The Midnight Cry

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The Parable of the Ten Virgins. For over fifty years I have held that the Midnight Cry and the Second Coming are not simultaneous. They may be near each other, yes. But the Midnight Cry precedes the Second Coming. First, Midnight Cry is a translation of two Greek words that mean "in the middle of the night". Imagine yourself being awakened in your deepest sleep - at two o'clock in the morning. So with the cry of Matthew 25:6 - in the middle of the night, metaphorically speaking, when the church is in a deep sleep - not expecting anything to happen, there will be a historic and inescapable wake-up call. This call will be as definite as what happened on September 11th 2001 - when the whole world knew in hours that the twin towers in New York City had fallen. In a word: the next thing to happen on God's calendar is not the Second Coming but the wake-up call - this being the greatest move of the Holy Spirit since Pentecost.