08_06 Virgins Undefiled

Document #08_06, Virgins Undefiled, identifies the Remnant people of God, as virgins, those not defiled with women. Unpacking this prophecy reveals again, from another perspective, the importance of learning and sharing our Present Truth Message from Rev. 14, verses 6 to 12 and Rev. 18, verses 1 to 4.

Scripture Text: Revelation 14, verse 4

Title: The 144,000 – virgins not defiled with women.

We have here two key-words to explore, using the Concordance to search the Bible for answers. How are the 144,000 virgins, and, what women defile many?

First, consider this: the 144,000 are neither all men..nor are they all women. Therefore, the wording here must be symbolically understood. Secondly, however, the women here referred to must still refer to bad women, [symbolic women]
who defile many. They corrupt the purity of many.

A symbolic “woman,” in the Bible, represents something. What is it, everyone? …A church: that’s right. You are good Bible students.

A pure woman; example – Revelation 12, verse 1, represents God’s church. A vile woman; example – Revelation 17, verse 3, represents a church invaded by Satan and his host.
Before we read Revelation 17, I must share a Bible study principle with you that is an invaluable tool to correct Bible study. I was taught that I must always, and I say again, always, read the context of whatever I look up in the Concordance. As our pastors say, “A text taken out of context, is simply a pretext!” I usually read a section the size of an average chapter around a key-word. Thus, in verse 5 of Revelation 17, we find that the bad woman, called Babylon the Great, is “the mother of harlots.” According to verse 1, she is the great whore that sits upon many waters. So, the daughters of this woman must also be, to put it Bible bluntly, “whores” – what we today call prostitutes. This means that the daughters also must defile many. They are bad “women,” not pure “women.”

Through historicist interpretation, which means that we apply the appropriate history to prophecy, Adventists know who Great Babylon and her daughters are. The whore, a great church in the world, sits upon many waters – which represents many nations and tongues and peoples. She is…the Papal, Roman church- state. Her daughters are, therefore…the Protestant churches that developed out of her in the Reformation.

In 1844 to 1846, all, Catholic and Protestant churches that call themselves Christian, were Judged by God, and found fallen! – defiled, corrupted from their purity by Satan and his host who have invaded them. At that time, the Advent believers, people who were proclaiming the soon Advent or Coming of Jesus, were being thrust out by all of the denominations. They had proclaimed the First Angel’s Message of Revelation 14 [the hour of His Judgment is come!] and now they added the Second Angel’s Message, proclaiming against the Protestant churches, as well as against the Papal system: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, because she made all nations drink
of her false doctrines.” The other churches were found fallen with her. [Breaking the 4th Commandment, by continuing to keep the Papal Sunday!] It is therefore not a stretch to say that the 144,000 are virgins (a pure church) who are not defiled with, or along with, “women,” – Catholic and Protestant “women,” who had prostituted
themselves with the god of this world, Satan, instead of keeping themselves pure for their Creator and Saviour!

We now have found that true believers are virginal – referring to a pure church, and they are not defiled along with vile “women” (churches) of whatever persuasion. By the Papacy’s changing the 4th Commandment to make it refer to the 1st day of
the week, Sunday, and the acceptance of this false doctrine by the Protestant churches, all of them cause God’s people in them, to sin!! What is the Bible definition of sin? Sin is the transgression or breaking of the Law – the 10 Commandments.
Many are defiled – their purity corrupted, with these “women” – these fallen churches.

Then, after 1844, the Third Angel’s Message began to be proclaimed and that Message is sweeping  across the world today!

I’ll bet you are thinking, by this point, that this is too harsh criticism of the other Christian churches. Well, consider this. In 1844 to 1846, the messages from Jesus were the Three Angel’s Messages of Revelation 14. As we approach the real Day of
Atonement, the final day when all of the Investigative Judgment, by God, is finished in heaven, and the decree given that closes probation (Revelation 22, verse 11) we, you and I, are to proclaim the 4th Angel’s Message, from Revelation 18, vs, 1 to 5!

It repeats the 2nd Angel’s Message, but wow, it is really harsh criticism of the fallen churches! Have you turned to Revelation 18? Rev.18, verses 1 to 5. Let’s read it together. (read).
Yes, God says that all of these Christian churches have been invaded by Satan and his host. [Remember the “Shut Door?”] They didn’t follow Jesus into the Most Holy Place Ministry of their Saviour! They are fallen, defiled, corrupted from their purity by Satan and his host of devils, who have infiltrated them! They “have become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit!”

With this much settled,  we need to complete the study, and connect the “virgins” in the Bible texts, by using the key-word “virgins.”

Did Holy Spirit just now connect the dots for you? Did a text immediately come to your mind? Where is that text, everyone?

Turn to Matthew 25, the 10 Virgin Parable. Already you are thinking inspired thoughts of what it all means:
Matthew 25, the 10 Virgin Parable. Jesus here says that the Kingdom of Heaven (that is developing here on earth) is like unto 10 virgins, which gathered together at a house near the bride’s home, to join the procession of the bride and groom to the reception at the groom’s Father’s home.

I won’t “beat around the bush” with this. I don’t need to take that much time to explain it fully, in detail. I have a documentthat does that, the Ten Virgin Parable.
The 10 virgins are the Adventist church of today. We are the ones who have access to a great body of true knowledge of the prophecies of Jesus. We keep the Commandments, all of them, and are not defiled with the harlot churches. We are the 10 virgins – all ten. But this means that Jesus is warning us not to be among the 5 foolish virgins! Do you get that? The whole parable is Jesus warning us not to be among the 5 foolish virgins! What makes them foolish is what we must look for.

The book Christ Object Lessons is the source of understanding of the cultural setting here in the parable. The girls are the friends of the Bridegroom. They are the church, the people, male and female, who are the friends of the Bridegroom, Jesus.

The actual girls that Jesus sees aren’t invited to the wedding at the bride’s father’s house. Maybe that’s because they are former girlfriends of the Groom? Or, they might simply not be direct friends of the bride who would be invited to the wedding
ceremony at the bride’s father’s house [bridesmaids].

When the ceremony is over, the Bride and Groom walk to the house of the Groom’s Father, to officially meet Him as husband and wife, and enjoy the reception the Father has prepared for them and their entourage. The 10 virgins are the church here on earth, and all of these people are waiting for the Bridegroom to come and gather His people to bring them to the reception for His wedding to the 144,000!

We, the church, don’t know when all of the 144,000 are made up, but we do know that Jesus will marry them. They all will be “one with Him,” fully prepared to be His pure Bride. Revelation 19:7-9 (read).
Thus we are waiting for the procession from the Bride’s home (on earth) to come by on the way to the Bridegroom’s Father’s house for the reception in heaven. We know in our heart that we are not yet perfectly “one with Him,” and so will probably be the guests at the wedding, rather than the Bride herself, the 144,000, who will have fully overcome sin, here on this earth, by becoming “one with Him” through the atonement and the cleansing of their soul Temple from sin.

And so, we wait. It is night in the world (the world is full of iniquity around us). We have our lamps (we have light in this world). The “Loud Cry” of 1844, that Jesus is Coming, and that it is the Judgment Hour that is come, is the light that is behind our light today. All of the true interpretation of prophecy from then to now has become our light, from our lamps. We are waiting for the Bridegroom to come from the wedding and then bring His bride to the reception at His Father’s house in heaven.
We want to join that procession to His Father’s house! We are to help light the way to the Father’s reception banquet!

But five are foolish. Jesus has tarried, not willing that one should perish. It is our own fault that He is tarrying. We have fallen asleep, unable to watch and pray in our own strength, just like the disciples were while Jesus prayed in Gethsemane.
We need Holy Spirit fully active in our lives, to give us power to prepare the way for our Lord and Saviour to come!

Just here, we have the key to how we can receive Holy Spirit fully in our lives. Listen up now. This is extremely important, and is the answer to avoiding being among the five foolish virgins!
We profess, by Revelation 12, verse 17, that we “keep the Commandments of God, and have “the testimony of Jesus Christ.” All 10 virgins profess that we “have (personally possess) the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Search “line upon line.” What is “the testimony of Jesus Christ?” You know the answer. It is Adventist teaching. The Concordance takes us to Revelation 19, verse 10. “…the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.” Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prophecy. I repeat: Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prophecy. He is our teacher as we study prophecy! “Spiritual things are Spiritually discerned!”
“…the Comforter,” Jesus said in John 14, verse 26, “which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” With these, I put also, “Whom shall He [Holy Spirit, as above] teach knowledge, and whom shall He make to understand doctrine?
…line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little.” Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10 and their context. (KJV)

Now we are ready to answer the question. How can we avoid being among the 5 foolish virgins? What did the 5 wise have in their vessels (in their minds)? They possess extra oil – the symbol of Holy Spirit working to produce light in each of us!
They have entreated Holy Spirit, the Spirit of prophecy, to give them that which they must personally possess, in order to be among those that fulfill Revelation 12, verse 17. – They “have the testimony of Jesus,” which is “the Spirit of Prophecy!”

If you are not making the study of all 4 Angel’s Messages, and all of the parts of those messages, your priority in life, you will not be ready for the Latter Rain, and you will not be ready to “prepare the Way of the Lord, and make His paths straight.”

Only if you know your Message, including all of its connected prophecies, in detail, for yourself, will you possess the Spirit of prophecy!

I know, that you don’t know, your Message. You know about it, yes. But you don’t know it, in detail, for yourself. You don’t possess the Spirit of prophecy, or the Latter Rain would be being manifested in the whole world!

Jesus is waiting for you, and every Adventist wise virgin, to trim your lamps and add the needed oil so that you can join the procession to the wedding reception at Jesus’ Father’s house;

and help light the Way!!

I am one of the ones, from inside the house on earth, that is crying, “Arise, and trim your lamps, the Bridegroom is Coming! Make ready your lights, so that you may join the procession and joyfully light the Way to the Father’s house!”

Pray with me.
Jesus, we have indeed been asleep, even though we have been trying, in our own power, to watch (as prophecy unfolds before our eyes) and pray (for strength to endure what is coming).
With what we have learned today, we now pray for the Spirit of Prophecy to come to us, as we zealously study our Message and its details. Fill us, Lord, that we may personally possess the testimony of Jesus. Amen, and Amen.

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