Gospel of Matthew Chapter 24 Vs. 13

 Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:13 “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

that shall endure... The ones who persevere are the same ones who are saved, not the ones whose love grows cold (verse 12). This does not suggest that our perseverance secures our salvation. Scripture everywhere teaches precisely the opposite: God, as part of His saving work, secures our perseverance.

True believers are protected by the power of God through faith for … salvation (1Pet. 1:5). The guarantee of our perseverance is built into the New Covenant promise. God says: “I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me” (Jer. 32:40).

Those who do fall away from Christ give conclusive proof that they were never truly believers to begin with (1Jhn. 2:19). To say that God secures our perseverance is not to say that we are passive in the process, however. He keep us through faith (1Pet. 1:5), our faith.

unto the end... Greek: telos, the actual end of anything (Mat. 24:6, 24:14), not sunteleia, the joining of two ages (Mat. 13:39, 13:40, 13:49; 24:3; 28:20; Heb. 9:26). Here telos means the end of life or the age as it may be.

Scripture sometimes calls us to hold fast to our faith (Heb. 10:23; Rev. 3:11), or warns us against falling away (Heb. 10:26-29). Such admonitions do not negate the many promises that true believers will persevere (John 10:28-29; Rom. 8:38-39; 1Cor. 1:8-9; Phil. 1:6).

Rather, the warnings and pleas are among the means God uses to secure our perseverance in the faith. Notice that the warnings and the promises often appear side by side. For example, when Jude urges believers, keep yourselves in the love of God (Jude 21), he immediately points them to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling (Jude 24).

We see the words he that shall endure until the end. You see, unlike what some ministers would have you believe, there is a terrible time of testing. Many ministers have their congregations believing that there will not be problems, if you have your life right with God.

What about that part of verse 13 that said you must endure to the end, if you are to be saved? God will bless His own, and if you pray and believe, He will help you through the rough times; but trials and tribulations will come to all of us. How we handle the problems is what really counts. When the going gets rough, do we run or stand?

Endure does not mean good times. Endure means hang on in the face of adversity. If we are to be saved, that seems to be our lot. No one knows for sure how soon the end of this struggle will be. Our job is to hang on and give everything we have to God. He will help us, if we will resist the enemy.

shall be saved... Greek: sozo, saved Greek: Used 110 times in the New Testament of salvation from sin (Mat. 1:21; Heb. 7:25), danger (Mat. 14:30; 27:42), spiritual conflict (John 12:27; 1Tim. 4:16), sickness (Jas. 5:15), hell (John 3:16-18; Mark 16:16), and slavery (Jude1:5).

Those who remain faithful to the Lord until the end of that period of time will be saved, that is, delivered (Mat. 24:13). This does not refer to a personal self-effort at endurance that results in one’s eternal salvation, but to physical deliverance of those who trust in the Savior during the Tribulation. They will enter the kingdom in physical bodies.