Matthew 24:22
Unless those days are shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened.
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Isaiah 6:13Even if a tenth of the people remain in it, it will again be destroyed; 1 as a terebinth or an oak is cut down and whose trunk remains, 1 the holy seed is in its stump.”
Zechariah 13:8Then it will come about that throughout all the land—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 that two-thirds of it will be cut off! Those people will perish; 1 only one-third will remain there. 1
Matthew 22:14For many people are called, but few are chosen.”
Matthew 24:31He will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Luke 18:7Now will not God also bring justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
Romans 11:25For I do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, of this mystery, in order that you will not be wise in your own thinking. This mystery is that a partial hardening has occurred in Israel, until the completion of the Gentiles come in.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →