THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS by Tuese Ahkiong

The parable of The Ten Virgins is given within context of The Olivet Discourse which is about The Destruction/ Judgment upon Jerusalem (The Old heavens and earth), The vindication of the saints, The Wedding of Christ and His Bride.

MATTHEW 25:1-13 “THEN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WILL BE LIKE TEN VIRGINS WHO TOOK THEIR LAMPS AND WENT TO MEET THE BRIDEGROOM. ²Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, ⁴but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. ⁵As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ⁶But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ ⁷Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ ⁹But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for YOU, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ ¹⁰And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, AND THOSE WHO WERE READY WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE FEAST, AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT. ¹¹Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ ¹²But he answered, ‘TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, I DO NOT KNOW YOU.’ ¹³Watch therefore, for YOU KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE HOUR.

**Notice who Christ is speaking to throughout this entire discourse; His disciples in the 1^st century who were listening to His words as He spoke. They are the antecedent of “YOU” throughout this context and not YOU who are reading my article. LOL.

Christ spoke to His disciples during this time when the Old & New Covenants overlapped. The Kingdom was where God’s presence was. It would leave Old Covenant Israel and be fulfilled in New Covenant Israel, The New Jerusalem which is from above; the ekklesia.

The Ten Virgin parable is about being prepared by being in Christ. The Gospel went first to the Jew and then the gentile. Christ earlier in Matthew 24:34 states that everything would happen in their “this generation” including The Gospel going out to the world, His return, great tribulation, judgment…

The 5 wise virgins represented Christians. The 5 foolish virgins were the Jews committed to the old covenant law. In v12 Christ tells these unbelieving Jews that He DOES NOT KNOW THEM. Terrifying!!! ** see my article on "Knowing God" and "When you see/hear, The day and the hour, THIEF, stay awake, WATCH"

Christ tells His disciples to watch… and then echoes v24:36 in v 25:13 that no one knows the DAY or the HOUR but they did knew the GENERATION; THEIR GENERATION. This is why they needed to be prepared. This parable does NOT refer to future generations because Christ did not direct this parable to future generations. It was limited to that 1st century. The virgins were not the great great great great great great great 2000 + years granddaughters of the virgins. Hello! They're virgins. LOL. Christ was the bridegroom and got married to His virgin bride in 70 A.D.

Paul says:

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Notice Paul is writing to and presenting the Corinthian Christians along with all the other 1st century Christians to Christ as a pure virgin. This took place in 70 A.D. Therefore, the timing sticks the events in the 1st century. She is no longer a virgin in a sense, so how can she still be presented in the future as a virgin?

If you do not think that it was all fulfilled than do you think the marriage of Christ and His bride is still future?

What reality are you trying to correspond the parable to? Parables are short wise sayings with a special truth and are not literal stories. The spiritual truth is that those who were prepared, who are in Christ, are presented to Christ as a pure virgin when He returned in 70A.D..

It’s been right in front of our face our entire life but our futurist lenses, misled pastors, Creeds, Confessions, fictional left behind books taught us to deny the imminent language to the 1st century audience that the NT was addressed to!

CHRIST RETURNED IN 70AD within the generation He said He would return!

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2022/01/preterism-101-verses-that-teach-1st.html?m=1

PROPHECY, ESCHATOLOGY, "END TIMES," REVELATION - ALL FULFILLED

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2021/03/prophecy-eschatology-end-times.html

“JESUS” is a made up name. https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2021/07/did-you-know-jesus-is-made-up-name-and.html?m=1

The word, “SOON” as used in NT

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-word-soon-as-used-in-nt-by-tuese.html?m=1

A day is like a thousand year

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2015/08/2-peter-39-thousand-years-all-saved.html?m=1

The Millennium

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/10/quick-thoughts-on-millennium.html?m=1

Elements Melting happened in 70AD

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/elements-melting-by-tuese-ahkiong.html

ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS? A good question to ask is what are THE LAST DAYS the last days OF!!??? Short answer: NO. They happened already 30-70 AD

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-last-days-when-does-bible-say-last.html?m=1

THE LAST DAYS to THE LAST DAY to THE LAST HOUR to THE END OF THE AGE of OLD COVENANT ISRAEL

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-last-days-to-last-day-to-last-hour.html

Yeshua said, “…THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE AGE” What age was Yeshua in and when did the Harvest end? By Tuese Ahkiong

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/yeshua-said-harvest-is-end-of-age-what.html

THE END OF THE AGE

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-end-of-age-by-tuese-ahkiong.html

Generation as used by Christ and the Bible writers.

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/generation-as-used-by-jesus-and-apostles.html?m=1

The word, “SOON” as used in NT

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-word-soon-as-used-in-nt-by-tuese.html?m=1

A day is like a thousand year

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2015/08/2-peter-39-thousand-years-all-saved.html?m=1

CS Lewis said in an essay that Yeshua was WRONG about His return - “Second Coming!” Was Yeshua a false prophet? Most Christ followers throughout history believe Christ was WRONG & a LIAR!!!

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/was-jesus-false-prophet-by-tuese-ahkiong.html

The Book of Revelation was FULFILLED

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/time-statements-in-book-of-revelation.html

Here is why….. REVELATION was written before 70 AD

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/here-is-why-i-believe-revelation-was.html?m=1

MATTHEW 24, THE OLIVET DISCOURSE FULFILLED

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-olivet-discourse-fulfilled.html

The Son of Man Coming on the clouds of heaven took place in 70 A.D.

http://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-son-of-man-coming-on-clouds-of.html

CLOUD COMINGS. https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2014/09/cloud-comings-in-bible.html?m=1

Bible verses on The RETURN of CHRIST

https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-bible-teaches-christ-would-return.html?m=1