the gospel during the tribulation. Survivors from every nation who believe their message are the believers who are ready for the kingdom; survivors who reject it are removed from the scene. This makes the 144,000 the human instrument through which the believing Gentile survivors are prepared for the earthly kingdom.
No. Les states repeatedly that no unbeliever can go into the kingdom. The tribunal of Matthew 25 separates the sheep from the goats, and only those who are born again can enter. The kingdom begins with a generation of parents who are believers, so there is no room for anyone who has rejected the gospel.
The Second Coming to the Mount of Olives
Les teaches that Zechariah 14 places the Lord's literal, physical return on the Mount of Olives, the same place He ascended, and that this is the setting for His coming kingdom.
Survivors in Every Nation
Les teaches that after the bowl judgments there will be survivors in every nation, both saved and lost, and that the saved survivors are brought into the Matthew 25 judgment to enter the kingdom.
No Unbelievers Enter the Kingdom
Les explains that God gathers all the surviving nations before the Son of Man in Matthew 25, where He separates them; only believers are permitted into the kingdom because no unbeliever can go in.
Gentile Seed Stock for the Kingdom
Les teaches that among the survivors at the end of the seven years, the Gentiles who believed the message of the 144,000 will be the seed stock for the Gentile nations in the kingdom.
Only Believers Can Enter
Les points to Matthew 24:15 and the midpoint defilement of the temple, and he repeats that only believers can go into the kingdom—no one else.
Sheep and Goats Are Gentiles
Les teaches that the Matthew 25 separation of sheep from goats is a Gentile judgment, with no Jews involved, and that the believing survivors enter while the rejecting survivors are removed.
Generating the Kingdom Population
Les teaches that the righteous enter life eternal and begin it in the kingdom, becoming a small seed stock from every nation alongside the Jewish remnant.
Tribulation Martyrs and Resurrection
Les teaches that tribulation believers who are martyred are not in the Body of Christ; he places them with Old Testament believers in a resurrection after the tribulation, distinct from the living survivors who enter the kingdom.
Zechariah 14:3: Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
The Lord fights the gathered nations before His kingdom is established on earth.
Zechariah 14:4: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
This verse locates the Lord's literal, physical return at the Mount of Olives, immediately before His reign.
Matthew 24:15: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Jesus gives the tribulation sign that precedes the flight of the Jewish remnant.
Matthew 25:31: When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Jesus describes His throne of glory at the second coming, just before the nations are gathered.
Matthew 25:32: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
This verse is the basis for the separation of believing survivors from unbelievers.
Matthew 25:34: 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:
The believing survivors are invited to inherit the earthly kingdom prepared for them.
John 3:3: Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jesus Himself states that new birth is required to enter God's kingdom.
No. Les Feldick teaches from Matthew 25 that all surviving nations will be gathered before Christ and separated as sheep and goats. Only those who became believers through the tribulation witness will enter the kingdom; everyone who rejected the gospel will be removed.
No. According to Les Feldick, the sheep and goat judgment of Matthew 25 is exclusively for Gentiles. The Jewish survivors are the remnant of Israel that fled to the mountains southeast of Jerusalem at the midpoint of the tribulation, and they become the nation of Israel in the kingdom.
Les teaches that the 144,000 preach the gospel during the tribulation. The Gentile survivors who believe their message are the saved survivors who go into the kingdom as the seed stock of the Gentile nations.
Les Feldick teaches that tribulation believers who are martyred are not part of the Body of Christ. He places them with Old Testament believers in a resurrection that occurs after the tribulation, not in the same company as the rapture of the church.
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