Judgment At The 2nd Coming

I was listening to your teachings on the Millennium and you mentioned the judgment of the Sheep and Goats. Right after that you said that entering the Millennium will be ONLY Christians. What about the individuals that did not receive the mark, who were somehow able to survive the Tribulation, and as individuals did not have the opportunity to prove themselves sheep or goats?

Q. I was listening to your teachings on the Millennium and you mentioned the judgment of the Sheep and Goats. Right after that you said that entering the Millennium will be ONLY Christians. It seemed to me that you were basing that statement on the fact that all the Goat nations (individuals) will have already been judged and therefore not entering the blessed Millennium. What about the individuals that did not receive the mark, who were somehow able to survive the Tribulation, and as individuals did not have the opportunity to prove themselves sheep or goats? Or, those who were born after the Rapture who did not have opportunity to either bless or curse the brethren of Jesus Jews)or provide for their needs (sheep or goats) during the Tribulation?

Please can you give me a brief description of the categories of people after the Rapture (unbelievers, I know) and how they all get eliminated before the Millennium? I know that the sheep must prove themselves as believers and thus make it in, but what about the others I mentioned in the paragraph above?

A. There are really only two kinds of people. Believers and unbelievers. Today, when person who calls himself an agnostic (meaning he doesn’t believe that it’s possible to know if God exists) dies, he’s treated as an unbeliever. There is no third category. It will be the same at the outset of the Millennium. There will be two kinds of people who survive the Great Tribulation. Believers and unbelievers.

Let me clear up another point. People won’t have to prove themselves as believers (sheep). By their actions, they will have demonstrated their belief, just as you and I demonstrate our belief by unnoticed acts of kindness in the name of the Lord. We don’t have to prove anything because the Lord knows who are His.

There will probably be many more unbelievers than believers who survive the Great Tribulation, because belief in Jesus will exclude a person from participating in society. Only those who take the mark of the beast will be able to hold jobs, buy groceries and pay rent. Taking the mark automatically excludes a person from entering the Millennium. Those who do so and survive will be whisked away with the goats in the judgment, as will those who in spite of dramatic demonstrations of God’s existence claim they weren’t able to make up their minds.