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ngwono
#1 Posted : Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:31:43 AM
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Matthew 25:6-10 (New International Version, ©2010)

6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:38:56 AM
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:45:13 AM
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that is just figurative. midnight is when most people are relaxed. when they are absorbed into other issues.

that is also the time that those who are awake are crying out to him to come rescue them.
Ja-Kom
#4 Posted : Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:43:17 PM
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The thrust of the parable is that Christ (The Bridegroom) will return at an unknown hour and that His people must be ready. Being ready means preparing for whatever contingency arises in our lives and keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus at all times as we await His coming, and be born again through saving faith in Jesus Christ. As seen in the fact that all the virgins were sleeping when the call came indicates that it doesn’t matter what we are doing when Christ returns. We may be working, eating, sleeping, or pursuing leisure activities. Whatever it is, we must be doing it in such a way that we don’t have to “make things right” (get more oil) when He comes. This would apply to either the coming of Christ for His Church or for the Tribulation saints as they await His second coming.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19
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#5 Posted : Tuesday, March 01, 2011 1:47:22 PM
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