Parable of the 10 Virgins
About the rapture
Matthew 25:1-13: Parable of the 10 Virgins
“And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.” – Matthew 25:2
Generally speaking, parables are stories that convey spiritual and Biblical truths.
As is commonly known, the rapture has an immense spiritual connection with the Jewish-Galilean wedding ceremony. Regarding a basic summary correlation of the Jewish-Galilean wedding ceremony with the rapture of the bride of Christ, please consider the following and note John 14:2-3:
Once the bridegroom (Yeshua) has prepared a place to live with his bride (Christ’s church) at his father’s house (the Father’s house in heaven), the father (Father God) will send his son (the Son of God) to fetch his bride (Christ’s church) when the father deems it to be the right time. The groom (Yeshua) will come unannounced in the middle of the night (back to Earth in the air, a time known to no one other than the Father) to fetch his bride (Christ’s church) to take her back to the place he has prepared for her at his father’s house (the many rooms in the Father’s house in heaven that Christ is preparing for us).
They will then have seven days together in their prepared room at the father’s house (seven years in heaven). After the seven days (seven years in heaven) are completed, the marriage supper with invited guests at the father’s house in the presence of the father will commence (The Marriage Supper of The Lamb in heaven in the presence of the Father).
As we move along in this parable, we shall distinguish that the “wise virgins” are true converts to Christ, while the “foolish virgins” are false converts who profess Christ, deceiving both themselves and others of their profession of faith.
Excerpt from Rapture ready
By Mark A. Becker
As a committed believer who was brought up dispensational, but who has also invested years in this topic because of great personal interest, especially in dispensational beginnings and the Historical premillennialist camp of teaching, I find it of great interest that such secondary doctrinal positions condemns one to “unbeliever, deceived status” if the wrong view of these future eschatological possibilities is held. Being firmly pre-millennial myself, but not necessarily pre-tribulational, is seen by some as a great sin, apparently equal to the unforgivable sin of unbelief after being quickened by the Holy Spirit of God and rejecting His promptings. I can fairly state that God promises to be more gracious in His offer to mankind for salvation than which side of the seven years Psalm110:1 is fulfilled on is being used to by others to cast him into the outer darkness.