HEBRAIC VIEW: PARABLE
OF THE TEN VIRGINS
(By: Eddie Chumney)
Is it important that you study the Hebraic Roots of Christianity? Yes! Do
you need to study the Hebraic Roots of Christianity to be
saved? No! However by NOT studying the
Hebraic Roots of Christianity you will MISS out
on BLESSINGS which come to those who are ALREADY
saved / redeemed in Yeshua the Messiah.
THE PARABLE
OF THE TEN VIRGINS
IS ABOUT THE END OF DAYS
KJV Matthew 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of
Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall
these things be? and what shall be the sign of
thy coming, and of the end of the world?
KJV Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be
likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
KJV Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither
the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
First, we need to realize that the parable of
the Ten Virgins is a
parable and the the end of days and the second coming
of Yeshua.
In this context, we need to realize that the foolish
virgins were unprepared and missed the
second coming of Yeshua.
WHY DID THE
FOOLISH VIRGINS
NOT UNDERSTAND THE SECOND
COMING OF YESHUA ?
The answer is simple. They didn't follow Torah
and didn't have a Hebraic view of the second coming of Messiah. How is this so?
THE FOUNDATION
OF THE PARABLE
The Torah prophecies about the ingathing of the exiles in the end of days.
KJV Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when
all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have
set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
KJV Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey
his voice [follow Torah] according to all that I command thee this
day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
KJV Deuteronomy 30:3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and
will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath
scattered thee.
KJV Deuteronomy 30:4 If any of thine be driven
out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
KJV Deuteronomy 30:5 And the LORD thy God will bring
thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply
thee above thy fathers.
The ingathering of the exiles of
YESHUA IS THE GOOD
SHEPHERD
WHO GATHERS
THE EXILES OF
Yeshua died on the tree to gather the exiles of
KJV John 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known
of mine.
In Ezekiel
34:1-10, YHVH condemns the 'shepherds of
KJV Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
KJV Ezekiel 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek
out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been
scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
THE EXILES OF
IN THE 'CLOUDY
AND DARK DAY'
In Ezekiel
34:12, the 'good shepherd' of
YESHUA DIED ON THE TREE TO
GATHER THE EXILES
OF
After stating that He is the 'good shepherd' (alluding to Ezekiel 34:11ff) who
gathers the exiles of
KJV John
KJV John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me,
because I lay down my life [die on the tree]
that I might take it again.
YESHUA DIED ON THE TREE TO
GATHER THE EXILES
OF
We are also told in John 11:49-52 that Yeshua died on the tree to gather the
exiles of
KJV John 11:49 And one of them, named Caiaphas,
being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
KJV John 11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for
us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish
not.
KJV John 11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but
being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that
nation [Southern Kingdom: House of Judah - Jews]
KJV John
SUMMARY OF POINTS TO DATE
#1)
The Messiah of
#2)
Yeshua died on the tree to ultimately gather the exiles of
#3) The
setting of the 'Parable of the Ten Virgins' is the second coming of Yeshua and
the end of days (Matthew 24:3, Matthew 25:1, 13)
WHY TEN
VIRGINS?
'Virgins' describe the ingathering
of the exiles in the end of days.
KJV Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou
shalt be built, O virgin of
KJV Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the
north country, and gather them from the coasts
of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child
and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return
thither.
KJV Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and
with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of
waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
KJV Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye
nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth
his flock.
KJV Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together:
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow.
KJV Jeremiah 31:21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee
high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou
wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn
again to these thy cities.
Ephraim (Jeremiah 31:9) (known as the TEN tribes) are being gathered as a
'shepherd does his flock' (Jeremiah 31:10). The exiles who are being gathered
as called, 'virgins' (Jeremiah 31:4 and Jeremiah 31:13).
Therefore the TEN VIRGINS represent the ingathering of the Ten Tribes / Ephraim
in the end of days.
THE TEN
VIRGINS TAKE LAMPS
KJV Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be
likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and
went forth to meet the bridegroom.
THE TORAH IS LIKE A LAMP
The Torah requires that the 'lamp' be burning always with oil.
KJV Exodus 27:20 And thou shalt command the children of
Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
KJV Psalm 119:105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp
unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
KJV Proverbs
The lamp is to be burning with oil always. The Torah and the commandment of
YHVH is a lamp.
FIVE WERE WISE AND
FIVE WERE FOOLISH
FIVE WISE = Those who followed Torah
FIVE FOOLISH = Those who didn't
follow Torah
Of the TEN VIRGINS (the return of Ephraim / Ten Tribes), the WISE are those who
followed Torah (made themselves ready for the coming of Yeshua) and the FOOLISH
didn't follow Torah (and were unprepared for the second coming of Yeshua).
FIVE represents the FIVE
books of Moses (Torah)
WHO ARE THE WISE?
WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
IS FOLLOWING TORAH
KJV Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth WISDOM, and the man
that getteth UNDERSTANDING.
KJV Proverbs 3:18 She is
a tree of life
to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth
her.
KJV Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you STATUTES and JUDGMENTS,
even as
the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land
whither
ye go to possess it.
KJV Deuteronomy 4:6 KEEP therefore
and DO them; for this is YOUR
WISDOM
and your UNDERSTANDING in the sight of the
nations, which shall
hear all
these STATUTES, and say, Surely this great nation is a
WISE
and UNDERSTANDING people.
KJV Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is there so great,
that hath
STATUTES
and JUDGMENTS so righteous as all this TORAH,
which I set
before
you this day?
These verses tell us that KEEPING and DOING the TORAH is done
by a
WISE and UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.
WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
IS FOLLOWING TORAH
KJV 1 Chronicles 22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to
thee, who shall
be a man
of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round
about:
for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and
quietness
unto Israel in his days.
KJV 1 Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give thee WISDOM and
UNDERSTANDING, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou
mayest KEEP the TORAH of the
LORD thy God.
KJV 1 Chronicles 22:13 Then shalt thou PROSPER, if
thou takest heed to
fulfil
the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with
concerning
Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be
dismayed.
Therefore, a person who is WISE and has UNDERSTANDING will
follow
the TORAH and will PROSPER.
WHAT IS WISDOM AND
UNDERSTANDING?
KJV Job 28:20 Whence then cometh WISDOM? and where is the place of
UNDERSTANDING?
KJV Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the FEAR
of the LORD, that
is
WISDOM; and to depart from evil is UNDERSTANDING.
KJV Psalm 111:10 The FEAR of the LORD is the beginning
of WISDOM: a
GOOD
UNDERSTANDING have all they that DO his COMMANDMENTS: his praise
endureth
for ever.
WHO ARE THE
FOOLISH?
The foolish don't follow Torah.
KJV Proverbs 9:6 Forsake
the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
KJV Psalm 119:34 Give me
understanding, and I shall keep thy law;
yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
The foolish don't follow 'way of understanding' (follow the Torah)
KJV Proverbs 14:7 Go
from the presence of a foolish
man, when thou perceivest not in him the
lips of knowledge.
KJV Hosea 4:6 My people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I
will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God ...
The foolish man doesn't speak the
'lips of knowledge' (Torah).
KJV Proverbs 21:20 There is treasure to be
desired and oil in the dwelling
of the wise; but a
foolish man spendeth it up.
The wise have oil (follow Torah) and
the foolish have no oil (don't follow Torah).
KJV Jeremiah 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are
poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of
the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
KJV Psalm 119:1 ALEPH. Blessed are the
undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of
the LORD.
The foolish know not the way of YHVH
(follow Torah)
KJV Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without
understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear
not:
KJV Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding,
and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe
it with my whole heart.
The foolish are without
understanding (don't follow Torah).
KJV Psalm 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me
because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
The wicked (foolish) forsake the law
(have no oil).
THEY SLUMBERED AND SLEPT
While the Bridegroom tarried (the time between the 1st and 2nd coming of
Yeshua) BOTH the eventual 'wise' and 'foolish' slept.
SLEEP IS SPIRITUAL
SLUMBER
(NOT FOLLOWING
TORAH / EXILE)
KJV 1 Samuel 3:3 And ere the
lamp of God went out in the temple of
the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel
was laid down to sleep;
The 'lamp' went out and Samuel
'slept'.
KJV Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but perceive not.
KJV Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ...
KJV Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon
you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed
your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
'Sleeping' is not following Torah.
A CRY WAS MADE AT
'Midnight' is a term for the tribulation of the end of days. The 'cry' that is
made at 'midnight' is the sound of the shofar which is sounded to gather the
exiles of Israel.
KJV Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to
perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall
worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
LESSON SUMMARY
#1)
The exiles of Israel return to the land of Israel at the dawn of the Messianic
Era (Deut 30:1-5)
#2) The
Good Shepherd (Yeshua the Messiah: John 10:14) gathers the exiles of Israel
(Ezekiel 34:11) in the end of days (Ezekiel 34:13)
#3)
Yeshua died on the tree to gather the exiles of Israel (John 10:16, 11:49-52)
#4) The setting
of the 'Parable of the Ten Virgins' is the second coming of Yeshua and the end
of days (Matthew 24:3, Matthew 25:1, 13)
#5) The
Ten Virgins refer to the return of the
#6) Five
is a number for the books of the Torah
#7)
Wisdom is following Torah. Foolishness is not following Torah.
#8) The
five wise virgins followed Torah
#9) The
five foolish virgins didn't follow Torah
#10) The
exiles who are gathered in the end of days are called, 'Virgin (s)' (Jeremiah
31:4, 13, 31)
#11)
Sleep / Slumber speaks of the exile and not following Torah
#12)
#13) A
'cry' or the sound of the shofar gathers the exiles of
#14) The
wise virgins (those that followed Torah) were READY and prepared to marry the
bridgegroom (Yeshua the Messiah)
#15) The
foolish virgins (those that didn't follow Torah) were rejected by Yeshua to
come to the wedding of the bridegroom
THE
PLEASE DON'T BE A FOOLISH
VIRGIN !!!!
STUDY YOUR HEBRAIC ROOTS
!!!!
Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l