For example, you might, if you have no other means of fulfilling your pledge, give your outer garment, the outer long coat as a pledge.
The outer garment could sometimes be taken away, but only in the most exceptional circumstances.
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The outer garment is very, very important in Biblical teaching, and when you don’t have your outer garment, you are described as being naked, because that outer garment was almost like the skin that you live in. Rather, “naked” in the Bible is the idiom for being inadequately dressed as in the case where your outer garment is taken away. In verses 36 and 38 there is “I was naked and you clothed me,” and it is important to understand that “naked” in the Bible does not literally mean that you don’t have any shred of clothing on. “Naked”: inadequately dressed for lack of an outer garment That in itself gives an interesting mental picture of the visible difference between the white sheep and the black goats. Interestingly enough, for some reason, the type of goats they breed in Palestine are black ones, whereas there are white goats also in the West and other places. In Palestine, the sheep are white as in most other places. There is also an interesting contrast in the picture here. That is the reason the Palestinian shepherds would need to separate the goats from the sheep at the end of the day.
The result is, of course, they cannot keep each other warm and in the night, they have to be placed under shelter to keep warm. In fact, goats like to stay away from each other. So goats tend to separate from each other. They don’t huddle together, not unless you drive them together by some external force, because given their choice, they all like to do their own thing. The sheep stay out in the open because they huddle close together body to body, so they are able to keep each other warm. The reason for this separation of sheep and goats has to do with their characters. The Judgment is at the end of this day of salvation, as it were. But at the end of the day, the shepherd would separate the sheep from the goats. Now the farmers in Palestine had the sheep and the goats mixed together, roving around to graze in the pastures. As Matthew 24:14 says that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached to every nation, there will be people from all nations standing before Christ at this trial.įirst, there is a gathering, and there will be a separation of the sheep from the goats. Now verse 32 speaks about all the nations which will be gathered before Christ at the Judgment. For I was hungry and you gave me no food I was thirsty and you gave me no drink I was a stranger, and you did not welcome me naked and you did not clothe me sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” And they also will answer, “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?” Then he will answer them, “Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.” And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” ( Matthew 25:31-46)Īt Judgment, all nations will be separated into sheep and goats For I was hungry and you gave me food I was thirsty, and you gave me drink I was a stranger, and you welcomed me I was naked and you clothed me I was sick and you visited me I was in prison and you came to me.” Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger, and welcomed you, or naked and clothed you? And when did we see you sick, or in prison and visit you?” And the king will answer them, “Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.” Then he will say to those at his left hand, “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Before him he will gather all the nations and he will separate them one from the other, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
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