He Will Separate

Matthew 25:31-33 (ESV)

The Final Judgment

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

A hallmark of creation has always been the separation of light and darkness, which is analogous to the separation between the sheep and the goats in the New Testament . They speak of the same thing. The creation of man in the image of God is about the separation of man from the dead to the living in Christ. He is the light of the world that shines into the darkness of mankind.