25:10-13
Realising they needed oil, the foolish virgins went off to try and get some (though how successful they would be at midnight is debatable). However, the bridegroom arrived while they were away. The wise virgins went into the wedding banquet with the groom and the door was shut. When the foolish virgins got back they asked to be let in, but He replied “Truly, I tell you, I don’t know you”. We should take on board the severity and harshness of these words. If your picture of Jesus does not allow Him to say such things then your picture is a false picture.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour”. We are to be ready at all times. If we look back at the teaching in chapters 24 and 25 then we are to be ready for the long haul, and ready for Jesus coming back at any moment.
25:14
We now come to the parable of the bags of gold and this is all part of the same block of teaching. We have just been told to keep watch. What does this mean? The final two parables show quite clearly that this does not mean watching out for signs in the sky or in political/military changes. It means living our lives faithfully doing God’s work. In the parable we have a man entrusting management of his wealth to his servants. Back in Genesis God entrusted humanity with care of the earth. We were to be fruitful and multiply, and to have dominion over the earth (Gen 1:26-28).
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