10 Virgins- Rapture and Salvation

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First of all, you need to understand the Jewish Marriage Custom.
Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Each has information the other does not. So it is to your benefit to look at both.

Now you have a clearer picture of what the 10 virgins parable is based upon.

Matthew 25 New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

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.

11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Now relate this to the 6th and 7th churches in Revelation.

And remember, in the Bible all oil used this way is the Holy Spirit. As in the lampstands.

The sixth church has the oil but the seventh does not. The sixth church is raptured. The seventh church is cast into the tribulation.

As today we have true Christians and false Christians. Apostasy.

The 10 virgins made free will choices. The churches of revelation make free will choices.

There is no room for Calvinism in this.

 

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