Verses 10-12
Shortly after the announcement went out the groom arrived (cf. Matthew 24:27; Matthew 24:39; Matthew 24:50). There was not enough time for the foolish virgins to obtain oil then. The wise virgins entered the wedding feast, and someone shut the door into the banquet hall (cf. Matthew 25:34-40). There was no more opportunity for the foolish to enter. Their pathetic cries were of no avail (cf. Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 23:37). The groom’s refusal to admit them was not the result of callused rejection in spite of their desire to enter the feast. Rather he refused to admit them because they had failed to prepare adequately.
"The closed door, which to those who were ready meant security and untold bliss, to the others meant banishment and untold gloom." [Note: Plummer, p. 346. Cf. Pagenkemper, pp. 188-89.]
These verses picture the judgment of Jews that will happen at the end of the Tribulation and before the establishment of the messianic kingdom.
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