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Who are the Elect in the Bible (and what are the elect's relation to End Times)?

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Re: Post-Trib Model Failure: The "Gathering" of Matthew 24 is NOT the Rapture

Does the "elect" in the Bible ever refer to anyone but Christians?:chin


Does the 'elect' in the NT ever refer to anyone but Christians?
 
Re: Post-Trib Model Failure: The "Gathering" of Matthew 24 is NOT the Rapture

Does the "elect" in the Bible ever refer to anyone but Christians?:chin

Yes, it also refers to Israel...New and Old Testament.
 
Re: Post-Trib Model Failure: The "Gathering" of Matthew 24 is NOT the Rapture

I dont want to highjack the thread but where?
 
Re: Post-Trib Model Failure: The "Gathering" of Matthew 24 is NOT the Rapture

Does the "elect" in the Bible ever refer to anyone but Christians?:chin

Two cents:

I've always thought the elect were those whose names were written in the Book of Life regardless of their heritage.
 
The word "elect" appears 17 times in the KJV. It refers to:

Israel
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 45:4)​

Angels
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. (I Tim. 5:21)​

Jesus
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
(Isaiah 42:1-23)​

All believers, Jew and Gentile
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:31)​

Individual believers
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth (II John 1:1)​

(All verses from KJV)
 
The "elect" are those Christians which will be alive at Christ's advent.

Matthew 24:22
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
 
The word "elect" appears 17 times in the KJV. It refers to:

Israel
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 45:4)​
Angels
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. (I Tim. 5:21)​
Jesus
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
(Isaiah 42:1-23)​
All believers, Jew and Gentile
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt. 24:31)​
Individual believers
The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth (II John 1:1)​
(All verses from KJV)

Thank you--good post. :yes
 
Re: Post-Trib Model Failure: The "Gathering" of Matthew 24 is NOT the Rapture

1 Timothy 5:21

Huh?

1 Tim 5.21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

The answer to the question 'where?' is, of course, Jerusalem.

Proof:

Mat.25. 31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Where's that?
Lk 1. 32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Mat. 19.28


28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

There is a huge amount of further proof of this, but I'll conclude it with this one:

Rev. 20.11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

The allusion is clearly to:

1Ki 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

That is Solomon's throne, over Israel, a great white throne (because ivory is white).

So Solomon ruled and judged Israel.

The greater than Solomon will do likewise when He comes.
 
Sol's throne was a shadow of the throne Jesus occupies today. As reported by Stephan.
 
Does the "elect" in the Bible ever refer to anyone but Christians?:chin
No. The elect is always Christians. Israel exists within the Israel of God, the Church, not outside of it. Jews have favor with God and always will, but it depends upon election in Christ. Election of Gentiles nations is also in Christ only, and not outside of Christ. Gentiles don't have to be circumcised in the flesh in order to be saved.:nod
 
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