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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Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §52
Now, on these, the four... You notice, it stopped on November the 11th at eleven o'clock in the day: the eleventh month in the year, the eleventh day in the month, and the eleventh hour in the day. You remember what Jesus said about that? One went into the vineyard and worked at one time, one got a penny. And the next one went. Then there was eleventh-hour people. Was that right? There they are: the eleventh-hour people that's been held back. Now it's getting time for them to come in, and they are gathering out of...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 3
64-0404 §95
The Bible said, when they come, said, "Give us some of your oil." They said ... the sleeping virgin... They realized they had all that time to get oil, but they didn't do it. So when the bridegroom was just about to come, they said, "Give us some of your oil." They said, "We just got enough for ourselves. You go buy it from them that sell." And while they were gone the bridegroom come, and the bride went in. And they were cast into outer darkness, to wake up and find out the rapture was gone and they were left, whe...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §84
Now you remember that they every one was on their road to meet the bridegroom. Now, if God only respects that, then He'd have to take them, too. But you remember the same thing, how the parable the other night, when God spoke to us in the church age, and said that Balaam, the doctrine of Balaam...? Now, here stood Balaam, which was a fine, great big, organized nation. And they were believers in God, because look what Balak done when he come down. Balaam, rather. He offered the very same sacrifice to the very same G...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §38
What a beautiful parallel here we could run, if we want to get back to Ezekiel 4 [9] and find out there that He said... (Has anything like this happened before?) He looked at the high walls, and when he did, he seen abominations done in the city. And there went ... come forth four men with slaughtering weapons. And they went forth to slaughter everything through the city of Jerusalem. And before they went to slaughter, they held ... stopped them, for there was another one came dressed in white, with a writer's inkh...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §50
So then, this ... all of them was marching to war. You well remember in 1914. Now isn't it strange---right in "The Decline of the World War," (I have the volumes of it) in volume two, about page forty-four---that they do not know to this day who stopped that war? Kaiser Wilhelm said he never issued no such a thing. But all of a sudden it stopped, and nobody knows why. They were fighting. Here come ... up front, come... It was ... the war was over, and they had already signed a treaty of peace, knowing not what happ...