Posted on 05/12/2020 1:15:11 PM PDT by .30Carbine
In the Jewish traditions of the day, the bride was responsible to make sure her guests and servants had all that was needed to be ready for the coming of the bride. What made the foolish bridesmaids truly foolish? It wasn’t just the neglect in not having enough oil. As the passage indicates they did buy oil and returned but alas...too late. What made them foolish was their own pride in not approaching the bride and confessing their foolishness. The bride could have supplied them with the oil they needed so that they would not have been left out of the “marriage supper of the lamb”. After all that was the duty of the bride in Christ’s day...to ensure that all was in readiness including seeing to it that certain foolish bridesmaids had the oil that they needed!
The Church, Christ’s bride can equip all men with the knowledge of salvation so that they might be filled with the Spirit and be saved.
Well said.
All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
He died for our sins and arose for our defense.
Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus Christ forever.
It sure seems to me that the imagery fits for what we are going through right now - though I was always taught (and assumed) that the events of this chapter happened much later in the Tribulation. The one catch is that PDJT did make a Peace Agreement with Israel three and a half years into his reign, and I still can't figure out why he continues to put Fauci, mandatory testing, and "warp speed" vaccination forward if PDJT is for us and not against us.
The message of Revelation 13 is definitely this: Do not look to this world for comfort or salvation. Believers look to Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our faith. By looking to Jesus and away from this present world system, we are saved.
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