Just before his departure at the time of his first advent he said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."-- John 14:2,3.
[459]Here, then, is one of the positive statements that one of the chief purposes of the Lord's return is to receive unto himself his bride.
Since his appearance, therefore, he has been doing the harvest work, namely, gathering unto himself those who will constitute the bride class.
[460]The Lord gives a picture in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew of this kingdom class.

(Matthew 25:1-13) Here he speaks of ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

A virgin means a pure one.