Prophecy - The End Times

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Nell

One of the speakers (Jack Hibbs) at one point says this:

59 minutes in:
“So you’ve got the parable of those with oil in their lamp. You’ve got ten of them. All ten started, but not all ten finished. At the time of the midnight cry they all jumped up and trimmed their lamps. But only five had enough oil to continue on.

This is key. Symbolically in Scripture, the oil is reference to the Holy Spirit in your life. So you can be a believer. Jesus said “these are they who believed for awhile”. It doesn’t mean you are born again to believe. Has your belief brought you to faith in Christ.”

Essentially he's saying you can be a believer, but it doesn't mean you are born again..

What does THAT mean? Zezima? Ohio? Anybody?

Nell

I agree that Jesus has further defined real faith (to Nicodemus) with being born again, but in this parable all ten virgins were born of the Spirit, since they all had the oil of the Spirit at one time burning within them.