SCHOOL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

SCHOOL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Five Wise Virgins

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THE FIVE WISE VIRGINS AND THE WIFE WHO MADE HERSELF READY

The Five wise virgins is a parable that Jesus uses to reveal mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. He references the Church as whole, and each individual member on what strategies we must take in order to receive favor and how to please Him so that He may call us by name Rev 3:5. This parable has profound meaning in terms of how the Church should prepare herself in the end times, specifically from the 11th to the 12th hour, waiting for His return. This parable aligns perfectly with the story of Esther's own preparation process before being presented to king Ahasuerus. Those who are not prepared will not make it into the marriage of the lamb, because they did not pay the price of intimacy with Holy Spirit. Esther was being groomed to become a bridal queen for the king by Hagai the eunuch--Whom represents Holy Spirit (Esther 2:1215). The Body of Christ, the Church, or The bride of Christ is likewise in an Esther preparation moment! Just like the five wise virgins represent the true Church and Bride of Christ (Matt 25); the wife that has made herself ready (Rev 19:7) with the helper Holy Spirit. (conclusion) Esther went through 12 months of preparation and out of those 12 months, "six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women.?(Esther 2:12)" I'll say it again, "We are in an Esther 2:12 moment right now!" First the deep internal character preparation and then the outer beautifying. Have you made yourself ready individually and overcame to be clothed in white garments (Rev 3:5)? Will you be found faithful and worthy of your new name to be confessed before the Father and His angels?

"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, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. "And at midnight a cry was heard: `Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, `Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, saying, `No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us!' But he answered and said, `Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

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--Matthew 25:1-13

ESTHER 2:12 MOMENT IN TIME

Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months' preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Thus prepared, each young woman went to the king, and she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the women's quarters to the king's palace. In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines. She would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and called for her by name. Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king' s eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her. So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king. (Esther 2:12-18) First 6 months with oil of myrrh (death to old self), Second 6 months (prayers and consecrations) Preparation Beautifying [the beauty of holiness] Each had to go prepared before the king. She was also told she could have whatever dress or apparels to take in to impress the king. In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return the second house of women to a certain eunuch Shaashgaz (the keeper of the concubines). The second house would be exclusively for the kings concubines. Hegai was in charge of the heram. She requested nothing, but only what the Holy Spirit advised.

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JEWISH CUSTOM, THE BETROTHAL, AND THE PREPARATION

The story of the five wise virgin is a story directly related to the friends of the bride. In the Jewish custom the marriage process includes several phases which are longer than what we are accustomed to in the western world. First is the betrothal; where the covenant is established with the price of the bride is negotiated with the bride's family. The negotiations for us happened at the table with the 12 disciples, during communion. When the 12 drank the wine and ate the bread, as the representative of the bride herself accepting the betrothal. The second part is the preparation; this part is where the bride would take nine to twelve months in preparation awaiting for her husband who has returned to his father's home to build a place for her to live in. This would be a time also to prove that she was not pregnant already. She would be surrounded and encouraged by other virgins who would help keep her pure in the waiting process (We as ministers along with Holy Spirit are those who prepare the bride in the waiting as the virgins). The third part is the Arrival of the Groom; this is the part the parable of the five wise virgins comes into play. Usually once the groom would finish building the place at his fathers' home he would return, and as the custom goes he usually came at night, and the groom would be accompanied by a wedding party. They would come parading in the streets at night with lights and torches waking everyone up, so the whole town would know that the groom is on the way. The bride and the friend of the bridegroom would hear the commotion, and would have to get up in the middle of the night and prepare quickly to be ready. Imagine the bride not having all her make up with her, she would have to go searching for everything all at once. It was very important that they all had lamps and oil for those lamps in order to find things and prepare their clothes and make up. This would entail that the bride and the friends of the bridegrooms would have to be always prepared neither knowing the hour the groom would come. The fourth part would be off course the wedding party or the wedding celebration which would take about seven days. The bride with her entourage of virgins would accompany the groom and his friends back to the home which he has been preparing to consecrate the marriage. The best man would stand at the door and everyone outside of the house cheering. Once the consecration happens the bride would bring out the proof or evidence of her virginity which would be bloodied and stained sheets for all outside to see. Then the celebrations would continue for about a week or seven days.

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The lamps are indicative to represent each spirit being illuminated with the light or revelation of the coming bridegroom King--Jesus (the gospel). The Oil is a representation of Holy Spirit. Although this light, cannot remain constant in time without re-fueling it with a deep intimacy relationship in the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Holy Spirit keeps us prepared, trained, equipped, comforted, loved, groomed, rested in His presence, and kept in Holiness and purity in Him until the King's return. The preparation includes deep prayer and intercession, consecration and separation, preparation in the washing of the water of the Word of God. Without this illumination from the bridegroom king, we are unable to see the hope of the coming bridegroom. The oil is consumable as time. It is necessary to buy this oil of intimacy each day, in order to accumulate what's necessary, during hard times of slumber. This oil cannot be purchased all at once, but each day provide each own portion. Some of the biblical prophetic symbols for perfume or incense is fervent prayer and intercession. The other is the cosmetics; I believe would be the same glory that shone on Moses face, from being with the Lord.

The five wise virgin represent the true church and bride; the wife that has made herself ready (Rev 19:7). Those who are not prepared will not make it into the marriage of the lamb, because they did not pay the price of intimacy. It's like Esther being groomed for being as a bridal queen for the king by Hagai the eunuch--which represents Holy Spirit (Esther 2:12-15). The body of Christ is in an Esther preparation moment! The five wise virgins represent the true Church and Bride of Christ (Matt 25); the wife that has made herself ready (Rev 19:7) with the helper Holy Spirit. Esther went through 12 months of preparation and out of those "six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women.?(Esther 2:12)" I'll say it again, "We are in an Esther 2:12 moment right now!" First the deep internal character preparation then the outer beautifying. Have you made yourself ready individually and overcame to be clothed in white garments (Rev 3:5)? Will you be found faithful and worthy of your new name to be confessed before the Father and His angels?

He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. (Revelation 3:5)

The five wise virgins generally represent the successful true Church and Bride of Christ (Matt 25); or the wife that has made herself ready (Rev 19:7) with the help of Holy Spirit. The "friends of the bride" are the ten virgins indicative of ministers of the gospel or the fivefold minister (Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastors, and Teachers) who were all called to co-labor. The five foolish virgins on the other hand, are the ministers who supposedly were also called to be friends of the

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bride, but were not prepared adequately in works, labor, patience, service, intimacy (love), faith, and stewardship (also compared to the seven churches in the book of Revelations) and did not finish well. Their main job were to partner along with Holy Spirit (co-labor) in-order to keep the bride a pure virgin, holy and blameless, without spot or wrinkles as stated in Ephesians 5:27: "that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish." Esther went through 12 months of preparation and out of those "six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women.?(Esther 2:12)" Twelve months is representative of the government of God as Holy Spirit is working partnering with His ministers in molding and preparing us for the bridegroom. The twelve months to me doesn't only mean the literal one year time period, but a prophetic symbol for our full lifetime of preparation from this life to the next one (12 months at a time or a year at time). The government of God will judge this life's preparation time for the reward into the next one. First six months represents purification before beautification or the purging with fire and cleansing before beautification.

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