A Place In the Wilderness

or as it must be. This book is a call for all Christians to come out of all kinds of spiritual befuddlement. It is a call to wake up from the spiritual slumber in which so many Christians may find themselves. This book is a shout from the rooftop! The Lord's coming is close! The Lord's coming is near! Are we ready? Are our hearts prepared? Can we stand before the Lord at His judgment seat, giving account for all we have done while on this earth, and pass through that judgment into His joy? The Lord is coming. Are we ready?

Matt. 25:1-2 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

Wise or Foolish?

Consider the verses at the beginning of Matthew 25. Here we see 10 virgins: five of them are wise, and five are foolish. The five wise enter into the wedding feast, to participate in the exultant joy in the Millennial Kingdom with the wonderful Lord Jesus. However, the five foolish virgins are shut out from that jubilant time. We must all ask ourselves as believers in Christ, am I a wise virgin or a foolish virgin? Do not think that the wise virgins are believers and the foolish are unbelievers. No unbeliever is considered a virgin before the Lord – rather, it is us believers who have been espoused to Christ as a chaste virgin. However, even though we have been espoused to Him, according to Matthew 25 we may be foolish or wise. We may have oil only in our lamps, or we may have oil in our vessels as well. The oil is the Holy Spirit, of course. The lamp is our human spirit. The vessel is us, our selves, our souls. As believers we all have the Holy Spirit in our human spirit. That is to have oil in our lamps. But how many of us have “purchased” the oil necessary to fill our vessels? How many of us have the Spirit fully saturating our souls?

2 Preparing For the Lord's Return

Remember the apostle Paul’s word to the Galatians, "O foolish Galatians!” Paul saw that the Galatian believers had been distracted from God’s New Testament way of walking according to the Spirit to gain Christ, back to the Old Testament way of following the law. They had been distracted from gaining Christ, from gaining the Spirit as the oil for their vessels. How about us?