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I did not say the virgin in the parable were Babylon. My point was that virgin does not seem to be a biblical symbol for pure, and undefiled. cv5 explained why very well. But it went right over your head.

And Islam did not, for a season, have "ironlike strength, crushing military power, and the ability to break other nations into pieces” , but dividing into factions “feet and toes of iron mixed with clay"?

Maybe the lamps are their Bibles: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path.” Maybe the vessels with their lamps are their bodies. Lots of people have Bibles and read them, but do not have the Holy Spirit in their vessels (their bodies), as the foolish virgins did. Many people have...

Why do you believe that "IRON is iconically Roman"?

Is Babylon pure, udefiled, set apart? Isa 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Isa 47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy...

Maybe you are right. Maybe you are wrong. You seem to be a bit too dogmatic regarding your own opinion on this. How do you know that the beast is not empire operating through an Islamic hegemony of 10 leaders and wresting political control of the area around Israel?

The harlot seems to me to be the syncretic kind of ethical and moral decadence that the UN promotes, and the beast could be Islamism which is presently kept on a leash by the UN. But at some point the Islamists could turn on the UN/harlot and go to war against her and cast off all her restraints.

The empire that took over Israel after Rome was Islam. That Empires advance was cut off in Spain. It has two main feet, Shia and Sunni. The Islamists hope to revive the Islamic Empire, unified under the coming Mahdi, who would lead the eighth, which is of the seventh. The Islamists have been...

That is not what I said. I said that we should consider the possibility that Bride is those who are walking according to the Spirit and are therefore blameless, spotless, without blemish. I asked you several questions, all of which you dodged. Could you perhaps please attempt to look at this...

Let’s, for the sake of exploring the options with an open mind, look at ths parable from the perspective of someone who believes that the bride is those who are blameless, walking according to the Spirit; and anyone walking according to the flesh is not the bride, because the bride is those who...

I read it. 1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. 1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also...

Is every person who attends a Christian church part of the bride? Is every person who has the Bible as their religious handbook part of the bride? Is everyone who received Jesus at some time in their past, part of the bride of Christ? Is it possible for someone who receives Jesus at some point...

I’m finding it hard to hear the astronomical sign regarding Virgo that you have cited as being a trumpet blast that wakes up the bridemaids/virgins. A trumpet sound that almost no one hears, except yourself (and who else?). I would expect an alarm call to be a lot more obvious to the people it...

It could have been any kind of fruit tree and there could have been any number of the same kind of fruit tree in the garden besides that one particular fruit tree. A type of fruit was not forbidden, but a particular tree and that particular tree’s fruit were forbidden. They were told they could...

Genuine intimacy can be experienced in much broader spectrum of activities than sexual relations. Sex was for procreation. If there is no procreation intended, sex is fun but unnecessary. The lawyers’ question to Jesus was whether all seven husbands would be having sex with the same wife...

IMO you are taking Paul’s words out of context as statements of absolute universal fact, rather than reading them in context as Paul expressing his frustration that, though he was a Jew who saw the Law as good and was tryng to keep the law, he was unable to keep on doing the law without lapsing...

Another way to look at 1 Cor. 12-13 is as an explanation of the purpose and orderly seemly exercise of the Holy Spirit’s gifts in assemblies. maybe Paul is saying that in meetings we may receive a word of knowledge, which happens and ends or ceases; to be followed by another gift, maybe, a...

Also @Beckworth. There is nothing in scripture that says that faith and hope will cease, while love continues forever. Paul simply says that the greatest of faith, hope and love is love. God created the universe by faith. Faith is necessary for any relationship to be healthy. A relationship...

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be ready, thoroughly having been made ready for every good work. 3:17 ἵνα (so that) ἄρτιος (ready) ᾖ (may be) ὁ...

And yet in #42 you said , 1Co 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 1Co 13:10 But when that which is...