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So so tell, what abomination do these two-thirds of the Jews commit that God would exterminate them in the great futurist holocaust?

Does not 2/3rds of the entire earth die in this holocaust ?

Does not Jesus say that ... "If He had not shortened the days', ... there would have been no flesh saved" ?
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.

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24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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.
It's not 2/3 of Israel, it's a 100% of all mortal, physical life, is doomed to die.

Yes, but these two-thirds are singled out for a reason to die. If you die in your sleep, that is one thing. Their death is hardly "natural".

Why do you pick against the implications of this theology plainly taught by a generation of futurist dispensationalists without apology?

Death is death.

All men (and women) die.

Some die sooner, some die later.
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

Does not 2/3rds of the entire earth die in this holocaust ? Does not Jesus say that ... "If He had not shortened the days', ... there would have been no flesh saved" ? Matthew 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for

Not according to the context of Matthew 24:

"Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. ... And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. ... Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it." (vv. 15-17,20,26)

If this is a universal tribulation, why does Jesus only give warning to those living in Judea and why speak of the Jewish sabbath? Is anyone in Iowa or Colombia going to care if it is the Jewish sabbath or not? (Even in today's Israel they manage to carry on a war on the sabbath.) Are there any deserts in, say, Alaska or Vietnam where folks will desire to go searching for the Christ?

Obviously it is a fundamental misinterpretion to suggest that the geographical context of Matthew 24 is anything other than earthly Jerusalem and her immediate surroundings in the 1st century.

Death is death. All men (and women) die.

True, but that has no eschatological bearing on the futurist scenario. It is hardly restricted to the "end times".