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This is a pretty powerful promise that He will come back to us. That He died for her, and during the Christian Age has been preparing for the day when He will come back to her.” 19:11) Or Jesus’ words, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” The writer showed how these descriptions represented the woman He loved, and whom He was wooing to return to Him. The writer demonstrated the analogy between the “Ten Servants” of the “Nobleman who went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.” (Luke 19:12,13) Or the description by Hosea of ten-tribed nation of Israel who was divorced (unlike Judah who like the Potter’s Bottle was broken into many pieces “that cannot be made whole again.”) (Jer. I like the way “Man Thinking” described the ten virgins. And so, as Jesus told us in Matthew 25:5, all ten virgins, which represent the Israel nations and people, slumbered and slept.
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Some pay lip service to it but for the most part Christian leaders and theologians tend to go about their business without giving the matter any thought or credence. When I was young, a little ditty we used to sing went a little like this, “Are you sleeping, are you sleeping, Brother John, Brother John.” These words came to my mind as I was reading the parable of the Ten Virgins, in that the whole of the True Israel world seems to have shut their eyes to God’s Word about the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.