As Scripture presents promise after promise, fulfillment after fulfillment, glory after glory, the Christian rejoices, delights, and takes strength from the Word of the Lord concerning the one who came to Earth and the one who is coming again. He rejoices in it because He believes God. He rejoices in the Word of the Lord because He believes in the Lord of the Word.

Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise…

Matthew 25:1-2 NKJV

When God called Moses to meet with Him on Mt. Sinai, He told Moses to bring Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 elders. They went up, saw the Lord, and lived. They even went so far as to eat and drank in the presence of God. Nevertheless, Nadab and Abihu perished in their sin. Even though that one day on the mountain they saw God and lived they were not saved. Why?

The Lord Jesus Christ in the week of his betrayal told many great things to his twelve disciples. He had told them that He Himself was the way the truth and life. He told them that if they had seen Him then they had seen the Father. He told them He was leaving them to prepare a mansion in Heaven for them. When the night of His betrayal came after three years of ministry, miracles, signs, wonders, and preaching, eleven of the twelve would be saved, one would betray Jesus. Why?

Both the wise and the unwise virgins in Christ’s parable had been sitting in the church under the preaching of the word.

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