Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona,
and today I want to talk about Matthew 24-24 because I want to go through a lot of mentions
of the word elect in the New Testament just to show you that this word elect is
referring to believers in Jesus Christ under the New Covenant.
It's not referring unto the physical nation of Israel.
Now why is that important?
Because the word elect means chosen.
For example, if we were to elect a president, that means we have chosen a president.
So when the Bible calls us as believers God's elect, he's saying that we are the
chosen people.
But yet today Christians don't think that we as saved, born again believers are God's
chosen people.
They say, no, no, no, the Jews are God's chosen people.
They will point to unbelieving, unregenerate Israel and say that they are God's chosen
people.
They're God's elect.
But that's not what the Bible teaches.
Let me just show you one quick example in this moment and in the next moments I'll
show you more.
But in Matthew 24-24 we see the word elect come up in the New Testament and it
says, for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs
and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect.
So according to that scripture in the end times there will be false Christs and false
prophets that will be so convincing that if it were possible they would deceive the
very elect.
Which means that it's not possible.
And that tells us right there that no believer in Christ is going to fall for the anti-Christ.
None of the elect are going to be deceived by a false Christ like the anti-Christ.
But wait a minute, people are trying to tell us today that the elect here is referring
to Israel.
It's referring to the Jews.
Well guess what?
The Jews have already believed in an anti-Christ.
They've already fallen for a false Christ because they're looking for a mythical Messiah
other than Jesus.
They've rejected Jesus as the Messiah and they're looking for some other false Messiah
that's going to come and be the real Messiah because they don't believe in Jesus.
Why would we believe that this is talking about the Jews in Matthew 24-24 when it says
that it's impossible for them to be deceived by false prophets and false Christs?
Look every rabbi is a false prophet.
So the Jews are being deceived by false prophets every day.
Israel is deceived by false prophets and a false Messiah that they're looking for
every day.
Therefore Matthew 24-24 cannot be referring to the Jews or Israel when it says the elect
there not being deceived.
They can only be referring to a Holy Spirit indwelled, born again, child of God because
we as Christians will not be deceived by the anti-Christ.
We're saved.
We have the Holy Ghost and we've been enlightened.
We will not be deceived.
But listen, the Jews are already deceived.