Revelation from Heaven, The Sheep and the Goats are the Same – lclioncross – The New Emerging Church Coming Down From Heaven
06.07.2025
Abstract: Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and started reading. This blog is called “The New Emerging Church” and covers topics related to Bible Commentaries and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. I was called into this sphere in 1999, but not without a huge fight to resist this call from heaven. Swedenborg during his life could have been called a savant, but I suggest he was really a polymath. Polymath from the SageVII English Dictionary: 1. A person who has an extensive knowledge and expertise in multiple subjects or fields, possibly including both the sciences and humanities, that allow them to excel in numerous significant intellectual formal pursuits. He was called by God to expound on the spiritual meaning of the Holy Bible as the angels in heaven read and understand it, so he could share this with the end-time church.
As I was reading Swedenborg’s commentary on the 24th Chapter of Matthew and the end of the age. Among all the countless pages of text I have read I had completely missed this one or glossed over it. What I saw surprised me.
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Based on the following from Matthew 25:31-46.
The Final Judgment
But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His glory. (Matthew 25:31)
And all nations shall be gathered before Him. And He shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25:32)
And indeed He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats off the left. (Matthew 25:33)
Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (Matthew 25:34)
For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in; (Matthew 25:35)
I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me. (Matthew 25:36)
Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You? Or thirsty, and gave You drink? (Matthew 25:37)
When did we see You a stranger, and took You in? Or naked, and clothed You? (Matthew 25:38)
Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and came to You? (Matthew 25:39)
And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done it to Me. (Matthew 25:40)
Then He also shall say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. (Matthew 25:41)
For I was hungry, and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me no drink; (Matthew 25:42)
I was a stranger and you did not take Me in; I was naked, and you did not clothe Me; I was sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me. (Matthew 25:43)
Then they will also answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You? (Matthew 25:44)
Then He shall answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. (Matthew 25:45)
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life. (Matthew 25:46)
The spiritual meaning as understood by the angels of heaven
From “Secrets of Heaven”, Emanuel Swedenborg Bible Commentary, paragraph #5066.
“The reply of those on the right was, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?
“This reply means that if they had seen the Lord Himself, all of them would have performed these acts of kindness to Him. Yet it would not have been love towards Him that would have led them to do so, only fear because He was about to come and judge the whole world. Nor would they have acted for His sake but their own, and so not because of anything present more internally in them, in their hearts, but for quite external reasons, and in outward conduct alone. They may be likened to a person who, when he sees his king whose favor he wishes to secure so that he may become great or rich, therefore conducts himself in a submissive manner before the king. Or they may be likened to those who engage in external holy worship in which so to speak they see the Lord and are submissive before Him. They do this because they believe that by engaging in such worship they will receive eternal life, even though they have no charity and do not do good to anyone except for selfish reasons, thus solely for their own benefit. Those on the right are like people who outwardly show great respect to their king yet scoff at what he commands because in their hearts they despise him. These and other examples like them are what are meant by the reply given by those on the right. And because the outward actions of the evil as well are similar, the reply given by those on the left was practically the same”.
I was stunned. I went back and read both the reply from the goats and the reply from the sheep. They were almost the same! The whole point of the parable as Jesus taught it was “You have to be different if you expect to be a citizen of heaven after we pass from this world”.
To me these strongly said things like Sola Fide, alter calls, once saved, always saved are false premises. The schoolhouse road to heaven is narrow, winding, and a torturous exercise in discipline. The Lord said He is creating “a church without spot or blemish”, not one that is white as snow from one simple prayer of repentance.
“For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds. You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten? But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons” (Hebrews 12:3-8)
The second part of the new emerging church on the earth will be repentance discipline and willingness to change and to adapt. And perhaps most important is to understand that in our hearts we are nothing but evil.
“But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousness’s are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities” (Isaiah 64:6-7)
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find” (Romans 7:18)
In the parable found in Matthew 25:31-46, the goats and the sheep both are intertwined way too much in love of self and love of the world. For the new church on the earth, a new doctrine and a new way of life will begin to emerge, which will indeed be a much different lifestyle.
