I wonder, when he comes again, will herald angels sing?
Will earth be white with drifted snow, or will the world know
spring?
I wonder if one star will shine far brighter than the rest;
Will daylight stay the whole night through? Will songbirds
leave their nests?
I’m sure he’ll call his little ones together ’round his knee,
Because he said in days gone by, “Suffer them to come to me.”
I wonder, when he comes again, will I be ready there
To look upon his loving face and join with him in prayer?
Each day I’ll try to do his will and let my light so shine
That others seeing me may seek for greater light divine.
Then, when that blessed day is here, he’ll love me and he’ll
say,
“You’ve served me well, my little child; come unto my arms to
stay.”
Enr. Act. 4
Words and music: Mirla Greenwood Thayne, 1907–1997 © 1952 by Mirla Greenwood Thayne, Provo, Utah. Renewed 1980. Used by permission. This song may be copied for incidental,
noncommercial church or home use.
• Pretend
that the class is
going on a trip.
• What do
we need to
do to prepare for
the trip?
• What should we
take with us?
•
Say, “We are going on a trip and
we will take ________.”
• The next person will
repeat this sentence.
• Include what the people
before you said and add
another item to the list.
•
Preparation is an important
part of many things in our
lives.
•
What are some things
we might prepare for
besides going on a
trip?
What do we do to prepare for
school?
 for a meal?
 for family home evening?
• In this lesson we are going to
learn how we can prepare
spiritually for a wonderful event
that will happen in the future.
•
“Lesson 25: Parable of the Ten Virgins,” Primary 7: New Testament, 83
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This parable
compares the
second coming of
Jesus Christ to a
wedding.
The second coming
is when the Savior
will return to earth
to rule during the
Millennium.
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•
The parable of the
ten virgins is based
on ancient Jewish
wedding customs.
The bridegroom and his friends
escorted the bride from her home
to the home of the bridegroom.
Along the way friends of the
bride waited to join them.
When they arrived
at the
bridegroom’s
home, they all
went inside for the
wedding.
These weddings usually took place
in the evenings, so those waiting
for the bride and bridegroom
carried lamps.
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•
•
•
•
Jesus told a story
about ten young
women who went
to a wedding.
They waited for the bridegroom to
come and let them in.
They did not know what time he
would come.
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•
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The ten women had
oil-burning lamps.
Five of the women
were wise. They had
extra oil with them.
The other five women
were foolish. They
only had the oil that
was in their lamps.
The bridegroom did not come for
a long time.
• The oil in the lamps ran out.
• The five wise
women had
more oil to put
in their lamps.
• The five foolish women had to go
buy more oil.
•
•
•
While they were gone,
the bridegroom came.
He let the five wise
women into the
wedding.
• When the five foolish
women returned, the
door was closed.
• They could not go to
the wedding.
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•
Jesus is like the
bridegroom in this
story.
Church members
are like the ten
women.
When Jesus comes again, some
members will be ready.
They will have obeyed God’s
commandments.
•
Others will not be
ready.
•
They will not be able to be with
the Savior when He comes again.
Whom do the ten
virgins represent?
• Let’s read Matthew
25:1
•
•
Whom does the
bridegroom
represent?
How do we know that all ten
virgins believed in Jesus Christ?
• Let’s read Matthew 25:6–7
• They “went out to meet” the
bridegroom and waited for him.
• How can we show that we
believe in Jesus?
•
•
Why were five of the virgins
referred to as foolish?
• Let’s read Matthew 25:3
•
Why were five referred to as
wise?
• Let’s read Matthew 25:4
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•
•
What happened when the
bridegroom came?
• Let’s read Matthew 25:6–8
Why do you think the five foolish
virgins were so unprepared?
How do you think we can be
prepared when Jesus comes
again?
•
Why do you think the five wise
virgins did not share their oil?
Let’s read
Matthew 25:9
Why couldn’t
they have given
some of their oil
to the others?
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The shape of
Jewish lamps,
outside lips
rounded inward,
made it almost
impossible for
someone to pour
oil from one
lamp to another.
•
•
In the parable, the oil in the wise
virgins’ lamps represents their
righteous living and obedience.
We each fill our own lamp, which
represents our own life, with our
obedience and righteousness.
•
Heavenly
Father’s blessings
to us for our
righteous actions
cannot be given
to the
disobedient.
What happened to
the five who were
not prepared?
• Let’s read Matthew
25:10–12
• What happened to
the five who were
prepared?
•
•
When Jesus left His Apostles in
Jerusalem, angels told them He
would come a second time.
Let’s read
Acts 1:9–11
•
Enr. Act. 1
•
Only Heavenly Father knows
when the Second Coming will be.
•
Let’s read
Matthew
24:36
Enr. Act. 1
Jesus will come
in power and
glory and reign
on the earth for
a thousand
years.
Let’s read D&C 29:11
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•
Enr. Act. 1
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•
We need to
prepare
ourselves for
Christ’s second
coming.
Let’s read D&C 33:17–18
Enr. Act. 1
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•
The righteous who
are ready for Jesus’
second coming will
be with Him on
that great day.
They will dwell in
the presence of
Heavenly Father
and Jesus forever.
•
Let’s read D&C 76:62–63
Enr. Act. 1
•
Why is it important for
us to prepare now for
the Second Coming?
•
How can we fill
our lamps with
oil?
•
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•
Elder Bruce R. McConkie said:
“As individuals, we prepare
to meet our God by keeping
His commandments and
living His laws…
“The gospel in its everlasting
fullness, restored as it has been in
these last days, is here to prepare a
people for the second coming of the
Son of Man”
(The Millennial Messiah, p. 572).
•
Let’s read Matthew 24:36 and
Matthew 25:13
• Just as the ten
virgins did not know
the exact hour when
the bridegroom
would come, we do
not know exactly
when Jesus will
come again.
•
What will it be like when Jesus
Christ returns?
• Let’s read D&C 45:56–57 &
63:53–54
•
What blessings are in store for
those who are spiritually
prepared?
• Let’s read D&C 38:30
I have a lamp for each of you.
• Write things on
your lamp that will
fill your spiritual
lamp with oil.
•
•
These are things you each have to
get or do yourself in order to
have oil in your lamps, as the five
wise virgins did.
Enr. Act. 2
•
•
•
President Spencer W. Kimball’s
said:
“In our lives the oil
of preparedness is
accumulated drop
by drop in righteous
living.
“Attendance at sacrament
meetings adds oil to our lamps,
drop by drop over the years.
Enr. Act. 2
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•
“Fasting, family
prayer, home
teaching, control of
bodily appetites,
preaching the
gospel, studying
the scriptures…
“Each act of dedication and
obedience is a drop added to our
store.
Enr. Act. 2
•
•
“Deeds of kindness,
payment of offerings
and tithes, chaste
thoughts and
actions, marriage in
the covenant for
eternity…
“These, too, contribute importantly
to the oil with which we can at
midnight refuel our exhausted
lamps”
(Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 256).
Enr. Act. 2
•
•
President Spencer W. Kimball
said:
“The ten virgins belonged to the
kingdom and had every right to
the blessings—except that five
were not valiant and were not
ready when the great day came.
Enr. Act. 3
“They were
unprepared through
not living all the
commandments.
“They were bitterly disappointed at
being shut out from the marriage—
as likewise their modern
counterparts [members today who
are not prepared] will be”
•
•
(The Miracle of
Forgiveness, p. 8).
Enr. Act. 3
•
I bear my testimony of the
importance of preparing for the
second coming of Jesus Christ by
living righteously.
•
It is important to
be worthy so we
can participate in
that great event.
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