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What is the oil of the ten virgins?

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.

churchofjesuschrist.org - Lesson 25: Parable of the Ten Virgins

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To encourage each child to become spiritually prepared for the second coming of Jesus Christ . Select the discussion questions and enrichment activities that will involve the children and best help them achieve the purpose of the lesson.

Invite a child to give the opening prayer.

Attention Activity Ask the children to 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 ,” naming one item. Have a child say the same sentence, including what you said, and add another item. Continue around the room, having each child name all the previous items and add one more. Give each child one or more turns, depending on the size of your class. Give help naming the items when necessary. Point out that preparation is an important part of many things in our lives. What are some things we might prepare for besides going on a trip? Discuss briefly the preparation we do for school, for a meal, for family home evening, and so on. Tell the children that in this lesson they are going to learn how they can prepare spiritually for a wonderful event that will happen in the future. Scripture Account Teach the children the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1–13). (For suggested ways to teach the scripture account, see “Teaching from the Scriptures,” p. vii.) Tell the children that Jesus often taught with parables, using familiar objects and situations to teach a hidden spiritual truth. He used parables so that only those who were willing to study the parable would understand the truth (see Matthew 13:10–17). Help the children understand that this parable likens the second coming of Jesus Christ, which is when the Savior will return to earth to rule during the Millennium, to a wedding. Explain that 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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When should you anoint with oil?

The practice of anointing with oil transfers over to the New Testament. Jesus encourages his followers to anoint themselves with oil whenever they take up the practice of fasting (Matthew 6:17). And to pour oil on the sick as part of the healing process (Mark 6:13).

biblestudytools.com - Why Is Anointing Oil Important in the Bible? It's Meaning & Purpose

It seems, at first glance at the Old Testament, that olive oil (or anointing oil) had predominantly a religious purpose. Not only would you pour oil on the head of a high priest, but also this “holy” oil would sprinkle on furnishings in the Tabernacle (Exodus 25:6), a transportable temple for God’s people, until they created a permanent place of worship during the time of Solomon.

Olive oil also was used during the beautification process in Esther 2:12.

Over the span of several months, Esther, along with other eligible ladies, would cleanse themselves with myrrh and oil for six months (and another six months with perfume and cosmetics). As stated in this Bible Study Tools article, oil often signified prosperity, blessings, and stability, opposed to other periods throughout Israel’s history where the harvest was not bountiful and famine had swept the land (Joel 1:10). Oil had sanctifying (cleansing) properties. Whenever someone poured oil on someone or something, they had set apart that object as a blessed object of the Lord. Therefore, this explains the reasons why those throughout the Old Testament would anoint both people and inanimate objects (Genesis 28:18). Israel commonly practiced anointing the heads of kings. That is why when Samuel chooses to anoint the lowliest of Jesse’s sons, young David (1 Samuel 16), which would have surprised the family. They didn’t think, “Oh, I guess he’s giving David’s head a nice oil bath.” They would’ve understood the implications of Samuel’s actions. God had chosen the next king of Israel, Jesse’s youngest son.

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