The Parable of the Ten Virgins does not refer to the church

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Raising the 12 year old girl from the dead contains a prophecy concerning the rapture

On the Feast of Trumpets in 2014 a story was reported of two calves born with the number 7 on their foreheads. This reminded people of Pharaoh’s dream that Joseph interpreted. In that dream you have seven well favored and fat cows followed by seven ill favored and gaunt cows who eat up the well favored ones and are still looking gaunt. So the idea was we would have 7 good years. But when do they start? The dream describes mature cows, and a cow continues to fill out for four or five years. So you could reasonably consider this event to be a five year warning. After five years these calves would be full grown and so we could then see this cow for the next 7 years being well favored, and cows do live to 20 or 30 so it could live for another 7 years, a total of 19 years. That is not unreasonable. So then this story of the calves has a built in five year delay. There were many who got excited when they saw these calves and have since grown cold because of this delay.

Luke 8:40 — “And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.”

In 2014 when this story hit about the two cows with the sevens it was received gladly by Christians.

41 — “And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.”

The girl is not dead, but she is dying, and this story is about how Jesus’ delay costs this girl her life. It is the same complaint that Martha gives to Jesus saying if He had been there sooner Lazarus wouldn’t have died. Jesus’ delay in healing Lazarus caused him to die and so instead of a healing it was a resurrection. We should view this story as the Luke equivalent to Jesus raising Lazarus.

43–44 — “And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.”

This is a very big deal, this woman is “an untouchable”.

If you touch her you are unclean. She would be ostracized from society. Interestingly, when these calves with the sevens were five years old it was 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic was first released. Soon those who refused to get the vaccine were ostracized from society. I was forced to resign my job, sell my house and move. That ostracism hasn’t ceased. My first granddaughter was born a few weeks ago but we are not permitted to visit because my wife and I are not vaccinated. In 2021 I had cancer and was scheduled to get an operation but because I was not vaccinated I was not allowed into the hospital.

45 — “And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”

Many of us thought the Pandemic should signal the start of the tribulation, everyone was thronging the Lord at that time, but instead it was a delay.

46–48 — “And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

Virtue has gone out of the Lord? Why? When you take a stand for the Lord by faith, despite the cost being high, there is virtue in that faith. This is my experience and the experience of my wife. We both agree that taking that stand was a tremendous blessing to us. Despite the fact that my cancer had been confirmed with a biopsy I was healed of the cancer without an operation. Our living situation is better, our financial situation is better and we have more of a church community around us where we now live.

49 — “While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.”

This is why I share this story. It is a story about a 12 year period that is punctuated by this delay from the pandemic which in turn has caused many who were waiting for the Lord’s return to grow cold. When we saw those two cows in 2014 it was 12 years ago. The girl was born and this woman began to have an issue of blood. Anyone who has been sharing the signs of the Lord's soon return has experienced this ostracism.

50–53 — “But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.”

“Laughed to scorn” — I know what that is all about, I have a blog about the rapture that I began in 2020. From start to finish I have posted every single day but one. So yes, I am well aware of being laughed to scorn because I am saying there is a convergence pointing to the Feast of Trumpets in 2026 for all these signs and prophecies.

54–56 — “And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.”

So my point is why do we wait 12 years from the 2014 sign to the start of the tribulation if the dream was of 7 cows and 7 cows depicting 7 years and 7 years? The answer is that the dream was of full grown, mature cows, not calves. It takes 5 years for a calf to grow to full size, and since that point the next seven years have been years of plenty. Once the tribulation starts it will be the seven years of famine. Those two calves were a sign giving us a 12 year countdown and the Revelation 12 sign was a sign giving us a 9 year countdown, and both signs point to Feast of Trumpets in 2026, September 11.
 
Are you saying that these virgins are in fact representing the Bride and not bridesmaids? How do you lock the bride out of the wedding and still have a wedding? At the very least you would have to agree that the five foolish ones are bridesmaids, and not the bride.
Maybe you are stuck in a "once saved always saved” (or "once in the body/bride, always in the body/bride") paradigm that is preventing the parable from making sense to you.

Or maybe the virgins are dedicated to one religion (hence virgins): nominal Christians who singularly follow some Christian sect's interpretation of the Bible (hence virgins who have lamps, lamps being God’s word), but they are merely nominal Christians who are following their denomination’s interpretation of Biblical rules, but are not loving Jesus as their risen and present Lord and Saviour, but as an absent teacher speaking to them through a book and not by His Spirit, so they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus and so do not have the Holy Spirit (hence they have no oil in their lamps).

Or, maybe they are those among the saints admonished in Jesus’ letters to the seven churches (Rev. 1-3) who do not repent so as to be ultimately accepted and blessed.

Maybe the wake-up call is the preaching of the two witnesses in Jerusalem, who can command droughts and turn water to become blood and command plagues to strike (Rev. 11:3).
 
Are you saying that these virgins are in fact representing the Bride and not bridesmaids? How do you lock the bride out of the wedding and still have a wedding? At the very least you would have to agree that the five foolish ones are bridesmaids, and not the bride.
Five went in, so there was still a bride.
 
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Maybe you are stuck in a "once saved always saved” (or "once in the body/bride, always in the body/bride") paradigm that is preventing the parable from making sense to you.

Or maybe the virgins are dedicated to one religion (hence virgins): nominal Christians who singularly follow some Christian sect's interpretation of the Bible (hence virgins who have lamps, lamps being God’s word), but they are merely nominal Christians who are following their denomination’s interpretation of Biblical rules, but are not loving Jesus as their risen and present Lord and Saviour, but as an absent teacher speaking to them through a book and not by His Spirit, so they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus and so do not have the Holy Spirit (hence they have no oil in their lamps).

Or, maybe they are those among the saints admonished in Jesus’ letters to the seven churches (Rev. 1-3) who do not repent so as to be ultimately accepted and blessed.

Maybe the wake-up call is the preaching of the two witnesses in Jerusalem, who can command droughts and turn water to become blood and command plagues to strike (Rev. 11:3).
I should have written foolish virgins, not just virgins. My bad. I should have written -

"Maybe you are stuck in a "once saved always saved” (or "once in the body/bride, always in the body/bride") paradigm that is preventing the parable from making sense to you.

Or maybe the five foolish virgins are dedicated to one religion (hence virgins): nominal Christians who singularly follow some Christian sect's interpretation of the Bible (hence virgins who have lamps, lamps being God’s word), but they are merely nominal Christians who are following their denomination’s interpretation of Biblical rules, but are not loving Jesus as their risen and present Lord and Saviour, but as an absent teacher speaking to them through a book and not by His Spirit, so they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus and so do not have the Holy Spirit (hence they have no oil in their lamps).

Or, maybe they (the five foolish virgins) are those among the saints admonished in Jesus’ letters to the seven churches (Rev. 1-3) who do not repent so as to be ultimately accepted and blessed."

Maybe the wake-up call is the preaching of the two witnesses in Jerusalem, who can command droughts and turn water to become blood and command plagues to strike (Rev. 11:3). Or the resurrection of the two witnesses (Rev. 11:11)"
 
That would make no sense. The rapture is in the twinkling of an eye, how would they have time to go and ask other believers to borrow oil. Verse 10 is the rapture. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. The midnight cry wakes them up to get ready.

What makes better sense?
 
Honoring the promise with hopeful expectation. The wise are looking forward to it, with eagerness, and they've made themselves ready. But the foolish have failed to take the promise seriously. The midnight cry is from the 'town crier' who publicly announces the arrival of the groom.
 
Yes, most English Bibles give the literal translation "virgins." There are a few (link below) that use "young women" instead and there are also occasional translators who think they are being helpful by changing it to "bridesmaids," evidently on the grounds that they had been picked to play a part in the wedding ceremony, possibly by escorting the bridegroom from his home to the place where the wedding was to take place.

But the ten virgins in the parable are waiting for the bridegroom. A bridesmaid, on the other hand, is an attendant of the bride. To call the virgins "bridesmaids" is wrong and confusing.
 
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Good point. I call them Bridesmaids because five of them are locked out of the wedding. They can't be the bride because if you lock the bride out of the wedding there is no wedding. From what I understand so far in this thread there are two acceptable interpretations and the unusual thing is that rather than fight over them everyone seems willing to accept either one.
But, as I've just replied to somebody else, bridesmaids attend the bride, not the groom. The ten virgins in the parable were awaiting the bridegroom, not the bride. No way were they bridesmaids. As far as I am aware, we don't read about bridesmaids in the Bible. Five of them being locked out of the wedding doesn't make them bridesmaids. I agree that the ten virgins are not the bride.
 
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Nowhere in the New Testament is the church referred to as "bridesmaids" for the wedding of the Lord. So then, who are these ten bridesmaids in Matthew 25?
The par. ble of the 10 virgins is a warning. Jesus warns his disciples that his Second coming will not happen right away. Each of us must be prepared to wait a long time. Those who are prepared will enter; Those who are unprepared will not enter.
 
Maybe you are stuck in a "once saved always saved” (or "once in the body/bride, always in the body/bride") paradigm that is preventing the parable from making sense to you.

Or maybe the virgins are dedicated to one religion (hence virgins): nominal Christians who singularly follow some Christian sect's interpretation of the Bible (hence virgins who have lamps, lamps being God’s word), but they are merely nominal Christians who are following their denomination’s interpretation of Biblical rules, but are not loving Jesus as their risen and present Lord and Saviour, but as an absent teacher speaking to them through a book and not by His Spirit, so they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus and so do not have the Holy Spirit (hence they have no oil in their lamps).

Or, maybe they are those among the saints admonished in Jesus’ letters to the seven churches (Rev. 1-3) who do not repent so as to be ultimately accepted and blessed.

Maybe the wake-up call is the preaching of the two witnesses in Jerusalem, who can command droughts and turn water to become blood and command plagues to strike (Rev. 11:3).
Explain the parable to us. Instead of giving us a bunch of hypotheticals have the courage to say what you believe is the meaning and let's see if it can stand up to scrutiny.
 
Five went in, so there was still a bride.
all ten were waiting for the Lord, all ten had lamps that were lit, all ten were virgins.

In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation

Now I have presented "ten virgins" that were waiting for the Lord's coming and all ten do have lamps that are lit. I have also said what the midnight cry was and my interpretation is falsifiable because it points to the Feast of Trumpets in 2026. If we go a month past 9/11/2026 and the rapture has not taken place then my interpretation has been disproved. But a bunch of "maybe this and maybe that" is not falsifiable and is simply meely mouthed interpretation.

This wedding is the biggest thing that has happened in human history for the last six thousand years, the idea that the Bride of Christ does not have a wedding procession or bridesmaids is incredibly foolish.
 
I should have written foolish virgins, not just virgins. My bad. I should have written -

"Maybe you are stuck in a "once saved always saved” (or "once in the body/bride, always in the body/bride") paradigm that is preventing the parable from making sense to you.

Or maybe the five foolish virgins are dedicated to one religion (hence virgins): nominal Christians who singularly follow some Christian sect's interpretation of the Bible (hence virgins who have lamps, lamps being God’s word), but they are merely nominal Christians who are following their denomination’s interpretation of Biblical rules, but are not loving Jesus as their risen and present Lord and Saviour, but as an absent teacher speaking to them through a book and not by His Spirit, so they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus and so do not have the Holy Spirit (hence they have no oil in their lamps).

Or, maybe they (the five foolish virgins) are those among the saints admonished in Jesus’ letters to the seven churches (Rev. 1-3) who do not repent so as to be ultimately accepted and blessed."

Maybe the wake-up call is the preaching of the two witnesses in Jerusalem, who can command droughts and turn water to become blood and command plagues to strike (Rev. 11:3). Or the resurrection of the two witnesses (Rev. 11:11)"
Or maybe, just maybe, Jesus was using the Galilean wedding tradition to describe the bridesmaids of the Bride of Christ, ten attendants that would light the wedding procession. Why is everyone so afraid to simply try and understand what Jesus actually said rather than put words in His mouth and distort what He said?
 
Or maybe, just maybe, Jesus was using the Galilean wedding tradition to describe the bridesmaids of the Bride of Christ, ten attendants that would light the wedding procession. Why is everyone so afraid to simply try and understand what Jesus actually said rather than put words in His mouth and distort what He said?
How can they have been the bride's attendants ("bridesmaids") if they were waiting for the bridegroom? Jesus said nothing about the bride in the course of the parable.
 
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What makes better sense?
What makes better sense is that Jesus was describing the Galilean wedding tradition where a bride has ten bridesmaids who light the way for the wedding procession. The midnight cry is a great sign in the heavens, because those would be the Lord's attendants coming to wake us up. Now of course, since Jesus has told us that we don't know the day or hour and therefore we need to watch we would be told what to watch for. Revelation 12 tells us of a great sign in the heavens of a woman clothed with the sun, the moon is at her feet and she has a crown of twelve stars. That is exactly what we saw in the heavens on Feast of Trumpets 2017. Revelation 12 also tells us this woman is in labor to bring forth the Manchild, that also was in this sign. We are also told that the "Manchild" is caught up to heave, surely a picture of the rapture, but he isn't caught up to heaven as an infant, he isn't caught up to heaven as a toddler, he is caught up to heaven as a child. To do what? To rule. OK, we only have one shadow of such an event and it is Josiah who became king when he was 8 years old. Feast of Trumpets in 2017 was September 20-22, Feast of Trumpets in 2026 is September 11-13. So if Jupiter represents the manchild who was born in 2017 he will be 8 this coming Feast of Trumpets. After being born Jupiter has made a complete circuit of the ecliptic and the day before the wedding feast which is the Feast of tabernacles Jupiter enters the crown. Jesus Christ entered the crown on the day of ascension, the bride is joined to the crown on the wedding day. I think this makes a lot more sense. We have seen ten virgins light the way. Besides the 2017 sign on the Feast of Trumpets we also had:
1. The Abraham Accords — signed 3 days before Trumpets 2020
Signed at the White House on September 15, 2020, with Trumpets falling September 18–20 that year. Several commentators at the time noted that the assigned Torah reading for that Rosh Hashanah was Genesis 21:22–27 — Abimelech's covenant with Abraham — which several rabbis and writers flagged as a striking coincidence given the accords' name and timing.


2. Israel's second national COVID lockdown — began hours before Trumpets 2020
Israel's second nationwide lockdown took effect at 2pm on September 18, 2020, just hours before Rosh Hashanah began that evening — the first time an advanced economy had imposed a repeat national shutdown, and one that extended through Yom Kippur and Sukkot as well.


3. Iran's largest-ever direct missile attack on Israel — launched on the eve of Trumpets 2024
On October 1, 2024, Iran fired roughly 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in its biggest direct strike of the conflict, in retaliation for the killings of Nasrallah, Haniyeh, and an IRGC general. Netanyahu delivered his response "on the eve of Rosh Hashanah," which fell October 2–4 that year.


4. Mass recognition of a Palestinian state / UN Gaza proceedings — Trumpets 2025
The UN's high-level conference on the two-state solution (where the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and others announced recognition of a Palestinian state) took place September 22, 2025 — the first day of Rosh Hashanah (Sept 22–24). The UN Security Council also drew criticism for deliberately scheduling a Gaza-focused session during the holiday, which Israel's delegation skipped in observance.

Now those are five very clear announcements that the Bridegroom comes.
 
But, as I've just replied to somebody else, bridesmaids attend the bride, not the groom. The ten virgins in the parable were awaiting the bridegroom, not the bride. No way were they bridesmaids. As far as I am aware, we don't read about bridesmaids in the Bible. Five of them being locked out of the wedding doesn't make them bridesmaids. I agree that the ten virgins are not the bride.
In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation
 
How can they have been the bride's attendants ("bridesmaids") if they were waiting for the bridegroom? Jesus said nothing about the bride in the course of the parable.
They can't be the bride, you don't lock half of the bride out of the wedding and still have a wedding. In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation

I am not trying to discount that the principle of being ready and buying oil for yourself applies to believers, what I am saying is that this parable has a very specific prophecy of ten virgins that light the way as a wedding procession to the wedding feast and it all begins with "the midnight cry". This procession will reveal that many of the lord's followers are foolish, they are asleep, and they have not prepared properly. But the idea that the greatest wedding in human history would not have bridesmaids makes no sense. Ignoring the Galilean wedding tradition in expounding on this parable also makes no sense. When asked when this rapture takes place the Lord said no one knows the day or hour so then, you must watch. He gives us the signs to watch for, and so it only makes sense that this midnight cry would be in the Bible. Everyone in the Galilean wedding knew what would be the midnight cry, and Revelation 12 gives us this great sign. There is only one woman in the heavens, that is Virgo, the Virgin.
 
They can't be the bride, you don't lock half of the bride out of the wedding and still have a wedding. In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation

I am not trying to discount that the principle of being ready and buying oil for yourself applies to believers, what I am saying is that this parable has a very specific prophecy of ten virgins that light the way as a wedding procession to the wedding feast and it all begins with "the midnight cry". This procession will reveal that many of the lord's followers are foolish, they are asleep, and they have not prepared properly. But the idea that the greatest wedding in human history would not have bridesmaids makes no sense. Ignoring the Galilean wedding tradition in expounding on this parable also makes no sense. When asked when this rapture takes place the Lord said no one knows the day or hour so then, you must watch. He gives us the signs to watch for, and so it only makes sense that this midnight cry would be in the Bible. Everyone in the Galilean wedding knew what would be the midnight cry, and Revelation 12 gives us this great sign. There is only one woman in the heavens, that is Virgo, the Virgin.
Sorry, you have misunderstood me. I didn't say the ten virgins were the bride. II was just saying that I couldn't see any reference to these virgins being bridesmaids.
 
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Sorry, you have misunderstood me. I didn't say the ten virgins were the bride. II was just saying that I couldn't see any reference to these virgins being bridesmaids.
I was taught they represented the dead in Christ and the midnight cry was the rapture. The problem with that teaching is that we now have half of the dead in Christ raised from the dead but not allowed into the wedding. Others claim they represent Christians in general who are waiting for the Lord's return and "fall asleep", not meaning they are dead, but rather they are like the disciples who fell asleep and could not watch with the Lord for one hour. My response to that is, "OK, so then what is the midnight cry that we are to be listening for?". Clearly the midnight cry comes before the rapture, and so it makes no sense for it to be something like the two witnesses whose testimony comes after the rapture.

It seems to me that Jesus told us we don't know the day or hour and therefore we must watch, so then the big question is "what are we watching for?" This midnight cry is obviously the biggest thing, so what is it? I am saying it is the Revelation 12 sign. that we saw in 2017 on the Feast of Trumpets and that since then we have had 9 virgins with lit lamps, the tenth will be on September 11, 2026, and of those 5 of them were accompanied with major prophetic signs of the Lord's coming.

1. The Revelation 12 Sign -- Trumpets 2017

2. The Abraham Accords — signed 3 days before Trumpets 2020

Signed at the White House on September 15, 2020, with Trumpets falling September 18–20 that year. Several commentators at the time noted that the assigned Torah reading for that Rosh Hashanah was Genesis 21:22–27 — Abimelech's covenant with Abraham — which several rabbis and writers flagged as a striking coincidence given the accords' name and timing.

3. Israel's second national COVID lockdown — began hours before Trumpets 2020
Israel's second nationwide lockdown took effect at 2pm on September 18, 2020, just hours before Rosh Hashanah began that evening — the first time an advanced economy had imposed a repeat national shutdown, and one that extended through Yom Kippur and Sukkot as well.

4. Iran's largest-ever direct missile attack on Israel — launched on the eve of Trumpets 2024
On October 1, 2024, Iran fired roughly 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in its biggest direct strike of the conflict, in retaliation for the killings of Nasrallah, Haniyeh, and an IRGC general. Netanyahu delivered his response "on the eve of Rosh Hashanah," which fell October 2–4 that year.

5. Mass recognition of a Palestinian state / UN Gaza proceedings — Trumpets 2025
The UN's high-level conference on the two-state solution (where the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and others announced recognition of a Palestinian state) took place September 22, 2025 — the first day of Rosh Hashanah (Sept 22–24). The UN Security Council also drew criticism for deliberately scheduling a Gaza-focused session during the holiday, which Israel's delegation skipped in observance.

This interpretation is faithful to the context of this being a Galilean wedding with this midnight procession with Bridesmaids. In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation
 
I was taught they represented the dead in Christ and the midnight cry was the rapture. The problem with that teaching is that we now have half of the dead in Christ raised from the dead but not allowed into the wedding. Others claim they represent Christians in general who are waiting for the Lord's return and "fall asleep", not meaning they are dead, but rather they are like the disciples who fell asleep and could not watch with the Lord for one hour. My response to that is, "OK, so then what is the midnight cry that we are to be listening for?". Clearly the midnight cry comes before the rapture, and so it makes no sense for it to be something like the two witnesses whose testimony comes after the rapture.

It seems to me that Jesus told us we don't know the day or hour and therefore we must watch, so then the big question is "what are we watching for?" This midnight cry is obviously the biggest thing, so what is it? I am saying it is the Revelation 12 sign. that we saw in 2017 on the Feast of Trumpets and that since then we have had 9 virgins with lit lamps, the tenth will be on September 11, 2026, and of those 5 of them were accompanied with major prophetic signs of the Lord's coming.

1. The Revelation 12 Sign -- Trumpets 2017

2. The Abraham Accords — signed 3 days before Trumpets 2020

Signed at the White House on September 15, 2020, with Trumpets falling September 18–20 that year. Several commentators at the time noted that the assigned Torah reading for that Rosh Hashanah was Genesis 21:22–27 — Abimelech's covenant with Abraham — which several rabbis and writers flagged as a striking coincidence given the accords' name and timing.

3. Israel's second national COVID lockdown — began hours before Trumpets 2020
Israel's second nationwide lockdown took effect at 2pm on September 18, 2020, just hours before Rosh Hashanah began that evening — the first time an advanced economy had imposed a repeat national shutdown, and one that extended through Yom Kippur and Sukkot as well.

4. Iran's largest-ever direct missile attack on Israel — launched on the eve of Trumpets 2024
On October 1, 2024, Iran fired roughly 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in its biggest direct strike of the conflict, in retaliation for the killings of Nasrallah, Haniyeh, and an IRGC general. Netanyahu delivered his response "on the eve of Rosh Hashanah," which fell October 2–4 that year.

5. Mass recognition of a Palestinian state / UN Gaza proceedings — Trumpets 2025
The UN's high-level conference on the two-state solution (where the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and others announced recognition of a Palestinian state) took place September 22, 2025 — the first day of Rosh Hashanah (Sept 22–24). The UN Security Council also drew criticism for deliberately scheduling a Gaza-focused session during the holiday, which Israel's delegation skipped in observance.

This interpretation is faithful to the context of this being a Galilean wedding with this midnight procession with Bridesmaids. In ancient Galilean wedding traditions, the ten virgins acted as the bride's personal attendants or bridesmaids who waited with oil lamps to light the nighttime procession when the groom arrived. This cultural backdrop forms the literal setting of Jesus's famous story in Matthew 25:1-13, illustrating themes of readiness and expectation
I agree that the parable teaches us to be watchful. I cannot say that I agree with your interpretation of Revelation, but that is for another thread.
 
I agree that the parable teaches us to be watchful. I cannot say that I agree with your interpretation of Revelation, but that is for another thread.
No it is for this thread. The first post defines what I am talking about. I am looking solely at the context that Jesus is referring to these ten virgins as ten bridesmaids that light the wedding procession.