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Goats

From: A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases

By: Alfred Taylor Schofield

By these are meant in Matt. 25, those Gentiles alive on the earth, who at the return of Christ, will be judged for rejecting the testimony of the Jewish messengers, whom the Lord calla his “brethren.” The word is often wrongly used (connected with the erroneous idea of a general judgment) to mean the whole company of the lost, whether dead or alive, by confusing Matt. 25 with Rev. 20:12-15¹²And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. ¹⁴And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:12‑15).

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