Bible Questions Answered:
Rev. I know the rapture is after the tribulation, just look at Matthew 24:22. The “elect, the church” is on the scene, in the tribulation.
Ralph W./ Joliet, Illinois
Bible Questions Answered:
Jesus talking to His men, says in Matthew:
Matthew 24:15-22 KJV
[15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
[16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
[17] Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
[18] Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
[19] And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
[20] But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
[21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Sir, you, base your belief on the words...”the elect.”
But those words the elect though they oftern do refer to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, many times also refer to the Jewish Nation.
The Church:
I Peter 1:1,2 KJV
[1] Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
[2] Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
The Apostle Paul told the Colossian church...
Colossians 1:12 KJV “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”
The Jewish Nation:
Isaiah 45:4 KJV “For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.”
Isaiah 65:9 KJV “And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.”
Well, knowing this, we must then of necessity ask the question, who is “the elect,” referred to in Matthew 24:22?
And we may know that answer by reading the content of the preceding text.
Matthew 24:15 KJV
[15] When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
This is the (tribulation) sacrilege of the anit-christ, sitting in the temple of Jerusalem, saying that he is god. This then is speaking the Jews!
Matthew 24:16 KJV
[16] Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
This verse plainly states it is in the land of Judea (home of the Jews).
So, the Church of Jesus Christ has been raptured some three and one half years earlier, to these events, and that this verse does not speak of the church is only evident.
