(Part II of III) Matthew 25:5-6, “The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight the cry rang out, ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet Him!’” The bridegroom in this parable is Jesus. The sleep must be identified with the sleep of death because (1) it ended only when the midnight cry heralded the second advent, symbolized by the coming of the bridegroom, and (2) because both the ready and the unready entered it. Death must come alike to all, the ready and the unready, except of course, for those ...