50 Days to Understanding the End-Times More Accurately - Day 26 - Enduring to the End

DAY 26 - Enduring to the End

Another message is both repeated in this section of the “Olivet Discourse” and shared with the original twelve disciples.

“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (Mark 13:13)

“and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake… But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:9b & 24:13)

“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” (Matthew 10:22)

Of the previous passages, both the Mark 13 and Matthew 24 excerpts do come from the “Olivet Discourse”, but the other verse was shared by Jesus much earlier.

This information was shared with the twelve disciples when He was first sending them out, some 2000 years ago.

The phrase that I want to examine is “he that endureth to the end”.

Exactly what did Jesus mean when He specifically told the twelve original disciples “he that endureth to the end shall be saved”?

What end was He speaking of?

Did this phrase simply mean either until they died or He returned for them, or was it about the end the world here as we know it?

Since being “hated of all nations for my name’s sake” means the same thing in all three of these passages, then how could these passages actually be speaking of two different times of enduring “unto the end” and being saved?

There is no reason, based on Scripture, to conclude that the Matthew 10 passage speaks of enduring until the end as it pertains to either dying or being raptured by Christ while the Matthew 24 and Mark 13 passages speak of enduring until the end as it pertains to either dying or entering the “Millennial Kingdom”.

There is one “end” being spoken of, and it is the same “end” in all three of these passages.

The same “enduring to the end” that the original twelve disciples were exhorted to do is the same enduring “to the end” that we can accomplish, and it is also the same “enduring to the end” that those who are alive just prior to the “Abomination of Desolation” can succeed in.
There is one end addressed here and it is when Christ returns for the saints, unless we die first, arriving at our own end.

Just as “elect” and “for my name’s sake” cannot only mean something different in the “Olivet Discourse” (simply because that is more convenient for pretribulationists), enduring “to the end” does not change its meaning either just to fit into someone’s eschatology.

If we are going to attempt to use the Bible to gain understanding about certain terms or phrases, then we must take into evaluation how different phrases are used, as well as context.
In context, each of these occurrences of “enduring to the end” appears after “being hated for His name’s sake” and is followed by “shall be saved”.

The context, therefore, does not appear to have changed.

Point #1: Jesus told the original twelve disciples that when they were hated by all for His name’s sake, they would be saved if they endured until the end.

Point #2: Jesus, in answering the question about what would occur prior to His coming, said that people would be hated by all for His name’s sake, but they would be saved if they endured until the end.

2+2=4

Thanks, @narrowminded

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In case you missed them,

Introduction
Back Cover
1 : The Foundation
2 : The Tribulation
BONUS : A Biblical, New Testament Understanding of Tribulation
3 : The Seventieth Week of Daniel
4 : Not Appointed to Wrath
5 : Wrath vs. Tribulation
6 : The Day of the Lord
7 : The Lord Alone
8 : The Exaltation of the Antichrist
9 : Promises
10 : The Presupposition
11 : 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
12 : The Revealing of the Antichrist
13 : Same Day - 1
14 : Same Day -2
15 : Hand in Hand
16 : Overtake You as a Thief
17 : Another Thief
18 : Not Knowing the Day or Hour - 1
19 : Not Knowing the Day or Hour - 2
20 : Not Knowing the Day or Hour - 3
21 : Ignorance
22 : "Olivet Discourse": Armageddon or Rapture? -1
23 : "Olivet Discourse": Armageddon or Rapture? -2
24 : For My Name's Sake -1
25 : For My Name's Sake -2