Did the Foolish Virgins Have Oil? Yes or No with Explanation?
No.
The Bible says, “They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them” (Matthew 25:3). And when the cry came, they said, “Our lamps are going out,” and they tried to borrow and then went to buy (Matthew 25:8-10). Now notice, if they had oil, they wouldn’t need to borrow or go purchase it.
You see, the lamp is the profession; the oil is the Holy Spirit. They were virgins—clean—but without the Oil they had no light when the Bridegroom came, so they were not ready.
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- Some Teach That The foolish virgins Must Have Had Some Oil for Their Lamps to Light Up at All and What the Actually Lacked Was Extra Oil. Is This True
No. That is not true. The parable draws a sharp line: some had oil; some did not. Scriptural explanation: - "They that were foolish took their la
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Washing Jesus' feet
57-0310A §23
And when he wiped it off from his neck and from his hands, that oil had an odor about it, a beautiful odor, a real fragrance. What it was, it was made out of a certain little apple---the apple of the rose that had been... After the petals drop off, then it leaves a little apple. And this apple is found way in Arabia, very expensive. They crush this apple; and when they do, then they get the ointment out of it and put it in this oil. This oil would deteriorate if it wasn't for the sake of the perfume that goes into...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §23
Now, we left off on... Let's for just a few moments review of that now. And then ... we left off on the power of the wine, what the oil represented---Spirit. (I guess you all got it all down. You'll find it on the tape, if you didn't, and where to find the scriptures.) ... that the oil always symbolizes the Holy Spirit, like the foolish virgins with no oil and the wise virgins with oil, which is the Holy Spirit, and then on back in the prophets and so forth. And now, of course, I don't try to pull out every scriptu...
Seals 5: The Third Seal
63-0320 §121
Now oil typifies Spirit, and wine symbolizes stimulation of revelation. Boy, I like to run all over the place! It's a wonder I didn't wake up the neighborhood when the Lord showed me that. Stimulation of revelation, see. Oil and wine in the Bible is associated together, always. I got the concordance and looked, and there's a string of them like that, where wine and oil goes together all the time. See?
Sir, we would see Jesus
62-0724 §69
So here we find this young girl. She come out. She's a young woman, probably in her early twenties. She came out... Now, I've been in the Orient. I know the customs. It never changes. Now the reason she didn't go early with the virgins to the well to get water, she wasn't permitted to. They don't associate together. And so, she had to go out later. So here she come out along about noon. And you ought to see the way they pack water. They got a great big... It isn't a bucket; it's a clay pot. It holds about three gal...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §118
Reason... Like they got women on the police forces out on the streets. That's a disgrace to the American flag, to put them mothers out there on the street, and tens of thousands of men without a job. Why, it's a woman's nation. It's a woman's place. A woman will take over. It's woman-worship. It's that Catholic dogmatic spirit, worshipping a woman for a god. Here's that... It's just sitting right. Don't you see the setup? There's nothing that God could have give a man any sweeter than a wife, a real wife. But when...