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I'm lost. I don't know what your point is as it relates to scripture. I don't know what you are saying.

This is a good topic to study, because the seven churches in Revelation 1:20, Revelation 2:1-29, Revelation 3:1-22 shows Jesus is giving certain warnings to the churches. There are behaviors that Jesus is warning these churches about, and warns them that they must repent. Although these churches which received the gospel message during their time, that gospel message has spread throughout the world, over the centuries, and into the churches today. This is where you find Christians today, in churches, and Christian groups. Some Christians have gotten themselves involved in false worship without knowing it and hopefully will be lead out. I know I did, and when God revealed to me what was going, I quickly repented. It was a lack of understanding on my part. I did not do it purposely. Nonetheless, the warning still stands and Jesus will not overlook it when He returns unless we repent. So, I do think the five foolish virgins and five wise virgins are being identified in the churches in Revelation also. If you take Matthew 25:13, "Watch therefore; for ye know neither the day or the hour wherein the Son of man cometh, it's the same warning in Revelation where the churches are spoken about, Revelation 3:3, "Remember therefore how thou has received and heard, and hold fast and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come up on thee." Believers are the ten virgins, and are the churches, and we are to watch. The warning "watch therefore" is also in other parables, for example, Matthew 24:42-44. When Jesus comes, not only is He coming as the bridegroom, He is also coming as the Judge.

It will be just like at Jesus's resurrection, when the graves opened and the saints came out of them. The saints in Christ, who die in Christ, and whose souls are in heaven with Christ, their graves will open, and they will come out of their graves, and meet Christ in the air, 1 Thessalonians 4:17. But they will not go back to heaven because Jesus is descending to earth, 1 Thessalonians 4:16. The saints will descend with Jesus after they are resurrected in the 1st resurrection. The reason why Jesus told Mary not to touch Him has to do with first fruits. God (the husbandman) must be first partaker of the first fruit, 2 Timothy 2:6. Search the scriptures on the meaning of the first fruits being present to God. Jesus is the first fruits, 1 Corinthians 15:20-23. Therefore, Jesus had to be present to God first before Mary touch Him, John 20:17. Afterwards, he retuned from heaven and spoke with his disciples, John 20:19. Research the scriptures regarding first fruits. Here is a script, Leviticus 23:20, "And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the Lord with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. Christ is our High Priest, Hebrews 4:14, who is the first fruits of them who slept, 1 Corinthians 15:20. Based on God's requirement for a High Priest, and based on the first fruits requirement, He had to appear before God before anyone touched Him.

We must understand the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Jesus had to take care of the Old Covenant because He was bringing in the New Covenant. As long as the testator is alive, a covenant cannot be in full force, Hebrews 9:16, "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." Hebrews 9:17, For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth." When Jesus died, the Old Testament/Old Covenant was done away with, nailed to the cross, Colossians 2:14. If Jesus had not taken care of everything under Old Testament, the New Testament would be of no strength for our salvation. So because those in Abraham's bosom were of the Old Testament, Jesus took care of those saints, descended to set the captive free, they ascended with Him to heaven, under the Old Covenant. There is to be no mixture between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant for salvation. One is done away with while the other is in full force.

I would like to show you, through the bible, resurrection, Abraham's bosom, and where the saint's souls go when they die. Abraham's bosom: Lazarus and the Rich man both died and both were buried. However, before Christ, the two were under the Old Covenant, the law, and when they died, Lazarus the bagger was taken by the angel to a place of safety, Abraham's bosom, Luke 16:19-24, but the Rich man was tormented in fire (hell). Lazarus's soul was in Abraham's bosom, and the Rich man's soul was in hell. It was prophesied that at Jesus's crucifixion, He said, thou would not leave my soul in hell, Psalm 16:10, Acts 2:27. This explains when Jesus died, He descended into the lower parts of the earth, Ephesians 4:9; He went and preached to spirits in prison, 1 Peter 3:19. Jesus preached the gospel to those who were dead to be judged in the flesh, but to live to God in the spirit, 1 Peter 4:6. When Jesus ascended he lead captivity captive, Ephesians 4:8,. So those in Abraham's bosom were taken out of that place, and taken to heaven with him. After Jesus's resurrection, graves were opened, and the saints that slept rose and appeared to men, Matthew 27:52-53. We know they must have gone with Jesus when Jesus ascended, Ephesians 4:8, because those who came out of their graves were called "saints." I don't know if some people think that these people which had been dead, buried and rose, would live again in the flesh. But consider that after Jesus rose, He also appeared to His disciples for many days, where He had a different type of body where he could walk through closed doors, John 20:26, but His body could be touch by man, specifically, Thomas, John 20:27. So it stand to reason that the graves that opened had bodies like Jesus's body, and when Jesus ascended, they ascended with Him to heaven. Abraham's bosom was for those under the "Old Covenant," and they have been released from that place of safety, and their souls are with Christ. They have been given their heavenly bodies. Those who die after Christ has already ascended and is sitting on the right hand of God the Father, their souls will go to be with Christ, Philippians 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:8. Even consider Revelation 6:9-11. When Jesus comes down, those souls in heaven, their graves will open, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, and those alive will be changed, 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The way it happened when Jesus was raised from the dead where those in Abraham's bosom's graves opened, and their souls were taken with Jesus to Heaven, a similar thing will take place. The souls that are under the "New Covenant," in Christ, when they die, their souls go to be with Christ in heaven. At Christ's return, in the first resurrection, their graves will open and they will come out of their graves; again although their souls are with Christ. This is the joining of all the saints in Christ, the Old and the New Covenant, to be with Christ forever, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Revelation 7:9, Jesus is the Lord over all! Those in hell, will be thrown into the Lake of Fire, Revelation 20:14, where they will never die. I know some will not see this the way I see it. But, I have tried to list as may scriptures for your review.

The issue is not really knowing what Christ has done, and not understanding what being made free, Galatians 5:1, means in our Christian life. Once we believe in Christ, and are sealed, Ephesians 1:13, the Holy Spirit begins His work on us, John 16:13, 2 Corinthians 4:7, Philippians 1:6, Galatians 3:5. God is of no respect of persons, Romans 2:11. God loves us all greatly and has redeemed us in His Son, 1 John 4:9-11. God has shed his love abroad to all men. We have been set free from sin, Romans 6:18, and sin is not imputed unto us, Romans 5:13. The law has been nailed to the cross, Colossians 2:14, and we have been crucified with Christ, Galatians 2:20, therefore, the law charges nothing against us, we cannot be condemned, Romans 8:1, Romans 8:33, and we are to not condemn ourselves, 1 Corinthians 4:3. This revelation truth is only revealed by the Holy Spirit to make it experiential in our lives. The Holy Spirit brings the light of Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Colossians 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:5. Also the issues is not having the God given revelation of our flesh, our old man having been crucified with Christ on the cross, Romans 6:6: The God given revelation of this allows the Holy Spirit to bring about this truth experientially in our life. But the requirement is to believe, Romans 1:6, Romans 15:13, 1 Corinthians 2:3. So, if the flesh has been crucified on the cross with Christ, we can only then work out our salvation by the Power of God, the Power of the Holy Spirit, Romans 15:13, 1 Corinthians 2:4-5. Without this revelation knowledge, we only know to come from the position of the flesh, and not the Spirit. The flesh does not believe God loves us; the flesh fights against the Spirit, Galatians 5:17. With this war going on, and this happens to all Christians, yet not understanding what's happening, we remain in the carnal mind, without having our minds renewed by the Spirit, Ephesians 4:23. The carnal mind is enmity against God, Romans 8:7. But God knows our flesh, and has helped us out. He crucified our flesh on the Cross with Christ, Galatians 5:24. We are to believe He has done this, and we are to put off the old man (fleshly man), Ephesians 4:22, and put on the new man (spiritual man), Ephesians 4:24 Thus we can walk in newness of life, Romans 6:4, and we are to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, Ephesians 4:23, Romans 12:2, by the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 3:20, Colossians 1:11, Ephesians 1:19. None of us can do the work on our own. If we could have, then Christ would not have had to die for us, and God would not have crucified our fleshly man/carnal man on the cross with Christ. It is by God's Spirit that we received Power, 2 Timothy 1:7, and that we are quickened, and walk in newness of life, Romans 8:11.