Nothing states the sheep/goats is a parable?
Your In Denial Of Presented Truth, Matthew Chapter 25 Represents "All" Parables.
Just as nothing states Matthew 25:1-13 is a parable in the (Ten Virgins)?
Just as nothing states Matthew 25:14-30 is a parable in (The Talents)?
Just as nothing states Matthew 25:31-46 is a parable in the (sheep/goats)?
You don't want to acknowledge the conclusion in Matthew 25:46KJV
(Final Judgement, The End)
(Verse 46) "The Conclusion", The Righteous Enter (Eternal Life) In The "Eternal Kingdom" Presented, The Wicked Enter (Eternal Punishment) In The Lake Of Fire
Luke 2
1 And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that
all (pâs) the world should be taxed.
It wasn't the whole world. It was the Roman Empire's world.
Matthew 4
24 And His fame went
throughout all (hólos) Syria. And they brought to Him
all (pâs) sick people who were pressed down by different kinds of diseases and torments, and those who had been possessed with demons, and those who had been moonstruck, and those paralyzed. And He healed them.
It wasn't every single sick person.
Matthew 3
5 Then Jerusalem
and all (pâs) Judea went out to him, and all (pâs) the region round about Jordan.
6 And they were baptized by him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
It wasn't the whole of Judea
(as in every single person in Judea and its surrounding region).
Colossians 1
5 for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
6 which has come to you
as it has also in all (pâs) the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth.
pâs (Thayer's Dictionary):
QUOTE (Thayer's)
1. a. individually
each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything.
2.collectively
a. some of all types
* ... "the whole world has gone after him" Did all the world go afterChrist?
* "then went all Judea, and were baptized of him in Jordan." Was all Judea, or all Jerusalem, baptized in Jordan?
* "Ye are of God,little children", and the whole world lieth in the wicked one". Does the whole world there mean everybody?
The words "world" and "all" are used
in some seven or eight senses in Scripture, and it is
very rarely the "all" means all persons, taken individually. The words are generally used to signify that Christ has redeemed
some of all sorts-- some Jews, some Gentiles, some rich, some poor, and has not restricted His redemption to either Jew or Gentile ...
UNQUOTE Thayer's.
I've often wondered about this word
pâs in
Revelation 13, because in the days of the "Holy Roman Empire", the Pope would crown the emperors and kings in the empire, who
all had to swear allegiance to the Pope. So in the Roman West (not in the Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox East),
all nations fell under the religious authority of Pope and (Roman) Catholic Church,
but it was not the whole world:
Revelation 13
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed:
and all (hólos) the world (gē) wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all (pâs) families, and tongues, and nations.
8 And
all (pâs) that dwell upon the earth (gē) shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The same word translated as "world" in verse three is translated as "earth" in verse 8.
11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth (gē). And he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
12 And he exercises
all (pâs) the authority of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causes
all (pâs), both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads
So, Matthew 25
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory,
and all (pâs) the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And
before him shall be gathered all (pâs) nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:
Is it every single angel who comes with Christ? Is it every single nation being separated?
For one, I'm
not going to answer the question in my own head and decide it's this or that. Everyone else seems to have decided, but I'll leave it as a question mark in my mind.