Good stuff bro. Yeah I agree the 10 virgins is in Mat 25. Which in his discourse part of what he is expounding upon is Ezekiel 34 and the separation of the sheep and goats. Not to quote the whole chapter but just some passages as to how what Christ says in Mat 24 and 25 is a expounding by Christ. Ezekiel 34:11-13 says,
11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I,
even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep
that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Verse 17 And
as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
and then 20-22,
20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I,
even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
The 10 virgins is Christ expounding also upon what he has already been telling the Jews throughout his ministry while he was on earth. He was expounding upon when he had told them they would see the patriarchs sitting down to eat with folks from the east and west yet the children of the kingdom would find themselves locked out. To include the other places he let them know as well how that just because he walked amongst them and visited their cities that would hold no sway.
When he told them they would be on the outside looking in concerning the patriarch's. He did so after the centurion had said I am a man under authority so I say go to one and he goeth and say come to another and he cometh. Christ said he had not found that great of faith in Israel.
Reason being the Jews where constantly asking by what authority do you do these things. Yet a gentile recognized authority and how being in authority came by being under authority. Christ had clearly told the Jews time and again he had come in the name of the Father. So the gentile recognized just how that authority worked yet the Jews were missing it and still questioning who did he think he was. So ultimately comes down to just who we believe Jesus is.
So again good stuff from you and I find that the ten virgins is Christ expounding upon what he had already told them in his ministry and it was in light of Ezekiel 34. It was him again telling of the separation and using another parable or example. I can never understand why the ten virgins is ever used as anything to do with the rapture as that is not what it is talking about.
Also have to scratch my head at at times because constantly hear show me one verse their is a pretrib rapture.
Which I don't see how Luke 21:35-36 is anything but, For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
All these things is encompassing it includes the other synoptic gospels as well be it they start with let no man deceive you or nation against nation. Christ said we could escape all these things so I have to read that as pre or before because that is the language he uses when says escape all these things, so to do just that you would have to escape prior.
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