What does it mean to live as the betrothed while the Bridegroom tarries?

In the parable of the ten virgins, Jesus describes a people waiting through the long night for the arrival of the Bridegroom. All ten carried lamps. All ten expected Him to come. Yet when the cry sounded, only five were ready.

What is the difference between the wise and the foolish?

What is the oil and do I have it?

In the Latter Days: Living as the Betrothed While the Bridegroom Tarries, Chasity M. Hudgins traces the biblical witness surrounding the Bridegroom, the lamp, and the oil, revealing that the question is not merely prophetic but deeply personal. The oil is not found in religious performance, outward appearance, or borrowed faith. It is formed through abiding nearness to Christ and expressed through a life shaped by covenant love.

Moving from the parable itself into the ordinary stations of life, this book explores what it looks like to tend the lamp in the real places believers live every day: as young men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, grandparents, elders, widows, households, assemblies, and communities waiting for the return of the King.

Written with pastoral honesty and rooted in Scripture, Living as the Betrothed While the Bridegroom Tarries invites readers to move beyond fear, performance, and uncertainty into the confidence of those who already belong to the One who is coming.

The cry has not yet sounded.

The door has not yet closed.

The oil is still flowing.

And the Bridegroom is coming for the face He knows.