Days are Shortened
Is there a spiritual side to except those days should be shortened (Mt 24:22)? Let's examine.
THOSE DAYS: TRIBULATION COMING ON THE CHURCH?
Mt 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.
Mr 13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
Mt 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Joe 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Re 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
DAYS OF YOUTH: TRIBULATION ON THE CHURCH WHEN THE WICKED PROSPERED?
Ps 89:45 The days of HIS YOUTH hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Ps 102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
Pr 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Ec 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of THY YOUTH, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Job 36:14 they die in YOUTH, and their life is among the unclean.
Ec 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Eze 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in THEIR YOUTH: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Eze 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of HER YOUTH, wherein she had played the HARLOT in the land of Egypt.
Eze 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of THY YOUTH, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ec 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of THY YOUTH, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Jer 17:11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that GETTETH RICHES, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of HIS DAYS, and at his end shall be a fool.
FOR THE ELECT’S SAKE: IS SALVATION DEPENDENT ON JUDGMENT ON THE CHURCH FIRST?
Mt 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.
Ps 102:23-2423 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days…. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Jer 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Mt 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together FIRST the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
CALENDAR VIEW: DOES THIS APPLY ALSO TO THE TIMELINE?
Mt 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.
Da 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, HOW LONG shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Da 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days (2300); then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Da 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days (1200 days).
Please see the study: 1290 vs 1335 days.
SUMMARY CONCLUSION:
On the spiritual side, the Bible appears to be associating the shortening of the days to judgment on the church taking place AFTER the tribulation. Those days were described as a young man rejoicing in his days of youth. Which spiritually pointing to the Church who rejoiced at the killing of the body of Christ in tribulation. Those days began with the Elect enduring tribulation and transitioned to the total devastation of the old body at the revelation of Christ.