Today these words are addressed by our Lord Jesus Christ to those who are hypocritically calling him Lord, before their departure into everlasting cutting-off (from life itself).

WHO ARE THE LEAST ONES?
Scripturally, the "least ones" are those still remaining on earth just before The Christ's Second Coming, and are the last of Jesus' 144,000 anointed brothers to be gathered. (Rev 7:4). It is during this period when The Christ arrives in glory that he will separate people one from another, the "sheep" from the "goats". But while the "least ones" may not appear to have as prominent a position of service among God's people as say a person of the "body" likened to a "hand", nevertheless they are compounded in the "body" as God pleases and as such have the more abundant comeliness. (1 Corinthians 12:22-24).

"LEAST" IN WHAT OTHER RESPECTS?
In all other respects of need: When they are hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, when they are naked, or sick, or in prison, when they are lacking in honour. Therefore their needs are to be understood in both a spiritual and a physical sense. (1 Corinthians 12:23. Matthew 5:6) (Luke 4:18. James 2:15-17).

IN WHAT WAYS DO HYPOCRITES
MANIFEST THEIR "GOAT"-LIKE POSITIONS?
Jesus is using the least of his brothers as a basis for judging, while all the nations are gathered before him (during his invisible presence). This judgement started with the members of the house of God first. (1 Peter 4:17). Jesus conveyed to all mankind how he would separate sheep-like persons from the goat-like ones; and is according to the way people have behaved individually toward the least of Jesus' anointed brothers, including the way other members of his "body" have behaved toward them also. (Matt 24:48-51).

Using the "least ones" as the basis of judgement is Christ's impartial way of judging those human spirits who did, and those who did not, willingly come to the aid of those with Kingdom dispositions. It will reveal those who can live happily in Christ's righteous New Kingdom on earth, and will expose "goat"-like ones that have proven they would continue to exercise their hateful dispositions against those desiring to live where righteousness dwells.

As stated in 2 Corinthians 11:12-15, "goat"-like ones cunningly try to evade adverse judgement due to them for their persecutions of the "least ones". "Goat"-like ones are not judged adversely because of their stubbornness or ignorance towards the Kingdom message (Psalms 68:18) (1 Tim 1:13), but for the way they finally react toward those whom God inhabits by Spirit. (Eph 2:22). "Goats" remain "goats" while they remain "in the snare of the devil, seeing that they have been caught alive by him for the will of that one." (2 Tim 2:26).

There are some that have achieved an extensive knowledge of the Scriptures in their search for God, but have failed to make the all-important Christ-like readjustments in their lives. Perhaps they have willingly corrected the more obvious sectarian teachings of disobedience, but still hold onto deeply rooted false teachings consistent with their desires, and with a strength belonging to their everlasting destruction. When The Christ's anointed ambassadors try to help them lift these "veils", such "goat"-like ones view them as unwarranted disciplines because of the insensibility of their hearts. Instead, they show hateful rejection of those substituting for The Christ. But these necessary spirit readjustments, leading to affection for the "least" of Jesus' brothers, would also be for Jesus also. Evidence of their hatred toward these "least" ones is described in detail in Matthew 25:41-45.

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