The Great 17th century Puritan Preacher, founder of Harvard University and Minister at Cambridge in New England Thomas Shepard, stated that every Christian, being by nature, 'sons of death', 'make it our own business to be in continual care to make ready, that we might have a good meeting with Him who shall be seen in the air one day.'
His 635 page volume on the Parable of The Virgins is a classic. Yet, for all its splendor, lessons, use and glory, it is not as it should be, i.e. a postmillennial dissertation. Today we examine afresh the parable, using some of the light of Shepherd's wondrous insight, but as it was meant by Our Lord, so that we too may be ready at His appearing.
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Rev. Dr. Paul Michael Raymond is the pastor of the Reformed Bible Church in Central Virginia @ Appomattox which is committed to the Reformed tradition of "Sola Scriptura", with a strong emphasis upon the Christian’s Cultural Mandate of Genesis 1:28. Originally established in...