Christians are "the elect".
ELECT is a term that applies to ISRAEL.
Isaiah 45:4 (KJV)
4 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 65:9-10 (KJV)
9 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.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
Isaiah 65:22 (KJV)
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree
are the days of my people, and
mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Matthew 24:24 (KJV)
24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. {Proves the 70th Week of Daniel is still FUTURE.}
Matthew 24:31 (KJV)
31
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.
{Proves it is not the CHURCH that is GATHERED, but ISRAEL. The Church was CAUGHT UP to go to Wedding in Heaven much earlier.}
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Commentary on MAT. 24:31:
The elect spoken of in this verse is still the nation Israel. The prophets in the Old Testament foretold of a miracle that would bring the Jews back into their land. (This is not the church which is going to be caught up out of this world to meet the Lord in the air. Angels are not connected with the Rapture.) The Lord will come in person to receive the church with the sound of a trumpet, and His voice will be like that of an archangel. He will not need any help to gather His church together. He died for the church, and He will bring it together. When He says that the "angels... shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other," we can be sure that He is talking about the nation Israel -- ministering angels have always been connected with Israel.
Thru The Bible with J. Vernon McGee.
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Mat. 24:31 When He descends,
He will send His angels throughout the earth to
gather together His elect people, believing Israel, to the land of Palestine. From all the earth they will gather to greet their Messiah and to enjoy His glorious reign.
Believer's Bible Commentary: A Thorough, Yet Easy-to-Read Bible Commentary That Turns Complicated Theology Into Practical Understanding.
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He will then
send His angels forth to regather
His elect from the four winds, which relates to the earth (cf.
Mark 13:27),
from one end of the heavens to the other. This involves the gathering, {Rapture was earlier}, of those who will have become believers during the Seventieth Week of Daniel and who will have been scattered into various parts of the world because of persecution (cf.
Matt. 24:16).
The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.
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(4) the Sound with Which He Will Return (24:31)
At His return the Son of man "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."
Moses anticipated the judgmental scattering of Israel into all parts of the earth because of national sin; he also foresaw the end-time ingathering of all the remaining outcasts of Israel. In
Deuteronomy 30:3-5 he prophesied that national repentance would be followed by national regathering:
John Phillips Commentary Series, The - The John Phillips Commentary Series – Exploring the Gospel of Matthew: An Expository Commentary.
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The RAPTURE COMES Seven Years earlier. You are Confusing verses Pertaining to the Second Coming, with the Rapture, and verses pertaining only to Tribulation Saints, with the Church. PLEASE, get off you high horse, and restudy those verses, and learn to correctly divide the Word of Truth. We have shared with you the TRUTH.