12 Apr '18 03:18>1 edit
Originally posted by @rajk999it has been criticized that the sheep nations do call the One judging them 'Lord".
They dont?
And they call him Lord ?
You are a comedian
LOL 😀
"Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when have we seen You hungry and have fed You ... etc. etc." (v.37)
Before this glorious and glorified One they have no choice but to recognize His Divine lordship. Sure, they then call Him Lord.
Do the goat nations call Him Lord? Yes they do too.
"Then they also will answer, saying, Lord, when have we seen You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not ministry to You?" (v.44)
They too, at that point, have no alternative but to recognize this glorious glorified Man as Lord. His authority at this point is manifest to all the world. The world has no other choice.
Saul persecuted the Christians with imprisonment, stoning, arrest, causing them to blaspheme, threats, hunting, oppression also. But when the glorious Son of God appeared to him in a light surpassing the brightness of the sun, he also fell down and said -
"Who are You LORD?" (Acts 9:5)
Jesus in glory informed Saul that it was He, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Saul had been persecuting in ignorance of His divinity.
"And he said, who are You, Lord?
And He said, I am JESUS, whom you persecute. But rise up and enter into the city and it will be told to you what you must do." (Acts. 9:5,6)
So it will be at the end of the great tribulation.
Some peoples of the nations will be justified calling Him Lord. And some peoples of the nations will be condemned calling Him Lord.
The former feared God the Creator and were kind to the oppressed brothers of Christ (Christians and elect Jews).
The latter did not fear God but feared and followed the Antichrist who proclaimed himself as the sole object of all worship.
" ... the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition,
Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, setting himself forth, saying that he is God." (Second Thess. 1:3b,4)