万民都聚集在基督荣耀的宝座前
基督回到地上，在哈米吉顿毁灭那些跟随敌基督的外邦人（启十六14，16，十九11-15，19-21）之后，在地上所余留的外邦人，就是这里的“万民。”他们都要聚集在基督荣耀的宝座前受审判，这是千年国之前，基督对活人的审判（徒十42，提后四1），不同于千年国之后，基督在白色大宝座前对死人的审判（启二十11-15）。对活人的审判，是基督在空中审判台前审判信徒（太二五19-30）之后，来到地上施行的。
三十二节说万民，就是外邦人，要聚集在祂面前。然而，主说到十个童女时，并没有说她们要聚集。祂乃是说她们来了。我们已经指出，来了是指被提。主题到领银子的奴仆，也说他们来了。但万民不是来了；他们乃是聚集。马太十三章的第七个比喻等于绵羊和山羊的比喻，在这比喻中水族也从海中聚拢。万民都要聚集到基督荣耀的宝座前，在那里受审判。
基督把他们分开，好像牧人把绵羊从山羊分开一样
三十二、三十三节说，“祂要把他们彼此分开，好像牧人把绵羊从山羊分开一样；绵羊安置在祂右边，山羊在左边。”这指明主不仅是信徒的牧人（约十11，来十三20），和犹太人的牧人(诗八十1，耶三一10），也是所有外邦人的牧人（诗一○○1-3）。绵羊要聚集在祂右边，就是尊荣的地方（王上二19，诗四五9）。
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Gather All Nations to Judge – Matt. 25:32-33
All the Nations Being Gathered Before Christ’s Throne of Glory
All the nations are all the gentiles who will be left at Christ’s coming back to the earth after he destroys at Armageddon those gentiles who follow Antichrist (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:11-15, 19-21). They will all be gathered and judged at Christ’s throne of glory. This will be Christ’s judgment on the living before the millennium (Acts 10:42; 2 Tim. 4:1), differing from his judgment on the dead at the great white throne after the millennium (Rev. 20:11-15). This judgment on the living will occur after his judgment on believers at his judgment seat in the air (Matt. 25:19-30).
Verse 32 says that the nations, the gentiles, will be gathered before him. When the Lord spoke of the ten virgins, however, he did not say that they would be gathered. Rather, he said that they came. As we have pointed out, coming denotes rapture. In speaking about the slaves who received the talents, the Lord also said that they came. But the nations will not come; they will be gathered. In a parable equivalent to the parable of the sheep and the goats, the seventh parable in Matthew 13, the fish are also gathered out of the sea. All the nations will be gathered to Christ’s throne of glory to be judged there.
Christ’s Separating Them as a Shepherd Separates the Sheep from the Goats
Verses 32 and 33 say, “He shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand and the goats on the left.” This indicates that the Lord is the Shepherd not only of the believers (John 10:11; Heb. 13:20) and the Jews (Psa. 80:1; Jer. 31:10), but also of all the gentiles (Psa. 100:1-3). The sheep will be gathered to his right hand, the place of honor (1 Kings 2:19; Psa. 45:9).