This parable is a must for all saints - Please read it brothers. It is the oil you need!
1 A covenant is made between the father of the bride and the groom
2. A price is agreed and paid by the groom or the groom’s father if the groom
is under age
3. Wine is drunk by both parties to seal the union
4. Gifts are given to the bride in advance of the arrival of the groom
5 The groom leaves his father’s house with his best man to fetch his
bride and bring her home at an unannounced time shouting to warn of their
approach
6. The bride gets her bridesmaids ready and the groom waits outside the bride's
house
7. The bride and groom walk together back to the Bridal Chamber in the groom's
house where they consummate the marriage whilst the best man and the chief
bridesmaid wait outside that chamber (this is actually God's marriage ceremony!)
8. When the couple come out after the consummation then they are married and the
7 day feast begins for the guests, whilst the couple go back into the chamber.
9. After 7 days the bride comes out of the chamber and the veil is taken off so
that all can see who she is.
There is good information about Hebrew wedding custom at
www.bibleprophesy.org/introwedding.htm
www.bibleprophesy.org/weddingstudy.htm
www.bibleprophesy.org/rapturewedding.htm
http://www.his-forever.com/jewish_weddings_rapture.htm
Two interesting scriptures which relate to a Hebrew marriage are...
2 In My Father's house are many dwelling places. But if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you!
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will receive you to Myself, that where I am you may be
also (John 14).
20 Come, My people, go in your inner-chambers and shut your doors behind you. Hide for
a little moment, [Mehat Rega]
until the fury passes.
21 For, behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to visit his iniquity on those dwelling on the earth. The earth shall also reveal her blood, and shall no more cover over her slain
ones (Isaiah 26).
Although the symbolic understanding in the sites above is chronologically incorrect. They take the wedding feast to be 7 years long and to occur after the second presence rapture.
Groom is Jesus
Groom's father is Jehovah
Bride is 144,000 1NC saints in two presences
Bride's father is Adam
Price is Jesus' death in ransom for Adam
Wine drunk is Lord's evening meal 1NC cup and ARC cup
Gifts are gifts of the spirit given to the 1NC saints through the hands of the
apostles
Groom leaving fathers house is Jesus coming down here to inspect the house of
the bride the church of the 1NC
Best man is the new Elijah, Elijah3 in the first presence and Elijah4 in the
second, the one preparing the way
Bridesmaids are sons of the ICC
Jesus waiting outside the house is his rejection of the Bride's house - church
The bride coming out, is that part of her which leaves the church of the 1NC to
enter the second true church where she walks with Jesus once more.
The walk back to Jehovah's house is the bride learning God's laws and purposes
in the second true church.
She then dies enters into the first death and then is resurrected into heaven as
an angel.
Bridal chamber is the heavenly government courtroom over the Kingdom
The consummation is the investiture of the bride as kings with Jesus over the
Kingdom on 2008Nisan17
The Kingdom of God starts judicially on 2008Nisan17 following after the pattern of eviction from
Eden.
Then the 7 day wedding feast runs from 2008Nisan18 to 2008Nisan24 inclusive..
The scriptures do witness that a marriage celebration should last 7 days in Genesis 29...
26 To this Laban said: It is not customary
to do this way in our place, to give the younger woman before the firstborn.
27 Celebrate to the full the week of this
woman [her 7 day marriage feast
and bridal chamber honeymoon]. After that there shall be given to you
also this other woman for the service that you can serve with me for 7 years
more (Genesis 29).
1 Then the kingdom of the heavens will become
like 10 virgins that took their lamps and went out into [the]
meeting [upanthsiV]
of the bridegroom.
2 5 of them were foolish, and 5 were
discreet/intelligent/prudent.
3 For the foolish [ones] took their lamps but took no
oil
with them,
4 whereas the discreet [ones] took oil in their
receptacles with their lamps.
5 But [upon - epi] of
delaying [genitive] the
bridegroom [genitive,
due to implied preposition - epi used
causally], they all
nodded and went to sleep.
6 But cry
arose [upon - epi] of middle of
night [end
of night and beginning of night have end and beginning as nouns. But middle is
an adjective. It is not partitive so night does not count],
'Look!, the bridegroom! Be on your way out into [the]
meeting [apanthsiV].'
7 Then all those virgins rose and put their
lamps
in order.
8 The foolish [ones] said to the
discreet [ones], 'Give us [some] out of [ek] your oil, because our
lamps are about to go out.'
9 The discreet answered saying: 'Perhaps
there may not be quite enough for us and you. Be on your way, instead, to those
who sell it and buy for yourselves.'
10 While they were going off to buy, the
bridegroom
arrived, and the ready [ones] went in with him to the marriage/marriage-feast;
and the door was shut.
11 Afterwards the remaining virgins also came,
saying, 'Lord,
Lord
[repeated designation but not a double
designation? Cannot get another meaning from it?], open to us!'
12 In answer he said, 'I tell you the truth, I do
not know you.'
SCNC: 3,0,2,3,1,3,2,2,0,3,3,0 = 22
Symbolic INC: virgins, lamps, (meeting of the bridegroom), oil, receptacles,
cry, bridegroom, meeting, marriage-feast, door, Lord = 10.
13 Keep on the watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour [of the coming of your bridegroom] (Matthew 25).
14 For it is just as when a man travelling abroad... talent parable
SCNC: 3,0,2,3,1,3,2,2,0,3,3,0,2 = 24
Symbolic INC: virgins, lamps, (meeting of the bridegroom), oil, receptacles,
cry, bridegroom, meeting, marriage-feast, door, Lord, day, hour = 12.
virgins (3), lamps, oil, receptacles, cry, bridegroom (3) (must be 3 since there are 3 virgins), meeting, marriage-feast, door, Lord, (day, hour)
This is a parable, it has one event symbolic and one word symbolic meaning. Here is the event symbolic meaning. The Successive Designation Principle tells us that there are two identities for 'Lord'. The account does not say that the discreet virgins went in to the marriage feast and the foolish did not. It says instead that the virgins 'that were ready' went in, and the 'rest of' the virgins were denied. Jesus denies them because they have denied him. He did know them when they were sanctified but Jesus himself has said:
32 Everyone, then, that confesses union with me before men, I will
also confess union with him before my Father who is in the heavens.
33
But whoever disowns me before men, I will also disown him before my Father who is in the
heavens (Matthew 10).
But he no longer knows them after they have failed to keep the faith, and not received the crown of life, and been condemned to Gehenna for their ingratitude at having all their sins in the past forgiven and at having their sins until time indefinite in the future forgiven, being temporarily saved and made into spirit sons of God by being born again.
Here is the Event Symbolic Meaning
| One of the Virgins | The group of 1NC saints who joined the congregation under a particular president of FDS1 or FDS3 |
| 10 Virgins | The 10 groups of 1NC saints who joined the congregations of FDS1 or FDS3 under each of their 10 presidents |
| Lamps | Biblical understandings |
| Oil | Personal research |
| Receptacles | Hearts |
| 5 Discreet [ones] | Those in the first 3 watches of FDS1 and the first two watches of FDS3 |
| 5 Foolish [ones] | Those in the last 2 'watches' of FDS1 and the last 3 'watches' of FDS3 |
| The Bridegroom | Jesus, the mediator of the 1NC |
| Nodded and went to sleep | Dropped their head (Jesus) and stopped watching for him, they all gave up any personal bible research in the last few watches of both FDS1 and FDS3. In the case of FDS3, it was their blasphemous declaration that they were the 'wide awake John class', that helped anaesthetize the congregation. |
| Here is the bridegroom | The virgins hear about the second coming of Christ in the presence. |
| Those who sell it | The angels, they direct personal bible research (sell oil). |
| Buy for yourselves | Do some mad panic bible research double time! |
| The Bridegroom arrived | The end of the second coming, the manifestation of the presence. |
| The door to the marriage feast was shut | |
| Those who were ready, went in | |
| The rest of the virgins say Lord, Lord open to us | |
| I do not know you | You are no longer a saint |
| Keep on the watch | Never stop doing personal bible research (drilling for oil) |
| The day or the hour | The day of the presence, the hour of the coming. |
This parable tells us that there are 5 presidents who do their own personal bible research and encourage others likewise and 5 who do not. We know that both FDS1 and FDS3 get more corrupt as they get older. Revelation 2,3 describe the progression of the 3rd, 4th and 5th watches of Pergamum, Thyatira and Sardis, as the Compromising, the corrupt and the dead churches, so either 2 or all 3 of these were foolish. So we are left with two choices, the discreet virgins are either in the first 2 watches of FDS1 and the first 3 of FDS3, or vice versa. To confirm this breakdown we have Jesus' words:
52
For from now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two
and two against three.
53
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother
against daughter and daughter against [her] mother, mother-in-law against [her]
daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against [her] mother-in-law (Luke 12).
Now we know that the JWs have not had a decent new understanding in 50 years, so the presidencies of Knorr, Franz and Henschel were 'foolish' within the meaning of this parable. Also the 3rd president of FDS1, Timothy, would not have been willing or able to stifle personal research, given his close personal relationship with Paul, the cornerstone of FDS2, the greatest of the first century bible researchers, who studied not only at the feet of Gamaliel, but also at the feet of our Mighty God Jesus Christ. So the last two virgins of FDS1 and the last 3 of FDS3 were 'foolish'.
1 Then the kingdom of the heavens will become
like 10 virgins [10
months of spiritual virgins, those who have never joined a false church during
their baptism call, coming into the LWs from 2011Heshvan1 to 2012Sivan13]
that took their lamps [bible
understandings] and went out into [the]
meeting of the bridegroom.
2 5 of them were foolish [2011Shebat
- 2012Sivan13], and 5 were discreet [2011Heshvan1
- 2011Adar - there are heavenly baptised Lords.]
3 For the foolish [ones] took their lamps
[bible understandings] but took no
oil
[personal research, or perhaps a
holy spirit sanctification from heaven?] with them,
4 whereas the discreet [ones] took oil
[personal research] in their
receptacles [hearts]
with their lamps [bible
understandings].
5 But [on account - epi] of the delaying [genitive.
Delaying for the 40 months of wilderness from 2008Sivan6 to 2011Heesvan1]
bridegroom [genitive,
due to implied preposition - epi used
causally] [Jesus, through his wife], they all
nodded [lost their kingdom headship, dropped
their head, on 2011Iyyar14]
and went to sleep.
6 But [upon - epi]
of middle of night [Night
is used as an adjective so it carries no symbolism and so means a literal
night. Midnight
on the day of the sign that wakes the virgins up. The cry arose in the middle of
the night on the Passover from Egypt, on 1513Nisan14 in Exodus12 too. Night
appears only once and does not count being genitive in this parable. But it still means literal
night just as the daughter of Abraham in Luke13 is the daughter of literal
Abraham. Perhaps counting as zero means the noun keeps its literal meaning?? But
it is
a symbolic account],
cry
arose: 'Look!, the bridegroom!
[An identification, a sign, not a coming.
Jesus identifies himself as being with a certain church through a sign, the
second fire sign. The sign wakes up the virgins who then come to the meeting and
hold the Passover] Be on your way out into [the]
meeting [join
the congregation of the LWs. The sign precedes the meeting and so is not the
death of the firstborn in each house, which occurs during the meeting].'
7 Then all those virgins rose
[regained their 1AC baptism]
and put their
lamps
[bible understandings]
in order.
8 The foolish [ones] said to the
discreet [ones], 'Give us [some] out of [ek] your oil
[personal research], because our
lamps [bible
understandings] are about to go out.'
9 The discreet answered saying: 'Perhaps
there may not be quite enough for us and you [we
are fleeing to the mountains, not returning to the house]. Be on your way, instead, to those
who sell it and buy for yourselves.'
10 While they were going off to buy, the
bridegroom
arrived [Jesus arrives, the 1NC
reserves coming into the LWs], and the ready [ones] [those
who came in before the door closed, not said to be the discreet ones, those who
are already baptised from heaven] went in with him to the marriage
[They
enter into the bridal chamber, the ark, for the marriage on 2011Tebbeth17 and for
the 7 days in that bridal chamber from 2011Tebbeth18 to 2011Tebbeth24]
and the door [to
acceptance of 1NC reserve kings] was shut [on
2011Tebbeth14. The door to the 2NC kings is shut in 2011Shebat, at the end of the
Tetramenes of John4 from 2011Heshvan1].
11 Afterwards/later the remaining virgins
[not said to be the foolish ones so the split
might be 3:7 or 4:6 rather than 5:5] also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord,
open to us!' [Accept us as a
Lord!]
12 In answer he said, 'I tell you the
truth, I do not know you.' [You have not yet had a
spirit baptism and you will not get one in the case of the failed 1NC Kings. You
have not yet had one but you will now get one in the case of the 2NC Lords]
13 Keep on the watch, therefore, because you [said
virgins] know neither the day [of
Jesus coming into the LWs through the 1NC reserves to get married: 2011Heshvan1 -
2011Tebbeth14] nor the hour
[midnight? Or the middle of the first new
Passover
night 2011Heshvan14] (Matthew 25).
29 And
it came about that at midnight Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land
of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn
of the captive who was in the prison hole, and every firstborn of beast.
30 Then
Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all [other] Egyptians; and
there began arising a great cry among the Egyptians, because there was
not a house where there was not one dead (Exodus 12).
Or is the bridegroom Gordon here of the 2NC?
So Lords have to be spiritual virgins too??
There are 120,00 Kings and Lords with heavenly baptism from the Watchtower (Nineveh of Jonah 4). So there are discreet Lords. So the 5 discreet and the 5 foolish overlap.