The Watchtower, “What Future for the Sheep and the Goats?”
“But the time when Jesus will pronounce final judgment on the sheep and the goats depicted in the parable is yet ahead.”
The companion article places the separating of sheep and goats after the start of the great tribulation rather than in the present, and calls this “this fresh understanding”.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, What Future for the Sheep and the Goats?
Confidence note. Document opened on wol.jw.org on 19 September 2026; the wording was read in full and the page number taken from the library's own page markers.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-d-w-1995-1015-sheep-goats-future