Matthew 24:7-13, “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
Matthew 24:13 is a commonly misinterpreted passage of Scripture, the phrase: “he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” This does not refer to salvation, which is made clear by 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.” God will cut the Tribulation period short, lest every human being (flesh) be destroyed, and there be no surviving saints to enter into the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ our great King.
This eliminates another often wrestled Scripture passage used by the proponents of Lordship Salvation, to bolster their Strawman argument. I read a great quote on the side of a coffee mug the other day, which read: I can do all things through a Bible verse taken out of context. Yeah buddy, you sure can! If you take a close look at the corrupt theology of the whole Lordship Salvation crowd, they always use obscure passages of Scripture, while ignoring entire books of the Bible, like the Gospel of John which plainly teaches that we are saved by faith alone.
As an example of what I am talking about, a popular obscure passage that is commonly used by Calvinists and the Lordship Salvation gang is Luke 13:5. Former Sword Of The Lord director, Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), accurately explains this Bible passage as follows:
In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin. In this passage, Christ was talking to good people who believed that people suffered only because of their sins, and they concluded that those in Galilee whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices and those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners because they died such horrible deaths. Jesus contradicts the thinking of these self-righteous people and tells them that they need to repent or change their mind and see themselves as sinners, too, or they will perish in their own self-righteousness.
One does not have to know the Greek language to see that “repent” in this passage does not mean feeling sorry for or turning from sin. —Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), 'Repentance: What Does The Bible Say?'Amen and amen! Dr. Hutson gets it 100% right! Yet, I have heard false prophets like Ray Comfort, Jack Chick and Bob Jones University all cite this passage in Luke 13:5, as their alleged “proof” that a person must “TURN FROM SINS” to be saved. As you just read from Dr. Hutson, that is not what Jesus was saying at all. You don't get saved by turning from your sins, which would be works (Ephesians 2:8-9).
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