Alas, Sovereign God! Speak using proverbs and parables.
Ezekiel 20:49 (reconsidered)
Matthew 25:1-16 (reconsidered)

At end of time, the kingdom of heaven will resemble ten virgins, who take up* their lamps and go forth intending to meet* the bridegroom.
Five of the 10 virgins are thoughtful*, and five of ten act without forethought*.
The imprudent virgins, the ones without forethought, take their lamps but without any oil*, when they depart intending to meet the bridegroom.
The thoughtful virgins take their lamps and extra oil in jars*, when they depart intending to meet the bridegroom.
Additionally, when the bridegroom tarries*, all ten virgins lie down to rest and they fall sleep.
Then, in the midst of night,* a clamoring outcry* arises. “Look! See! The bridegroom has appeared. Come forth* from your bedchambers to meet him!”
So, all the virgins awaken from sleep, and trim the charred wicks of their lamps (put their lamps into working order in preparation to light them).
Then, the imprudent virgins said to the thoughtful virgins, “Give us oil out of your jars because our lamps are extinguished.”*
The thoughtful virgins responded, saying “If, perhaps, there is not be enough oil for us both, you then, should go rather toward the market to buy (redeem)* oil for yourselves.” So, the imprudent virgins go their way to buy (redeem) oil, at the market.
While they are at the market, the bridegroom appears and the virgins who prepared their lamps arise and enter in with the bridegroom to the Marriage Supper.* And, the entrance* (portal) is shut.
Eventually, the remaining virgins come to the entrance also, calling out, “Lord, Lord, open up the entrance for us!” * But the bridegroom responds, “Truly* (truthfully), I tell you, I do not know* you. Farewell”.
Therefore, “Awake! and stay awake!” * Because you cannot discern clearly the day nor the moment in which the Son of Man (the bridegroom) will appear.
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Take up
Mat 16:24 (KJV)- Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mar 10:21 (KJV] – Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, “One thing you lack: go thy way, sell whatsoever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Luke 9:23 (KJV] And he said to [them] all, “If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
Psalms 16:4 (KJV] Their sorrows (pain, hurt, injury, sorrow, wounds) shall be multiplied; those who hasten after another god. Their drink offerings of blood (or wine) do not poured out nor offer, nor will I take up their names (reputations, memorials, who they are) onto my lips.
Meet
1Th 4:16-17 (KJV] – For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Thoughtful
The KJV translates Strong’s G5429 in the following manner: wise (14x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
Fore thought
The KJV translates Strong’s G3474 in the following manner: foolish (7x), fool (5x), foolishness (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
- foolish
- impious, godless
Strong’s Definitions
μωρός mōrós, mo-ros’; probably from the base of G3466; dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, thoughtless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd:—fool(-ish, X -ishness).
Oil
Exodus 25:2 The Lord said to Moses, “Ask the children of Israel to bring me an offering (gift, tribute). Everyone willing to offer freely from his heart, bring an offering of…………olive oil for the Menorah” ( A candelabra of never-ending light. With the added idea of cheerfulness).
Exodus 39:32-33 The work on the tabernacle (God’s residence) for the appointed times (feasts) was finished. The children of Israel accomplished what The Lord commanded Moses to do. Then, they brought the tabernacle (tent) to Moses and brought …….. the pure Menorah (candelabra), the oil burners and the wicks to be set in working order; and all the jars of olive oil for the Menorah.
Leviticus 24:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a law, that the children of Israel bring me pure, beaten olive oil for the Menorah, to cause the light to burn (ascend) continually.”
Jas 5:14 (KJV] Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
Mar 6:13 (NKJV] And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.” Psalm 45:7 and Hebrews 1:9
Jars
The KJV translates Strong’s G30 in the following manner: vessel (2x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
- a vessel, receptacle, a pail, a reservoir
Strong’s Definitions
†ἀγγεῖον angeîon, ang-eye’-on; from ἄγγος ángos (a pail, perhaps as bent; compare the base of G43); a receptacle:—vessel.
Tarries
The KJV translates Strong’s G3306 in the following manner: abide (61x), remain (16x), dwell (15x), continue (11x), tarry (9x), endure (3x), miscellaneous (5x).
Outline of Biblical Usage]
to wait for, await oneHab 2:3 (KJV]- For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
to remain, abide
in reference to place
to sojourn, tarry
not to depart
to continue to be present
to be held, kept, continually
in reference to time
to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure
of persons, to survive, live
in reference to state or condition
to remain as one, not to become another or different
Matt 26:38 (KJV] Then, Jesus said to them, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.”
Mar 14:34 (KJV] And Jesus said unto them, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch”.
Jhn 4:40 (KJV] So when the Samaritans were come unto Jesus, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
Luk 24:49 (KJV] Jesus said, “Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. (This happened on Pentecost when the Father sent the Holy Spirit)
2 Peter 3:9-10 The Lord is not slack announcing his coming (fulfilling his promise), as some rulers of men are slack; to the contrary, The Lord is patient and controls his anger toward us, not willing (desiring) anyone be left behind or sent away, but that all enter into repentance. The day of the Lord will arrive like a thief in the night.
Night
The KJV translates Strong’s G3571 in the following manner: night (63x), in the midst of night, midnight (2x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
- night
- metaphor: the time when work ceases
- the time of death
- the time for deeds of sin and shame
- the time of moral stupidity and darkness
- the time when the weary and also the drunken give themselves up to slumber
Outcry
Outline of Biblical Usage
- a crying, outcry, clamour
Strong’s Definition: κραυγή kraugḗ, krow-gay’; from G2896; an outcry (in notification, tumult or grief):—clamour, cry(-ing).
Come Forth
Rev 4:1 (KJV] After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, “Come up here, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Rev 11:12( KJV] And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, “Come up here. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.”
Extinguished
Proverbs 13:9-The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished.
Proverbs 20:20 (KJV)
Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be extinguished in obscure darkness.
Buy
The KJV translates Strong’s G59 in the following manner: buy (28x), redeem (3x).ἀγοράζω agorázō, ag-or-ad’-zo; from G58; properly, to go to market, i.e. (by implication) to purchase; specially, to redeem:—buy, redeem.
Marriage Supper
Rev 19:7 (KJV] Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
Rev 19:9 (KJV] And he said unto me, “Write, Blessed are they who are called into the marriage supper of the Lamb
Mat 22:2-3, 8-10, 14 (KJV] The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. … So, saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. … For many are called, but few are chosen.
Lord, Lord!
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone that says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ enters the kingdom of heaven; therefore, do (abide, agree, execute, fulfill, keep, observe) the will of my Father in heaven”. Jesus Christ
Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord’ and do not do what I say?” Jesus Christ
I Do Not Know You
[Mat 25:12 KJV] But he answered and said, “Verily I say unto you, I know you not.”
[Luk 13:25, 27 KJV] When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say unto you,” I know you not nor where you come from: … 27 But he shall say,” I tell you, I know you not, nor where you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.”
Awake and Stay Awake
literally: raise up or stand up from sleeping, sitting, resting, disease and/or death. figuratively: arouse from inactivity, obscurity, ruin, and nonexistence; lest some destructive calamity suddenly overtake you
Matthew 24:44 “Therefore, be prepared: because the hour you think, by reputation, that seems certain for the Son of Man to appear, is not possible”. Jesus Christ
