People who have not grown up on a farm may be at a certain disadvantage in appreciating agricultural metaphors in the Bible. Goats have a range of negative connotations. When Christ returns, He will set the goats on the left, implying they will go into the Lake of Fire. Goats have the characteristics of being intelligent, sensitive, playful, quick to respond to individual attention, but they are also capricious, subject to whim, impulsive, devious, and contrary. Goats have slit eyes to enable them to see around the corner where grass is greener. They are never content with what they have. Goats, hating to be confined, are experts at opening gates and squeezing through small gaps. Goats do not like to follow; the goat will only go where the goat wants to go. If these characteristics would be found in a Christian, it could be deadly. Certain loquacious teachers who are more bent on influencing and persuading others than yielding to God's truth would fit this pattern. Many of us share some of these negative characteristics of goats, including being unwilling to follow, thinking we know best on everything. We must be willing to be led by God emulating sheep rather than rebellious insisting on our own way emulating goats.