Are There Foolish Virgins in Every Age? If Yes, Which Tribulation Do They Pass Through in the 1st to 6th Ages?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. In every church age there were clean‑living professors without the Oil. But the prophetic company called “the foolish virgins” who knock after the door is shut belongs to the generation at the coming of the Bridegroom. Those alive in the last age who lack the Oil miss the Rapture and go into the Great Tribulation. In the 1st–6th ages, those in that condition died in their times; they did not enter the end‑time Great Tribulation, but will rise at the White Throne as the “sheep,” not the Bride and not in the Millennium.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Matthew 25:1–13 shows two virgin classes and a single door‑shut event tied to the Bridegroom’s coming. Those ready go in; the others come after and are shut out.
- Luke 13:25 speaks of a once‑for‑all door being shut—this matches the end‑time separation when He comes.
- Revelation 3:14–22 describes the last age (Laodicea): professing, yet blind and naked—many without the Spirit’s Oil.
- Revelation 3:10 promises the true, kept ones will be kept from the hour of trial that comes on all the world—implying the unkept face that hour.
- Matthew 24:21 identifies that unparalleled “Great Tribulation” as an end‑time event.
- Revelation 20:4 shows the Bride reigning in the Millennium; Revelation 20:5 and 20:11–15 show the rest rising after the thousand years at the White Throne. Matthew 25:31–34 shows the “sheep” inheriting life there.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- The condition (virgin yet without Oil) has existed in every age; but the door‑shut crisis happens once—at His coming. Therefore only the last‑age foolish go into the Great Tribulation after missing the Rapture.
- In the 1st–6th ages, those lacking the Oil died under ordinary persecutions and pressures of their times (Acts 14:22), but not the end‑time Great Tribulation of Matthew 24:21. They do not reign in the Millennium (Revelation 20:4); they appear later at the White Throne as the “sheep” (Matthew 25:31–34; Revelation 20:11–15).
4) Reinforcing statement
Now notice, the Bride is kept from that final hour and goes in; the last‑age foolish face the Great Tribulation; the earlier‑age foolish died before it and await the White Throne—saved as “sheep,” but not the Bride and not in the Millennium.
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Church Ages, part 2: The Patmos Vision
60-1204E §4
And we use the word sometimes as predestination, but it's a sure hanger in this church age that we live in. It was certainly a great thing used in the days of the martyrs, 'cause they certainly believed it. But it's got away from it now, to the legalist ideas---the legalist teaching in the church, which come... Which was a good thing, because all of it had gone Calvanistic in England, till they didn't even have revivals anymore. And John Wesley come along, preaching the Arminian doctrine which balanced it up. God w...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §56
See, the angel of the Lord is on earth now, see. He's moving around, fixing everything for the coming of the Lord. And it's the same angels that's heard the sin ... when they went down to Sodom, and they said, "We have come down to see if these things are so, what we've heard." You remember that? And one angel went down in... One stayed with Abraham, the elect. Sodom was down here, and Lot was in Sodom. And two angels went down there and preached to them, and brought that little bitty group out---sleeping virgin, s...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §132
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Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §161
Now, here's what to make it. Now to show where this borderline where this... I'm trying to bring this virgin up to you, see, so you'll understand. Now in the borderline believer, watch what taken place. When they come to Kadesh-barnea, the children of Israel... I just took it back and forth in Genesis, and back and forth to Exodus, and everywhere else, trying to type it for you, you see, so that the class won't miss it.
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §28
A young couple might get married, and say, "Our first little boy, we're going to call John." If he's never born, John's never here. That's all. The same thing: how many mythical ideas you build up about heaven, how great it is ... if you're not born again you'll not be there. That's just all, see. It's just got to be that way, 'cause it's got to be a birth. God has laid His laws down, and everything works according to His laws, see.