Study Guide: http://prophesyagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1335-and-slumbering.pdf "‘While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.’ The wide-spread movement under the proclamation of the first message, answered to the going forth of the virgins, while the passing of the time of expectation, the disappointment, and the delay, were represented by the tarrying of the bridegroom. After the definite time had passed, the true believers were still united in the belief that the end of all things was at hand; but it soon became evident that they were losing, to some extent, their zeal and devotion, and were falling into the state denoted in the parable by the slumbering of the virgins during the tarrying time.” {4SP 242.3}