Where Then Do the Foolish Virgins Come From, If They Are Not in Mystery Babylon?
Direct Answer
They are a separate, clean-living, professing class who did not receive the Oil of the Holy Spirit. They are “virgins” because they are not part of the harlot system; yet they are “foolish” because, when the midnight cry sounded, they had no Oil and missed the door. They do not remain in Mystery Babylon; they pass into the tribulation, and later appear as the “sheep” at the White Throne—saved, but not the Bride nor in the Millennium.
Scriptural Explanation
- Matthew 25:1–13 shows two virgin groups. Both are virgins (clean), but the foolish lack Oil. When the cry came, the wise entered; the foolish arrived after, and the door was shut.
- “Virgin” stands opposite to “harlot” (Revelation 17–18). Babylon is a harlot; virgins are not her. “Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4) draws the Bride fully out; the foolish respond too late, without Oil.
- The Bride is the called‑out, Spirit‑filled company with the Lamb (Revelation 7:9–17) and reigns with Christ (Revelation 20:4). The foolish virgins are not shown reigning.
- Those who miss the door face trial and witness under pressure (compare Revelation 12:17). They do not sit on thrones, but later stand at the White Throne as the “sheep” who inherit life (Matthew 25:31–34; Revelation 20:11–15). They are granted life, yet not Bride position.
Simple Clarifying Logic
- “Virgin” means not joined to the harlot; “harlot” is Babylon. So foolish virgins are not Babylon’s daughters; they are clean professors who lacked the Holy Spirit.
- When the cry came, the wise had Oil and went in; the foolish went to obtain it and found the door shut. Missing the Rapture, they are proven in the tribulation and come up at the White Throne as the sheep—saved, but not reigning.
Reinforcing statement
Now notice, the Bride hears and goes in; Babylon’s children share her plagues; the foolish virgins are neither—clean, late, and not sealed in time. The Bride reigns; the foolish are saved at the end, but outside the Bride.
Existing Follow-Up Answers
- 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 virgi
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 6:E-7
...ale and female. There were two chickens--rooster and hen. There were two cattle, the cow and the bull. And right down the line. But when it came to man, there was only one. They were not a pair. Adam had been made in the image of God. He was a son of God. As a son of God he could not be tempted and fall. That would be impossible. So God took a byproduct of man to cause the fall. Woman never stepped fresh from the hand of God as a true product of God. She was produced from man. And when God caused her to be brought...
Why are we not a denomination?
58-0927 §120
...ow, right in there; show it's a mother, the Catholic church the mother of all of it, how she's "Mother, Mystery Babylon." And that's ... look, this church age here when she come out, she had a little light. Then she went getting dimmer, dimmer, and then she come into an organization back here, this fifteen hundred years. And she come out now: not as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but as the Catholic church. What did Luther come out? As the Lutheran church. What did the Baptist come out? As the Baptist church. N...
Five definite identifications of the true Church
60-0911E §36
...he was called "Mystery, Babylon" (we know that's the Catholic church), but notice, she's the mother of harlots. What's a harlot? The same thing that she is, the whore. Now, where did these organizations come from? There's their mother, that's what they are to begin with. Then you say, "That's the antichrist." That's true. Then if that's antichrist, then what about our organizations? Just as harlot and whore is the same thing: committing adultery, committing fornications, accepting false things because of the mind a...
Why are we not a denomination?
58-0927 §32
Look. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colors, ... decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication: Now friends, we're not reading a daily newspaper, we're reading God's eternal and blessed Word. All heavens and earth will pass, but that Word will remain! That's right. And upon her head was written a name ... [was a name written, rather], MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, THE ABOMINATION OF THE...
Why are we not a denomination?
58-0927 §66
...whore, immoral woman. What made her immoral? Her doctrine. She was pretending to be a Christian church, but was giving out man-made dogma. And here she said that she had... If she was the first organization, then seems like there's some organizations come out of her. She was the mother of harlots. Is that right? A mother of harlots. Couldn't be a mother, now, of boys. Couldn't be a mother of... It had to be mother of women. And if they were women, they were churches. Now let's find out. What come out of the...