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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Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §12
..., I believe. If we find out we start something here, and it doesn't come out right, you see, we've made a mistake somewhere. You've got to come back. You'll never figure it with your mind. It just isn't... We just found out by the Scriptures that there's no man in Heaven, or in earth or beneath the earth, or ever was, or ever will be that can do it. The Lamb alone can do it. So seminary explanations, whatever it might be, is just nothing. It takes the Lamb to reveal it. That's all. So we trust that He will help us.
Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §118
Now let's find the symbols. We found what the thunder means. That is perfectly, we know that. The thunder was the voice of God when the Seal opens. Now, what does the white horse mean? Now, here is where the revelation comes. I am just as positive of this as I'm standing here and knowing this is the Word. I have read every book on it I could find. And with a... The last time that I was... tried to go through it, just teaching it, about thirty years ago, I took the book... Somebody had told me that the Adventists ha...
Questions and Answers
59-0628E §61
QUESTION: Now, here is another one; let's see what it is. All right. Please explain the parable of the five virgins. Does a Christian sin? Now, the parable of the five virgins ... or, the ten virgins, it is, please excuse me. The ten virgins is found in Matthew 25:1. Ten virgins went out to meet the bridegroom (now notice!), and five of them were wise and had oil in their lamps, five were unwise and did not have oil in their lamps. While they slumbered, the cry come, "Go meet the bridegroom." And the ones that had...
Seals 9: Questions and Answers on the Seals
63-0324M §19
Now, the first one here: QUESTION: Are the five wise virgins of Matthew 25 attendants to the bride, or are they the bride? If these wise virgins are attendants to the bride, where is the bride? Now, to the best of my understanding, these five virgins... There were ten of them, you know, that went out, and this here is only a symbol or a parable, see, that I'm going to tell you. See, there were ten of them. Of course, there were more than ten---that was just made a number. But then, the wise virgins had oil in their...
Seals 5: The Third Seal
63-0320 §120
Notice, here's the good part now. Notice, "See that thou hurt not this wine and oil." Just a little bit of it left, brother. "Don't you touch that." Now, oil is ... symbolizes the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. I'll give you a few verses if you want to, a few scriptures: in Leviticus 8:12, where Aaron, before he went in, had to be anointed with oil, you know; and Zechariah 4:12, of oil coming, pouring through the pipes, and said, "This is my spirit."---oil. Another thing is if you want to see in Matthew 14 ... 25, there...