Matthew
25 speaks of TEN virgins, five of them have OIL in their lamps
while
five had none. Those with oil were able to enter the Bridegroom’s Wedding
Supper
- typing the Rapture of
the Holy-Ghost filled Church. Who are the Wise and Foolish Virgins?
Apostle
Paul talks about the Christian church and he likened her to a
“chaste
virgin” espoused to one Husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. The church is
considered
to be the “Bride” of Jesus Christ.
In II
Corinthians 11:2, Apostle Paul wrote: “For I am jealous over you
with
godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present [you as] a
chaste
virgin to Christ”.
The
church is supposed to be a “virgin” of the Word, free from manmade
dogmas,
creeds and traditions. Christ will be coming for a Bride that is
without
spot, blameless, and
without wrinkle. Jesus, as the Bible teaches, comes three times.
First, to redeem His Bride at
the Cross of Calvary.
Second, to claim His Bride in the rapture.
Third, to reign with His Bride
in the millennium. The church, His bride, ought to be prepared with
holiness and zeal right
now in order for her to be counted worthy of the great “Marriage
Supper of the Lamb in
heaven.” She ought to have worn the wedding garment at this very
moment, which is the robe
of righteousness of Jesus Christ. Christ is coming like a thief in
the night. The Bride must
be ready and must free herself from any form of spiritual fornication.
Spiritual
fornication takes place when the church accepts hybridized
man-made
teachings not based on the Bible- the Word of God. A woman
that lives
not according to God’s
Word is considered a “whore” and a “harlot” before God’s sight. The
true church must walk in
the Light of the Gospel and must be led by the Holy Spirit. She must
proclaim the pure Word of
God to this generation. She must bear “the mind of Christ in her,”
and not the mind of the
world.
This perfect unity of the
Bride and the Spirit has been written in the Book of
Revelation
22:17 saying, “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.
And let him that
heareth
say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take
the
water of
life freely.”
John the
beloved saw the church in her position as Christ’s wife, for she
has been impregnated by the
Word of God. In Revelation 19:7, the Word of God exhorts us saying:
“Let
us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the
Lamb is come,
and his wife hath made herself ready.” The Bride is truly “flesh
of Christ’s
flesh
and bones of His bones”.
The
parable of the ten virgins of Matthew 25 talks about the two
categories
of Christian believers in the church-body today. One
that’s dilatory and
lukewarm, (as
evident in her having a lamp that’s gone out of oil), and one
that’s on fire
for God, having her lamp
constantly burning.
“OIL”
SYMBOLIZES THE “BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT”
“Oil” in
the Scriptures symbolizes the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit”.The
Bride of
Christ needs “OIL” desperately today in order for her to walk in
the Light, as “He
is in
the Light”. Those virgins with “oil” in their lamps were able to make it
to the rapture.
While those virgins
without the ‘oil” were left behind in the Tribulation Period,
wailing,
weeping and gnashing
their teeth.
One day,
Jesus will close the door of grace
upon those that are without the “OIL”
and will rapture only those that have been filled with it.
While
the foolish virgins were away trying to find the “Baptism of the
Holy
Ghost” in their lives, Christ and the true Bride goes away for the
“honeymoon”
in heaven. She will be taken off the scene for three and a half
years
while this earth undergoes purging through the Tribulation Period.
Today is the most critical hour
wherein all the foolish virgins are looking for “oil”. The foolish virgins
are those Christians that
still belong to the denominations and who are trying their best to be
able to speak in tongues,
shout and dance in the Spirit, and get into a spiritual revival. And
while they are into that
situation today, they didn’t know that the wise virgins have already
possessed the “OIL”
that’s required for the rapture. This “OIL” they have received through
the “shout” - the End
Time Message which gave them a clear understanding of the hidden
mysteries of God, which
in turn, gives them “rapturing faith” which is the true Baptism of
the Holy
Ghost. Once the rapture takes place, the foolish virgins will realize
that they
were left behind because
the Tribulation Period had begun to set in. Caught between
choosing whether to
receive the “Mark of the Beast” or to die for their faith, the foolish
virgins will give their
lives in martyrdom and leave their denominations for all denominations
will be controlled by the
Beast (Rome) and the Image of the Beast (WCC). They will choose
to die rather than be
damned by the Antichrist system.
SCRIPTURE
READING: MATTHEW 25:1-13
1 ¶ Then
shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which
took their
lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And
five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish.
3 They
that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the
wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While
the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at
midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh;
go ye
out to
meet him.
7 Then
all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the
foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone
out.
9 But
the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and you:
but
go ye
rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready
went in
with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But
He answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch
therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son
of man
cometh.
A
MIDNIGHT CRY
Take
note that in the preceding Scriptures, there was a “cry” made
in the
evening time shouting,
“Behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him”. A “cry”
symbolizes a calling out
from a deep slumber or sleep. The people had been sleeping in
man-made denominations,
and God calls them out. A ‘cry” is a “shout” or a “Message”
to
call out the Bride from
amongst the seven church ages.
Matthew
25: 1-13 parallels 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 which says “The Lord
Himself
shall descend from heaven with a “shout”, with a “voice” of the
archangel, and with
the
“trump” of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive
shall be
caught
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”. This is
about the
rapture, the catching
away of the wise virgins.
The parable of the wise
and the foolish virgins applies to our generation, for we
are now at the very brink
of the coming of the Lord (His physical appearing). Every
denominational Christian
today is looking for the ‘Baptism of the Holy Spirit.” But according
to Matthew 25, not
everybody will get it. The wise virgins went in, but the foolish virgins
were left behind.
REVELATION
14:9-11: 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a
loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive
[his] mark in his
forehead,
or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is
poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall
be tormented
with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence
of the
Lamb: 11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they
have no
rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever
receiveth
the mark
of his name.”
“DILATORY”
MEANS “LUKEWARM”
One
characteristic of the FOOLISH VIRGINS is that of being “DILATORY”.
“DILATORY” means living
in a state of a “LUKEWARM” condition. The question comes up
now, “Aren’t there also
End-Time Message believers who are lukewarm?” Does not the
prophet teach us that
there are “THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS” in the church?
Let us take note that not
all Israelites who recognized Moses as a true prophet in
the days of the Exodus
has crossed over to the Promised Land. Let us also take note that not
all who followed Jesus
our Messiah or have sit under Jesus’ ministry in His days have lived
and followed His
teachings to the dot. I say, therefore, that not all who follow and believe in
the
teachings of William Branham will be saved in the same
manner. Salvation is an
individual affair with
God and it has to bring forth a life lived that’s truly worthy of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Though
the Message is broadcast to all, only the predestinated ones can
manifest the life of the
Message. Knowing the messenger of the Hour and symphatizing
with the
End-Time Message does not fully guarantee anyone of the rapture. By
their
fruits ye shall know them.The rapture will be “two in the bed, one
will be taken,
one
left; two in the field, one will be taken, one left.” The
evidence of election and predestination
must be a life of the
Message lived through us, not just in “word only, but in deed” as well.
Jesus
Christ is the Message-of-the-Hour. Brother Branham was just our
Eliazar, bringing the
Bride (Rebekah) to the full knowledge of Jesus Christ (Isaac). Brother
Branham was a son of man
(prophet) revealing the Son of Man (God in flesh). Brother
Branham stood just like
John the Baptist stood: “I must decrease, so that He, Jesus, the
revealed Word, can
increase.” God wants to see in us the same life that Jesus had. That’s
what God is looking for
in the Bride of today.
THE
THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS
In the
Message of the Hour, Brother Branham said that there will be
THREE
KINDS of BELIEVERS, that’s in every assembly. Meaning, all THREE will
be
represented in EVERY
LOCAL CHURCH anywhere around the world (with no exceptions).
“That's the unbelievers,
the make-believers, and the believers. Them three still
exist everywhere across
the world. They've always have, and they always will.”
(GO.AWAKE.JESUS.title
SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-9 63-1130E)
1. THE
UNBELIEVER
The
UNBELIEVER attends church but without the revelation of the Word.
He or
she just attends church just to show “a form of godliness”
but he/she denies
the power thereof. He or
she looks at church-going as a mere ritualistic tradition or a sort
of enforced duty. The unbeliever
joins church just to please his family, or a
boyfriend or girlfriend,
or those who had requested his/her presence to be there. (But
remember that God has no
grandchildren. Everyone must experience the new birth or else
you’re not saved). When
they hear something from the preaching of the Word that’s hard
for them to take, off
they go as fast as they can. An unbeliever has no revelation of the
Message and is blind to
the actual truth of the hour.
2. THE
MAKE BELIEVER
The
MAKE-BELIEVER seemingly have the revelation of the Word, is
able
to impersonate signs and
wonders and gifts of the Spirit, but is still a hypocrite and a
“borderline believer”.
Just like Judas and Balaam, make-believers will betray the Word for
money, will always find
fault with their pastor, and find fault with the church. If given the
chance and the
opportunity to be famous and to make it big time, he will betray anyone else
for personal gain. A
make-believer cannot be trusted.
3. THE
TRUE BELIEVER
The TRUE
BELIEVER is the only one that’s considered in the rapture. He
or she believes the full
Word of God. Only he or she can manifest the life of Jesus Christ in
these last days. The true
believers are the ones that’s truly baptized with the TRUE Baptism
of the
Holy Ghost in the SOUL, and are considered by God as the Bride of Christ,
the
“Wise Virgins”
that will go in the rapture. She is elected and predestinated by God before
the foundation of the
world to believe the truth.
LEFT
BEHIND
Only
those who are the TRUE BELIEVERS will go in the rapture. Once the
RAPTURE
had come and gone, those Christians who are LEFT BEHIND will include
people
who claim to believe this End Time Message yet belong to the first TWO
CATEGORIES
of (1) UNBELIEVERS or (2) MAKE-BELIEVERS. They have heard of the
Message and were raised
under it. They will undoubtedly, go on with their church rituals
and will still believe
they will be saved, even if the TRUE BELIEVERS are GONE already.
Right
immediately after the Bride is gone in the rapture, the Mark
of the
Beast will be
implemented throughout all the world. No man can buy and sell except those
who have the MARK of the
BEAST. Rome along with her daughters, the protestant Churches,
will initiate its last
and final INQUISITION and will persecute ALL PEOPLES who will not bow
down to the IMAGE erected
unto the BEAST. Once that happens, the purging of the foolish
virgins, along with the
purging of the 144,000 Jews, will include in the purging of all so called
“Message Believers” who
were LEFT BEHIND. That is a pitiful situation
“DIE OR
COMPROMISE”
The Anti-Christ BEAST
SYSTEM will NOT let the people choose to “DENY JESUS
CHRIST OR MEET YOUR
DEATH” just like they did during the Dark Ages in their most
Un-Holy
Inquisition when they burnt at stake, fed to lions, the true Christians that
stood by the
true Gospel. Why is this
so? It is because all denominations today, both Catholic and
Protestants,
all are claiming to serve and love JESUS. Undeniably, all
denominations
today serve a JESUS of
their own creed.
But WHO and
WHERE is the REAL JESUS of today? JESUS is none other
than the
“REVEALED WORD” of the Hour (Luke 17:30).
The true CHRIST
(“ANOINTED ONE” - to whom the Word of the Lord comes to [Amos 3:7])
has always been rejected
and persecuted by the people of the world. Every true servant
and true prophet that God
sent was hated, scorned and persecuted by the modern world.
This same Jesus who
lambasted the Pharisees and the Sadducees in His day has the same
message unto all
denominations of today through His prophet. He is crying this same
message of rebuke: “By
your traditions (creeds and dogmas), you have made the Word of
God of no effect to the
people.”
credits: The Handbook
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