[aruanan]

It doesn’t go to follow that those who survive are believers.

No doubt there’s a chance some could if they went into hiding, but nothing in Scripture indicates that those who survive the Tribulation, except the Jews, are necessarily believers.

The elect are the believers. Remember that Jesus was talking to his followers, those he had chosen, the elect, and answering their questions about the end of the age and his return. He was specifically addressing what would happen to them as believers in their stand for him through the time leading up to and through the tribulation, not to what would happen to the general Jewish population. The distinction that everyone in Matthew 24 that he was talking to were not the Church but Jews is yet another poisonous fruit of dispensationalist rationalizing of the scriptures to fit a preconceived idea.

[metmom]

The elect can also mean Israel.

[metmom]

The elect can also mean Israel.

And that makes more sense as the whole tribulation period revolves around them. The Jews will be left on earth to go through it and if the days were not cut short, they wouldn’t survive.