Tuesday, September 27, 2011  Must I endure to be saved? Matthew
24:13 Part One  Matthew 24:13   What does it mean to endure unto
the end?  Religion says, “To the end of one’s life.”  Does that
agree with the context?  Verse 3,6,14 reads:     Nothing in the
context even remotely states that if one endures to the end of
their life would gain eternal life.  Jesus defined what He meant
by the word “end.”  Jesus was answering the disciple’s question
(vs.2-3) as to the signs of the end of the age in relation to
the destruction of the temple.  Jesus talked about the temple
being destroyed at the end of the age, and not at the end of
one’s life.  The passage has to do with Israel’s great
persecution they would be facing.  This is also known as the
time of Jacob’s trouble and not Gentile tribulation.    The one
that endures to the end during this time shall be saved.  What
shall be saved?  Does that mean when he dies he goes to heaven? 
No, the context answers what exactly is saved in verse 22:
 22And except those da