The Ten Virgins

It was Christ's last week of ministry. He had triumphantly entered Jerusalem. He went to the temple on Sunday and there He cast out the money-changers and merchants who had so desecrated the temple. For the last time, He taught His disciples and the crowds.

Now, as Christ was leaving the temple area to go to the Mount of Olives, His disciples were moved by the beauty and splendor of the temple.

Matthew 24:1, “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.”

The Temple was built with some stones measuring 40x12x12 feet and weighing up to 100 tons each. And to stand at the base of the temple truly would have been awe-inspiring. It was this exchange that prompted the discourse found in Matthew 24-25 in which Christ not only foretells of the coming destruction of the temple which would occur in 70 A.D. but also prophecies of the events surrounding His Second Coming.

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