"Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Reuben Hick" <outerdarkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Let me first admit that what I propose here I could not find in over
two
> >> dozen commentaries by theologians over the spread of many centuries.
I
> > have
> >> listened to many sermons on the topic, and I have been to many groups
who
> >> talked about this parable. What I have found is that every
commentator
> >> either ignores the parable, dismisses most of the symbolic
references,
or
> >> makes symbolic references that are fully unqualified: ie. Calling
the
> >> virgins "Christians" or "believers", or calling the oil the Holy
Spirit.
> >> None of this is substantiated, and even the commentators note that
this
> > can't
> >> be taken too far.
> >
> > You got all this from the parable of the ten virgins? My hats off to
ya,
> > but
> > I think you missed the point.
> >
> > The parable is about the imminence of Yeshua's return.
>
> "Imminence" = over 1970 years and still counting...
Which by God's watch is a little less than two days....
> > That it was framed
> > around the coming of the bridegroom speaks of the fact that Yeshua is
> > coming
> > first for his bride, and this coming could occur AT ANY MOMENT, to
take
> > the
> > bride to the Fathers house. Those that truly believe this are ready
for
> > the
> > trip, while those that think he will not come for some time (seven
more
> > years at least, lets say) don't have enough oil because they don't
truly
> > believe his return is at hand.
>
> Too many details to dismiss and things like who is the bride and how is
the
> bride different from those who "truly believe"?
No need to dismiss anything... You simply read it, and it's clearly
regarding the difference between those servants who thought the bridegroom
might come at any minute, versus those that were just going through the
motions, no doubt convinced in themselves that the bridegroom had other
appointments first.
He even gives you a clue about the meaning of the parable after he
finished
saying it:
Mat 25:13 >Therefore watch<, for you do not know either the day or the
hour
in which the Son of Man <bridegroom> comes.
By the way.... the phrase "do not know either the day or the hour" also
happens to be an idiom referencing the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah,
in that it occurred on a new moon, and you had to have two witnesses to
the
new moon before you could set the date.... The Feast of Trumpets is also
called the "wedding of the Messiah"...
You see a pattern here?
Check out the parable He gave right before the 10 maidens...
Mat 24:45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made
ruler over His household, to give them food in due season?
Mat 24:46 Blessed is that servant whom his Lord shall find him doing so
when
He comes.
Mat 24:47 Truly I say to you that He shall make him ruler over all His
goods.
Mat 24:48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, >My Lord delays
His coming,<
Mat 24:49 and shall begin to strike his fellow servants (fellow
Christians),
and to eat and drink with the drunken,
Mat 24:50 the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he >does not
look for Him<, and in an hour which he does not know.
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