All the names of Jesus in chapter 25 are full of meaning.
To His lovers awaiting His return He is the bridegroom. The ten virgins await the coming bridegroom.
To His servants serving Him He is lord. He is their lord in the parable of the faithful servants.
This does not mean that servants and virgins are different people.
But rather one teaching stresses a relationship of LOVE while the other stresses a relationship of SERVICE.
Now concerning Christ's relationship to the nations in general He is "the Son of Man" . Also in relation to His kingdom set up over the world He is "the Son of Man" . This is His relationship to all mankind in general.
Watchman Nee writes:
The Son of man has the power to judge. As the Son of God the Lord raises people from the dead, and this is His relationship to the church; as the Son of man He executes judgment, and this is tje Lord's relationship to the Gentiles (see John 5:25,27). The Son of man is also related to the kingdom (see Dan. 7.25,27). The Lord shall come to establish His kingdom, but He first must judge the world. Only those who pass through the judgment successfully are quaified to be people in the kingdom. Are we not to reign as kings with Christ? How then can we reign if there are no people? Where is there a kingdom which has no people?
[From The King and the Kingdom of the Heavens, Watchman Nee, pg. 381, Christian Felloship Publishers, Inc. New York]
1.) There was a dispensation between Adam and Moses (Rom.5:14) [edited]. This was a dispensation of the patriarchs.
2.) There was another dispensation from Moses to Christ (John 1:17) .That was the dispensation of the law.
3.) There was another dispensation between Christ's first coming and His second coming (Acts 3:20-21). That is the dispensation of grace.
4.) There will be another dispensation from Christ's second coming to the end of the millennial kingdom (Rev. 11:15:20:4,6). That is the dispensation of the kingdom.
Between each of these dispensations there are matters pertaining to a time of transition.
-Removed-
1.) There was a dispensation between Adam and Moses (Rom.5:14) [edited]. This was a dispensation of the patriarchs.
2.) There was another dispensation from Moses to Christ (John 1:17) .That was the dispensation of the law.
*** 3.) There was another dispensation between Christ's first coming and His second coming (Acts 3:20-21). That is the dispensation of grace. ***
4.) There will be another dispensation from Christ's second coming to the end of the millennial kingdom (Rev. 11:15:20:4,6). That is the dispensation of the kingdom.
So, what is difficult for the traditional Christianity mindset to get is that Christ's kingdom could be on earth with people as citizens who are themselves not born again.
This is a problem I had to contemplate when I heard about "an eternal gospel" distinct from the gospel that the apostles and evangelists preach throughout the church age.
We should look more into this to see if it could be so.