A CRY WAS MADE

       
 At  midnight there was a cry made, "Behold the bridegroom cometh, go you out to meet him," Mat. 25:6. Both the wise and foolish virgins that slumbered and slept, were awakened and rose up and trimmed their lamps. These virgins are professed members of the body of Christ, some living  in darkness because their light has gone out, others living in the light of Christ who are continually supplied with oil. All of the virgins professed to know Jesus Christ and  to be living by His light. All of the virgins were made aware from this cry of the immediate coming of Christ: What will be that cry? Who will make that cry that will alert the 10 virgins?  When Christ does come, why will the door be shut to the foolish virgins from going in with Jesus Christ to the marriage?

         The cry "that  was made" must be a worldwide cry  to awaken all virgins, wise and foolish, in all lands over the entire earth. Notice, this cry was not a cry made by the  church because the church  and its leadership were asleep or slumbering, and they are so divided who would believe any person or minister that was stirred to give that cry? So evidently, this cry is from another source outside of the professed church leadership. It will be given by leaders and watchful  people of the world, who are aware of what is happening, but covered up by the media. These leaders are active in what is going on behind news scenes and what is not being reported. They  will send out the cry and warning to all peoples of all lands, of an event, or an earth shaking worldwide problem of imminent danger and global emergency,  that will affect all people of the earth.

    This cry will be recognized by the virgins who are asleep or slumbering,  but were alerted to know  that the information, this cry presented, means to them Christ's coming  is imminent. These virgins are believers that have not given themselves defiled themselves (spiritually) with other women (false churches of the world) who follow and worship the false christs of the world's churches, but are believers and confessed to be worshippers of the true Christ.

        To understand the cry that was made, true believers must come to understand first what constitutes or establishes the coming of Christ, and how or why will the cry awaken believers to the time or season of Christ's immediate coming. This does not mean anyone can or will know the day or hour when Christ will come, which  the Word says no man knows, but only God the Father. However, the church virgins can know the season. Paul says in I Thes. 5:4-5 ---But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day  should overtake you as a thief. v.5---You are all the children of light and the children  of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

    The cry is coming at midnight, a time beginning a greater coming darkness for the world. Even though the virgins  have been and are asleep or slumbering, this is also the cry coming at a  time  in society when generally all people will be caught off guard to this cry's great significance due to the fact,  that they will not understand its Biblical meaning and fulfillment. If a Christ believer doesn't understand what is the coming of Christ, then he also will be caught off guard, unaware, and will not understand the cry that was made. Luke 21:34---Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with overeating, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.  

What is the coming of Christ?
 

      The coming of Christ actually covers 3-1/2 years. Jesus Christ will first begin His coming by the decision of God the Father, that will begin Christ coming to the earth to intervene and lead His wise virgins out from the great trial covering the earth, to a place of safety, Rev. 3:10. This day and time of the coming of Christ, will come like a thief in the night, because it will come suddenly. Jesus continually warns all His true and wise servants to watch, and not to be caught unaware of this time and moment. After this leading out of His accounted worthy saints to a place of protection, of feeding  and marriage preparations,  Rev. 12:14, Rev. 3:10  then Christ opens up the seals of His judgment, Rev. 6 to the rest of earth beginning His judgments on the earth, and this will begin a time there has never been the like, never before, or ever  will be after it, Joel 2:1-2, Mat. 24:21.

        This judgment of Christ will begin with man's life style being taken away, as well  as all of his freedoms. The availability of food will dry up. Pure drinking water will become scarce, and all services to mankind will be greatly disrupted and become totally controlled by a police state that will come to power. Violence, robbery,  and rape will be everywhere followed with disease,  starvation, death, and destruction.  So any world wide cry that presents warnings of world danger and emergency will bring on these judgments,  and will be a warning to all the virgins that the day of the Lord  and His coming is imminent.

     The 3-1/2 years of Christ's judgments upon the earth will complete the opening and executing of the judgments of those seven seals of Rev. 6 through the 11th chapter. The seventh seal will be the carrying out, and consisting of the 7 trumpets  of even greater plagues and punishment upon rebellious mankind. Jesus Christ, at the blowing of the last trumpet which is the seventh trumpet, will at this time appear to the whole world and every eye will see Him, Rev. 1:7, Rev. 11:15.

     This is also the time when Jesus Christ will resurrect all the saints that have died in the past 6000 years, and will change to spirit those saints and those that are alive at this time. So at the end of today's present world and 6,000 years of man's government and social order, Christ will come to begin His judgments on the earth , and over its entire area, and the judgments will last for 3 and 1/2 years, which is the last half of Christ's prophetic week, Daniel 9:27, and  these judgments are described in Ezekiel, Matthew, and Revelation.

        Christ's first coming to the earth, nearly 2,000 years ago, was His coming to the earth as a lamb, a sacrificial lamb, to bring His Gospel, the good news of the opportunity of salvation to man. This first coming of Jesus Christ and the time of His ministry was for 3 1/2 years of teaching, proclaiming, and warning sinners to repent, and of Christ giving His life and shedding His blood in order that repentant sinners  might accept Him and His Gospel, or if they don't, then they will perish from the earth.
 
   This began the prophetic week spoken of by Daniel 9:27. Christ's second coming will complete the prophetic week, and also will be for 3 and 1/2 years, and also give man a last opportunity in this age to repent of his sins or perish. Christ will again extend His hand of mercy, even though man may have to die to prove his repentance and acceptance of Christ as his Savior during this period of time. At this period of time, Christ is coming as a lion, bringing judgment over the entire earth, yet still continuing to extend His Love and His Grace and His Mercy upon those who will repent. This judgment will end with the establishment of His world ruling kingdom over the entire earth, Rev. 5:5, Rev. 11:15-18, Amos 3:6-8. 

Why the door was shut to the foolish virgins?

       Christ's second coming and judgment will be preceded with a warning to all believers that will hear Him, and what He has to say to the Churches of God today through the Power of His Holy Spirit. This warning is to all professed believers who may have been begotten of God's Spirit, but have not been born again, meaning, there has not been a full and complete conversion and development of the new life of God's Spirit that was begun in their life, to become a Son of God. They are not being led by Christ through the growth of His Spirit  in them through the Power of the Spirit of God, but are still being led by the spirit and flesh of men, and the following  of men. Why is this so?

         One of the main reasons is because they are following and believing a false teaching about being born again and how one is converted. This is a false teaching that permits sin to continue in a person's life, and who has not overcome his sins. The continuance of sin in a person's life stops the growth and giving of  God's spirit in their life. Sins such as the sins of self-righteous, pride, self exaltation, and lusts of flesh, and all such sins will blind a person to their other sins and cause one to justify his sins. So this false teaching, about being converted to be born again, teaches that no one is born again until they are changed to Spirit at the resurrection. Anyone waiting for the resurrection to be filled and be led by the Spirit of Christ can forget about eternal life.

     This false teaching justifies a person's sins and makes the false created Christ they worship a minister of sin and accepts a teaching that they can inherit life with their sins. They use I Cor 15:50 to try to give foundation to this point, but the fact is, this verse proves their error in their teaching.

    This verse in I Cor. 15:50 says  "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God."   Every true believer in Christ has an inheritance. Can anyone living in the flesh, but being born again now of the Spirit inherit the kingdom? Yes they can by  them being born again of the Spirit, by having their heart and mind converted to spirit, which today's confessed Christians do not understand and do not have that Spirit leading them in their lives.

   Paul was saying, nobody in the flesh, led by the flesh can inherit the kingdom because nobody in the flesh living by the flesh, will  be given possession of God's Spirit for entry into God's Kingdom. These foolish virgins base their born again error on the fact that they believe that the sins of the flesh and the Spirit of God can dwell in a believer at the same time. They refer to themselves as sinners as well as being saints. These are the foolish virgins that will not be ready when the cry goes out.!

    The false teaching about being born again is this: There are many, many churches of the world, professing to be of Christ, who believe they have been born again, and all they have to do is confess the Name of Christ, without true repentance of breaking God's Ten Commandments. These people  are outside of the body of Christ and haven't  begun in the redemption work of Christ, because they do not understood true repentance, and have not been begotten by God's Spirit. These people are not even considered foolish virgins because they are following a false Christ,  and false church (woman) and are committing spiritual fornication.

     Also, there are the Churches of God, professing to be the true church of Christ, and who believe that they are the all wise virgins, prepared to meet Jesus Christ at His return. These are virgins that may have been begotten of the Spirit, but their spiritual growth and development to be born again, to be born as a Son of God in their life, has stopped due to their false teaching about being born again, and their acceptance that they are sinners as well as saints. ( Read our article "From Sinner To Saint" , also our article on "The Born Again Mystery ."

John 3:5-- except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. II Cor. 5:17-- If any man be in Christ, he is a new person (born again of the Spirit). Eph. 4:23-24---Be renewed in the Spirit of your mind; that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. ( a born again person does not deliberately sin) I John  3:6,9-- Whosoever abides in Christ does not sin. v.9-- whosoever is born of God does not commit sin,  for Christ is in him: and he cannot sin, because he born of God.

        These  foolish virgins have not developed and matured in the Spirit of God. These people have been misled and confused about the born again teaching. They are continuing in the flesh, and the following of the flesh of men, because of the false teaching of some "great" carnal, professed to be spiritual teacher, and have accepted his teaching "to be born again" to mean, being changed to spirit composition of the body at the resurrection, rather than Christ's teaching, that the mind and heart of man  must be changed,  that is converted to spirit now, and are daily led by that Spirit now. So the foolish virgins  are those unwilling to accept truth, and are not being prepared to meet the bridegroom at His coming when the cry is made. These are virgins that do not have Jesus Christ living in them through His Spirit.

        The foolish virgins did not understand, nor did they allow any other prophecy scenario to make them aware of how and when (the season) Christ's immediate and sudden coming as a thief in the night, would take place, because of their long time cherished, and held to man inspired prophecies, had not been fulfilled. They, as foolish virgins, were unwilling to accept any other information of prophecy that was taking place in their country and world, that would cause or bring about the cry to be made, and so any news that was not in their time held prophecy and news sources, they rejected.

   In other words, they would not accept any other communication of prophecy being fulfilled unless it first came from their own "Christ inspired" leaders, and a second reason they did not accept any other information was because it was not reported by the main channel news services. There is a third reason, and no doubt the reason the first two reasons exist, and that is, the foolish virgins did not really know Jesus Christ, and would not accept Christ working a dynamic and inspiring work in any one else or others except themselves. These foolish virgins were legends in their own mind. 

        These virgins were not only foolish, but became evil servants, by smiting verbally their fellow servants, by calling them evil names, such as conspiracy nuts, wackos,  cults, or conspiracy buffs or theorists, Mat. 24: 48-51.  Why? It was because the wise servants were not watching what the foolish servants were watching and saying must come to pass. The foolish virgins were not really watching, accepting and communicating the news and prophecies of what was really happening, and being fulfilled in the nation and around the world behind the news  being reported by the cover-up media.

   These behind the scenes events and news, which were not being reported in the daily news services, did not fit at all in with the foolish and evil servants long-time, held to prophecies, so the wise servants were castigated and smited as evil.  Luke 12:45-says,  "but if that (evil) servant says in  his  heart ( because our prophecy has not been fulfilled ) Jesus Christ delays His coming and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens (verbally made light of the wise virgins ) and to eat  and drink, and to be drunken." These foolish virgins were feasting and drinking at their feasts, and being made drunk by a spiritual brain washing of their own making through their ministry and past traditions.

        Even though both servants-virgins, slept and slumbered, the wise virgins looked to Jesus Christ as their Savior and applied themselves to His wisdom, Luke 21:15, rather than to the foolishness of man's organization and hierarchy that the foolish virgins exalt and refer to as "the church" and "their church government." The wise knew Christ by studying His Word daily, and not man's words, and prayed to Christ and the Father daily, and  come to really know them, by relying daily on the aid and power of God's Holy Spirit-the oil that gave light and spiritual understanding, and were led by the Spirit of God in all their behavior day by day.

   But the foolish virgins lived in a state of darkness and denial, denying that it was the time and season for Christ to come by putting off Christ's coming a few more years, because "their" man inspired prophecies had not been fulfilled. These evil servants and their  "forced to be followers" were in fact by their speech and deeds of their minds and behavior, delaying Christ's coming.  

Who will make the cry?

         Some will say, "But doesn't the Bible verses in Mat. 25: 6-7,  say that both the wise and foolish virgins were alerted at the cry that was made?" The cry that will be made will not  be made by church leaders, but by credible people of our society, who are searching and studying what is really happening all over the world, in the governments  of nations, and progression of weapons of mass destruction. These are credible people of the world that most people of society would believe, if today's media would give them the time to tell about what they know.

    However, some will hear them and be shaken by their cry because their cry will be the beginning warning to the world of great danger and worldwide tragedy coming upon all people. However,  these criers in society will go unheeded by most all of the people of our society. It is because they will not understand the real Biblical meaning and understanding of this  beginning cry as it relates to the prophecy of Christ and His coming. It will be the beginning season of Christ's coming, and at some day and hour of that season, God the Father and Jesus Christ will make the decision to begin Christ's day of judgment, but first by leading out to a place of safety, to the marriage, and its preparations, all the wise virgins that were ready. 

        Some men, experts in their field began sending out  warnings that if the computer world with all of its time dated, computer chips, and over 4 billion are embedded chips, were not corrected before year 2000 that this would spell worldwide crisis. This  turned out to be a means of creating an emergency to get more money from the people through taxes to make ready all the computers over the world to be used with everybody being issued a personal national identity card or a personal chip. This personal chip is to be used for personal identity to control the people if they will accept it if they will look to man as their god rather the only Great Creator God. Accepting this personal chip will give the people permission to buy and sell. Other national and worldwide crises will continue to be created by  terrorist actions of some kind causing great loss of life either through cities being bombed, or chemical or bacterial warfare on a national and worldwide scale.  

    These kinds of emergencies will bring the nation and the world under a military control, better known as martial law. If this is ever implemented on a large scale, then this would cause a worldwide, great disruption in travel, transportation, food delivery, the banking organizations, electrical power, water, sewage services, and the work force. By man's dependency upon the computers and any disruption in this communication field then could cause all services that serve mankind to be disrupted. If any emergency causing disruption in services  is allowed  to escalate, it could eventually bring about runs on the banking industry, runs on food and water, and the taking away of all freedoms by the government's declaring of martial law or a national emergency.

    If this should come about and it is prophesied to come, then our society  will become so fearful that it will welcome its government to use its army, its police and even foreign troops to protect them and will look to its government to bring order and peace. It will be peace out of a created disorder, and thereby creating a need for a personal identity card or chip for the people's peace and security and well being. 

What will be the cry?

       
       Will a worldwide computer chip problem cause an national emergency, or will it be followed closely by some other created crisis to bring on martial law. Any national or worldwide emergency that declares the use of the military to police the people will present the cry to the church that Jesus Christ is soon to be revealed. This worldwide emergency will eventually cause a U.N. police state, and world dictatorship to be set up maybe in Jerusalem, the Holy Place, to try to establish peace all over the world.

    This will be the time and season of the great tribulation that will be worldwide and the season that will usher in the coming of Christ? You must watch and decide and be prepared spiritually, or if you are not, then you need to be prepared for  the last controlling world-wide empire to take control of your life to feed you, to house you and instruct you  to what you are to think and believe.

        After the church is led to safety,  those counted worthy to escape, Luke 21:35-36, then the opening of the 7 seals of judgments on the earth will begin, Rev. 6:1-8, which will be the beginning of the fulfillment of all the judgment prophecies of Revelation, along with the cleansing of the church, v-9, of all that would not examine themselves now at the present. All foolish virgins, and anyone who will desire to understand and accept the Gospel, during this worldwide trial coming to all the earth can be saved, but by most likely in death, which seals their salvation. This will be only by them humbling themselves before Christ and deeply repenting of their sins that they will now come to see during that great trial, and come to really know Jesus Christ. They at this time will realize their life's work, and all their  "great" church work called "God's work" was not built on and in Jesus Christ, but on their own pride, ego, self-righteousness and self exaltation and  the doing of "their -- own -- work!"  Read and Study I Cor. 3:11-15.

         Each Christ believer will have to watch  news events and decide, if you have not prepared yourself and have not been born again of God's Spirit now,  you had better face the truth,  that you really don't know Jesus Christ and you will not be ready and  He will reject you. If this is the season of Christ's coming, and all signs of society that are fulfilling prophecy are pointing to the fact that it is, then it will be too late  to go in with the bridegroom to the marriage. Because after the cry is fully made and goes out all over the world, quickly Christ will come for His  bride and a great many will not go in with Him, because they did not really know Jesus Christ and His will in their life. Mat. 25:11-12--The other virgins came saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. (Don't you know who we are and how special we have been in your "service") v12---but He answered and said, verily I say unto you, I know you not. Mat. 24:51--Christ will appoint them their portion with the rest of hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.