Tuesday | 27 January 2026
The Holy Spirit is the source and capacity of our prayer. He also makes known to us the prophetic Scriptures that apply to the times and seasons in which we live. Accordingly, it is important that we register the Holy Spirit’s ongoing insistence upon our consideration of Jesus’ parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Clearly, the midnight hour is upon us, for we are presently hearing the Spirit’s declaration, ‘Behold, the Bridegroom is coming.’ Mat 25:6. We know that this is what the Spirit is saying because of the present emphasis in the word that is calling for cultural reformation in our marriages and families. This is the appeal, through the ministry of Elijah, for households who belong to the bride of Christ to be made worthy and to grow to firstfruits as part of a network of worthy houses who are ready for the coming of the Bridegroom.
It is notable that all ten women in this parable were identified by Jesus as ‘virgins’. That is, they were believers who belonged to the virgin bride of Christ. The distinction between the wise and foolish virgins was evident in their responses to the word of the Elijah ministry calling them to be ready for the coming of the Bridegroom. Clearly, there was a group of believers who were foolish, being slow to respond to this prophetic ministry. In contrast, there was a group of believers who were responsive to this message, who applied themselves, through faithful prayer, to the reformation of their marriages and families, and who were therefore able to join this ministry.
We are counted worthy to escape the judgement of God in the time of the end because we are responding to what the Spirit is saying ‘Today’, with mourning, repentance and faith, as the Lord comes among the unclean daughters of Zion in a spirit of judgement and burning. Heb 3:7. Isa 4:1,4.
Further Study:
Matthew 25
References:
Mat 25:6
And at midnight a cry was heard, ‘Behold, the Bridegroom is coming; go out to meet Him!’
Heb 3:7
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today, if you will hear His voice.’
Isa 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, ‘We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.’
Isa 4:4
When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning.