All right, we're in Matthew chapter 25. We're looking at this parable of the 10 virgins yesterday.

We talked about how weddings were back then so we could have some

chance of understanding this because all of the customs and everything they sound way different than how we do

weddings now. So we worked through that. If you didn't catch yesterday, you might want to go catch yesterday because a lot of these stranger cultural details will be pretty foreign unless you caught that one.

But what does this parable actually boil down to now that we have the parts in place to play with to get what's going on?

Well, I think it's all right here front-loaded on the front end of the thing.

Matthew chapter 25 comes after Matthew chapter 24 because of how math is and the ideas, unlike some chapter

breaks in the Bible, the ideas flow directly from 24 into 25. There's no observable break between the flow of thought and all the

red letters and all the stuff that Jesus is saying in chapter 24 going into 25. So

we can assume that the first line of Matthew chapter 25 is a straight up continuation of the previous thought,

which we'll talk about in just a minute. Jesus says, at that time the kingdom of heaven

will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Five of them were foolish and five of them were wise and what we figure out pretty quickly

is that the foolishness or wisdom of these bridesmaids is demonstrated in how much

allowance they grant for how long the whole wedding business and the paperwork and everything else that goes into it might take.

Some of them, five, look at the situation, they're like, you know what, I'm just gonna bet that

this is pretty quick, and if I'm wrong, sure, I'm going to look like a complete idiot

and I might not even get to go to the actual party

and I will have failed in my bridesmaidly duties.

But what-evsies, I'm pretty positive.

I'm reading the situation, right? I don't need to prepare for the long haul.

The other five are like,

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