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We all prophesy in part and know in part. Even His disciples that are fruitful are to expect more pruning to bear more fruit per John 15:1-2 We can never stop growing in the knowledge of the Lord until that day when we see Him face to face.Then why does every dispensationalist pastor teach that? Some of them are very knowledgeable and honorable men who dare to speak up on a lot of social issues which no other pastors bother to touch. And they used this ancient custome as an analogy to back it up, that groom would come by surprise and snatch his bride in the middle of the night, then they kind of eloped for a honeymoon, and everybody else was wondering where they'd gone? And who knows if there was really such a custome.
Yet the five that were foolish, knew they were left behind. What is also overlooked is that those ten virgins are the kingdom of heaven and so they miss out on the wedding supper but still part of the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 25:1-13Doesn't sound like what Jesus described in the wedding feast and the ten virgin parables.
This is where the prodigal son gave up his inheritance for wild living and although he can never get it back, he will find that he is still son.
Jesus is warning saved believers to be ready as found abiding in Him or else; John 15:1-8 & Luke 12:40-49 and that includes being willing to leave this life and not love the treasures on earth to not want to leave without them Luke 17:26-37