Don't you be caught unprepared...

Signs of Christ's Return: The Fate of the Unprepared
by John MacArthur

Don't be caught unprepared. That's the message in the parable of the ten virgins [Matthew 25:1-13]. Nineteenth century English poet Alfred Tennyson in his Idylls of the King adapted that parable to write this for Queen Guinevere, who learned too late the cost of sin:

Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill!
Late, late so late! but we can enter still.

Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.

No light had we: for that we do repent;
And learning this, the bridegroom will relent.

Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.

No light: so late! and dark and chill the night!
O let us in, that we may find the light!

Too late, too late: ye cannot enter now.

Have we not heard the bridegroom is so sweet?
O let us in, tho' late, to kiss his feet!

No, no, too late! ye cannot enter now.