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as those who bring forth some an hundredfold, some sixty and some thirty; the three
servants given talents who are called to give an account of their stewardship; and of course:

• The Bride
• The five wise virgins (who awoke at the last moment and had oil)
• The five foolish virgins (who awoke at the last moment and had no oil)

What does the oil represent? It is the righteous acts of the saints. The oil in the lamps
was for the purpose of giving light. The wise virgins rose and trimmed their lamps, showing
that they had some good works at the end, but the foolish had no oil in their lamps and
could not be seen as lights in the darkness. The Bride did not let her lamp go out, neither
did she sleep.
What is the character of your life at this time? Is your life a manifestation of the
righteous acts of the saints? Or have you taken that which has been entrusted to you (the
Holy Spirit) and buried it in the earth (of your flesh) to be given back to Christ at His
appearing? Are you asleep in the light, performing works of darkness, even despising the
holiness of the marriage covenant? Are you fornicating, or divorcing and remarrying to
satisfy your own soul?
Remember that God equates idolatry with adultery. Christ will not return to take an
adulteress into His bridal chamber. Such ones will be cast into outer darkness where there
will be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Christ is coming back for a pure virgin, one
who has been cleansed of her adulteries, and is waiting with patience and chastity for His
appearing.
What then is idolatry today? We must know if we are to identify those who are
engaged in spiritual adultery.

Colossians 3:5-7
Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is
on account of these things that the wrath of God will come, and in them you also
once walked, when you were living in them.

All of the things in this list “amount to idolatry.” This is revealed in that the apostle
says “in THEM you also once walked.” We once walked as idolaters, but must do so no
more. You are not walking as a chaste virgin if you are engaging in these things. The
Amplified Bible renders this Scripture in the following manner:

Colossians 3:5
So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those
animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice,
impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that
is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).

While the Church’s Bridegroom is off preparing a dwelling place, and while the Father
is preparing the wedding place, what is the Bride doing? Are you making yourself ready?
Will you be adorned with linen, clean and white, at His appearing.
Let all who have this hope of being included in the Bride of Christ, purify themselves