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104 JESUS IS COMING.

judgment of the servants occurs before the judgment of
the nations. Mat. 25:31-46. See also 1 Pet. 4:17-18. 25
II. The Judgment of the living nations, who are upon
the earth at the Revelation. Jesus is Judge of the quick
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(or living) and dead.
The Church or Saints, having been before caught up in
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the Rapture, come with Christ to execute judgment upon
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the world or living nations. This is the judgment of the
quick, or those who are living upon the earth, when Christ
comes at the Revelation. He separates the sheep from the
goats, gathering out all things that doth offend (Mat. 13:
41-42), and sets up His kingdom (verse 43). The third
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party, His brethren, are the Israelites, who are never to
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be reckoned among the nations.
Then follows the Millennium, which is one continuous
day of Judgment (Acts 17:31), when the righteous Judge
will be upon earth (2 Tim. 4:8), and when judgment shall
(25) 1 Pet. 4:17. For the 42. And shall cast them into
time is come that judgment must a furnace of fire : there shall be
begin at the house of God : and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
if it first begin at us, what shall 43. Then shall the
the end \>e of them that obey righteous
hot the gospel of God? shine forth as the sun in the
kingdom of their Father. Who
(26) Acts 10:42. And he hath ears to hear, let him hear.
commanded us to preach unto
the people, and to testify that it (29) Psa. 122 :8. For my
is he which was ordained of God brethren and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace
to te the Judge of quick and lie within
dead. thee.
Also 2 Tim. 4 :1 ; 1 Pet. 4:5. (30) Num. 23 :7. And he took
(27) 1 Cor. 6:2. Do ye not up his parable and said, Balak
know that the saints shall judge the king of Moab hath brought
me from Aram, out of the moun-
the world? and if the world shall
be judged by you, are ye un- tains of the east, saying, Come,
worthy to judge the smallest curse me Jacob, and come, defy
matters ? Israel.
8. How curse, whom
Alsb Jude 14-15. shall I
God hath not cursed? or how
(28) Mat. 13:40. As there-
fore the tares are gathered and shall I defy, whom the Lord hath
not defied?
burned in the fire ; so shall it
be in the end of this world. 9. For from the top of the
41. The Son of man shall send rocks I see him, and from the
forth his angels, and they shall hills I behold him : lo, the peo-
gather out of his kingdom all ple shall dwell alone, and shall
things that offend, and them not be reckoned among the na-
Which do iniquity tions.
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