Tuesday, 25-08-2020.
THE OLIVET DISCOURSE. Matt. 24, 25.
THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS…1 Matt. 25:31--46

The Lord Jesus Christ here concludes the answers to the questions asked by the disciples
Matt. 24:3, Mk. 13:3-4, Lk. 21:7 on these things, that is, the Temple and the City, the coming of
Christ as King, which to them will be the consummation and termination of the present age. The
Messiah would bring ‘the end of the world’, that is, the ‘close of this age’ and introduce the
coming age, the age of the Kingdom. The judgment of the nations by the King will terminate this
age and usher in a new age of the kingdom of the Messiah on the throne of David. The passage
obviously divides itself into v. 31-33, 34-40, 41-45, and 46.
1. Matt. 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”
a. ‘The son of man’ the Messiah as often in this discourse. Matt. 24:27, 30, 37, 39, 44.
He has long encouraged and revealed himself to his disciples as the Messiah
b. ‘Shall come in glory’ Matt. 16:27; 24:30-31,Rev. 19:11-14 “And I saw heaven opened
and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True…”
Ps. 50:3-6, Jude 1: 14-15, 2Thess. 1:6-9, Dan. 2:44-45; 7:13-14. In Act. 1:6-8, this
same Jesus you saw going to heaven will return in like manner. John said all eyes
will see Him Rev. 1:7.
c. ‘All his holy angels with him’ Rev. 19:14, Ps. 50: 4-5, Jude. 14-15 Zech. 14:4. “The
lord of Hosts, He is the king of glory” Ps. 24:10. The “hosts” are heavenly. The name
gathers into itself the idea of all divine or heavenly power as available for the need of
God’s people. Gen. 32:1-2, Is. 6:1-5, Lk. 2:13-15, 1kg. 22:19.

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d. The host of angelic army and all the redeemed, Christ’s army (2Tim. 2:3-5) now
clothed in linen, white and clean- garment of salvation and righteousness. Is. 61:10,
Rev. 19:7-9; 3:5a; 4:4; 7:9, 14-17.
e. ‘He sit upon the throne of His glory’ Zech. 14:9, Matt. 19:2, this verse also refers to
the new age.
2. Matt. 25:32-33 “And there shall be gathered all nations and he shall separate them one
from another as a shepherd divide his sheep from the goat…the sheep on his right hand,
but the goat on the left.”
a. All nations as in Zeck. 14:4, Ps. 96;13, 98:9.
b. ‘Shall separate like a shepherd Ez. 34:17-22. “Separation of the righteous and the
wicked. A necessary separation; necessary to the vindication of God’s justice;

necessary to the blessedness of the righteous; necessary for the punishment of the
wicked” Broadus John A. It continues.