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Start at verse 14 of your offering from Matthew, knowing this is then the end times spoken of, because the Apostles will be gone by this end time. From there onward Jesus speaks of the JEWS, JUDEA, and Jerusalem events. The Church is gone at this point in His narrative and He is addressing the Jewish descendants and those on the Earth when the evil one is revealed.

BTW, JOHN DID ENDURE to the end of the Apostolic persecution period and likely died of natural causes in his old age.

Verse 21 shows us that it is with the event of the abomination that makes desolate that the final wrath OF GOD is then poured out upon the earth and the living thereon. Daniel confirms that 3 1/2 years are the last half of the seventieth week.

The elect Jesus speaks of/to are the elect of God, of the Jewish hidden people who will go into the millennium and have children etc.

It may sound odd, but unless you learn to divide the texts according to whom Jesus refers to, you cannot rightly divide the truth. The people referred to can ONLY be rightly defined by studying the rest of the Word of God and even going back into Old Testament to see how GOD has referred to peoples.

Enjoy you studies ... but never stop at some point believing you have reached all Truth because GOD authored the Bible and one passage can have meaning to generations not even alive at the time of the penning it down. God sees the end right from the beginning, so His perspective has nuance we in our limits well must really dig to comprehend. The digging is mostly done in the layers of His truth offered to us for our being raised up in the way that we should go once born from above.