“The RoseBouquet”

The great truth in this parable seems to escape many in the churches today. There are those Christians who are convinced of the Rapture and who are sure they are ready to rise at a moment’s notice to meet the Lord in the air. This is when they will go to that seven-year long wedding feast of the Lamb and the Bride.

Those that go to meet Him are in fact, the Bride herself! There are many other passages that describe the true believers, who are saved and sanctified by the precious blood of Jesus, and so part of Christ’s Body, also known as the Church, of which He is Head.

There are those, of course, who believe on Jesus too, who know their names are on their local church membership list. But as Jesus describes, if they do not have oil in their lamps, that is, the Holy Spirit filling them, they will not be going with the first group to meet the Bridegroom, and get into Heaven for that wedding feast.

Jesus says plainly here, that they will bang on the doors of Heaven (figuratively), and cry out, “Open the door for us!” But He will say, “I don’t know you.”

I’ve known this story since I was a child, and have often wondered why both groups would be called virgins and represent the church if Jesus would say one day that He didn’t know half of them. A parable is more like a sketch than a photograph. If we look for precise matches in details we go astray. The ten virgins seem to be representing all who call themselves Christians. (Only Jesus knows for sure which ones are His, in fact). The point is that at the time of the Rapture everyone will know by the panicked people who will be desperate to get into Heaven for that wedding feast. Suddenly they will KNOW they were not really part of the Church.

PRAYER: Oh, Lord, I praise You that I can say I know You, and You know me, and that You have anointed me with Your Holy Spirit. Thus, my lamp has oil! And I know that I can have a fresh infilling whenever I ask You for it. You graciously grant me Your Spirit for power to love and obey You, and to share the gospel. Oh, that I might help some other virgins to get oil!

+++++Jesus is my King+++++Jesus is my King+++++

Blessings on you Today!
Ruth Marlene Friesen

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