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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I am basing much of my "concern" off of your post:
This interpretation does not take into account just WHO Jesus was speaking to. "They had no oil of the Spirit in their vessels"? If we are going to say that the oil represents the Holy Spirit then there is a problem - when we receive the Lord we receive the Holy Spirit. So are we to believe that somehow these five foolish virgins used up all the Holy Spirit during their lifetime, and based upon this they will be turned away during the Millennial kingdom? Sorry, this interpretation is too simplistic and rather weak.
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Once again, the Lord is speaking to the disciples. That's WHO.
Yes, we receive the Spirit, when we receive the Lord, but many Christians do not "grow with the growth of God," and hence the Spirit they were regenerated with remained in infancy, having drunk little of the pure milk of the word, neither the solid meat of righteousness. Hence, their lamp was not burning brightly, and at the midnight cry, they came up short.
I never said they had NO OIL. I said, based on the parable, that what they had was insufficient, and thus they were called foolish virgins, and exhorted to buy more oil, which implies they will need to do what they should have done while alive. Of course I am going to say that "oil represents the Holy Spirit." Or we can say that Oil represents the anointing of Christ, since His title means the "anointed One."
"Too simplistic and rather weak?" Perhaps you like to reduce this parable to a children's bedtime story?