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You would do well to study to whom Jesus directs 'the elect's sake'. You are under the misinterpretation that the elect during the Great Tribulation are the Church. Also, the saints coming out of the Tribulation are not the same class as the Church Saints. When Jesus teaches Israel, He speaks to them using the prophecies He has given in the 'volume of the book'. The judgment coming in the terrible 'day of the Lord' is not directed at The Church. The elect coming through the Great Tribulation are those of Israel whom God will populate the kingdom on Earth with.

Finally, the passage scene in Luke 21 is a gathering of believers OF THE JEWS spoke to in the Temple. After Jesus leaves the Temple teaching session, he goes to the mount of Olives and there gives the scene with only Peter, James, and John, and Andrew, in which He addresses their specific query as to the last days and when will those happen.

The Luke 21 passage was so real to those present that when Vespasian left Titus in charge of the Roman legions encircling Jerusalem so he, Vespasian, could return to Rome and settle the Caesar issues, that nine month pause these believers saw as the prophecy Jesus gave to them at the beginning of the Luke 21 discourse, and they fled Jerusalem and were saved form the horrors that followed when Titus was sent command to destroy the rebellion and the temple was burned tot he ground leaving not one stone upon the other.

This escaping the Roman holocaust might even be seen as a foreshadowing of the escape the Rapture accomplishes fro believers. The pause between Daniel's sixty-ninth week and the seventieth week last at least more than 37 years because Jesus was crucified in 33AD, Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD, and yet the abomination of desolation Jesus spoke of in the Olivet discourse (Matt24 and Mark 13) did not happen. So the Temple will have to be rebuilt fro this aspect of Jesus prophecy to occur, meaning the pause between the weeks in Daniel has lasted at least since 33AD to the present.