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In the bible, Christ referred to
Sheep and Goats.
As with many things the tendency
has been to think that Christ was just using picturesque language
in order to make a point.
The reality is that like every
thing which Christ said, these were deep profound statements.
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:
Matthew 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left.
We need to understand that sheep
and goats are two distinct species,
which is defined in the book of
Genesis as kinds.
Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
The Eternal designed the barrier
of species to restrict one type of animal to that specific kind.
If that were not done then there
would be utter bizarre confusion, with very strange
cross breeding.
While sheep and goats have many similarities,
Here are some differences between sheep and
goats.
they are two distinct species and genus.
Sheep (Ovis Aries) have 54 chromosomes,
while goats (Capra Hircus) have 60.
Fertile sheep-goat hybrids are rare.
Hybrids made in the laboratory are called chimeras.
A goat's tail will go up (unless the goat is
frightened, sick, or in distress).
Sheep tails hang down.
Sheep bleat Ba Ba,
Goats bleat Ma Ma.
Goats are natural browsers,
preferring to eat leaves, twigs, vines, and shrubs.
They are very agile and will stand on their hind
legs to eat vegetation.
Sheep are grazers,
preferring to eat short, tender grass and clover.
Most goats have hair coats that
do not require shearing or combing.
Most sheep grow wool and need to
be sheared annually.
The reason for
giving this detail is to show that goats are born goats,
and they can
never become sheep.
Sheep are born
sheep, and they can never become goats.
They are similar
but different species.
Independent Flock Mentality
Information
and pictures from www.sheep101.info
Christ
always referred to His people as sheep.
He
never once referred to them as goats.
Christ
said that he was sent to the sheep not the goats.
He
also sent His disciples to the sheep.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said,
I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Christ
also referred to Himself as the good shepherd, and further more we are told
that He gave His life for the sheep but not the goats.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
We
can see from these various references that there is something very wrong with
goats.
We
see from the following that goats are destined for the lake of fire just like
Satan,
his angels, the false prophet and the anti-christ.
It
does not seem as if the lake of fire was made for the sheep.
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, (The goats),
Depart
from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels:
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire
and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are,
and
shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
The goats
were cursed because they were goats.
Exactly
who are the goats?
The
goats are the offspring of Satan.
Many
people are not aware that Satan has offspring, but he has.
We
see this right in the book of beginnings in the bible, Genesis.
Septuagint
Genesis 3:15 (3:16) And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman
and between thy seed (Satan’s Offspring) and her
seed, ( Eve’s Offspring),
he shall watch against thy head,
and thou shalt watch against his heel.
02233
erz zera‘ zeh’- rah – seed.
from 02232;
TWOT-582a; n m
1d)
offspring, descendants, posterity, children.
Not
only do we see that Satan has offspring as mentioned in Genesis,
but
Christ, Himself said so.
John 8:44 Ye are of your
father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He
was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because
there is no truth in him.
When
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
Christ
was clearly saying that some of those confronting Him were the offspring of
Satan.
This
is not just descriptive language, but rather a statement of fact.
Just
like the tares and wheat, the sheep and goats grow up and live together,
and
it is quite impossible to know who is a sheep and who is a goat by appearance,
just
as it is impossible to separate the wheat from the poisonous similar looking
tares
until
harvest time.
Matthew 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The
kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him,
Sir,
didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said
unto him,
Wilt
thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up
also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest
I
will say to the reapers,
Gather
ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them:
but
gather the wheat into my barn.
The big
difference between the sheep and goats is that the sheep hear the voice
of
their shepherd while the goats do not, because they do not belong to the
shepherd.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Who are the sheep?
I believe that the sheep are none other than the sons
of God mentioned in Job 38:6
quoted below.
I believe that they were rejoicing because of the
implementation of this awesome plan
of God to send them to the earth to do just what Adam
was later told to do.
There
are two situations of deafness, there are goats who do not hear the voice
of
the shepherd, because they do not belong to him in the first place,
and
there are rebellious sheep who refuse to hear,
and
to obey the voice of their shepherd.
We
also need to realise that sheep are sometimes also part of the problem.
They
are not blameless.
Whereas
the previous verses of Ezekiel addresses the unfaithful shepherds,
these
verses are addressed to the sheep.
Ezekiel 34:19 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with
your feet;
and
they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I,
will
judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with
shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns,
till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they
shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle
and cattle.
The evil
shepherds, in fact act as goats, and use misguided sheep
to
seriously damage and even police the flock.
The
false shepherd uses sheep to control, and destroy the flock while at the same
time
deceiving
those firmly in his control by making them believe that they are doing God’s
will,
and
tell them they are in fact protecting the flock.
They
erroneously believe and even seek the disfellowshipping of members whose eyes
have
been opened and who are now speaking the truth,
thinking
that this somehow protects the flock.
The
deceived sheep fail to understand that being a part of the body of Christ
is an
activity of the Eternal God, and only He can either add or remove some
one
from the body. The way they act is an abuse of scripture which they manipulate
to
suit their wicked purposes.
It is
strictly the Eternal’s decision and His alone who comes and who goes.
Pride,
arrogance and the whim of a shepherd goat cannot do this.
Threatening
words and preventing people from attending meetings has no effect
in the
spirit realm. Often it does a favour as the cast out one is often removed
from
a corrupt church.
All
it does is forces those being persecuted to ‘Come out of Babylon’,
as we
are all admonished to do in Revelation
18:4.
As
mentioned above sheep have a flocking mentality.
If a
sheep has found or makes a hole through a fencing hedge,
and
goes through it many of the flock will follow that sheep into another field
where
they
should not be.
Very
recently to the horror of the watching shepherds one sheep went over a cliff,
and
the rest of the flock, over a thousands strong promptly followed that sheep
over
the cliff.
Goats
are born goats and sheep are born sheep.
There
is never a time when goats become sheep and sheep become goats.
Absolutely
nowhere are we told that Christ died for the goats.
Let
us look at what happened at the time the world was created.
We
see Job asked some questions by the Eternal.
One
of these questions gives an astounding revelation.
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened?
or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
We see that at the time the earth was
being created, eons before Adam and Eve,
the morning stars, which scripture shows
are angels, were present.
Here is one such reference showing that
stars often represent angels.
Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which
thou sawest in my right hand,
and the seven golden candlesticks. The
seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: a
and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the
seven churches.
We also see that there was another group,
which was distinct from the angels.
These were ALL the
sons of God.
The conjunction and links these two groups together.
It is my belief that these sons of God are
the sheep, who were spirit beings, and not yet
come to the earth as physical people.
The reasons for this claim are as follows.
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world,
that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love:
The Eternal said of Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the
belly I knew thee;
and before thou camest forth out of the
womb
I sanctified thee, and
I ordained thee a
prophet unto the nations.
The words used here are not the Eternal
looking into the future.
We are told past tense, I
knew you.
In order to know someone you have to see
them and be with them.
Until you do that you cannot claim to know
them, however much you might have heard
or read about them.
According to Paul we see that from the
beginning some, I believe these to be sheep
have been chosen to salvation.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ¶ But we are bound to give thanks alway to God
for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God
hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth:
Now we can see how in the epistle to the
Romans Paul speaks about predestination.
Romans 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called:
and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
From this it appears that these sons of God,
as spirit beings agreed to come to earth
as people. Our experience tells us that
all knowledge of the past has been wiped from them/us
when they/we were born on earth.
I believe that the huge difference between
the fallen angels also called sons of God, which we read
about in Genesis 6 is that the Fallen angels as it were wanted to short circuit the system
and retain all their knowledge and power.
This is my opinion and what I believe
for the reasons stated.
Goats are goats however, they arrive on the
earth.
The wicked ‘goats’ are evil from birth not
from when they reach the age of reason.
There are several possible ways in which
goats can arrive on the earth and different
people have different ideas. I expect that
many of them are possible.
We are clearly told that Cain was of the
evil one.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
And wherefore slew he him?
Because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous.
Weymouth translation puts it like this.
1 John 3:12 We are not to resemble Cain, who was
a child of the Evil one
and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him?
Because his own actions were wicked and his brother’s
actions righteous.
This raises all sorts of questions.
It can be reasoned that a wrong sexual relationship by
Satan, the serpent, appearing
as a person, with Eve, brought Cain into being.
Cain clearly had the traits of Satan lying and murder
like his father, who we were told
was a murderer and a liar from the beginning and not
like Adam at all.
As was stated in John 8:44 quoted
above.
In Genesis 3:1 we are told once
that Adam knew his wife, but she brought forth
two children Cain and Abel. This something that
happens from time to time
according to my research a woman can give birth to two
children from different
fathers around the same time, like twins.
The other point is that it seems likely that there was
a sin which involved sex in some
way therefore they both choose to cover their
nakedness with leaves.
I do not believe that it was a simple thing like
eating a wrong fruit.
It was much more serious and catastrophic than that.
The Tree of Life was Christ and the tree of death was
actually Satan.
An illicit relationship which would completely destroy
God’s plan before it even
got off the ground seems most probably.
I believe that it is also relevant that before Adam
and Eve sinned they were told.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and
his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
No sooner than they were told this they disobeyed
their Father.
This pattern follows today.
If you see the Eternal say do or do not do something,
we can be sure that we are
doing the exact opposite thing.
As Adam and Eve were the only people in the garden,
and they were husband and wife,
there was no need for them to be ashamed and clothed.
At first they were neither clothed or ashamed.
I do believe that it is very relevant to the whole
story.
I am simply stating that I can see this is a
possibility.
In any case, however, the goats arrive
into the world they are evil from birth.
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb:
they go astray as soon
as they be born, speaking lies.
This is quite a staggering statement.
We are not told that when children reach
the age of reason then they become wicked,
but rather the wicked are born wicked, and
they go astray from birth even to the point
of speaking lies.
From what we are saying, we can see that
those who do not believe that there is a spirit
in man, quite apart from the breath in
man, it is impossible for them to even begin
to contemplate what we are saying.
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is
in me, and the spirit of God is
in my nostrils;
Once again we see the conjunction and joining
two different things, breath and spirit.
They are two entirely different things, similar in
once sense, that they are invisible,
but profoundly different.
See separate document
The
Spirit In Man
I believe that a complete system was set
up for the introduction of the sheep,
sons of God to come into the world.
There was a process which had to be
followed.
It was not a haphazard operation.
It included blanking out the memory of the
past, therefore once on earth
these spirits now in flesh would have no
idea who they were previously.
If is for this reason that the previous
scriptures were quoted.
Therefore although we/they existed
previously we/they actually have no knowledge of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with
reincarnation as our documents clearly explain.
We do not believe in reincarnation and
have written documents disproving it.
We are not proposing a constant process of
being reborn until we achieve some perfection.
We are simply saying what we believe to be
our origin.
I believe that in the bible we are told of
several instances when Satan and his rebellious
fallen angel followers, tried to short
circuit the system.
It is more than likely that this also
occurred before Adam.
They did not want to lose their previous
power and status, but they wanted to be
intimate with human beings.
See our document Days of Noah.
We can deal with the Days of Noah as it is
recorded for us.
The created sons of God went against the
law governing species and had illegal
sexual relationships with the pretty human
women which resulted in bastard Nephilim offspring,
or giants, as it is often translated in Genesis Chapter
6, or which is even better translated
‘fallen ones’.
The fallen angels always knew who they
were, and they retained their powers which
were now been used against everything that
God planned.
It is more than likely that at the
creation of the earth, the stars, which we showed were
angels included Lucifer, and what became
his angel followers before they rebelled.
We are told that Lucifer wanted was to
become like the most high God.
He wanted to be number one.
He wanted to be a creator.
I also believe that he did create, but of
course he could never overthrow the Eternal God.
After all he was only a created being.
I believe that all the dinosaurs and
various types of creatures which evolutionists use
to promote their cause are Satan’s
attempts of creation.
From even the artists impressions we can
see what a terrible mess he made.
Eventually the entire lot was destroyed
and the earth covered by the waters of the deep,
which we read of in,
Genesis 1: 2
And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the
deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters.
The destruction was so complete that the
earth was not only covered in water,
but also in darkness, absolutely nothing
could survive.
Therefore what we read of in the rest in Genesis
chapter 1 is the recreation of the earth,
changing it from chaos and a grave,
a wasteland, to a planet of beauty and order.
That is what the Hebrew words for form,
void and deep mean.
We have seen the past history of the sheep
and goats prior to their coming
into existence on the earth.
We have seen how the Sons of God distinct
from the Fallen angels possibly fit in to the general plan.
We have seen the differences between the
sheep and goats when they came to the earth.
We have seen the end of the goats.
Often the sheep do not even know they are
sheep, but their shepherd knows them.
This is the reward of the sheep.
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:
35
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me
drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison,
and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungred,
and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee
drink?
38
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed
thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
As we have explained elsewhere, I believe
that the main application of this is during
the tribulation. The sheep had paid
attention to the everlasting gospel which is preached
at that time.
Revelation 14: 6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of
heaven,
having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the
earth, and to every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give
glory to him; for the hour of his judgment
is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains
of waters.
The sheep were rewarded by their shepherd,
and they did not even know they
were serving him. It is such a wonderful
thing.
I know that many churches believe that we
have to try to save the whole world.
I believe that we have to save the sheep.
The obvious problem for us is that as we
cannot determine who are sheep and
who are goats from appearance.
Therefore we have to cast our net wide and
not get upset
when we are blasphemously rejected,
because those who rejected us were most
likely goats. On the other hand neither
must we give up easily on people who might
be a bit stubborn and awkward. They might
just be sheep who have been abused
and thoroughly deceived.
All these circumstances need wisdom and
discernment, which we need to receive
from Christ.
We must remember that for the main part
the world systems are run by goats.
See The Prison.
However, there are sheep which will be found
in every area of life, in every church,
government office etc. etc.
Sometimes we will feel moved to pray for
certain individuals whom we might consider
to be goats, in fact it is possible that
they are actually sheep.
Therefore let us be careful and look for
the lost sheep wherever they might be found.
One day in the not too distant future all
the sheep will be gathered into one flock
with a faithful shepherd.
Under Christ we see that this faithful
shepherd is King David.
Ezekiel 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them,
and he shall feed them,
even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he
shall be their shepherd.
Ezekiel 37:24 And David my servant shall be king
over them; and they all shall have one shepherd:
they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them.
Let us all pray that this day comes
quickly.
The only way
out of our dilemmas is Jesus Christ.
He is the only way of escape.
Praise the Lord.
Come
soon Lord Jesus.
Amen.
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