“At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him“ (v6).
This midnight cry will happen very close to Christ’s return. It is a warning message to the elect of God throughout the earth to awake out of their spiritual slumber and repent of their wrong attitudes and behaviours and pursue their calling to salvation with zeal, because Jesus Christ is about to return as Conquering King.
“All the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps“ (v7). It is time now to start trimming your lamp and not seek to slumber. The flesh is weak but the Spirit is willing. Let us awake unto righteousness and sin not. Our hope is nearer then when we first believed. Christ is coming in the clouds and every eye will see Him. Set your eyes on things above not things of the earth. Watch!
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Matthew 25:1-13
1 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, 4but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. 6But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’ 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10While they went away 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 also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’ 12But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ 13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
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